Sprouting Theory: What Fascism Is

  We’re watching racists and xenophobes march in record numbers. We’re watching our planet get sold out for corporate gain. We’re watching our rights disappear. We tell ourselves the solution is to #votethemout, vote with our dollar, “make our voices heard” on social media or in the streets, and punch Nazis. But should we be [...]

Sprouting Theory: “What Fascism ISN’T”

  There’s a lot out there that tries to explain what fascism is. Historians, academics, philosophers, and journalists are struggling to define the term now, as they did almost eighty years ago while actual fascist regimes were in power. Today, hate groups are seeping into popular culture with organizations like the Proud Boys, Identity Evropa [...]

SoU: What is the Capitalist Class?

As we continue our Roots series via Seed of Unity (SoU), we thought it useful to share a bit of our process. One Struggle initiated SoU as a project to build unity around concepts for understanding the world around us so that we can participate in its transformation. How can we change something if we [...]

What is Progressive: Advancing History for the People

One Struggle has addressed the concept of a progressive militant in the past, but as we see capitalist and imperialist powers continue to adapt to ideas meant to move us beyond this current social, economic, and political arrangement, we must continue to reclaim the term and insist on our definition of what is truly progressive. [...]

Beyond Identity, Toward Emancipation

by Vincent Kelley January 2014 Radical sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein recently observed that “[t]he biggest internal debate absorbing the world left for at least the last seventy-five years has been whether identity is a left concept and therefore a left concern”.[i] While this debate has been ongoing, proponents of identity politics and their detractors often fall [...]

Capitalism Must Die! A Series in Parts: Part 29

If we want to free ourselves from this omnicidal nightmare, then we must organize ourselves, must become strong enough so that together we can dispossess the dispossessors, take back our collective means of subsistence, and annihilate capitalism as a system. Only then can we build an alternative way of life that is sustainable and free [...]