US-plaining is not enough. To the Western left, on your and our mistakes

Here in the post-Soviet world, we learned a lot from you. By ‘we’ I mean atomized or loosely organized communist, democratic socialist, left anarchist, feminist scholars, and activists from Kyiv, Lviv, Minsk, Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, and other places that are plunging into the horrors of war and police violence. After our own Marxist tradition underwent sclerotization, […]

Hillel Ticktin: I have not met any Marxist in the Soviet Union

Among the many Western Marxists who have attempted to understand and politically define the Soviet Union, Hillel Ticktin is perhaps the most interesting. Unlike many other theorists, whose reflections on the subject were often deductive speculation based on fragmentary data, Ticktin set out to thoroughly analyze the political economy of "real socialism" based on what […]

The Marxist-Humanism of Raya Dunayevskaya

The overblown expectations of many pundits in the 1990s that the collapse of the “communist” regimes heralded a “neoliberal era” defined by unincumbered free markets, continuous economic growth, and expansive political liberty has clearly proven hollow. The economic, racial, and gendered inequities that have historically characterized capitalism has only become exacerbated in recent decades, as […]

Break out the wall. Зачем сносят заборы в Крыму

Замуровали, демоны! Стены, заборы, заборы, стены. Дорога к благодатному морю на ЮБК зачастую превращается в длительный марш-бросок на выживание. Петляя зигзагами под палящим солнцем, вы идете вдоль сплошных стен, направляющих вас лишь по одному заданному пути. Есть в этом что-то тоталитарное a-la the Wall – все потоки передвижения граждан могут происходить лишь по строго установленному […]

About “Russian” trace in Odessa events

Andrey Ishchenko A tragic death, which took place on April 17 in Odessa, of Maksim Chaika, a right-wing football fan and one of the leaders of a radical nationalist organization “SICH”, has immediately lead to heated discussions on the Internet. Whereas everything is clear for the closest companions of the killed: “the white warrior” had […]