Stalinist Cinema in Context: Ten Things You Might Miss Watching 'The Fall of Berlin'
Sophia Homa, May 9, 2021
Sophia Homa provides some historical context for a classic Soviet film to celebrate the Nazi surrender in World War II. Read Article.
The Revolutionary Minimum-Maximum Program
Donald Parkinson, May 5, 2021
Donald Parkinson explains and defends the format of the minimum-maximum program using the model established in Marx and Guesde's Programme of the Parti Ouvrier. Reading: Lydia Apolinar. Read Article.
The Question of a Stagnant Marxism: Is Marxism Exegetical or Scientific?
Simoun Magsalin, April 30, 2021
Why is it that there exists a tendency in Marxism—itself a theory of change—that remains unchanging? Simoun Magsalin investigates. Read Article.
The Collective Mind
Jean Allen, April 22, 2021
Jean Allen responds to Amelia Davenport, continuing the debate on scientific management.[note]This was written before Davenport's Materialist History or Critical History? for the ebook From Tide to Wave: Base Building and Communist Politics. - Editor[/note] Read Article.
Historicizing Climate Change and Concretizing Resilience: The Case of Loakan, Itogon
Ivan Emil A. Labayne, April 16, 2021
Ivan Emil A. Labayne examines the 2018 Loakan, Itogon landslide in the Philippines through the lens of John Bellamy Foster's ecological Marx. Read Article.
Post-Scarcity without a Fully-Automated World
Connor Harney, April 7, 2021
Connor Harney reviews Aaron Benavav's Automation and the Future of Work, a welcome intervention in a time where bourgeois utopian delusions about the future of automation and capitalism are commonplace and visions of an emancipatory communist future are far and few between. Read Article.
What Remains
Taylor Thornburg, March 31, 2021
Taylor Thornburg offers a communist analysis of the internet and explores its different ideological uses. Read Article.
Fight the Constitution! Demand a New Republic!
Jenna Grove, March 25, 2021
Ben Grove proposes a radical New Union Act to throw the antiquated US Constitution into the dustbin of history. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Read Article.
The Second International Socialist Congress of Women in Copenhagen (1910)
March 8, 2021
First published in Die Gleichheit, 25 (1910), pp. 387-390 Read Article.
The Platform is the Message
Renato Flores, March 6, 2021
Amelia Davenport and Renato Flores argue that social media cannot be ignored despite its negative effects on modern culture. Instead, the left needs its own approach to social media that takes into account the values encoded into tech platforms. Read Article.