Marxism
5 Questions About Socialism You’ll Get at the Holiday Dinner Table (And How to Answer Them)
Seeing family for the holidays can be stressful—especially for socialists! Here are five common questions that your less radical family members might ask you and how to rebut them.
Sybil Davis
November 27, 2019100 Years of the Communist Youth International
On November 20, 1919, delegates from 14 countries founded the Communist Youth International. Its youth organizations played a leading role in the resistance against World War One, fighting against both bourgeois governments and their own party’s reformist leaders.
Nathaniel Flakin
November 20, 2019Six “Spooky” Socialism Quotes to Enjoy on Halloween
It’s no secret. Marx and Marxists loved to use vivid and yes, spooky imagery: spectres, ghosts, rotting corpses and vampires. Here are six of our favorites. Send us your favorite spooky socialist quotes and we will update this article to include audience submissions. Contact us via email ([email protected]), Twitter (@left_voice) or send us a Facebook message!
Left Voice
October 31, 2019Commons of Love: The Socialist Case for Polyamory
In this guest post, Gracie Brett explains the links between capitalism and monogamy and explains the choice to be poly.
Gracie Brett
July 27, 2019Queer Oppression is Etched in the Heart of Capitalism
LGBTQ+ oppression is inscribed in capitalist production and reproduction. Only socialism can create the context for queer liberation and sexual liberation for all.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
July 5, 2019Subaltern Hegemony and the Recomposition of the Left
Autonomy, strategy, experimentation and creativity will all be necessary in order for the subaltern classes and the Left to develop their own hegemonic forms and practices. Doing so will be necessary to challenge capitalist social relations and hegemony.
Juan Dal Maso
July 1, 2019Desire, Repression, Revolution: Jean Nicolas and “The Homosexual Question”
In the 1970s, Jean Nicolas, Trotskyist militant and activist of the French Homosexual Front of Revolutionary Action, published “The Homosexual Question,” a brilliant analysis of the history of the oppression of “homosexuals” and the struggle for liberation, as connected to the struggle for socialism and new human relations.
Ana Rivera
June 15, 2019Marx in SoHo: An Interview with Actor Bob Weick
For the last fifteen years, actor and activist Bob Weick has played Karl Marx in Howard Zinn’s Marx in SoHo for audiences around the world. Weick sat down with Left Voice to talk about his experience playing one of the greatest thinkers of all time, the resurgence of socialism in the United States today and why Marx is as relevant today as ever before.
Luigi Morris
June 9, 2019Socialism, Universalism and Anti-Anti-Racism
Warren Montag and Joseph Serrano take a stock at the ongoing debate on anti-racism, class-wide demands and the fight for socialism.
Warren Montag
May 7, 2019Left Voice Launches New Magazine in New York
Last Friday, Left Voice held a launch party in New York City for its fourth print issue. The event was standing room only as speakers spoke about their experiences as socialists in the class struggle, fighting the union bureaucracy and the need for the political independence of the working class.
Sybil Davis
April 10, 2019