by Eugene V. Debs Eugene V. Debs (1855 – 1926) was a labor leader and socialist candidate for president. As president of the American Railway Union, Debs took part in the Pullman…
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A Fight Over Power and Heat
The following remarks were delivered by Aidan S. at the Anti-Rate Hike Block Party on May 31, held in opposition to RG&E’s proposed 34% increase in utility bills. We’re all out here…
On Self-Replication in AI and Capitalism
by Gregory Lebens-Higgins The rapid mechanization of the world has inspired a wealth of fiction with the theme of machines acting without human impulse and beyond human intention. These depictions speak to…
The Meaning of Democracy
by Logan W. Cole
“Though we extoll the virtues of democracy in most aspects of our life, we are often completely willing to give up the pretense of pursuing democracy in one place – our jobs.”
D is for “Dialectics”
by Gregory Lebens-Higgins “Dialectics is nothing more than the science of the general laws of motion and development of nature, human society, and thought.”– F. Engels, Anti-Dühring Growing up in the 90s…
On the Laborist Tendency in ROC DSA
by Matt T
Trade unions are not inherently agents of change, especially when they are not tied and subordinated to a revolutionary party apparatus. To press further, my analysis of the situation is that “unions” in their traditional form have not only lost the war of position, but are unable to rapidly shift their approach to current political circumstances or generally develop a revolutionary political manner due to their own structures.
Black Reconstruction (1935)
by W. E. B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868 – 1963) was a sociologist, historian, author, and founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People…
Riding Three Horses to Agrarian Justice
By Elizabeth Henderson At Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) summer conferences, we held a fair which culminated in a horseback riding demonstration. Dale Perkins rode bareback with his feet first on one,…
The Revolution is You
by Gregory Lebens-Higgins To take power, the working class must organize a mass movement that is capable of seizing the levers of production and cutting off the means of oppressive rule by…
Merrie England (1894)
Tell me, is it not true of Merrie England to-day that the idlest are the richest, and the most industrious the poorest amongst the people? Well, I want you to remind your critics of these things when they ask you what Socialists will do with their loafers.