Letter: Comments on “Addiction is not a Crime”
Dear Cosmonaut Editors, I’m an anti-prohibition activist and I just finished, “Addiction is not a crime.” There were many things I liked about it, but …
Month: July 2021
The Introduction of Cybernetics in the GDR by Jérôme Segal
Translation and introduction by Alexander Gallus. The reputation and legacy of cybernetics throughout the history of so-called AES/state socialist countries was fraught with controversy. The …
Democratic Representation, Not Bureaucratic Manipulation: Why DSA Needs Single Transferable Voting
Moira Madden and Adam I. Ascione D’Elia make the case for standardizing Single Transferable Voting in DSA to ensure proportional representation and prevent opportunistic manipulations …
Letter: On Constitutionalism
In recent months, Cosmonaut has published several articles on the centrality of the fight for a new Constitution. These articles have seen their fair share …
Californian Dreams: Tech Utopia or Dystopia
Donald has a chat with Richard Barbrook, author with Andy Cameron of The Californian Ideology and the book Imaginary Futures. The two discuss Silicon Valley …
The Founding of the Chinese Communist Party with Matt Rothwell
Matt and Rudy join Matt Rothwell from the People’s History of Ideas podcast for a discussion on the founding of the Chinese Communist Party on its 100th …
The Past is Here: Seeking Perspective by Comparing the Reagan Era to Our Own
Sudip Bhattacharya looks to the Reagan era to understand the rise of the current US right, drawing from interviews with various US historians. Despite the …
Letter: Caution about Crisis Theory
I greatly enjoyed Ted Reese’s article on Henryk Grossman, a Marxist thinker who I also believe deserves more attention today. I’m very much open to …
Vietnam: From National Liberation to Liberalization
Rudy, Connor and Donald sit down to talk about Vietnamese political economy and the Vietnamese Communist Party with a particular focus on the period of …
The Importance of Henryk Grossman
Ted Reese, author of the upcoming The End of Capitalism: The Thought of Henryk Grossman (Zero Books), argues for the continued relevance of Henryk Grossman’s …
How Capitalism Produces Pandemics with Rob Wallace
Djamil and Rudy join Rob Wallace, author of Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science, and Dead Epidemiologists: …
Tribunes of the People
Ben Grove defends the ‘Tribunes of the People’ resolution promoted by the Marxist Unity Slate for the upcoming 2021 DSA convention, arguing that the Socialist …
From Cochabamba to a People’s Green New Deal with Max Ajl
Rudy joins Max Ajl, author of A People’s Green New Deal (Pluto Press, 2021), for a broad discussion on the themes of his book and …
Addiction Is Not a Crime
Beyond failing at preventing the ills of addiction, the War of Drugs has served as a war on those dispossessed by capitalism. Billy Anania argues …