Constructive Criticism

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Jun 7, 2023
The Social-mediafication of Working Class Organizing
Last month, flying over the Atlantic in the throes of an existential crisis brought on by too strong an edible (which I had taken to try to sleep through the flight), I had the following disturbing self-insight, which while stonerish is also true:…
Jun 1, 2023
To face the coming climate crisis, a new vision and a new spirituality
The following is a translation of an article from Caminos (A Cuban journal of socio-theological thought). It was written by José María Vigil, Spanish-Nicaraguan liberation-theologian.…
May 30, 2023
Cuba’s Struggle for the Full Dignity of the Human Being
Housing and the Cuban Revolution “In the first three years of the revolution, 1959-61, all measures were taken to disarticulate the capitalist system at its base.…
May 18, 2023
Jewishness Abstractly and Concretely
This is a follow-up to the post “Class and Race”. This post gives an example of the way ethnic groups can serve as particular instantiations of historical roles which occur abstractly.…
May 18, 2023
Will Socialism End Racism?
This is a follow-up to the post “Class and Race”. There is a common, overly-simplistic argument sometimes put forward by Marxists that “socialism” will necessarily entail the elimination of racism.…