Monthly Archives: August 2012

Limited liability: why we should want more of it

Posted on 30/08/2012 by modulus

On my previous post on corporate personhood I intended to also deal with the matter of limited liability–hence the URL of the post. However, I couldn’t do that in that post, so here it goes. Limited liability is a privilege … Continue reading →

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Colonising Venus

Posted on 23/08/2012 by Gavin Mendel-Gleason

James: On the face of it colonising Venus appears ridiculous. With temperatures of over 500 degrees celsius and atmospheric pressure 90 times that of earth how is it even possible to get started on a colonisation mission? Gavin: All target … Continue reading →

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The proletarian class party, part 5 (final)

Posted on 18/08/2012 by Maximilien Robespierre

This post (which I have been reluctant to make in the first place given my relative uneasiness this particular topic) is the final part of my series of posts on the “party question.” This post will examine, basing itself on … Continue reading →

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The WSM and Anarchism: A Political Analysis

Posted on 16/08/2012 by James O'Brien

The Workers Solidarity Movement is one of the more impressive anarchist organisations of modern times. While always a small organisation it has been active on the radical left in Ireland for close to thirty years and at the same time … Continue reading →

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What is to be done: The Menshevik Programme July 1919

Posted on 11/08/2012 by James O'Brien

Below is an excerpt from the programme adapted by the leftists dominated Central Committee of the Mensheviks in July 1919. The introductory section is omitted. The document provided the basis for the alternative economic programme put to the Congress of … Continue reading →

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“Did you try turning it off and then on again?”

Posted on 08/08/2012 by Gavin Mendel-Gleason

Diagnosing where things have gone wrong and what we can do about it As we survey the current state of affairs, it’s hard not to get somewhat demoralised. Despite a massive market failure, a brief flurry of rhetoric about the … Continue reading →

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Planning and its complexities

Posted on 07/08/2012 by Gavin Mendel-Gleason

The system of planning in the Soviet Union was unique in both its scope and complexity  and it would be no exaggeration to call it a grand experiment, one which has given us an entirely unusual data point in the … Continue reading →

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Crime and migration: towards a leftist response

Posted on 05/08/2012 by yeksmesh

In recent years, and particularly in reaction to the latest wave of austerity measures, we have seen an upswing in the size and importance of parties that are to the left of social democracy, a development that is greeted with … Continue reading →

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Corporate personhood

Posted on 05/08/2012 by modulus

One common complaint in anticapitalist circles is that the system of rights which once was designed to apply to human beings has been, through judicial interpretation, extended to so-called juridical persons–not persons at all, that is. Thus, corporations are given … Continue reading →

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