Donald Parkinson

One of many contributors writing for Cosmonaut Magazine.

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The Christian Idea of the Messiah by Karl Kautsky

Donald Parkinson, December 24, 2021

Donald Parkinson introduces a passage from Karl Kautksy's Foundations of Christianity. Read Article.

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The Fight for a Marxist Program in the DSA

Donald Parkinson, October 27, 2021

Donald Parkinson assesses the 2021 DSA Convention and imagines a path forward beyond its current political and strategic deadlock. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Read Article.

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The Revolutionary Minimum-Maximum Program

Donald Parkinson, May 5, 2021

Donald Parkinson explains and defends the format of the minimum-maximum program using the model established in Marx and Guesde's Programme of the Parti Ouvrier. Reading: Lydia Apolinar. Read Article.

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Without a Party, We Have Nothing

Donald Parkinson, November 14, 2020

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: Cliff Connolly. Read Article.

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The Zhenotdel and Women's Emancipation in the Central Asian Republics with Anne McShane

Donald Parkinson, October 4, 2020

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