The Firm Ground of History and the Plateau of Politics
Luke Pickrell offers his latest polemic in the ongoing debate with Henry DeGroot around Marxist Unity Group’s call for a Democratic Republic. Leonid Aleksandrovich Golub, …
Karl Kautsky
Anti-Democratic All the Way Down: The Constitution, The Court, The University
Elia Newsom makes the case for socialist intervention in higher education. As the Supreme Court’s term comes to a close, the results of landmark cases …
From Paris to Petrograd: State and Revolution in Practice
Parker, James, Rudy and Cliff join for a discussion on the context of Lenin’s State and Revolution, and how those ideas were applied in the …
Audiobook of Karl Kautsky’s texts on Republicanism and Democracy translated by Ben Lewis
This is an ongoing project to narrate Ben Lewis’s translation of Karl Kautksy´s texts on Republicanism and Democracy. The full audiobook is currently in production …
The Christian Idea of the Messiah by Karl Kautsky
Donald Parkinson introduces a passage from Karl Kautksy’s Foundations of Christianity. Introduction It is no secret that, here at Cosmonaut, we believe that the early …
Give the Platform Legs to Stand: The Case for CB8
Parker McQueeney writes in support of Constitution/Bylaw Amendment 8 (CB8) for the 2021 DSA Convention At this year’s convention, DSA will be debating a political …
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 Historic Accomplishment of Karl Marx by Karl Kautsky
Translation and introduction by Alexander Gallus. Buy a print copy here. Karl Kautsky lived and wrote in a world and time when the growing organizational …
Ferdinand Lassalle: A 25-year Memorial by Karl Kautsky
Translation and introduction by Tom Anderson. Today Lassalle is one of the most marginalized and vilified of the classic German social-democrats. His most essential works …
Cosmonaut Press presents ‘The Historic Accomplishment of Karl Marx’ by Karl Kautsky
Cosmonaut Magazine is delighted to announce the publication of Cosmonaut Press’s inaugural book, The Historic Accomplishment of Karl Marx by Karl Kautsky, translated and with …
Saint Francis of Assisi by Karl Kautsky
Translation and introduction by Rida Vaquas. Karl Kautsky, to the extent his writings on religion are known at all in the English speaking world, is …
The Democratic Road to Socialism: Reply to Mike Taber
Eric Blanc replies to Mike Taber’s article Lenin, Kautsky and the Transition to Socialism and argues that the work of Karl Kautsky provides a strategy …