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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 …”

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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 …”

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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 …”

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Letter: A Different Model For Small Publishing

May 9, 2025

“Dear Editors,I was struck by “Publishing Poetry Today and Tomorrow: What Are You, In Love With Your Problems?” precisely because it names the entanglement of small presses in …”

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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 …”

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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 …”

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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 …”

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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 …”

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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 …”

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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 …”

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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 …”

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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 …”

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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 …”

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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 …”

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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 …”

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