Latest letters
Letter: “Socialist Unity?” A Principled Provocation—An Open Letter to Tom O'Brien
October 2, 2025
“Dear Tom,I’ve returned frequently to your talk “Unifying Marxism & Cybernetics,”[9de659] which you presented earlier this year at the Complex Anarchism Symposium in Brussels.The talk is a critique …”
Letter: Sufficiency, Not Efficiency—The Problem with 'Abundance'
September 29, 2025
“I found much to agree with in Marco Rosaire Rossi’s account of the liberal ‘Abundance’ movement, meaning that my present response will more resemble an improvisational “Yes, And…” …”
Letter: Political Violence is Still Politics
September 25, 2025
“Luigi Mangione. Rodney Hinton Jr. Elias Rodriguez. Tyler Robinson.A health insurance CEO. A cop. A German IDF volunteer and Israeli diplomat. A violent far-right ideologue.The last few years …”
Letter: The Shot that Serves the Masters—How the Charlie Kirk Assassination Plays into Trump’s Hands
September 15, 2025
“On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was gunned down while speaking at Utah Valley University. A single bullet struck him in the neck, in front of thousands. The …”
Letter: The Importance of the Revolutionary Program
September 2, 2025
“Without a revolutionary program, there can be no revolutionary party. The program is the living document that directs all the activity of the party. It is the brain …”
Letter: How to Avoid Another AOC Situationship
August 28, 2025
“Zohran’s victory in the Democratic Party’s NYC mayoral primary has launched him into the stratosphere and made him the DSA’s new socialist superstar. Socialism is (again) said to …”
Letter: Response to Villarreal on AI
August 26, 2025
“In May, Cosmonaut published a review of our book, Why We Fear AI. Admittedly, the review (by Nico. D Villarreal) left us somewhat confused. On the one hand, …”
Letter: Capitalist Corruption and Imperialist Servitude in the US Senate
August 7, 2025
“In the decaying heart of US imperialism, where bourgeois politicians masquerade as public servants while lining their pockets with the blood money of corporations and foreign lobbies, few …”
Letter: Unequal Exchange (of Fire)
July 31, 2025
“Much discussion has followed the recent disgraceful attempt by AOC to excuse her refusal to sign on, with her colleagues Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, to a defense …”
Letter: A Disappointing Month—Mamdani After the Primary
July 30, 2025
“On July 15th, Zohran Mamdani met with leading financiers and executives at a closed-door forum organized by the Partnership for New York City (PNYC)—a business group that represents …”
Letter: Introducing Springs of Revolution
July 29, 2025
“On April 28, a group of DSA members submitted a platform for the 2025 DSA National Convention: Springs of Revolution. In less than two weeks, these resolutions became …”
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 …”