Eleven Theses on Socialist Revolution
The good folks at DSA (of which I'm a proud member) were kind enough to publish the following article recently in their online...
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Aug 25, 20209 min read
Thou shalt not worship intellectuals
When I read old books or articles that are totally forgotten despite being brilliant, it saddens me. Siblings of Donald Trump publish...
Aug 24, 202025 min read
Why I am not a Leninist (nor an anarchist)
Years later, I still reproach myself for self-publishing my book on cooperatives, because that ensured it would have a limited...
Nov 8, 20164 min read
Skeptical thoughts on the Russian Revolution
[From an email.] …Of course it's true that every event in history depends on contingencies. [I had said the Russian Revolution depended...
Jul 5, 20165 min read
The silliness of logical positivism
[Old jottings from my journal.] Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, from the selections I’ve read so far, is sensible. (That isn’t...
Sep 13, 20154 min read
Saving Marxism from Lenin
[This is an excerpt from Notes of an Underground Humanist.] You should read Peter Kropotkin’s essay “The State: Its Historic Role.”...
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