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The Ecological Revolution John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review Press, 2009 This is one of the best books I have read on climate change and the worsening environmental crisis. John Bellamy Foster is a professor of sociology, but don’t let that put you off...
Tags: climate change, ecological revolution, Marx, John Bellamy Foster, environmental problems, Britain, ecological manifesto, Engels, foster argues, United Kingdom, London, Socialism, Anti-globalization, Eco-socialism, Karl Marx, Economic ideologies, Environmentalism, Political ideologies, Environment
The president of Amherst College says plans to renovate the historic Lord Jeffery Inn are back on. President Tony Marx told community leaders on Monday that college trustees have approved $14 million for the project, that was supposed to start last year...
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Less than a week after the national congress of South Africa’s largest trade union federation, Cosatu, ended on September 24, a national radio debate was organised to discuss the resolutions of this gathering. But it was cancelled at the last...
Tags: trade unions, federation, communist, ANC, philosophy, politics, Cosatu, tripartite alliance, GEAR, Zuma, socialism, Marx, Lenin, Marxism-Leninism, Stalin, Stalinism
In his article, “Capitalism: Unprecedented and Substantive Change on the Way”, Vernon Crumrine,wrote: "One of the foundational ideas of capitalism was its moral foundation. In spite of individuals who benefited from the capitalistic...
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Like fish stranded by a fast retreating tide, most mainstream economists, commentators and governments tend to be flapping around frantically and aimlessly, unaware of the real cause of their distress. The more cautious among them hope for a slow return...
Tags: economy, economists, crisis, financial, stock exchange, derivatives, futures, glut, over capacity, production, Henry Ford, Marx, Engels, Samuelson, Callaghan, free market, neo-liberal, Keynes, Friedman, unemployment
Key Concepts The concept of laughter as a cure for disease lacks scientific support, but humor may indeed have significant effects on the psyche. Laughter relaxes us and improves our hearing and hearing jokes may ease anxiety. Amusement can also counteract...
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World Financial Crisis - Where to From Here? Origins of the Crisis Now, as the world teeters ‘on the brink’ of what might turn out to be the most profound economic crisis since the Depression of 1929 – a reappraisal...
Tags: financial crisis, crisis, recession, depression, USA, Australia, Keynes, Marx, sub-prime, stimulus, economy, capitalism, social democracy
At 10:00 p.m. last Sunday, in the middle of discussing whether Tel Aviv radical circles are a connecting point between current Western Anarchist thought and Third World liberation, ‘Yossi' - a radical Israeli activist called, suggesting I go with...
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