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 …
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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 …
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 …
Letter: No Litmus Test but Class Struggle
Wylie Greer touches upon a question that the left in the US is struggling with: what to do with the white working class? He is …
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? …
Party and Subject: A Reply to Donald Parkinson
Taylor B continues the debate on political subjectivity, revolutionary strategy and the party-form, responding to Donald Parkinson’s Without a Party, We Have Nothing. When replying to …
Disarming the Magic Bullet
Renato Flores responds to Cam W‘s argument for Maoism and the mass line. Reading: Gabriel Palcic. Global warming is progressing. Millions are going hungry and …
The Mass Line as an Emancipatory Politics
Cam W responds to the recent debate between Taylor B and Donald Parkinson, outlining a Maoist approach to politics based on the mass line as …
Without a party, we have nothing
Donald Parkinson responds to Taylor B’s Beginning’s of Politics: DSA and the Uprising, arguing that a workers’ party is necessary to advance an emancipatory politics. Reading: …
Against Socialist Reactionaries: a response to Jacob Richter
Rosa Janis responds to Jacob Richter’s April 9th, 2020 letter to Cosmonaut on social conservatism and the left. Normally we do not respond to letters …
The Need for Organizations that Organize
Ben Reynolds responds to Chris Koch’s The Need for Agitational Organizations. In a recent article titled ‘The Need for Agitational Organization’ Chris Koch argues that …