Letter: The Current State of the US Socialist Movement
September 26, 2024
“The past decade of US political life has been defined by Bernie Sanders’ two presidential runs. By 2016, Sanders had spent almost forty years developing a political infrastructure …”
Letter: Nostalgia For a Trotskyist Sect
September 11, 2024
“Recently, I’ve felt nostalgic for the International Socialist Organization (ISO), a defunct Trotskyist sect that existed from 1976 to 2019. It’s a strange feeling, since I was a …”
Letter: Open Rebellion Against Teamsters GP Sean O’Brien
August 21, 2024
“This past week the Teamsters National Black Caucus (TNBC) held their yearly conference in Las Vegas. Angered by Teamsters general president (GP) Sean O’Brien’s embarrassing spectacle at the …”
Letter: MUG's Call to “Fight the Constitution” and Macnair's "Revolutionary Strategy"
August 19, 2024
“I want to call the attention of Cosmonaut's readers to my article, published recently in the Weekly Worker: “In Search of a Synthesis.” I believe it is directly …”
Letter: Lessons From Rural Electrification in the U.S. on Radical Approaches to Bureaucracy
August 17, 2024
“I greatly enjoyed reading Michael Zajakowski Uhll’s essay, “Cogs in the Great Machinery,” about bureaucracy, which drew on his own personal experiences as a worker in New York …”
Letter: Emmanuel in the Gulf
August 13, 2024
“I am very pleased to see Jaime Litvak’s piece examining the political economy of Gulf Coordination Council (GCC) imperialism in the Horn of Africa. I don’t think I …”
Letter: After Sean O’Brien’s spectacle at the RNC, Teamsters withdraw premature endorsement of racist Kevin de Leon
August 9, 2024
“In the aftermath of Sean O’Brien’s embarrassing homage to the most reactionary and xenophobic Republican party in generations at their party’s National Convention last month, the largest Teamsters …”
Letter: Focusing on Essential Issues
July 13, 2024
“I believe it will help us focus on the primary issues in dispute (at least what is disputed on my end) if I offer a few thoughts about …”
Letter: Break Now, or Forever Hold Your Peace
July 11, 2024
“In Thursday’s debate, the true condition of President Biden’s mental state was revealed to the public in the most embarrassing fashion imaginable. To die-hard establishment Democrats, the ramifications …”
Letter: The Economics of Feasible Degrowth
July 7, 2024
“In the degrowth debate there are a number of misconceptions and fallacies that I believe need to be cleared up. Recently, I was reading Comrade Martin Rose’s essay …”
Letter: Subject-less Marxism, A Reply to Kolya Ludwig
June 22, 2024
“According to Kolya Ludwig’s letter “Retreating from the Subject,” my critique of Slavoj Žižek dispenses with his “political conclusions without addressing the deeper problem of enjoyment and its …”
Letter: Retreating from the Subject, A Reply to Yanis Iqbal
June 3, 2024
“Yanis Iqbal's recent critique of Slavoj Žižek's theoretical and political project illuminates two matters of concern: The political content that emerges from Žižek's psychoanalysis and the lacuna within …”
Letter: To Communists and Communist Organizations
May 26, 2024
“Communists in Manchester will be standing in the general election, whenever it is called. We will be standing in Manchester Central on a communist manifesto that argues that …”
Letter: Why Vote Uncommitted? A Vote for Peace & Justice
May 24, 2024
“This June 4th, New Jersey voters have the bold chance to rebuke President Biden’s support for genocide in Gaza by voting Uncommitted in the state’s Democratic primary. Since …”
Letter: On the Occasion of the Death of "the Leading Left Communist in the United States"
May 18, 2024
“Left communism, or ultra-left Marxism, is a form of 20th century radical politics that opposes the ideas and practices of Marxist-Leninists, social democrats, and anarchist subculture ding-a-lings from …”