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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
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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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Revolution
People don’t think about it much, it doesn’t seem to have boiled over into the general discussion, especially in the United States, but our lives have changed immensely in the past thirty years. People think that revolutions apply only to … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, change, che guevara, crisis, environment, fresh water, internet, Marx, neoliberal, profitability, revolution, survival, the struggle, Tupac
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