Last and First Men

Engels bio: Marx’s General

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Entangled Giant By Garry Wills George W. Bush left the White House unpopular and disgraced. His successor promised change, and it was clear where change was needed. Illegal acts should cease—torture and indefinite detention, denial of habeas corpus and legal representation, unilateral canceling of treaties, defiance of Congress and the Constitution, nullification of laws by [...]

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Michael Moore on Leno: “Capitalism is Legalized Greed” Americans who didn’t witness filmmaker Michael Moore’s appearance Tuesday night on NBC’s “The Jay Leno Show” missed one of those rare moments when the vast wasteland gives way to an oasis of realism. Rarely since the days when author Gore Vidal regularly appeared on the “Tonight” show [...]

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Bourgeois and Marxist economics

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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2009 Crisis and Hope Theirs and ours Noam Chomsky http://bostonreview.net/BR34.5/chomsky.php Perhaps I may begin with a few words about the title. There is too much nuance and variety to make such sharp distinctions as theirs-and-ours, them-and-us. And neither I nor anyone can presume to speak for “us.” But I will pretend it is possible. [...]

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How history is made Far from being “mechanical,” Karl Marx and Frederick Engels’ view of society stresses how people make history, though not in conditions of their choosing. August 28, 2009 IT IS often argued that the Marxist view of history allows no room for conscious human intervention–that to Marxists, everything which happens in the [...]

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