Las Vegas DSA recently put out a good retrospective on their 2021 capture of the Nevada Democratic Party’s leadership positions. Unfortunately, a disappointing outcome, but good socialist analysis.
All in summary
“Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.” — Luxemburg, 1918, The Russian Revolution
Luxemburg is not advancing a liberal, idealist moral concern—instead, she is advancing a material, practical concern about the development of scientific socialism. She emphasizes that socialism is best developed by proletarian improvisation, experimentation, and iteration; but this requires freedoms which the Bolshevik party was not extending to the Russian people.
Summarizing Marx’s analysis of the contradiction between ‘capitalist social relations’ and ‘the productive forces developed under capitalism’.
I recommend this book! A summary of how we might go about expressing and hearing our observations, feelings, needs, and requests.
Fascists are strategically building a “parallel economy” in a way that has superficial similarities to the left’s strategy of building dual power. What's the difference, and how does this affect our analysis of building dual power?
thoughts on the important distinction between ‘material’ and ‘social’ properties and relations in Marxist analysis
Thinking about Luxemburg’s analysis of monopolies - Part 4
Thinking about Luxemburg’s analysis of monopolies - Part 1
In Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence, G.A. Cohen quotes Marx from his Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859) in one of the most useful epigraphs I’ve ever encountered. A full reproduction of the passage, and some small discussion.
An understanding of patterns of behaviors within institutions, taking notes from natural selection and the works of G.A. Cohen and Anwar Shaikh.
Three Points About Socialism-As-I-Understand-It
From a conversation with friends
Speed (in the Brain, on Social Media, and in Government)
Stray thoughts about how the speed of our decision-making can change the kinds of actions we end up taking.