Robert Ovetz describes the significance of a new collection of Rosa Luxemburg’s writings on revolution from 1906 to 1909, recently published in English.
Category: Socialism
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The Limits of State-Centric Analysis of the Latin American Left
In their review of Gaudichaud et al.’s book, “The Impasse of the Latin American Left,” Paley and Whitener call for greater focus on autonomous social movements.
The Cuban Reality
Lynn Cruz calls for situating Cuban politics in the context of the world capitalist system
Introduction to Marginalized Discourse: Voices from the Critical Left in Cuba
James Buckwalter-Arias introduces the collection of contributions from critical leftists in Cuba.
The Historical Burden of Actually Existing Socialism
Alexander Hall Lujardo develops the emancipatory anti-capitalist critique of Cuban state socialism.
Cuba and the World
Lisbeth Moya González discusses how the international left can be in solidarity with the critical Cuban left.
Adolfo Gilly, Great Latin American Left Intellectual, Dead at 94
Adolfo Gilly, one of the great Latin American left intellectuals of his time, has died at the age of 94.
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.
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The Rise and Fall of the Corbyn Left
A review of Michael Chessum’s inside account and analysis of Corbynism’s trajectories and defeat.
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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.
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Socialism or Barbarism! Truer than Ever?
Michael Broz reviews Neil Faulkner’s book of Marxist analysis on the accelerating ecological and social crisis.
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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.
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