Archaeofuturism | The Occidental Quarterly. By Ted Sallis Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909–1939 Mark Antliff Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007 Mark Antliff, a professor of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University, has put together a useful analysis of the cultural-aesthetic memes utilized by French fascists of 1909-1939 to promote their visions of national... Read More By Guillaume Faye From L’Archéofuturisme (Paris: L’Aencre, 1998) Translator’s Note: In L’Archéofuturisme Guillaume Faye envisages, sometime within the next two decades, a large-scale civilizational crisis, provoked by what which he calls a “convergence of catastrophes.”
For the post-crisis world Faye proposes, in terms that at times recall the Italian Futurists of the early... From the Guillaume Faye Archive Here, freely translated from Guillaume Faye’s Pourquoi nous combattons (2001), are ten ideas I think relevant to this struggle. Amazon. Eco - "Eternal Fascism: 14 Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt" By Umberto Eco Writing in New York Review of Books, 22 June 1995, pp.12-15. Excerpted in Utne Reader, November-December 1995, pp. 57-59. The following version follows the text and formatting of the Utne Reader article, and in addition, makes the first sentence of each numbered point a statement in bold type. Italics are in the original. For the full article, consult the New York Review of Books, purchase the full article online; or purchase Eco's new collection of essays: Five Moral Pieces.
In spite of some fuzziness regarding the difference between various historical forms of fascism, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. 1. Traditionalism is of course much older than fascism. This new culture had to be syncretistic. As a consequence, there can be no advancement of learning. 2. 3.
Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, reflection. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Monthly Review | Marx on Gender and the Family: A Summary. Heather Brown is assistant professor of political science at Westfield State University. This article is adapted from the conclusion of her book Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study (Haymarket, 2013), where it appeared in a somewhat different form.
Many feminist scholars have had, at best, an ambiguous relationship with Marx and Marxism. One of the most important areas of contention involves the Marx/Engels relationship. Studies by Georg Lukács, Terrell Carver, and others have shown significant differences between Marx and Engels on dialectics as well as a number of other issues.1 Building on these studies, I have explored their differences with regard to gender and the family as well. This is especially relevant to current debates, since a number of feminist scholars have criticized Marx and Engels for what they see as their economic determinism. Moreover, Marx appears to point in the direction of gender as a dynamic rather than static category. Keynes or Marx? | The Project. Michael Roberts takes sides in the debate between Keynes and Marx.
The purpose of this article is to consider the contributions that John Maynard Keynes and Karl Marx can make to our understanding of the nature of the capitalist system and the causes of crises. And also to identify the contribution that either or both can make to developing policy for action by socialists in the fight to defeat Capital and the damage it imposes through government policy on the living conditions of the 99%. Let me start with Keynes. This upper-class British economist came into prominence in the 1920s in attacking the deal between the winning powers to impose draconian conditions of austerity on the losers after the First World War. Then he wrote several important theoretical works in the 1930s to argue for new economic policies to deal with the Depression and its chronic high unemployment, which he thought threatened the very fabric of the bourgeois society he loved. Boorish snob The disappearing parasite.
Why the Alex Jones industrial complex must be dismantled. About a week ago I released a new video called "Fuck Alex Jones. " Since the track has been released I've been bombarded with hundreds if not thousands of angry comments from the Infowars crowd, calling me a "faget," a sheep, and a "New World Order shill. " I can't lie it’s been really amusing, but it’s also a really sad statement on our culture. Why do I even care? Why would I go after Alex Jones? Because I meet too many good people who are looking for answers in this insane, confusing world and are being spoon-fed dog shit disguised as "truth" by people like him.
I went after Jones specifically because almost all of his propaganda plays into the hands of the extreme right wing in the United States. His supporters are certified experts on the Bilderberg Group, but they seem to know nothing about the American Legislative Exchange Council, a group that literally writes laws for corporations and passes them into law. I attack Infowars because it is not a revolutionary movement. Origins of the Family.
Works of Frederick Engels 1884 Written: March-May, 1884;First Published: October 1884, in Hottingen-Zurich;Source: Marx/Engels Selected Works, Volume Three;Translation: The text is essentially the English translation by Alick West published in 1942, but it has been revised against the German text as it appeared in MEW [Marx-Engels Werke] Volume 21, Dietz Verlag 1962, and the spelling of names and other terms has been modernised;Transcription/Markup: Zodiac/Brian Baggins;Online Version: Marx/Engels Internet Archive (marxists.org) 1993, 1999, 2000. Proofed and corrected: Mark Harris 2010 Table of Contents: Introduction After Marx’s death, in rumaging through Marx’s manuscripts, Engels came upon Marx’s precis of Ancient Society – a book by progressive US scholar Lewis Henry Morgan and published in London 1877.
After reading the precis, Engels set out to write a special treatise – which he saw as fulfilling Marx’s will. Engels: “Along with [the classes] the state will inevitably fall. The Left, Europe and the case for socialism | The Project. Will McMahon searches for a genuinely socialist perspective on the European question.
Prior to the 1992 General Election the ostensibly socialist journal New Left Review No 191 carried an article titled ‘The Ruins of Westminster’ by Robin Blackburn. One of the central themes of the article was to argue for the progressive development of the European Union through a social democratic/left programme and to compare this favourably with the monetarist ravages of Thatcherism and the backwardness of the British state. The article then went on to call for a tactical Liberal Democrat vote where they were most likely to defeat the Conservatives.
It is hard to imagine now but at that time some on the left did actually believe that the Liberal Democrats might be a progressive force. The progressive social democratic and liberal bloc would then turn Britain to the heart of a progressive and social democratic Europe. Capital at its heart Bosses’ union The problem of UKIP Democracy Election demands. Cheer up – a renewed left is coming | Guy Standing. Next year is the 800th anniversary of one of the greatest political documents of all time. The Magna Carta was the first class-based charter, enforced on the monarchy by the rising class. Today's political establishment seems to have forgotten both it and the emancipatory, ecological Charter of the Forest of 1217. The rising mass class of today, which I call the precariat, will not let them forget for much longer. Today we need a precariat charter, a consolidated declaration that will respect the Magna Carta's 63 articles by encapsulating the needs and aspirations of the precariat, which consists of millions of people living insecurely, without occupational identity, doing a vast amount of work that is not counted, relying on volatile wages without benefits, being supplicants, dependent on charity, and denizens not citizens, in losing all forms of rights.
Every charter has been a class-based set of demands that constitute a progressive agenda or vision of a good society. Marxism and the environment. “The analysis of Nature into its individual parts, the grouping of the different natural processes and objects in definite classes, the study of the internal anatomy of organized bodies in their manifold forms—these were the fundamental conditions of the gigantic strides in our knowledge of Nature that have been made during the last 400 years. But this method of work has also left us as legacy the habit of observing natural objects and processes in isolation, apart from their connection with the vast whole; of observing them in repose, not in motion; as constraints, not as essentially variables; in their death, not in their life.” —Frederick Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific1 There is a widespread assumption among environmentalists that Marxism, as a “productivist” ideology, has little to say, and little concern, for the fate of the environment.
The idea that Marx and Engels were obsessed only with the conditions of workers comes from all quarters, right and left. BX5sEh4CYAAtLnr. Marxist theory: the advantage of foresight over astonishment | Socialist Appeal. Details Thursday, 20 February 2014 Written by Lee Singh Gill “Human history is like palaeontology. Owing to a certain judicial blindness even the best intelligences absolutely fail to see the things which lie in front of their noses.
Later, when the moment has arrived, we are surprised to find traces everywhere of what we failed to see.” - Karl Marx, Letter to Engels, 25th of March, 1868 It has often been stated that the correctness of Marxist theory - in its ability to predict the general course of development within the economy and society - demonstrates the superiority of foresight over astonishment. Never has this been better demonstrated than over the last 20 years, and especially since the crash came in 2008, by the ruling elites who have stumbled from one crisis to another, flailing blindly in an attempt to paper over the gaping cracks and fissures becoming more and more visible within the system. Organic crisis of overproduction Growth built on sand An anarchic and chaotic system. James Connolly: We Only Want the Earth (1907) Marx.
Permanent Revolution - Marx and Engels on Ecology. Identifying Marx and Engels, the founders of scientific socialism, with the productivist mania of the former Stalinist states, many environmentalists claim that Marx and Engels were so carried away with the scientific innovations and the desire for economic growth that they ignored the ill effects of capitalist expansion on the environment...writes Tony Jones...
The origin of Marx’s materialism and the relationship of it to ecology has been addressed at length by James Bellamy Foster, a Marxist of the Monthly Review school, in his book Marx’s Ecology. Bellamy Foster has done much to expose this flawed view of Marx and Engels coloured by the anti-environmentalism of the Stalinist states. But even without this detailed exposition and without having to agree with everything Bellamy Foster says it is straightforward to show that this view is a essentially false. Marx for example wrote in Capital: Engels reminded the nineteenth century capitalists:
The myths about Marxism. The past two decades have witnessed a barrage of propaganda against Marxism and its revolutionary heritage. Since the collapse of Stalinism – not socialism, but a monstrously deformed caricature of Marxism - from one front to another the mainstream media, universities, professors and historians have gone on the offensive to discredit Marxism. We examine here the most common myths about Marxism and socialism. Are socialism and democracy incompatible? The Stalinist regimes in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China, and elsewhere are the most commonly used resource for attacking Marxism.
Many of the misconceptions about Marxism can be linked quite clearly with the establishment of the first workers’ government in the world with a clear revolutionary programme – that of the Russian Bolsheviks. The October Revolution of 1917 is described merely as a ’coup’ and no expense is spared to equate Marxism with the crimes of Stalin. Are Marxists in favour of violence? Is capitalism efficient? Marx and Engels Internet Archive. Marx's theory of alienation. The 19th-century German intellectual K.H. Marx (1818–83) identified and described four types of Entfremdung (social alienation) that afflict the worker under capitalism. Entfremdung (estrangement) is Karl Marx’s theory of alienation, that designates the types of human relations which are not controlled by their participants and the ensuing results thereof.
Such relations present themselves as the separation of things that naturally belong together; and the placement of antagonism between things that are properly in harmony. Theoretically, Entfremdung describes the social alienation (estrangement) of people from aspects of their human nature (Gattungswesen, “species-essence”) as a consequence of living in a society stratified into social classes; Marx had earlier expressed the Entfremdung theory in the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (1927). Type of alienation[edit] Let us suppose that we had carried out production as human beings. The four types of Entfremdung are Communism.