The Boys Determine the Correct Path and the Authentic Socialist Tradition

In this episode the boys continue their ongoing discussion of the influences of popular-socialism, folk-socialism, left-populism, and left-nationalism on the western workers' movement and how to navigate the impossible task of resurrecting the "Real Marxist" tradition.    The Problem With Left Nationalism https://jacobin.com/2026/01/left-nationalism-universalism-populism-melenchon    The Left and Its Meaning https://sublationmedia.com/the-left-and-its-meaning/   Folk Socialism — A Left-Populist Disorder  https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/folk-socialism-a-left-populist-disorder/    A Socialism for the 21st Century https://truthout.org/articles/a-socialism-for-the-21st-century/    Neoliberalism and the Socialist Movement in Britain: From the Third Road to Jeremy Corbyn and Brexit https://mronline.org/2024/09/11/neoliberalism-and-the-socialist-movement-in-britain-from-the-third-road-to-jeremy-corbyn-and-brexit/   Marxist Internationalism or National Interest? https://www.theleftchapter.com/post/marxist-internationalism-or-national-interest    People, class, democracy: re-mapping left populism from populist social democracy to popular socialism  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13569317.2024.2371506#d1e175