Conciliation and Insurrection in Bavaria 1918–19 (Part 1)
What political lessons can be learned from the failed Bavarian Soviet Republic? Alexander Gallus takes a deep dive into the history of this famous moment …
Month: September 2018
Letter: Comments on “Where Does Power Come From?”
(In response to ‘Where Does Power Come From?‘) Generally I really liked the article. It was a unique read and one which displayed views which …
Letter: Comments on “Communists and the National Question in the 21st Century”
I found the most recent article on the question of nationalities superior to the take of any ultra-lefts but still the victim of a certain …
Historical Narratives of the Red Terror
Donald Parkinson dives into the historiography of the Russian Revolution and argues that the Red Terror was not an ideological outgrowth of communist ideals. Rather, …
Letter: On “The Future is the Past: The Future of Accelerationism”
(In response to The Future is the Past: The Future of Accelerationism) I had three questions for the author after reading this piece. Unfortunately there was …
Communists and the National Question in the 21st Century
Stani Bjegunac takes a look at different approaches to the national question by historical communists and how we may approach issues of national oppression in …
The Future is the Past: The Failure of Accelerationism
Rosa Janis takes on all the different tendencies of the intellectual fad of ‘Accelerationism’ and reveals the poverty of their visions of a better future …
The Conquest of Ballots
Ben Grove lays out a vision of socialist electoral strategy. In January 2018, the Democratic Socialists of America adopted an ambitious new electoral strategy. It …
Why Have a Political Program?
Parker McQueeney lays out the case for building a party around a minimum-maximum program. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Every party pursues definite aims, whether it be a …
Where Does Power Come From?
What is power and how do we build it? Amelia Davenport argues that power must be built through the organization of mass communist institutions independent of the …
Call for Submissions
Here at Cosmonaut, we aim to create a forum to debate and develop revolutionary ideas in the spirit of scientific socialism. We are interested in …