Tag: socialism
“…to build socialist democracies worldwide”
In this review of Rosenblum;’s We’re Comning for You and Your Rotten System, John Clarke points to the successes of Sawant’s tenure in Seattle, while critically appraising the movement’s success at building popular democracy.
Toward an Iranian Socialism
Robab Vaziri traces the dilemma between theocracy and monarchy to the history of imperial intervention, arguing for a democratic and socialist Iran.
Municipal Socialism’s “YIMBY” Problem
Ben Rosenfield and Holden Taylor challenge technocratic Abundance-style solutions to the New York “housing crisis” and argue for a militant movement with tenants as the protagonists.
Reading Third Camp Socialism in the Time of Trump and Xi
David Camfield reviews Paul Heidemann and Kent Worcester’s newly edited Phyllis and Julius Jacobson reader.
“The Greatest New York City Mayor of All Time”
Keith Rosenthal looks back on the historical record of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in order to reexamine the relationship between social movements and their elected officials.
Regimen
Kyle Kubler addresses the desires and realities of physical culture in the Soviet Union during the period surrounding the October Revolution.
On the Bowman Crisis
Shireen Akram-Boshar and Joel Reinstein argue that the DSA right wing’s misplaced crackdown on Palestine solidarity activism impedes the growth of a principled socialist movement.
Weimar’s Marxist Heretic
Karl Korsch stood out as one of the most original revolutionary Marxists of Weimar Berlin’s leftist intelligentsia
The Interregnum
Spectre’s Tithi Bhattacharya interviewed Meagan Day, Justin Charles, and Charlie Post about the left, electoral strategy, and class and social movements after the defeat of Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Primary. In the first part, each answers Bhattacharya’s questions and in the second part, they respond to one another.
