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- Thu Nov 23, 2017 3:46 am
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Engels on the State and on America
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Engels on the State and on America
Engels on the State and on America The following excerpt comes from a larger narrative written by Frederick Engels in 1891, on the occasion of the 20th anniversery of the Paris Commune. It was published as a split Introduction/Postscript to Karl Marx's The Civil War in France, itself reissued for t...
- Thu Nov 23, 2017 3:36 am
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Lenin on Revolutionary Situations
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3290
Lenin on Revolutionary Situations
The following excerpt is from Section II to The Collapse of the Second International by V.I. Lenin. It was first written and published in 1915. The title refers to the great schism which occured in the Second Socialist International, a powerful transnational organization representing virtually all ...
- Thu Nov 23, 2017 3:29 am
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Engels on Socialism
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- Views: 2812
Engels on Socialism
This little pamphlet by Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, is probably the second most widely read "work" of modern socialism, right behind the Manifesto. It served as a popular primer, which nevertheless introduced the philosophical and political origins of modern Socialism. It began its li...
- Fri Nov 17, 2017 4:11 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Voices: Franz Fanon (1925-1961)
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- Views: 2842
Voices: Franz Fanon (1925-1961)
Voices: Franz Fanon (1925-1961) The Peasant Wars are over (for the present) and all is lost... but how can such a loss be forever? It is not possible, as long as the conditions which created them remain unchanged. Instead, a period of deep reaction has dawned... and with it an amazing desert of tho...
- Fri Nov 17, 2017 4:02 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Potholes...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6603
Potholes...
Originally posted on 11/16/2008 Potholes... I am not kidding... Unemployment, by the old method of calculation, has already topped 10%. By early next year, it will be above 15%. 60 million people are now estimated to be without health-care coverage of any type, and upwards of 5 million people will s...
- Mon Nov 06, 2017 5:00 pm
- Forum: Bar and Grill
- Topic: The Forest is a Devil
- Replies: 12
- Views: 27497
The Forest is a Devil
The Forest is a Devil OCTOBER 7, 2017 “What poet will give us the metaphors of this new language?” Gaston Bachelard “And what next? Armaments piling up like an accumulating catastrophe, mass neurosis, nations like mad dogs. All this seems gratuitous, horrible, cosmic to such people, unaware of the c...
- Mon Nov 06, 2017 4:51 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Korea
- Replies: 71
- Views: 72507
Re: Korea
Indeed, to a world hegemon like the United States, any renitent foreign government that refuses to place itself in the role of vassal becomes “a dangerous regime,” which must be eliminated. Accordingly, allowing pro-independence North Korea to develop the means to more effectively defend itself agai...
- Fri Oct 27, 2017 1:39 am
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: An Imaginary Conversation....
- Replies: 7
- Views: 20616
An Imaginary Conversation....
An Imaginary Conversation.... A modern fellow of genus Homo protests his innocence. "I don't work because I worked much harder before", says he. "I labored for ten years at a crap job earning $30,000 per year and that earned me the right to live in miserable conditions in which the loss of my job w...
- Thu Sep 21, 2017 2:11 am
- Forum: Bar and Grill
- Topic: Just Noticed
- Replies: 6
- Views: 18138
Just Noticed
The original Bell is up and running- at least at this moment. Strange?
Would be nice to salvage those archives- some have been saved here some have not it seems.
Would be nice to salvage those archives- some have been saved here some have not it seems.
- Tue Jul 18, 2017 12:48 am
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: The Bell is back (baby)!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 15102
Re: The Bell is back (baby)!
Thanks for what you have done here Kid.
Saving the archives of this site is like preserving valuable pieces of history- keeping the memory alive.
Saving the archives of this site is like preserving valuable pieces of history- keeping the memory alive.