Letter: The False Unity of Repeater Books
In early November, we wrote an article for Cosmonaut expressing concern with the takeover of Zer0 Books by Repeater Books. Repeater, we observed, seemed to …
Month: November 2021
Zapatismo through Women’s Eyes: Democracy, Autonomy and Liberation with Hilary Klein
Rudy joins Hilary Klein, author of Compañeras: Zapatista Women Stories for a discussion on the history of the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (EZLN) from …
Letter: Regarding Debate and Expulsion, a response to Hadas Thier
“There are basic questions of democratic norms here, including the setting of a precedent of expelling members for political disagreements without due process. But there …
Boldly Going Where We’ve Already Been: An Analysis of Voyagers
Stephen Lee Naish reviews Neil Burger’s Voyagers and finds an impoverished ruling class vision of space travel where reaching for the stars means more of …
A Marxist Psychology of Language and Representation
What does a Marxist theory of human psychology look like? Kyrill Potapov sheds light on this topic by showing how the works of Soviet thinkers …
Socialist States and the Environment with Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
Rudy sits down with Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, author of Socialist States and the Environment, for a discussion on environmental history of socialist states, as well as …
Crisis and the Personal is Not Enough: The Importance of Political Education
Sudip Bhattacharya reflects on his experiences with political education, making the case that education is often as important as agitation and organization. After winning governmental …
Letter: For Democracy, Not Democrats
Yesterday, members of the Socialist Majority Caucus released an open letter opposing the movement to expel representative Jamaal Bowman from DSA. This letter is pretty …
Letter: Who Are Workers?: A Response to Jacque Erie’s Critique of Chris Maisano
Against Sectoral Chauvinism I am writing to express disappointment with Jacque Erie’s article critiquing Chris Maisano. Specifically, I am disappointed with the sectoral chauvinism expressed …
Cambodia 1975-89: From Year Zero to Capitalism
Donald, Connor, Christian and Rudy sit down for a discussion on Cambodia throughout the Democratic Kampuchea period under Pol Pot (75-79) and the People’s Republic …
Is This the Left that Jacobin Wants?: Chris Maisano’s Perilous Drift Towards Post-Marxism
A recent Jacobin piece by Chris Maisano argues that building “a Left that matters” requires focusing on Democratic Party electoral work, but we must be …
Letter: Perpetual Yawn: More from the Ex-Zer0 Set
This is republished with permission from Matt Colquhoun’s personal website xenogothic. It seems various anonymised authors from Zer0 2.0 have come out in defense of …
Year Zero, Again?: An Assessment of Zer0 Books 2.0
In light of the recent buyout of Zer0 Books by the publishing firm Repeater, discussion about the legacy of the imprint era has been circulating …
Letter: Who’s dreaming?
In the past few days, Sweet Dreams of Marxist Unity, a polemic by Dani Lotand directed at the Marxist Unity Group, has been circulating among communists …