This blog post was too flame war inducing for Tor.com, but look for my next Star Trek related blog entry at that fine website late next week My son Simon recently confessed to me that he hadn’t sung the real words to the hymns he was supposed to be singing in church last Sunday. When… [Read more…]
February 22, 2012
by asexualferret
Thousands of people are protesting spending cuts in central Athens, causing lawmakers to consider another bailout. These measures were also demanded by several euro zone states, wanting a 130 billion euro rescue for Greece. But many countries in the EU are skeptical. Dutch Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager is distrustful about Greece’s ability to… [Read more…]
One problem for Marxism is knowledge itself, and this is a problem that arises around any body of thought, description, or systemic critique of the world. In political terms the problem of knowledge can be expressed by the question “Who gets to be the one who knows?” Who gets to claim the possession of knowledge… [Read more…]
Reblogged from The Charnel-House: Along with some erstwhile discussion of Kurt Vonnegut, Murray Rothbard, Cornel West, George Orwell, Keynesianism, the welfare state, and coalition-building on the Left Sera Schwarz I can’t thank you guys enough for the tremendous work you do here. I’m a relative newcomer to Marxist thought, and never is my ignorance more… [Read more…]
Introduction to this revision On the Left there is a real prejudice that Paul Krugman’s Keynesian policy ideas represent a more humane form of capitalism than Obama, Bush, Geithner and Bernanke neoliberal policies. Or that state social spending represents a more moderate face of capitalism than calls to dismantle entitlements and welfare spending. Even anarchists… [Read more…]
The automobile has danced around in a lot of various studies of mine throughout the decade plus I’ve been pursuing a bachelor’s degree. In math, there are various problems of solving when the car will reach a destination. In science, there is the Doppler effect of the horn or acceleration questions. In history, Ford’s assembly… [Read more…]
February 19, 2012
by radicalprogress
Reblogged from RADICAL PROGRESS: “Man’s sexual organization and his social organization are so deeply interconnected that we cannot say which came first, but can only assume a simultaneous evolution (whether sudden or gradual) of both.” Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death, p. 24. As a social radical committed to abolishing war and poverty, it took… [Read more…]
Maxim One The dialectic is a war in that no matter who wins, both sides are changed. This is what is meant by sublation into concreteness. The wreckage, be it mental or physical, or be it symbolic, imaginary, or real, has changed the landscape. This is both a metaphor and not a metaphor. (Clarity vow… [Read more…]
February 16, 2012
by asexualferret
I have been asked to write about radical gender and sexuality issues for a while, which is not a hard thing for me to do at all. Before I go into how this influences society, let me tell you a little bit about myself. I am a pre-transition female to male transexual. I have always… [Read more…]
So, I finally made it to a meeting of my local chapter of my political party this week. I figured I’d ought to join an organization at some point. For a long time, I thought just proclaiming myself a socialist and trying to educate people on socialist theory was enough. As a founding member of… [Read more…]
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February 23, 2012
by douglain
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