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    Eleven Theses on Socialist Revolution
    • Aug 22, 2021
    • 16 min

    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
    • Aug 25, 2020
    • 9 min

    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)
    • Aug 24, 2020
    • 25 min

    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
    • Nov 8, 2016
    • 4 min

    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
    • Jul 5, 2016
    • 5 min

    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
    • Sep 13, 2015
    • 4 min

    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.”...

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