Letter: What Determines Wages?
In his recent article, Rob Ashlar draws on the work of Arghiri Emmanuel to rightly critique theories that attempt to justify wage differentials based on …
Letters
Letter: On CPUSA and “Socialism with American Characteristics”
As a CPUSA member, I appreciated the article “Socialism with American Characteristics.” The CPUSA program is worthy of critique. It is frustrating and unwieldy. It’s …
Letter: How the Working Class Finds Universality
Doug Lain, in his recent response to our ongoing discussion on the correct Marxist relationship to the existing bourgeois state and civil society, has doubled …
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 …
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 …