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karl marx: the face of romanticism
The many faces of Karl Marx: the dominant one is the romantic idealist exhorting man to triumph over the things he manufactures… …The paradoxes begin with his birth. he was born of comfortably off middle-class parents, not in one of … Continue reading
karl marx: poet at the barricade
Karl Marx: the romantic idealist exhorting man to triumph over the things he manufactures… …To many of that generation “revolution” was a holy word, and the spirit of freedom appeared, as in Delacroix’s famous painting, as a beautiful bare-breasted woman … Continue reading
karl marx: many faces
The many faces of Karl Marx: Prophet, historian, newspaperman, revolutionary, philosopher, fond papa- all thse faces were his, and one other; that is, the romantic idealist exhorting man to triumph over the things he manufactures… One can imagine few greater … Continue reading
those furry little fellas
As we conclude 2011, the story of the lemmings can serve as a cautionary tale… Fit for a cliff. Are you a lemming? Blindly, intoxicated with the herd mentality of following the lead of the crowd over the cliff. An … Continue reading
UTOPIAN DREAMS & SCHEMES and IN-BETWEENS
What is Utopia and why does it attract both hope and skepticism in equal measure? In a way that appears meaningful, it is a productive inner tensions between two tendencies: a positive optimistic utopianism and a negative utopian pessimism. A … Continue reading
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MARCUSE : POURING SALT ONTO SACCHARINE NOTIONS
Some people call a lie told for a great and good purpose a “noble lie.” Our government engages in a noble lie, according to these people, when it lies to us for our own good. Let us suppose, for the … Continue reading
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MACHIAVELLI CURTAIN CALL
”My take on this is that the system has not broken down. It was built broken. It was designed that way. It’s functioning according to the original plan. Democracy was never the intention. Thwarting democracy was. The U.S. founding fathers … Continue reading
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