The Christian Idea of the Messiah by Karl Kautsky
Donald Parkinson introduces a passage from Karl Kautksy’s Foundations of Christianity. Introduction It is no secret that, here at Cosmonaut, we believe that the early …
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The Contradictions and Confusions of “Democratic Socialism”
Renzo Llorente engages with contemporary advocates of Democratic Socialism and argues that they ultimately fail to demarcate between liberal and socialist visions of democracy, resulting …
Where is TDU Going? The Plot Against Teamsters Reform
Edgar Esquivel takes issue with Teamsters for a Democratic Union’s endorsement of Sean O’Brien in the latest Teamsters General Executive Board election. With the lowest …
COVID’s Hidden Cost: Why Living With the Virus is Not An Option
William Silversmith looks at and summarizes the recent scientific and medical literature regarding COVID and its long-term effects, specifically those related to brain performance. Using …
The Consequences of a Toothless Platform: What the Bowman Debate Teaches the DSA
Brandon Johnson argues that the controversy over Jamaal Bowman in the DSA can be traced to deeper structural weaknesses in the organization and a failure …
Dialectics of Dependency by Ruy Mauro Marini
Below we present Jorge M’s English translation of Ruy Mauro Marini’s Dialectics of Dependency, an important work in Latin American Marxism and overall theories of …
Boldly Going Where We’ve Already Been: An Analysis of Voyagers
Stephen Lee Naish reviews Neil Burger’s Voyagers and finds an impoverished ruling class vision of space travel where reaching for the stars means more of …
A Marxist Psychology of Language and Representation
What does a Marxist theory of human psychology look like? Kyrill Potapov sheds light on this topic by showing how the works of Soviet thinkers …
Crisis and the Personal is Not Enough: The Importance of Political Education
Sudip Bhattacharya reflects on his experiences with political education, making the case that education is often as important as agitation and organization. After winning governmental …
Is This the Left that Jacobin Wants?: Chris Maisano’s Perilous Drift Towards Post-Marxism
A recent Jacobin piece by Chris Maisano argues that building “a Left that matters” requires focusing on Democratic Party electoral work, but we must be …
Year Zero, Again?: An Assessment of Zer0 Books 2.0
In light of the recent buyout of Zer0 Books by the publishing firm Repeater, discussion about the legacy of the imprint era has been circulating …
On the Current Phase of the Class Struggle in Algeria by Robert Linhart
Translation and Introduction by Stepan Afanasyev. Introduction Robert Linhart is a French Marxist, born in 1944 in the city of Nice. He was one of …
Founding Statement of the Marxist Unity Group
Here we present the founding statement of the Marxist Unity Group: its Points of Unity and Immediate Tasks. We print this here not only because …
ACT UP, Fight Back: A History of AIDS in America
Charlie Frank gives an overview of the forms of social mobilization that developed as a response to the AIDS pandemic as well as what lessons …