Aug 22, 202116 minEleven Theses on Socialist RevolutionThe 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, 202174 minMarxism and the solidarity economyAnother excessively long blog post. I recently published a long article ("Marxism and the Solidarity Economy: Toward a New Theory of...
Sep 10, 202012 minDuBois'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, 202021 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, 202025 minWhy 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, 20204 minStudent 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, 20195 minOn the fight against misogynyAs 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, 201910 minWhat 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, 20162 minThe 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, 20164 minSkeptical 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, 20166 minMore thoughts on the French RevolutionMarxism and the French Revolution.— Let’s grant that, as non-Marxists like to remind us, the French Revolution was precipitated more by...
May 6, 20163 minOn the French RevolutionIt’s interesting that the French Revolution’s liberalism in some ways helped make possible its illiberalism, its nationalism and...
Jan 29, 201613 minIntellectual origins of American radicalismStaughton Lynd's Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism (1968) is a fantastic exploration of the ideological offshoots and effects...
Jan 24, 20162 minGlib thoughts on the fall of capitalismThe fulfillment of the [Marxian] prophecy.— As capital has become more mobile internationally since the 1970s (the era of globalization),...
Sep 13, 20154 minSaving 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, 20142 minOn the American RevolutionHere’s a (somewhat oversimplified) one-sentence summary of the origins, trajectory, and outcome of the American Revolution: it “ended in...
Oct 16, 20145 minCorrecting Marx's theory of revolutionFrom 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, 20141 minLearning from historyThe elite has the money, but the workers have the dignity. The elite consumes; the workers produce. Future ages always forget the past...