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 …
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Setting the Record Straight: On the Trotskyist-led 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters Strike, the Teamsters Bureaucracy & its Aftermath
Trotskyist Teamsters took a leading role in a historic labor upsurge and clashed with a corrupt leadership under Dan Tobin. Twenty-four-year Teamster Edgar Esquivel tells …
When We Fight, We Win!: For an Agitational Socialist Electoral Strategy
Jack L draws on recent campaigns in New York City to make the case for an agitational electoral strategy. NYC-DSA currently finds itself engaged in …
Outlines for a Marxist Virtue Ethics, or Why Capitalism is Unjust
Drawing on the work of moral and political philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, ΔΜ sketches an outline for a possible marxist theory of ethics. ‘He wants more …
Smashing the White Picket Fence: Why the Left Rejects Homeownership
Harry Zehner urges the left to challenge the ideology of homeownership. “We want a nation of homeowners, not proletarians.” A few years ago, I stumbled …
The Machiavellian State, Fascism, and the Tribune of the Proletariat
Sam Thomas argues that Machiavelli can help us understand the bourgeois nature of fascism, and how anti-fascism must empower the proletariat. Reading: Sam Thomas. Why …
Critical Realism and the Return of Marxist Materialism
David M. Kutzik and Douglas V. Porpora explore the similarities and differences between two connected but separate schools of thought: Critical Realism and Marxism. For …
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 …
Surge and Decline, Part 1: World Domination
Josh Messite, Editor at Negation Magazine, begins his five-part series on US imperialists’ unsuccessful attempts to subjugate Afghanistan and secure their unrivaled position atop the …
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 …
Letter: 10-Point Constitution
10-Point Constitution, Unitary People’s Republic, (Centralized Democratic Republic), People’s Governing Body, People’s Courts (My Political System) Written by Bābur Timurid In short: 10PC-UPR-(CDR)-PGB-PC-(MPS) Context and …
Manifesto for Post-Pandemic Politics
Manifesto for Post-Pandemic Politics was first published by &&&, the journal for the New Centre for Research & Practice, on November 11, 2021. It is re-published here, with …