Since Trump’s victory, authors like Michael Lind have portrayed the “white working class” as victims of metropolitan elites. But seeing the class war as a culture war overlooks working people’s greatest strength: our power to fight for our common interests, above cultural divides.
As capital ratcheted up its assault on labor in the 1990s and Democrats embraced a neoliberal agenda, some labor unions launched their own political party.
Unlike many in his party, Eugene V. Debs believed the struggle for black equality was critical to realizing the promise of socialism.
When it comes to workplace organizing, there's no such thing as a “privileged” worker. You’re either with your coworkers or you’re against them.
It is precisely social democracy's history that shows why we need a more radical socialist politics today.
From Berlin to the Ruhr, the organized working class resisted Hitler’s reactionary appeals.
The uptick in high-profile strikes in recent years has been heartening. But sustaining and expanding the gains won by that militancy will require careful strategizing and deep political engagement that starts with but goes beyond the shop floor.
Economic demands and specifically antiracist demands should not be counterposed — they should be brought together.
During the Cold War, the CIA and State Department understood that there is power in a union. After the successful purges of leftists from unions, US labor leaders were enlisted by government officials to join in their imperialist operations across the world.
The question of the party is back on the Left's agenda — and not a moment too soon.
Without solid data, discussions about class and class consciousness are often just guesswork. Empirical Marxist studies of class structure and class consciousness are invaluable for a robust socialist politics, and we need more of it.
Mark Steven has delved into the history of revolutions to develop a vision of class war for our own time. His analysis would be stronger if he recognized how those revolutions produced broad social alliances through the shared experience of struggle.
W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America is one of the greatest modern studies of revolution and counterrevolution. It’s also an extraordinary example of a materialist and class analysis of race under capitalism.
Brexit wasn't the first time Europeans rejected the EU, and it won't be the last. Here's what the Left should do.
Warren was courting megadonors last year, and says she’ll do it again if she wins the primary. But working people deserve leaders willing to make enemies in high places — for life.
We need to see the state and capitalist production as aspects of the same set of social relations.
It’s fashionable to declare that Marxism doesn’t have much to say about complex, modern societies. But class and the material interests it generates are still the central features of capitalism.
Some argue that the continued existence of the middle class refutes Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalism. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber explains why this is wrong.
The Dialectic of Sex, Chapter One. Published by The Women's Press, 1979. Transcribed by MIA.
The tendency to divorce racial disparities from economic inequality has a long liberal lineage.