Posts Tagged ‘Doug Henwood’
#Occupy!
Cross-posted from BobFromBrockley This is an age when political events are calibrated to Twitter, activists’ thoughts are punctuated with hashtags and the circulation of politics proceeds memetically. I have mainly been bemused by the wave of occupations emanating from Wall Street and franchised “globally” (i.e. to the other wealthy countries of the global North) on 15 […]
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Tags: Anti-capitalism, Doug Henwood, Julian Assange, Occupy Wall Street, OccupyLSX, OWS, Twitter, Wall Street, We Are The 99%
Three on Goldman Sachs
From Engage: “With all due respect to Goldman Sachs, it’s actually run by a complex network of bastards. Or do Goldman Sachs pay me to say that? You’ll never know.” The Daily Mash How to think about: Jewish Bankers What worries Isca Stieglitz Useful reading on #Occupy Wall Street: Never Got Used To It Doug […]
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Tags: Doug Henwood, finance capital, Goldman Sachs, Occupy Wall Street, Wall Street
Voyou/LBO
I am re-posting three links I’ve already published, giving them a little more space. Go read the whole posts. Racism: not historical Towards the end of this interview with Doug Henwood, Adolph Reed criticizes the tendency to describe the effect of race on contemporary politics using analogies drawn from the racism of the past—as a “new slavery” […]
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Tags: Adolph Reed, Doug Henwood, gentrification, German Ideology, Karl Marx, marxism, racism, value, Walter Benjamin
A conspiracy theory of history
A post by Bob from Brockley at Contested Terrain: History is Made at Night tweeted that the Wikileaks revelations would prove that geopolitics is not in fact determined by the Bilderberg Group, Masonic conspiracies or the Israel lobby, but in fact confirms the boring old Marxist materialist theory of history (except he said it wittily in 140 […]
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Tags: 9/11 Truth Movement, Bernard Madoff, Bilderberg Group, conspiracy theory, Doug Henwood, indymedia, Julian Assange, Wikileaks
///NEWS AND NOTES Anti-fascist punk? An interview with Oi Polloi on their attitudes to Israel, Jews, etc. Intro and questions in German, answers in English. [Via Waterloo Sunset here.] Those “immigrants” and their “Nazi” love for Germany: An incoherent article about some incoherent politics. Any more information about this gratefully received. [Via Waterloo Sunset here.] On […]
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Tags: anti-fascism, Doug Henwood, Jeffrey Herf, Jorg Haider, Michael Heinrich
Anti-National Translation 