The Tortoise and The Hare: Cybernetics, Evolution and Socialism
Amelia Davenport argues for the relevance of cybernetics to the project of developing a communism that transcends the modernist project. Everyone knows the story of …
Articles
Letter from a French Prison by Antonin Bernanos
This essay, written by anti-fascist militant Antonin Bernanos while in a French prison, provides an important perspective on the relation between the state and organized …
A Critical History of Management Thought
Can capitalist management thought provide solutions to the problems of the socialist movement? Jean Allen urges doubt and skepticism in this critical review of Morgan …
Against Socialist Reactionaries: a response to Jacob Richter
Rosa Janis responds to Jacob Richter’s April 9th, 2020 letter to Cosmonaut on social conservatism and the left. Normally we do not respond to letters …
Toward the Mass Strike: Interview with Two Southern Organizers
Marisa Miale interviews Kali Akuno and Adam Ryan, labor organizers in the south, on class struggle in the era of COVID-19. Read more about Cooperation …
Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism in the Second International
Karl Marx’s own ambiguous and sometimes contradictory views on colonialism meant that the Second International would debate over the correct view on the matter. Donald …
Freedom in Death: Liberalism and the Apocalypse
Medway Baker calls for uncompromising faith in the cause of communism in the face of a capitalist civilization that is destroying humanity. Hurricanes ravage shores …
The Invisible Landscape: Tracing the Spiritualist Utopianism of Nineteenth-Century America
Edmund Berger explores the hidden history of Utopian Socialism and its close relationship with cultures of esoteric spirituality in the nineteenth-century United States. Take the …
The Practical Policy of Revolutionary Defeatism
Matthew Strupp lays out the politics of revolutionary defeatism in contrast to the approaches of third-campism and third-worldism. Reading: Cliff Connolly. In April 1964, at a …
Join the Struggle at Amazon!
Committed revolutionaries: get a job at Amazon and help us build working-class power! A global crisis is unfolding and the left must seize the moment. …
On the actuality of Spinoza by Jørgen Sandemose
Presented here is a lecture by Jørgen Sandemose on Spinoza that is also a critique of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire. Sandemose died last …
The End of the End of History: COVID-19 and 21st Century Fascism
Debs Bruno and Medway Baker lay out the conditions of the current crisis, the political potentials it opens up, and the need for a socialist …
Terrestrial Shamanism against the Exterminist Leviathan
Renato Flores argues that a grand narrative is needed to unify and mobilize the exploited and oppressed against an exterminist world order. I The permanent …
The Family is Dead, Long Live the Family
With family abolition a controversial topic in the current-day leftist discourse, Alyson Escalante argues for a more nuanced and sensitive approach to the topic by …