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 …
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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 …
Cosmonaut at Socialism 2022
We proudly announce that Cosmonaut will be sponsoring and presenting at this year’s Socialism 2022 conference, hosted in Chicago from September 2-5th. We will be …
Ending the Eternal Present: A Historical Materialist Account of the 1970s
The 1970s were a time of turmoil and transition. Connor Harney gives a Marxist account of this pivotal decade. Nostalgia for the Past As …
Was Mao a Bukharinist?: The “Three-Line Struggle” in Economic Debates Preceding the Great Leap Forward
Matthew Strupp examines economic debates in China during the leadup to the Great Leap Forward and assesses comparisons made between Mao and Bukharin. Reading: Cliff Connolly. …
Che Guevara and the Economics of Socialist Transition
Christian, Donald, and Rudy sit down for a podcast discussion on Che Guevara’s program for a socialist transition using Helen Yaffe’s book Che Guevara: The …
Cybernetic Revolutionaries: A Discussion
For this installment of our series on Actually Existing Socialism we take a look at an attempt to solve the issues of central planning with …
Capitalism: What it is and How to Abolish It
M.K. Owen provides an analysis of capitalism as a historically specific mode of production and provides a vision towards what an alternative to this system …