Letter: Footnote to Miale on Base, Party and Power
In just a few days, Marisa Miale’s most recent article in Cosmonaut has created some waves on the communist Left. Its examination of the culture …
Letters
Letter: Strengths and Weaknesses of DSA
To the editors of Cosmonaut, I recently read the essay “Dissolving the people and electing Another” and decided I could contribute my own thoughts on …
Letter: Socialism and the Democratic Party, divided forever in 2022
The first year of the Joe Biden presidency has proved his invulnerability to the American Left. As the Socialist Call correctly notes in the headline …
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. …
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 …