Cosmopod

Disarming the Magic Bullet

Mar 31, 2022

Renato Flores responds to Cam W’s argument for Maoism and the mass line. Gabriel Palcic reads aloud.

American Communist Labor Strategy during the Third Period (1929-34) with Victor Devinatz

Mar 28, 2022

Annie and Cliff join Victor Devinatz, a management theorist and labor historian, to discuss the formation of the Trade Union Unity League (TUUL), its successes and failures, and the role it played in the development of the labor movement. We focus on its emergence from the end of the Trade Union Education...

Which Way Forward for the Marxist Left?

Mar 24, 2022

In light of the liquidation of DSA’s BDS working group, Charlie Frank argues that Marxists must continue the political fight rather than turn towards localist activism or the various left-wing sects. Comrade Mike reads...

The Farthest Promised Land: An Introduction to New Zealand's Political Economy

Mar 21, 2022

Giacomo Bianchino and Rudy join Amal for an introductory discussion on New Zealand's (Aotearoa in the Maori language) political economy, with a focus on how the country was settled and connected to the world market. We discuss the nature of the first settlements, the dispossession of the Maori, the Treaty of...

Beyond Son Nica: Revolutionary Popular Music in Sandinista Nicaragua with T.M. Scruggs

Mar 14, 2022

Jackson joins ethnomusicologist and anthropologist T.M. Scruggs to discuss Nicaraguan popular music in the decades leading up to the 1979 Sandinista Revolution, as well as during the first Sandinista government from 1979 to 1990. With a focus on the work of FSLN-affiliated musician Carlos Mejía Godoy, we dive into...