Discovering the Cybernetic Brain
Amelia Davenport interviews philosopher of science and historian of cybernetics Andrew Pickering. We live in a society without a future. Fewer people than ever believe …
Escaping the Labour Left ‘Safety Valve’: Towards Dual Power in Britain
Is the UK Labour Party a possible vehicle for working-class emancipation? Alfie Hancox argues in the negative, posing the regroupment of communists independent of the …
Other Witherings: On Family Abolition and Defense
Social Conservative defenses of the nuclear family pose it as the default natural form of kinship and blame working-class immiseration on its decline. Cam Scott …
Letter: On accessible language
Dear Comrades, I would like to share with you my opinion related to the people who write for your magazine. I think that Cosmonaut Magazine needs to …
The Origins of Matzpen: the Israeli Anti-Zionist New Left with Moshé Machover
Isaac and Rudy join Moshé Machover, one of the four founding members of the Israeli Socialist Organization, better known as Matzpen after the name of …
The Revolutionary Karl Kautsky with Ben Lewis
Parker and Alex have a conversation with the editor and translator of Karl Kautsky on Democracy and Republicanism (Haymarket, 2020) on the legacy of Karl Kautsky …
The Chinese Rural Commune with Zhun Xu
Matt and Christian join Zhun Xu, author of From Commune to Capitalism: How China’s Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty for a discussion …
Lenin and Art by Lunacharsky
In honor of Lenin on the anniversary of his death, we publish this short essay by Lunacharsky on Lenin’s views regarding art. This text was …
Disarming the Magic Bullet
Renato Flores responds to Cam W‘s argument for Maoism and the mass line. Reading: Gabriel Palcic. Global warming is progressing. Millions are going hungry and …
The Mass Line as an Emancipatory Politics
Cam W responds to the recent debate between Taylor B and Donald Parkinson, outlining a Maoist approach to politics based on the mass line as …
The Founding of the Haitian Communist Party
Translation and introduction by Matthew Strupp. The following text is a translation of sections from Schematic Analysis 1932-1934, the founding document of the original Haitian …
Materialist History or Critical History: A Reply to Jean Allen
Amelia Davenport responds to Jean Allen’s A Critical History of Management Thought, continuing the debate on scientific management. Before diving into the substance of this …
An X-Ray of the Yugoslav Experiment in Self-Management
For the latest episode of our series on Actually Existing Socialism, Christian, Rudy, Donald, and Connor join forces for a discussion on the Yugoslav self-management …
“Going Back or Moving Forward” & “Speech to the 8th CPSU(B) Congress” by N. Osinsky
Translations by Mark Alexandrovich, introduction by Mark Alexandrovich and Renato Flores. Osinsky is the pseudonym of old Bolshevik Valerian Valerianovich Obolensky. Born in 1887, Osinsky …