As Marshall Berman wrote, reading Capital won’t help us if we don’t also know how to read the signs in the streets.
The Politics of Resistance
Suddenly, everyone on the left is talking about resistance. This is something we should celebrate—while recognizing that it is only half a politics.
Learning to Listen
Internationalism, first and foremost, requires a commitment from leftists to listen to our comrades abroad.
(Grand)father of Nasty Women
Someone on the march told me that this was the best line I had ever written. But I didn’t write it. It was a collective product, written down by my grand-daughter. The “grand” is in parenthesis because my daughters are also nasty women. And my wife has been a bolshevik feminist since she was twelve. I am absolutely certain that they will win.
The Historical Task of the Left in the Present Period
If the survival of a vital center is also the precondition of an active left, one of the historical tasks of the left today is to help hold the center—even as we promote a militancy all our own.
On Democratic Internationalism
Struggles for democratization are always local struggles: the first thing their protagonists want is a state governed by the people who live in it. We must relearn how to support them.
What Kind of a War Is This?
The war against ISIS, as it is currently being waged, cannot be called a just one.
The Syriza Problem
Greece’s Syriza party has substituted rhetorical bluster for concrete plans—and has had an extraordinary free ride from the global left even as it has become the party of surrender.
Back to Class
It is time to think about class. The insurgencies we most need today are the insurgencies of large numbers.
The European Crisis
The EU as a whole is once again, as Europe was in the 1930s, a world of borders and refusals.
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