Letter: Balances, Supercomputers, Mao, and Socialist Planning
September 17, 2022
““A plan is an ideological form. Ideology is a reflection of realities, but it also acts upon realities. Our past plans stipulated that no new industry would be …”
Letter: Clear Politics in an Ambiguous Scenario, The Conundrum of Ukraine for Socialists
September 5, 2022
“Donald Parkinson has written a strong response to a recent piece on the war in Ukraine. I concur with his emphasis on the need for clear political positions, …”
Letter: Collective Agency, Class Struggle, & Historical Development
September 3, 2022
“Cosmonaut recently published an article by a comrade Valentine Seebart, in which the comrade attempts to critique the framework of historical materialism as “a form of disenfranchised idealism.” …”
Letter: Bureaucratic Hearing Loss
August 30, 2022
“This letter was initially written to follow up on efforts by members within Triangle DSA, urging our National Political Committee (NPC) member Kevin R to vote in support …”
Letter: Surplus Value, Machines, and Profit
August 30, 2022
“Dear Cosmonaut, I'm a Hungarian historian and philosopher with a lively interest in Socialist and Marxist ideas; but I'm not a convinced Marxist. For me, Marx's theory of …”
Letter: The Bleak Midwinter
August 26, 2022
“I very much enjoyed the letter submitted by Comrade Hall the other day. It has clarified the opportunity that is presented to Revolutionary Marxists in my country in …”
Letter: Winter of Our Discontent
August 22, 2022
“The seasons are shifting, and with them, the balance of power. A scorching, record breaking European summer will soon give way to a cold winter. In the midst …”
Letter: On Operation Dixie
August 19, 2022
“Veronica Darby's article on the failure of Operation Dixie is worth a read but as an analysis of Labor history it is fundamentally flawed. I was amazed that …”
Letter: On Cross-Class Alliances
August 2, 2022
“My thanks to Jack L for an intelligent and useful contribution regarding cross-class alliances/popular fronts-united fronts. I come from a tradition (US Socialist Workers Party in the 1970s) …”
Letter: Some Words on Republicanism
July 12, 2022
“As a reader of Cosmonaut for some time now and self-avowed Marxist, albeit an admittedly eclectic one, I was engaged by a recent piece in the magazine by …”
Letter: Roots of Islamism
June 25, 2022
“I am pleased to see the awaited Part 2 of Josh Messite's series on Afghanistan. I intended to reply to Part 1 when it first hit the printers, …”
Letter: Comments to Parkinson's Reply
June 19, 2022
“Parkinson has written a reply to me - I agree with a considerable portion of the political positions that Parkinson presents and he is convincing in that regard. …”
Letter: Fighting Imperialism Needs Clear Politics Not Abstract Platitudes
June 18, 2022
“Hilgers “Specificity of Anti-Imperialism” urges its readers to “make war on war.” Who could disagree? Furthermore, they claim we need to overcome the negative dialectic between the “anti-imperialism …”
Letter: The Truth of Stalinism
June 7, 2022
“The Cosmonaut podcast episode on Stalin provides a comprehensive analysis of the Stalinist period that serves as a necessary corrective to the vulgar anti-Stalinist narratives proliferated by the …”
Letter: On "The Machiavellian State, Fascism, and the Tribune of the Proletariat"
May 18, 2022
“The recent article “The Machiavellian State, Fascism, and the Tribune of the Proletariat” by Sam Thomas is an excellent analysis of democracy and socialism and how the creation …”