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Giving The Economist More Grief
Yesterday I left this comment on this article from The Economist: A “new normal” for the world economy: After the storm. I love how for years Economist decried any sort of government intervention as the macro-economy deteriorated, but as soon … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events
Tagged capacity, capital, capitalism, commodities, crash, crisis, David Harvey, economics, Economist, economy, finance, growth, Harvey, intervention, macroeconomy, Marx, money, neoliberal, normal, overaccumulation, postmodernity, privatization, production, recession, social order, speculation, TARP, unemployment
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An Important Distinction
This will help structure the foundation of Active Philosophy, taken from Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: “Accordingly the Transcendental Analytic leads to this important conclusion, that the most of the understanding can achieve a priori is to anticipate the form … Continue reading
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Tagged a posteriori, a priori, Active Philosophy, balance, capital, capitalism, categories, causality, cause and effect, empiricism, ethics, evidence, fate, gravity, idea, idealism, infinity, justice, Kant, labor, law, laws, Marx, money, morals, myth, nations, nature, notion, noumena, particles, phenomena, Philosophy, reality, reason, religion, science, skepticism, thought, zero
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Marx On Dialectics
I really like this, taken from Marx’s Capital. “My dialectic method is not only different from the Hegelian, but is its direct opposite. To Hegel, the life-process of the human brain, i.e. the process of thinking, which, under the name … Continue reading
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Tagged balance, brain, capital, change, contradictions, destiny, dialectics, Hegel, history, human, idea, Marx, marxism, nature, phenomena, Philosophy, process, revolution, state, understanding
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Errico Malatesta Part 1 – Anarchy
“Man, like all living beings, adapts himself to the conditions in which he lives, and transmits by inheritance his acquired habits. Thus, being born and having lived in bondage, being the descendant of a long line of slaves, man, when … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, authority, birth, bondage, capital, community, comprehend, conceptions, condition, conduct, doctor, employer, expression, function, government, human beings, institutions, Italy, labor, land, language, liberty, life, malatesta, master, meaning, order, prejudices, quote, slavery, social groups, solidarity, state, words, workman
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