The proletarian class party
This is the first post in a series I did on the topic of the communist party. Originally, this particular post was essentially taken word for word from the notes I wrote in preparation for the debate...
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Organ of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party This is the second part of a series of posts on the nature of the proletarian class party, of which the first part can be found here. There was...
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Leon Trotsky reading the organ of the American Socialist Workers’ Party For those of you who don’t like to read titles, this post is part three of my series on the topic of the proletarian class...
View ArticleFor a return to class politics
An image from back when socialists still knew what was important. I’m taking a short break from writing on the next post in my series on the proletarian class party to deal with what I feel is in fact...
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The organ of the SPD from 1891 to 1933. After a short break from dealing with the subject (during which I wrote a post on identity politics) I have gotten around to writing part four on my series on...
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The organ of the Communist Party of Italy (after WWII known as the Italian Communist Party) This post (which I have been reluctant to make in the first place given my relative uneasiness this...
View ArticleViolence and socialism
A painting representing the Russian Civil War Today, more than it has in the past, the topic of violence is one that is being debated hotly, especially in the aftermath of the Occupy Wall Street...
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“One must not allow oneself to be misled by the cry for ‘unity.’ Those who have this word most often on their lips are those who sow the most dissension, just as at present the Jura Bakuninists in...
View ArticleProvisional thoughts on Egypt
Between January and October 1850, Karl Marx wrote a series of four articles on the revolutionary situation in France for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, which were collected and published with the...
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