Letter: Letting The Dead Be Buried
December 4, 2021
“I have been reading the “debates” between the Zero Degree Collective and Matt Colquhoun. I do not know the identity of the Zero Degree Collective, but I can …”
Letter: The False Unity of Repeater Books
November 30, 2021
“In early November, we wrote an article for Cosmonaut expressing concern with the takeover of Zer0 Books by Repeater Books. Repeater, we observed, seemed to be in the …”
Letter: Regarding Debate and Expulsion, a response to Hadas Thier
November 28, 2021
““There are basic questions of democratic norms here, including the setting of a precedent of expelling members for political disagreements without due process. But there are broader political …”
Letter: For Democracy, Not Democrats
November 19, 2021
“Yesterday, members of the Socialist Majority Caucus released an open letter opposing the movement to expel representative Jamaal Bowman from DSA. This letter is pretty easy to reject …”
Letter: Who Are Workers?: A Response to Jacque Erie's Critique of Chris Maisano
November 16, 2021
“Against Sectoral Chauvinism I am writing to express disappointment with Jacque Erie’s article critiquing Chris Maisano. Specifically, I am disappointed with the sectoral chauvinism expressed therein. To be …”
Letter: Perpetual Yawn: More from the Ex-Zer0 Set
November 10, 2021
“It seems various anonymised authors from Zer0 2.0 have come out in defense of the imprint’s conduct in an essay for Cosmonaut magazine. It’s weird of Cosmonaut to …”
Letter: Who's dreaming?
November 9, 2021
“In the past few days, Sweet Dreams of Marxist Unity, a polemic by Dani Lotand directed at the Marxist Unity Group, has been circulating among communists on social …”
Letter: Ian Wright Responds on Machines and Value
November 7, 2021
“My thanks to Rudy and Gil Schaeffer for taking the time to respond to my article, “Why machines don’t create value”. I’ll keep my responses as brief as …”
Letter: What is stopping the DSA?
November 3, 2021
“The recent article by Donald Parkinson was one of the best reviews of the DSA Convention of 2021. As could be expected, it has generated some debate in …”
Letter: In Response to Annie S.
November 2, 2021
“First, I would like to thank her for pointing to me that episode in political history when Bebel and Liebknecht opposed the Prussian war effort. That is the …”
Letter: Response to Tom Joad on DSA
October 29, 2021
“Hello Cosmo comrades, I recently read Tommy Joad's critique of Donald Parkinson's recent article and I not only profoundly disagreed with nearly its entirety but felt it was …”
Letter: In response to Donald Parkinson’s "The Fight for a Marxist Program in the DSA"
October 28, 2021
“Hello Cosmonaut! I have read Donald Parkinson’s (DP hence) article mentioned above, as well as materials which the article mentioned (critique of the DSA from “Left Voice”, and …”
Letter: Response to Donald Parkinson
October 22, 2021
“Hello Donald Parkinson! It was with great interest that I read your 2018 article at Cosmonaut “From Workers’ Party to Workers’ Republic”, https://cosmonaut.blog/2018/10/17/from-workers-party-to-workers-republic/ . I expected you to …”
Letter: Need for a Workers' Encyclopedia
October 20, 2021
“Hello “Cosmonaut”! This is in reply to “Knowledge: power and emancipation”, written in 2020 by Renato Flores. First, I’d like to pick on some phrases from the article. …”
Letter: Comment on “Why Machines Don’t Create Value”
October 19, 2021
“Ian Wright’s analysis of Marx’s value theory begins with Marx’s simple model of production in which there is no mismatch between value and price because the proportion of …”