Marxism

Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- 6 days ago
Jonathan Jones: Kondratiev, Hobsbawm and Marx offer challenging and subversive accounts of the modern world today ...

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President and CEO Tom Donohue praises his group's ability to have prevented making such things as cheaper drugs and environmental technology more accessible to all. In remarks before the US Chamber of Commerce's "5th Annual Intellectual Property Summit" yesterday, Chamber President and CEO Tom Donohue made some startling comments that should raise the eyebrows of those that think that piracy is merely about movies, music, or software. Intellectual property rights is also about much more important concerns like health education, and even the environment, which Donohue lauds his organization's ability to have prevented the effort by some to make developments in these areas accessible to all. Donohue notes his ability to take on those trying to make cheaper drugs available to the sick and injured in third-world countries around the world: "For example, earlier this year at the World Health Organization, our broad coalition of associations and companies were able to turn back an anti-IP effort and send the message that such assaults against innovation norms will no longer go unchallenged. Activist NGOs had been urging the World Health Organization to oppose IP protections for pharmaceutical products, medical devices, and biotechnology. ...

Source: www.dissidentvoice.org --- 19 days ago
Attention all Marxists! If you thought class struggle was the motive force of history, as certain manifesto writers have claimed, you are sadly mistaken. A new book by Daniel Lord Smail (On Deep History and the Brain, California, 2007) has come up with the true motive force. This book is reviewed by Steven Mithen (”When [...] ...

Source: www.brusselsjournal.com --- 7 days ago
Mona Sahlin , leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, confirmed that her party and the Greens want to form a coalition government in 2010. What kind of policy will such a government follow? Miljöpartiet de Gröna, the Swedish Green Party, state on their official website that the education system should start working for "gender equality" at an early age; children need counterweights to the gender roles which girls and boys are raised into. Therefore teachers and personnel in child care services must finish an education in equality before they are given their exams. They also want to abolish grades in schools: "We want to do away with the grade system [in today's schools]. Grades contribute considerably to stress and are not a fair and objective system of measuring the individual's potential." The Green Party favor ideological Globalism in its purest form. They want a "world citizenship" to replace the national citizenship, totally free migration on a global basis, global taxes and a strengthened United Nations to ensure a just world order: "We do not believe in artificial borders. We have a vision of unrestricted immigration and emigration, where people have the right to live and work wherever they please… We want Sweden to become an international role model by producing a plan to implement unrestricted immigration." They have a strong focus on anti-discrimination and racism, and desire harsh and swift penalties for "discrim ...

Source: www.democracyforum.co.uk --- 7 days ago
March 14, 2005 Issue Copyright © 2005 The American Conservative Marxism of the Right by Robert Locke Free spirits, the ambitious, ex-socialists, drug users, and sexual eccentrics often find an attractive political philosophy in libertarianism, the idea that individual freedom should be the sole rule of ethics and government. Libertarianism offers its believers a clear conscience to do things society presently restrains, like make more money, have more sex, or take more drugs. It promises a consistent formula for ethics, a rigorous framework for policy analysis, a foundation in American history, and the application of capitalist efficiencies to the whole of society. But while it contains substantial grains of truth, as a whole it is a seductive mistake. There are many varieties of libertarianism, from natural-law libertarianism (the least crazy) to anarcho-capitalism (the most), and some varieties avoid some of the criticisms below. But many are still subject to most of them, and some of the more successful varieties—I recently heard a respected pundit insist that classical liberalism is libertarianism—enter a gray area where it is not really clear that they are libertarians at all. But because 95 percent of the libertarianism one encounters at cocktail parties, on editorial pages, and on Capitol Hill is a kind of commonplace “street” libertarianism, I decline to allow libertarians the sophistical trick of using a vulgar libertarianism ...

Source: www.wspus.org --- 10 days ago
Is the “world of abundance” traditionally advocated by socialists feasible? Not according to Claude Bitot, known as the author of a book on the future of the movement for communism (see Socialist Standard, December 1995), in his recent book Quel autre monde possible? (“What other world is possible”?). Echoing the ideas of some Greens but denying any affinity with them as “bobos” (trendies), Bitot argues that the only viable form of communism (or socialism) today is the austere pre-industrial communism advocated by Babeuf and his followers during the French Revolution ... ...

Source: roguejew.wordpress.com --- 2 days ago
A plumber asks Obama what he’s going to do to help the economy out. Obama responds by saying he’s going to give people like him money that other people worked hard to earn. Re-Distribution of wealth. Buying of votes. That my friends is how Democrats play this game. From Flopping Aces: One man in particular questioned Obama’s tax plan, [...] ...

Source: grizzlygroundswell.com --- 11 days ago
[...] … let me bring good tidings to the Muslims: Allah willing, the American empire will very soon collapse. They object to any talk about the destruction of the state of Israel. … That’s not the issue. We say that Allah willing, within 20 to 12 years, America will collapse. This won’t [...] ...

Source: properlyscared.wordpress.com --- 34 days ago
My newest article at Inside Catholic.com explores Obama’s Marxist formation. There is a bit of a food fight in progress over there–feel free to join the fun. Doubtless you’ve all heard radio talking heads mention–with deserved derision–Obama’s claim to fame as a “community organizer.” What excactly is that? What IS a “community organizer”? The phrase [...] ...

Source: www.bipolarnation.com --- 14 days ago
The Senate passed the huge bailout yesterday, meaning now the House of Representatives will essentially get a second crack at this bill that is so dedicated to converting America to socialism. Operating under the Jeffersonian rule that more government necessarily produces bad government, this couldn’t be much worse for America. FDR said the only thing we [...] ...

Source: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com --- 39 days ago
Norm says:In its classical and standard forms Marxism made no real space for ethics; it gave no explicit or independent weight to the political importance of moral principles. Worse than that, some of its most famous thinkers, starting with Marx... ...

Source: www.fwicki.com --- 37 days ago
Wilfred Sellars And Marxism Dissident Voice, CA - 14 hours ago This is what Lenin thought when he said consciousness or sensation is a picture of reality. Crane says it is the view of the early Wittgenstein (of the ... ...

Source: ecarson.wordpress.com --- 26 days ago
This is the second part of a blog piece I wrote earlier entitled The Marx Question Part I. Marxism derived from the philosophical and ideological construction of Karl Marx, a Prussian born Jew. Marx’s beliefs were brought forth when he concluded that the Industrial Revolution was manifested by the bourgeoisie to subordinate the laboring poor [...] ...

Source: moxie.nu --- 42 days ago
I am happy to report, I am now 7 dollars richer. Because I promised to spend like a Democrat, I will use your fine dollars for web hosting. And I thank those brave individuals who participated in my redistribution of wealth project. Bravo. Especially appreciated, was the humorous donor who gave me .02 cents. Just enough to [...] ...

Source: moxie.nu --- 42 days ago
Steve’s got the scoop. Hint, it involves toothless folks who collect cans, sell sperm and blood. All so they can buy a 40 ounce. And help Hillary pay off her campaign debt. Sounds good. I’m going to the corner now to demand money from MY local homeless intellectuals. Everyone can play the redistribution of wealth game! It’s fun. [...] ...

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Source: apologiesdemanded.blogspot.com --- 18 days ago
From: Jason Date: Sep 22, 2008 10:44 PM Subject: "We The Peopl e" must now be bipar tisan . . . . . . . ..... Body: What Can I Say? I had plann ed to write a blog tonig ht about this whole econo mic mess. About Obama being again st the bail out and then for the bail out and then takin g no posit ion as the spine less whore he is, so he can wait and see what happe ns and then use that for his polit ical BS games . About McCai n being again st the bail out and then ultim ately for the bail out and wonde ring what the hell is it with these candi dates who can' t hold an opini on for even 2 days. About congr ess being basic ally usele ss as they are suppo sed to hold the purse strin gs of the money but have been utter ly devoi d of any leade rship or even under stand ing their own job. About the Bush Admin istra tion and the Fed and how they have natio naliz ed the banki ng, insur ance, and mortg age indus tries almos t overn ight witho ut even a Democ rat to help them along until it comes time to OK it and add some more socia lism and pass it on up to his desk. All these thing s were in my head and then it hit me. With the excep tion of Ron Paul maybe , there is not one singl e polit ician in Washi ngton that is compe tent or knows what they are doing . Like it or not, this count ry is on the path to socia lism throu gh eithe r Party in their curre nt forms . The Ameri can Peopl e no longe r have any say in this count ry. Our gover nment ...

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