1848+: Last and First Men

http://wsws.org/articles/2010/jul2010/econ-j29.shtml
The “new normal”: More than one in five Americans at risk of
destitution
By Barry Grey
29 July 2010

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Anglo-American Political Philosophy 101
The Poor Must Die
By CHRIS FLOYD
News from Blighty: the disparity in death rates between the well-off and the poor in the UK is now greater than at any time since 1921. The London Review of Books points to a new study by the British Medical Journal that shows [...]

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American stupidity, darwinism, and neoclassical crackpot economics

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Why were resources expunged from neo-classical economics?
Update: Read Martin Wolf’s conclusions on the debate
Something strange happened to economics about a century ago. In moving from
classical to neo-classical economics — the dominant academic school today —
economists expunged land — or natural resources. Neo-classical value theory —
based on marginalism and subjective valuation — still makes a great [...]

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by Darwin BondGraham
No medium of propaganda is as powerful and effective as film.
Think of the classics, the most notorious efforts to sway the
public with the electrifying and collective passion of cinema:
racial apartheid was justified in the US with Birth of a Nation.
The Soviets glorified their revolution with The Battleship
Potemkin. Then there was Triumph of the [...]

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-13/-capitalism-not-so-sacred-to-americans-as-downturn-sours-mood-polls-show.html
`Capitalism’ Not So Sacred to Americans as Mood Sours
By Mark Drajem – Jul 13, 2010

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http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/9472/
The Political Activism of Karl Marx
By Bob Patenaude

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http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/greene130710.html
Throwing Down the Gauntlet: A Review of Michael Lebowitz’s Socialist
Alternative
by Douglas W. Greene

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NY Times Sunday Book Review July 11, 2010
Hayek: The Back Story
By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER
http://www.marxmail.org/msg79706.html
Last month, a funny thing happened on the way to the best-seller list. A
66-year-old treatise by a long-dead Austrian-born economist began flying
off the shelves, following an hourlong endorsement from a right-wing
television host better known for pumping political thrillers than for
rocking political theory.

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Published on Monday, June 21, 2010 by the Cincinatti Enquirer
Socialism? We Wish, Says Local Group
by Carrie Whitaker
Published on Monday, June 21, 2010 by the Cincinatti Enquirer
Socialism? We Wish, Says Local Group
by Carrie Whitaker
Dan La Botz knows with certainty that President Barack Obama is no socialist.
He’s sure because he’s one himself, and finds little in common [...]

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