Letter: Bureaucratic Hearing Loss
This letter was initially written to follow up on efforts by members within Triangle DSA, urging our National Political Committee (NPC) member Kevin R to …
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Letter: Llorente vs Schaeffer: Liberalism, Democracy and Dictatorship
Comrades, I’ve followed with interest the debate on democracy and socialism between Renzo Llorente and Gil Schaeffer, as well as the letter contributions, in Cosmonaut. …
Letter: Thoughts on Anti-War Strategy and Feelings of Helplessness
Reading the emerging discourse around the war in the Ukraine in Cosmonaut’s Letters section, I can’t help but note a commonality between clashing interlocutors. Sure, …
Letter: Negotiations to End the War
Currently, the idea is being floated that Ukraine will accept EU membership in exchange for changing the part of its constitution that fixes its goal …
Letter: On Russia and Ukraine and Geopolitical Realpolitik
PREAMBLE Considering that it is a multipolar world, not a unipolar world of geopolitical hegemony, that has historically given class movements in multiple countries political …
Letter: Strengths and Weaknesses of DSA
To the editors of Cosmonaut, I recently read the essay “Dissolving the people and electing Another” and decided I could contribute my own thoughts on …
Letter: Lysenko and Epigenetics
This is a response to the letter: Letter: Lysenko is an Inaccurate Sound Bite – Cosmonaut (cosmonautmag.com) As a student of Marxism and a Master …
Letter: Lysenko is an Inaccurate Sound Bite
Hi there, recent developments in epigenetics encourage a rethinking of Lysenko, for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5602018/ I suggest that “Lysenko” has become to easy a soundbit to …
Letter: The False Unity of Repeater Books
In early November, we wrote an article for Cosmonaut expressing concern with the takeover of Zer0 Books by Repeater Books. Repeater, we observed, seemed to …
Letter: Who Are Workers?: A Response to Jacque Erie’s Critique of Chris Maisano
Against Sectoral Chauvinism I am writing to express disappointment with Jacque Erie’s article critiquing Chris Maisano. Specifically, I am disappointed with the sectoral chauvinism expressed …
Letter: Perpetual Yawn: More from the Ex-Zer0 Set
This is republished with permission from Matt Colquhoun’s personal website xenogothic. It seems various anonymised authors from Zer0 2.0 have come out in defense of …
Letter: What is stopping the DSA?
The recent article by Donald Parkinson was one of the best reviews of the DSA Convention of 2021. As could be expected, it has generated …
Letter: In Response to Annie S.
First, I would like to thank her for pointing to me that episode in political history when Bebel and Liebknecht opposed the Prussian war effort. That is the …
Letter: Notes on the Theory of Imperialism
It is a welcome sight to see a discussion about the theory of imperialism that is able to follow rigorous and academic research instead of …