The Dead End and How We Got Here
Tim Horras, February 18, 2022
Has base-building as a strategy failed? Tim Horras argues in the negative, taking on critiques of base-building from D.L. Jacobs. Read Article.
The African Blood Brotherhood, its Relations and Legacy
Ian Szabo, February 16, 2022
Combining the insights of previous scholarship with information gathered from Bureau of Investigation (BOI, predecessor of the FBI) surveillance documents, Ian Szabo presents a new angle on the history of the African Blood Brotherhood (ABB), illustrating the organizations' particular synthesis of Black radical politics and Marxism, as well as revealing the racial fantasy through which contemporaneous mainstream U.S. media and the state understood its methods and goals. Read Article.
The Question of Worldview and Class Struggle in Philosophy: On the Relevance of Lukács’s Worldview Marxism and The Destruction of Reason
Daniel Tutt, February 12, 2022
Daniel Tutt looks to the philosophy of Georg Lukács and his critique of bourgeois irrationalism to explicate the role of intellectuals and worldviews in the class struggle. Read By: Allen Lanterman Read Article.
Democratic Rights and Socialism: The Confusions and Contradictions of Renzo Llorente
Gil Schaeffer, February 5, 2022
Gil Schaeffer responds to Renzo Llorente's "The Contradictions and Confusions of ‘Democratic Socialism" and argues that socialists need to base their politics on a coherent ethical theory of democratic rights. Read Article.
Anti-Postone: Introduction
Maciej Zurowski, February 3, 2022
In this, the introduction to Cosmonaut Press’s Anti-Postone by Michael Sommer, Mike Macnair critiques the historical accuracy of Postone's work and situates it in its historical context as part of the Frankfurt School-inspired New Left. Anti-Postone, which includes this introduction, a preface from translator Maciej Zurowski and Sommer’s essay, has now been printed and is available for purchase on Amazon and in the Cosmonaut webstore. Read Article.
The Aban Human, Part 1: A Marginalized Worker
Kaveh DadKhah, Rob Ashlar, January 29, 2022
Kaveh Dadkhah and Rob Ashlar introduce Dadkhah's translation of Farangis Bakhtiari's analysis of the 2019 Uprising of Aban. Read Article.
Dissolving the People and Electing Another: On Base-Building and Revolutionary Culture
Marisa Miale, January 27, 2022
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 a revolutionary strategy that can weave together cultural intervention, base-building and political unity. Reading: LC. Read Article.
Anti-Postone: Translator's Preface
Maciej Zurowski, January 23, 2022
In this, the preface to Cosmonaut Press’s Anti-Postone by Michael Sommer, translator Maciej Zurowski explains the importance of Sommer’s text to the contemporary left. While the book is largely directed against broad sections of the German antifascist movement, Zurowski argues that a fallacious theory of antisemitism can be easily weaponized in other contexts against leftists and anti-imperialists. Anti-Postone, which includes this preface, along with a lengthy introduction by Mike Macnair and Sommer’s essay, has now been printed and is available for purchase on Amazon and in the Cosmonaut webstore. Read Article.
Not Even the Dead Can Rest While the Living Remain Oppressed: Against Jamaal Bowman and His Apologists
Myra Glass, January 19, 2022
Myra Glass argues that the debate over Jamaal Bowman in the DSA represents a broader fight between those who wish for the organization to take a genuine anti-imperialist and Internationalist direction and those who are still clinging to the organization's Harringtonian origins. Read Article.
Is This Sweat, or Am I Crying?: A Worker's History of Farm and Food in the United States
Taylor Thornburg, January 13, 2022
Taylor Thornburg traces the history of capitalist agriculture from its origin in English feudalism, through the development of 'New World' slavery and Southern sharecropping, to its contemporary industrial integration with the U.S. fast food industry. As Thornburg details, through it all, farm and food workers have fought back against one of the most viciously reactionary stratum of capital, the agricultural landowners. Read Article.