If capitalism is dying, then there is a struggle over what will come next.
What is China? – A challenge for those who want an egalitarian future
Since the death of Mao and the implementation of market driven reforms that have come afterward, China has become a rare story of successful economic development, while in the once dominant capitalist West there has often been stagnation and decline.
Mo: Radical art and the class struggle
The Partisans Magazine is excited to present a new podcast from our Culture Committee. The first episode looks at the Netflix series Mo and its influence on the class struggle in the U.S. and internationally.
Settle our quarrels, do the dog
“Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.” George Jackson
15 thesis on anti-imperialism
Imperialism is a total world system marked by competing blocs of capital.
The value of indirect experience.
We will not develop strategy mainly from our own direct practice.
About Health Equity: You know the stakes is high
There can be many criticisms of corporate DEI programs, but a positive aspect of such programs in healthcare are the conscious attempts to close these disparities through health equity research and funding strategies. Now the funding for health equity is being eliminated and the result of this will be more misery, more disease, and more death.
10 Points on the Trump/Zelensky “row”
by Nat Winn
A weakened NATO is a good thing for the people of the world.
The Tenants of Cloverleaf Apartments Don’t Deserve This
By MKDOR
The owner of Cloverleaf Apartments in Kansas City had been misappropriating federal funds. What’s often overlooked is the full extent of how such theft affects the public for whom the funds were meant.
Revolutionary Socialist Planning: Some Historical Lessons
by Nat Winn
Socialism is a transition period. And we use the heights of power as a powerful instrument of that transition to global, classless communist society. And what does it mean to NOT put those tasks prominent in an understanding of planning? And Mao’s ten major relationships are a wonderful example of this. And it is also contained in the Maoist critique of “goulash communism” — where there is lots of talk about the “rights” of the people (rights to food, to education, to a job, to security, etc.) but somehow the most important right (the right to rule and transform society) is forgotten. This is in the Critique of Soviet Economics (which was also by Mao).