Culture Beyond Capital: Art, Authenticity, and the 21st Century Workers’ Movement
Cliff Connolly, July 10, 2019
The course of the twentieth century has seen art and culture become increasingly subsumed into the logic of capital. A crucial element of a base-building strategy must be to foster an alternative proletarian culture outside the sphere of commodity production for the cultural enrichment and self-expression of workers, argues Cliff Connolly. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Read Article.
Debating Electoral Strategy in the Comintern, 1920: The Bulgarian Situation
Donald Parkinson, June 30, 2019
Reviewing the debates over electoral strategy at the Second Congress of the Comintern, Donald Parkinson reviews the strategies of the Bulgarian Communist Party and their arguments against electoral abstentionism. Read Article.
Considerations on the Basis of the Socio-Political, Economic and Cultural Development of the Turkic Peoples of Asia and Europe by Mirsaid Sultan Galiev
Örsan Şenalp, June 25, 2019
Translation and introduction by Örsan Şenalp and Asim Khairdean. Read Article.
Whose Democracy?: An Introduction to Oligarchy in the United States
J.R. Murray, June 20, 2019
The United States is a mockery of what democracy is supposed to be. J.R. Murray unpacks the reality of a corrupt system that is designed to empower the rich against the working class majority. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Read Article.
Why Define Fascism?: In Defence of Making Distinctions
Jacob Smith, June 16, 2019
Jacob Smith argues that if the left wishes to take fascism seriously we shouldn't use the term lightly but with precision. Read Article.
Latino Radicals and the Communist Party in the New Communist Movement: A Case Study of Two Oral Histories
Josh Morris, June 11, 2019
Josh Morris discusses the experiences of Latino/Latina organizers in the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlan and CPUSA, covering an often ignored aspect of US Communist history. Read Article.
Post-Insurrectionary Strategy
Jacob Richter, June 6, 2019
Jacob Richter weighs in on the Kautsky debate centering around revolutionary strategy, arguing for a balance of power approach. Read Article.
The Grey Tree of Post-Keynesianism and Monetarism: The Classical Account, Inflation, and Unemployment
Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina, June 1, 2019
Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina takes a look at Keynesianism and Modern Monetary Theory and argues they are based on an idealistic notion of science. Read Article.
Critique of the Saltsjöbaden Agreement
Tom Anderson, May 26, 2019
Translation by Tom Anderson of a pamphlet by Gösta Kempe from 1939. We publish this as a document of workers struggle against reactionary union laws that promote class cooperation and a demonstration that questions of procedure are also political questions. Read Article.
Cosmic Imagination in Revolutionary Russia
Donald Parkinson, May 20, 2019
Before the rise of the Soviet Space Program, utopian visions of space travel existed alongside serious scientific work to make it a reality. Donald Parkinson explores the culture of space exploration that existed both before and after the Bolshevik Revolution and how it laid the groundwork for Sputnik. Read Article.