Why Socialists Must be Abolitionists: Challenging Carcerality in Socialist Spaces
The socialist movement must oppose the carceral institutions and logic deployed by the ruling class and the left alike for the repression of the working …
Letter: Notes on Citizenship
Citizenship is in the air. It makes a lot of sense that readers of Cosmonaut would embrace this. A cursory investigation will find citizenship to …
The Adolescence of a Concept: “Dictatorship of the Proletariat” in Karl Kautsky’s Revolutionary Writings
Karl Kautsky’s writings on the dictatorship of the proletariat serve as a waypoint between Marx and Lenin, Ian Szabo argues in an analysis of Kautsky’s …
Letter: Response to MDC DSA Steering
I read this “Kangaroo Court” article and while I agree with it, I would like to highlight some claims that can be misconstrued. Considering that …
Letter: White Republicanism, a Reply to Luke Pickrell
I am not alone in finding Luke Pickrell’s insistence on democratic republicanism and constitutional critique repetitive, un-insightful, and racially ignorant. Blindspots that were present in …
Letter: Never Question the Union
I read the interplay between comrades Pollock and Mann’s letters on the Amazon Christmas strike with interest and disappointment. That disappointment is, however, unsurprising. From …
The MDC DSA Steering Committee’s Kangaroo Court
Alicent Muning investigates the leadership practices of the Metro DC DSA’s outgoing steering committee, uncovering a long history of undemocratic behavior and abuses of power. …
Letter: “Doing Bezos’ Bidding for Free”? A Reply to Ira Pollock
When I read Ira Pollock’s vitriolic letter to Cosmonaut attacking Jennifer Albert Mann’s letter “Did Amazon Even Go On Strike?”—where I was also thrown into …
Letter: Doing Bezos’ Bidding for Free
Cosmonaut recently published a letter “Did Amazon Workers Even Go On Strike?” by book author Jennifer Albert Mann. Though Mann says she is simply posing …
The Socialist Party of America’s Constitutional Critique
Luke Pickrell covers the emergence of constitutional criticism among US left-wing organizations at the turn of the 20th century, highlighting the democratic republicanism of those …
Letter: Did Amazon Even Go On Strike?
At some point before the holidays, it was announced that Amazon was going out on strike. To say I was excited would be an understatement. …
Circuit Breakers: Profit, Bubbles, Crisis, and Chokepoints in the Tech Economy
Gary Levi analyzes the nature of speculative investment bubbles in the tech industry and conjectures on the likely direction that labor struggles will take in …
White Hoods and Pinkertons with Chad Pearson
Isaac, Cliff, and Jay interview Chad Pearson, author of the book Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century. We discuss the …
Letter: Towards an Independent Workers Slate
The socialist movement has reached a crossroads in the United States–the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), doubly so. With the Democratic Party enormously discrediting itself …