Letter: Critique of Cosmonaut’s Episode on Stalin
I feel that despite good research and the heavily factual nature of the Cosmonaut podcast’s first episode on Stalin there are several omissions along with …
Month: February 2024
Letter: The Death of Aaron Bushnell
Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty airman wearing his uniform, poured gasoline on himself and set himself alight on February 25th outside of the Israeli embassy in …
Sino-Palestinian Relations: From Anti-Imperialist Solidarity to Pragmatism
Mark Reid traces the history of diplomacy between post-Revolutionary China, the Palestinian liberation movement, and Israel, arguing that the PRC’s current status-quo position on the …
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Democratic Constitution Ideology
Only by studying the past through the lens of democratic republican ideology can we complete King’s unfinished business, argues Luke Pickrell, in an analysis of …
Gene Bruskin: A Life in the Labor Movement
Aliyah VanPelt and Cliff Connolly sit down with longtime organizer Gene Bruskin to get his advice and hear stories from his time in the movement, …
Letter: Responding to Steve Bloom and M. Wilbur
I appreciate Steve Bloom and M. Wilbur’s continued engagement with orthodox Marxism’s democratic republicanism and, as I’ve argued and they’ve disputed, its applicability to the …
New Life for the Old Lenin
Cosmonaut Magazine prints Cliff Connolly’s remarks from two panels in 2023 on Lenin’s political legacy. After reading and reviewing Paul Le Blanc’s excellent new book …
The Mexican Revolution
Amelia, Carlos and Rudy sit down to discuss the revolutionary period of Mexico in the decade of 1910. We talk about the Porfiriato period which …
Letter: Regarding MUG and the Democratic Republic
My thanks to Joseph P. for his intelligent reply to my article “The Struggle for a ‘Democratic Socialist Republic’ and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat,” …
Open Letter to Insurgent Notes
Dec. 30, 2023 On Feb. 5, 2017, Insurgent Notes, the only visible sign of anything resembling left communism in the United States, hosted an open …
Letter: Killing Marx on the Steps of Congress
Friends, It requires some mighty fine bait to lure a relatively quiet Marxist like myself out of my supposed ideological cave, but it seems that …
Letter: Why There Will be no Civil War in the USA
On the 24th of January, Governor Abbot of Texas issued an inflammatory statement mobilizing the National Guard to restrict migrants from entering the country, invoking …
On Capitalism and Class Rule: Moving Beyond the “PMC Debate”
Using recent debates over the role of the professional managerial class as a foil, Foppe de Haan argues that in order for the communist movement …
Letter: The Barbarism is Already Here
This letter was written in response to Seth Baker’s letter, “Barbarism is the Biggest Concern for the 2024 Elections” which you can read here. For …