We sit down to discuss Lars Lih's new book What was Bolshevism?
Reviewing Stuart Schrader's Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, Julian Assele finds a forceful case for why police abolition is not a utopian moral demand but a political necessity emergent from decades of class struggle.
Reviewing Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Julian Assele foregrounds class antagonism and re-situates Muskism as a class strategy to re-discipline globally mobile and fragmented labor, whose efforts only further intensify the imperial and capitalist crisis.
June 27, 2026
“The central thesis of Ray F.’s letter “In Defense of Conspiracy Theory” offers both a compelling argument for why communists should seriously investigate and engage with popular conspiracy …”
June 23, 2026
“I recently happened to read a piece from March, Arjunveer Singh’s Beyond Revolutionary Romanticism: The Case for Strategic Socialist Transition, which I found rather disappointing. Singh lays out …”
June 19, 2026
“I was pleased to see a very well-written letter recently published by Cosmonaut critiquing my previous remarks on degrowth. I do believe it displayed a perfect understanding of …”
