Obama, Wall Street and the US Automakers
Weakening the economy, leaving it even more debt-strapped.
by Michael Hudson
Global Research, December 7, 2008
There is a strange double standard in President-elect Obama's largess with
the public purse when it comes to Wall Street's banks and
Well, revisited only briefly, but I will have to make a careful study of Karl
Korsch’s 1923 book Marxism and Philosophy when I can squeeze it into my reading
schedule. These issues are all old now, but they were new then, and they
continue to resurface in our milieu. I’ve just read a few
Condescension, and thinking oneself no better, are the same. To adapt to the
weakness of the oppressed is to affirm in it the pre-condition of power, and to
develop in oneself the coarseness, insensibility and violence needed to exert
domination . . . .
-- Theodor W. Adorno
I have
I think the link may have dropped out of this reference:
“Love Is the Fulfilling of the Law” by Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury
So here it is:
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/HJ-SP1.html
The Red Dean was hardly atypical of fellow-traveling Christian socialists who
pimped for
Editorial:
The Revolutionary Role of the Human Mind
”I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they
knew they were slaves.”
- Harriet Tubman, abolitionist and a conductor on the underground railroad.
The historical truth of Harriet Tubman's words applies, not
Revolution in the Means of Production
In the context of the industrial revolution Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels
discovered that social revolution is defined by a series of stages whose
fundamental origins are technological revolution in the means ofproduction. As
the
technological
Reorganization of the American State
full: _http://www.lrna.org/2-pt/v18ed2art5.html_
(http://www.lrna.org/2-pt/v18ed2art5.html)
One, two and three-strike laws with long mandatory sentences, laws to try
children as adults, the advent of zero-tolerance laws, the rise of “
quality-of-life”
Populism in America
Editor’s note: Excerpted from the March 2005 report of The LRNA Steering
Committee.
America is heading toward a class confrontation. Every facet of society is
beginning to polarize. Underlying it all is the qualitative change in the
economy and the resulting
Editorial: The Key to Revolution
Humans learning to create fire by friction laid the foundations for an
entirely new world. No longer bound (or protected) by the natural laws of the
animal kingdom, mankind had to learn to think. The long painful bloody journey
from superstition to
It is not quite as interesting a question as say, questions that fall
under What does Marxism have to do with structuralism or with
philosophy in general. Theology finds a better fit with issues in
hermeneutics or pondering Wittgenstein (who has been described as
non-religious as well as
Thanks for the reference to this loathsome piece of shit, which reminds me that
I neglected to mention the liberation theologians' critical engagement with
Marxism, which involves points of agreement as well as metaphysical and
theological disagreements. One major publisher for this srot of
Follow up.
Try reading about and reading some of the works of:
Ernst Bloch
Jürgen Moltmann
Rudolf Bultmann
For secondary sources, for example, see:
http://crs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/31/1-2/115
http://www.jstor.org/pss/2381215
CJ
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Second and most likely last follow up:
Starting with Hegel's dialectic, we could go very nicely to Feuerbach
and Bruner, and then on to Marx--but also Kierkegaard as well.
I've never approached Marx from a religious angle (had a religious
angle forced down my throat while studying Wittgenstein
In a message dated 12/25/2008 2:20:58 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
jann...@gmail.com writes:
Second and most likely last follow up:
Starting with Hegel's dialectic, we could go very nicely to Feuerbach
and Bruner, and then on to Marx--but also Kierkegaard as well.
I've never approached
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-LiberationTheology.html
Liberation Theology
From: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | Date: 1997 |
Author: JOHN BOWKER | © The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
1997,
originally published by Oxford University Press 1997.
Liberation Theology after the End of History: The Refusal to Cease Suffering
by Daniel M. Bell Jr.. 212 pgs.
Read the complete book Liberation Theology after the End of History: The
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plan to an academic-level
Thanks for the reference to this loathsome piece of shit,
Well for me the topic is something like a glass of sour milk being
dashed onto the redhot glowing elements of an electric heater. Could
anything good come from it? I tried by going back to the Young
Hegelians.
I guess some liberation
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