On the historical experiences of IS and SWP with factions
Another negative feature of party life is the total lack of a space in which criticisms of the political line of the organisation can be raised internally. Rather than being able to articulate their...
View ArticleHow Can We Build the Socialist Movement in the 21st Century?
Dan DiMaggio Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice Road Maps, Dead Ends, and the Search for Fresh Ground: How Can We Build the Socialist Movement in the 21st Century? by...
View ArticlePro bono graphic artist needed
I have been working with Pham Binh to launch a group blog called The North Star. If you’ve read his articles on the Occupy movement and various pieces by the both of us about building a broad-based...
View ArticleAnother Socialist Left Is Possible: a Reply to Paul D’Amato
Another Socialist Left Is Possible: a Reply to Paul D’Amato February 10, 2012 by Pham Binh The first response to my “Occupy and the Tasks of Socialists” piece written by a leading member of an American...
View ArticleWas Lenin a lying manoeuvrer?
Weekly Worker 901 Thursday February 16 2012 Falling out over a Cliff by Lars Lih Was Lenin a lying manoeuvrer? Were the Bolsheviks a cult led by an all-knowing leader and staffed by narrow-minded...
View ArticleA review of volume two of Barry Sheppard’s memoir
Whether you agree or don’t agree with Barry Sheppard’s analysis of the decline and eventual collapse of the Socialist Workers Party, volume two of his memoir titled Interregnum, Decline and Collapse,...
View ArticleCapitalism and the ‘undeniable’ rise in living standards
Two days ago I received an email from Ed Leahy, a Marxmail subscriber: I am a nascent Marxist and am now almost continually struggling against the general Capitalist ideological current that seems to...
View ArticleA review of Michael Lebowitz’s “Contradictions of Real Socialism”
Counterpunch, October 3 2012 Michael Lebowitz on the Human Being Under Socialism The Contradictions of Real Socialism by LOUIS PROYECT Several months ago the Crooked Timber blog held a seminar on...
View ArticleErnie Tate and Jess MacKenzie
In January 2011, when I and my wife were on a month-long vacation in South Beach—a place that both of us love—we were pleasantly surprised to run into veteran socialists Ernie Tate and Jess MacKenzie...
View ArticleDoes anyone ever get the revolution they asked for?
For as long as I have been reading Crooked Timber, a group blog hosted by liberal and social democratic academics, I don’t think a year has gone by without it being devoted to the proposition that...
View ArticleIn response to Timothy Shenk
On The Nation magazine website there’s a 9500 word article by Timothy Shenk titled Thomas Piketty and Millennial Marxists on the Scourge of Inequality that will require far fewer words to dismantle....
View ArticleWhat does state ownership have to do with socialism?
The other day I received an inquiry by email: Hello, I am a young Marxist, and I have a question regarding production. In a Socialism, Utopian and Scientific, Engels stated: “The modern state, no...
View ArticleQuestions about socialism and value theory
Recently a correspondent posed some questions to me that I would like to respond to publicly since others might get something out of my response. Q: “How would a socialist system account for jobs that...
View ArticleSocialism and democracy
Karl Marx in the offices of The Neue Rheinische Zeitung: Organ der Demokratie (“New Rhenish Newspaper: Organ of Democracy“), a German daily newspaper he published between June 1, 1848 and May 19 1849....
View ArticleThe Swedish model (part 1)
Otto von Bismarck: a forerunner to Swedish socialism Bob Schieffer: Let me just start out by asking you, what is a socialist these days? I mean, I remember when a socialist was somebody who wanted to...
View ArticleMichael Lebowitz’s “The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now”
COUNTERPUNCH WEEKEND EDITION, AUGUST 7 2015 What Now? The Left in a Time of Lowered Expectations by LOUIS PROYECT Michael Lebowitz’s “The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now” is a collection of...
View ArticleKarl Marx rides again
(From my 2014 archives) Seemingly three or four years late in the game, Rolling Stone weighed in on the relevance of Karl Marx. In an article titled Marx Was Right: Five Surprising Ways Karl Marx...
View ArticleEvery Cook Can Govern
Among the more than a thousand films I have reviewed over the past 24 years, “Every Cook Can Govern: Documenting the life, impact & works of CLR James” earns pride of place as the most...
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