Joe Sims
LATEST ARTICLES BY Joe Sims
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Opinion
AOC & Co. are not communists—I should know
July 23, 2019As a younger man, I was organized as a communist not via Moscow, Russia, and the KGB, but in Youngstown, Ohio, by U.S. Steel and the collapse of the steel industry.
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Politics
Despite growth of the right, we are in a socialist moment
April 26, 2019It might strike folks as odd. Some might wonder: “Aren’t we supposed to be in an anti-extreme right moment, a time of resistance against Trump?"
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News
Is Trump leading the country toward fascism?
October 23, 2018The classic definition of fascism was offered by Georgi Dimitrov at the 7th World Congress of the Comintern in 1935: “Fascism is the open terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary sections of finance capital,” he said.
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Opinion
The White House at war with itself
September 10, 2018A profound crisis of governance now grips the entire executive branch of government.
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Opinion
Who’s on the left and why it’s important to know
July 20, 2018Are non-Marxist social democrats like Bernie Sanders not really a part of the left?
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Opinion
Want to punch a Nazi? Think twice
September 14, 2017The fascist fringe hopes their violence will be met by violence from our side. Responding to such provocations in-kind might not be the best tactic.
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Politics
The state and counterrevolution: Democracy in the era of Trump
July 6, 2017Our country is in the midst of a profound governmental crisis, a crisis revealing itself deep within the bourgeois state.
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News
Neoliberal agenda thriving despite Trump’s nationalist trade rhetoric
February 21, 2017President Trump talks a good nationalist game when it comes to TPP and free trade, but the rest of his agenda so far shows Wall Street neoliberal ideology is setting the pace.
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