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In June I published the book version of my Ph.D. dissertation, bearing the ungainly title Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in...
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- Aug 9
- 13 min
The myth of the "moderate" American
[This article was published at Compact magazine.] In the United States there exists today, and has existed since at least the 1950s, a...
- 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...
- Jun 11, 2021
- 74 min
Marxism and the solidarity economy
Another excessively long blog post. I recently published a long article ("Marxism and the Solidarity Economy: Toward a New Theory of...
- Sep 10, 2020
- 12 min
DuBois's "Black Reconstruction"
W. E. B. DuBois’s great work Black Reconstruction in America: 1860-1880, published in 1935, isn’t a very easy read. But it’s important as...
- Sep 8, 2020
- 21 min
"Revolution in the Twenty-First Century: A Reconsideration of Marxism"
[An article from several months ago.] In the age of COVID-19, it’s even more obvious than it’s been for at least a couple of decades that...
- 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...
- Jun 12, 2020
- 4 min
Student notes on "Poor People's Movements"
[Maybe it's self-indulgent of me to keep posting old notes from my student years, but just in case anyone out there gives a shit, I guess...
- Jul 27, 2019
- 5 min
On the fight against misogyny
As a leftist, "I wish we could all just get along." Wouldn't that be nice? Maybe it would get boring pretty quickly. But a little less...
- Jul 11, 2019
- 10 min
What will "the revolution" look like?
Here's a blog post for you masochists who are interested in the debates that go on among Marxist intellectuals over questions around...
- Nov 10, 2016
- 2 min
The necessity of revolutionary violence
[Student notes.] You should read Lance Hill's The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement. Gives a compelling...
- 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...
- May 16, 2016
- 6 min
More thoughts on the French Revolution
Marxism and the French Revolution.— Let’s grant that, as non-Marxists like to remind us, the French Revolution was precipitated more by...
- May 6, 2016
- 3 min
On the French Revolution
It’s interesting that the French Revolution’s liberalism in some ways helped make possible its illiberalism, its nationalism and...
- Jan 29, 2016
- 13 min
Intellectual origins of American radicalism
Staughton Lynd's Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism (1968) is a fantastic exploration of the ideological offshoots and effects...
- Jan 24, 2016
- 2 min
Glib thoughts on the fall of capitalism
The fulfillment of the [Marxian] prophecy.— As capital has become more mobile internationally since the 1970s (the era of globalization),...
- 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.”...
- Oct 25, 2014
- 2 min
On the American Revolution
Here’s a (somewhat oversimplified) one-sentence summary of the origins, trajectory, and outcome of the American Revolution: it “ended in...
- Oct 16, 2014
- 5 min
Correcting Marx's theory of revolution
From an academic paper. (See my book on worker cooperatives, where this is all fleshed out in much more detail.)-- The Food Wars (2009),...
- Sep 20, 2014
- 1 min
Learning from history
The elite has the money, but the workers have the dignity. The elite consumes; the workers produce. Future ages always forget the past...