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‘Down to Earth’ by Bruno Latour: a diversionary political fiction lands in capitulation

Posted on February 27, 2019 by

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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Socialism and Ecology

Posted on January 21, 2019 by

A presentation given as part of a series on “What Is Socialism?” Continue reading →

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The Green New Deal

Posted on January 14, 2019 by

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 →

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Capitalism’s political and economic degeneracy

Posted on May 7, 2014 by

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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May-June 2014 News & Letters online

Posted on May 2, 2014 by

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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Readers’ Views, March-April 2014, Part 2

Posted on April 9, 2014 by

Readers’ Views from the March-April 2014 issue of News & Letters, part 2. Continue reading →

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‘Say NO to KXL!’

Posted on March 20, 2014 by

Chicago–“Say NO to KXL!” was the message of 100 protesters outside the local State Department offices on the bitter cold night of Feb. 3, demanding that President Obama reject the Keystone XL pipeline that would carry extra-dirty tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast. It was one of 283 actions across the U.S. and Canada organized in three days after the State Department released its fake environmental report on the pipeline–a report crafted by cronies of TransCanada, Keystone’s owner, with the imprimatur of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Continue reading →

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