1848+: Last and First Men

The Darwin debate and the left On Intelligent Design and the Left Cats, Dogs and Creationism By JEAN BRICMONT “The criticism of religion is the prerequisite of all criticism.” –Karl Marx (Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right). Jean Bricmont reviews the MR book on ID. I have commented on [...]

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From Darwiniana, Reverse gear dialectic…. In the middle of all the pundit comparisons to the era of FDR and the great depression, it is forgotten that that period had a behind the scenes driver in the surging left, the second to third Internationale, what to say of Boshevism soon to be Stalinism. The contemporary scene [...]

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One of the components of Marxism that led to much of its later confusion can be seen in Marx’s rejection of ethical idealism, a strain of Marx’s thinking that is too often disguised and unaddressed, and which invariably takes its idealistic fans by surprise, if it enters consciousness at all. The grounds for all of [...]

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A new book on Intelligent Design, from Monthly Review

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The Communist Manifesto Turns 160 By Barbara Ehrenreich The Manifesto makes for quaint reading today. All that talk about “production,” for example: Did they actually make things in those days? Did the proletariat really slave away in factories instead of call centers? But on one point Marx and Engels proved right: within capitalist societies, or [...]

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Beginning of Harry Van Der Linden’s Kantian Ethics And Socialism, Hackett, 1988 Around the turn of the century the neo-Kantian socialist Hermann Cohen wrote in his Introduction and Critical Epilogue to Friedrich Albert Lange’s History of Materialism that Kant “is the true and real originator of German socialism.’” His claim, of course, is not to [...]

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A selection from World History And The Eonic Effect: A first attempt to answer Kant’s Challenge lies in Hegel (and the other post-Kantians), and his grand philosophic effort whose appearance, timing, and unfolding is itself ‘eonically significant’, and almost spectacular, but our viewpoint is different, springing directly from Kant. A simple systems model has yielded [...]

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