Tag: Politics
Germany 1923
Part one of Sean Larson’s reconstruction of the failed German Revolution of 1923 and the episode’s lessons for revolutionaries today.
Realizing Renewable Power’s Potential Means Combating Capital
Simon Pirani systematically takes on ecomodernist approaches to socialist strategy, which, he argues, are fundamentally antithetical to any left project.
It’s a Genocide, and It Must be Stopped
The Spectre editorial board provides a statement on the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Syria’s Protest Movement
Joseph Daher analyzes the causes, scope, strategy, and possible growth of the ongoing regime protest movement in Syria.
On the Economic Power of Capital
Hugo de Camps interviews Søren Mau on his new book Mute Compulsion, a groundbreaking new reading of Marx’s theory of economic power.
Abolition and Tenant Power in Chinatown
Tenant organizers in LA write about the power of abolitionist politics in the fight against displacement in Chinatown.
A Return on Our Investment
Washington has intervened in Latin America several times since the Monroe Doctrine was established two hundred years ago. US-promoted border militarization across the Western Hemisphere is this intervention’s newest evolution.
Neither Productivism nor Degrowth
Ståle Holgersen moves us beyond the stale impasse between degrowth and eco-modernist approaches to eco-socialist strategy.
Burning Out of Control
John Clarke explains how Canada’s forest fires are both caused by and contribute to climate change and its socially unequal and widespread effects.
Review of Eric Blanc’s Revolutionary Social Democracy
Peter Hudis reviews Eric Blanc’s Revolutionary Social Democracy