Latest letters
Letter: How to Avoid Another AOC Situationship
August 28, 2025
“Zohran’s victory in the Democratic Party’s NYC mayoral primary has launched him into the stratosphere and made him the DSA’s new socialist superstar. Socialism is (again) said to …”
Letter: Response to Villarreal on AI
August 26, 2025
“In May, Cosmonaut published a review of our book, Why We Fear AI. Admittedly, the review (by Nico. D Villarreal) left us somewhat confused. On the one hand, …”
Letter: Capitalist Corruption and Imperialist Servitude in the US Senate
August 7, 2025
“In the decaying heart of US imperialism, where bourgeois politicians masquerade as public servants while lining their pockets with the blood money of corporations and foreign lobbies, few …”
Letter: Unequal Exchange (of Fire)
July 31, 2025
“Much discussion has followed the recent disgraceful attempt by AOC to excuse her refusal to sign on, with her colleagues Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, to a defense …”
Letter: A Disappointing Month—Mamdani After the Primary
July 30, 2025
“On July 15th, Zohran Mamdani met with leading financiers and executives at a closed-door forum organized by the Partnership for New York City (PNYC)—a business group that represents …”
Letter: Introducing Springs of Revolution
July 29, 2025
“On April 28, a group of DSA members submitted a platform for the 2025 DSA National Convention: Springs of Revolution. In less than two weeks, these resolutions became …”
Letter: On Right Wing Black Politics
July 14, 2025
“The Democrats have almost replicated philosemitism with Black people and use a caricatured image of them to push very right wing politics. The mass base of this is …”
Letter: Enough With Superficial Critiques of Socialist Electoralism Copy-Pasted From 2016
July 8, 2025
“Since Zohran Mamdani’s electrifying victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, there have been a couple dozen pieces written which advance a generic critique of socialist …”
Letter: Socialist Rhetoric, Capitalist Reality—Why Mamdani’s Victory Won’t Transform the System
July 3, 2025
“The June 2025 Democratic primary in New York shocked many on the US Left. Zohran Mamdani, a self-proclaimed socialist and member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), …”
Letter: The Mirror Talks Back—A Reply to Gary Levi
June 10, 2025
“In my recent article “Computers Are Technically Work,” I critique Gary Levi’s call for craft values as a path out of the current technology boom-and-bust cycle. The US …”
Letter: Materialism is Essential for Socialist Politics—Reflections on Instrumental Rationality
June 5, 2025
“Where a passion is neither founded on false suppositions, nor chuses means insufficient for the end, the understanding can neither justify nor condemn it. ’Tis not contrary to …”
Letter: Democratic Party Dependency and the Mamdani Mayoral Campaign
June 3, 2025
“When the news broke on May 21, 2025 that Elias Rodriguez had shot and killed Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, two Israeli embassy aides, in Washington DC, it …”
Letter: Material, not Moral Analysis of Production
May 20, 2025
“Sam Dee opens his article “Computers Are Technically Work”[5aa7af] with the provocative question: “What stops the tech industry from organizing?” Unfortunately, he provides no answers. Rather, he engages …”
Letter: For a Resilient Socialist Print Distribution System
May 17, 2025
“After reading the discussion in response to Oleander Sārameyas the Younger’s essay on the failure of nonprofit book publishing, I found myself torn between Nicolas D Villarreal’s sober …”
Letter: Against a New Model for Small Publishing
May 11, 2025
“With regards to recent discussion about small presses and the recent failure of the non-profit model upon which many boutique presses relied, I feel that much of this …”