A little note on the differences between left communists, council communists, autonomous Marxists, and anarcho-communists.

Review of the Angela Davis Reader.

Workers are not unthinking robots who blindly respond to stimuli.

A history and analysis of the Russian Revolution and its degeneration into totalitarianism.

In 1871 citizens in Paris revolted and set up a rebel government. Although it had a radical fringe, this Paris Commune was merely a left-Republican uprising and was no where near as radical as is commonly portrayed.

Authoritarian socialism inevitably leads to the creation of a new elite which dominates and exploits the proletariat.  If the capitalist class is overthrown but the state is not simultaneously abolished the state will establish itself as a new ruling class.