The goal of the blog is to provide a foundation for understanding structures of colonial and neocolonial domination of the world-system and for understanding the revolutionary movements that have sought to develop alternative structures. The intention is to formulate an understanding of the essential characteristics of revolutionary processes, in order to contribute to the establishment of the subjective conditions necessary for a new popular revolution in the United States. I provide here a review of the most important themes.
Reflections on the Third World: “Rafael Correa speaks at G-77” 1/30/2017; “The Third World project” 10/13/2016; “The significance of the Third World project” 7/19/2016; “The Third World Project, 1948-79” 7/20/2016; “The Asian Tigers” 7/21/2016; “Derailing the Third World project” 7/22/2016; “Fidel speaks on the global crisis, 1983” 7/25/2016; “Fidel proposes new global structures, 1983” 7/27/2016; “IMF & USA attack the Third World project” 7/29/2016; “The Cuban structural adjustment plan” 8/1/2016; “Renewal of the Third World project since 1994” 8/2/2016; “The neocolonial era in Venezuela” 8/3/2016; “Hugo Chávez Frías” 8/4/2016; “The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela” 8/5/2016; “The Chávist presidency of Nicolás Maduro” 8/9/2016; “The Movement toward Socialism in Bolivia” 8/11/2016; “The citizen revolution in Ecuador” 9/19/2016; “The Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua” 9/20/2016; “Latin American and Caribbean unity” 9/21/2016; “The renewal of South-South cooperation” 9/22/2016; “The spirit of Bandung lives” 9/26/2016; “The new counterrevolution of the Right” 9/27/2016; “The subtle Eurocentrism of the Left” 10/3/2016; “Beyond Eurocentrism” 10/5/2016; “The possible and necessary popular coalition” 10/10/2016; “A blog from the Third World perspective” 6/9/2013; “What is the Third World?” 7/16/2013; “What is the Third World Revolution?” 7/17/2013; “What is the Third World perspective?” 7/18/2013; “Third World anti-neocolonial movement” 7/19/2013; “Obstacles to Third World movements” 7/22/2013; “Revolutionary processes” 7/23/2013; “Third World and Marxism-Leninism” 7/24/2013.
Epistemological reflections: “What is personal encounter?” 7/25/2013; “What is cross-horizon encounter?” 7/26/2013; “Overcoming the colonial denial” 7/29/2013; “History from below” 12/4/2013; “Domination and ideology” 3/31/2014; “Reunified historical social science” 4/1/2014; “Universal philosophical historical social science” 4/2/2014; “We can know the true and the good” 4/3/2104; “How can knowledge be reorganized?” 4/4/2014; “Wallerstein, Marx, and knowledge” 4/14/2014; “Universal human values” 4/16/2014; “An alternative epistemology” 4/17/2014; “States as actors in the world-system” 7/21/2014; “The role of US intellectuals, Part II” 8/6/2015; “Beyond Eurocentrism” 10/5/2016; “An alternative epistemology of the Left” 3/6/2017; “A foundational response to Trump” 2/23/2018; “The art of listening” 4/8/2018 .
Reflections on Karl Marx: “Marx and automated industry revisited” 6/14/2016; “Marx and the working class” 1/6/2014; “Marx illustrates cross-horizon encounter” 1/7/2014; “Marx’s analysis of political economy” 1/8/2014; “Marx on human history” 1/9/2014; “Marx on the revolutionary bourgeoisie” 1/10/2014; “Marx on automated industry” 1/13/2014; “Marx on the revolutionary proletariat” 1/14/2014; “The social and historical context of Marx” 1/15/2014.
Reflections on Immanuel Wallerstein: “Immanuel Wallerstein” 7/30/2013; “Wallerstein: A Critique” 7/31/2013; “Wallerstein and world-systems analysis” 3/25/2014; “Wallerstein and Africa” 3/26/2014; “Wallerstein: Europe-centered or universal?” 3/27/2014; “The terminal crisis of the world-system” 3/28/2014; “Domination and ideology” 3/31/2014; “Reunified historical social science” 4/1/2014; “Universal philosophical historical social science” 4/2/2014; “We can know the true and the good” 4/3/2104; “How can knowledge be reorganized?” 4/4/2014; “Wallerstein on liberalism” 4/6/2014; “Liberals or revolutionaries?” 4/7/2014; “Wallerstein on Leninism” 4/8/2014; “Wallerstein on revolution” 4/9/2014; “Wallerstein, Marx, and knowledge” 4/14/2014; “The alternative world-system from below” 4/15/2014; “Universal human values” 4/16/2014; “An alternative epistemology” 4/17/2014.
World history: “What enables conquest?” 8/9/2013; “Food production and conquest” 8/12/2013; “European feudalism” 8/13/2013; “The modern nation-state” 8/14/2013; “Dialectic of domination and development” 10/30/2013.
The origin and development of the modern world-system: “The European conquest of the world” 3/4/2016; “What is a world-system?” 8/1/2013; “The modern world-economy” 8/2/2013; “Unequal exchange” 8/5/2013; “The origin of the modern world-economy” 8/6/2013; “Modernization of the West” 8/7/2013; “Conquest, gold, and Western development” 8/8/2013; “Consolidation of the world-economy, 1640-1815” 8/19/2013; “New peripheralization, 1750-1850” 8/20/2013; “The world-economy becomes global, 1815-1914” 8/21/2013; “The natural resources of the periphery” 10/25/2013; “French colonialism in Vietnam” 4/25/2014; “What enabled French colonialism?” 4/28/2014; “Cuba in historical and global context” 6/12/2014; “The peripheralization of Cuba” 6/16/2014.
Neocolonialism: “Neocolonialism in Africa and Asia” 9/11/2013; “Neocolonialism in Cuba and Latin America” 9/12/2013; “The neocolonial world-system” 9/13/2013; “The characteristics of neocolonialism” 9/16/2013; “The erosion of neocolonialism” 3/17/2014; "A neocolonial republic is born 7/1/2014; “The US-Cuba neocolonial relation deepens” 8/19/2014.
US ascent in the world-system: “Slavery, development, and US ascent” 8/30/2013; “Cotton” 9/9/2013; “The military-industrial complex” 8/29/2013.
US imperialism: “Obama and the imperialist trap” 3/11/2016; “Lenin on Imperialism" 9/10/2013; "The origin of US imperialist policies” 9/18/2013; “US Imperialism, 1903-1932” 9/19/2013; “Imperialism and the FDR New Deal” 9/20/2013; “Post-war militarization of economy & society” 9/23/2013; “The Cold War and Imperialism” 9/24/2013; “Kennedy and the Third World” 9/25/2013; “The Alliance for Progress” 9/26/2013; “US Imperialism in Latin America, 1963-76” 9/27/2013; “Imperialism falters in Vietnam” 9/30/2013; “Jimmy Carter” 10/1/2013; “Pan-Americanism and OAS” 10/2/2013; “The national turn to the Right” 10/3/2013; “Reaganism” 10/4/2013; “Imperialism as neoliberalism” 10/7/2013; “The “neocons” take control” 10/8/2013; “Obama: More continuity than change” 10/9/2013; “Imperialism as basic to foreign policy” 10/10/2013; "The imperialist discourse of Obama" 4/22/2014.
Colonialism, semi-colonialism, and neocolonialism in Latin America: “Raw materials & class conflict in Latin America” 3/7/2016; “The open veins of Latin America: Gold and silver” 8/16/2013; “Contradictions in colonial Latin America” 8/22/2013; “Semi-colonial Latin American republics” 8/23/2013; “Free trade in the 19th century” 8/26/2013; “The punishment of independent Paraguay” 8/27/2013; “The open veins of Latin America: Sugar” 8/28/2013; “Indigo, coffee, and liberal reform” 9/2/2013; “The Open Veins of Latin America: Coffee” 9/4/2013; “Liberal reform in 19th century Honduras” 9/5/2013; “The open veins of Latin America: Rubber” 9/6/2013; “The open veins of Latin America: Coffee, Part II” 10/14/2013; “The Open Veins of Latin America: Bananas” 10/15/2013; “The Underground Sources of Power” 10/16/2013; “Petroleum in Latin America” 10/17/2013; “Petroleum in Venezuela” 10/18/2013; “Copper in Chile” 10/22/2013; “Tin in Bolivia” 10/23/2013; “Iron in Venezuela and Brazil” 10/24/2013; “The natural resources of the periphery” 10/25/2013.
Neoliberalism: “Reflections on Neoliberalism” 6/28/2016; “Neoliberalism” 6/16/2016; “What are the origins of neoliberalism?” 6/17/2016; “Neoliberalism and presidential elections” 6/23/2016; “Neoliberalism, multiculturalism & identity politics” 6/24/2016; “The future of neoliberalism” 6/27/2016; “Imperialism as neoliberalism” 10/7/2013.
The American Revolution: “The US popular movement of 1775-77” 11/1/13; “American counterrevolution, 1777-87” 11/4/13; “Balance of power” 11/5/13; “Popular democracy” 11/6/13; “Social and economic rights” 11/7/13; “Right of nations to self-determination” 11/8/13; “The rights of women” 11/11/13; “Sustainable development” 11/12/13; “The limitations of American democracy” 11/13/13; “What is revolution?” 11/14/13.
The French Revolution: “Bourgeois revolution in France, 1787-1799” 11/25/2013; “The French Revolution in global context” 11/26/2013; “Class and the French Revolution” 11/27/2013; “Popular assemblies” 11/28/2013; “Popular militias” 11/30/2013; “Revolutionary Terror” 12/2/2013; “Revolution and religion” 12/3/2013; “History from below” 12/4/2013.
The Haitian Revolution: “Slave rebellion in Haiti” 12/9/2013; “Toussaint L’Ouverture” 12/10/2013; “The problem of dependency” 12/11/2013; “Toussaint seeks North-South cooperation” 12/12/2013; “Toussaint and racial conciliation” 12/13/2013; “Toussaint and revolutionary terror” 12/16/2013; “The isolation and poverty of Haiti” 12/17/2013; and “Lessons from the Haitian Revolution” 12/18/2013.
The Paris Commune: “The Paris Commune” 1/20/2014.
The Russian Revolution: “The Russian Revolution (February)” 1/22/2014; “The Russian Revolution (October)” 1/23/2014; “The proletarian vanguard” 1/24/2014; “The revolutionary party of the vanguard” 1/25/2014; “A permanent global revolution” 1/27/2014; “The role of the petit bourgeoisie” 1/28/2014; and “Reflections on the Russian Revolution” 1/29/2014.
The Mexican Revolution: “The Mexican Revolution” 2/3/2014; “Liberal reform and the Porfirian era” 2/4/2014; “Peasant armies occupy Mexico City, 2014” 2/5/2014; “Zapata” 2/6/2014; “Pancho Villa” 2/7/2014; “A peasant-worker alliance from above” 2/10/2014; “The consolidation of reform from above” 2/11/2011; “The new Mexican bourgeoisie of 1920” 2/12/2014; “The Morelos commune” 2/13/2014; “The proletariat and the Mexican Revolution” 2/14/2014; “Flores Magón and the petit bourgeoisie” 2/17/2014; “The legacy of the Mexican Revolution” 2/18/2014; and “Lessons of the Mexican Revolution” 2/19/2014.
Vietnam, the Vietnamese Revolution, and Ho Chi Minh: “On the meaning of Vietnam” 04/23/2014; “Vietnamese empires” 4/24/2014; “French colonialism in Vietnam” 4/25/2014; “What enabled French colonialism?” 4/28/2014; “Confucian scholars and nationalism” 4/29/2014; “On the charismatic leader” 4/30/2014; “Who was Ho Chi Minh?” 5/2/2014; “Ho encounters French socialism” 5/5/2014; “Ho the delegate of the colonized” 5/6/2014; “Ho reformulates Lenin” 5/7/2014; “Ho synthesizes socialism an d nationalism” 5/8/2014; “Ho’s practical theoretical synthesis” 5/9/2014; “The Indochinese Communist Party” 5/12/2014; “The Vietminh and the taking of power” 5/13/2014; “Vietnam declares independence” 5/14/2014; “France seeks re-conquest of Vietnam” 5/15/2014; “The French-Indochinese War” 5/16/2014; “The Geneva Conference of 1954” 5/19/2014; “South Vietnam” 5/20/2014; “The National Liberation Front (NLF)” 5/21/2014; “Construction of socialism in the North” 5/22/2014; “Agrarian reform in Vietnam” 5/23/2014; “The failure of US military escalation” 5/26/2014; “The ideology of anti-communism” 5/27/2014; “Cold War ideology & US policy in Vietnam” 5/28/2014; “The teachings of Ho Chi Minh” 5/29/2014; “The imperialist lesson of Vietnam” 5/30/2014; “US support for French war of reconquest” 6/5/2014; “Nuclear weapons and Dien Bien Phu” 6/6/2014; “Revolutionary sacrifice” 6/9/2014.
Cuban history: “Cuban History” 9/22/2014; “Cuba: The historical and global context” 6/12/2014; “Cuba and the United States” 6/13/2014; “The peripheralization of Cuba” 6/16/2014; “The Cuban war of independence of 1868” 6/17/2014; “José Martí” 6/26/2014; “The US intervention in Cuba of 1898” 6/28/2014; “The “democratic” constitution of 1901” 6/30/2014; “A neocolonial republic is born” 7/1/2014; “Instability in the neocolonial republic” 7/2/2014; “The Cuban workers’ movement of the 1920s” 7/7/2014; “Julio A. Mella and the student movement” 7/8/2014; “Mella fuses Martí and Marxism-Leninism” 7/9/2014; “The Cuban women’s movement of the 1920s” 7/11/2014; “Machado and the promise of reform” 7/16/2014; “‘Democracy’ becomes tyranny” 7/17/2014; “The Cuban popular revolution of 1930-33; Rubén Martínez Villena” 8/5/2014; “Guiteras and the Revolutionary Union” 8/6/2014; “FDR and US mediation in Cuba” 8/7/2014; “The rise of Batista” 8/8/2014; “Guiteras & the ‘government of 100 days’” 8/11/2014; “Guiteras and Joven Cuba” 8/12/2014; “The Cuban Communist Party of the 1930s” 8/13/2014; “The lesson of sectarianism” 8/15/2014; “Batista takes control” 8/18/2014; “The US-Cuba neocolonial relation deepens” 8/19/2014; “The failure of the Cuban NLF, 1936-37” 8/20/2014; “The return of ‘democracy,’” 1937-40” 8/22/2014; “The failure of ‘democracy,’ 1940-52” 8/25/2014; “Grau and reformism” 8/26/2014; “Reform from above; reform from below” 8/27/2014; “The Communist Party-Batista alliance” 8/28/2014; “The Republic of Martí lives, hidden” 8/29/2014; “The Cuban tradition of heroism” 9/1/2014; “Moncada: a great and heroic act” 9/2/2014; “Fidel: ‘History will absolve me’” 9/4/2014; “The Moncada program for the people” 9/5/2014; “Reflections on “History will absolve me” 9/8/2014; “Fidel adapts Marxism-Leninism to Cuba” 9/9/2014; “Fidel’s social roots” 9/10/2014; “Fidel becomes revolutionary at the university” 9/11/2014; “The revolutionary faith of Fidel” 9/15/2014; “Unifying the Cuban revolutionary process” 9/17/2014; “The pluralism of revolutionary unity” 9/18/2014; “The Provisional Revolutionary Government of 1959” 9/19/2014; “Decisive revolutionary steps of 1959” 9/22/2014; “The Agrarian Reform Law of 1959” 9/23/2014; “The defining moment of the Cuban Revolution” 9/24/2014; “Radicalization of the revolutionary government” 9/25/2014; “The phantom of communism” 9/26/2014; “Communism and the Revolution” 9/29/2014.
Cuba today: “Russia & Cuba: A renewed relation for a new era” 7/14/2014; “The Dawn of a New Era in Cuba?” 12/22/2014; “The Unfolding Cuba-USA Drama” 3/11/2015; “Cuba, United States, and human rights” 4/9/2015; “Cuba and the Civil Society Debate” 4/13/2015; “Raúl Castro speaks to the two Americas” 4/17/2015; “The Cuban people reaffirm socialist revolution” 4/28/2015; “Cuba is and will be sovereign” 7/3/2015; “USA and Cuba establish relations” 7/21/2015; “The role of US intellectuals, Part I” 8/5/2015; “Cooperatives and social change in Cuba” 8/7/2015; “Workers’ cooperatives” 8/11/2015; “Fidel celebrates 89th birthday” 8/14/2015; “The arrogance of power” 8/15/2015; “The Internet in Cuba” 9/3/2015; “CELAC to USA: Return Guantanamo to Cuba” 9/7/2015; “Cuban students prepare for battle” 9/17/2015; “The problem of bureaucratism in socialism” 1/11/2016; “The visit of Calvin Coolidge to Cuba in 1928” 3/15/2016; “The normalization of Cuba-USA relations” 3/16/2016; “What does Obama intend for Cuba?” 3/17/2016; “Cuba insists on its sovereignty” 3/18/2016; “Cuba will receive President Obama with respect” 3/19/2016; “Obama stresses human rights in Cuba” 3/23/2016; “Obama seeks to expand Cuban middle class” 3/24/2016; “Obama’s historic address to the Cuban people” 3/25/2016; “Cuban and US economic perspectives” 3/26/2016; “A softer imperialism, not yet civilized” 3/28/2016; “Fidel reflects on Obama visit to Cuba” 3/30/2016; “Cuba responds to the visit of Obama” 3/31/2016; “Black political organizations in Cuba” 4/18/2016; “Using race to discredit Cuba” 4/19/2016; “Who defines socialism?” 4/20/2016; “Racial inequality in Cuba” 4/21/2016; “A revolution of, by, and for the people” 4/22/2016; “Thank you, Fidel” 8/13/2016; “Fidel Castro at 90” 8/17/2016; “The pride and the glory of Cuba” 10/27/2016; “Cuba’s high-quality public discourse” 10/29/2016; “US moves from hard to soft power in Cuba” 10/31/2016; ; “Fidel Castro dies at 90” 11/26/2016; “Fidel siempre presente” 11/29/2016; “‘Yo soy Fidel’” 12/1/2016; “Tears, commitment, determination & hope” 12/5/2016; “‘Fidel is sacred’” 12/6/2016; “The prophets of our time” 12/7/2016; “OAS, Cuba and Venezuela” 6/16/2017; “Cuba responds to Trump” 6/21/2017; “Trump’s distortions of Cuban reality” 6/28/2017; “A tribute to Fidel” 8/13/2017; “Cuba confronts Irma” 9/20/2017; “Cuba denies acoustic attacks” 10/12/2017; “Cuba denies acoustic attacks (P.S.)” 10/20/2017; “The USA lies and isolates itself” 11/2/2017; “Cuba speaks in Washington on ‘sonic Maine’” 11/8/2017; “The political legacy of Fidel” 11/28/2017; “Raúl Castro fulfills his final duty” 3/8/2018; “The 2017-2018 elections in Cuba” 3/13/2018.
Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, and Nicolás Maduro: “Petroleum in Venezuela” 10/18/2013; “Venezuela and OPEC” 10/21/2013; “Cuba, Venezuela and freedom of the press” 2/24/2014; “Events in Venezuela” 2/25/2014; “Venezuela and the mass media” 2/27/2014; “US policy in Latin America and Venezuela” 2/28/2014; “Obama and Venezuela” 3/16/2015; “World rejects Obama order re Venezuela” 4/3/2015; “Economic war in Venezuela” 1/7/2016; “Political polarization in Venezuela” 1/8/2016; “The problem of bureaucratism in socialism” 1/11/2015; “Economic and media war against Venezuela” 6/9/2016; “ALBA, UNISUR & ACS support Maduro in Venezuela” 6/10/2016; “ALBA backs Venezuela” 4/21/2017; “Venezuela attains 100% medical attention” 4/25/2017; “Nicolás Maduro” 6/7/2017; “OAS, Cuba and Venezuela” 6/16/2017; “The campaign of violence in Venezuela” 6/20/2017; “Venezuela calls Constitutional Assembly” 6/22/2017; “Victory for Chavistas in Venezuela” 10/17/2017; “How was the Chavist victory possible?” 10/18/2017.
Bolivia and Evo Morales: “Tin in Bolivia” 10/23/2013; “Evo Morales speaks at UN General Assembly” 9/30/2014; “The Movement toward Socialism in Bolivia” 8/11/2016.
Rafael Correa and the Citizen Revolution in Ecuador: “Rafael Correa speaks at G-77” 1/30/2017; “Correa and the revolution in Ecuador” 9/19/2016; “Ecuador: The Citizen Revolution advances” 6/19/2015.
China: “On dismissing official explanations” 4/3/2018; “Socialism with Chinese characteristics” 3/29/2018; “China’s Reform and Opening, 1978-2012” 3/26/2018; “Mao: The foundation of the New China” 3/5/2018; “The five heresies of Chinese socialism” 3/2/2018; “Mao’s ‘ultra-Leftist’ political errors” 2/1/2018; “The Cultural Revolution in China” 1/25/2018; “The emergence of Maoism” 1/18/2018; “The Chinese ‘bureaucratic elite’” 1/16/2018; “The Chinese transition to socialism” 1/11/2018; “The triumph of the Chinese Revolution, Oct. 1, 1949” 1/9/2018; “The nationalist origins of Chinese Marxism” 12/18/2017; “The historic contradiction of socialist states” 12/7/2017; “Does socialism work?” 12/4/2017; “China-CELAC cooperation” 7/25/2014; “China treats Latin America with respect” 7/28/2014; “China and the alternative world-system” 7/18/2014; “States as actors in the world-system” 7/21/2014.
The crisis of the world system and the possible emergence of an alternative world-system: “The terminal crisis of the world-system” 3/28/2014; “A change of epoch?” 3/18/2014; “Is Marx today fulfilled?” 3/20/2014; “The alternative world-system from below” 4/15/2014; “China and the alternative world-system” 7/18/2014; “States as actors in the world-system” 7/21/2014; “The future of the world-system” 7/22/2014; “Imperialism, fascism, and democracy” 7/23/2014; “Causes of the global migratory crisis” 9/18/2015; “Responding to the migratory crisis” 9/20/2015; “Brexit: A sign of global crisis” 7/13/2016.
Latin American and Caribbean unity: An alternative world-system in embryo?: “The dream of La Patria Grande” 3/4/2014; “The dream deferred” 3/5/2014; “The dream renewed” 3/6/2014; “The fall of FTAA” 3/7/2014; “The rise of ALBA” 3/11/2014; “Latin American union and integration” 3/13/2014; “The Declaration of Havana 2014” 3/14/2014; “The erosion of neocolonialism” 3/17/2014; “A change of epoch?” 3/18/2014; “Is Marx today fulfilled?” 3/20/2014; “OAS: Transformed from below” 6/10/2014.
Latin American Right: “The new counterrevolution of the Right” 9/27/2016; “Parliamentary coup d’état in Brazil” 9/2/2016; “Economic and media war against Venezuela” 6/9/2016; “Parliamentary coups of the Right in Latin America” 5/23/2016; “The Right takes power in Argentina” 1/4/2016; “The ideology of free trade” 1/5/2016; “Economic war in Venezuela” 1/7/2016; “Political polarization in Venezuela” 1/8/2016.
South-South cooperation: “Caricom-Cuba & South-South cooperation” 12/12/2017; “VII BRICS Summit” 8/13/2015; “The fall & rise of South-South cooperation” 7/24/2014; “China-CELAC cooperation” 7/25/2014; “China treats Latin America with respect” 7/28/2014; “BRICS advances to South-South cooperation” 7/29/2014; “The BRICS Bank of Development” 7/30/2014; “The nations of the Global South speak” 6/19/2014.
North-South cooperation: “Russia & Cuba: A renewed relation for a new era” 7/14/2014.
Race in the United States: “Black community control” 5/10/2015; “The unresolved issue of race in the USA” 6/23/2015; “The abandonment of the black lower class” 6/24/2015; “On racism and affirmative action” 6/26/2015; “The need for a popular coalition” 6/27/2015; “Race and Revolution” 1/19/2016; “Race, the university and revolution” 1/25/2016.
Women and Revolution: “The rights of women” 11/11/13; “The Cuban women’s movement of the 1920s” 7/11/2014; “Gender and revolution” 1/21/2016; “Gay rights and revolution” 1/22/2016.
Environment: “Sustainable development” 11/12/13; “Ecology in an integral form” 1/27/2016.
Revolution: “What is a revolutionary?” 2/8/2018; “The historic contradiction of socialist states” 12/7/2017; “Does socialism work?” 12/4/2017; “The possible and necessary popular coalition” 10/10/2016; “What is revolutionary socialism?” 5/4/2016; “A revolution of, by, and for the people” 4/22/2016; “A socialist revolution in the USA” 2/1/2016; “On spirituality and heroism” 1/30/2016; “Patriotism” 1/28/2016; “Ecology in an integral form” 1/27/2016; “Race, the university and revolution” 1/25/2016; “Gay rights and revolution” 1/22/2016; “Gender and revolution” 1/21/2016; “Race and Revolution” 1/19/2016; “Lessons of socialism for the USA” 1/18/2016; “Popular democratic socialist revolution” 1/15/2016; “The twelve practices of socialism” 1/14/2016; “A just, democratic & sustainable world-system” 1/12/2016; “Presidential primaries in USA” 8/25/2015; “Guiteras and the Revolutionary Union” 8/6/2014; “The lesson of sectarianism” 8/15/2014; “Unifying the Cuban revolutionary process” 9/17/2014; “Revolutionary sacrifice” 6/9/2014; “How can knowledge be reorganized?” 4/4/2014; “Liberals or revolutionaries?” 4/7/2014; “Wallerstein on revolution” 4/9/2014; “Lessons of the Mexican Revolution” 2/19/2014; “A permanent global revolution” 1/27/2014; “Reflections on the Russian Revolution” 1/29/2014; “The French Revolution in Global Context” 11/26/2013; “Revolutionary Terror” 12/2/2013; “Revolution and religion” 12/3/2013; “What is revolution?” 11/14/2013; “Revolution and the modern world-system” 10/31/2013; “Revolutionary patriotism” 8/15/2013; “Revolutionary Processes” 7/23/2013.
On charismatic leaders: Introductory Post “Charismatic Leaders of the global revolution” 12/18/2015; “The Cuban tradition of heroism” 9/1/2014; “Moncada: a great and heroic act” 9/2/2014; “Fidel: ‘History will absolve me’” 9/4/2014; “The Moncada program for the people” 9/5/2014; “Reflections on “History will absolve me” 9/8/2014; “Fidel adapts Marxism-Leninism to Cuba” 9/9/2014; “Fidel’s social roots” 9/10/2014; “Fidel becomes revolutionary at the university” 9/11/2014; “The revolutionary faith of Fidel” 9/15/2014; “Unifying the Cuban revolutionary process” 9/17/2014; “The pluralism of revolutionary unity” 9/18/2014; “The defining moment of the Cuban Revolution” 9/24/2014; “Ho’s practical theoretical synthesis” 5/9/2014; “On the charismatic leader” 4/30/2014; “Is Marx today fulfilled?” 3/20/2014; “The dream renewed” 3/6/2014; “Lessons of the Mexican Revolution” 2/19/2014; “Reflections on the Russian Revolution” 1/29/2014; “Toussaint L’Ouverture” 12/10/2013; “Toussaint seeks North-South cooperation” 12/12/2013; “The isolation and poverty of Haiti” 12/17/2013.
On the vanguard: “Marx on the revolutionary proletariat” 1/14/2014; “The social & historical context of Marx” 1/15/2014; “The proletarian vanguard” 1/24/2014; “The revolutionary party of the vanguard” 1/25/2014; “The proletariat and the Mexican Revolution” 2/14/2014; “Ho reformulates Lenin” 5/7/2014; “Fidel adapts Marxism-Leninism to Cuba” 9/9/2014; “The pluralism of revolutionary unity” 9/18/2014; “Presidential primaries in USA” 8/25/2015.
Marxism-Leninism and its evolution: “The social and historical context of Marx” 1/15/14; “Reflections on the Russian Revolution” 1/29/2014; “Ho reformulates Lenin” 5/7/2014; “Ho synthesizes socialism and nationalism” 5/8/2014; “Ho’s practical theoretical synthesis” 5/9/2014; “A change of epoch?” 3/18/2014; “Is Marx today fulfilled?” 3/20/2014; “The alternative world-system from below” 4/15/2014; “Mella fuses Martí and Marxism-Leninism” 7/9/2014; “Fidel adapts Marxism-Leninism to Cuba” 9/9/2014; “What is revolutionary socialism?” 5/4/2016; “The legacy of Lenin” 12/22/2016; “The significance of Marx” 2/16/2018.
Religion and Revolution: “Revolution and religion” 12/3/2013; “We can know the true and the good” 4/3/2104; “The visit of Pope Francis to Cuba” 12/10/2014; “Pope Francis: A progressive discourse” 12/11/2015; “Pope speaks for nature and the excluded” 12/12/2015: “Pope Francis: Care for our Common Home” 12/14/2015; “Socialist-Christian-Islamic alliance” 12/15/2015; "A just, democratic & sustainable world-system" 1/12/2016; “On spirituality and heroism” 1/30/2016; “The prophets of our time” 12/7/2016.
Presidential Elections 2016: “Can the Electoral College deny Trump?” 11/24/2016; “Making America great again” 11/9/2016; “The Dangers of Trump and Trumpism” 9/5/2016; “Can the Green Party evolve?” 8/29/2016; “The Green Party Platform” 8/26/2016; “Hillary Clinton or the Greens?” 8/24/2016; “Progressive strategy after Sanders campaign” 7/1/2016; “Neoliberalism and presidential elections” 6/23/2016; “What should Bernie Sanders have done?” 5/2/2016; “Presidential primaries in USA” 8/25/2015.
Trump: “The State of the Union under Trump” 2/13/2018; “America as seen by Donald Trump” 10/23/2017; “Military strength and tax relief: Trump and Reagan” 10/24/2017; “The effective populism of Trump” 10/25/2017; “Trump and the independence of nations” 10/26/2017; “Trump, the UN, and human rights” 10/30/2017; “Trump’s speech on Cuba” 6/17/2017; “What is Trump changing with his Cuba policy?” 6/19/2017; “Cuba responds to Trump” 6/21/2017; “Trump’s distortions of Cuban reality” 6/28/2017; “The logic of Trump” 6/30/2017; “Responding to Trump’s Cuba policy” 7/5/2017; “Reflections on Trump” 3/17/2017; “Trump and the war on terrorism, Part One” 2/20/2017; “Trump and the war on terrorism, Part Two” 2/21/2017; “Trump on immigration” 2/22/2017; “Let’s build houses in Mexico” 2/23/2017; “Trump’s economic nationalism” 2/24/2017; “Trump, corporations, and the environment” 2/27/2017; “Trump’s populism” 2/28/2017; “Trump and US militarist foreign policy” 3/1/2017; “Trump’s neofascist project” 3/2/2017; “A grand narrative from the Left” 3/3/2017; “An alternative epistemology of the Left” 3/6/2017; “The Third World grand narrative” 3/7/2017; “A Left narrative on the Third World” 3/8/2017; “A Left narrative on immigration” 3/9/2017; “A narrative on morality in international affairs” 3/10/2017; “An integral and comprehensive narrative” 3/13/2017; “The function of government” 3/14/2017; “Trump’s masterful speech” 3/15/2017; “Power to the people!” 3/16/2017.
Critique of the Left: “A foundational response to Trump” 2/23/2018; “On ‘ultra-Leftist’ political errors” 2/4/2018; “Anti-imperialism is the way” 8/25/2017; “Anti-fascism is not the way” 8/17/2017; “The ISA Global South Caucus in Havana” 7/18/2017; “Responding to Trump’s Cuba policy” 7/5/2017; “The fall of the revolution of 1968” 1/25/2017; “The errors of the Left” 1/23/2017; “The legacy of Lenin” 12/22/2016; “The infantile disorder of the Left” 12/19/2016; “The limitations of the Left” 12/14/2016; “Why exclude white middle class men?” 9/16/2016; “Third World socialism” 9/13/2016; “The relation between theory and practice” 9/9/2016; “Can the Green Party evolve?” 8/29/2016; “The Green Party Platform” 8/26/2016; “Fidel Castro at 90” 8/17/2016; “Progressive strategy after Sanders campaign” 7/1/2016; “Reflections on Neoliberalism” 6/28/2016; “Neoliberalism” 6/16/2016; “What are the origins of neoliberalism?” 6/17/2016; “Ideological frames” 6/20/2016; “The nation-state in a neoliberal world” 6/21/2016; “Neoliberalism and presidential elections” 6/23/2016; “Neoliberalism, multiculturalism & identity politics” 6/24/2016; “The future of neoliberalism” 6/27/2016; “May Day and the socialist alternative” 5/18/2016; “Authoritarianism vs. legitimate power” 5/16/2016; “What is direct action?” 5/9/2016; “The vanguard party model” 5/10/2016; “Connecting to the needs of our people” 5/11/2016; “Herbert Marcuse Revisited” 5/12/2013; “The New Left and its errors” 5/13/2016; “What is revolutionary socialism?” 5/4/2016; “What should Bernie Sanders have done?” 5/2/2016; “Black political organizations in Cuba” 4/18/2016; “Using race to discredit Cuba” 4/19/2016; “Who defines socialism?” 4/20/2016; “Racial inequality in Cuba” 4/21/2016; “ “A revolution of, by, and for the people” 4/22/2016; “The role of US intellectuals, Part I” 8/5/2015; “The role of US intellectuals, Part II” 8/6/2015; “Cooperatives and social change in Cuba” 8/7/2015; “Utopian socialism in the USA” 8/10/2015; Workers’ cooperatives” 8/11/2015; “China and the alternative world-system” 7/18/2014; “States as actors in the world-system” 7/21/2014; “The future of the world-system” 7/22/2014; “Imperialism, fascism, and democracy” 7/23/2014; “Immanuel Wallerstein” 7/30/2013; “Wallerstein: A Critique” 7/31/0213; “Wallerstein and world-systems analysis” 3/25/2014; “Wallerstein and Africa” 3/26/2014; “Wallerstein: Europe-centered or universal?” 3/27/2014; “The terminal crisis of the world-system” 3/28/2014; “Domination and ideology” 3/31/2014; “Reunified historical social science” 4/1/2014; “Universal philosophical historical social science” 4/2/2014; “We can know the true and the good” 4/3/2104; “Wallerstein on liberalism” 4/6/2014; “Liberals or revolutionaries?” 4/7/2014; “Wallerstein on Leninism” 4/8/2014; “Wallerstein on revolution” 4/9/2014; “Wallerstein, Marx, and knowledge” 4/14/2014.
Miscellaneous: “Obama, Hiroshima and hypocrisy” 6/1/2016.
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