Latest letters
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 …”
Letter: Doing Bezos’ Bidding for Free
January 18, 2025
“Cosmonaut recently published a letter “Did Amazon Workers Even Go On Strike?” by book author Jennifer Albert Mann. Though Mann says she is simply posing the question, her …”
Letter: Did Amazon Even Go On Strike?
January 16, 2025
“At some point before the holidays, it was announced that Amazon was going out on strike. To say I was excited would be an understatement. It was the …”
Letter: Towards an Independent Workers Slate
January 13, 2025
“The socialist movement has reached a crossroads in the United States–the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), doubly so. With the Democratic Party enormously discrediting itself amongst the working …”
Letter: Disavowal Plaguing the Liberal Left
December 9, 2024
“It will be expected when the Democratic establishment retroactively blames an array of forces as the culprits for Kamala Harris defeat and the subsequent harmful measures Trump’s administration …”
Letter: Is The Working Class Right?
December 3, 2024
“The 2024 US election has shocked many around the world with Donald Trump’s landslide victory. But his return should not be considered as a US phenomenon. In recent …”
Letter: From Minority-to-Majority
November 22, 2024
“I very much enjoyed the piece on the abolitionist “dirty break,” a fine piece on what I term “from minority-to-majority” movements. If there ever was total political victory, …”
Letter: Harm Reduction Votes in Presidential Elections No Longer Make Sense in Practice or Theory
November 5, 2024
“The concept of “harm reduction” has been subjected to a curious form of concept drift over the past few US presidential election cycles. Although “harm reduction” originated in …”
Letter: The Crisis of Democracy and the 2024 Election
October 28, 2024
“The one safe prediction we can make about the upcoming presidential election is that it can only result in a further intensification of the crisis of US democracy. …”
Letter: On the Abolition of the Death Penalty
October 2, 2024
“An innocent man was murdered by the United States. May Khaliifah Ibn Rayford Daniels ’Abdul Qudduus, formerly Marcellus Williams, rest in power. The death penalty has no place …”