Tag: socialist history
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The DSA moment is over
Andy Sernatinger looks at the crisis facing the Democratic Socialists of America, arguing that DSA’s ‘moment’ has passed.
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Did the Left wing of the Second International foreshadow the politics of the Third?
John Marot argues that the politics of the Third International, formed in 1919, did not just carry forward the positions of the Left wing of the Second. The Russian Revolution of 1917 changed what the Left thought about workers’ power.
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Remembering Victor Serge
Victor Serge participated in the Russian Revolution and observed it acutely. Theodor Lena pays tribute 75 years after Serge’s death.
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Origins of the rank and file strategy
Kim Moody, a veteran of the International Socialists, explains the roots of the rank and file strategy in the Marxist tradition and how the International Socialists (U.S.) tried to put it into practice by diving into the rank and file rebellions of the 1970s.
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The left wing of the possible?
Bill Keach reviews A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism by Doug Greene.
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Dissidents Among Dissidents
Kit Wainer reviews Ilya Budraitskis recent book, Dissidents Among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia.
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From union to workers’ council
Avery Wear argues that rank and file workplace organization can offer a path to revolutionary workers’ power.
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Learning from the 1960s
A lightly edited reprint, from the 1998 issue of the New Socialist, of an article by Mike Parker on the lessons of the 1960s.
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Eleanor Marx and the case for Christmas trees
Aaron Amaral on EP Thompson’s writing on Eleanor Marx and the meaning of the Christmas tree.
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The Paris Commune and workers’ democracy
Thomas Hummel draws some of the principled lessons of the Paris Commune that have guided the socialist Left for 150 years, and asks how today’s Left measures up in having learned those lessons.