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The Family is Dead, Long Live the Family
Alyson Escalante, March 11, 2020
With family abolition a controversial topic in the current-day leftist discourse, Alyson Escalante argues for a more nuanced and sensitive approach to the topic by looking at the works of Karl Marx and Alexandra Kollontai while exploring the relation of colonialism to the family. Reading: Sam Wiles. Read Article.
Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism in the Second International
Donald Parkinson, April 18, 2020
Karl Marx's own ambiguous and sometimes contradictory views on colonialism meant that the Second International would debate over the correct view on the matter. Donald Parkinson gives an overview of these debates, arguing that Communists today must unite around a clear anti-colonial and anti-imperialist program. 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.
COVID, Capitalism, and Genocide
Alyson Escalante, September 4, 2021
Is the current legal definition of genocide useful for Marxists? Alyson Escalante unpacks the history behind the concept as it is currently understood and argues that a Marxist understanding of genocide must move beyond legalistic bourgeois definitions that rely on intent and look at the realities of systemic dispossession and extermination. Read Article.
Class Struggle and Corporatism: A Brief History of Australian Colonialism
Roxy Hall, October 18, 2021
The Mature Labor Aristocracy and its Problems, Part 1: Class Position, Consciousness and the Labor Aristocracy
Amal Samaha, October 21, 2022
In part one of a three-part series, Amal Samaha begins her exploration of the concept of the labor aristocracy and its modern relevance. Read Article.
Marxism’s Metanormative Critique of Capitalism
Jared Houston, April 6, 2023
Jared Houston revisits debates regarding the normative standing of Marx's critique of capitalism, advancing the thesis that Marx's offers a metanormative critique of capital accumulation. Capital offends not against this-or-that particular, positive, and precise account of Marxian morality, but against any and all normative systems that stand in the way of boundless accumulation. Read Article.