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...
Apr 19, 202114 minReview 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...
Sep 4, 202035 minThe Workers' BillHere's the last section of chapter 6 of my dissertation on the unemployed in Chicago during the Depression. The previous two sections are...
Jul 19, 20193 minThoughts on planning vs. the marketBeen reading The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism. It's a good...
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 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...
Feb 15, 20152 minChristianity updatedOne of the many ironies about contemporary Christians is that they tend to be supportive of capitalism. This isn’t surprising: from the...
Feb 11, 20152 minCapitalism, socialism, and planningIdeological hacks like Friedrich Hayek and his contemporary disciples pretend that the difference between capitalism and socialism is...
Oct 29, 20144 minSocialism 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,...
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),...
Oct 3, 20142 minThoughts on socialist revolutionIn retrospect it’s obvious that something like socialism couldn’t have happened until the nation-state system had disintegrated (which...
Sep 27, 20143 minRadical human natureThe power of indoctrination is shown by the fact that most people don’t consider themselves radical leftists, socialists, or anarchists....