Loren Goldner

Online archive of texts by and about Loren Goldner (1947-2024), communist writer-activist and co-editor of Insurgent Notes.

Loren Goldner

The agrarian question in the Russian revolution: from material community to productivism, and back - Loren Goldner

Buried under almost a century of ideology, "the Russian question," the historical…

Super imperialism: the origins and fundamentals of U.S. world dominance - Michael Hudson

Michael Hudson's in-depth and highly controversial study of imperialism, lauded by …

Industrial Worker #1718 (August/September 2009)

The August/September 2009 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

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Interviews and lectures by Loren Goldner

Spanish workers' barricade during the civil war

The Spanish revolution, past and future: grandeur and poverty of anarchism; how the working class takes over (or doesn't), then and now - Loren Goldner

Detailed account and analysis of anarchism in the Spanish civil war and revolution…

Notes towards a critique of Maoism

Loren Goldner's 'bare-bones history' of Maoism. From Insurgent Notes #7

The fusion of anabaptist, Indian and African as the American radical tradition - Loren Goldner

The following article attempts, in a nutshell, to apply Ernst Bloch's idea of "non-contemporary contradiction" to American history. It was written for a symposium on "Religion and Politics" in the U.S.-based journal Against the Current.

Anti-capitalism or anti-imperialism? Interwar authoritarian and fascist sources of a reactionary ideology: The case of the Bolivian MNR

Loren Goldner's detailed account and analysis of the Bolivian Revolutionary…

Salazar and Franco.

Ubu saved from drowning: worker insurgency and statist containment in Portugal and Spain, 1974-1977 - Loren Goldner

An analysis of the end of the Salazar and Franco regimes and the transition crises…

The sky is always darkest just before the dawn: class struggle in the US from the 2008 crash to the eve of the occupations movement - Loren Goldner

Loren Goldner discusses working class and capitalist responses to the crisis since…

Clausewitz on the Pampas: An Argentine snapshot as Latin America moves leftward - Loren Goldner

Observations on Argentina following a 2006 visit by left communist Loren Goldner.

Theses for discussion - Loren Goldner

Loren Goldner sketches the basic points of departure for political discussion today