Letter: Focusing on Essential Issues
July 13, 2024
“I believe it will help us focus on the primary issues in dispute (at least what is disputed on my end) if I offer a few thoughts about …”
Letter: Break Now, or Forever Hold Your Peace
July 11, 2024
“In Thursday’s debate, the true condition of President Biden’s mental state was revealed to the public in the most embarrassing fashion imaginable. To die-hard establishment Democrats, the ramifications …”
Letter: The Economics of Feasible Degrowth
July 7, 2024
“In the degrowth debate there are a number of misconceptions and fallacies that I believe need to be cleared up. Recently, I was reading Comrade Martin Rose’s essay …”
Letter: Subject-less Marxism, A Reply to Kolya Ludwig
June 22, 2024
“According to Kolya Ludwig’s letter “Retreating from the Subject,” my critique of Slavoj Žižek dispenses with his “political conclusions without addressing the deeper problem of enjoyment and its …”
Letter: Retreating from the Subject, A Reply to Yanis Iqbal
June 3, 2024
“Yanis Iqbal's recent critique of Slavoj Žižek's theoretical and political project illuminates two matters of concern: The political content that emerges from Žižek's psychoanalysis and the lacuna within …”
Letter: To Communists and Communist Organizations
May 26, 2024
“Communists in Manchester will be standing in the general election, whenever it is called. We will be standing in Manchester Central on a communist manifesto that argues that …”
Letter: Why Vote Uncommitted? A Vote for Peace & Justice
May 24, 2024
“This June 4th, New Jersey voters have the bold chance to rebuke President Biden’s support for genocide in Gaza by voting Uncommitted in the state’s Democratic primary. Since …”
Letter: On the Occasion of the Death of "the Leading Left Communist in the United States"
May 18, 2024
“Left communism, or ultra-left Marxism, is a form of 20th century radical politics that opposes the ideas and practices of Marxist-Leninists, social democrats, and anarchist subculture ding-a-lings from …”
Letter: A Late Farewell to Pannekoek
May 11, 2024
“On September 15th, 1927, something sudden happened. While returning from a journey originally intended to revive his now ailing health, on the return back from this trip to …”
Letter: The Jewish State Organization
May 3, 2024
“We shall never be rough and heartless when it is not necessary, that is clear. We Germans, who are the only people in the world who have a …”
Letter: Their Internationalism and Ours
April 21, 2024
“Considerable ink has already been spilled concerning Comrade Franzblau’s report on her participation in the DSA International Committee delegation to Cuba, published in Reform & Revolution on the …”
Letter: What's Good for the Goose?
April 13, 2024
“A new journal, Geese Magazine, has arrived on the scene with its first issue, Storming Heaven. A promissory title. Having read through its articles and thought over its …”
Letter: Let's Vote For Nobody
April 11, 2024
“Movements of popular discontent often manifest around anti-establishment underdog presidential campaigns. In the United States, these have resulted in the successful elections of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, …”
Letter: Remarks on the Finkelstein/Lazare Debate on Gaza
April 4, 2024
“A few weeks ago, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel on the current genocide in Gaza being conducted by Israel. The panel was organized in person at …”
Letter: The Gaza Ghetto
March 27, 2024
“The crime now taking place in Gaza is fast approaching its sixth month and there is no indication that it will end any time soon. The drama of …”