1848+: Last and First Men

Can We Transform the Auto-Industrial Society?
By Emma Rothschild
The cataclysm of the American automobile industry has been an odd combination, so far, of immediate and historical anxieties. The government loan of $13.4 billion to General Motors and Chrysler in December 2008 was presented by the outgoing administration as an unsolicited gift, lest a “disorderly liquidation of [...]

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Our Epistemological Depression
By Jerry Z. Muller
Major recessions are characterized by something novel. Opacity and pseudo-objectivity created the crisis today.
The history of socialism is the history of failure—and so is the history of capitalism, but in a different sense. For the history of socialism is one of fundamental failure, a failure to provide incentives and [...]

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The best way to end the bloody occupation is to target Israel with the
kind of movement that ended apartheid in South Africa
by Naomi Klein
The Guardian (January 10 2009)
It’s time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly
bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of
global movement that put an [...]

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From Marxmail
http://www.marxmail.org/msg56882.html
http://www.esquire.com/print-this/obama-socialist-connections-0209
What’s So Bad About Socialism Anyway?

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