Organizational Materialism Expanded

The Left Wind is honored to republish Jean Allen’s “Organizational Materialism,” complete with a new introduction and their other related writings.

Introduction & Self-Criticism

Organizational Materialism: Considerations on Contemporary Leftism

I. Interlude

II. Theoretical Considerations

III. The 2nd International and Classical Leftism

IV. The Era of the Mass Party

V. Digital Leftisms, or, the Modern Era

VI. Considerations on Contemporary Leftism

VII. Bibliography

Elaborations

What is Organizational Materialism?

Ideological & Material Differences

Cycles of Justification

How Many Tendencies?

What to do as a leftist intellectual

Book Reviews

Ideal and Real History: L.A. Kauffman’s Direct Action

Against Think-Tank Socialism: a Review of Inventing the Future