Latest letters
Letter: From "Vibe Coding" to "Auf Einmal"
November 5, 2026
“Nicolas D. Villarreal’s "Marxism in the Age of AI" rightly brings our attention back to Marx’s 1857–1858 Grundrisse ("Fragment on Machines"), where fixed capital absorbs the "general intellect" …”
Letter: When "Social Relation" Loses its Meaning
November 3, 2026
“Peter Ross has responded to my critique of his value theory work, and he has largely doubled down on his original points. He insists that it is only …”
Letter: Mystifying Marx in the Age of AI
October 29, 2026
“As capital pours billions into artificial intelligence to displace human labor, the relevance of Marx’s value theory has never been greater. Marx demonstrated that surplus value derives exclusively …”
Letter: Against PMC Denialism
October 27, 2026
“I would like to thank Cosmonaut Magazine for publishing two recent articles that have better than anyone else exposed the bankruptcy of the modern US left and its …”
Letter: Uncertainty Isn’t Good Enough
October 23, 2026
“Thanks to Anthony P. Teso for responding to my recent letter. As I wrote, the strategic demand for democracy was crucial to classical Marxism and has been overlooked …”
Letter: Chaotic Paris
October 21, 2026
“Over the past few days, Paris has witnessed what the establishment calls "riots." They, along with the right wing, have blamed everything on "that group of populists and …”
Letter: Lost at Sea - MUG and Compromise
October 19, 2026
“In May, Sid C.W., a member of Marxist Unity Group (MUG) and DSA’s NPC, wrote an article, Sailing Into the Storm, on how DSA should handle Mamdani and …”
Letter: On Jon Hochschartner's Holy Crusade
October 17, 2026
“There is a certain type of programming that comes with living in the imperial core, where one is bound to find profound dissatisfaction with the existing economic and …”
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, …”