Letter: The Fatal Flaw of Base Building
The legacy of the Base Builder trend will be discussed in some sectors for a while especially as the current left struggles to regain its …
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Letter: On “Eat The Rich,” MAGACommunism, Carl Schmitt, and the Rehabilitation of Ferdinand Lasalle
What do “Eat the Rich,” MAGACommunism, and Carl Schmitt have in common? At face value, they don’t have anything in common. “Eat The Rich” is …
Letter: Relations of Production; On Socialist Planning and Capitalist Crisis
R Ashlar’s most recent letter complains that I am unfair in saying that the simple identification of planning with socialism opens the door to social …
Letter: Finding Out What To Stand For
A few months ago, I wrote an article summarising my experiences in the base building milieu and trying to understand why we had reached an …
Letter: Balances, Supercomputers, Mao, and Socialist Planning
A response to Glushkov and His Ideas: Cybernetics of the Future by Vasiliy Pikhorovich. “A plan is an ideological form. Ideology is a reflection of …
Letter: Winter of Our Discontent
The seasons are shifting, and with them, the balance of power. A scorching, record breaking European summer will soon give way to a cold winter. …
Letter: Some Words on Republicanism
As a reader of Cosmonaut for some time now and self-avowed Marxist, albeit an admittedly eclectic one, I was engaged by a recent piece in …
Letter: Comments to Parkinson’s Reply
Parkinson has written a reply to me – I agree with a considerable portion of the political positions that Parkinson presents and he is convincing …
Letter: Fighting Imperialism Needs Clear Politics Not Abstract Platitudes
Hilgers “Specificity of Anti-Imperialism” urges its readers to “make war on war.” Who could disagree? Furthermore, they claim we need to overcome the negative dialectic …
Letter: The Truth of Stalinism
The Cosmonaut podcast episode on Stalin provides a comprehensive analysis of the Stalinist period that serves as a necessary corrective to the vulgar anti-Stalinist narratives …
Letter: On “The Machiavellian State, Fascism, and the Tribune of the Proletariat”
The recent article “The Machiavellian State, Fascism, and the Tribune of the Proletariat” by Sam Thomas is an excellent analysis of democracy and socialism and …
Letter: Schaeffer Answers Père Duchesne’s Questions About the Relationship Between Liberalism and Democracy
My 2/5/2022 response to Renzo Lorente’s article of 12/19/2021 has prompted a reply by Llorente himself and letters from Abner Dalrymple, R. A., and Le …
Letter: Schaeffer v. History: Some Facts about the Ku-Klux
I have been following the Llorente v. Schaeffer debate with some interest, particularly the brief discussion of Reconstruction. Those who know me, know that I …
Letter: Llorente v. Schaeffer
I’ve been happy to read another educational exchange from Cosmonaut, this time between Renzo Llorente and Gil Schaeffer (beginning with Llorente’s Contradictions, Schaeffer’s reply, and …