Where Is Our Labor Party?
Over the years, efforts of US workers to build a party that represents their interests have come up short. Why?
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The Russian Revolution Reconsidered
Between world wars and a crippling civil war, the Russian Revolution fought to change history.
The Pathologies of Inequality Are an Age-Old Preoccupation
Conservatives today often denigrate a concern with economic inequality as a deviant left-wing preoccupation. In fact, from antiquity to the present, canonical thinkers of diverse political orientations have diagnosed economic inequality as a great evil.
Marxism for the Man in the Streets
A new biography of Laurence Gronlund, a long-forgotten yet pivotal Marxian propagandist, sheds light on the rich complexities of Gilded Age socialism — one that forces us to consider how we package and present socialist ideas.
The Momentous Class Struggle of the German Peasants’ War
This year marks the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War, the largest European uprising before the French Revolution, in which peasants seized upon the radical implications of Martin Luther’s theology to challenge a hierarchical social order.
Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz and the Marxist Theory of Nationalism
Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz was a remarkably creative Polish Marxist thinker who developed a theory of nationalism that was far ahead of its time.
Thomas Müntzer Struck the Fear of God Into Germany’s Rulers
Today marks the 500th anniversary of Thomas Müntzer’s execution after he led a mass revolt that was both religious and social in its content. Müntzer’s complex, contradictory career has long been a source of fascination for historians of class conflict.
Karl Korsch and the Lost Futures of European Marxism
Karl Korsch was one of the most brilliant figures of interwar German Marxist culture before it was shattered by the rise of Nazism. His death in 1961 came just before the New Left began to rediscover his contribution to Marxist theory.
As Germans Drink Alone at Home, Community Pubs Are Closing
Skyrocketing prices and stagnating real wages are forcing more and more pubs to shut their doors. The closing of neighborhood pubs means the loss of leisure space, and of the community built around it.
Pessimism of the Will
A review of Eric Hobsbawm's How to Change the World.
Issue 62: The Internet Speaks
Dispatches from the greatest revolutionary thinkers of our time.
What’s on a Leftist Teenager’s Bookshelf?
We surveyed 1,789 socialist teens. Here’s what they’re reading before prom.
Book-Marx #5
Holiday merriment and feverish polemicizing mesh well.
Rosa’s Mail
The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg reveal a revolutionary who was deeply committed and defiantly humane.
Sexual Liberation, Human Freedom
This century's LGBTQ liberation movement must be part of a broader project to redefine human freedom.
The Lies We Tell About Lenin
Lenin and the debates that shaped the Russian Revolution have been misunderstood by friends and foes alike.
Assessing Trotsky
How should we assess the legacy of Leon Trotsky?
An Anticapitalism That Can Win
We should engage with and update the revolutionary Marxist tradition — not reject it.