Ideas & Debates
What to Read on Engels’ 201st Birthday
November 28, 2021 marks Engels' 201st birthday. What should you read?
Left Voice
November 28, 2020Engels, Working Women, and Socialist Feminism
Engels' sharp critique of the patriarchal family and the institution of marriage remains extremely powerful today. As part of his legacy to socialist feminism, he elevated the problem of the oppression of women to the theoretical level of social production, as part of the core concerns of Marxism.
Josefina L. Martínez
November 28, 2020Engels Against Reformism in Germany and France
Friedrich Engels was born 200 years ago today. Modern reformists like to cite Engels as an authority. But until his very last day, Engels fought against reformist ideas and for revolutionary principles.
Doug Enaa Greene
November 28, 2020Engels Still Lives at 200
Today marks 200 years since the birth of Friedrich Engels, the revolutionary leader who, side by side with Marx, elaborated a good part of what we know today as the theoretical bases of Marxism and built the first international organizations of “insurrectionist wage slaves” who adopted communism as the name for their objective.
Ariane Diaz
November 28, 2020The Fight Against Cop “Unions”: An International Debate
As the United States was shaken by protests against racist police violence this year, many people came to understand the true nature of the cops' so-called “unions”: they defend murderers. Yet some socialists still think police should be unionized. We present here a debate with the LIT-CI.
Nathaniel Flakin
November 20, 2020Book Review: How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century
When it comes to fighting for socialism, strategy is everything. Here we present a review of Erik Olin Wright's immensely popular "How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century," and discuss the pitfalls of trying to "erode" capitalism.
Doug Enaa Greene
November 14, 2020Militant Journalism and the Revolutionary Left
What part can a revolutionary publication play in the fight for socialism today?
Madeleine Freeman
November 6, 2020No Matter Who Wins the Elections, We Need Independent Socialist Journalism
No matter who is in the White House, there will be attacks on working-class and oppressed people. We will need independent, socialist, journalism to fight whoever wins this election. Join us!
Tatiana Cozzarelli
November 2, 2020Introducing: Left Voice Magazine
Our new online magazine will appear on the first Sunday of every month.
Left Voice
November 1, 2020Four Strategies for Socialism
How can we beat capitalism? A comparison of reformism, autonomism, Maoism, and revolutionary socialism.
Juan Cruz Ferre
November 1, 2020