End of the Line
Javier Clark illustrates the contemporary social production of “non-subjects” and the conditions under which they evade traditional revolutionary formulae. Not even a dry statistic can …
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Towards a New Communism
Referencing Marx, Hegel, and Zizek, William P. Aguilar elaborates a negatory theory of communism as the de-commodification of everything. Xu Yong, Negative 31 (1989) ABSTRACT …
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. …
State, Democracy, and Transition: Is There a “Democratic Road” to Socialism?
Maxi Nieto critiques the perspectives of the “new democratic socialism” and argues they are based on a misunderstanding of capitalism as a structural totality. Introduction …
The Value of Dune: a Communistic Perspective
Rejecting recent interpretations in the U.S. socialist press as truistic, Jackson Albert Mann makes a case for a particular communistic reading of the first novel …
The Problem of Unity: A Comparative Analysis
In a comparative study of Austro-Marxism, the French Socialist movement, and Bolshevism, Medway Baker argues for the left to seek unity around a programme of …
Communism & Republicanism
Welcome to Cosmopod. Comrades Donald, Rosa, Ian, & Parker sit down to discuss historical republicanism and its connection to the socialist movement.
Long, Queer Revolution
Revolution won’t follow a neat and clean schema, fitting easily into one stage or another, argues Nia Frome. Instead, revolution will be a long process, …