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Eleven Theses on Socialist Revolution

The good folks at DSA (of which I'm a proud member) were kind enough to publish the following article recently in their online...

Thou shalt not worship intellectuals

When I read old books or articles that are totally forgotten despite being brilliant, it saddens me. Siblings of Donald Trump publish...

Why I am not a Leninist (nor an anarchist)

Years later, I still reproach myself for self-publishing my book on cooperatives, because that ensured it would have a limited...

Skeptical thoughts on the Russian Revolution

[From an email.] …Of course it's true that every event in history depends on contingencies. [I had said the Russian Revolution depended...

The silliness of logical positivism

[Old jottings from my journal.] Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, from the selections I’ve read so far, is sensible. (That isn’t...

Saving Marxism from Lenin

[This is an excerpt from Notes of an Underground Humanist.] You should read Peter Kropotkin’s essay “The State: Its Historic Role.”...