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BOOKS | C.L.R. James: Back in style, black in style
‘C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain’ opens up the issue of the Third World struggle in an elegant and memorable way. By Paul Buhle and Milton Knight | Truthout | May 5, 2014 Author’s note: This marks the first appearance of … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, Black Intelectuals, Books, C.L.R. James, Comics, Cricket, Graphic History, Historians, Marxism, Milton Knight, Pan-Africanism, Paul Buhle, Rag Bloggers
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Robert Jensen : There Are Marxists in India?
Prabhat Patnaik. Image from The Bruce Initiative on Rethinking Capitalism.‘There are Marxists in India?’ Economist Prabhat Patnaik on the global crisis By Robert Jensen | The Rag Blog | April 25, 2012 After an engaging half-hour interview with India’s pre-eminent … Continue reading
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Tagged Economists, India, Marxism, Prabhat Patnaik, Robert Jensen, Socialists
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BOOKS / Jerry Harris : Carl Davidson’s ‘Lost Writings of SDS’
Collection of ‘lost’ SDS writings revealsdepth of Sixties radical thinking By Jerry Harris / The Rag Blog / December 19, 2011 [Revolutionary Youth and the New Working Class: Lost Writings of SDS, edited by Carl Davidson; (Pittsburgh PA: Changemaker Publications, … Continue reading
Keith Joseph : Surplus Labor and the Mystery of Capitalism
“Socially Acceptable Portrait of Karl Marx.” Hand-pulled print by Aimee Dingman. Image from EBSQ.Basics of Marxism:Surplus labor and the mystery of capitalism Exploitation occurs when the people who do the work and produce the surplus are different from the people … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitalism, Economics, Karl Marx, Keith Joseph, Marxism, Political Philosophy
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Alex Knight : Zombie-Marxism II: What Marx Got Right
Writ in stone? Image from RalphMag.Zombie-Marxism II:What Marx got right Why Marxism has failed, andwhy Zombie-Marxism cannot die (Or, ‘My rocky relationship with Grampa Karl’) By Alex Knight / The Rag Blog / November 16, 2010 This is the second … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Knight, Communism, Economics, Marxism, Political Philosophy, World History
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Alex Knight : Zombie-Marxism I: My Rocky Relationship with Grampa Karl
Image by Germ Ross / artnoise.net.Zombie-Marxism I: Why Marxism has failed, andwhy Zombie-Marxism cannot die…(Or, ‘My rocky relationship with Grampa Karl’) By Alex Knight / The Rag Blog / November 5, 2010 “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Knight, Communism, Economics, Left, Marxism, Political Philosophy, World History
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Roger Baker : Is Marx Still Relevant?
Image from The Great Illuminator.Confessions of a neo-Marxist:Why Marx still matters By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / August 10, 2010 I suppose I might now call myself a neo-Marxist. This is not to argue that Marx does not … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitalism, Economics, Karl Marx, Marxism, Roger Baker, World History
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Greg Moses : American Hindoonomics (A Mood Piece)
Lakshmi is the Hindu Goddess of wealth and prosperity, both material and spiritual. Image from Yoga USA.A Mood Piece:American Hindoonomics Comes a time as Thoreau sez when the friction invents the machine and what you smell is value turned wrong … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Economics, Greg Moses, Hinduism, Marxism, Religion, Spirituality, Thoreau
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BOOKS / Jonah Raskin : Al Sandine’s ‘Taming of the American Crowd’
The Cyber Crowd:Reinventing the Crowd for the Age of Cyberspace By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / March 18, 2010 [The Taming of the American Crowd: From Stamp Riots to Shopping Sprees, By Al Sandine. (Monthly Review Press, November … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Jonah Raskin, Marxism, Political Theory, Popular Culture, Sociology
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BOOKS : Dreams and Everyday Life by Penelope Rosemont
No revolution ever disappears…by Len Wallace / The Rag Blog / July 28, 2008 Penelope Rosemont, Dreams & Everyday Life: Andre Breton, Surrealism, sds & the Seven Cities of Cibola, Charles H. Kerr Publishing. Co., Chicago, 2008,ISBN 978-0-88286-234-2. Despite an … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Marxism, New Left, SDS, Sixties, Surrealism, The Left, The Movement
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