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By: Smile or Die: Barbara Ehrenreich on positive thinking (the cartoon version) | Somatosphere

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:58:26 +0000

[...] Savage Minds Matt has linked to an excellent animated version of a talk by David Harvey on the recent global economic crisis. The animation is one of a series put together by the Royal Society for the encouragement of [...]

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By: Around the Web | Savage Minds

Around the Web | Savage Minds — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:22:31 +0000

[...] up on the animated David Harvey lecture, I clicked on a link from Ethnografix to this blog by Maxine Udall and I’ve been rewarded for [...]

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By: Marx for visual learners « A Fistful of Science

Marx for visual learners « A Fistful of Science — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:44:14 +0000

[...] Via Savage Minds [...]

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youth of today « A posteriori — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:07:48 +0000

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By: Andrew Galley

Andrew Galley — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:31:26 +0000

Thanks Matt!

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By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:15:30 +0000

“a truly communist society is an anarchist one”

Yeah, many years ago when I was an anarchist I used to argue with Marxist about this. It all goes back to the schism between Marx and Bakunin.

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By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:09:30 +0000

Lemme go into the works and see if I can pull that out for you Andrew.
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Huh, that was my first time in the spam filter. And look, the comment come up in the order you made it. Very interesting. Well, I learned something new today.

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By: Andrew Galley

Andrew Galley — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:06:52 +0000

my reply is incoming, but has been eaten (I hope temporarily) by the spam filter because I forgot to mispell (or omit the term) “soshalizum”

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By: Andrew Galley

Andrew Galley — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:36:45 +0000

it’s fair in the sense of being a reasonable starting point for debate, but I don’t think it’s “more than fair” in the sense of being obviously ethical or correct.

Is state socialism the only imaginable application of Marxist theory to politics? If we pay attention to a Marxist critique of, say, financial practices, and that informs our organizing for a platform within a multi-party democracy, does that not count as “applying Marxist theory to politics”?

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By: Al West

Al West — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:44:20 +0000

I have nothing against Marx as a theorist, and he’s… well, there’s no point in saying how influential the old chap was. The only thing I take issue with is the application of Marxist theories to present and future politics, which I think is more than fair.

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By: jérémy

jérémy — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:40:59 +0000

I can’t perceive anything snooty in your response.
I am not sure I want to engage in a “duel of ideologies”. I commented only in reaction to your first comment, and I only wanted to point out firstly, that Marx’s perspectives on political-economical matters are not to be confused with “marxism-leninism” and its avatars, and secondly, that if one follows basic definitions, a truly communist society is an anarchist one, and not a murderous and authoritarian state (pleonasm!) like USSR for example.
As for questions of organization and “human nature”, which are, I believe, pretty much open problems, I would suggest looking into “anarchist federalism”, and into the work of Kropotkin amongst many other, but this is not directly related to the post above. :)

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By: justaguy

justaguy — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:32:52 +0000

Ah, the embed html script didn’t work. Here’s Understanding Marx by Red Shadow. Its pretty amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz6c6kaFG5E&feature=youtube_gdata

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By: justaguy

justaguy — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:31:34 +0000

See:

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By: Andrew Galley

Andrew Galley — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:30:50 +0000

Taking Marx seriously as a theorist no more implies one must desire communist revolution than taking Nietzsche seriously implies one must hate Russians. Or women. or um, well, everybody, basically.

But the point stands!

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By: seth edenbaum

seth edenbaum — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:28:20 +0000

If you watch the video Harvey is using a Marxist analysis to describe events that have occurred.
At the end he says “I don’t have the solutions.”

My question to you: Do you have a better description of the events?

I’m guessing no.

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