Philosophy
Socialism, Feminism, Meaning and Understanding
Submitted on 13 November, 2007 - 11:39
A few weeks ago I was at a meeting in Leeds, entitled “Socialist Feminism and the Fight for equality”, publicising Feminist Fightback,.
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Kiss me, Edward
Submitted on 9 July, 2006 - 20:10
Kiss me, Edward
You might have hoped that the rotten elements had gone away to leave you to discuss ‘politics’ in peace. You may have even hoped that we turned the site into a proper tribute to Edward Upward. If you did hope for this, I love you, I do.
Chris Arthur and Roy Bhaskar: "Debating dialectic"
Submitted on 26 January, 2006 - 10:37
Study course on Marx's "Theses on Feuerbach"
Submitted on 19 August, 2004 - 11:52
Sixth and final session of the North London AWL study course on Marx's "Theses on Feuerbach".
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Study course on Marx's "Theses on Feuerbach".
Submitted on 19 August, 2004 - 11:45
Session no. 5 of North London AWL study course on Marx's "Theses on Feuerbach".
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Study course on Marxist philosophy
Submitted on 5 July, 2004 - 17:16
This coming Saturday (10 July) sees the start of a six-part summer course on Marxist philosophy. Classes take place in Hackney on Saturday afternoons. Full course details are below.
a 6-part course based on Marx's 'Theses on Feuerbach'
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The Prophet and the demoralised opportunists
Submitted on 28 June, 2002 - 22:05
By Sean Matgamna
from Solidarity 3/9
Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But, man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man - state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d'honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification.
It is the fantastic realisation of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear the chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.
Karl Marx
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Review: Historical Materialism
Submitted on 31 May, 1998 - 23:00
A new journal, Historical Materialism
, has been launched. It aims to provide a forum for the critical reconstruction of the classical Marxist tradition which underpins all the major work of Luxemburg, Lenin, Gramsci and Trotsky.
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