ACT UP, Fight Back: A History of AIDS in America
Charlie Frank gives an overview of the forms of social mobilization that developed as a response to the AIDS pandemic as well as what lessons …
Month: October 2021
Letter: Response to Tom Joad on DSA
Hello Cosmo comrades, I recently read Tommy Joad’s critique of Donald Parkinson’s recent article and I not only profoundly disagreed with nearly its entirety but …
Letter: In response to Donald Parkinson’s “The Fight for a Marxist Program in the DSA”
Hello Cosmonaut! I have read Donald Parkinson’s (DP hence) article mentioned above, as well as materials which the article mentioned (critique of the DSA from “Left …
The Fight for a Marxist Program in the DSA
Donald Parkinson assesses the 2021 DSA Convention and imagines a path forward beyond its current political and strategic deadlock. Reading: Cliff Connolly. In the modern Left, …
The Value of Law: The Judiciary and the State with Mike Macnair
Anton and Don join Mike Macnair for a discussion on law in history and in Marxist thought. They discuss the purpose of law, the different …
Letter: Response to Donald Parkinson
Hello Donald Parkinson! It was with great interest that I read your 2018 article at Cosmonaut “From Workers’ Party to Workers’ Republic”, https://cosmonaut.blog/2018/10/17/from-workers-party-to-workers-republic/ . I expected you …
Bismarck, Browder, Biden: Joe’s Hegemony versus Ours
Sam Miller polemicizes against the delusions of the left in the Biden administration and proclaims the necessity for a class independent approach to politics. Reading: …
Letter: Need for a Workers’ Encyclopedia
Hello “Cosmonaut”! This is in reply to “Knowledge: power and emancipation”, written in 2020 by Renato Flores. First, I’d like to pick on some phrases …
Letter: Comment on “Why Machines Don’t Create Value”
Ian Wright’s analysis of Marx’s value theory begins with Marx’s simple model of production in which there is no mismatch between value and price because …
Class Struggle and Corporatism: A Brief History of Australian Colonialism
Rudy joins Roxy Hall and Giacomo Bianchino for a discussion on the past, present and future of the Australian state. We talk about the history …
Letter: Hiding Labor Input, Not Removing It
In response to Ian Wright’s article, I think this is a very interesting article, but I think the section on the Turing test misses two …
Why Machines Don’t Create Value
Ian Wright defends Marx’s theory of surplus-value and its claim that human labor is the ultimate cause of economic profit. In the topsy-turvy world of …
Letter: Comments on Jason Moore’s interview
I would like to open this letter by enthusiastically stating how excellent and illuminating the recent interview, The World Ecology, with Jason Moore was. The …
Letter: Response to Comrade Wylie
Hi again, Comrade Wylie’s suggestions for updating the terminology are worth considering. That said, my original letter referred specifically to “the workers movement” and not …