The Dead End and How We Got Here
Has base-building as a strategy failed? Tim Horras argues in the negative, taking on critiques of base-building from D.L. Jacobs. “Given this general prosperity, wherein …
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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 …
Anti-Postone: Introduction
In this, the introduction to Cosmonaut Press’s Anti-Postone by Michael Sommer, Mike Macnair critiques the historical accuracy of Postone’s work and situates it in its …
The Aban Human, Part 1: A Marginalized Worker
Kaveh Dadkhah and Rob Ashlar introduce Dadkhah’s translation of Farangis Bakhtiari’s analysis of the 2019 Uprising of Aban. Preface Despite frequent discussion, Iran remains a blank …
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 …
Anti-Postone: Translator’s Preface
In this, the preface to Cosmonaut Press’s Anti-Postone by Michael Sommer, translator Maciej Zurowski explains the importance of Sommer’s text to the contemporary left. While …
Not Even the Dead Can Rest While the Living Remain Oppressed: Against Jamaal Bowman and His Apologists
Myra Glass argues that the debate over Jamaal Bowman in the DSA represents a broader fight between those who wish for the organization to take …
Is This Sweat, or Am I Crying?: A Worker’s History of Farm and Food in the United States
Taylor Thornburg traces the history of capitalist agriculture from its origin in English feudalism, through the development of ‘New World’ slavery and Southern sharecropping, to …
Venezuelan Communes and Dual Power
Nikolaos Dalton, responding to a recent Cosmopod episode, takes issue with the claim that Communes in Venezuela represent a form of dual power as understood …
Why Bordiga Got Democracy Wrong
Daniel Melo takes issue with Amadeo Bordiga’s rejection of democracy. The Italian Communist theorist Amadeo Bordiga’s seminal essay titled The Democratic Principle is one of …
Hunger Regime
Why does capitalism produce hunger despite the overproduction of goods? Nathan Eisenberg delves into the contours of the global food system, its political economy, and …