Materialist History or Critical History: A Reply to Jean Allen
Amelia Davenport, January 6, 2021
Amelia Davenport responds to Jean Allen's A Critical History of Management Thought, continuing the debate on scientific management. Read Article.
"Going Back or Moving Forward" & "Speech to the 8th CPSU(B) Congress" by N. Osinsky
Renato Flores, December 31, 2020
Translations by Mark Alexandrovich, introduction by Mark Alexandrovich and Renato Flores. Read Article.
Christianity and the Revolutionary Origins of the Jesus Movement
Lydia Apolinar, December 25, 2020
Lydia Apolinar, Alexander Gallus, and Ryan Tool pay tribute to the revolutionary and plebeian origins of Christianity. Read Article.
A Twelve-Step Program for Democrat Addiction
Jenna Grove, December 10, 2020
Ben Grove lays out a twelve-step program for the Democratic Socialists of America to pursue a path of independent working-class politics. Reading: Christian Cail. Read Article.
Lenin and the “Class Point of View”: Looking at Chris Maisano’s “The Constitution and the Class Struggle”
Gil Schaeffer, December 2, 2020
Gil Schaeffer responds to Chris Maisano's "The Constitution and the Class Struggle" to clarify the meaning of the "class point of view" in Lenin and what it can tell us about the struggle for democracy. Read Article.
Just Another Kautsky Fan: Understanding the Early Stalin
Lawrence Parker, November 24, 2020
Interpreting Stalin’s fledgling revolutionary career through his later status as a brutal labor dictator obscures an early whole-hearted admiration for the works of Kautsky and Lenin. By Lawrence Parker. Read Article.
Cults of our Hegemony: An Inventory of Left-Wing Cults
Gus Breslauer, November 18, 2020
Destructive cults are usually considered the domain of religious movements. The Left, however, has its own track record of cults. Gus Breslauer sympathetically examines this history in search of the political questions that produce such groups, how they operate, and how to overcome them. Read by Robert Fish. Read Article.
Without a Party, We Have Nothing
Donald Parkinson, November 14, 2020
Donald Parkinson responds to Taylor B's "Beginning's of Politics: DSA and the Uprising," arguing that a workers' party is necessary to advance an emancipatory politics. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Read Article.
Beginnings of Politics: DSA and the Uprising
Taylor B, November 12, 2020
Writing in August, Taylor B argues that we must look to new emancipatory forces arising in the current conjuncture instead of seeking to impose older forms of organization. We aim for this piece to be a jumping-off point for a broader debate about strategy and the party-form in our current historical moment. Read Article.
Walter Polakov and the Hidden History of Socialist Scientific Management
Amelia Davenport, November 10, 2020
Walter Polakov had a combined passion for two seemingly contradictory ideas: scientific management and socialism. How did these two combine? Amelia Davenport interviews Diana Kelly, author of The Red Taylorist: The Life and Times of Walter Nicholas Polakov to bring light to this little known part of US history. Read Article.