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Workshop Talks: Nurses vs. Kaiser
From the September-October 2014 issue of News & Letters: Workshop Talks: Nurses vs. Kaiser Contract bargaining has begun between the California Nurses Association and Kaiser Permanente. CNA has steadfastly rejected management’s demand to hold negotiations in closed sessions….
Posted in Marxist-Humanism
Tagged ACA, Affordable Care Act, alienated labor, alienation, California Department of Managed Health Care, California Nurses Association, caregiver, CNA, commodity, cost-control mandate, division of mental and manual labor, healthcare exchange, healthcare workers, Htun Lin, Kaiser Permanente, labor power, patient safety, SEIU, Veterans Administration
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Economism vs. Marx’s humanism
Today’s revival of interest in Marx, especially since the onset of the 2008 economic meltdown, includes a significant strain of economism and has revived controversies and issues addressed by Dunayevskaya in this review-essay of Paul Mattick’s book Marx and Keynes. Continue reading
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Tagged 1844 Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts of Karl Marx, alienated labor, East German Revolt of 1953, Humanism, Hungarian Revolution of 1956, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, labor power, Labor Theory of Value, Marxian economics, Marxism, Paul Mattick, philosophy, Prague Spring, V.I. Lenin, workers
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From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Deep recession, rate of profit and the supreme commodity, labor power
From the new September-October 2011 issue of News & Letters: From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya Deep recession, rate of profit and the supreme commodity, labor power Editor’s note: Written in the midst of the last double-dip recession in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arabic edition of Marxism and Freedom, capitalism, David Stockman, economic crisis, Federal Reserve System, finance capital, freely associated labor, Great Depression, Great Recession, Karl Marx, Keynesianism, labor, labor power, Maâti Monjib, Marxism and Freedom: From 1776 Until Today, militarism, Morocco, New York Times, News and Letters Committees, rate of profit, revolution, Richard Greeman, Ronald Reagan, Surplus value, Unemployment, United States, Victor Serge Foundation, Vietnam War, workers
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