Posts Tagged ‘Critical theory’
Kritik & theory
The left, global kicking off, and communisation theory Roger Rashi, Sam Gindin, Stephen Eric Bronner, Aaron Benanav, & Richard Rubin: Program and utopia. Extracts: Aaron Benanav (Endnotes): …We in Endnotes want to say, “There was never a time when the Left really mattered. What mattered was something else — the workers’ movement.” The concept of the Left provided a way for Social […]
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Tags: Critical theory, Endnotes, Frankfurt School, Jodi Dean, Keith Hart, marxism, Michael Heinrich, Michel Foucault, Naomi Klein, Paul Krugman, Platypus, Shock Doctrine, Slavoj Zizek, Stephen Bronner
Ecological Headstand
A recommendation for Tom Walker’s blog. Here’s some stuff from it: OSLOndon In a late note to editors on the topic of the flaneur, Walter Benjamin discussed the customer’s empathy for the commodity and the commodity’s empathy for the customer. Instead of “work adorning the citizen” (“Arbeit ist des Bürgers Zierde”), in industrial society the […]
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Tags: Anders Breivik, conspiracy theory, Critical theory, Cultural conservatism, Cultural Marxism, Frankfurt School, Martin Jay, Max Horkheimer, right-wing extremism, Tom Walker, Walter Benjamin, William Lind, William S Lind
First, a belated link to a new Junge Link text in English: Historical Materialism – an anti-revolutionary theory of revolution Historical materialism is an essential feature not only of the Marxism of the traditional workers movement but also of Marxist-Leninist ideas. A critique of historical materialism explains some of the dreadful aspects of the practice of […]
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Tags: Critical theory, Historical materialism, marxism, Marxism–Leninism, Political philosophy, praxis, Theodor Adorno
No Liberation…
[UPDATE: Greens Engage have uploaded a pdf of the reader here.] A while back, I posted a link to the anti-German reader Your Revolution is No Liberation. Unfortunately it has gone off-line, so I have tried to use the table of contents to provide links to some of the articles. Here’s the ones I couldn’t […]
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Tags: anti-germans, anti-semitism, anti-zionism, Antifa, antisemitism, Critical theory, Dialectic of Enlightenment, Frankfurt School, Jean Améry, left antisemitism, Max Horkheimer, Respectable Anti-Semitism, Stephan Gregat, Theodor Adorno
A crash course from Krisis, via Le Petit Canard Noir. Opening: A new version of the “stab in the back” legend of the 1920s and ‘30s is making the rounds: “our” economy has supposedly fallen victim to the limitless greed of a handful of bankers and speculators. Gorged on the cheap money of the U.S. […]
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Tags: Credit crunch, Critical theory, financial crisis, Frankfurt School, Henryk Grossman, Kritik, marxism, Moishe Postone, Paul Mattick, Paul Mattick Jr, Rick Kuhn
Anti-National Translation 