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Letter: Bonaparte Restores Universal Suffrage
October 15, 2026
“In his recent letter, Luke Pickrell replies to a reader who questioned how the Marxist Unity Group would prevent a democratic republic from leading to reactionary results. I …”
Letter: Hidden and Forgotten, but not yet Dead and Buried
October 13, 2026
“In a recent article, Max H. Stein declared the debate about the labor theory of value to be dead, and suggested that Marxists, if indeed there is anything …”
Letter: MUG and the Democratic Republic
October 11, 2026
“A March Cosmonaut letter takes up Marxist Unity Group’s demand for a democratic republic in the United States. The letter’s author makes several assertions. First, the United States …”
Letter: What is the Material?
October 8, 2026
“Reality is not just a division of mind and matter, reality presents itself as a laminar stack flow of complex orders that rest on simpler orders. Love rests …”
Letter: The Realism (Not) Found in Marx
October 2, 2026
“Kateb's article was sincerely argued and reached some important conclusions, and I appreciate the attempt to explain many of these technical concepts to the lay public such as …”
Letter: In Defense of Party Democracy, or a Tent Without Poles
September 30, 2026
“Democracy can be a frustrating thing. In accepting the equality of all participants in the democratic process, we must accept many with whom we have strong disagreement or …”
Letter: DSA’s Leadership is Ideologically Unrepresentative
September 28, 2026
“Something I’ve found mysterious, since joining the Democratic Socialists of America, is that the national leadership seems wildly out of step with the membership as a whole. Admittedly, …”
Letter: Science's Internal Dialectic
September 24, 2026
“"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we …”
Letter: A Nationwide DSA AI Program Working Group
September 22, 2026
“The Democratic Socialists of America currently does not have a fully fledged program on artificial intelligence. What it does have is elements of an immediate program addressing AI, …”
Letter: Back to Comintern - The Struggle for International Communist Regroupment
September 17, 2026
“We are living through a revival of socialism as a political movement. The rise of a new socialist party in the United States, for all its own limits, …”
Letter: The Problem of Unequal Exchange
September 15, 2026
“With the recent article by Pepe Gómez Merchán reopening the debates around unequal exchange in Cosmonaut, I figured now would be a good time to spit out what …”
Letter: DSA Should Support Locking Up Fascist Criminals
September 12, 2026
“One thing I’ve found strange, as a longtime observer and recent member of the Democratic Socialists of America, is the leftist group doesn’t seem to do a lot …”
Letter: Substitutionism with a Gramscian License
September 10, 2026
“The PMC debate has been running since Gabriel Winant's "Professional Managerial Chasm" in 2019 on a premise nobody bothered to check. Haywood checked it. He pulled DSA's 2021 …”
Letter: PMC, the Secret Debate in Open View
September 8, 2026
“John brings up important questions in his critique of The Professional-Managerial Class. Namely, are teachers class traitors?The Ehrenreichs’ description of the PMC attempted to make sense of what …”
Letter: Regarding the Case of Argentina
September 5, 2026
“I was happy to see some serious engagement with my political economy research by The Inner Moon in a recent article for Cosmonaut. However, I did want to …”