A common refrain from baby leftists is that we need to unify the left. They look around at the fragmented factions of Democratic Socialists, Anarchists, Marxist-Leninists (MLs), and Marxist-Leninist-Maoists (MLMs), and declare that we should create a single, gigantic leftist…
When you talk to people about socialism, one of the first arguments doubters trot out is that communism could never work, because people are too lazy and greedy to behave altruistically. According to the doubters, people won’t bother to work…
Britain is said to be the home of parliamentary democracy, which countries around the world have modelled their own political systems on. But what the media and education systems rarely ask is whether this democracy actually lives up to what…
Recently, newspapers and conservative social media feeds blasted out happy birthday messages for Charles Windsor’s 74th. But the case for keeping the monarchy is built on inequality and exploitation. Spending £345 million per year to keep one family in luxury,…
There are a group of talking points going around today that paint communism as an anti LGBTQ+ ideology. When queer people identify ourselves as communists, we’re sometimes ridiculed as naive. We must not have heard about Stalin re-criminalizing homosexuality, or…
Many socialists in the Imperial Core today see creating co-ops as a way to combat capitalism. In co-ops, they say, there are no owners extracting surplus value from the workers. Therefore, the existence of co-ops both prevents Capital from exploiting…
A different explanation of extraction Nowadays it’s quite common to hear people complain that everything seems to be political. While your boomer dad is probably worrying too much about people living the way that makes them happy, the statement is…
How many times have you heard someone say: “I’m going to get a job that pays me what I’m worth”? That feeling of being poorly rewarded for your efforts is one that most of us can relate to. All the…
The American — and not just American, interestingly, but worldwide — conservative clique is posing the question of “What is a woman” as a ‘gotcha’. Indeed, it is a rather interesting question, one that certainly ought to be posed in…
Many new leftists struggle when reading theory. This is not unusual or surprising. Socialist theory is often dense and complicated, full of new ideas and concepts you’re likely unfamiliar with. If you read theory as an individual, as a single…
