H. T. Odum’s Environment, Power and Society
Amelia, RK, Harry and Rudy sit down for a discussion on systems approaches to ecology using as a basis H. T. Odum’s Environment, Power, and …
Letter: Support ‘The General Workers Assembly Priority Campaign DSA Resolution’
Click Here to Sign This Resolution. Resolution Signers will also have the option to help organize the General Assembly Authors Shuvu Bhattarai (NYC DSA), Austin …
Marxism’s Metanormative Critique of Capitalism
Jared Houston revisits debates regarding the normative standing of Marx’s critique of capitalism, advancing the thesis that Marx’s offers a metanormative critique of capital accumulation. …
Letter: On the MUG Labor Strategy
It is a very good thing that a more avowedly radical Marxist group in the DSA is turning its attention seriously towards labor work. However, …
Letter: DSA Organizing for Pandemic Justice Resolution for the 2023 DSA Convention
As close readers of Cosmonaut know, I have been paying close attention to the SARS-2 pandemic for some time, writing twice in its pages on …
Atom Bombs, National Security, and Empire: Year Seventy-Eight of the Cold War
Gil Schaeffer looks to the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam War movements as examples of how the modern left can best articulate its opposition to the …
Conquering Democracy, Abolishing Political Representation
The Cibcom Collective argues that Communist society will require an overcoming of political representation in favor of forms of direct democracy like sortition and referendum. …
Letter: Internationalism, Belarus and DSA IC
Marxist Unity Group and Reform and Revolution recently released their list of resolutions for the upcoming 2023 National DSA convention. One of these resolutions is …
Oswald Spengler: Philosopher of Decline, Partisan of Counterrevolution
ML Miller reviews Ben Lewis’ Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline, finding an understanding of Spengler as a political agent who sought to put …
Letter: MUG and R&R’s Joint Resolutions for the 2023 DSA National Convention
Marxist Unity Group (MUG), in collaboration with Reform and Revolution (R&R), has created a set of resolutions for DSA’s 2023 National Convention in August. There …
Letter: For Democracy in DSA
What does the leadership of a mass organization look like? This is a question that should be at the forefront of all political discussions within …
Solidarity Sometimes: U.S. Organized Labor’s Cold War Policy in Central and South America
Hank Kennedy presents a historical overview of the reactionary Cold War international policy of the Meany/Kirkland era AFL-CIO, with a focus on its relations with …
Marxist approaches to International Law with Robert Knox
Anton joins Robert Knox for a discussion of Marxist approaches to law, with a focus on international law. We discuss critical legal studies, international law …
Letter: In Defense of Marxist Unity Group’s Labor Position
I have enjoyed reading the dialogue, both formal and informal, sparked by the recent release of Marxist Unity Group’s labor strategy position paper. I feel …