Monthly Archives: June 2014

Catholic Marxism

Posted on 28/06/2014 by James O'Brien

At first glance Marxism and Catholicism have little in common: one is thoroughly materialist in outlook, the other a prime defender of idealism. Whereas Marxism is dedicated to a new social order, the Church has been intimately associated with conservative, … Continue reading →

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Why is the left so obsessed with degeneration?

Posted on 14/06/2014 by yeksmesh

There is a specter haunting the radical left, the specter of degeneration. Okay, that might sound a bit dramatic but the left today really is scared a great deal of something called various things to various people. Whether we call … Continue reading →

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Critical notes on the “Manifesto of the Initiative for Democratic Socialism” (MIDS)

Posted on 05/06/2014 by Paul Cockshott

This is a critique of the Manifesto of the Initiative for Democratic Socialism (Slovenia) The ideological dominance of capitalism as the only feasible mode of production is coming to an end. In the second half of the 1970s, when rapid … Continue reading →

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