Eppur si muove

Thoughts about the way the world is set up, and the way it's changing. Trying to see the forces moving beneath the surface of history as it is happening.

28 February 2014

Chomsky on democracy and fascism

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This is a brief discussion on the validity of using "fascism" to describe modern society. From FaceBook where S posted the foll...
22 February 2014

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The Guardian just reviewed the new Viking exhibition at the British Museum, emphasizing the commercial and political exploits of the eastern...
23 August 2013

On the destruction of Glenn Greenwald's partner's computers and data by the British government

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An article in TechDirt gives a good general account of some of the democratic issues involved in the case of the British government's ha...
12 August 2013

David Hawkes in the TLS and Chomsky (eclectics and science)

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On FaceBook a mate of mine linked to an article by David Hawkes in the TLS about Noam Chomsky: How Noam Chomsky's world works I made t...
6 August 2013

Hegel Boot Camp and grappling with Reason

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On  Mike Roberts's blog  The Next Recession (arguing that the most important factor driving the current crisis in capitalism is the tend...
2 August 2013

Snowden isn't alone

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This is a very general comment I made on FaceBook about the Snowden debate: What scares the US imperialist government is that Snowden (an...
4 July 2013

Deposing Mursi in Egypt and Democracy

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After the news that president Mursi had been deposed by the military in Egypt, a FaceBook friend wrote: I'm not going to celebrate a ...
12 June 2013

The NSA's totalitarian surveillance and the US Constitution

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An article in the Register tries to deal with the ongoing massive violation of private individuals' lives and integrity by the NSA by in...
1 February 2013

Re sub-imperialism

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Fred Feldman posted a  contribution  to the Green Left discussion group on Yahoo on the use of "sub-imperialism" to characterize a...
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"Embodied Cognition" -- empirio-criticism rides again

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An article in Scientific American on "Embodied Cognition"  prompted a commenter to declare: " The phrase "embodied simul...
10 January 2013

Market failure, creativity, and online gouging

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Cory Doctorow has written an article in the Guardian entitled "Just because everything has value doesn't mean it has a price...
3 December 2012

A cultural revolution and ecstasy (not China, not drugs ;-)

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Kitty Empire wrote a review of the Rolling Stones concert in London the other night. Guardian Stones O2 concert review There were a lot o...
26 November 2012

Revolutionary priorities - human rights and combating bureaucracy?

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On my translators' discussion list, PF replied to me: You use the word red herring a little too liberally. If the protection of h...
25 November 2012

Some discussions prompted by Einstein's 1949 essay "Why Socialism?"

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My translators' discussion list is grappling with some fundamentals of social development and history at the moment. The perspective is ...
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