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What is at Stake in the Western Marxism Debate?

Reviewing the fallout over Gabriel Rockhill's critiques of Western Marxism, Donald Parkinson argues the controversy is ultimately a battle over what kind of intellectual culture the left needs.

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Abolish Blue Power

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.

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We rejoin Charlie and Bryce for a recap on what has transpired since the Your Party founding conference

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Capital’s Musk: A Review of Slobodian and Tarnoff’s “Muskism”

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.

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The Catechism for American Power

Abel Bisrat finds more religious thinking than reasonable argumentation in Shadi Hamid's The Case for American Power.

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Letter: Winner Takes All

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 …”

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Letter: The Blockade Is Real. The Question of Power Remains.

June 17, 2026

“Albert Gil has written the rare defense of Cuba that argues rather than asserts, and his letter deserves a reply in kind. He is right about the thing …”

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Letter: Stakes of the Twenty-First Century

June 15, 2026

“Nicholas Villareal’s comments on the economics of degrowth are a valuable contribution to the discourse on eco-socialism. None of his major points—that labor cost is separate from material …”

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