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January 2025

Where Is the "Working Class"
I ought to elaborate a bit on my simplistic depiction of the inevitable rise of the revolutionary proletariat, according to certain Marxist treatments.
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What Is Scientific In "Scientific Socialism"?
The answer is suggested in Friedrich Engels’s “Socialism, Utopian and Scientific.” I do not find it satisfying.
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Adam Przeworski, II
(Note: I’m informed by one of my readers that it’s pronounced “Shaworski.”) Part I of this series is here.
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Adam Przeworski
I’m reading his “Capitalism and Social-Democracy.” He’s still around, emeritus at NYU.
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We Good
https://www.loudountimes.com/.../article_a33a39f6-d454... Another MAGA-inspired bogus investigation and prosecution collapses.
The Roots of My Lifelong Political Dysfunction
But I'm not done dysfunctioning . . .
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Let's Make Bernstein Great Again
Not Jared. The other Bernstein.
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If You Liked the Gotha Program, You'll Like the Erfurt Program Even Better
I’m back to the ups and downs of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), prior to the first world war.
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Why "Why Marx Was Right" Is Wrong
The eminent British professor literature Terry Eagleton offers a breezy take that from a conventional standpoint is intellectually transgressive.
Vulgar Marxism Is the Real Marxism
And it ain't bad
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Today In Morbid Symptoms*
Time to tee off on "liberal patriotism," as espoused by John Judis and Ruy Texeira (pronounced “roo-ey te-sheera”).
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