The Contradictions and Confusions of “Democratic Socialism”
Renzo Llorente engages with contemporary advocates of Democratic Socialism and argues that they ultimately fail to demarcate between liberal and socialist visions of democracy, resulting …
Letter: Lysenko and Epigenetics
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 …
Where is TDU Going? The Plot Against Teamsters Reform
Edgar Esquivel takes issue with Teamsters for a Democratic Union’s endorsement of Sean O’Brien in the latest Teamsters General Executive Board election. With the lowest …
Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution: Communes and the Transition to Socialism with Chris and Cira
Christian and Rudy join Chris Gilbert and Cira Pascual Marquina, authors of Venezuela, The Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution for a discussion …
Letter: Lysenko is an Inaccurate Sound Bite
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 …
COVID’s Hidden Cost: Why Living With the Virus is Not An Option
William Silversmith looks at and summarizes the recent scientific and medical literature regarding COVID and its long-term effects, specifically those related to brain performance. Using …
The Consequences of a Toothless Platform: What the Bowman Debate Teaches the DSA
Brandon Johnson argues that the controversy over Jamaal Bowman in the DSA can be traced to deeper structural weaknesses in the organization and a failure …
Class Struggle in the Carpenters Union with Art Francisco
Annie talks with Art Francisco, a rank-and-file carpenter in the Seattle area and leader of the Peter J McGuire Group, a caucus in the United Brotherhood …
Dialectics of Dependency by Ruy Mauro Marini
Below we present Jorge M’s English translation of Ruy Mauro Marini’s Dialectics of Dependency, an important work in Latin American Marxism and overall theories of …
Letter: Letting The Dead Be Buried
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, …
Letter: The False Unity of Repeater Books
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 …
Zapatismo through Women’s Eyes: Democracy, Autonomy and Liberation with Hilary Klein
Rudy joins Hilary Klein, author of Compañeras: Zapatista Women Stories for a discussion on the history of the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (EZLN) from …
Letter: Regarding Debate and Expulsion, a response to Hadas Thier
“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 …
Boldly Going Where We’ve Already Been: An Analysis of Voyagers
Stephen Lee Naish reviews Neil Burger’s Voyagers and finds an impoverished ruling class vision of space travel where reaching for the stars means more of …