Letter: Lazare and his infantile disorder
Lazare, the man who gave us such hits as “racist vigilante subway lynching is fine, actually,” asks in his December 15th letter to Cosmonaut, what did …
Month: December 2023
Letter: On Cosmonaut’s Palestine Editorial Statement
As an occasional Cosmonaut contributor (examples here and here), I feel obliged to respond to Cosmonaut‘s recent statement on Hamas’s horrendous Oct. 7 assault. The editorial is a …
On the Crisis in the International Marxist Tendency
Stephen Owens elucidates the conditions of his departure from Socialist Appeal, the British section of the International Marxist Tendency, revealing the pitfalls of building insular, …
For a Socialist Party, not a Progressive Ecosystem
Drawing from recent experiences in the Cleveland Left, Alek Nielsen argues that the DSA must make a decisive break from a progressive ecosystem model of …
The Algerian Revolution II (1965-99): Developmentalism, Marketization and War
Rob, Eric and Rudy continue their discussion of the Algerian revolution from the fall of Ben Bella to the end of the Black Decade (known …
The Long Night for DSA
Steven De Castro analyzes the Democratic Socialists of America’s response to recent events in Palestine, as well as the generational politics at work within the …
It’s Time to Face the Facts: Zionism is Inherently Anti-Semitic
Leon Lorraine insists that the decolonization of Israel is the essential demand amidst the global rise of antisemitism. 300 Jewish activists arrested at anti-war protest …
Two Myths About the Working Class
Joshua Lew McDermott asserts that two primary myths about the working class, that of the industrialized and the formalized proletariat, are misconceptual elements seriously undermining …