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Reading Afghanistan: Books to help you understand the quagmire | rabble.ca
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Richard Seymour, a young British writer, rips the humanitarian veil off of this apologia for imperialism, and traces its long history -- everybody from the infamous, inebriated turncoat Christopher Hitchens, to born-again Canadian Michael Ignatieff, to John Stuart Mill (whose 'defense of liberty' proved less than vigorous when it came to colonial subjects) gets taken to task for their warmongering in Seymour's tour de force debut, The Liberal Defense of Murder.
FT.com / Columnists / Lunch with the FT - Lunch with the FT: Slavoj Žižek
Interesting and off the wall (in different directions) interview.
- Zizek is quite the interesting intellectual. A little too weird for me, but, he is quite useful in certain areas; especially in pop-culture and such. - jackstephens on 2009-03-07
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the financial crisis has killed off the liberal utopianism that flourished after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and all the grand talk about the “end of history”. The terrorist attacks of September 2001 and the financial meltdown have exploded the myth that the market economy and liberal democracy have all the answers to all the questions.
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But even if capitalism is temporarily repaired, Žižek says, this will do nothing to resolve its inherent contradictions.
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Robocop: A discussion of Taylorism through the works of Marx and Haraway « The 50 Megaton Paper Tiger
"In the next week or two I’ll be working on some entries about the Robocop films. I decided to analyze the movies through the theoretical contexts of Karl Marx’s Alienation of Labor and Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto. Good “light” reading if I do say
The End of Poverty? « Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
"The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting o
The 50 Megaton Paper Tiger
A great new blog the melds Marxist thought and post-modern, post-structural theory, along with critical race issues.
A Radical Vision for Today's Labor Movement - Monthly Review
"During the Cold War, many of the people with a radical vision of the world were driven out of our labor movement. Today, as unions search for answers about how to begin growing again, and regain the power workers need to defend themselves, the question o
DIE LINKE: Linke Kräfte gegen extreme Rechte in Europa bündeln
"National President and member of the Saxony parliament, calls for open and cross-party opposition to the Nazis: "Taking on Europe's extreme right will be better if the EU has a humanitarian refugee policy, and fields a trade and economic policy.
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Lenosphere » Live-microblogging
"We microblog demos and strikes always, but not as much when it comes to lectures. I think it’s a good idea to encourage the audience to live-microblog events, if no wireless or laptops are available, using their mobile phones."
Total Capitalism by Colin Leys
"Like total war, total capitalism demands the subordination of everything to a single goal - national competitiveness, as defined by trans-national corporate elites. The result is a dramatic erosion of democracy, social cohesion and honesty in public life
In Defence of Marxism - Austrian Marxists organise solidarity event with Iranian workers
"On the 30th anniversary of the Iranian revolution Marxists in Austria organised a public meeting to discuss what really happened in 1979, explaining how what was a genuine workers' revolution was hijacked by the Islamic fundamentalists due to the lack of
Further Selections from The Prison Notebooks By Antonio Gramsci edited and translated by Derek Boothman
"This volume brings together Gramsci's writings on religion, education, science, philosophy, and economic theory. The theme that links these writings is the investigation of ideology at its different levels, and the structures that embody and reproduce it
Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey » Blog Archive » Why the U.S. Stimulus Package is Bound To Fail
"The events of 2008 have therefore to be situated in the context of a deeper pattern. Since these stresses are internal to the capitalist dynamic (which does not preclude some seemingly external disruptive event like a catastrophic pandemic also occurring
PeonInChief: Lenin Was Wrong
" Lenin was wrong. The capitalist will hang himself with the rope he paid way too much money for."
Live blogging: The Center for Socialist Studies Lecture - The Nature of Conflict with Israel at 3arabawy
"The Center for Socialist Studies is holding now (as I’m typing) a lecture on the nature of the conflict with Israel.."
Althusser: The Detour of Theory
"First published in 1987, Althusser, The Detour of Theory was widely received as the fullest account of its subject to date. Drawing on a wide range of hitherto untranslated material, it examined the political and intellectual contexts of Althusser’s ‘ret
Spaces of Global Capitalism by David Harvey
"Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary political economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the
Web 2.0 and revolutionary socialist organizing at 3arabawy
"The developments in the forces and relations of production, as Marx said, lead to changes in the superstructure. Well, with a quick google search on the implications of Web 2.0 on “business”, you get tons of results–articles, postings and books. But you
FRSO: Build a Fighting Workers Movement « The Marxist-Leninist
"The following is a new pamphlet on class struggle unionism from the Labor Commission of Freedom Road Socialist Organization. It helps give the lay of the land in the labor movement in the U.S. today and gives some particular guidance to communists intend
Resistance MP3
A great collection of audio files (mainly U.K. centered) on various subjects by leftist scholars, activists, teachers, etc.
Such as every (or nearly every) speech and lecture during the latest Marxism 2008 conference attended by Marxists from around the
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