Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and the Crisis of the Left: A Report on Marx 2016

By Jonathan Michael Feldman “…having got into the university, English studies had within twenty years converted itself into a fairly normal academic course, marginalizing those members of itself who were sustaining the original project. Because by this time what it was doing within the institution was largely reproducing itself, which all academic institutions tend to…

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Learning About The Past. Thinking About The Future

June 14, 2012 “The logic of planetary responsibility is aimed, at least in principle, at confronting the globally generated problems point-blank—at their own level. It stems from the assumption that lasting and truly effective solutions to planetwide problems can be found and made to work only through the renegotiation and reforming of the web of…

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How can we cut the US military budget?

The central obstacle we face in cutting the U.S. military budget is rooted in the nature of the political-economy of the military-industrial-congressional complex or MICC.  All economies are political economies, hopefully with a small ‘p’ and a large   ‘E,’  but the MICC is a political economy with a large ‘P’ and a small  ‘e.’   The habitual modes…

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Global and European economic alternatives

“The EuroMemorandum seeks to set out a critical analysis of recent economic  developments in Europe and to present the basis for possible alternative policies. It is intended as a contribution to the critical discussion in intellectual and social movements in Europe, and in solidarity with all those struggling against the impact of the deeply regressive, anti-social…

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A Comprehensive Global Agenda Is Needed

I. Democracy  Networks The concentration of  power in large corporations and banks has placed serious constraints on democracy. Many large companies have outsourced work overseas and failed to organize work at home. The megabanks, backed by bond rating agencies and governments, have created austerity programs, and have received bailouts when  many are jobless or homeless.Yet, we…

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