The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village with Dongping Han
Matt and Rudy join Dongping Han, author of The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village for a discussion on his experiences …
Month: January 2022
Letter: Footnote to Miale on Base, Party and Power
In just a few days, Marisa Miale’s most recent article in Cosmonaut has created some waves on the communist Left. Its examination of the culture …
The Aban Human, Part 1: A Marginalized Worker
Kaveh Dadkhah and Rob Ashlar introduce Dadkhah’s translation of Farangis Bakhtiari’s analysis of the 2019 Uprising of Aban. Preface Despite frequent discussion, Iran remains a blank …
Letter: Strengths and Weaknesses of DSA
To the editors of Cosmonaut, I recently read the essay “Dissolving the people and electing Another” and decided I could contribute my own thoughts on …
Dissolving the People and Electing Another: On Base-Building and Revolutionary Culture
Drawing from the experience of the Democratic Socialists of America and Marxist Center, Marisa Miale examines the everyday, interpersonal level of party-building and argues for …
The Colony Hates its Own Black People: Australian Indigenous Struggles with Boe & Kieran
Rudy and Giacomo Bianchino join Boe Spearim, host of Frontier Wars and Kieran from the Australian Communist Party and the NSW Aboriginal Land Council association …
Anti-Postone: Translator’s Preface
In this, the preface to Cosmonaut Press’s Anti-Postone by Michael Sommer, translator Maciej Zurowski explains the importance of Sommer’s text to the contemporary left. While …
Not Even the Dead Can Rest While the Living Remain Oppressed: Against Jamaal Bowman and His Apologists
Myra Glass argues that the debate over Jamaal Bowman in the DSA represents a broader fight between those who wish for the organization to take …
Letter: Socialism and the Democratic Party, divided forever in 2022
The first year of the Joe Biden presidency has proved his invulnerability to the American Left. As the Socialist Call correctly notes in the headline …
End of an Era: 30 Years After the Soviet Collapse
Connor, Christian and Donald sit down to discuss the collapse of the Soviet Union. They begin by situating the economic and political problems of the …
Is This Sweat, or Am I Crying?: A Worker’s History of Farm and Food in the United States
Taylor Thornburg traces the history of capitalist agriculture from its origin in English feudalism, through the development of ‘New World’ slavery and Southern sharecropping, to …
Venezuelan Communes and Dual Power
Nikolaos Dalton, responding to a recent Cosmopod episode, takes issue with the claim that Communes in Venezuela represent a form of dual power as understood …
Letters: Bordiga and the Bathwater
Daniel Melo’s recent article in Cosmonaut is rife with mentions of democracy but very few well-resolved statements of what they really mean by the term. …
Why Bordiga Got Democracy Wrong
Daniel Melo takes issue with Amadeo Bordiga’s rejection of democracy. The Italian Communist theorist Amadeo Bordiga’s seminal essay titled The Democratic Principle is one of …