Category: Theory
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Radical Socialism and Liberal Socialism – Revisiting G.A. Cohen
Marxism and analytical philosophy seem like a strange mix. But the philosopher G.A. Cohen understood how they needed one another. This book launch for Analytical Marxism and Democratic Socialism in … Watch video »
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Lenin’s Comintern Revisited
John Riddell’s new book Lenin’s Comintern Revisited is a highly readable account of the Communist International (Comintern) under Lenin. The book also serves as an introduction to the 11 volumes … Watch video »
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What We Forgot About Socialism: Lessons from The Red Riviera
Twenty years ago in November of 2005, Duke University Press published my first book: The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea. Produced in the wake of … Keep reading »
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Building a Party /w Sotiris and Gramsci
“One should stress the importance and significance which, in the modern world, political parties have in the elaboration and diffusion of conceptions of the world… because essentially what they do … Watch video »
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The Possibilities of Left Government in Europe /w Panagiotis Sotiris
Is it possible to have a left government in Europe, today or is any attempt toward it going to fail: will political parties capitulate and end up implementing neoliberal policies? … Watch video »
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Daniel Bensaid and Question of Strategy
Introduction: A Strategist in the Ruins of Defeat The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 was not merely a geopolitical event but also resulted, globally, in a profound crisis … Keep reading »
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Is Socialism Possible?
When this essay by Sam Gindin was first published as “Socialism for Realists” in the Fall of 2018 in Catalyst, the left was at a crossroads. In the preceding years … Keep reading »
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Critical-Dialectical Reasoning for a Perilous Age
The following is excerpted and adapted from the authors’ recent book Thinking Systematics: Critical Dialectical Reasoning for a Perilous Age and a Case for Socialism (Fernwood 2025). Twenty-first century humanity … Keep reading »
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Christopher Hill: Life and Legacy of a Radical Historian
Christopher Hill looms large in the landscape of British Marxist historiography, perhaps the indispensable historian of the English Revolution for generations on the Left. His name evokes dusty paperbacks passed … Keep reading »
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The Economic and Political Thoughts of Ernesto Che Guevara
The early years of the Cuban revolution leading up to the formation of the Communist Party in 1965 and the departure of Ernesto Che Guevara for international missions witnessed rapid … Keep reading »
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Book Launch: Law at Work, with Harry Glasbeek
Book launch of Harry Glasbeek’s Law at Work: The Coercion and Co-option of the Working Class, in Toronto, May 2024. Author and renowned legal scholar Harry Glasbeek unpacks how law … Watch video »
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Lenin on the Centenary of His Death: Seven Reasons not to Leave Lenin to Our Enemies
Michael Brie invites the contemporary Left to consider Lenin’s legacy in new ways on the occasion of the centenary of Lenin’s death. Keep reading »