On tomorrow’s commodification ritual: |
Hello Comrades,I am very thankful to have you all here as my virtual friends, but this digital world isn't enough.As you all probably know, the US ...
Posted by Karl on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:35:00 PST |
George Novack on Alienation |
Alienation
Part 1
The international socialist movement is witnessing a crusade in its own ranks nowadays for Moral Rearmament. To support their conclusions the intellectual apostles of this new tend...
Posted by Karl on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:49:00 PST |
Where to look for a revolutionary potential? - by Slavoj Zizek |
Where to look for a revolutionary potential? From Adbusters 57, Jan-Feb 2005 by Slavoj Zizek Today, there are many candidates for the position of "universal individual," the particular group whose fa...
Posted by Karl on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:02:00 PST |
"Estranged Labor"--from Marx's 1844 Manuscripts: |
Estranged Labour
We have started out from the premises of political economy. We have accepted its language and its laws. We presupposed private property; the separation of labour, capital, and land, a...
Posted by Karl on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:16:00 PST |
Critique of Dialectical Reason by Jean-Paul Sarte |
I. Marxism & Existentialism
PHILOSOPHY appears to some people as a homogeneous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Phil...
Posted by Karl on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 07:59:00 PST |
Capitalism: A Very Special Delirium - by Deleuze and Guattari |
Capitalism: A Very Special Delirium
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
QUESTION: When you describe capitalism, you say: "There isn't the slightest operation, the slightest industrial or financi...
Posted by Karl on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:44:00 PST |
Authoritarian and Democratic Technics-- by Lewis Mumford |
Authoritarian and Democratic Technics
Lewis Mumford
"Democracy" is a term now confused and sophisticated by indiscriminate use, and often treated with patronizing contempt. Can we agree, no matter how...
Posted by Karl on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:08:00 PST |
Antonio Gramsci on Philosophy |
Some Preliminary Points of Reference
It is essential to destroy the widespread prejudice that philosophy is a strange and difficult thing just because it is the specific intellectual activity of a par...
Posted by Karl on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:18:00 PST |
"On Contradiction" by Mao Zedong |
The law of contradiction in things, that is, the law of the unity of opposites, is the basic law of materialist dialectics. Lenin said, "Dialectics in the proper sense is the study of contradiction in...
Posted by Karl on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:14:00 PST |
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction- Walter Benjamin |
(Note: Footnote numbers appear thus: . The notes are at the end of the file.)
"Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by ...
Posted by Karl on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 06:41:00 PST |
