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Category Archives: Theory
Are Cooperatives Utopian?
Worker cooperatives have never occupied a central place within Marxist theories of class struggle. They have not been regarded as a revolutionary force in society, and still less has their formation been considered a worthwhile or necessary activity for revolutionaries themselves to engage in. If we look more closely, however, we find that this question of cooperatives cannot be dismissed so simply. Continue reading
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Toward a New Model of Working Class Organizing II: What is the Community of Workers?
by K. Wilson and S. Myers In the first article in this series we saw how, during the 20th century, capitalism destroyed the foundations of community in the developed countries. The community institutions through which people once satisfied their needs … Continue reading
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What is Community?
Community is a much abused word. Nowadays it is used to refer to any group of human beings in close proximity to one another, or who share some superficial characteristics. Continue reading
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Reclaiming “Freedom”
What is the appeal of the right wing? How do they get their votes? This is a persistent and puzzling question for liberals, and by now there is a standard answer. Continue reading
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Global Capitalism in Crisis: What Next?
How should we understand the global economic crisis that erupted in 2008, and which continues to engulf the developed world? In previous articles we have used the phrase ‘Global Great Depression’. What leads us to this assessment, and what does it amount to? Continue reading
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Toward a New Model of Working Class Organizing I
Labor activists have been discovering of late that it is vitally necessary to organize outside the workplace in order to win demands inside the workplace. Continue reading
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Rebel, or Revolutionary?
by S. Myers A revolutionary is not merely the product of a society that is entering a period of revolution, of one that is ripe for revolutionary change. Rather, a revolutionary is a certain type of person who, finding revolutionary … Continue reading
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Dialectics I: Maurice Cornforth on Communism and Philosophy
The subject of ‘dialectics’ is sort of like the quicksand of Marxist theory: many unsuspecting travelers who wander into it never come out again. This is the first of a series of articles on ‘dialectics’ – it is a mainly a book recommendation and an introduction to a great but little-known Marxist, Maurice Cornforth. Continue reading
Notes on Imperialism and Globalization
by S. Myers Here are some notes I have written that I plan to eventually work up into an essay. Perhaps they’ll be of some use to someone in their raw form. 1. Imperialism was not the ‘highest stage of … Continue reading
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