Latest letters
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 …”
Letter: Lenin's Sincerity
September 2, 2026
“I’m very grateful for Anthony Teso’s response to my article, and I honestly think it’s a highly useful addendum to my historiographical sketch. Teso raises an important and …”
Letter: "Who Paid The Piper...", "Black Marxism", and What Kind of Marxism Do We Want?
August 31, 2026
“Donald Parkinson and Gary Levi have opened and closed the summer season with columns that talk about the opposite side of the same coin.My question on the Nimtz/Robinson …”
Letter: The Context and its Alibi
August 27, 2026
“Kevin Naughton has accurately portrayed much of what he seeks to demonstrate in his essay, and the essay is worthwhile reading simply due to the genealogical aspects. Naughton …”
Letter: Populism and political principle
August 25, 2026
“Another day, another Geese article driving discussion. I agree with their article “AOC and Zohran are wrong about “Woke 1” on two key counts:We must be full-fledged in …”
Letter: Anticipation of Criticism
August 22, 2026
“In my last piece, I formulated and criticized Geese’s peculiar form of idealism, which I dubbed “pragmatic idealism,” i.e., idealism about practice, the belief that everything is human …”
Letter: Clarifications on Peirce
August 16, 2026
“I recently read your article criticizing Geese Magazine, and while I am grateful that someone has finally decided to criticize them for their (as you say) "pragmatist idealism," …”
Letter: The American Communist Party isn't Communist
August 12, 2026
“Democratic Socialism has grown rapidly as an ideology over the last decade, yet Communist-labeled politics in the United States fall out of the current framing of the Overton …”
Letter: Why is it so hard for DSA to endorse independent socialists?
August 6, 2026
“On August 4th, Kshama Sawant lost in the primary elections for Washington's 9th Congressional District, placing third behind incumbent Democrat Adam Smith and Republican Doug Basler. The chance …”