One year into the United States’ proxy war with Russia, the left has yet to cohere around a consistent, unified anti-war message — never mind a revived antiwar movement. Quite the reverse in fact, many on the left — including a number of self-described “socialists” — are supporting the war…

The term “opportunism” has a specific meaning in Marxist theory. Opportunism is a trend in socialist politics in which revolutionary goals are sacrificed for short-term gains and temporary reforms. …

Hint: It starts with “Anti-” and rhymes with “communism.” Russia’s war in Ukraine — now in its tenth month with still no end in sight — has divided and fractured the Left. Many on the Left fully support this war — which is essentially a U.S. proxy war with Russia. …

A common talking-point among left-wing anticommunists is that “actually existing socialist” countries like the Soviet Union, Cuba, and China under Mao are not actually socialist, at all. Rather, they insist, these countries are all examples of “state capitalism.” But what do they mean by this? What, precisely, is “state capitalism”…

Whether the Democrats retain control of Congress after the Nov. 8 midterm elections makes little difference in the lives of working-class Americans. The Republican and Democratic Parties are both capitalist parties. Both parties are beholden to Wall Street, the fossil fuel industry, the military-industrial-complex, and capital. Don’t take my word…

The Black Panther Party was perhaps the closest thing the U.S. has ever had to a revolutionary communist movement. Black college students, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panthers in 1966 in Oakland, California. …

Democratic socialism has become increasingly popular within the last seven years — particularly among millennials and Gen-Zers. This trend has largely been fueled by Bernie Sanders’s two consecutive presidential campaigns in 2016 and 2020, along with the rise in prominence of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Indeed, it is…

And how to respond to them. Anybody on the left has likely encountered these arguments before. That is because the right basically relies on the same dozen or so anticommunist arguments over and over. Working-class people are indoctrinated with these anticommunist talking points from a young age, by schools, popular culture, parents, employers, and politicians. After…

The right-wing Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that grants a woman the constitutional right to an abortion, gives lie to the myth that America is a democracy — much less a shinning beacon thereof. It is no such thing. America is, at best, a…