Editorial 3 — November 2018
November 2, 2018
Upon embarking on our third issue, we hold that the alternative to abject repetition of class defeat is communist regroupment. … More Editorial 3 — November 2018
Category: Issue 3
Constructive “criticism”
November 2, 2018
Criticism must examine whether what is being criticized needs to be improved at all, and not rather abolished. One should not seek to make this system better — on the contrary, it already functions too well! — so we have no suggestions for improvement. … More Constructive “criticism”
Social justice: Noble, but doomed to fail
November 2, 2018
This is not some attempt to dress up right-wing talking points about “SJWs” as reasoned Marxist polemic. Rather, its objective is to offer an alternative, more rigorous framework which can pursue its purported ends. … More Social justice: Noble, but doomed to fail
Against eclecticism
November 2, 2018
Many today dismiss the dialectic as a relic of its time, a primitive way of conceptualizing social complexity long since outmoded. Supposedly Marxists ought to adopt systems theory or “upgrade” to some other newfangled methodology. … More Against eclecticism
Splendors and miseries of producerism
November 2, 2018
Marxists should insist on today’s humanity as the devolved author of its own destiny, standing on the brink of a society which would “be as all-sided in its production as its consumption.” … More Splendors and miseries of producerism
Xenophobia, lumpenization, and the proletariat
November 2, 2018
By blaming lumpenization on some of its most imminent victims, xenophobia conceals the responsibility of a capitalism which no longer can exploit us all. … More Xenophobia, lumpenization, and the proletariat
The Black Panther Party and glorification of the lumpenproletariat
November 2, 2018
Glorifying the lumpenproletariat, as the BPP did, has more in common with Bakunin than with Marx. … More The Black Panther Party and glorification of the lumpenproletariat
Breaking from Stalinism
November 2, 2018
Stalinism was not the product of revolution, but seventy years of counterrevolution. … More Breaking from Stalinism
A century since World War I
November 2, 2018
The distance between the ideas of socialism and the ideas of 1914 is drenched in the blood of working class militants across the century. … More A century since World War I
The ideas of 1914
November 2, 2018
Nazism emerged out of 1914, to a large extent within the right wing of German Social Democracy, … More The ideas of 1914
