Which Way, CPUSA?
Has the CPUSA truly rid itself of its past loyalty to the US Constitution? Luke Pickrell and Myra Janis cast doubt. Socialism with American Characteristics …
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Letter: Communism as transformative revolution
Response to Simoun Magsalin‘s letter. Any critique of communist concepts should be warmly embraced. A communist ought to view criticism as a chance to refine …
Revolutions are Made, They Don’t Just Happen: A Look into the Problems of the Johnson-Forest Tendency
Nat Winn critiques the theories, philosophy, and politics of the Johnson-Forest Tendency. We are at a moment when mainstream U.S. politics stand exposed, deadlocked, and …
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 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: Marxism, Science and Exegesis
What is the proper relationship between science and textual exegesis in Marxism? What does it mean to uphold one at the expense of the other? …
The Revolutionary Minimum-Maximum Program
Donald Parkinson explains and defends the format of the minimum-maximum program using the model established in Marx and Guesde’s Programme of the Parti Ouvrier. Reading: …
Letter: Let us welcome a modern Marxist critique of anarchism!
I thank kasamang Renato Flores for their thoughtful letter to the editors of Cosmonaut, “Anarchism and the Necessity of a Modern Critique.” As some angry …
Letter: Anarchism and the Necessity of a Modern Critique
First of all, I thank Comrade Magsalin for writing his piece on exegetical and scientific traditions in Marxism. While I do not necessarily agree with …
The Question of a Stagnant Marxism: Is Marxism Exegetical or Scientific?
Why is it that there exists a tendency in Marxism—itself a theory of change—that remains unchanging? Simoun Magsalin investigates. Perhaps some analogies are in order …
Create a Mass Party!
Cliff Connolly critiques CounterPower’s vision of the “party of autonomy” and offers an alternative vision of the mass party. Reading: Cliff Connolly. The US left …
Party and Subject: A Reply to Donald Parkinson
Taylor B continues the debate on political subjectivity, revolutionary strategy and the party-form, responding to Donald Parkinson’s Without a Party, We Have Nothing. When replying to …
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 …
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 …