Recessionary Territory: The US Jobs Market and The Looming AI Bust
Ted Reese surveys the state of the US economy and predicts a coming crash.
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Process and Totality: A Review of David McNally's 'Slavery and Capitalism'
David McNally's Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History offers a necessary corrective to the New History of Capitalism (NHC) group by embracing Marxism's revolutionary commitments, argues Julian Assele.
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Uneven and Confused Development in Left Art Criticism: A Review of Adam Turl's 'Gothic Capitalism'
Adam Turl's recent work on art, Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted From Heaven & Earth, substitutes aesthetic choices for concrete advice on cultural organizing, argues Patricia Manos.
Abundance Liberalism or Social Efficiency: A Review of 'Abundance'
Similar to the discourse of late nineteenth century progressivism, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's Abundance proposes an empty theory of progress that fails to reckon with the reality of political struggle, argues Marco Rosaire Rossi.
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Letter: The Road and the Ditch
December 20, 2025
“In the pages of Cosmonaut a discussion has been sparked by the recent book Flowers for Marx related to the scientific status of Marxism. In my original review, …”
Letter: For Asad
December 16, 2025
“It's a matter of seizing these things back and demanding more. -Asad in an email to me, April 2020.It’s hard to believe that Asad is dead. Like many …”
Letter: Grasping the Golden Bough
December 7, 2025
“Several weeks ago, I reasonably critiqued Meagan Day’s offhand dismissal of occult influences in socialist politics. In turn, a positivist Donald Parkinson rejected my idea that occultism has …”