Letter: On Sortition and Democratic Decision-making
This letter is in response to Conquering Democracy, Abolishing Political Representation by the Cibcom Collective. I appreciated the comrades’ thought-provoking work and the opportunity to …
Month: April 2023
Marxism, Populism, and the Idea of the Commonwealth
CC contrasts the Narodnik and Russian Marxist views of society, arguing that the former movement developed a more dynamic theory capable of identifying the autonomy …
Cultivating the City with George Martin and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
Rudy joins Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro and George Martin, authors of Urban Food Production for Ecosocialism: Cultivating the City for a discussion on urban agriculture. We …
For an Independent Socialist Movement: An Open Letter to the Democratic Socialists in Congress
An Open Letter from the Marxist Unity Group, addressed to Congressional Democratic Socialists in the wake of the devastating failure of the rail strike, calling …
Abortion Access, a Luxury Jet, and Leaked State Secrets: Two Weeks in The Story of American “Democracy”
Luke Pickrell argues that recent political events in the U.S. reveal the necessity of the Marxist Unity Group’s ‘Winning the Battle for Democracy’ resolution for …
Trump, The Rule of Law, and The Ruling Class
Far from a straightforward defeat, Anton Johannsen argues that Donald Trump’s indictment promises an escalation of the bourgeoisie’s political meltdown in the United States.  …
Why Socialism?
Amanda Levi of the Polish organization Akcja Socjalistyczna and Jan Ĺ»elazny put forward their conception of a socialist society. If you ask the average disengaged …
H. T. Odum’s Environment, Power and Society
Amelia, RK, Harry and Rudy sit down for a discussion on systems approaches to ecology using as a basis H. T. Odum’s Environment, Power, and …
Letter: Support ‘The General Workers Assembly Priority Campaign DSA Resolution’
Click Here to Sign This Resolution. Resolution Signers will also have the option to help organize the General Assembly Authors Shuvu Bhattarai (NYC DSA), Austin …
Marxism’s Metanormative Critique of Capitalism
Jared Houston revisits debates regarding the normative standing of Marx’s critique of capitalism, advancing the thesis that Marx’s offers a metanormative critique of capital accumulation. …
Letter: On the MUG Labor Strategy
It is a very good thing that a more avowedly radical Marxist group in the DSA is turning its attention seriously towards labor work. However, …
Letter: DSA Organizing for Pandemic Justice Resolution for the 2023 DSA Convention
As close readers of Cosmonaut know, I have been paying close attention to the SARS-2 pandemic for some time, writing twice in its pages on …
Atom Bombs, National Security, and Empire: Year Seventy-Eight of the Cold War
Gil Schaeffer looks to the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam War movements as examples of how the modern left can best articulate its opposition to the …