Theory

This piece is an edited version of a speech originally given by Coco Smyth on November 7th, 2024 at a meeting celebrating the 107th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. This meeting was hosted by Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists and People’s Defense Columbus (then known as Rising Tide Col...

Students at Ohio State University protest the university's preemptive dissolution of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion before right-wing state legislation mandated it.

“We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category. The goal is...

The period of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has initiated a breakthrough for support for Palestine within the United States. The U.S. government’s total bipartisan support for Israel, the advocacy of Zionists, and the ratcheting up of Islamophobia in the last two decades of the “War on Terror” has...

In a review of Beyond Capital: Toward a Theory of Transition by István Mészáros, I briefly mentioned his insights into why capitalism is so extremely wasteful is worthy of separate treatment. The present article probes into that issue.

Mészáros’s study points out that an integral part of capital...

Written nearly a century ago, Lenin’s State and Revolution offers evergreen insights for socialists today. Alongside the renaissance in socialist politics in the US, there has been a renewed intrigue into what orientation towards the state socialists must adopt to achieve emancipatory ends. Wherea...