Beyond Work? The Shortcomings of Post-Work Politics
Mikael Lyngaas argues that post-work theorists ranging from Bob Black to Srnicek and Williams are utopian socialism for the current era. Reading: Sam Wiles. In 1845, Karl …
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Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature
The Cosmonaut team inaugurates the ecology series by discussing John Bellamy Foster’s seminal book Marx’s Ecology on its twentieth anniversary. Join Niko, Ian, Matthew, and …
Mask Off: Crisis & Struggle in the Pandemic
Richard Hunsinger & Nathan Eisenberg give an in-depth analysis of the current crisis where economic breakdown, pandemic, and mass revolt collide into a historic conjuncture …
The Tortoise and The Hare: Cybernetics, Evolution and Socialism
Amelia Davenport argues for the relevance of cybernetics to the project of developing a communism that transcends the modernist project. Everyone knows the story of …
A Critical History of Management Thought
Can capitalist management thought provide solutions to the problems of the socialist movement? Jean Allen urges doubt and skepticism in this critical review of Morgan …
The Family is Dead, Long Live the Family
With family abolition a controversial topic in the current-day leftist discourse, Alyson Escalante argues for a more nuanced and sensitive approach to the topic by …
From NPC to PMC
Parker & Donald welcome Jake from Swampside Chats on to discuss the professional-managerial class. What is the PMC, its relation to other classes, and its …
Power as Savior and Destroyer of the World
Latest from Cold and Dark Stars. Economic laws are sold to us by those in power as natural laws beyond our own control rather than …
“Socially Organized Society: Socialist Society” by Alexander Bogdanov
Introduction by Amelia Davenport. From A Short Course of Economic Science. What is Socialism? Is it the abolition of the state, the abolition of Value …
The Party, the Just City, and the Sacred Fire
Latest from Cold and Dark Stars. To pursue an emancipatory politics that can address planetary climate change, one must answer the question of “what is …
In Defense of the Labor Theory of Value
Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina examines the labor theory of value and references philosophy of science to defend it from critics. Features a reading guide to works on …
No Replacement For The Marxist Theory Of Revolution
Gabriel Radic argues that various attempts in academia to develop theories of revolution as alternatives to Marx’s theory of revolution and historical materialism only serve …
Making State Theory Revolutionary
State theory must move beyond questions of methodology and move into deeper political questions such as the political form of a workers regime, argues Donald …
Who Thinks Abstractly? 2.0
To think in a non-linear way is necessary for scientific socialism. Cold and Dark Stars presents an argument for a systematic, emergentist and complex way …