Connecticut Cold War Warrior: Senator Thomas J. Dodd, the United
... Dodd was an influential, underestimated figure in U.S. history from before World War II to his death in 1971.5 The trajectory and ultimate tragedy of Dodd's legal and congressional career (House 1953-1957 and Senate 1959-1971) is a case study in the domestic idealism and foreign policy paranoia that ...
... Dodd was an influential, underestimated figure in U.S. history from before World War II to his death in 1971.5 The trajectory and ultimate tragedy of Dodd's legal and congressional career (House 1953-1957 and Senate 1959-1971) is a case study in the domestic idealism and foreign policy paranoia that ...
Capital and community - Marxists Internet Archive
... arguments in some of Marx's writings. It particularly relates to the "Grundrisse" and "The Immediate Process of Production" both of which have only been available since the seventies. These texts show how shallow the outlook of the Marxists of the Second and Third International, and their acolytes, ...
... arguments in some of Marx's writings. It particularly relates to the "Grundrisse" and "The Immediate Process of Production" both of which have only been available since the seventies. These texts show how shallow the outlook of the Marxists of the Second and Third International, and their acolytes, ...
Pike, Jonathan E. (1995) Marx, Aristotle and beyond: aspects of
... two interpretations of Marx which ostensibly come from radically different standpoints; Elster's Making Sense of Marx 7 and Lukacs' Ontology of Social Being . The ontology outlined here is shown to have politico-theoretical implications, serving as a foil both to the individualistic account offered ...
... two interpretations of Marx which ostensibly come from radically different standpoints; Elster's Making Sense of Marx 7 and Lukacs' Ontology of Social Being . The ontology outlined here is shown to have politico-theoretical implications, serving as a foil both to the individualistic account offered ...
Max Weber and Karl Marx
... historical development of society and both claim to offer a scientific analysis of those conditions which will bring about revolutionary changes in social structure. They are preeminently explanations of the nature of modern societies, of which the capitalist economy is a central feature. Marxism an ...
... historical development of society and both claim to offer a scientific analysis of those conditions which will bring about revolutionary changes in social structure. They are preeminently explanations of the nature of modern societies, of which the capitalist economy is a central feature. Marxism an ...
Max Weber and Karl Marx: Karl Lowith, With a New Preface by
... historical development of society and both claim to offer a scientific analysis of those conditions which will bring about revolutionary changes in social structure. They are preeminently explanations of the nature of modern societies, of which the capitalist economy is a central feature. Marxism an ...
... historical development of society and both claim to offer a scientific analysis of those conditions which will bring about revolutionary changes in social structure. They are preeminently explanations of the nature of modern societies, of which the capitalist economy is a central feature. Marxism an ...
Untitled - Skemman
... (i.e. his act of relating himself to interests of social groups and contexts etc.), must however be understood as nothing more than our abstraction and does not imply any theory of its inner structure of necessity. Marx's 'project' and theoretical problematique at particular time in his development ...
... (i.e. his act of relating himself to interests of social groups and contexts etc.), must however be understood as nothing more than our abstraction and does not imply any theory of its inner structure of necessity. Marx's 'project' and theoretical problematique at particular time in his development ...
The Trope as Trap: Ideology Revisited1
... the collective shape each other; it can help us see how such a collective – a class, a society – might amount to something more than or something altogether different from the sum of its individual members. Needless to say, the two nodes at the centre of the theory of ideology – meaning and power, i ...
... the collective shape each other; it can help us see how such a collective – a class, a society – might amount to something more than or something altogether different from the sum of its individual members. Needless to say, the two nodes at the centre of the theory of ideology – meaning and power, i ...
Revolutionary Nationalism and the Afro
... greatest mass movement yet achieved in American Negro history. The Garvey movement was revolutionary nationalism being expressed in the very heart of Western capitalism. Despite the obvious parallels to colonial revolutions, however, Marxists of all parties not only rejected Garvey, but have tradit ...
... greatest mass movement yet achieved in American Negro history. The Garvey movement was revolutionary nationalism being expressed in the very heart of Western capitalism. Despite the obvious parallels to colonial revolutions, however, Marxists of all parties not only rejected Garvey, but have tradit ...
American Propaganda, Popular Media, and the Fall of Jacobo Arbenz
... have eventually compromised U.S. security. To launch an intervention against such a small nation in the absence of a direct, concrete threat to the United States required a heightened fear of Communism on the part of both the government and the American people. That fear and the accompanying desire ...
... have eventually compromised U.S. security. To launch an intervention against such a small nation in the absence of a direct, concrete threat to the United States required a heightened fear of Communism on the part of both the government and the American people. That fear and the accompanying desire ...
The Political Economy of Joseph Schumpeter
... eliminate the expropriation of surplus value, and consequently did not exclude the capitalist class from the model.8 In Marx's system, distribution is a product of the relations of production that exist be tween capital and labour. Therefore, distribution of income under capitalism is inseparable f ...
... eliminate the expropriation of surplus value, and consequently did not exclude the capitalist class from the model.8 In Marx's system, distribution is a product of the relations of production that exist be tween capital and labour. Therefore, distribution of income under capitalism is inseparable f ...
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... propaganda campaigns, including the bribery of various Chilean politicians in the 1964 Chilean Presidential elections and during Allende’s successful campaign in 1970. Thereafter, the U.S. government formed plans to overthrow Allende, and on September 11, 1973, Allende’s regime was ousted in the en ...
... propaganda campaigns, including the bribery of various Chilean politicians in the 1964 Chilean Presidential elections and during Allende’s successful campaign in 1970. Thereafter, the U.S. government formed plans to overthrow Allende, and on September 11, 1973, Allende’s regime was ousted in the en ...
Why Perestroika Failed: The Politics and Economics of Socialist
... Economic reform demanded a change in this way of doing things, but change was sure to be resisted. The bureaucratic caste could not be expected to give up voluntarily its privileged position in society. Proposition 4: The basic organizational logic of politics conflicts with the logic of economic re ...
... Economic reform demanded a change in this way of doing things, but change was sure to be resisted. The bureaucratic caste could not be expected to give up voluntarily its privileged position in society. Proposition 4: The basic organizational logic of politics conflicts with the logic of economic re ...
John Holloway Change the world without taking power
... contentment as we relax after a meal. The dissonance is not an external 'us' against 'the world': inevitably it is a dissonance that reaches into us as well, that divides us against ourselves. 'We' are a question that will continue to rumble throughout this book. We are flies caught in a spider's we ...
... contentment as we relax after a meal. The dissonance is not an external 'us' against 'the world': inevitably it is a dissonance that reaches into us as well, that divides us against ourselves. 'We' are a question that will continue to rumble throughout this book. We are flies caught in a spider's we ...
The Poverty of Theory: An Orrery of Errors
... evidence inherent in knowledge-production, and in Marx's own practice, and thereby falls continually into modes of thought designated in the Marxist tradition as 'idealist'; 3) In particular he confuses the necessary empirical dialogue with empiricism, and consistently mis-represents (in the most na ...
... evidence inherent in knowledge-production, and in Marx's own practice, and thereby falls continually into modes of thought designated in the Marxist tradition as 'idealist'; 3) In particular he confuses the necessary empirical dialogue with empiricism, and consistently mis-represents (in the most na ...
Social and Sexual Revolution: Essays on Marx and Reich
... becoming its recognized goals. These interests, for those who accept Marx's analysis, are objective; they accrue to a class because of its real situation and can be found there by all who seriously look. Rather than indicating simply what people want, "interest" refers to those generalized means whi ...
... becoming its recognized goals. These interests, for those who accept Marx's analysis, are objective; they accrue to a class because of its real situation and can be found there by all who seriously look. Rather than indicating simply what people want, "interest" refers to those generalized means whi ...
a reply to Tony Cliff and the International Socialists
... And not the Leon Trotsky who led the fight for Leninism against Stalin’s subsequent state-capitalist counter-revolution. No, Cliff’s ally was the Leon Trotsky of 1903-4, at and immediately following the Second Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) of 1903. That is, Trotsky w ...
... And not the Leon Trotsky who led the fight for Leninism against Stalin’s subsequent state-capitalist counter-revolution. No, Cliff’s ally was the Leon Trotsky of 1903-4, at and immediately following the Second Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) of 1903. That is, Trotsky w ...
Cold War Educational Propaganda and Instructional Films, 1945-1965
... wherein efforts to enhance the security of one nation appeared an act of provocation to the other. As the Cold War represented an ideological battle in which the United States and the Soviet Union sought to impose their respective worldviews domestically and internationally, indoctrination through ...
... wherein efforts to enhance the security of one nation appeared an act of provocation to the other. As the Cold War represented an ideological battle in which the United States and the Soviet Union sought to impose their respective worldviews domestically and internationally, indoctrination through ...
The Unseen Hand - 9 11 truth Switzerland
... The most difficult thing I know to do is to write about myself, but I think that the reader of this book has the right to know something about me, the author, and what motivated me to write it. I am a graduate of the University of Arizona, and like the typical graduate of an institution of higher ed ...
... The most difficult thing I know to do is to write about myself, but I think that the reader of this book has the right to know something about me, the author, and what motivated me to write it. I am a graduate of the University of Arizona, and like the typical graduate of an institution of higher ed ...
Oppression and Liberty
... against organized forces of repression. August 1914 marked the bankruptcy of proletarian mass organizations, both on the political and the trade-union planes, within the framework of the system. From then onwards it became necessary to abandon once and for all the hopes placed in this mode of organi ...
... against organized forces of repression. August 1914 marked the bankruptcy of proletarian mass organizations, both on the political and the trade-union planes, within the framework of the system. From then onwards it became necessary to abandon once and for all the hopes placed in this mode of organi ...
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... membership of the Comintern, a world party strikingly more centralist than democratic, entailed compliance with its directives: each national branch "lacked ultimate political autonomy in its major strategic orientations." Latter day celebrations of national identities ensured that "some of the offi ...
... membership of the Comintern, a world party strikingly more centralist than democratic, entailed compliance with its directives: each national branch "lacked ultimate political autonomy in its major strategic orientations." Latter day celebrations of national identities ensured that "some of the offi ...
Weber`s theory of domination and post
... Arguably that is a different story for the “staff.” In every complex society domination is exercised through a staff and unlike ordinary people (or the masses) the staff is supposed to have a positive, affirmative belief in the myths that justify/legitimate authority. If the staff loses its positive ...
... Arguably that is a different story for the “staff.” In every complex society domination is exercised through a staff and unlike ordinary people (or the masses) the staff is supposed to have a positive, affirmative belief in the myths that justify/legitimate authority. If the staff loses its positive ...
1 KARL MARX Uncut text of first edition The following code is used
... although in a much altered form: progress is constituted by the succession of victories of one class over the other, and that man alone is rational who identifies himself with the progressive class in his society, either, if need be, by deliberately abandoning his past and allying himself with it, o ...
... although in a much altered form: progress is constituted by the succession of victories of one class over the other, and that man alone is rational who identifies himself with the progressive class in his society, either, if need be, by deliberately abandoning his past and allying himself with it, o ...
Trotsky and the issue of war and fascism
... problem presents itself to the consciousness of many million working class masses not in the form of a decisive alternative: the dictatorship of fascism or the dictatorship of the proletariat, but in the form of a more primitive and vague alternative: fascism or democracy.”(10) Trotsky accepts that ...
... problem presents itself to the consciousness of many million working class masses not in the form of a decisive alternative: the dictatorship of fascism or the dictatorship of the proletariat, but in the form of a more primitive and vague alternative: fascism or democracy.”(10) Trotsky accepts that ...
Be prepared: communism and the politics of scouting in 1950s Britain
... Woodcraft, was removed from the organisation following his unconventional views on the direction scouting should take after World War One. He established an alternative youth movement – the Kibbo Kift Kindred – in 1920 and whilst a relatively unpopular movement that folded in 1951, it can be seen as ...
... Woodcraft, was removed from the organisation following his unconventional views on the direction scouting should take after World War One. He established an alternative youth movement – the Kibbo Kift Kindred – in 1920 and whilst a relatively unpopular movement that folded in 1951, it can be seen as ...
Capitalism
... it into the proper channels, and system that would grossly reduce (compared with what is possible) the material basis for social life, the satisfaction of human wants, cannot be called a ‘moral’ system.” ...
... it into the proper channels, and system that would grossly reduce (compared with what is possible) the material basis for social life, the satisfaction of human wants, cannot be called a ‘moral’ system.” ...