Letter: Response to Dan Lazare
The way in which Marxists in the US understand our own history, especially the period of the American Revolution and early republic, has been underdeveloped …
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The Necessity of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat: a Litmus Test for Marxism
Teo Velissaris provides an exposition on the dictatorship of the proletariat, arguing that it remains a conceptually necessary element to any Marxist understanding of socialism …
Letter: In Defense of Good History
I’m happy to see J.A. Mann’s recent defense of Philip Foner, whose work, though not without its flaws (especially regarding the Indigenous), remains hugely valuable …
Letter: A Reconsideration of Surplus Value, Machines, and Profit
Dear Cosmonaut Magazine, You recently published my letter in your magazine, in which I criticized Marx’s theory of profit and surplus value along the lines …
From Marx, and Back to Hegel
Valentine Seebart critiques historical materialism, arguing that Marxists must replace this paradigm with a revised ‘ideo-materialist’ historical perspective. Part One: Techno-Feudalism and the Historical Process …
Rethinking Marxist Politics
Drawing from Gramscian and Althusserian approaches to pedagogy, Yanis Iqbal argues that a successful future for socialist politics must be based on a merger of …
The Rise and Fall of Homegrown American Marxism
Daniel Tutt explores the intellectual trajectory of U.S. Marxism during the era of the Second International and, drawing from Brian Lloyd’s work on the history …
Outlines for a Marxist Virtue Ethics, or Why Capitalism is Unjust
Drawing on the work of moral and political philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, ΔΜ sketches an outline for a possible marxist theory of ethics. ‘He wants more …
Marxism and the Philosophy of Science with Helena Sheehan
Djamil and Donald join Helena Sheehan, author of Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History for a deep dive on the interactions between these two …
The Historic Defeat of the Female Sex: Revisiting Engels’ The Origin of the Family
Agata, Anne, Lydia and Rudy join to talk about the historic context of Engels’ The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, and …
Letter: It’s the PMC, Silly
I found Renato Flore’s article “The Procedural is Political” to make some important points. But I found it even more frustrating, if only because it …
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? …
Progress of the Storm: Collaboration with Revolutionary Left Radio
We are very happy to release this crossover episode with Breht O’Shea from Revolutionary Left Radio and Red Menace! Remi (@cosmoproletan), Parker (@centristmarxist), and Donald …
Christopher Caudwell and the Crisis in Physics: A Discussion
To continue our series on the relation of Marxism to science, we read and discussed Christopher Caudwell’s Crisis in Physics. Join Donald, Matthew, Rudy, and …