The Question of a Stagnant Marxism: Is Marxism Exegetical or Scientific?
Why is it that there exists a tendency in Marxism—itself a theory of change—that remains unchanging? Simoun Magsalin investigates. Perhaps some analogies are in order …
Month: April 2021
Letter: In Defense of Amazonians United
In response to a recent Cosmopod episode featuring Amazonians United organizers from NYC and Chicago, a listener David Thayer wrote in to criticize AU, and …
Letter: Comments on Amazonians United Podcast
In your podcast interview with the Amazonians United organizers recently I was surprised to hear some of the views expressed by one of the organizers …
Organizing Amazon: AU’s Shop Floor Alternative
Rudy joins Zama and Jonathan from Amazonians United to discuss their shop floor alternative which has organized walkouts in Chicago, and started a national fight for PTO. …
The Collective Mind
Jean Allen responds to Amelia Davenport, continuing the debate on scientific management. Introduction In comrade Davenport’s Organizing For Power, she notes a central problem with …
Strikes & Boycotts: The Two Souls of the United Farm Workers with Frank Bardacke
Roger and Rudy join Frank Bardacke, author of Trampling out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers for a …
Historicizing Climate Change and Concretizing Resilience: The Case of Loakan, Itogon
Ivan Emil A. Labayne examines the 2018 Loakan, Itogon landslide in the Philippines through the lens of John Bellamy Foster’s ecological Marx. There is a …
The Class Struggle in Contemporary China with Yueran Zhang
Parker and Matthew sit down with sociologist and labor activist Yueran Zhang to discuss workers’ struggles in contemporary China. Topics discussed include public memory of …
Announcing our Spanish site!
Cosmonaut Magazine is proud to announce our new website for Spanish translations of our articles. For now only five are available, but we hope to …
Cosmonaut Press presents ‘Historical Materialism: A Study in Sociology’ by Nikolai Bukharin
Cosmonaut Press is excited to announce the launch of a new books series: Cosmonaut Classics! Our goal is to bring out attractive, affordable editions of …
Post-Scarcity without a Fully-Automated World
Connor Harney reviews Aaron Benavav’s Automation and the Future of Work, a welcome intervention in a time where bourgeois utopian delusions about the future of …
Letter: Scientific Socialism and Liberation Theology
Dear Comrades, I have a few questions related to your scientific socialism definition. I provide my perspective, so that you might understand what universe I …
From Ruins to Ruins in East Germany
Alex, Rudy and Christian sit down to discuss the history of the German Democratic Republic from its foundation atop the ruins of WW2 to the …