Streiks, Gewerkschaften und Arbeiterrate. Die Ratebewegung in Deutschland am Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges
Der Begriff der Räte oder Räterepublik ist in der globalen Erinnerung untrennbar verbunden mit der Russländischen Revolution von 1917. Räte oder Arbeiterräte sind mitunter ein Synonym für den kommunistischen Einparteienstaat. Ihre Ursprünge liegen jedoch woanders: die europäische Bewegung der Arbeiterräte entstand gegen Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges aus Streikversammlungen. Räte ersetzten in einer Krise Parteivorstand und […]
Von Ostgalizien uber das ‚rote Wien‘ in die Bundesrepublik. Leben und Werk des sozialistischen Humanisten Leo Kofler
In seinem Standardwerk über die Geschichte des Marxismus widmete Predrag Vranicki ihm Anfang der 1970er Jahre ein eigenes kleines Kapitel und rubrizierte ihn dabei unter den westdeutschen Nachkriegsmarxismus. Doch auch wenn er seine intellektuelle Wirkung in der Tat vor allem in Westdeutschland entfalten sollte, ein Deutscher war Leo Kofler (1907-1995) nicht. Geboren wurde er am […]
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 […]
Ilya Budraitskis: Left-Wing Dissidents Were the Link between the Pre-Soviet Socialist Tradition and the Post-Soviet One
A few years ago, your collection of essays Dissidenty sredi dissidentov (Dissidents among dissidents) was published. The central issue in it was the history of left-wing dissidents in the USSR. The book will be published by Verso in 2022. How did you become interested in this topic? I found this topic interesting back at the […]
“We were not trying to ‘hide’ Marxism”: interview with Bhaskar Sunkara, editor of the Jacobin magazine
Jacobin is one of the most successful radical left-wing publications in the contemporary world and, for sure, the most successful one in the United States. Though the project was only started in September 2010, their online audience has reached 700 000 visitors a month for the online version and 15 000 subscribers of the printed […]
