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Latest by Author: Ramsin Canon

An Assessment of the Socialists Everywhere Project

by Ramsin Canon | February 6, 2026February 6, 2026

The Socialists Everywhere Project began in the now-defunct Organizing Committee for the North Side Blue Line (NSBL) branch. It arose out of conversations about how to learn more about the employers, landlords,…

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Independence Requires Investment: The Time is Now for an Independent Run

by Ramsin Canon | January 4, 2026January 4, 2026
Socialists have to mean what we say and say what we mean. The…
Cadre In Office, Socialists In Power

Cadre In Office, Socialists In Power

by Ramsin Canon | October 13, 2025October 13, 2025
The democratic road to socialism needs state power, so democratic socialists need to…
Break the Cycle

Break the Cycle

by Ramsin Canon | April 6, 2025April 8, 2025
As a matter of survival, socialists need to move past models from professionally-managed…
Improving Our Analysis: The Dialectical Method and Historical Materialism

Improving Our Analysis: The Dialectical Method and Historical Materialism

by Ramsin Canon | September 23, 2024September 23, 2024
[Friedrich Engels’] three classical laws of dialectics [are]...the law of “interpenetrating opposites,” the…
Nonprofits and the City’s Political Economy: A Case Study

Nonprofits and the City’s Political Economy: A Case Study

by Ramsin Canon | February 3, 2023February 3, 2023
Marxist analysis of attempts by executives of nonprofits to halt labor organizing in…
Ultraliberalism: The Dominant Tendency of the American Left

Ultraliberalism: The Dominant Tendency of the American Left

by Ramsin Canon | February 7, 2022February 7, 2022
Ultraliberalism is the predominant politics of the left, and so long as the…
Eye on Springfield

Eye on Springfield

by Ramsin Canon | September 13, 2021September 12, 2021
Introduction. In the U.S. system, the power is at the state level. Federal…
Primer Red: The Petit (Petty) Bourgeoisie

Primer Red: The Petit (Petty) Bourgeoisie

by Ramsin Canon | July 26, 2021July 26, 2021
It has been observed, fairly widely at this point, that “Trumpism,” whatever that…
Starving and Policing Imperial Cities

Starving and Policing Imperial Cities

by Ramsin Canon | March 25, 2021
To stay alive in perpetual late capitalist austerity, cities turned to a strategy…
Nation-Building, National Liberation and the Plurinational Working Class

Nation-Building, National Liberation and the Plurinational Working Class

by Ramsin Canon | October 31, 2020October 31, 2020
Socialists and radicals have been and are grappling with how to grow and…
Organizations in Movement

Organizations in Movement

by Ramsin Canon | October 30, 2020
“The body does not consist of one member but of many. If the…
Police Do Not Need Unions

Police Do Not Need Unions

by Ramsin Canon | June 3, 2020June 3, 2020
Police unions are immensely powerful organizations that exercise outsized powers in U.S. cities.…
Outlaw Country

Outlaw Country

by Ramsin Canon | May 14, 2020May 21, 2020
The worsening of the quality of life for U.S. workers can’t be neatly…
Mass Organizations and NGOs in a Socialist Movement

Mass Organizations and NGOs in a Socialist Movement

by Ramsin Canon | December 24, 2019May 2, 2026
When socialists gathered this summer across two events—the Socialism 2019 conference in Chicago…
Non-Profits in the Coming Struggle

Non-Profits in the Coming Struggle

by Ramsin Canon | July 29, 2019July 29, 2019
As socialists look out at the horizon of the struggle for a radically…
Direct Action in a Time of Class Struggle

Direct Action in a Time of Class Struggle

by Ramsin Canon | April 2, 2019May 20, 2019
Perhaps the most important political sentence written about Chicago went by largely unnoticed…
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