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 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 …”
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 …”
