Letters: Bordiga and the Bathwater
Daniel Melo’s recent article in Cosmonaut is rife with mentions of democracy but very few well-resolved statements of what they really mean by the term. …
Letters
Letter: Lysenko and Epigenetics
This is a response to the letter: Letter: Lysenko is an Inaccurate Sound Bite – Cosmonaut (cosmonautmag.com) As a student of Marxism and a Master …
Letter: Lysenko is an Inaccurate Sound Bite
Hi there, recent developments in epigenetics encourage a rethinking of Lysenko, for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5602018/ I suggest that “Lysenko” has become to easy a soundbit to …
Letter: Letting The Dead Be Buried
I have been reading the “debates” between the Zero Degree Collective and Matt Colquhoun. I do not know the identity of the Zero Degree Collective, …
Letter: The False Unity of Repeater Books
In early November, we wrote an article for Cosmonaut expressing concern with the takeover of Zer0 Books by Repeater Books. Repeater, we observed, seemed to …
Letter: Regarding Debate and Expulsion, a response to Hadas Thier
“There are basic questions of democratic norms here, including the setting of a precedent of expelling members for political disagreements without due process. But there …
Letter: For Democracy, Not Democrats
Yesterday, members of the Socialist Majority Caucus released an open letter opposing the movement to expel representative Jamaal Bowman from DSA. This letter is pretty …
Letter: Who Are Workers?: A Response to Jacque Erie’s Critique of Chris Maisano
Against Sectoral Chauvinism I am writing to express disappointment with Jacque Erie’s article critiquing Chris Maisano. Specifically, I am disappointed with the sectoral chauvinism expressed …
Letter: Perpetual Yawn: More from the Ex-Zer0 Set
This is republished with permission from Matt Colquhoun’s personal website xenogothic. It seems various anonymised authors from Zer0 2.0 have come out in defense of …
Letter: Who’s dreaming?
In the past few days, Sweet Dreams of Marxist Unity, a polemic by Dani Lotand directed at the Marxist Unity Group, has been circulating among communists …
Letter: Ian Wright Responds on Machines and Value
My thanks to Rudy and Gil Schaeffer for taking the time to respond to my article, “Why machines don’t create value”. I’ll keep my responses …
Letter: What is stopping the DSA?
The recent article by Donald Parkinson was one of the best reviews of the DSA Convention of 2021. As could be expected, it has generated …
Letter: In Response to Annie S.
First, I would like to thank her for pointing to me that episode in political history when Bebel and Liebknecht opposed the Prussian war effort. That is the …
Letter: Response to Tom Joad on DSA
Hello Cosmo comrades, I recently read Tommy Joad’s critique of Donald Parkinson’s recent article and I not only profoundly disagreed with nearly its entirety but …