Tag: socialist history
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Case studies in political independence
David Friedman presents lessons for the new socialist movement in building movement-based independent political action and organization. Part two of two.
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Case studies in political independence
David Friedman presents lessons for the new socialist movement in building movement-based independent political action and organization. Part one of two.
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Ernst Meyer, Leninist
Understanding the revolutionary process in Germany, over the first half of the twentieth century, and especially in the period from 1917 to 1928, is critically important for all revolutionaries. John Marot reviews Florian Wilde’s contribution to this understanding in his biography of one of the leaders of the German revolutionary movement, Ernst Mayer.
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What does internationalism mean today?
Working people, wherever they are in the world, have common interests. Our loyalties should be to the working class everywhere, not to any nation, argues David Camfield.
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“Actually existing socialism” and the communist transition
David Camfield’s Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left is a concise and insightful intervention into the renewed debates on the legacy of “actually existing socialism.”
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Walter Rodney: a revolutionary for our times
Presenting at the 2023 Socialism conference in a panel organized and moderated by Lee Wengraf, Robert Cuffy and Leo Zeilig examine the revolutionary legacy of Walter Rodney, casting light on his break with state socialism and his embrace of working-class struggles from below. What follows is a transcript of their talk, edited for length and…
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The radical roots of harm reduction
Even the best accounts of the movement for harm reduction leave out the role of Marxists, anarchists, and other radicals. Sam Friedman sets the record straight.
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Theory and the question of organization (part 2)
Nate Moore examines the theory, practice, and crises of the British Socialist Workers’ Party and the International Socialist Organization (U.S.).
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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.