Cliff Connolly

One of many contributors writing for Cosmonaut Magazine.

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Harbinger of Collapse: No Country for Old Men, Twenty Years Older

Cliff Connolly, March 25, 2026

Cliff Connolly reflects on the events of 2005-2025 for No Country for Old Men’s twentieth anniversary, focusing on its predictive power for the decline of the US empire. Read Article.

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New Life for the Old Lenin

Cliff Connolly, February 14, 2024

Cosmonaut Magazine prints Cliff Connolly's remarks from two panels in 2023 on Lenin's political legacy. Read Article.

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Read Le Blanc. Be careful.

Cliff Connolly, August 30, 2023

Cliff Connolly reviews Paul LeBlanc's latest work 'Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution', available from Pluto Press on September 20th. Cliff will be speaking on a panel regarding this book at the upcoming Socialism 2023 Conference titled 'Lenin: Catastrophe and Revolution.' Read Article.

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Create a Mass Party!

Cliff Connolly, February 25, 2021

Cliff Connolly critiques CounterPower’s vision of the “party of autonomy” and offers an alternative vision of the mass party. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Read Article.

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Lenin and Art by Lunacharsky

Cliff Connolly, January 21, 2021

In honor of Lenin on the anniversary of his death, we publish this short essay by Lunacharsky on Lenin's views regarding art. This text was originally published in “Khudozhnik i Zritel” (Artist and Audience), issues 2-3, March-April 1924, and has been translated by Reuben Woolley. Introduction by Cliff Connolly. The original source of the translation can be found here. Read Article.