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).
More than a seat at the table; BRICS lack vision but are clear on capitalism
by Nat Winn
The BRICS seem like a hodgepodge of nations each with their own agendas and motives and lacking a clear vision of the future. Their main unifying tendency seems to be to want to mitigate the global power of the United States and Western European dominated alliance. As such they are not looking to dismantle the U.S. empire so much as to claim a seat at the global capitalist table.
Reclaiming Actually-Existing Revolutionary Pasts
by Ynker Ashkhadavoruhi
Here, we can return to Rodney’s analysis of bourgeois histories of the Russian Revolution, which includes the linking of these subjectivist conceptualizations within bourgeois history to the actual structures of funding in which centers of Russian studies are embedded – the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Carnegie Foundations, connected to capital – as well as with established ties to émigrés from the Soviet Union from whom Western historians learn about the evils of the Revolution.
A Historiography of the Great Purges
by Nat Winn
This article was originally written in the late 2000’s when I was a grad student in history. It was meant to be a communist critique of a post modern approach to history writing that denied a criteria of truth in historical narrative and saw history as more akin to literature writing than the social sciences. The article respects the questions posed by the post modern approach, however, it aims to take a more dialectical view in looking at the way language and society impact on one another and how this allows us to glean more plausible truths from historical narrative.
Are the BRICS an anti-imperialist project?
by Nat Winn
While the BRICS nations do represent a viable threat to U.S. dominated hegemony of the global order, is there anything that hints this alliance would represent a break with the current world capitalist system? Or do the BRICS merely represent a new emerging imperialist bloc of capital that would perpetuate the same imperialist system under terms more favorable to their bloc?