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Category: Socialism
Book Review Essay: Mexico, Transnational and World Revolution
While I admire the political values of these two scholars, I don’t find either of these books satisfying because they like many other authors perpetuate the romantic view of Ricardo Flores Magón.
review
The Rise and Fall of the Corbyn Left
A review of Michael Chessum’s inside account and analysis of Corbynism’s trajectories and defeat.
review
Life-making Through Socialist Feminism
On Afary’s compelling case for socialist feminism as an urgent response to twenty-first century crises.
Conceptions of Dual Power and Prefigurative Politics
Wayne Price delineates and examines two complementary tendencies in libertarian socialist politics – a strategy of building alternate institutions and another based on revolutionary mass struggles.
Old Bolshevism, New Bolshevism, and Lenin’s April Theses
Karl Kautsky as Theorist of Permanent Revolution?
John Marot defends the interpretation of Lenin’s April Theses as the pivotal turning point for the Bolsheviks, countering Lars Lih’s and Eric Blanc’s historical narrative.
Revisiting Their Morals and Ours
A critical examination of Trotsky’s evolving views on revolutionary morality and democracy in revolutionary movements.
When Sri Lanka Operated Workers’ Councils
The history of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party in Sri Lanka and its leading role in establishing workers’ councils across the public sector in the 1970s.
review
Socialism or Barbarism! Truer than Ever?
Michael Broz reviews Neil Faulkner’s book of Marxist analysis on the accelerating ecological and social crisis.
review
Russia’s Anti-capitalist Intelligentsia
Peter Ranis reviews Ilya Budraitskis’s book on the history of left dissidents in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia.
An Ambiguous Paradise Built in Hell
Dilar Dirik, The Kurdish Women’s Movement: History, Theory, Practice (London: Pluto Press, 2022)
On November 20th, Turkey launched Operation Claw-Sword, a large-scale campaign of drone attacks killing civilians and militants in the predominantly Kurdish regions of Syria and Iraq.1 Then, in . . .
The Ukrainian Left’s View on the Prospects of Peace Negotiations
It is a precious recognition that negotiations in the understanding of the current Russian government can only take place as a continuation of accumulating multi-layered lies, which appears to be the foundation of the public communication strategy of the Putin regime.
21st Century Revolution
A review of activist Ted Glick’s case for a better world, based on higher love, racial justice, and democratic cooperation
On the Eve of National Elections, Looking Backward
Italy’s Rising Black Tide, A Creeping Counter-Revolution
On September 25 Italy will hold elections following the resignation of Prime Minister Pario Draghi and the concern is palpable.
review
Eco-Utopia from Below
A discussion of two recent books — by Peter Gelderloos and by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass — on eco-utopian grassroots initiatives.
Is China Socialist Because It Reduced Poverty?
Michael Karadjis assesses and rejects the claim that China’s impressive poverty reduction makes it a socialist country.
Book Review: Two Failures of Vision
Doug Greene, A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism. Washington: 2021. 260 pages. Notes. Bibliography. No index.
Doug Greene has written his critical political biography of Michael Harrington, in large part it seems because he wants . . .
Their Values and Ours: The Debate over Western Values and the Values of the Socialist Left
Where does the Left stand and where should it stand on this question of “Western values”?
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