Letter: The Universality of The Working Class
Reading Nicolas D Villarreal’s letter responding to my attempt to break the Marxist left from its lockstep march into irrelevance and/or complicity, I am reminded …
Letters
Letter: On the Tribune of the Proletariat
Elaborating on the nature and necessity of a Socialist Republicanism is vital for our present movement. On this topic, Sam Thomas’s article “The Machiavellian State, …
Letter: Strike Ready vs Socialism
In 2021 the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), at their convention, passed “Resolution #5: Building Worker Power to Win Democratic Socialism: A Labor Strategy for …
Letter: Lain’s Pessimism
While I can sympathize with the sense of urgency contained in comrade Lain’s recent letter to Cosmonaut, I must agree with comrade Villarreal’s assessment of …
Letter: The Shallow Deep State
A recent letter from Doug Lain has attempted to criticize the left broadly for its failure to wake up to the reality of the spectacle …
Letter: UFOs, Russiagate, and the Spectacle
Socialists who wish to create an independent political movement or party must face the degree to which we are all hemmed in by the US …
Letter: The Case for a Socialist Rank-and-File Teamsters Organization
“The white collar crime syndicate known as Corporate America is hereby put on notice that the working people of America have had ENOUGH” – Teamsters …
Letter: The Goal of a Democratic Constitution Is Plan A and It’s Doing Fine
Steve Bloom asks a number of serious and important questions about the strategy of the DSA pro-party wing in his May 31 Letter to Cosmonaut. …
Letter: Response to Red Labor
Comrades Kent Kiser and Awi Blanc are correct when they charge DSA debates around the ‘party question’ with being couched in abstract and vague terms. …
Letter: Time for a Plan B?
I would like to thank Shuvu Bhattarai for the intelligent and informative article, “Unite the Pro-Party Wing to Revolutionize the DSA!” (March 3, 2023). As …
Letter: Words Won’t Slay The Hydra of Capitalism
56 citations into Luke Pickrell’s article Marxism and the Democratic Republic and I am still scratching my head. MUG has done a fantastic job of …
Letter: Gun Reform and Revolutionary Violence
I’m writing this in response to conversations happening among leftists on whether or not to support common-sense gun reform in the United States. I also …
Letter: The Dirty Break is the Truly Realistic Strategy
In “A Realistic Partyist Strategy: Electoral Strategy and Organized Labor,” Kent Kiser and Awi Blanc of Red Labor DSA call for a ‘clean break’ with …
Letter: “Lines of flight” for undeniable problems
We would like to thank comrade Luke Pickrell for considering our article relevant enough to write a response. This gives us the opportunity to contribute …