The Cosmopolitan Socialism of Michael Brooks
Michael Brooks, who would have turned 37 years old today, wanted the Left to do better. In the last year of his life, he’d started to write a book about what that might look like.
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Arizona Has Lost Control of the Coronavirus Pandemic
Arizona governor Doug Ducey allowed pressure from Donald Trump and business leaders in the state to pressure him into prematurely reopening the state. Now the state is suffering the worst coronavirus numbers in the entire world.
Bernie Wants Democrats to Fight for the Working Class. They Won’t.
Bernie Sanders is sounding the alarm: working-class people are fed up with Democrats’ failed strategy of behind-the-scenes negotiations. But the party won’t listen. So Sanders and the Squad should take a more aggressive approach against the Democrats.
Vietnam War Soldiers Helped End the Vietnam War
The anti–Vietnam War movement cut across the civilian-military divide, with active-duty soldiers abroad and stateside defying their commanders and refusing to fight. Those soldiers played a key role in bringing the brutal war to an end.
PayPal Has Begun Quietly Shuttering Left-Wing Media Accounts
Over the past week, PayPal canceled without explanation the accounts of two prominent independent news outlets. It escaped notice by the mainstream press, which spent the weekend congratulating itself over the freedom to criticize the powerful.
Abolish Landlords
A century ago, socialists demanded that housing serve public need rather than private profit. That aspiration is still relevant today, but it can only be realized under one condition: abolishing landlords.
Friedrich Engels, a Thinker for Today
Two hundred years since his birth, Friedrich Engels is often considered a man rooted in the culture of 19-century thought. But if not all his predictions ring true, his critique of the rising industrial capitalism offers penetrating insights into our own present.
Donald Trump Was a Monster Forged by the American Free Market
Donald Trump is the grotesque embodiment of market principles. In climbing back from his disastrous four years, one of our aims must be to wrest back democracy from the market.
How Australian Workers Prepared to Socialize Industry During the Great Depression
In the 1930s, working-class radicals in the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party established Socialization Units, mass organizations parallel to the party. Their goal was to prepare for the democratic takeover of industry, and to build “socialism in our time.”
The Left Should See Our Movement as a Dynamic Ecology
Instead of finger-wagging at other leftists, we should think ecologically about our organizational structures and tactics.
The Humanitarian Warmongers Couldn’t Care Less About the US Sanctions Killing Afghans
While the US was ending its destructive war in Afghanistan, politicians and the media were overflowing with concern for the Afghan people. Now that US sanctions are causing mass suffering and death in the country, they’ve lost interest.
Charlie Kirk Is Right to Be Afraid of Spinoza
Right-wing culture warriors recently attacked Immanuel Kant as the father of “critical race theory.” Now, figures like Charlie Kirk are going after Baruch Spinoza — a radical enlightenment thinker who can actually teach us a few things about how to fight the Right.
Madeleine Albright Was a Killer
Madeleine Albright has died at 84. She was a pioneering imperialist who passionately advocated greater use of deadly violence in pursuit of a US-dominated post–Cold War global order — and killed many, many people in the process.
The Corporatization of Psychedelics Would Be a Disaster
We’re in the midst of a new psychedelics boom across the United States. These drugs can provide incredible healing and understanding — but not under the dictates of a pathologizing, profit-obsessed health system.
Mike Davis Was the Best Socialist Writer of the Last Half Century
Mike Davis forced himself to look at the very worst of our society and world. What he found wasn’t pretty. Yet he never abandoned the search for seeds of positive change — and for socialism.
The Soundtrack To Our Age of Decay
Both hip-hop and punk bloomed out of the social collapse created by the economic crisis of the 1970s. But where is the music of our twenty-first-century disaster?
Every July, We Should Celebrate the St Louis Commune
In July 1877, workers in St Louis waged a general strike that saw them briefly take the reins of power. Frightened elites compared it to the Paris Commune — and we should celebrate this extraordinary moment of radical democracy today.
In Australia, COVID-19 Has Exposed a Litany of Privatization Disasters
The coronavirus pandemic has preyed on weaknesses created by decades of austerity, confirming what socialists have consistently argued: privatization was a disaster.
Left-Wing Politicians: Run on Abolishing Ticketmaster
The recent Taylor Swift ticket fiasco is a good reminder: Ticketmaster is a horrible, price-gouging monopoly that everyone hates. Left-wing politicians should make abolishing Ticketmaster part of their platform.