Coalitions of the Liberal and Socialist Left
How should socialists engage in coalitional politics? Jack L draws conclusions based on historical lessons and recent experiences in the housing struggle. In the summer …
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State, Democracy, and Transition: Is There a “Democratic Road” to Socialism?
Maxi Nieto critiques the perspectives of the “new democratic socialism” and argues they are based on a misunderstanding of capitalism as a structural totality. Introduction …
The Value of Dune: a Communistic Perspective
Rejecting recent interpretations in the U.S. socialist press as truistic, Jackson Albert Mann makes a case for a particular communistic reading of the first novel …
Legislative Campaigns and “Policy Feedback”: an Assessment of DSA’s Orientation Towards the Fight for Reforms
With a focus on the recent organizing work of New York City Democratic Socialists of America, Comrades Isaac KD and Jack L critique the notion …
Socialism of the Oppressed: The Stakes of the Bowman Affair
Jean Allen and Marisa Miale, authors of For An Internationalist DSA, sketch out a strategy for building a left opposition committed to electoral discipline and …
Letter: Llorente v. Schaeffer
I’ve been happy to read another educational exchange from Cosmonaut, this time between Renzo Llorente and Gil Schaeffer (beginning with Llorente’s Contradictions, Schaeffer’s reply, and …
Endless Muddle: Gil Schaeffer on Democracy, Socialism and Liberal-Democratic Rights
Renzo Llorente critically responds to Gil Schaeffer’s views on democratic rights and socialism. At the end of last year, Cosmonaut published my article “The Contradictions …
Which Way Forward for the Marxist Left?
In light of the liquidation of DSA’s BDS working group, Charlie Frank argues that Marxists must continue the political fight rather than turn towards localist …
The Russian “Threat to Freedom and Democracy”
Alexander Gallus takes a closer look at the developments leading up to this week’s dramatic events and offers some explanations for how we got to …
The African Blood Brotherhood, its Relations and Legacy
Combining the insights of previous scholarship with information gathered from Bureau of Investigation (BOI, predecessor of the FBI) surveillance documents, Ian Szabo presents a new …
The Question of Worldview and Class Struggle in Philosophy: On the Relevance of Lukács’s Worldview Marxism and The Destruction of Reason
Daniel Tutt looks to the philosophy of Georg Lukács and his critique of bourgeois irrationalism to explicate the role of intellectuals and worldviews in the …
To Talk of Organization – on Nunes’ Neither Vertical nor Horizontal
Alex James reviews Rodrigo Nunes’ latest book Neither Vertical nor Horizontal, finding a refreshing new vocabulary for talking about organization that raises difficult questions rather …
Democratic Rights and Socialism: The Confusions and Contradictions of Renzo Llorente
Gil Schaeffer responds to Renzo Llorente’s “The Contradictions and Confusions of ‘Democratic Socialism” and argues that socialists need to base their politics on a coherent …
Dissolving the People and Electing Another: On Base-Building and Revolutionary Culture
Drawing from the experience of the Democratic Socialists of America and Marxist Center, Marisa Miale examines the everyday, interpersonal level of party-building and argues for …