Anthony Teso
On Trump and Trumpism: Inventory versus state form
Replying to Paul Le Blanc, Anthony Teso contends that socialist analysis must identify the structure it confronts and the organisation capable of defeating it, rather than merely registering dangers and applauding resistance.
Trumpism: A patrimonial Bonapartism regime
Anthony Teso argues why Trumpism represents a form of patrimonial Bonapartism and how this analysis can help the left understand what it must do differently in response.
Lenin, moral liberalism and the voluntarist premise
Leninism is not perfect nor should it be copied mechanically, but abandoning it for vague principles — as Dan La Botz proposes — leaves us without tools to confront the realities of power, contends Antony Teso.
Against the tribunal left: DSA, moralism and the problem of socialist discipline
Fights inside the Democratic Socialists of America over “cancel culture,” “political correctness” and “call-out culture” are not side dramas. They are symptoms of a deeper organisational sickness, argues Anthony Teso.
DSA’s future: Socialism, elections and the limits of relying on the ballot line
The issue is not whether the Democratic Socialists of America matters — it clearly does, writes Anthony Teso. The question is can it evolve beyond a project aimed at moving the Democratic Party to the left within the existing political system.
Lenin, democracy and the anti-Leninist shortcut
Responding to Dan La Botz’s “Goodbye to Lenin and Leninism”, Anthony Teso writes that what we need is neither a Lenin cult nor an anti-Leninist shortcut that confuses renunciation with strategy.
