Unite the Pro-Party Wing to Revolutionize the DSA!
Shuvu Bhattarai of the Marxist Unity Group outlines an overview of the recent history of DSA and finds a demarcation between pro-party and anti-party tendencies, …
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For a 21st Century Marxism
Steve Bloom considers what is living and what is dead in the corpus of Marxism with the intention of forging an adequate revolutionary theory for …
Naming the System: “Means as Ends” Socialism and the Importance of Alternative Political Culture and Program
Isaac KD and Jack L defend their critique of DSA’s dominant strategic orientation towards reform campaigns in a response to Sam Lewis’ “In Defense of …
Striking Without Threatening: On Marxism, Ethics, and the Truth of Communism
Roxy Hall responds to ΔΜ’s argument for a Marxist virtue ethics, arguing that Communism is itself a wholly new ethical system. Love what you …
On the Democratic Republic, Working-Class Rule, Dictatorship, and Reconstruction
Gil Schaeffer responds to letters from Renzo Llorente, Abner Dalrymple, and R. A. on the question of liberal-democratic rights. In my 5/8/2022 reply to Père …
Coalitions of the Liberal and Socialist Left
How should socialists engage in coalitional politics? Jack L draws conclusions based on historical lessons and recent experiences in the housing struggle. In the summer …
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 …
When We Fight, We Win!: For an Agitational Socialist Electoral Strategy
Jack L draws on recent campaigns in New York City to make the case for an agitational electoral strategy. NYC-DSA currently finds itself engaged in …
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 …
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 …
Endless Muddle: Gil Schaeffer on Democracy, Socialism and Liberal-Democratic Rights
Renzo Llorente critically responds to Gil Schaeffer’s views on democratic rights and socialism. At the end of last year, Cosmonaut published my article “The Contradictions …
The Dead End and How We Got Here
Has base-building as a strategy failed? Tim Horras argues in the negative, taking on critiques of base-building from D.L. Jacobs. “Given this general prosperity, wherein …
Venezuelan Communes and Dual Power
Nikolaos Dalton, responding to a recent Cosmopod episode, takes issue with the claim that Communes in Venezuela represent a form of dual power as understood …
Letters: Bordiga and the Bathwater
Daniel Melo’s recent article in Cosmonaut is rife with mentions of democracy but very few well-resolved statements of what they really mean by the term. …