Marxist Clarity in Times of Confusion and Despair
Donald Parkinson, the editor-in-chief of Cosmonaut, gives a short historical overview of Cosmonaut and Marxist Unity Group and introduces crucial member-written articles to help clarify …
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Shades of Collective Power
Sam DiBella covers the recent controversy over the election of convention delegates in Metro DC DSA and assesses the role played by the remains of …
What Contradictions Cannot Be
Dimitris Moustakas uses formal logic to confront Zeno’s paradoxes in a deconstruction of Marxian “dialectical logic.” Richard Artschweger, Zeno’s Paradox, 2004 Within Marxist circles, among …
The UPS Struggle and the Tasks of Marxists in the Labor Movement
Teamsters Mobilize members and former activists in Revolutionary Marxist Students Audrey Johnson and Lenni Myers assess the current UPS tentative agreement and outline a Marxist strategy …
Why the U.S. Left Must Oppose NATO
Sudip Bhattacharya argues that for socialists in the United States, the main enemy is at home. Amilcar Cabral, the late revolutionary hero for the independence …
Towards a New Communism
Referencing Marx, Hegel, and Zizek, William P. Aguilar elaborates a negatory theory of communism as the de-commodification of everything. Xu Yong, Negative 31 (1989) ABSTRACT …
In Defense of Bolshevism: Hal Draper and the Spectre of the Socialist Petty Bourgeoisie
Henry De Groot argues that the ideas of Hal Draper, influential throughout the US left, are an obstacle to socialist labor strategy. DSA members have …
How (Not) to Economically Plan in the Age of Climate Crisis
In his critical review of ‘Economic Planning in the Age of Climate Crisis,’ Renato Flores is left with more questions than satisfying answers from Cockshott …
The Part-Time Fight for $25 at UPS and the Betrayal of TDU
With UPS and the Teamsters at the negotiating table, Edgar Esquivel takes issue with those in the US Left who have tailed the leadership of …
In Defense of Unequal Exchange: Critique of Paul Cockshott’s First Worldist Ignorance
Rob Ashlar offers a rebuttal to Paul Cockshott’s attack on the theory of unequal exchange. Wherever wages are high, universally throughout the whole world, it …
An Activists’ Guide to the Foreign Agents Registration Act
Steven De Castro raises the alarm about the weaponization of the Foreign Agents Registration Act against the left and provides advice on how to best …
Anti-Democratic All the Way Down: The Constitution, The Court, The University
Elia Newsom makes the case for socialist intervention in higher education. As the Supreme Court’s term comes to a close, the results of landmark cases …
Dueling Slogans
Henry De Groot argues against the “ultra-political” tendency that forefronts agitation for the democratic republic. On Absurdity I am grateful to Luke Pickrell’s engagement (“The …
Red Pride
Glen Hardie reflects on the way in which the work of communist activist and Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) co-founder Mark Ashton is …