Taylor Dorrell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Taylor Dorrell
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Culture
How Communist farmers in Minnesota helped radicalize composer Aaron Copland
May 6, 2025In the chaotic disarray of 1934, Aaron Copland, an aspiring composer, found himself disillusioned by the hollow promises of the avant-garde, its glittering façade crumbling under the weight of his growing class consciousness.
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Culture
Saving bourgeois democracy in ‘Mickey 17’: Less about class struggle than defeating space fascism
April 28, 2025The message of the film is ultimately utopian: that it’s possible to defeat fascism permanently under capitalism.
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Politics
The real impact of the Tesla Takedown protests
April 24, 2025Despite the criticisms levied at the protests being staged outside of Tesla dealerships nationwide, the growing movement given rise by the drastic cuts to the federal government initiated by Elon Musk is hitting the billionaire where...
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Politics
Cybernetics with Chinese Characteristics: How big data is eliminating poverty and building socialism
March 12, 2025The USSR may have created an internet prototype and Chile had its rudimentary Cybersyn, but China is combining human outreach and data management to solve major social problems.
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Culture
Ina Wood, the Oklahoma Communist feminist who inspired the folk anthem ‘Union Maid’
March 7, 2025Before Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger became folk legends, an Oklahoma Communist named Ina Wood pushed them to write a union song for women.
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Culture
This director could make you Communist: Trumbo’s ham sandwich ethics and Marxist art
March 4, 2025The legacy of the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo has shifted in the past decade. His work and philosophy offer guidance today.
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Culture
How literature inspired, then justified Zionism: Ghassan Kanafani’s ‘On Zionist Literature’
February 28, 2025
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Culture
Meridel Le Sueur and ‘The Fetish of Being Outside’: A manifesto for writers
June 5, 2024Rescuing a lost but important 1935 article by the proletarian literary figure.
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