Christopher Caudwell and the Crisis in Physics: A Discussion
To continue our series on the relation of Marxism to science, we read and discussed Christopher Caudwell’s Crisis in Physics. Join Donald, Matthew, Rudy, and …
Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism in the Second International
Karl Marx’s own ambiguous and sometimes contradictory views on colonialism meant that the Second International would debate over the correct view on the matter. Donald …
Freedom in Death: Liberalism and the Apocalypse
Medway Baker calls for uncompromising faith in the cause of communism in the face of a capitalist civilization that is destroying humanity. Hurricanes ravage shores …
The Invisible Landscape: Tracing the Spiritualist Utopianism of Nineteenth-Century America
Edmund Berger explores the hidden history of Utopian Socialism and its close relationship with cultures of esoteric spirituality in the nineteenth-century United States. Take the …
Letter: On “Socially Conservative Leftism”
Two articles were written in recent months on the subject of “socially conservative leftism,” an earlier one by comrade Donald Parkinson on Cosmonaut ( https://cosmonaut.blog/2019/12/28/faith-family-and-folk-against-the-trad-left/ ) and another …
The Practical Policy of Revolutionary Defeatism
Matthew Strupp lays out the politics of revolutionary defeatism in contrast to the approaches of third-campism and third-worldism. Reading: Cliff Connolly. In April 1964, at a …
Join the Struggle at Amazon!
Committed revolutionaries: get a job at Amazon and help us build working-class power! A global crisis is unfolding and the left must seize the moment. …
On the actuality of Spinoza by Jørgen Sandemose
Presented here is a lecture by Jørgen Sandemose on Spinoza that is also a critique of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire. Sandemose died last …
The End of the End of History: COVID-19 and 21st Century Fascism
Debs Bruno and Medway Baker lay out the conditions of the current crisis, the political potentials it opens up, and the need for a socialist …
Terrestrial Shamanism against the Exterminist Leviathan
Renato Flores argues that a grand narrative is needed to unify and mobilize the exploited and oppressed against an exterminist world order. I The permanent …
Letter: On Red Guards or Iron Guards
Hello! In reading “Criticism and Self-Criticism: Red Guards or Iron Guards” and listening to “Swampside Chats” it’s clear that there is a very obvious bias …
STEMbrain Socialism
Join Remi as he discusses the history and philosophy of science, as well as its use for socialists with two professional scientists, Matt and Renato …
The Family is Dead, Long Live the Family
With family abolition a controversial topic in the current-day leftist discourse, Alyson Escalante argues for a more nuanced and sensitive approach to the topic by …
Crossing the Line: Habitus and Misrecognition in Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite
K.T. Jamieson analyzes the dynamics of class in Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite through the lens of Pierre Bourdieu’s social theory. Contains spoilers. At the 92nd Annual …