Out of the void, onto the stage
The Partisans Magazine is excited to introduce our new Spotify playlist. We believe the revolution has to be infused with music and culture and dance. The songs on this playlist are songs of resistance and rebellion and we believe you will thoroughly enjoy both the artistic quality and the revolutionary spirit of the music chosen….
by Nat Winn
I’ve been reading Masters of the Planet: The Search For Our Human Origins by Ian Tattersall and I find myself enlightened by the insights about how theory develops when old ways of thinking become exhausted. Tatersall is a leading paleoanthropologist and a curator of the Hall of Origins at the American Museum of Natural History.
by Mike Ely
This essay is a follow-up to Marxism is not a Layer Cake — which discusses the linear view that communist theory consists of layers of theory, laid down building on each other, without much outside influence or internal negation.
by Mike Ely
If you teach scientific ideas in a religious way, you have not taught science, you have taught religion. If you gather up buckets of “true facts” and teach them in a rote and dogmatic way, you have not taught truth, you have taught rote and dogma.
by Azad
What are the barriers to revolution in the present conjuncture?
by the Editorial Board
How will we, citizens of this evil empire, show up for our immigrant siblings?
by Nat Winn
We want to promote non-coercive, non-carceral solutions to the homelessness and drug use problems in the places where we can affect such solutions. Recognizing that both now and under socialism, these are problems and contradictions among the people, and should be handled in those non-punitive ways.
by the Editorial Board
Out of the void, onto the stage. Introducing The Partisans Magazine.
by Nat Winn
For Marxists, this feature of capitalist state structure is a long-understood feature of class dictatorship, and why the people can’t simply “lay hands on” the old ruling class state (as Marx put it).
by Judy Ancel
We discovered early on that US trade policies, like NAFTA and CAFTA, wars, including the drug wars, the policies of deportation, and US interference in those countries, in order to make them safe for corporations to extract resources and cheap labor, are all primary drivers of migration.