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Ideal and Real History: L.A. Kauffman's 'Direct Action'
Jean Allen, October 5, 2018
Jean Allen reviews L.A. Kauffman's 'Direct Action,' a history of the protest movements that filled the gap between the New Left and the modern left that are often ignored and forgotten. Allen argues that these movements cannot be understood strictly in terms of their theory, but by grasping the realities that they faced as organizers. Read Article.
Against Think-Tank Socialism: a Review of 'Inventing the Future'
Jean Allen, November 1, 2018
Jean Allen reviews Srnicek & Williams' 'Inventing the Future,' which calls for an intellectual counter-hegemony to neoliberalism. Does this proposal for counter-hegemonic institutions really put anything new on the table, or just reflect the prevailing organizational norms of the existing left? Read Article.
What's At Stake in the Democratic Socialists of America?
Jean Allen, March 28, 2019
Jean Allen discusses the factional infighting in the DSA and it what it says about the organization at large. Read Article.
A Critical History of Management Thought
Jean Allen, May 8, 2020
Can capitalist management thought provide solutions to the problems of the socialist movement? Jean Allen urges doubt and skepticism in this critical review of Morgan Witzel’s A History Of Management Thought. Read Article.
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.
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.
Socialism of the Oppressed: The Stakes of the Bowman Affair
Marisa Miale, April 9, 2022
Jean Allen and Marisa Miale, authors of For An Internationalist DSA, sketch out a strategy for building a left opposition committed to electoral discipline and unity between socialism and the international working-class. Reading: LC. Read Article.
