Strip away all the muddle, all the hoopla, all the baggage and then you can begin to understand what Socialism is actually about. Noam Chomsky explains how the term has been, in essence, denatured and is quite meaningless except as a dog-whistle for the normative defenders of the the capitalist status-quo. Filed under: Education Tagged: […]
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wmtc: marxism 2011 in brief, with more to follow, i hope
Thirty-five talks (total), seven talks (attended), three panel discussions, three amazing short films. Several pints of beer, countless interesting ideas, dozens of thought-provoking comments, not enough sleep. Twice brought to tears of inspiration an…
Continue readingwmtc: in lieu of travel, baseball and socialism
I’ll be spending the next few days with several things I am passionate about: baseball, socialism, good friends – and Allan. Today we’re heading to Windsor, having dinner with “Gito and Mrtew”, then tomorrow seeing the Red Sox in Detroit. Hooray, a day…
Continue readingkirbycairo: Marxism and the Continued Cold-War Rhetoric of the Right. . . . .
Am I the only one who is amazed by the Conservatives who condemn fairly mainstream centrists and mild leftists with epithets such as “Marxist” and “Communist” because they are vaguely critical of the extremes of neo-liberalsim and afraid of the implica…
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Libertarianism, Anarchism, Socialism and Democracy
Fundamental questions And The future of humanity on earth Or, Further reflections on political economy in the real world The questions of philosophy, and in particular, political philosophy, are of course large: and the implications of our responses, v…
Continue readingbastard.logic: Choosy Moms Choose Teleprompter
by matttbastard Much like wealth redistribution, she was for it before she was against it. (Read Katrina vanden Heuvel on ‘Palinland’, and then try your goddamndest to not give Palin’s latest scorchingly stupid [yet unfortunately all-too-effective] PR offensive any more … Continue reading →
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