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...Social democracy is dead and can't be revived. The solidarity economy is the hope for the world's future, and Marxism provides the intellectual tools to interpret and predict its growth....

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...The capitalist mode of production does not permit a socially efficient allocation of resources. Resource allocation is determined by the twin structural imperatives of having purchasing power (on the demand side) and of chasi...

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...Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Sociology and Economics of Worker Cooperatives Chapter 3: Worker Cooperatives in American History Chapter 4: Marxism and the Alternative Economy Chapter 5: New Era Chapter 6: Concluding Thoughts on Revolution...

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...ERATIVES AND REVOLUTION: HISTORY AND POSSIBILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES Chris WrightCopyright © 2014 Chris Wrig... ...TIVES AND REVOLUTIONThis book provides content related to cooperatives and politicalactivism. As such, use of this book implies your acceptance of thi... .................. 27 Incentives, job satisfaction, productivity, and “the political effects of participation” ..................................... ...y people as possible, toprovide a cheap service to political and community groups, to growas a business and spawn new co-ops, or any other objective t... ...me cases, they are already doing so. Influenced by acoalition of community groups, the New York City Council passed ahistoric budget in the summer of ... ...ositions, such as abolition of child labor, support for the eight-hourday, advocacy of public ownership of the railroads, water systemsand utilities, ... ...against the social and political legacy ofNew Deal America, a war in which centrist politicians and evenliberal Democrats were complicit, due in large... ...e Cooperative. What this designation concretely meantwas a year of intense advocacy and organizational support for co-ops, so as to publicize their wo... ...ns amonolithic entity—has tended to be the bastion of centristconservatism, the ballast that has steadied the course of capitalis...

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...Richly informed and written in an engaging style, Against Empire exposes the ruthless agenda and hidden costs of the U.S. empire today. Documenting the pretexts and lies used to justify violent intervention and maldevelopment abroad, Parenti shows how t...

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...tiTo Dewayne Holmes, a former Crips leader who brought peace between gangs in Los Angeles andwho then became a community organizer fighting for democr... ...s andwho then became a community organizer fighting for democratic reforms in the inner city. For hisefforts he was railroaded into prison on trumped-... ...om accorded any serious attention by ouracademics, media commentators, and political leaders. When not ignored outright, the subject ofimperialism has... ...ury Britishimperialism” but not of U.S. imperialism. A graduate student in political science at most universitiesin this country would not be granted ... ... reformist politicians and activistswere killed by right-wing paramilitary groups, including two presidential candidates of the PatrioticUnion and a m... ...gn Relations, the TrilateralCommission, and other public and private elite groups populated by top policy specialists, bankers,CEOs, investors, leadin... ...after the left revolutionary Sandinistas lost the 1990 election to a right-centristcoalition, the army and police remained in their hands. However, in... ... andcaused Nobel Prize-winner Wassily Leontif to quit Harvard in disgust.) Centrist ideologues seemunaware that this view might itself be an ideologic... ...to serve as prominent acolytes to the circles of power. Outspokenpolitical advocacy is not a hindrance to one's career as long as one advocate the rig...

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...In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the d...

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...Editors' Preface...XI A Note on the Events of September 11, 2001...XIII Chapter 1 Weekend Teach-In: Opening Session...1 Chapter 2 Teach-In: Over Coffee...37 Chapter 3 Teach-In: Evening...70 Chapter 4 Colloquy...106 Chapter 5 Ruling the World...140 C...

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...d JohnSchoeffelAll rights reserved.No part of this book may be reproduced, in any form, withoutwrittenpermission from the publisher.Published in the U... ...ower.comISBN 1-56584-703-2 CIP data availableThe New Press was established in 1990 as a not-for-profit alternative to thelarge, commercial publishing ... ... the world, and for understanding power. What distinguishes Noam Chomsky's political thinking is not anyonenovel insight or single overarching idea. I... ... is not anyonenovel insight or single overarching idea. In fact, Chomsky's political stanceis rooted in concepts that have been understood for centuri... ...istic reasons. Most of the material is from seminar-style discussions with groups ofactivists, or from question periods after public talks, held betwe... ... what do they care? The New Re-public, which is sort of an organ for these groups, had a very interesting ed-itorial on it. It was about anti-Semitism... ...that I'm a little uncomfortable with your kind ofextreme freedom of speech advocacy, though. It just seems to me that untilthere's a more equitable di... ...ps like the Congressional Office of Technology Assess-ment--can't get more centrist than that-eame out with very sharp and in-telligent critiques of t... ...Malthus, Thomas, 251, 254 25-26 and spectatormanufacture of consent, advocacy sports, 100-01 andof, terminology, 42-44 15-1...

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...The book points out a path to workers' education and parliamentary representation in South Africa. While the book utilises socialist rhetoric, it does not espouse a socialist regime or open revolution - rather it emphasises b...

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..."Workers of the RSA, from their ‘township-camps’, from abject social and economic conditions, brought the ANC to rule. Workers of the RSA have given the party the right to assume government for more than decades. In doing so, workers hav...

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...BOOK ONE: Fundamentals 1 Workers, what place do you hold in the RSA economy 1 2 Workers’ ownership of economic power 12 3 Past and present regimes: What difference for workers in the RSA? 20 4 Political principles under the microscope 24 ...

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...develop ifthe continuous, concrete, and genuine participation of themasses in public life is ensured. It will only endure and be ableto develop if thi... ...e ableto develop if this participation is not just taken up with day-today political matters, but, rather, if along with these, theworking masses are ... ...spirit, public capacity for judgement, and the vivid need forparticipation in public life”.György Lukács. 1947. The Culture of People’s DemocracyCape ... ...ference for workers in the RSA? 204 Political principles under the microscope 245 What ‘fr... ...gn of terror are a fewexamples of terror unleashed on workers and targeted groups,conducted in the name of communism: Unscientific, personaland ‘skewe... ... form their ownopinions and discuss their understanding in reading groups,relative to the development of their ... ...new-liberalist apologists to quasi-politicalanalysts, arrogant ideologues, centrists, centralists, absoluteopportunists, democratic socialists, smug s... ... via their legislated structures (PECs),agenda setting and ‘advocacy’ mechanism. SALGA’s staffsalaries speaks ... ...usiness and anti-labor union, anti-communism,individualism, advocacy of American exceptionalism, and adefense of Western culture from t...

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...The goal of my story is to bring attention to the things we don’t think we’re bad at and help individuals work through the unconscious resistance. This will involve a great deal of introspection and even then, it’s an extreme...

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...Openness and awareness begins with the ability to self-critique and reflect upon things central to one’s own beliefs, thoughts, actions, behavior, and results. Openness can inform private, personal or group discussions. Ideally, all capable people should look...

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...Chapter 1: Self-Motivated - Page 10 The clearer the vision, the easier it will be to create a plan to focus on the tasks needed to reach your goal. Chapter 2: Baseball, Business Philosophy, Reflections - Page 19 Through my life experiences—which have been mul...

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...book is dedicated to Donald Trump, a man I love since God is divine Love, and everyone in his or her true being is the immortal expression of Lov... ...wn argument, done for since you are trying to persuade us that as soon as one moves an inch in the planned direction you arenecessarily launched on th... ...misinformation. "Creative" epistemology is a tool of manipulation. We can't let a powerful political figure get away with erasing all commo... ...tes these ingrained fears by understanding both supply and demandis the singular goal of my political ambition. iiiChapter... ...ed by a false sense of entitlement and looking to avoid work, I tried to bro-ker “sociedad” groups where I viewed my peer’s lack of reputation as an o... ...ring over “sharing” (i.e., dis-tribution) create friction among members and many exit these groups. Applied to a na-tional economy, the need principle... ... within ourselves.Most of us avoid the work (inquiry) prior to making the application (self advocacy).We also avoid the benefits of disconnecting or s... ... 4. We all Should Promote Methodology 5. World - class inquiry precedes world - class advocacy Since I love running my juice bar, walking awa... ...ion and congress bydeclaring a national emergency to build a wall highlights the need for a centrist proc-ess in America. The biggest corrupters of ou...

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...GENERAL MCCHRYSTAL’S STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT: EVALUATING THE OPERATING ENVIRONMENT IN AFGHANISTAN IN THE SUMMER OF 2009 Introduction . . . .1 The Tasking . . . .2 The Team . . . . 3 The Assessment Begins . . . .7 Early Organizational Difficulties and Cultural Clashes . . . .1...

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...OrCe reseArCH institUte General McChrystal’s strategic AssessmentEvaluating the Operating Environmentin Afghanistan in the Summer of 2009 ... ...Chrystal’s strategic AssessmentEvaluating the Operating Environmentin Afghanistan in the Summer of 2009 Matthew C. Brand ... ...s of issues of current or potential importance to the nation. This paper and others in the series are available elec- tronically at the Air Univ... ...er, Head-quarters USFOR-A had officers in almost all of the strategicassessment working groups, and I was responsible for monitoringthe working groups... ...p back in Europe, “You ought to task me to do this—thatway I’ll do one product for both groups.”1 Thus, both CENT-COM and NATO provided written guidan... ...ore resources severaltimes, but with Iraq still drawing the overwhelming attention ofUS political and military leadership, he was mostly unsuccess- ... ...ouched just about every demographic and population group: military, international, and political.20 Although Colonels Pick and Kolenda felt that the... ...resting. I had expected, based on the very different perspec- tives—some liberal, some centrist, some conservative, and some inter- national audienc... ...gy review earlier in the year. However, there is a subtledifference between support and advocacy. Some critics of thecounterinsurgency approach percei...

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...Shapurji Saklatvala was a Parsi from India who was elected twice to the British parliament in the 1920s. A communist and an internationalist, he campaigned vigorously inside and outside parliament on behalf of working people everywhere and especially for the cause of an independent India. A c...

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...'s Preface 6Chapter 1 - The Sun Rises in the East 8Chapter 2 - The Plague Years ... ... Veers to the West 41Chapter 5 - The Quest for a Political Solution 54Chapter 6 - The Mind is its Own P... ...versality of man and his dislike of anything that divides us intocompeting groups either of religion or of race, I offer the reader these tit-bitsof i... ...onvictions andbeliefs that are important in trying to understand his later politicaldevelopment. Unfortunately the first page of the letter is missing... ...am, Shapurji added the conscientious objectors tohis political causes, and groups of them in Twickenham used to meet in eachothers’ houses. He continu... ... to improve the hours,wages and general conditions of workers; and an open advocacy of theNationalisation of Lands, Railways, Mines, and other large a... ...ernational must consistently and systematically dismiss reformists and “Centrists” from positions of any responsibility in the working-class mov... ...to recognise the need for a complete and absolute breakwith reformism and “Centrist” policy, and to conduct propagandaamong the party membership for t... ... or whether their dutieswere limited to the prevention of crime and of the advocacy of crime? Ongetting an evasive reply, Wedgwood Benn pressed his po...

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...This paper attempts to merge the concepts and theoretical frameworks of the disciplines of Anthropology and Economics, and attempts to create a new sub-field in Economics called ‘Anthropological Economics’ which is mired in Anthropological concepts and p...

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...lines ofAnthropology and Economics, and attempts to create a new sub-field in Economics called‘Anthropological Economics’ which is mired in Anthropolo... ... other sub-fields of economics, replace them, or override their principles in anyway. It will therefore draw upon other aspects of economic theory, an... ...gy, anthropometry, paleoanthropology, cultural anthropology, human ecology,political anthropology, study of human societies, economic anthropology, th... ... world, andmany Anthropologists also attempted to classify humans into sub-groups and races. CharlesDarwin’s path-breaking work ‘On the origin of spec... ...g to this law, "Bad money drives outgood money".In 1568, French jurist and political philosopher Jean Bodin published the first known analysis ofinfla... ...itical movement in theUnited States in the 1970’s and 1980’s. It comprised groups such as the Bay Area RevolutionaryUnion and other groups. The term ‘... ... were used by Anthropologists who found earlier approaches to beinadequate.Advocacy is also becoming common in Anthropology. Advocacy is a political p... ...cultural andeconomic system, and the framework of associated institutions. Advocacy groups have beenformed in different parts of the world, and have h... ...ltural change in contemporary Twenty-firstcentury Anthropology from a ‘Neo-centrist’ perspective Published in ELK Asia Pacific Journal of Social Scien...

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...new-zealand-granny-goes-full-dumpcovid-19-blind-men-and-the-elephantwe-are-in-a-world-of-shit-full-metalasked-question-is-why-is-the-usatrudeau-recent... ...compass-on-gazacontradicting-netanyahu-gallant-toldno-evidence-of-genocide-in-gaza-pentagontrump-declares-the-difference-betweensince-the-civil-war-er... ... is peter-thiel, who sells the pre-crime AI engine toCIA, NSA, and all LEO groups on earth; He is also the #1 funding source for alt-right sites likes... ...heads?? WHO Knew?? )The law contains 19 sections aimed at helping minority groups, including one creating a ChiefDiversity Officer at the National Sci... ...t, the world’s best chipmakers are tired of being pawns in the CHIPS Act’s political games.They’ve quietly given up on America. Intel must know the co... ...M Lionizes ‘Bring out your Dead, Bring back the Raygun Years’zerohedge.com/political/reagan-miracle-…The only problem with this MYTHOLOGOY is that RAY... ... offers hasbara fellowships, scholarships and grants to foster pro-Israeli advocacy,while a number of individuals from journalists to bloggers work to... ...s Management, LP, channels the spiceto point out that 'being apolitical or centrist is becoming a significant competitive advantage forcompanies.'Bein... ...ming a significant competitive advantage forcompanies.'Being apolitical or centrist is becoming a significant competitive advantage for companies.Gemi...

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...In a decadent late-capitalist society, humanism is under attack from all directions. It's time we fought back and reclaimed what it means to be human, embracing the best of what history and thought have bequeathed us....

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...The world has changed since 2007, when I wrote the preface to the first edition of this book. That was still the age of capitalist triumphalism, of glacial politics in the U.S. and the Despair of the Activist. Cultural ennui—...

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...Chapter 1: Detached Thoughts Chapter 2: History, Capitalism, and Marxism Chapter 3: Experimental Thoughts on the Self Chapter 4: On Christianity Chapter 5: On Music Chapter 6: Dusk in Vietnam Chapter 7: The Book of Joe Coda...

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...3All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by anymeans, electroni... ...mechanical, recording or otherwise, without theprior written permission of the author.Published by BookLocker.com, Inc., Bradenton, Florida.Printed in... ...f the author.Published by BookLocker.com, Inc., Bradenton, Florida.Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper.BookLocker.com, Inc.2013... ...ion from Christian morality to nihilism; I have sympathies for every political ideal from Chomsky’s anarchism to Schumpeter’s democratic ... ...ein of rebellion—or (at any rate) discontent. Music died long ago. Even political activism founders on the rock of the System. My floundering... ...er-warfare is becoming moresophisticated, eventually to be used on leftist groups among thecitizenry. The tactic of instilling fear in people, intimid... ...dern creation: history is full ofempires, city-states, tribes, and nomadic groups, but before the latenineteenth century there were no full-fledged na... ... over high-level politics). —On the other hand, I have to admitthat Marx’s advocacy of political activity was in some ways more realisticand less “uto... ...vernment (Italy in 1922, Spain in 1939, China beforeMao), or—more rarely—a centrist one (Italy and Spain beforeMussolini and Franco). That is the mean...

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...Akademik nitelikli, her tür bakış açısı ile değerlendirme ve yorumların yer aldığı, “Balkanlarda İslâm: Miadı Dolmayan Umut - Islam in the Balkans: Unexpired Hope” adlı bu çalışma, alanında bu güne kadar yapılmış en kapsamlı eserdir. Eserde ABD, Almanya, Arnavutluk, Bosna-Hersek, Bulgaristan, Hırvatistan, Karadağ, Kosova, Macaristan, Makedonya, Polonya...

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...t Savaş Kafkasyalı 21 Preface / Muhammet Savaş Kafkasyalı 25 Uluslararası İlişkilerin Haddini Belirlemek Muhammet Savaş Kafkasyalı 29 Determining the Limits of International Relations Muhammet Savaş Kafkasyalı 49 Ahlâk Morality Aliya İzzetbegoviç 69 Balkanlar’da İslâm Islam in the Balkans Kemal Karpat 93 Stefan Duşan’dan Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’na From Stefan Du...

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... cilt MİADI DOLMAYAN UMUT IslAM In the BAlkAns UnexpIreD hope MUĞLAKLIKTA... ...: +90 312 939 75 15-16 www.tika.gov.tr MİADI DOLMAYAN UMUT IslAM In the BAlkAns UnexpIreD hope MUĞLAKLIKTA... ...rebelled with a nationalconsciousness the regime of the Ottoman Empire had been accepted as a political orderwhich united all citizens without disting... ...ountries have studied Islam in the Balkans for the first time from a historical, cultural, political,ethnic group, socio-economic angle as a whole ... ...urrent Muslimcountries which maintain their language, ethnic, cultural features into 6-7 main groups.There is no doubt that Balkan Islam is one of the... ...ctly from colony. “colonization”: 1766, noun of action from colonize. “imperialism”: 1826, “advocacy of empire, devotion to imperial interests,” o... ...ctly from colony. “colonization”: 1766, noun of action from colonize. “imperialism”: 1826, “advocacy of empire, devotion to imperial interests,” o... ...the Ottoman era.Finally, the development has been comprised of the migration ofvarious Muslim groups into Western Europe mainly in the secondhalf of t... ...ch explains the political formats, often named WE5 (meansvs. “They”), which includes leftist, centrist, right-wing parties; communists andanti-communi...

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...It is the argument of this paper that the Canadian government has not yet achieved its goals of women’s equality, elimination of child poverty and optimal national productivity due to an oversight in social policy that neglects t...

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...who dare to do whattheir heart calls them to do, and to those who flounder in anger not able to do what theirheart tells them. Let us all agree to fig... ...is book is dedicated to lawmakers who can make a fairer system for all the groupsabove. We rely on those who make our laws to make fair ones. ... ...tion of child poverty and optimal national productivitydue to an oversight in social policy that neglects the unpaid caregiving sector. The care ofthe... ...en who were more aggressive. I just wrote letters,But they organized small groups, researched laws and entered the official system. Onegroup became a ... ... were hurt most by the lawshift were the disenfranchised. Children have no political rights. Older teens and youngadults paying school fees and higher... ...how we valueparenting, and they were often mistrusted. Even leaders on the political right whopromoted valuing mothers in the home in 2001, reserved a... ...al Mothers’ Rights Council in the US, Moms for Milk Breastfeeding Consumer Advocacy Network(momsformilk@ks.sympatico.ca)Moms’ at Home – http://www.mom... ...hem are responded to with ‘we can’t afford it”1982 – the Canadian Day Care Advocacy Association is formed to be an ‘effective unitedvoice to pursue da... ...uayle and Pat Buchananbut that the Canadian pro-family movement has a more centrist position, withoutreligious or political affiliation and is post-fe...