Dialectical-Strategic Practice and the Struggle-Against-Capitalism
Robert Latham theorizes a renewed approach to strategy and counter-strategy that could cohere the fragmented left in an era of geopolitical upheaval. Richard Mudariki, Africa’s …
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An Activists’ Guide to the Foreign Agents Registration Act
Steven De Castro raises the alarm about the weaponization of the Foreign Agents Registration Act against the left and provides advice on how to best …
There Is Never One Lamb Alone: On Finding Unity in Diversity
Splits and purges are no solution to the problem of disagreement in the socialist movement. Marisa Miale calls for unity in diversity in the context …
Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization with Rodrigo Nunes
Rudy and Harry join Rodrigo Nunes, author of Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization for a discussion on Rodrigo’s approach to thinking …
For a Blue-Collar, Proletarian Socialist Movement
Ben Solidaridad argues for the centrality of the manufacturing proletariat to the modern socialist project, claiming that this section of the population carries not only …
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 …
Letter: The Bleak Midwinter
I very much enjoyed the letter submitted by Comrade Hall the other day. It has clarified the opportunity that is presented to Revolutionary Marxists in …
Marx Did Not Invent Socialism, He Observed It
In part one of a series, Renato Flores reflects on the rise and fall of the base-building tendency. A common aphorism, purportedly from Kwame Ture, …
Socialism of the Oppressed: The Stakes of the Bowman Affair
Jean Allen and Marisa Miale, authors of For An Internationalist DSA, sketch out a strategy for building a left opposition committed to electoral discipline and …
To Talk of Organization – on Nunes’ Neither Vertical nor Horizontal
Alex James reviews Rodrigo Nunes’ latest book Neither Vertical nor Horizontal, finding a refreshing new vocabulary for talking about organization that raises difficult questions rather …
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 …
Dissolving the People and Electing Another: On Base-Building and Revolutionary Culture
Drawing from the experience of the Democratic Socialists of America and Marxist Center, Marisa Miale examines the everyday, interpersonal level of party-building and argues for …
Crisis and the Personal is Not Enough: The Importance of Political Education
Sudip Bhattacharya reflects on his experiences with political education, making the case that education is often as important as agitation and organization. After winning governmental …
Is This the Left that Jacobin Wants?: Chris Maisano’s Perilous Drift Towards Post-Marxism
A recent Jacobin piece by Chris Maisano argues that building “a Left that matters” requires focusing on Democratic Party electoral work, but we must be …