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Tag Archives: Lawrence Summers
Capitalism’s violence, masses’ revolt show need for total view
The world today is riven between the creativity of masses in revolt and the violent degeneracy of counter-revolution, whose destructiveness even extends to the revived specter of nuclear war two decades after the collapse of the USSR. Such is the degeneracy of the globalized capitalist system, laden with destructive forces and sunk into structural crisis. The deep crisis is seen in the U.S. and abroad, economically, in unemployment and poverty, homelessness and hunger. It is seen politically, in new laws attacking workers and women, and new outbursts of racism. It is seen environmentally, with the advance of climate disruption and fake capitalistic solutions. It is seen in thought, as the lack of philosophy, of a total view, hampers the development of struggles from the U.S. to the revolutions of the Arab Spring facing counter-revolutions. Continue reading
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N.Y. Times twisting science for sexism
Here is a guest post from Terry Moon: John Tierney wrote a disingenuous article in the “Science Times” section of the Feb. 8 New York Times, “Social Scientist Sees Bias Within,” where he claimed that “assumption that female scientists faced … Continue reading
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