Articles from Our Community
The Strategic Activist
Steven D. Grumbine
You don’t defeat the enemy in one fight, you grind down their political and moral foundation until holding the status quo costs more than yielding to change.
Dragon Ball Zeta
Zeta Violet Koloskzi
A mix of nostalgia and persistent rooting for a character clearly has a powerful effect on our worldview. When media persistently tells us to root for something, it affects us. This is true for cartoons, but more ominously, it’s true for politics as well.
Sex Work & Vice City
Zeta Violet Koloskzi
The revolution isn’t an action-packed thrill ride like in video games. It’s a long, slow process where one class builds itself up. And that begins with how we treat each other.
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire
Zeta Violet Koloskzi
One of the most revolutionary things we can do right now is speak truth to power. Whenever we see someone speaking truth where the media lies we can see the revolution taking shape.
Terminator: No Fate But What We Make
Zeta Violet Koloskzi
For every Darth Vader there’s a Luke Skywalker, for every Sauron there’s a Frodo Baggins, for every Skynet there’s an entire resistance ready to challenge it.
State and Revolution Book Club
Zeta Violet Koloskzi
Real Progressives is holding a five-week book club on Lenin’s State and Revolution. We encourage those who have not read the book to join us. We also invite those who have already read it to come, not only to study it further, but to help those of us still struggling to learn.
The High Intellectual Barrier to Socialist Consciousness
Steven D. Grumbine
If socialism is to be a mass movement, it must speak in the language of those it seeks to organize.
Guerrilla War of the Rings
Zeta Violet Koloskzi
A guerrilla war has three phases: mobility, equilibrium, and overtaking. The Lord of the Rings film trilogy perfectly mirrors these stages.
The Unseen Labor of Liberation
Steven D. Grumbine
The real story of social change isn’t found in the explosive moments that make history books, but in the countless ordinary hours that make those moments possible.
