Monthly Archives: March 2014

The capitalist market necessarily creates pyramid-like inequality, not only in the pocket, but in the mind. Why Have School?

[I was unable to post my comment at the website linked below, so its editor has been relaying (I don’t say refereeing) the exchange. He sent me Chris’ response, which I reproduce unaltered. I will comment upon it when I … Continue reading →

Another moribund Marxist dickfight is underway: http://philosophersforchange.org/2014/03/18/theory-and-practice-reconsidered-the-role-of-critical-theory/. [I was unable to post this comment at the website as WordPress wouldn’t allow it.] So this is “scientific socialism”? Does anyone really believe, can anybody believe, that the idiosyncratic academic musings above … Continue reading →

Nice short piece. Kropotkin: Celebrating Bakunin’s Anniversary

Was mom given dangerous drugs in the nursing home? It’s part of Big Pharma’s marketing plan – See more at: http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/12413#sthash.61cWTiIs.dpuf

Nice piece by Mickey Z http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz190314.htm

In a word-yes. The fast-food business model is based on wage theft. That’s the thrust of seven lawsuits that hit McDonald’s in three states last week.   Employees are cheated out of overtime.   They are forced to clock out … Continue reading →

Nice piece, if a bit too charitable. Tony Benn (1925–2014)

All in all, Evo’s government remains a government like any other; one that controls the state apparatus, the police and the army included, and does not hesitate to use these levers in order to implement its decisions, which most of … Continue reading →

http://www.todaysworkplace.org/2014/03/10/teamsters-back-school-bus-drivers-in-fight-against-rampant-wage-theft/