Strategy

Rosa Luxemburg at 150: No “Harmless Icon”
Rosa Luxemburg was born on March 5, 1871. She is often presented as a pacifist, a democrat, and an opponent of the Russian Revolution. None of this is true. She was a revolutionary communist.
Left Voice
March 5, 2021Socialism, Technology, and Ideologies of Misery
Why is it that postcapitalists cannot dream of a future, but revolutionary socialists can?
Matías Maiello
January 3, 2021Can Technology Alone Propel Us Beyond Capitalism?
A polemic with those who believe AI, robotics, 3D printing, and nanotechnology will overcome class exploitation.
Paula Bach
January 3, 2021Revolutionary Marxism vs. Postcapitalism
The Marxist method and the relevance of the era of crises, wars, and revolutions
Emilio Albamonte
January 3, 2021A Critique of the Rank-and-File Strategy
It is the most popular strategy for U.S socialists in the labor movement — yet it has serious limits.
Jason Koslowski
January 3, 2021Engels as a Strategist of Socialism
200 years after his birth, a look back at the "First Red Clausewitz"
Matías Maiello
December 6, 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, 2020The House Always Wins: The State and Autonomism
Autonomism, as a strategy, is growing in popularity during this current moment of uprising. While an autonomist strategy can provide some important victories, it can never bring about true liberation because it misunderstands the nature of the state. We can neither reform the state nor work around it, so we must overthrow it.
Ezra Brain
July 21, 2020Vivek Chibber’s ABCs of Reformism: Reality Has Overtaken Social Democratic Illusions
A year and a half ago, Jacobin magazine put out a series of pamphlets on the ABCs of Capitalism. Reformist theorist Vivek Chibber argues that the bourgeois democratic state has so much legitimacy as to make revolutionary politics impossible. Today, when 54% of the U.S. population thinks it is justified to burn down a police station, such reformist ideas appear like satire.
Ahmed Kanna
June 10, 2020The Revolution Will Not Be Localized
Mutual aid and other forms of local organizing are important, but can never overthrow capitalism on their own. How should socialists proceed?
Ezra Brain
May 8, 2020