Revolution means smashing the state
by brian bean
…in a famous line from The Communist Manifesto, is “but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.” But what are those common affairs? Primarily, these include…
A revolutionary socialist organizing project
…in a famous line from The Communist Manifesto, is “but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.” But what are those common affairs? Primarily, these include…
The inevitability of hindsight
by Kim Moody…This is low compared to what was to come, but high compared to what preceded it, and moving upward. The economic context also mattered. The biggest increase in strikes and…
A Trans genre meditation on queerness
by Eric Maroney…You dress like that because you want to rape men, trick men.”2We Are Many Media, “The Struggle for Trans Liberation: A Conversation with CeCe McDonald,” YouTube, 2014, https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=emx5iHwbPOg. Her…
Review of A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism
by Bill Keach…Afro-Socialist Caucus. But Greene is convincing when he argues: “When it comes to an orientation to the Democratic Party and ‘democratic-socialist’ reformism, Michael Harrington’s politics remain the ‘common sense’ of…
Part one: Disability and socialism roundtable, Socialism 2022
by Keith Rosenthal…the logic of commodified market competition. Insofar as the value of commodity labor power under capitalism is both a creation and a measure of the rate of exploitation obtaining in…
Reflections on the Zionist assault at UCLA
by Julian Yin…1, a few Zionists returned, but this time they were supported by three different police units that directly waged war on the encampment. Thousands of students and community allies—many coming…
Tara Reade, Biden, and #MeToo
by Natalia Tylim…them, saying: “This never happened.” After months of inaction and dismissal, Reade commented, “I think I’m a poster child as to why women won’t come forward…it’s pretty obvious if you…
A response to Charlie Post and Ashley Smith
by Stephen R. Shalom…to compel them to act. But it is also true that social movements can rarely push politicians who are beholden to the most reactionary forces in society. The Fraternal Order…
Ranked-choice voting and proportional representation
by Howie Hawkins…between the progressive and corporate Democrats was quantified last December when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked for an open seat on the Energy and Commerce Committee, which deals with two of her…
Into battle
by David Whitehouse…102. A printer: Meyer 77. There was some momentum coming out of Chatham, but disruptive news intervened to delay the raid. Brown had hired an English mercenary—who had worked under…