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Problems of Value Production (1): The intensity of production — S. Artesian (December 2, 2018) | The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor

November 18, 2019

Source: The Wolf at the Door Wednesday, December 05, 2018 Problems of Value Production (1) The intensity of production   …

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revolutionary reflections | Value, force, many states and other problems: part 1 Colin Barker – 10 May 2019 | rs21

August 15, 2019

[Source: revolutionary reflections | Value, force, many states and other problems: part 1 — rs21 “This posting forms the [first] instalment …

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Choose the future, choose socialism — Paul Cockshott | Paul Cockshott’s Blog: Comments on economics and politics

May 2, 2019

Originally posted on Paul Cockshott's Blog:
Paul Cockshott 1 Capitalism Class society The most important thing about capitalism is that it is a…

AMERICA SCAMMED AGAIN!

September 18, 2018

Originally posted on Tubularsock:
AMERICA SCAMMED AGAIN! As Tubularsock has mentioned before, Donald Trump is the symptom as well as…

Some thoughts on liberal democracy as a deceptive term

August 19, 2018

Originally posted on Comments on Inequality:
It’s impossible to understand today’s political dynamic without beginning with the core fact that we live…

Vollgeld and the sovereign money initiative — Michael Roberts

June 11, 2018

Originally posted on Michael Roberts Blog:
On Sunday, the Swiss voted down in a referendum a proposal known as sovereign money or…

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A world without money: communism – Les Amis de 4 Millions de Jeunes Travailleurs | Libcom.org

May 15, 2018

Norm’s note: my apologies (or not) for inflicting this long read on any of you.  Unfortunately, sometimes clarifying one’s thoughts …

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Ten theses that I can stand behind: the basic principles of the “Worker’s Offensive”

March 29, 2018

Source: WORKERS’ OFFENSIVE These are the basic political principles that the members of our organization and its sympathizers are expected to uphold and …

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The Opioid Epidemic in America – Killing One Million Workers: The Triumph of Capital: Creating a Domestic ‘Shithole’ — Prof. James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya

January 27, 2018

[Hat tip to An Outsider’s Sojourn II (The Journey Continues)] By Prof. James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya Global Research, January 26, 2018 Introduction The …

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Capitalism’s Contribution: looting, lying, and acting obscene

August 24, 2017

Originally posted on Tubularsock:
Capitalism’s Contribution: looting, lying, and acting obscene © 2017 Dan Stevenson III the die is cast…

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The Black Jacobins: A review of C. L. R. James’s classic account of Haiti’s slave revolt — Ashley Smith | International Socialist Review

June 24, 2017

Note: A .pdf version of C.L.R. James’s The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution can be obtained …

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Soviet Communism and Capitalism: a comment casually tossed off by “Sorry, Not Buying It,” over at Off-Guardian . . .

May 28, 2017

Source: Sorry, Not Buying It “The communist system tried by the soviet union did not work and the capitalist system of …

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“These make the wounds of men” — Norman Bethune, 1939

May 1, 2017

What follows is an excerpt from Norman Bethune’s The Wounds, Alive Press circa 1973, pp.27-32. — “Wounds” by Norman Bethune . …

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Racism, Equal Opportunity, and Capitalism — written by Norm

March 7, 2017

[Note: I’m re-posting this from Jan 2016 — well, to remind myself what on the whole is my position on …

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Essentially, two versions of the same point, or “why electoral politics (and by implication, non-violent protests) cannot possibly lead to a more progressive post-capitalist era.”

December 31, 2016

I remember the story, more or less, of how Mahatma Gandhi, through nonviolent civil disobedience, led India into the promised land …

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A World Gone Mad — Eduardo Galeano | Third World Traveler

December 10, 2016

Sourced from: Third World Traveler A World Gone Mad by Eduardo Galeano The Progressive magazine, Dec 2000 Fear of losing …

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Just a note on Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” — Norman Pilon | Taking Sides

June 22, 2016

A link to an online copy of Freire’s book: Pedagogy of the Oppressed (181 pages).  [If for whatever reason the preceding link …

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Distorting Fascism to Sanitize Capitalism — Prof. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh | Global Research

June 20, 2016

Distorting Fascism to Sanitize Capitalism By Prof. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh Global Research, June 18, 2016 The facile and indiscriminate use of …

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Kazakhstan born Robin Hood of the science

May 24, 2016

Originally posted on unnecessary news from earth:
by Mehmet Somel, May 23, 2016 A young scientist supports scientists of the poorest countries with…

Stories from the Grocery Store

January 25, 2016

Originally posted on Voices from the Margins:
Carol A. Hand Going to the grocery store is not my favorite chore. In truth, I…

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