There is a distinction in the Left right now which divides older parts of the US Left from the newer organizations which have grown since the Trump presidency. On the one hand is a conception of politics as a series of line positions and principles held in abstract. This idea reaches its zenith with a view of people and organizations as having “good politics” or “bad … [Read more...] about The Need For Principles
Marxism
Beyond Basebuilding: Towards a Declassed Socialist Movement
Protestors links arms with Nick Lambert Saturday during a protest. A recent salvo of polemics has renewed discussion around the question of unity throughout the emergent US socialist movement. With the DSA convention in August serving as a point of departure, several analyses explain the underlying contradictions of this political moment and offer a way forward. I argue that … [Read more...] about Beyond Basebuilding: Towards a Declassed Socialist Movement
Podcast: A Discussion on Marxist Transfeminist & Queer Theories of Social Reproduction
https://soundcloud.com/kate-doyle-griffiths/kate-jules-and-sophie-riff-on-gender/s-NGwoM Angela Eslava, CUNY student and activist, interviews three writers on gender about the Marxist transfeminist view on skirts and strikes! Andrea Long Chu’s ”On Liking Women,” as an entre to transfeminism and femininity. Not to be missed as an introduction to the new Queer theory of … [Read more...] about Podcast: A Discussion on Marxist Transfeminist & Queer Theories of Social Reproduction
The Real Movement: Against The Solidarity Economy
Communism is, for us, not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.-Karl Marx, The German Ideology Last week, Regeneration published a piece by Chris Wright … [Read more...] about The Real Movement: Against The Solidarity Economy
Marxism and the Solidarity Economy
In the twenty-first century, as capitalism enters an epoch of unprecedented crisis, it is time to reconsider the Marxist theory of proletarian revolution. More precisely, it is time to critically reconsider it, to determine if it has to be revised in order to speak more directly to our own time and our own struggles. It was, after all, conceived in the mid-nineteenth century, … [Read more...] about Marxism and the Solidarity Economy