Lehman's collapse almost brought down the money-market industry By Sam
Mamudi, MarketWatch September 9 2009
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- As the threat of a Lehman Brothers
bankruptcy grew last September, many money-market fund managers were
wary but not worried.
Their industry had quietly grown over
On 9/9/09, Phil Walden p...@pwalden.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
I have the GM bankruptcy petition in front of me and under an item called
Employee Obligations it details that an amount of $20 billion has been
paid to the unions, although over what period it does not say.
Have officials in the GM
The State and Revolution By Vladimir Ilich Lenin
The State: a Product of the Irreconcilability of Class Antagonisms
Special Bodies
That lack of class struggle perspective is the legacy of Reutherite opportunism.
Charles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Reuther
On 9/9/09, Phil Walden phil at pwalden.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
I have the GM
Walter Reuther
Walter Philip Reuther (September 1, 1907 – May 9, 1970) was an
American labor union leader, who made the United Automobile Workers a
major force not only in the auto industry but also in the Democratic
Party in the mid 20th century. He was a socialist in the early 1930s;
he
Ron Gettelfinger
Ron Gettelfinger in 2007Ronald A. Gettelfinger (born August 1, 1944)
is the current chief president of the industrial union United Auto
Workers. He has held the position since 2002.
Gettelfinger started his union involvement in 1964 in Louisville,
Kentucky, at the Louisville
UAW approves GM concessions
Published: May 29, 2009 at 4:18 PM
UPI
The United Auto Workers said members voted overwhelmingly to accept
concessions with General Motors Corp. as the U.S. automaker moves
toward bankruptcy.
UAW members voted 74 percent in favor of the deal that includes giving
up
Let us being with the most popular of Engels' works, The Origin of the
Family, Private Property and the State, the sixth edition of which was
published in Stuttgart as far back as 1894. We have to translate the
quotations from the German originals, as the Russian translations,
while very numerous,
On 9/11/09, c...@yorku.ca c...@yorku.ca wrote:
Unicolonial Ants Pose Challenge to Selfish Gene Theory
1) The first that must be stated unequivocally is that, for my part at least,
I
do not believe there is much evidence to suggest that there is a selfish
gene--- other than basic
Edmund Husserl
Edmund Husserl Western Philosophy
20th-century philosophy
Edmund Husserl
Full name Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl
Born April 8, 1859 (Prostějov, Moravia)
Died April 28, 1938 (aged 79) (Freiburg, Germany)
School/tradition Phenomenology
Main interests Epistemology, Mathematics
The elaboration of phenomenology
Some years after the publication of his main work, the Logische
Untersuchungen (Logical Investigations; first edition, 1900-1901),
Husserl made some key conceptual elaborations which led him to assert
that in order to study the structure of consciousness, one would
The Nazi era
Professor Husserl was denied the use of the library at Freiburg as a
result of the anti-Jewish legislation the National Socialists (Nazis)
passed in April 1933. It is rumoured that his former pupil and Nazi
Party member, Martin Heidegger, informed Husserl that he was
discharged, but
The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl
[edit] Meaning and Object in Husserl
From Logical Investigations (1900/1901) to Experience and Judgment
(published in 1939), Husserl expressed clearly the difference between
meaning and object. He identified several different kinds of names.
For example, there are
Meaning and Object in Husserl
From Logical Investigations (1900/1901) to Experience and Judgment
(published in 1939), Husserl expressed clearly the difference between
meaning and object. He identified several different kinds of names.
For example, there are names that have the role of properties
From Logical Investigations (1900/1901) to Experience and Judgment
(published in 1939), Husserl expressed clearly the difference between
meaning and object. He identified several different kinds of names.
For example, there are names that have the role of properties that
uniquely identify an
Preface to the First Edition
The question of the state is now acquiring particular importance both
in theory and in practical politics. The imperialist war has immensely
accelerated and intensified the process of transformation of monopoly
capitalism into state-monopoly capitalism. The monstrous
Chapter 1
2. Special Bodies of Armed Men, Prisons, etc.
Engels continues:
“As distinct from the old gentile [tribal or clan] order,[2] the
state, first, divides its subjects according to territory
This division seems “natural” to us, but it costs a prolonged struggle
against the old
September 11, 2009 http://detnews.com/article/20090911/AUTO01/909110341
UAW a hard sell for Ford
Some say automaker's success hinders more concessions for union
BRYCE G. HOFFMAN
The Detroit News
As talks between
Facility selected to produce solar panels, batteries
Wixom plant will get new life as renewable energy park
Christina Rogers / The Detroit News
Wixom -- Two out-of-state renewable energy firms have selected Ford's
shuttered Wixom plant for an ambitious $725 million redevelopment
project, creating
3. The State: an Instrument for the Exploitation of the Oppressed Class
The maintenance of the special public power standing above society
requires taxes and state loans.
“Having pubic power and the right to levy taxes,” Engels writes, “the
officials now stand, as organs of society, above
And yet, concretely, we are in many ways at an historical anti-pole
with the situation in Russia in 1917. Lenin might chastise me for
dogmatic reference to _The State and Revolution_ given that the South
and Central American revolution has organized the working class
majorities in many countries
On 9/12/09, Shane Mage shm...@pipeline.com wrote:
On Sep 12, 2009, at 11:31 AM, c b wrote:
Lenin might chastise me for dogmatic reference to _The State and
Revolution_ given that the South
and Central American revolution has organized the working class
majorities in many countries so
On the contradiction implied in “John is a man”, we might ask is John
the only man ? If so, then the correct expression is “John is the
man”.
So, if John is a man , then there are other men. Joe is a man. Jack is
a man. Andrew is a man.
If John is identical with “a man” , and Joe is identical
Self-reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-reference
The Treachery Of Images (1928-29) by René Magritte depicts a pipe
along with text stating This is not a pipe.Self-reference occurs in
natural or formal languages when a sentence or formula refers to
itself. The reference may be
NATO chief proposes linked US/Russian/NATO defense
By ROBERT WIELAARD, Associated Press Writer Robert Wielaard,
Associated Press Writer 17 mins ago
BRUSSELS – The head of NATO called Friday for the U.S., Russia and
NATO to link their missile defense systems against potential new
nuclear threats
I missed this when it came out.
CB
U.S. May Not Recognize Results of Honduran Vote
By Mary Beth Sheridan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 4, 2009
The U.S. government on Thursday toughened its stance against
Honduras's coup leaders and supporters, threatening to put them in a
Top Stories, Video and Blog Posts for AlterNet
September 21st, 2009
http://www.alternet.org
___
BILL MOYERS: CONSERVATIVE RADICALS AND THE POLITICS OF VENGEANCE
By Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal
Intellectual conservatism is dead. And the
Cuba Undertakes Reforms in Midst of Economic Crisis
By Roger Burbach
September 20, 2009
http://globalalternatives.org/node/109
Carlos picks me up with his dated Soviet-made Lada at
the Jose Marti International Airport on a hot
sweltering day in Havana. It's been eight months since
I've seen
BARACK OBAMA MUST SEE MICHAEL MOORE'S NEW MOVIE (AND SO MUST YOU)!
By Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post
Michael goes directly to the beating heart of the economic
crisis ... The knot in your stomach starts to tighten -- and
the outrage starts to build.
On 9/22/09, andie nachgeborenen No state exists anymore that even
aspires to a nonmarket system, and none is likely to emerge.
CB: I know most American lefties consider the Chinese CP to be liars,
but I'm not one of them. They do claim to be aspiring to a non-market
system. Also, there
In memoriam: Holly Stand
by Kurt Stand
submitted to portside by the author
August 28, 2009
My mother, Hannelore (Holly) Stand, passed away on
August 16 after a lifetime of engagement in the
struggle for peace, equality and socialism. She was
born into a Ruhr coal-mining community in 1924; her
Hallelujuh !
A world first: Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE and MICHAEL CASEY, Associated Press Writers
Marilynn Marchione And Michael Casey, Associated Press Writers 34 mins
ago
BANGKOK – For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented
infection with the AIDS
We Made them Millions, and they Complain About Insurance
Lupe Chavez, a housekeeper at the San Francisco Hilton, tells her
story to David Bacon
TruthOut Perspective
http://www.truthout.org/092109A?n
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (9/18/09) -- I was born in Santa Tecla, near San
Salvador. My father
An infusion of new blood helps AFL-CIO make history
Author: John Wojcik
People's Weekly World Newspaper, 09/21/09 15:48
PITTSBURGH -- The appearance by President Barack Obama at the 26th
Convention of the AFL-CIO here last week was history in itself, coming
as it did after eight years of an
New Labor Leader Trumka Demands Real Reform on Wall
Street, Across the Economy
By Seth Michaels
Campaign for America's Future
September 22, 2009
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009093922/new-labor-leader-trumka-demands-real-reform-wall-street-across-economy
On Wall Street today, AFL-CIO
Michael Moore: Capitalism has proven it's failed
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/24/lkl.michael.moore/?imw=Y#cnnSTCVideo
'CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY' LA Premiere Screening Michael Moore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA7Suk465yEfeature=PlayListp=FB08A9BC67204E9Bindex=0playnext=1
On 9/28/09, waistli...@aol.com waistli...@aol.com wrote:
Seems MM latest movie: Capitalism: A Love Story is going to deepen the
dialogue about capitalism and alternatives to the free market economy,
morality
and ideology.
Love means never having to say you're sorry is the famous line form
On 9/29/09, waistli...@aol.com
CB. I agree. The more I thought about this , Moore is our most advanced
mass spokesperson. He is saying that capitalism _as a system_ has
failed. We often criticize liberal critiques of capitalism for not
raising a challenge to it as a system. Here is
Thanks
On 9/29/09, marxist front marxistfr...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
Dear comrades and friends,
The latest issue of the Indian ML journal Revolutionary Democracy is now
available. It is a double issue covering April and September 2009, consisting
of 190 pages.
Revolutionary Democracy is a
On 9/29/09, Shane Mage shm...@pipeline.com wrote:
On Sep 29, 2009, at 4:36 PM, c b wrote:
What is democracy?
CB: My short definition is popular sovereignty.
And so CB, coming full circle, endorses the slogan of the slaveocracy,
like Douglas in the debate with Lincoln.
CB: No, I haven't
Thinking like this, Shane could reach the conclusion that Socialist
Workers' Party had come full circle to the same ideas as Hitler's
National Socialist Workers Party. He's easily taken in by demogogy.
On 9/29/09, c b cb31...@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/29/09, Shane Mage shm...@pipeline.com wrote
Op-Ed Columnist
Obama at the Precipice
FRANK RICH
Published: September 26, 2009
THE most intriguing, and possibly most fateful, news of last week
could not be found in the health care horse-trading in Congress, or in
the international zoo at the United Nations, or in the Iran slapdown
in
It probably doesn't care much for you.
Dunayevskayaism forever !
On 9/29/09, Ralph Dumain rdum...@autodidactproject.org wrote:
Yeah, thanks for the Stalinit bullshit. How I hate third world revolutionism.
At 04:48 PM 9/29/2009, c b wrote:
Thanks
On 9/29/09, marxist front marxistfr
I have a different question. Why do women have a longer life
expectancy than men ?
CB
237 Reasons Why Women Have Sex
By Tanya Gold, The Guardian
Posted on September 29, 2009, Printed on September 29, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/142952/
Do you want to know why women have sex with men
On 9/29/09, waistli...@aol.com waistli...@aol.com wrote:
Communists and socialist are faced with a challenge; If you guys are
so
smart what kind of system do you propose and how will it generally
operate?
CB: True, but maybe we should dispense with these names in our mass
work,
On 9/30/09, waistli...@aol.com waistli...@aol.com wrote:
So, this layer of workers is asking a sophisticated question, a
question about the system, to the communists and socialists if you
guys are so smart what kind of system do you propose and how will it
operate generally operate ?, but
The New York Times / September 29, 2009
Books of The Times
The Waxing and Waning of America’s Political Right
By JACKSON LEARS
THE DEATH OF CONSERVATISM
By Sam Tanenhaus
123 pages. Random House. $17.
One puzzling feature of American politics is that the people who call
themselves
Cover Story
Capital offenses
Michael Moore talks up his new film, Reagan's destruction, Jimmy
Carter and getting booted out of GM
http://metrotimes.com/screens/story.asp?id=14402
By Corey Hall
Once again Michael Moore is on the outside looking in. Flint's
prodigal son, and the world's most
Found at: http://www.pww.org/article/articleprint/17115/
Hundreds rally to stop Chrysler plant closing
Author: John Rummel
STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — “Build them where they sell them” was the
battle cry from
Oldest human skeleton offers new clues to evolution
Story Highlights
Researchers have unveiled a 4.4 million-year-old skeleton of a hominid female
The fossil, nicknamed Ardi, may be the oldest hominid skeleton ever found
It replaces Lucy, a much-publicized skeleton that dates back about 3
Free Screenings Tonight of Capitalism for the Jobless and Homeless in
America's Hardest Hit Cities (plus local benefit premieres all across the
country)
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Friends,
We're just one day away from the widest opening I've ever had for any of my
movies. Tomorrow, Friday,
Tea Party Movement Returns Christian Right to Its Racist Past
By Michelle Goldberg, The American Prospect
Posted on October 2, 2009, Printed on October 2, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/142988/
Now that popular conservatism has given itself over so avidly to
racial resentment, it's curious to
2009 Red October Campaign
Roll back the corrupting intersection between private
accumulation and public service!
Blade Nzimande, General Secretary SACP
Umsebenzi Online
October, 2009
http://www.sacp.org.za/main.php?include=pubs/umsebenzi/2009/vol8-17.html#redpen
On Sunday 4 October 2009, the
, which is to say, part of the
Establishment, and like all liberals now, not even that liberal. The
author, though, is full of it. The main reason to watch TV is not for
quality, but to keep up with the filth that has colonized everyone's minds.
At 01:47 PM 10/9/2009, c b wrote:
Michael Moore
On 10/9/09, Ralph Dumain The
author, though, is full of it. The main reason to watch TV is not for
quality, but to keep up with the filth that has colonized everyone's minds.
^^^
CB: Well, she did say:
Yes, of course, most shows are crap, featuring clichéd writing and
god-awful,
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1886/ludwig-feuerbach/ch04.htm
Frederick Engels
Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
Part 4: Marx
Turkey, Armenia sign historic accord
By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer Matthew Lee, Associated Press
Writer 2 hrs 32 mins ago
ZURICH – Turkey and Armenia signed a landmark agreement Saturday to
establish diplomatic relations and open their sealed border after a
century of enmity, as U.S.
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Peace, Matt
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:52 PM, c b cb31...@gmail.com wrote:
post-Fordism and geographical scattering of
Charles Brown charlesb at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us
Tue Apr 28 19:52:54 MDT 1998
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Get Off Obama's Back ...second thoughts from Michael Moore
Friends,
Last night my wife asked me if I thought I was a little too hard on
Obama in my letter yesterday congratulating him on his Nobel Prize.
No, I don't think so, I replied. I thought it was important to
remind him he's now conducting
Congratulations President Obama on the Nobel Peace Prize -- Now Please Earn it!
Dear President Obama,
How outstanding that you've been recognized today as a man of peace.
Your swift, early pronouncements -- you will close Guantanamo, you
will bring the troops home from Iraq, you want a nuclear
-
From: c b cb31...@gmail.com
Sent: Oct 12, 2009 11:08 AM
To: Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues raised by Karl Marx and
the thinkers he inspired marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu,
pe...@lists.csuchico.edu
Subject: [Marxism-Thaxis] Get Off Obama's Back ...second thoughts from
Ralph Dumain
Now what role does Catholicism play in his film?
^
CB: I give up . What role does Catholicism play in his film now ?
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of just-in-time delivery. World cars, for example, are produced from
computer coordinated globally scattered points of production.
Workers of the whole globe, unite !
Hardt/Negri's Commonwealth as reviewed in WSJ
c b cb31450 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 9 11:04:19 HST 2009
Turning Left and Turning Right
By Victor Grossman
Berlin
October 7th marked the sixtieth anniversary of the
founding of the German Democratic Republic, and the
media let no-one forget it! Sarcasm prevailed, the
attacks were all-embracing and almost interrupted, the
only GDR relics spared in the
-
If capitalism needs racism, then capitalism should be impossible in an
ethnically homogenous society, such as Iceland.
^
CB: Britain was enthically homogenous at the primitive accumulation
phase of capitalism , too. The racism was in colonialism and the slave
trade . Capitalism would
Obama is the product of a certain political moment and
system
The system let Obama be president. But he still may not
be able to beat it
Even if he is pushing the US in the right direction, it
is unlikely to be far or fast enough in a political
culture resisting reform
by Gary Younge
The
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch12.htm
Karl Marx. Capital Volume One
Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus Value
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch13.htm
Karl Marx. Capital Volume One
Chapter Thirteen: Co-operation
Friday, October 16, 2009
Teamsters fight Chrysler, GM cuts
David Shepardson / Detroit News Washington Bureau
Washington -- Union car haulers are angry with Chrysler Group LLC for
shifting some work to nonunion companies to save money, and they fear
General Motors Co. may follow suit.
The
Fordism
Fordism, named after Henry Ford, refers to various social theories
about production and related socio-economic phenomena.[1] It has
varying but related meanings in different fields, as well as for
Marxist and non-Marxist scholars.
Contents [hide]
1 Introduction
2 The history behind
(continued)
Fordism in Western Europe
According to historian Charles Maier, Fordism proper was preceded in
Europe by Taylorism, a technique of labor discipline and workplace
organization, based upon supposedly scientific studies of human
efficiency and incentive systems. It attracted European
Fordism (continued)
Other meanings
The concept may also refer to some of Ford's social views:
It may also be applied to the fictional religion-like ideology
described in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World. 'Our Ford', a
parody on Our Lord, provides a centre-point in the religious
celebration
Ford River Rouge Complex
Ford River Rouge Complex
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark District
Aerial view of the Rouge Complex in 1942
Location: Dearborn, Michigan
Built/Founded: 1917 - 1928
Architect: Albert Kahn
Governing body: Private
Added to NRHP: June
(continuation)
Ford Rouge Center
Today, the Rouge site is home to Ford's Rouge Center. This industrial
park includes six Ford factories on 600 acres (2.4 km²) of land, as
well as steelmaking operations run by Severstal North America, a
Russian steelmaker. The new Dearborn Truck factory famously
Color of Law
Will Obama Save America From Capitalism?
By David A. Love, JD - BlackCommentator.com Editorial
Board
Black Commentator
October 1, 2009
http://www.blackcommentator.com/346/346_col_obama_save_america_from_capitalism.html
Michael Moore's new film, Capitalism: A Love Story,
looks and
Pass Rush: Why the NFL Sacked Limbaugh
By Eugene Robinson
Friday, October 16, 2009
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/15/AR2009101502770.html
Rush Limbaugh, are you ready for some football?
Um, I guess not.
The right-wing radio host's attempt to become part-owner
of
http://legacy.lclark.edu/~soan221/fordism2.html
REPRESENTATIONS OF WORK IN TV ADS
Fordism
A mid-1990s ad for Ford Motor Company opens with a still photograph
of Henry Ford, nominated, on the screen, his own scratchy voice-over
apparently doing the narrating. It sounds as if it is part of a
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/Anthro/Anth101/taylorism_and_fordism.htm
Taylorism and Fordism (see Antonio Gramsci’s Notebook 22)
TAYLORISM
Frederick Taylor (1911) Principles of Scientific Management
devised a means of detailing a division of labor in time-and-motion
studies and a wage system
fordism As defined by Antonio Gramsci, this refers to a form of
productive organization thought to be typical of advanced capitalism
and exemplified by Henry Ford's system of mass automobile production.
This allied labour management according to the principles of
scientific management
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/2379/carlint.htm
A Controversy About the Transformation of the Working Class
MYTHS OF DISPERSED FORDISM
Advocom/Echanges et Mouvement
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Fordism and Post-Fordism
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Fordism and Post-Fordism
Fordism and Post-Fordism, stages of modern capitalism, comprising the
so-called “Golden Age of Capitalism” from the 1940s and the early
1970s, characterized by institutions of
http://legacy.lclark.edu/~soan221/fordism2.html
REPRESENTATIONS OF WORK IN TV ADS
Craft Production and Deskilling
Craft production has been so far displaced from everyday
consciousness that it rarely appears even as a trace except as a
testimonial to the elite status of consumption objects
Rosa L has got CB again ! What a whiz
CB
^
Mr B Up To His Old Tricks
Mr B has once again popped his head over the parapet in a debate about
'dialectical contradictions'.
^
CB: Rosa, I'm over here. Standing out in the open all the time.
^^^
But, does he actually tell us what
Rosa L: Fortunately, we needn’t speculate about Marx’s opinion of
Hegel since he very kindly added the following comments to Das
Kapital:
“After a quotation from the preface to my ‘Criticism of Political
Economy,’ Berlin, 1859, pp. IV-VII, where I discuss the materialistic
basis of my method, the
This is more from over at
http://marxisthumanistinitiative.org/2009/05/05/brief-comments-on-the-relationship-between-marxism-and-the-hegelian-dialectic/comment-page-2/#comment-147
where Rosa L argues that Marx's method , his dialectic , is
totally not Hegel's, that he extirpates Hegel.
CB:
Now back to the contradiction in “John is a man”.
Put succinctly, John is both the same and different from Joe, Rosa,
Charles or any other “man”, human. Their sameness is their humanity,
their type. The difference is their particularity, individuality. The
contradiction of the type with the
The new normal
by: Sam Webb
October 21 2009
tags: Commentary, Economy, Recession
Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan Chase are back to the old normal.
Profits are soaring - $3.2 billion and $3.6 billion respectively in
the third quarter. Bonuses of $23 billion (yes, I got it right -
23,000,000,000
On 10/22/09, Shane Mage shm...@pipeline.com wrote:
On Oct 22, 2009, at 7:54 AM, c b wrote:
Rosa: ” For Marx, putting Hegel on ‘his feet’ is to crush his head.”
CB: Oh really
If Marx used absolutely nothing of Hegel, totally extirpated him, then
why does he say he is a follower
Frederick Engels
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
II
[Dialectics]
In the meantime, along with and after the French philosophy of
Frederick Engels
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
II
[Dialectics]
Further, we find upon closer investigation that the two poles of an
antithesis, positive and negative, e.g., are as inseparable as they
are opposed, and that despite all their opposition, they mutually
interpenetrate. And we
Below, Engels explains further the “is and is not” of Hegelian or
dialectical contradiction. Can Rosa see it , yet ?
CB
Frederick Engels
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
II
[Dialectics]
In the meantime, along with and after the French philosophy of the
18th century, had arisen the new German
In the next two paragraphs of the chapter “Dialectics” of _Socialism:
Utopian and Scientific_, Engels describes Rosa L’s contradiction
“free”, metaphysical , formal logical thinking.
CB
^^^
But this conception (dialectics), correctly as it expresses the
general character of the picture of
Frederick Engels
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
III
[Historical Materialism]
The materialist conception of history starts from
Frederick Engels
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
III [Historical Materialism] (continued)
We have seen that the capitalistic mode of production thrust its way
into a society of commodity-producers, of individual producers, whose
social bond was the exchange of their products. But every
The fact that the socialized organization of production within the
factory has developed so far that it has become incompatible with the
anarchy of production in society, which exists side by side with and
dominates it, is brought home to the capitalist themselves by the
violent concentration of
When, at last, it becomes the real representative of the whole of
society, it renders itself unnecessary. As soon as there is no longer
any social class to be held in subjection; as soon as class rule, and
the individual struggle for existence based upon our present anarchy
in production, with the
Reflections by Comrade Fidel
The Alba and Copenhagen
By Fidel Castro
Prensa Latina
October 20, 2009
http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=127392Itemid=1
The festivities associated to the 7th ALBA Summit, held
in the historic Bolivian region of Cochabamba, showed
Michael Moore's Action Plan: 15 Things Every American Can Do Right Now
By Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com
Posted on October 22, 2009, Printed on October 23, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/143444/
Friends,
It's the #1 question I'm constantly asked after people see my movie:
OK -- so now what
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