May 2013
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Martin Shaw on the concept of Civil Society. →
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The Philosopher's Stone: I'VE BEEN THINKING →
Marx’s seven propositions.
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A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse... →
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It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to...
– Henri Poincaré
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Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic...
– David Graeber (via azspot)
April 2013
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(audio) 13 Foucault lectures on "Truth, Discourse,... →
Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was an enormously influential French philosopher who wrote, among other things, historical analyses of psychiatry, medicine, the prison system, and the function of sexuality in social organizations.
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Sugar Shack.
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RBC and the iGate scandal. Or, in other words, the contradiction between TNCs and national systems of property relations (‘rights’).
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Investors don’t go down to the television studio and make sure that the local...
– Secret, Lies and Democracy - Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
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In a way it is even humiliating to watch coal-miners working. It raises in you a...
– George Orwell (via azspot)
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Whether the mask is labeled Fascism, Democracy, or Dictatorship of the...
– Simone Weil (via azspot)
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If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with...
– David Graeber (via azspot)
In History Departments, It’s Up With Capitalism →
A new generation of historians is focusing on capitalism and the bosses, bankers and brokers who run the economy.
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Capitalism is a system of relationships, which go from inside to out, from...
– Franz Kafka (via uxxr)
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March 2013
11 posts
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[C]apital - and the capitalist is merely capital personified and functions in...
– Karl Marx - Capital, Vol. 3
- in essence it always remains forced labour - no matter how much it may seem to result from free contractual agreement…
Capitalism is coercive, my Austrian friends.
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Economist Richard Wolff joins Bill Moyers to... →
Noam Chomsky Quotes: What is the point of arguing... →
noam-chomsky:
“The most libertarian positions accept the same view,” he answers. “That there are instincts, basic conditions of human nature that lead to a preferred social order. In fact, if you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally…
South Park Shows Class Consciousness and Privilege... →
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This is one of the fundamental issues with politics since the beginning of...
– Gael Garcia Bernal.
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Austerity, Italian Style →
The country is trapped between comics and delusional Eurocrats.
February 2013
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It is obvious that this school of writing is not what it is because of the...
– H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills - Preface to ”From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology” discussing Weber’s writing style.
I think this is going to be put amongst my slides for my first sociological theory tutorial in case people complain about the writing style of those discussed. While not ignoring...