In Marxism there are some very unhelpful ideas about the need to push for a revolution that will overturn all of society. Marx gets that from Hegel, …

- Cynthia Kauffman

There is a cultural norm on the left of being afraid to declare victory, which is related to the binary of reform/revolution. Whereas reformists are …

- Cynthia Kauffman

I think there is a legitimate critique of reformism, as a politics that is content with making small changes in society without asking for bigger and…

- Cynthia Kauffman

Communism then defines a society in which there are communal forms for dealing with resources. Many communal forms exist where there are not communis…

- Cynthia Kauffman

States can be more or less democratic, and so can socialism. I think any ideal society that exists on a large scale, which is what we most likely hav…

- Cynthia Kauffman

We see ourselves as inhabiting a complex social world that has some capitalist things going on in it as well as some socialist ones, some communist o…

- Cynthia Kauffman

You build movements and keep people in a struggle when it feels productive. Anti-capitalists have typically been the people in movements who have dec…

- Cynthia Kauffman

Anarchism as the name for an ideal total social form is a really complicated question. I have never found satisfying answers from anarchists about th…

- Cynthia Kauffman

The terms socialist and communist are mostly about describing the world we want after capitalism, and I think they are both important.

- Cynthia Kauffman