Socialism
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I Love The World: Some Notes & Reflections After 8 Years of NSfN
Patience is a virtue that you never seemed to learnYou were born with nothing, to nothing you’ll return – New Model Army, “Lights Go Out”, The Ghost of Cain (1985) I find myself in a peculiar mood these days with… Continue reading
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Archive: Socialist Review (International Socialist Organisation, 1997-2022)
Available material The following issues published 1997-2014 – #1, #3-13, #15, #18, #21-24, #26-38, #40, #42, #44-46, #48-49.Missing material The following issues published up to the fiftieth – #2, #14, #16-17, #19-20, #25, #39, #41, #43, #47, #50 – as… Continue reading
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Condition, Terminal? Notes Toward and Against a Concept of National Pessimism
I have intended for some time to write this piece, to formalize ideas which have swirled in the æther since I started my first clumsy attempts at writing for a public audience. Some have been abandoned, others changed in form… Continue reading
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On Students and Socialism
This article was originally written way back when the blog was launched in 2017 (I’m reasonably sure I penned a draft even earlier while in undergrad), but has slowly migrated – mostly finished and entirely unpublished – across laptops, USB… Continue reading
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Archive: Socialist Worker Monthly Review (Socialist Worker, 2002-2005)
Available materialAll issues of Socialist Worker Monthly Review published 2002-2005.Missing materialNone, the items linked below constitute the entirety of Socialist Worker Monthly Review’s run in both forms it was published. Socialist Worker Monthly Review (SWMR) can in some ways be… Continue reading
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Archive: Unity (Socialist Worker, 2005-2010)
Available material All issues of Unity published 2005-2010.Missing materialNone, the items linked below constitute the entirety of Unity’s run in both forms it was published. Unity was the last physical periodical produced by Socialist Worker (NZ) before the organisation was… Continue reading
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Supplementary Notes on Sectology, the Current State and Political Composition of the Socialist Left
The following are some notes related to a somewhat impromptu talk I gave at the first annual Otago Politics Day School in August entitled The Modern Socialist Left in New Zealand: Its Current State and Political Composition. Because the talk… Continue reading
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The Dream Is Over, But The Task Remains
Some time ago I wrote a piece entitled Is It Over? as I grappled with the possibly bleak implications of my research. I fretted that everyone was running blind towards a brick wall, or worse that they’d struck it full… Continue reading
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A Sectological Survey of NZ (2022)
When I pulled down the Leftovers, the section of the website I used to run as a guide to the organisations and sects of the socialist left in NZ, it was due in part to simply not having the time… Continue reading
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Reprint: Reconsidering Marxism (Bruce Jesson, The Republican, 1984-85)
Been awhile since I reprinted anything, but I’ve got a big one to make up for lost time. Bruce Jesson is someone that’s probably familiar to the readers of this blog, either as a more historical figure to younger readers… Continue reading
Notes South from Nowhere 