Letter: Socialism and the Democratic Party, divided forever in 2022
January 18, 2022
“The first year of the Joe Biden presidency has proved his invulnerability to the American Left. As the Socialist Call correctly notes in the headline of one recent …”
Letters: Bordiga and the Bathwater
January 8, 2022
“Daniel Melo’s recent article in Cosmonaut is rife with mentions of democracy but very few well-resolved statements of what they really mean by the term. I will admit …”
Letter: Lysenko and Epigenetics
December 16, 2021
“This is a response to the letter: Letter: Lysenko is an Inaccurate Sound Bite - Cosmonaut (cosmonautmag.com) As a student of Marxism and a Master student of biochemistry, …”
Letter: Lysenko is an Inaccurate Sound Bite
December 12, 2021
“Hi there, recent developments in epigenetics encourage a rethinking of Lysenko, for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5602018/ I suggest that "Lysenko" has become to easy a soundbit to slur Soviet science …”
Letter: Letting The Dead Be Buried
December 4, 2021
“I have been reading the “debates” between the Zero Degree Collective and Matt Colquhoun. I do not know the identity of the Zero Degree Collective, but I can …”
Letter: The False Unity of Repeater Books
November 30, 2021
“In early November, we wrote an article for Cosmonaut expressing concern with the takeover of Zer0 Books by Repeater Books. Repeater, we observed, seemed to be in the …”
Letter: Regarding Debate and Expulsion, a response to Hadas Thier
November 28, 2021
““There are basic questions of democratic norms here, including the setting of a precedent of expelling members for political disagreements without due process. But there are broader political …”
Letter: For Democracy, Not Democrats
November 19, 2021
“Yesterday, members of the Socialist Majority Caucus released an open letter opposing the movement to expel representative Jamaal Bowman from DSA. This letter is pretty easy to reject …”
Letter: Who Are Workers?: A Response to Jacque Erie's Critique of Chris Maisano
November 16, 2021
“Against Sectoral Chauvinism I am writing to express disappointment with Jacque Erie’s article critiquing Chris Maisano. Specifically, I am disappointed with the sectoral chauvinism expressed therein. To be …”
Letter: Perpetual Yawn: More from the Ex-Zer0 Set
November 10, 2021
“It seems various anonymised authors from Zer0 2.0 have come out in defense of the imprint’s conduct in an essay for Cosmonaut magazine. It’s weird of Cosmonaut to …”
Letter: Who's dreaming?
November 9, 2021
“In the past few days, Sweet Dreams of Marxist Unity, a polemic by Dani Lotand directed at the Marxist Unity Group, has been circulating among communists on social …”
Letter: Ian Wright Responds on Machines and Value
November 7, 2021
“My thanks to Rudy and Gil Schaeffer for taking the time to respond to my article, “Why machines don’t create value”. I’ll keep my responses as brief as …”
Letter: What is stopping the DSA?
November 3, 2021
“The recent article by Donald Parkinson was one of the best reviews of the DSA Convention of 2021. As could be expected, it has generated some debate in …”
Letter: In Response to Annie S.
November 2, 2021
“First, I would like to thank her for pointing to me that episode in political history when Bebel and Liebknecht opposed the Prussian war effort. That is the …”
Letter: Response to Tom Joad on DSA
October 29, 2021
“Hello Cosmo comrades, I recently read Tommy Joad's critique of Donald Parkinson's recent article and I not only profoundly disagreed with nearly its entirety but felt it was …”