Gramsci
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The Bullet: Connective Party or Return to a "War of Maneuver"?
For some two decades, the anti-globalization movement and its successors have assumed that society contains within itself – and automatically throws up – political oppositions and organizational forms independent of capital and of the state. There is simply the need to encourage the cumulative growth of society’s own potentialities for forming alternatives apart from the… Continue reading
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The Emilia-Romagna Coops: A Market Without Capitalists By Frances Moore Lappe
A market economy and capitalism are synonymous — or at least joined at the hip. That’s what most Americans grow up assuming. But it is not necessarily so. Capitalism — control by those supplying the capital in order to return wealth to shareholders — is only one way to drive a market. Continue reading
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Transcending Pessimism: Rekindling Socialist Imagination By Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin
Socialists are living through a unique period: the collapse of communism and the complete abnegation by social democratic parties of any vocation for radical change has left us, for the first time in over a century, with no strong organizational focus for our goals. The lacuna we consequently face is, not surprisingly, accompanied by a… Continue reading
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Can Worker Cooperatives Build a Bridge to Socialism?
Gramsci’s approach to workers’ councils and modern producer cooperative theory have in common the idea that workers’ councils are a means of attaining the transition to socialism Continue reading
The New Dark Age 