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Economic Circulations: Blood-Based Systems of Value in Alexander Bogdanov’s Red Star
Virginia L. Conn, February 1, 2020
Virginia L. Conn discusses the nature of blood exchange as a basis for collectivism in Alexander Bogdanov sci-fi masterpiece Red Star. Read Article.
Workers and Writers: The Communist Novel in Britain
Lawrence Parker, August 14, 2020
The history of the British communist novel is ultimately the story of the political degeneration of the Communist Party of Great Britain. By Lawrence Parker. Reading: LC. Read Article.
Reintroducing John Dos Passos
Lawrence Parker, March 2, 2022
Lawrence Parker introduces a 1938 New Masses article by Granville Hicks on US writer John Dos Passos and argues that the latter’s work is ripe for re-appropriation and re-examination by the revolutionary left. Read Article.
The Value of Dune: a Communistic Perspective
Jackson Albert Mann, May 17, 2022
Rejecting recent interpretations in the U.S. socialist press as truistic, Jackson Albert Mann makes a case for a particular communistic reading of the first novel in Frank Herbert's Dune franchise. Read Article.
Publishing Poetry Today and Tomorrow: What Are You, In Love With Your Problems?
Oleander Sārameyas the Younger, April 25, 2025
Last April, Small Press Distribution (SPD) collapsed. Without a distributor, hundreds of literary and leftist publishers scrambled to fulfill orders and reclaim their inventory. Many folded, while authors and editors mourned the loss of an industry darling. Oleander Sārameyas the Younger questions those eulogies, asking us to reconsider SPD as a failure of imagination and solidarity. Read Article.