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What Happened to Negri and Hardt?
http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 13/ what-happened-to-negri-and-ha…Adam has an interesting post up asking what happened to Negri and Hardt. Now on the home stretch of exam prep, I am going back through Empire and find myself wanting to reread it “for real” sometime soon, now that I’ve finally read many more of the works they’re referencing.
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Famous Last Words
http://anotherdayinthedunya.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 13/ famous-last-words/Famous Last Words May 13, 2008 Famous last words before death…. Some are quite frightening. Wonder what our last words will be? May Allah give us a husn ul khatim, amin. { - } Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.
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IRA-2008- Part 2
http://carolbaldwinblog.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ ira-2008-part-2.htmlIn her "Ode to David Letterman" Linda Gambrell (president of IRA) presented these as her top 10 reasons for pleasure reading in her keynote address: 10. Reading exercises the brain. 9. Reading helps you become fluent in a second language- text language. 8. The more you read the smarter you get.
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death of an apologist; or, why Dawkins is right
http://thetoothlessfundamentalist.vox.com/ library/ post/ death-of-an-apologist-…Peekaboo atheist Some time around the publication of atheist Richard Dawkin’s bestselling The God Delusion, it became impossible to go to the pub without a heathen friend launching into an argument about how demonstrably wicked religion is. I used to argue back, but now I don’t. I’ve come to the conclusion that those heathens have a point.
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Review: 10 Books That Screwed Up the World by Benjamin Wiker
http://www.stuartgeiger.com/ wordpress/ reviews-and-responses/ 2008/ 05/ 12/ rev…10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn’t Help by Benjamin Wiker I recently picked this up while browsing the philosophy section of a local bookstore. On a side note, I love to look at what different bookstores call “Philosophy,” as they often differ greatly.
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The Groucho Candidate
http://journalplagueyear.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ groucho-candidate.htmlLast week I commented twice on Hillary Clinton, and judging by the roaring silence elicited by those posts, I gather I was treading over well-worn turf or just rubbed folks the wrong way. Not that I take any of it back; but I can take a hint. So, moving on ... If I were an advisor to either Sen.
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Democracy, Representative Republic or…
http://faithrevolution.com/ 2008/ 05/ 12/ democracy-representative-republic-or/Democracy, Representative Republic or… Posted on May 12, 2008 by Clifford Cartwright Communist? Could it really be that we have become what we fought against not too many decades ago? From the Princlples of Communism by Frederick Engles (1847), a Karl Marx contemporary with my comments in
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“One for my baby (and one more for the road)”
http://westendbitch.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 13/ 153/I’m fairly sure that given my pro-BoJo sentiments of these past weeks, there’ll be more than one person waiting to jump on me about the latest Tory ‘family’ initiative. Would that it were simple enough for me to be either outraged or in agreement, like the centrist I am, I fall somewhere in that grey area. Let’s start with the obvious: a) je suis lesbo and b) I do want a family some day.
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Classic Comedy from the Groucho Marx Show: You Bet Your Life!
http://www.tomorrowpictures.tv/ 2008/ 05/ 12/ classic-comedy-from-the-groucho-ma…Flash This week on Comedy, it’s the OG of Vaudeville schtick, Mr. Groucho Marx! Here’s an episode from his top-rated 1954 gameshow, “You Bet Your Life”, where Groucho does the ol’ one-two with a dance instructor, a banker from Glendale, a cigar-hating Hollywood pioneer, a pen factory worker whose voice never changed, a New Zealander and the eye-patched son of a former Salvadoran Dictator.
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Daily How To 48
http://littlecornerofmyworld16.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 12/ daily-how-to-48/Listening: ‘This Is Not A Love Song’ by Nouvelle Vague Reading: ‘Rebels With A Cause: Why Some Shy Away From the Label “Christian”‘ Thinking: I am never watching Nip/Tuck again. Those people are DISTURBED! How to Annoy Me: Sneeze loud enough to wake the dead, giving me a heart attack on a regular basis.