Why is DSA in this anomalous position: A political organization with no useful position on the central foreign policy question of the day?
Category: Left Politics
Six FAQs on Anti-Imperialism Today and the War in Ukraine
Gilbert Achcar responds to six questions about his “Memorandum on the radical anti-imperialist position regarding the war in Ukraine.”
Alain Krivine: French Revolutionary Socialist – 1941-2022
Alain Krivine, a French revolutionary socialist, died today March 12 at the age of eighty.
What the DSA International Committee’s Ukraine Statement Gets Wrong
The DSA International Committee statement on Ukraine rightly criticizes NATO but is silent on Russia’s role in the current crisis
Reply to Eric Blanc’s “Can Leninists Explain the Russian Revolution?: A Reply to Sam Farber”
If the main strategic task for the American Left is to change the existing relation of forces in society, Congress cannot be the main arena of struggle.
Can Leninists Explain the Russian Revolution?
A Reply to Sam Farber
Learning the right lessons from the Russian Revolution is one way socialists today can start to more critically, and more effectively, develop strategies and tactics appropriate to the actual contexts in which we find ourselves.
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Marx’s Last Years Explored
Karl Marx’s last years, when he famously failed to complete all the volumes of Capital, were for a long time viewed as a period of illness and even senescence, even though he was only 64 years old at his death . . .
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What Is Social Reproduction Theory Trying to Explain?
Ferguson lays out the issues, doesn’t hide behind political labels, and advances a sophisticated analysis that crystallizes some contemporary thinking.
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Engaging Federici on Marx, Capitalism, and Social Reproduction
The collection of essays delivers a relatively cohesive critique of Marx’s ideas and influence—one that is, to my mind, balanced if not always fair.
Internationalism, Anti-Imperialism, And the Origins of Campism
La Botz analyzes the pseudo anti-imperialist character of campism and calls for genuine internationalism of workers against imperialism.
Left Antisemitism and Consistent Democracy
A Reply to Daniel Fischer
Daniel Randall responds to Daniel Fischer’s review of his book Confronting Antisemitism on the Left: Arguments for Socialists.
Overcoming Left Antisemitism
An Anti-Zionist’s Review of Confronting Antisemitism on the Left
Left antisemitism is all too real, has especially strong roots in Stalinism, and functions as a dangerous frame for conspiratorial thinking.
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