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Letter: Chronicle of Genocide Foretold
April 22, 2025
“It’s no mystery who killed Santiago Nasar nor the motives behind the tragic murder. Instead, the narrator of Gabriel García Márquez’s 1981 novella Chronicle of a Death Foretold …”
Letter: DSA Doesn’t Need Empty Rhetoric
April 11, 2025
“Genevieve R of SMC has recently put out a regrettably lazy essay on the topic of political independence.[f77be5] I say lazy not because it is deprived of rhetorical …”
Letter: The Bell Tolls For Thee
April 10, 2025
“It is common to discuss fascism as if it were a set of policies or political characteristics, or a case of ‘the chicken coming home to roost.’ This …”
Letter: On Bolshevism, Old and New
March 25, 2025
“I am grateful for Steve Bloom's contribution to the debate around the character and developments within the Bolshevik Party early after the February Revolution and upon Lenin's return …”
Letter: The Ben Franklin Fellowship–A New USAID?
March 24, 2025
“One of the headlines of the first months of the Trump presidency was the dissolution of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the reduction of funding …”
Letter: What Do Geese Know?
March 7, 2025
“In my recent critique of Geese Magazine, I noted that Gandakin and Scottie O. were making many of the ideological errors that Althusser rails against while also citing …”
Letter: Mask No Difficulties–Reflections On The Defeat at RDU1
March 6, 2025
“"Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories."-Amilcar CabralSocialists have …”
Letter: A Labor Party Need Not Be a Bourgeois Liberal Party
February 28, 2025
“Edith Fischer’s February 10 letter “‘Labor Party’ is a Centrist Fudge” argues that a labor party “rooted in the leadership and structures of the trade unions” is necessarily …”
Letter: Trump Uses Religion to Defeat Those Who Oppose Him
February 20, 2025
“In recent years, the political landscape in the U.S. has seen a marked shift toward religious extremism, particularly among right-wing factions. This shift is exemplified by Trump's rhetoric …”
Letter: “Labor Party” is a Centrist Fudge
February 10, 2025
“In a December article published in the Freedom Socialist, Jed Holtz argues that the crucial task for socialists in the United States is to demand the formation of …”
Letter: Notes on Citizenship
February 1, 2025
“Citizenship is in the air. It makes a lot of sense that readers of Cosmonaut would embrace this. A cursory investigation will find citizenship to be at the …”
Letter: Response to MDC DSA Steering
January 26, 2025
“I read this “Kangaroo Court” article and while I agree with it, I would like to highlight some claims that can be misconstrued. Considering that the average person …”
Letter: White Republicanism, a Reply to Luke Pickrell
January 24, 2025
“I am not alone in finding Luke Pickrell’s insistence on democratic republicanism and constitutional critique repetitive, un-insightful, and racially ignorant. Blindspots that were present in Luke’s earlier work …”
Letter: Never Question the Union
January 23, 2025
“I read the interplay between comrades Pollock and Mann’s letters on the Amazon Christmas strike with interest and disappointment. That disappointment is, however, unsurprising. From experience, I have …”
Letter: “Doing Bezos’ Bidding for Free”? A Reply to Ira Pollock
January 21, 2025
“When I read Ira Pollock’s vitriolic letter to Cosmonaut attacking Jennifer Albert Mann’s letter “Did Amazon Even Go On Strike?”—where I was also thrown into the mix, I …”