Much of Bernie Sanders’ appeal to his base is his embrace of the label of socialism. And I really appreciate him bringing it back into the American mainstream. Whether it is politically expedien
The Venn diagram between socialism and forest policy in 2019 is basically me. But at one time, this was a major thing in the United States and during the 1930s and 1940s, really tore the Forest Servic
I wanted to endorse this Eric Levitz piece about how Tammy Duckworth was fundamentally incorrect when she said that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s democratic socialism can’t work in the Midwes
Candy! Costumes! CAPITALISM! Is there anything for Marxists to celebrate about Halloween? Yes, says my favorite sci-fi writer and Marxist academic China Mieville. Watch this 2013 lecture where he talk
If fascism wasn’t haunting our lives, I’d laugh more at this NRO freakout about rising socialism that evidently I am causing as a professor because apparently I can’t get my students
Of all the Democratic primary postmortems I have read, the smartest is from Communication Workers of America official Bob Master. Exploring the various success and failures of the Sanders movement, he
Last weekend was the Organization of American Historians meeting in Providence and I was lucky enough to be asked to be on a roundtable titled “New Directions in American Socialism.” My co
Interesting piece on how John Reed became a socialist at Harvard, the legacy of that socialism at the college, and the rise of socialism today in the form of Sanders-loving Harvard students. Normally,