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It is very easy in principle to resolve the problems with marxism which, despite its liabilities, correctly foresaw the problem with capitalism, But in practice the same rigor mortis that overtook …

Source: The failure of thinking in marxist abstractions – 1848+: The End(s) of History

Few cultures had the potential possibilities of the United States and yet we can see already that it has moved into failure and a dangerous one at that. We might say the same for the Russia of Puti…

Source:  The US: a failed civilization…what on earth happened? – 1848+: The End(s) of History

For the past 40 years, the IMF has had the same agenda: to make sure that developing countries adhere to the rules of globalization set by the advanced capitalist states. Sovereignty of these developing countries has become irrelevant

Source: The IMF Convenes in Washington, Deaf to the Suffering It Causes Across the Planet | Common Dreams Views

In fact, modernity itself has failed to achieve its potential and lives in a reduced version of the modern transition. The correct stance toward science has never quite been established and the onset of darwinism, after a far superior take from figures like Lamarck, has turned science into an ideological scientism…We see the revolt in kant, hegel, the romantics, and many others (including rational enlightenment thinkers) but strangely marx and engels got caught in the anti-hegelian confusion which turned scientism into a leftist religion…

Marx’s reductionist scientism has crippled the left. You would think that after Kant and Hegel the left could have produced a more intelligent framework than historical materialism. But that&…

Source: Scientism in the era of the anti-hegelian movement… – 1848+: The End(s) of History

Ironically this radicalizes protest further, but the point is that public action has the obvious vulnerability…

Lawmakers are ramping up penalties for protesters who take the kind of drastic action needed to save the planet.

Source: The New Green Scare – Progressive.org