Beyond Denial and Abstinence: How Climate Change Can Bring Us A Better World
Colin Drumm, January 19, 2020
Colin Drumm's "Beyond Denial and Abstinence" argues that we should define economic growth in terms of meeting human needs, as opposed to the prevailing definition centered on ruling-class interests. This argument is important when responses to climate change tend to center around issues of economic growth as either positive—as something that needs to be decoupled from carbon emissions—or inherently negative—as something that needs to be reversed. While we, the Cosmonaut Editorial Board, would argue for a more drastic economic change than the policies proposed at the end of this article, we believe that its general arguments are an important jumping-off point for a debate about how we understand economic growth in the context of climate change. Read Article.
Fragment on War, National Questions and Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg
Rida Vaquas, January 15, 2020
Translation and introduction by Rida Vaquas. Original article can be found here. Read Article.
The Origin of the Split and the Reconstruction of Unity by Karl Kilbom
Tom Anderson, January 12, 2020
Introduction and translation by Tom Anderson. Original article can be found here. Read Article.
On Hasidic Jews, Anti-Semitism and Non-Profits
Lane Silberstein, January 7, 2020
In light of recent antisemitic attacks, Lane Silberstein gives perspective on political divisions and class contradictions within the Jewish community, particularly Hasidic Jews. Read Article.
Knowledge: Power and Emancipation
Renato Flores, January 3, 2020
Renato Flores discusses the privatization of scientific knowledge and examines efforts of revolutionary movements to democratize this knowledge to help develop a communist approach to science. Read Article.
Faith, Family and Folk: Against the Trad Left
Donald Parkinson, December 28, 2019
Donald Parkinson takes issue with the calls for a "socially conservative leftism" that have increased in popularity since Jeremy Corbyn's defeat in the UK election. Reading: Matthew Strupp. Read Article.
"Anti-Marxism": Professor Mises as Theorist of Fascism by Fedor Kapelush
December 21, 2019
Introduction by N.R. Read Article.
Taking Stock: Rifles and Reforms
Hank Beecher, December 17, 2019
In part one of a three-part article, Hank Beecher aims to complicate the narratives set out by the electoral left that deny the possibility of revolution. Read Article.
Power as Savior and Destroyer of the World
Cold and Dark Stars, December 10, 2019
Latest from Cold and Dark Stars. Economic laws are sold to us by those in power as natural laws beyond our own control rather than forms of class power that can be challenged and overcome. Read Article.
An Accumulation of Affect
Richard Hunsinger, December 7, 2019
Discourse related to the concept of emotional labor can highlight the way capitalism distorts our humanity or merely naturalize capitalism, argues Richard Hunsinger. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Read Article.