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On THE Philosophic Point and Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy
To understand today we must begin at the beginning, that is to say, as always, with Marx. Specifically the two periods are: the first and the last, the first being the philosophic moment, 1844 [Marx’s Humanist Essays or Economic-Philosophic Manuscripts]. That laid the ground for all future development. The last being the long hard trek and process of developments–all the revolutions, as well as philosophic-political-economic concretizations, culminating in Capital. Yet the full organizational expression of all came only then, i.e., the last decade, especially the 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program. Why only then? Continue reading
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Discussion article: Voices from Occupy: West Coast port shutdowns and forms of labor struggle
From the new September-October 2012 issue of News & Letters: Discussion article Voices from Occupy: West Coast port shutdowns and forms of labor struggle by Javier, Advance the Struggle The defeat of International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 21 … Continue reading
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Tagged 1877 St. Louis general strike, 1934 San Francisco general strike, Advance the Struggle, automation, Bay of Rage, capitalism, Central American immigrant workers, Christine Gregoire, EGT, Export Grain Terminal, First International, honduras, ILWU Local 21, immigrant rights movement, International Longshore and Warehouse Union, International Workingmen's Association, Karl Marx, labor, Longview Washington, Mexican immigrant workers, Occupy Movement, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Seattle, Occupy Wall Street, relative surplus population, social movement unions, Teamsters, The Waterfront Worker, union hiring hall, West Coast port shutdown, workers
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Work of the Negative: A Marxist-Humanist blog 