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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...
    Marxism and the solidarity economy
    • 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...
    DuBois's "Black Reconstruction"
    • 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...
    "Revolution in the Twenty-First Century: A Reconsideration of Marxism"
    • 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...
    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...
    Student notes on "Poor People's Movements"
    • 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...
    On the fight against misogyny
    • 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...
    What will "the revolution" look like?
    • 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...
    The necessity of revolutionary violence
    • 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...
    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...
    More thoughts on the French Revolution
    • 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...
    On the French Revolution
    • 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...
    Intellectual origins of American radicalism
    • 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...
    Glib thoughts on the fall of capitalism
    • 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),...
    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.”...
    On the American Revolution
    • 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...
    Correcting Marx's theory of revolution
    • 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),...
    Learning from history
    • 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...

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