Bung Karno itu selama masih mahasiswa sudah membaca banyak buku, termasuk buku tulisan pandangan berhaluan kiri termasuk Engels Marx, yang banyak berpengaruh dalam jalan pikiran beliau dan kalau tidak keliru waktu melakukan pidato pembelaannya di depan pengadilan Belanda ( Dibawah Bendera Revolusi [?] beliau mengucip apa yang dibacanya.
Sebagai mahasiswa yang tidak pernah keluar negeri, patut dinilai kehebatannya beliau bisa berbahasa Inggris, Belanda (tentunya), Perancis, Jerman, bila dibandingkan dengan kaum akademisi sekarang, pulang balik ke luarnegeri, bahasa Inggris saja tidak kuat dikuasai. Agaknya, 4 points dari pancasila sesudah silah pertama keTuhanan yang mahasaesa itu adalah pandangan beraliran sosialisme. Di Indonesia dibicarakan pancasila sebagai azas tunggal, setia pancasila etc tetapi dasar insipirasi pandangan seperti dalam 4 points tsb tidak diteliti, diajarkan, diselidiki dari segi ilmu pengetahuan dari sumber resmi, tetapi malah dilarang. Jadi bagaimana bisa maju? Yang dihebatkan ialah ajaran surgawi, sampai ucapan merdeka! dan bebas! pun, yang maksudnya bebas dari segala penderitaan diganti dengan ucapan "asalamalaikum" waktu berbicara dihadapan umum. Jadi jangan kaget kalau asalamailakum juga bagi kemiskinan dan korupsi untuk merajalela. Atau bagaimana ----- Original Message ----- From: "BDG KUSUMO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:12 AM Subject: [mediacare] Terima kasih Sunny ---> Goenawan Mohamad: "Liberalisme adalah suatu skandal" > Terimakasih, akan saya cari. Bung Karno juga telah sering menganjurkan > pemakaian pisau analisis Marxistis, yang ternyata berlaku sampai tidak > tahu > kapan. > Salam, Bismo DG > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Sunny > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:54 PM > Subject: Re: [nasional-list] Mas Bismo ---> Goenawan Mohamad: > "Liberalisme adalah suatu skandal" > > > Silahkan baca ini kalau bisa didapat di perpustakaan setempat : > > John Cassidy, "THE RETURN OF KARL MARX," The New Yorker, October 20, > 1997, > p. 248 > > Keywords > Capitalism; > Communism; > Economics; > Marx, Karl > THE NEXT THINKER about Karl Marx's influence as an economist... Writer > was > talking with a college friend who now worked at a big Wall Street > investment > bank... To my surprise, he brought up Karl Marx. "The longer I spend on > Wall > Street, the more convinced I am that Marx was right," he said. I assumed > he > was joking. "There is a Nobel Prize waiting for the economist who > resurrects > Marx and puts it all together in a coherent model," he continued, quite > seriously. "I am absolutely convinced that Marx's approach is the best > way > to look at capitalism." I didn't hide my astonishment. We had both > studied > economics during the early eighties at Oxford, where most of our teachers > agreed with Keynes that Marx's economic theories were "complicated > hocus-pocus" and Communism was "an insult to our intelligence." The > prevailing attitude among bright students of our generation was that > Marx's > arguments were fit only for polytechnic lecturers and aspiring Labour > Party > politicians... More than fifty years ago, Edmund Wilson noted that much > of > Marx's prose "hypnotizes the reader with its paradoxes and eventually > puts > him to sleep." The passing decades have not made the going any easier. > Marx > was ludicrously prolix... The writer gradually began to understand what > his > friend meant. In many ways, Marx's legacy has been obscured by the > failure > of Communism, which wasn't his primary interest. In fact, he had little > to > say about how a socialist society should operate, and what he did write, > about the withering away of the state and so on, wasn't very > helpful--something Lenin and his comrades quickly discovered after > seizing > power... When Marx wasn't driving the reader to distraction, he wrote > riveting passages about globalization, inequality, political corruption, > monopolization, technical progress, the decline of high culture, and the > enervating nature of modern existence--issues that economists are now > confronting anew... Marx was born in 1818, and died in 1883... Marx > wasn't a > crude reductionist, but he did believe that the way in which society > organized production ultimately shaped people's attitudes and beliefs. > Capitalism, for example, made human beings subjugate themselves to base > avarice... "Globalization" is the buzzword of the late twentieth century, > on > the lips of everybody from Jiang Zemin to Tony Blair, but Marx predicted > most of its ramifications a hundred and fifty years ago... Globalization > is > set to become the biggest political issue of the next century... In one > way, > Marx's efforts were a failure. His mathematical model of the economy, > which > depended on the idea that labor is the source of all value, was riven > with > internal inconsistencies and is rarely studied these days.... One > important > lesson Marx taught is that capitalism tends toward monopoly--an > observation > that was far from obvious in his day--giving rise to a need for strong > regulation.... Likewise endogenous-growth theory models are undoubtedly > Marxist in spirit, since their main aim is to demonstrate how technical > progress emerges from the competitive process, and not from Heaven, as in > the neoclassical model. Describes Marx's "theory of immiseration" which > says > that profits would increase faster than wages, so that workers would > become > poorer relative to capitalists over time, and this is what happened > during > the last two decades. Inflation-adjusted wages are still below their 1973 > levels, but profits have soared. ... A key question for the future, the > answer to which will determine the fate of the soaring slock market and > much > else, is whether capital can hold on to its recent gains. Writer visits > Highgate Cemetery, where he visited Marx's grave... Perhaps me most > enduring > element of Marx's work is his discussion of where power lies in a > capitalist > society. This is a subject that economists, with their fixation on > consumer > choice, have neglected for decades, but recently a few of them have > returned > to Marx's idea that the circumstances in which people are forced to make > choices are often just as important as the choices... Marx, of course, > delighted in declaring that politicians merely carry water for their > corporate paymasters... The sight of a President granting shady > businessmen > access to the White House in return for campaign contributions would have > shocked him not at all. Despite his errors, he was a man for whom our > economic system held few surprises. His books will be worth reading as > long > as capitalism endures. > > The New Yorker's archives are not yet fully available online. The full > text > of all articles published before May, 2006, can be found in "The Complete > New Yorker," which is available for purchase on DVD and hard drive. Many > New > Yorker stories published since December, 2000, are available through > Nexis. > Individual back issues may be purchased from our customer-service > department > at 1-800-825-2510. > > > Mailing list: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mediacare/ > > Blog: > http://mediacare.blogspot.com > > http://www.mediacare.biz > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.13.32/1032 - Release Date: > 9/26/2007 8:20 PM > >
