The value of Noam Chomsky
A "personal essay" from 2015 on some of the reasons why Chomsky's fame -- unlike that of most public intellectuals -- is more than justified. Despite his rejection of the label, he is, in many respects, the quintessential Marxist.
The necessity of a moral revolution
Thoughts on the kind of moral universe we have to create in order to save the world.
A leftist history of the U.S. economy
Submitted by Marx-lover on Dec 28 2019 21:47
A summary of Richard Du Boff's comprehensive history of the American economy.
Thoughts on "The Reactionary Mind"
Brief reflections on Corey Robin's bestseller "The Reactionary Mind." It's a good book, but one can argue that, in the end, Robin takes the ideologies of conservatives a little too seriously.
Down But Not Out: The Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression
Submitted by Marx-lover on Dec 27 2019 00:50
This is a Ph.D. dissertation in the field of U.S. labor history. See www.wrightswriting.com/ for more Marxist scholarship.
Miasnikov's 'Draft Platform' for the Communist Workers' International (1930)
Submitted by Internationalis... on Dec 18 2019 13:07
The document which follows is a translation from the French original. It was sent to us in the facsimile version kept in the NKVD files in Moscow by comrades of the Workers’ Group in the USA. The official stamp shows that the NKVD had received it by 8 July 1932 and, no doubt, it later played a part in sealing the ultimate fate of Gavril Miasnikov. Our translation is based on this version.
The Working Class needs its own Political Organisation
Submitted by Internationalis... on Dec 14 2019 12:16
On the left of the political spectrum there is no shortage of calls for the formation of “workers’ parties”, the transformation of existing parties into “real workers’ parties”, or this or that clique declaring itself to be “the party”. An endless alphabet soup of Trotskyist and Stalinist groups have dedicated their resources towards depriving this slogan of all meaning. So it’s no surprise at all that at first glance our work towards the formation of an independent and international political organisation of the working class, can come across as just more of the same.
Finding Our Compass: Reflections on a World in Crisis
An 'experimental' book that touches on a wide range of topics while maintaining a grounding in left-wing philosophies.
Notes of an Underground Humanist
An idiosyncratic book inspired by the form of Nietzsche but the content of Marx.
The Fall of the Berlin Wall and “The End of History”
Submitted by Internationalis... on Nov 13 2019 13:10
Today (9/11/19) marks the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (which did not quite make its own thirtieth anniversary). It will be accompanied by the usual capitalist paeans to the wonders of democracy and the capitalist way of doing things. The following article from Communist Review 8 (later Internationalist Communist) appeared in January 1990 but has never been reproduced digitally before. It was our deeper reflection not only on the collapse of the USSR’s empire in the East but the burgeoning crisis of world capitalism as a whole
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