←Return to index My aim in this essay is to create the framework which can be used to create a materialist history of the Left, and to show how this framework would ‘work’ in analyzing a set of periods of Leftist history. I will do this by focusing on the way different radical organizations have acted and interacted throughout […]
←Return to index The wake of Occupy Wall Street brought with it a series of new Leftist parties and politicians aiming to turn anti-capitalist sentiment into electoral victories. These politicians have been, in turn, opposed and supported by a variety of journals and activist groups, in many cases regardless of the stated ideology of the […]
by Jean Allen ←Return to index Organizational Materialism remains, to me, the intellectual project I am most proud of. It came just at the beginning of a massive reorientation in US leftist politics (one which continues on as of the writing of this introduction), and predicted many of the developments which occurred since. More and […]
We would like to thank everyone who made this essay possible, whether that was through proofreading, editing, providing suggestions, giving reading recommendations, or simply talking with us about politics and strategy. In particular, we would like to thank our friends and comrades Mattie Boyd, Sophia Burns, Brendan Campisi, Charles H., Tim Horras, John-Paul Keblinski, Morgan […]
←Return to index This essay is not about “debunking” the political and historical analysis of U.S. MLs or Marxism-Leninism more broadly. Instead, it is one contribution towards a critique of MLism as a trend in the U.S. We still identify the need for an organization to bind various elements of the class and articulate a […]
←Return to index In the previous three sections, we (1) evaluated the practice of U.S. MLism (2) argued that its organizational forms are based on a dogmatic reading of the Bolshevik Party and (3) argued that “correct line” without mass organizing is illusory. Having explored what the ML trend is, we have to ask “why” […]
←Return to index As Marxists (and avid students of Lenin), we have a generally more favorable view of ML “political line” than that of social democracy or anarchism. By “political line”, we mean the ML theoretical framework and historical analysis, such as its conception of the State, view on national oppression, appraisal of which countries […]
←Return to index “Polly Parks, once associated with the magazine Theoretical Review, maintains, ‘I don’t think there is such a thing as the Leninist party.’ She argues that activists in the party-building movement were fixated only on ‘the nature of how the Bolsheviks operated in a revolutionary situation in Russia.’ Val Moghadam, a former leader […]
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