After Bernie and days before the Presidential Election, where does the U.S. left – and its ambitions for an independent mass socialist politics – stand?
Asad Haider and Rafael Khachaturian discuss emancipation and marxism, from the Sanders campaign to a new autonomous movement against state racism and repression.
How we understand the capitalist state effects how we think about power and what a socialist transition would mean. In this article, Stephen Maher and Rafael Khachaturian argue that the left in the US needs to move beyond both the Leninist and the social democratic conceptions of the state in order to develop a democratic socialist politics for the 21st century.
In one of his final statements, Nicos Poulantzas discusses the relationship between Marx and Lenin, communist parties and social movements, and the institutions of representative democracy after the Eurocommunist turn.
