☭ Marxism

Socialista Champagne

Socialists must abandon purity politics and co-opt culture, tradition, and feeling the way fascists do, or a dying liberal order will keep losing the working class to reaction.

Amy Yang

Mao Zedong told the August 7th Meeting in 1927 that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun; in November 1938 he wrote that the seizure of power by armed struggle is the highest form of revolution.

Orinoco Tribune

A close reading of Amilcar Cabral's and Walter Rodney's analyses of the petty bourgeoisie in colonial and neocolonial Africa, examining Cabral's idea that this class must "commit suicide" to serve national liberation.

Monthly Review

Applies Marxian ecological theory to critique AI capitalism, arguing that the technology accelerates metabolic rifts and entropic disorder under monopoly-finance capital.

Friends of Socialist China

Carlos Martinez argues China is anti-imperialist, not imperialist: Carchedi and Roberts find surplus value flows from China to imperialist countries at five to ten percent of GDP, and China has not dropped a bomb on foreign territory in nearly half a century.

Socialista Champagne

Dialectical materialism identifies the principal contradiction and demands partisanship, while eclecticism flattens opposing tendencies into false balance, disarming revolutionary movements and serving opportunist social democracy.

Chris Cullen

A training guide for socialist and communist parties in the imperial core, drawing on Chinese Communist Party cadre methods to build community power through field investigation, winnable campaigns and counter-institutions.

Amy Yang

Chen Xueming argues China's socialist system enables ecological civilization, resolving the development-protection dilemma where Western capitalism fails. Xi Jinping identifies harmonious coexistence of humanity and nature as a key feature of modernization.

The Tricontinental

A survey of Lu Xun's final decade of polemical zawen essays, tracing his leftward turn, advocacy of vernacular Chinese, and insistence that revolutionary literature grows from struggle and collective soil.

Divine Praxis

A structural Marxist account of poverty, tracing it from primitive accumulation and the separation of workers from subsistence to global inequality, unequal exchange, and the reproduction of deprivation across the Global South.

Friends of Socialist China

Keith Bennett, co-editor with Carlos Martinez of 'China's Foreign Policy and the Making of a Multipolar World', told the 20 September online launch that Gaza changes everything and the book aims to reach the new generation entering anti-imperialist politics.

Vocal Politics

Philosopher Gabriel Rockhill discusses why leftist currents diverge so sharply on imperialism, contrasting Western Marxism, anti-imperialist Marxism, Trotskyism, the Frankfurt School and French Theory.

India and Global Left

Economist Richard Wolff examines whether neoliberalism and technofeudalism have transformed capitalism beyond recognition, and debates whether China's model is best understood as state capitalism.

The Dialectics of Destruction

A personal account of an elderly stroke survivor discharged home argues that US healthcare transfers the labour of care onto unpaid families, privatising dependency rather than meeting human need.

Voice of the Proletariat

A historical materialist reading of CORTIS' track "MONEYMONEYMONEY" argues its anti-capitalist framing collapses into a hypnotic money mantra, exposing the culture industry's inherent contradictions.

Voice of the Proletariat

Refutes two erroneous views of China: that its system is "state capitalism" and that socialism with Chinese characteristics is Chinese nationalism, citing Deng Xiaoping's 1979 point that markets are not exclusive to capitalism.

The Dialectics of Destruction

The US state is expanding permanent domestic coercive capacity through National Guard quick reaction forces and decades of police militarisation, a structural response to capitalist crisis that demands working-class organisation rather than outrage.

Voice of the Proletariat

An argument that South Korea should end its US alliance, recognise the DPRK as a legitimate state, neutralise teaching on Marxism-Leninism, and build anti-Japanese militarism sentiment to advance pan-Korean unity.

Orinoco Tribune

Structural economic and political crises rarely produce revolutions, argues a Marxist framework of liminal time in which collapsing belief systems more often yield apathy, authoritarianism, or restoration than revolt.