For those who follow such goings-on, I want to acknowledge the decision of the Marxist Center — a project I worked on for several years and have been associated with — has voted to dissolve itself. The project had run its course, and although several of us had attempted to resuscitate it, the best thing to do now is to accept it has come to its conclusion.
graphic credit: Shenby (they/she) @leftaesthetic Recently, a debate over appealing to “American patriotism” as a tactic for revolutionary organizing in the home base of imperialism was revived. Historically an ideological tool of the ruling class, patriotism has been used to mobilize the American working class to support imperialist wars, racism, and settler colonialism. American socialists […]
Introduction In the course of the last half decade a distinct political consciousness in the youth has heralded a return of an explicitly socialist politics openly hostile to the reigning institutions of the capitalist order in the United States. This mass resurgence has occurred due to the failures, not successes, of the far-left to attain […]
Long Beach, CA’s MacArthur Park serves as a gathering ground and semi-permanent residence for a pocket of the city’s 2,000+ homeless people. The Park offers open space, portable toilets, and picnic tables beneath trees whose branches and leaves provide shade from the blistering sun that hangs in cloudless skies typical of Southern California. Life is […]
Editorial note: This essay was originally published in the now defunct journal The North Star, on October 8, 2013, during the US government shutdown crisis. It references several other articles by Horras and others which were published around the same time in 2010, on the website Information is a Weapon, and in the YDS (now […]