Revolutionary Theory Digest

02/11/2024

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01/31/2024

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01/25/2024

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06/07/2022

Podcast Stalin pt. 1: The Long Road to the Red Inquisition May 21, 2022 May 21, 2022 Donald, Christian, and Connor sit down and discuss the man of steel: Joseph Stalin. Less of a focused biography, we put Stalin in his historical context. In this episode we focus primarily on his ascension to power....

03/02/2022

this article by comrade Tim Horras is a very helpful retrospective on one of the revolutionary left's trends:

"Until the socialist moves decisively away from welfarist and redistributionist politics, and places front and center a vision of society moving toward a communist horizon, we can never serve as anything other than the tail-end of the liberal wing of the ruling class.

This suggests that there is a way out of the cul-de-sac our movement has arrived at: to combat the structural tendency toward liberal degeneration, we would need to combine the formulation of a genuinely communist political program with efforts to make this program relevant to the working class and oppressed. But making the political program relevant cannot be done by education, propaganda, and agitation alone: the program must be encoded into the struggle at the very sites of oppression and exploitation themselves: the workplaces, the neighborhoods, and the communities. For this reason, one expects that the ideas of base-building will retain their salience for the next generation of activists."

Articles The Dead End and How We Got Here February 18, 2022 February 18, 2022 Has base-building as a strategy failed? Tim Horras argues in the negative, taking on critiques of base-building from D.L. Jacobs. Onlookers observe unmanned barricades in the streets of Paris, 1968. “Given this general p...

02/26/2022

excellent article by comrade Alexander Gallus

Articles The Russian “Threat to Freedom and Democracy” February 25, 2022 February 25, 2022 Alexander Gallus takes a closer look at the developments leading up to this week’s dramatic events and offers some explanations for how we got to this moment. Russian tanks assembled at the Russian borde...

01/27/2022

"Drawing from the experience of the Democratic Socialists of America and Marxist Center, Marisa Miale examines the everyday, interpersonal level of party-building and argues for a revolutionary strategy that can weave together cultural intervention, base-building and political unity."

Articles Dissolving the People and Electing Another: On Base-Building and Revolutionary Culture January 27, 2022 January 27, 2022 Drawing from the experience of the Democratic Socialists of America and Marxist Center, Marisa Miale examines the everyday, interpersonal level of party-building and argu...

01/27/2022

new caucus in the DSA

Articles Founding Statement of the Marxist Unity Group November 4, 2021 November 4, 2021 Here we present the founding statement of the Marxist Unity Group: its Points of Unity and Immediate Tasks. We print this here not only because of the involvement of several Cosmonaut contributors but also to in...

01/27/2022

Articles The Contradictions and Confusions of “Democratic Socialism” December 19, 2021 December 24, 2021 Renzo Llorente engages with contemporary advocates of Democratic Socialism and argues that they ultimately fail to demarcate between liberal and socialist visions of democracy, resulting in c...

01/27/2022

🎧 Articles No Replacement For The Marxist Theory Of Revolution April 1, 2019 January 25, 2022 Gabriel Palcic argues that various attempts in academia to develop theories of revolution as alternatives to Marx’s theory of revolution and historical materialism only serve to disguise the centrality...

01/27/2022

Articles Is This the Left that Jacobin Wants?: Chris Maisano’s Perilous Drift Towards Post-Marxism November 12, 2021 November 13, 2021 A recent Jacobin piece by Chris Maisano argues that building “a Left that matters” requires focusing on Democratic Party electoral work, but we must be clear a...