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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 …”
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 …”
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 …”