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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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Reading Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program
[I am posting this piece I wrote in 2006 because I believe it sheds light on current debates on interpreting Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program and broader debates about Marxist-Humanism. It was originally published in Pre-Convention Discussion Bulletin #2, August 2006, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Kliman, Critique of the Gotha Program, Karl Marx, Marxism and Freedom: From 1776 Until Today, Mitch Weerth, Peter Hudis, philosophy of revolution, Raya Dunayevskaya, revolution in permanence, Rosa Luxemburg Women's Liberation and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
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Los Zapatistas y los padres y estudiantes de Ayotzinapa: Una unión decisiva
Un nuevo momento en la dialéctica de la lucha LOS ZAPATISTAS Y LOS PADRES Y ESTUDIANTES DE AYOTZINAPA: UNA UNIÓN DECISIVA Eugene Gogol Desde el asesinato de tres estudiantes y la desaparición de otros 43 de la Escuela Normal Rural Raúl … Continue reading
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Tagged Ayotzinapa, CNI, Congreso Nacional Indígena, dialéctica, Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos, estudiantes, Eugene Gogol, filosofía de la revolución, G.W.F. Héctor, G.W.F. Hegel, Guerrero, humanismo revolucionario, humanismo-marxista, jovenes, Karl Marx, Latin America, Mexico, negación de la negación, normalistas, práctica, Primer Festival Mundial de las Resistencias y las Rebeldías contra el Capitalismo, Raya Dunayevskaya, students, subcomandante insurgente Moisés, sujeto revolucionario, teoría, Zapatistas
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Essay: Karl Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program as ground for organization
From the September-October 2014 issue of News & Letters: Today’s vital debate about revolutionary organization is illuminated by Marx’s concept of organization in his “Critique of the Gotha Program.” Read more: Essay: Karl Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program as ground for organization
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Tagged 1844 Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts of Karl Marx, 2011 Egyptian revolution, Arab spring, Critique of the Gotha Program, David Graeber, Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy, Erfurt Program, Ferdinand Lassalle, Franklin Dmitryev, Frederick Engels, Gajo Petrovic, Karl Korsch, Karl Marx, Ken Knabb, Louis Dupre, Marxist-Humanism, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, post-Marx Marxism, Rodrigo Nunes, Rosa Luxemburg Women's Liberation and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution, Second International, Stalinism, State and Revolution, The Marxist-Humanist Theory of State-Capitalism, The Philosophic Moment of Marxist-Humanism, V.I. Lenin
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Praxis en América Latina No. 11
revista Praxis en América Latina – teoría/practica
No. 11 mayo 2014 Continue reading
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Tagged Chiapas, Colombia, Escuelita Zapatista, José Carlos Mariátegui, Karl Marx, Latin America, Mexico, Michoacán, San Juan Copala, Una, Veracruz
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From the Preface to The Philosophic Moment of Marxist-Humanism
From the May-June 2014 issue of News & Letters: From the Preface to The Philosophic Moment of Marxist-Humanism: Integral to Dunayevskaya’s work of 1986-87 was her concentration on a crucial problem of our era—the relationship between the search for non-elitist … Continue reading
Unchaining the revolutionary dialectic
Marx, by unchaining the dialectic, discovered a whole new continent of thought and of revolution. Marx’s critique of Hegelian dialectic meant not merely a substitution of materialism for idealism, but an extension of the dialectic from its seeming burial in Thought alone by the presence of the dialectic in the development of reality. Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute Negativity as New Beginning, Critique of the Gotha Program, dialectic, French Revolution, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Ludwig Feuerbach, News and Letters Committees, post-Marx Marxism, Raya Dunayevskaya, revolution in permanence, State and Revolution, V.I. Lenin
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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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