Notes on a Marxist history of empiricism
Submitted by Marx-lover on Oct 1 2018 01:44
A summary of an old critical Marxist history of empiricism.
Reflections on the Guillotine - Albert Camus
An essay written in 1957 arguing for the abolition of capital punishment.
Towards Dialogue- Albert Camus
This text is part of a series of articles published in November 1946 under the title Neither Victims nor Executioners in the paper of the French Resistance Combat.
Man, Society, and Freedom - Mikhail Bakunin
Translated and edited by Sam Dolgoff, 1971.
Man, Society and Freedom is taken from a long, unfinished note to The Knouto-Germanic Empire and the Social Revolution, actually penned by Bakunin’s close associates Carlo Cafiero and Élisée Reclus in 1871, the same work from which God and State is taken.
The Humanisphere - Joseph Déjacque
Englsih translation and introduction of Joseph Déjacque's philosophical book.
A dissection of the metaphysics of scarcity - humanaesfera
Some believe that, regardless of concrete praxis, scarcity is an inherent characteristic of time and space, as a metaphysical foundation (they generally use the thermodynamic concept of "entropy" to substantiate this idea). Thus, they suppose that, in this entropic universe, competition for what is scarce guides every specific being - and likewise human beings and societies - making the social form of scarcity, private property (and hence class society, labor, state and capital), have an eternal, cosmic, immutable foundation. In this text, we will try to criticize this metaphysics from a specifically philosophical, physical and anthropological point of view.
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas - Ursula K. Le Guin
A short story.
Ideological Commentary
Ideological Commentary, a journal of political science, ran 65 issues from 1979 to 1994.
http://gwiep.net/wp/?page_id=96
Anarchism in Our TIme - Melvyn Bragg
The BBC's in Our Time radio show discusses anarchism, its history, underlying philosophy and contemporary (early 2000's) potential.
At the cutting edge of the French Disease – Miguel Amorós
A scathing critique of postmodernist philosophy (the “French disease”), discussing its academic origins after the defeat of the working class in the post-1968 period, its nefarious role as a policeman of culture and theory for capitalism (“a philosophy of legitimation”), its ideological mirror image of “the nihilism of the market economy”, its promotion of identity politics as a corollary of its obscurantist obsession with “difference”, its disastrous influence on the anarchist milieu, and its inevitable downfall because “the will to liberation in common is stronger than the narcissistic desire for individual success” and “ten minutes of pathetic virtual fame”.
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