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More than a blueprint for a new socialist organization, The Organic Party is a reflection on political failure, fragmentation, and what it means to honestly confront the limits of the present left. In a brand new postscript for Geese Magazine, Ewan Ben reflects on the current state of Your Party, ultimately calling on us to reject the fantasy that a party can simply be declared into existence by will alone, rather than being patiently produced through struggle, experimentation, and engagement with the class as it actually exists.

Zohran Mamdani has gained a lot from ‘playing ball’ with the Black political establishment in New York. But if he wants to achieve his agenda in the long-term, he must turn to the Black socialist insurgents.

Voter fraud. Immigration fraud. Financial fraud. Turn on any screen, and the conservative obsession with "fraud" is inescapable. Now in syndication, Sam Steen’s analysis exposes how "fraud" has become the modern reincarnation of the racist "Welfare Queen" myth spawned by Reagan. Steen breaks down how the right uses this catchall boogeyman to manufacture consent for militant ICE raids, gut the social safety net, and push voter suppression like the SAVE Act. The real fraud is neither the ballot box nor the border, but the narrative itself.

Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s newly released Muskism traces the biography and ideology of the Elon Musk, the man currently reshaping the digital world. In his review, Nik M. traces the inculcation of “fortress” and racialist ideas in Musk’s upbringing in apartheid South Africa, the new model of tech domination dependent on exploitation of state power, and, finally, the “woke mind virus” that terrifies Musk, explains his aggression, and may just be the ghost in the machine necessary to stop him.

Established media has recently had a lot to say about Calla Walsh, the pro-Palestinian rebel (in?)famous for an alleged raid on an Israeli defense manufacturer.

Why did Calla do this? Their answers: online extremism? Eerie foreign influence by Iran? In his latest, T. E. Moon argues that it might, however, be something else: the US political establishment’s total support and complicity for a genocide. The hysterics around Calla Walsh are just an attempt to avoid facing that.

Do you need another reason to read Bolaño? In this review of 2666, Jean Allen digs into the book’s formal novelty. As an anti-procedural, it upends the traditional roles of Victim and Perpetrator, ordered into place by the heroic deeds of the Detective. In doing so, Allen argues, Bolaño reveals a deep truth: from the global femicide epidemic to Epstein’s human trafficking ring, our society makes perpetrators of us all.

Manhood stands at a crossroads—its choices are neoliberal neglect or fascistic frenzy. But amidst this chaos, a third path can appear. In his debut essay, E. Day articulates the necessity for why the left has no choice but to reforge masculinity.

The collapse of the Second International. The fall of the Soviet Union. The apparent disappearance of the revolutionary proletariat in the West. Marxism seems to be always be in crisis—but this may actually be its vital essence. In this essay, Liam Egan looks from Althusser to Derrida to argue that to ask What is the Marxism of Today? is not a betrayal of communism, but the only way to genuinely practice it.