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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...
    Review of "The Young Lords," by Johanna Fernández
    • Apr 19, 2021
    • 14 min

    Review of "The Young Lords," by Johanna Fernández

    [This academic review was posted at H-Net.] Johanna Fernández’s The Young Lords: A Radical History could hardly have been published at a...
    The Workers' Bill
    • Sep 4, 2020
    • 35 min

    The Workers' Bill

    Here's the last section of chapter 6 of my dissertation on the unemployed in Chicago during the Depression. The previous two sections are...
    Thoughts on planning vs. the market
    • Jul 19, 2019
    • 3 min

    Thoughts on planning vs. the market

    Been reading The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism. It's a good...
    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...
    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...
    Christianity updated
    • Feb 15, 2015
    • 2 min

    Christianity updated

    One of the many ironies about contemporary Christians is that they tend to be supportive of capitalism. This isn’t surprising: from the...
    Capitalism, socialism, and planning
    • Feb 11, 2015
    • 2 min

    Capitalism, socialism, and planning

    Ideological hacks like Friedrich Hayek and his contemporary disciples pretend that the difference between capitalism and socialism is...
    Socialism and communism
    • Oct 29, 2014
    • 4 min

    Socialism and communism

    [Excerpt from a book.] The awesome power of business propaganda is revealed in the fact that most Americans scorn the idea of socialism,...
    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),...
    Thoughts on socialist revolution
    • Oct 3, 2014
    • 2 min

    Thoughts on socialist revolution

    In retrospect it’s obvious that something like socialism couldn’t have happened until the nation-state system had disintegrated (which...
    Radical human nature
    • Sep 27, 2014
    • 3 min

    Radical human nature

    The power of indoctrination is shown by the fact that most people don’t consider themselves radical leftists, socialists, or anarchists....

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