Articles

Mission Statement of the Marxist Unity Slate

March 3, 2021

This is a reprint of the mission statement of Marxist Unity Slate, a set of proposals for the 2021 DSA convention with the aim of fostering democratic discipline and principled election campaigns, as well as uniting Marxists in DSA around a vision of a mass socialist party. The proposals can be read and signed here. Reading: Matt Strupp. Read Article.

Create a Mass Party!

Cliff Connolly, February 25, 2021

Cliff Connolly critiques CounterPower’s vision of the “party of autonomy” and offers an alternative vision of the mass party. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Read Article.

Party and Subject: A Reply to Donald Parkinson

Taylor B, February 20, 2021

Taylor B continues the debate on political subjectivity, revolutionary strategy and the party-form, responding to Donald Parkinson's Without a Party, We Have Nothing. Read Article.

Discovering the Cybernetic Brain

Amelia Davenport, February 14, 2021

Amelia Davenport interviews philosopher of science and historian of cybernetics Andrew Pickering. Read Article.

Other Witherings: On Family Abolition and Defense

Cam Scott, February 11, 2021

Social Conservative defenses of the nuclear family pose it as the default natural form of kinship and blame working-class immiseration on its decline. Cam Scott takes aim at such arguments, including those made by leftists. Read Article.

Escaping the Labour Left ‘Safety Valve’: Towards Dual Power in Britain

Alfie Hancox, February 11, 2021

Is the UK Labour Party a possible vehicle for working-class emancipation? Alfie Hancox argues in the negative, posing the regroupment of communists independent of the Labour Party as an alternative. Read Article.

Lenin and Art by Lunacharsky

Cliff Connolly, January 21, 2021

In honor of Lenin on the anniversary of his death, we publish this short essay by Lunacharsky on Lenin's views regarding art. This text was originally published in “Khudozhnik i Zritel” (Artist and Audience), issues 2-3, March-April 1924, and has been translated by Reuben Woolley. Introduction by Cliff Connolly. The original source of the translation can be found here. Read Article.