Socialism is a word that you’ve likely heard used with various different meanings. In the US, the word Socialism is often used to describe the Scandinavian Social Democracies. These aren’t Socialist though. They’re Capitalist societies with strong unions and good…
If you hang around socialist spaces online, you’ll regularly see someone make a very earnest post asking for ideas about how to stop leftist infighting. This isn’t surprising. Seeing how divided the left is can feel troubling when we’re so…
In this piece, I’m going to examine whether Momentum’s actions and strategy match up with its goal of instituting Socialism in the UK. I’m going to be harshly critical of the organisation at times. As someone who wishes to see…
It’s easy to get lost in efforts to convert your country to Socialism, and that is the most useful place to apply most of our efforts. However, it’s worth asking now how we’ll protect Socialism once we manage to achieve…
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…
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…
