The Zhenotdel and Women’s Emancipation in the Central Asian Republics with Anne McShane
Donald and Lydia join human rights lawyer and fellow Marxist Anne McShane to discuss her recent PhD thesis on the Zhenotdel, the women’s department of …
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Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy with Red Library
Remi and Niko join Comrade Adam from Red Library to discuss Kohei Saito’s Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy: Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism. …
Different Horizons of Science Fiction under Socialism with Virginia Conn
Rudy and Medway are joined by recently graduated Dr. Virginia Conn to discuss her research on science fiction in the USSR, the German Democratic Republic …
From Trade-Union Consciousness to Socialist Consciousness with Chris Townsend
Three of our writers are joined by veteran union organizer Chris Townsend for a podcast discussion on labor organizing across history and in the present …
Che Guevara and the Economics of Socialist Transition
Christian, Donald, and Rudy sit down for a podcast discussion on Che Guevara’s program for a socialist transition using Helen Yaffe’s book Che Guevara: The …
Capitalism in the Web of Life: A Discussion
Join us for the second installment in Cosmonaut’s critically acclaimed ecology podcast series to discuss Jason Moore’s “Capitalism in the Web of Life”. Niko, Matthew …
Unmasking Social Construction with Djamil Lakhdar
Donald and Rudy are joined by Djamil Lakhdar to discuss Ian Hacking’s book The Social Construction of What?. Written during the “science wars”, Hacking intervenes …
Protests, Guerillas and Revolution in Iran with Yassamine Mather
Donald and Lydia interview Yassamine Mather, former Fedayeen (minority) guerrilla fighter, chair of the Hands off the People of Iran coalition and editor of Critique. The …
Spontaneous Philosophy in Science and Activism
The Cosmonaut crew sits down to discuss Althusser’s Lectures on Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists. We historically situate the text and talk about Althusser’s conception of …
Prefiguration and (Cosmic) Utopia with A. M. Gittlitz
Remi and Rudy welcome A. M. Gittlitz, the author of I Want to Believe: J. Posadas, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism and producers of The Antifada …
Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature
The Cosmonaut team inaugurates the ecology series by discussing John Bellamy Foster’s seminal book Marx’s Ecology on its twentieth anniversary. Join Niko, Ian, Matthew, and …
Articulating and Organizing the Social Body with Asad Haider
Donald and Rudy welcome Asad Haider from Viewpoint Magazine to discuss the present political moment. Using Badiou’s “The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and …
To Live and Die in Kerala
Rudy, Ahmed, and Remi join Sam Agarwal, a PhD student at Johns Hopkins University in sociology, whose research on and fieldwork in Kerala provide insight …
Komsomol Life: Interrogating the Soviet Young Communist League with Sean Guillory
Donald sits down with Sean Guillory from the SRB Podcast to discuss the Komsomol, or Soviet Young Communist League, which was often one of the …