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The Trump administration’s fear of teenagers
Trump’s and Mnuchin’s attacks on Greta Thunberg at the Davos summit reveal their fear of the youth climate strike movement. Continue reading
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, by Greta Thunberg–book review
A review of the book “No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference” by Greta Thunberg. Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, Franklin Dmitryev, Greta Thunberg
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Climate strikes as resistance and revolutionary potential: the connection with Marcuse’s concept of the liberation of nature as determinant between socialism and fascism
A paper given at the International Herbert Marcuse Society Conference
Oct. 11, 2019, Santa Barbara. Continue reading
‘Down to Earth’ by Bruno Latour: a diversionary political fiction lands in capitulation
Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime, by Bruno Latour (Polity Press, 2018). Review by Franklin Dmitryev Bruno Latour’s new book Down to Earth (touted in The New York Times as “a brilliantly mind-bending book”) is the latest … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruno Latour, climate change, James Lovelock, Karl Marx, Raya Dunayevskaya
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Socialism and Ecology
A presentation given as part of a series on “What Is Socialism?” Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, ecology, ecosocialism, Green New Deal, Karl Marx, Naomi Klein, Socialism
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The Green New Deal
Calls for a “green new deal” risk the kind of state/party co-optation of movements from below that was involved in the 1930s New Deal. Continue reading
Capitalism’s political and economic degeneracy
Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2014-2015. III. Capitalism’s political and economic degeneracy. A. Karl Marx haunts capitalism’s stagnation. B. The race toward climate chaos. Continue reading
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Tagged British Columbia, Canada, capitalism, China, climate change, climate chaos, Detroit bankruptcy, development, economic inequality, ExxonMobil, global warming, Goldman Sachs, Great Depression, Great Recession, Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, Karl Marx, Keystone XL pipeline, labor, monopoly, pensions, rate of profit, retirement, structural economic crisis of capitalism, tar sands, Unemployment, Unist'ot'en resistance camp, Wet'suwet'en, workers
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May-June 2014 News & Letters online
May-June 2014 News & Letters online: “From the U.S. to Ukraine, crises and revolts call for philosophy”; “Unchaining the revolutionary dialectic”; much more… Continue reading
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Tagged 1844 Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts of Karl Marx, birth control, Bolivia, Bosnia, capitalism, Chernobyl disaster, climate change, Contraception, dialectic, dialectics of philosophy and organization, feminism, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, global warming, healthcare workers, Karl Marx, labor, Marxist-Humanism, Middle East, miners, News and Letters Committees, philosophic moment, philosophy of revolution, Raya Dunayevskaya, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, women's liberation, workers
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Readers’ Views, March-April 2014, Part 2
Readers’ Views from the March-April 2014 issue of News & Letters, part 2. Continue reading
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Tagged anti-abortion, Charles Denby, Ciudad Juárez, climate change, clinic escorts, criminal injustice system, Elie Wiesel, environment, Escuelita Zapatista, femicido, feminicido, feminism, fossil fuels, global warming, Indignant Heart: A Black Worker's Journal, labor, Nuclear power, patriarchy, Pelican Bay State Prison, philosophy, Primo Levi, prison industrial complex, prisoners, sexism, Walter Benjamin, women's liberation, workers, Yeyetzi Cardiel, Zapatistas
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