Category: Ideas

Mottoes and Watchwords

A Discussion of Politics and Mass Organizations, Part 1 of 2 By Nate Hawthorne

Posted: June 17th, 2011 under Debate, Ideas, Labor.

Kropotkin Selection? Updating Mutual Aid

By Steve Fake Edward O. Wilson and Peter Kropotkin are not often discussed in the same breath. Yet Kropotkin, who in his professional life was a geographer, devoted a substantial work (Mutual Aid, 1902) to elaborating his ideas on cooperation as an important factor in species evolution. Although his ideas never achieved dominance, as evolutionary [...]

Posted: April 30th, 2011 under Ideas.

Zizek’s Jacobin Spirit

By Steve Fake A Jacobin legacy has haunted the left ever since the political spectrum became defined as a left-right axis. This is hardly a surprise – the Jacobins were, after all, the original left-wing. And the role of the “left” in the French Revolution was a notoriously mixed-bag. A concern for equality was coupled, [...]

Posted: April 19th, 2011 under Debate, History, Ideas.

Liberating Thought: Toward an Independent Mass Media

By Steven Fake

The present effectiveness of the United States propaganda system may well be without historical parallel. Its ability to shape public perceptions of events and issues and to garner support for ideologies that undergird the political and economic structures of society has been amply documented.

Posted: November 10th, 2010 under History, Ideas, Labor.

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