Search SoC
-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- S. Duncan on On The Decline and Fall of The American Empire and Socialism
- FruitLupus on On The Decline and Fall of The American Empire and Socialism
- Edith on The Case of Comrade Dallas
- James O'Brien on Wailings about Left Unity
- James O'Brien on Wailings about Left Unity
Archives
- July 2019
- January 2019
- March 2018
- August 2017
- June 2017
- April 2017
- December 2016
- October 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- May 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- November 2015
- October 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
Categories
Meta
Category Archives: Proletarian politics
Can Communists Learn to Fly – Book Review: The Tailor of Ulm
Lucio Magri’s The Tailor of Ulm is a fascinating account of the history of the Italian Communist Party (PCI). He begins his account with an anecdote regarding the tailor of Ulm. Ingrao, who had already fully explained his reasons for … Continue reading
Posted in History, Proletarian politics
Comments Off on Can Communists Learn to Fly – Book Review: The Tailor of Ulm
Violence and socialism
Today, more than it has in the past, the topic of violence is one that is being debated hotly, especially in the aftermath of the Occupy Wall Street movement, the workings of SYRIZA in Greece, and the wave of unrest in … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, Proletarian politics
7 Comments
Limited liability: why we should want more of it
On my previous post on corporate personhood I intended to also deal with the matter of limited liability–hence the URL of the post. However, I couldn’t do that in that post, so here it goes. Limited liability is a privilege … Continue reading
Posted in Bourgeois politics, Economics, History, Politics, Proletarian politics
Comments Off on Limited liability: why we should want more of it
The proletarian class party, part 5 (final)
This post (which I have been reluctant to make in the first place given my relative uneasiness this particular topic) is the final part of my series of posts on the “party question.” This post will examine, basing itself on … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Proletarian politics
Comments Off on The proletarian class party, part 5 (final)
The WSM and Anarchism: A Political Analysis
The Workers Solidarity Movement is one of the more impressive anarchist organisations of modern times. While always a small organisation it has been active on the radical left in Ireland for close to thirty years and at the same time … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Proletarian politics
6 Comments
“Did you try turning it off and then on again?”
Diagnosing where things have gone wrong and what we can do about it As we survey the current state of affairs, it’s hard not to get somewhat demoralised. Despite a massive market failure, a brief flurry of rhetoric about the … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, Proletarian politics
4 Comments
Crime and migration: towards a leftist response
In recent years, and particularly in reaction to the latest wave of austerity measures, we have seen an upswing in the size and importance of parties that are to the left of social democracy, a development that is greeted with … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Proletarian politics
1 Comment
Corporate personhood
One common complaint in anticapitalist circles is that the system of rights which once was designed to apply to human beings has been, through judicial interpretation, extended to so-called juridical persons–not persons at all, that is. Thus, corporations are given … Continue reading
Posted in Bourgeois politics, History, Politics, Proletarian politics
1 Comment
Race and Class
The staunchest and most consistent opponents of systemic racism are situated on the left, and a great many of them have been explicitly socialists. Socialists were some of the first to seriously champion the causes of anti-racism as it fits … Continue reading
European Minimum Programme
Ever since the German Social Democrats’ rather embarrassed shelving of the Erfurt Programme, the venerable socialist tradition of a basic set of policies that would facilitate social transformation has gone out of fashion. Trotsky was at pains to distinguish his … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Proletarian politics
8 Comments
Left victimhood and the language of weakness
The working class is exploited and oppressed. This is the central premise for any genuine socialist consciousness. It’s possible to argue whether young Marx‘s notions of alienation, and similar ideas before his complete break with German idealist philosophy and Feuerbach … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Proletarian politics
Comments Off on Left victimhood and the language of weakness
The proletarian class party, part 4
After a short break from dealing with the subject (during which I wrote a post on identity politics) I have gotten around to writing part four on my series on the issue of the proletarian class party. Here are parts … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Proletarian politics
4 Comments
The nature of the economic transition
This is the third article in my series on having an economic transition prior to a political seizure of power, which stands in contrast to the dominant view in the radical left that emphasises the seizure of political power from … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, Proletarian politics
Comments Off on The nature of the economic transition
