The fable of the nationalist state as a furtherer of cultural development- the decline of industry and decay of economy The period of wars and reversion to barbarism Commercial Capital and Absolutism Manufacture and Mercantilism The State as creator of economic monopolies Regimentation of economics by monarchies Colbert and the economic dictatorship in France The English monarchy and traffic in monopolies The East…

The reformation and the social folk movements of the middle ages The church and the princes in the north Luther's attitude toward the State Protestantism as a phase of princely Absolutism Nationalism as inner enslavement, the peasant revolt Wycliffe and the reformation in England The hussite movement Calixtines and Taborites War as a source of Despotism Chelcicky, a reformer of Church and State Protes-tantism in…

The revolt of the communities The age of federalism Personal freedom and social union The community of christendom The decline of medieval culture The dissolution of communal institutions Mercantilism The great discoveries Decline of the papal power The janus head of the renaissance The revolt of the individual The "master man" people becomes mob The national state Machiavelli's Principe National unity as a tool of…

The fundamental principle of power Christianity and the state Papism Augustine's city of god The holy church The struggle for world dominion Gregory VII, innocent III The effect of power on its possessors Rome and the germans Germanic caesarism The struggle for rome The foreign dominion The submersion of old social institutions Aristocracy and royalty Feudalism and serfdom The frankish empire Charlemagne and the…

The will to power as a historical factor Science and historical concepts The insufficiency of economic materialism The laws of physical life and "The physics of society" The significance of conditions of production The expeditions of Alexander The Crusades Papism and heresy Power as a hindrance and obstruction to economic evolution The fatalism of "historic necessities" and of the "historic mission" Economic…

A speech advocating industrial unionism by frequent Socialist Party of America candidate and one of the IWW founders, Eugene Debs.

The most depressing thing this week has been the level of bile spewed about people at Dale Farm, now set for an eviction on September 10th…

Anselm Jappe, value form critic and biographer of Guy Debord, looks at the issue of violence in contemporary Europe.

A number of groups in the San Francisco Bay Area will hold a vigil and protest in front of the Chilean Consulate in San Francisco on September 9…

What are we to make of the current round of austerity? Some members of Endnotes give their assesment.

Summary and links to news stories of workers' struggles around East Asia during August 2011 and related resources. The most important stories…