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Monthly Archives: June 2006

Anti-semitism of the Left

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Graduate students like the sort of radicalism that involves little work in the same way that they prefer to the sort of courses that involve the least work. Afterall, who wouldn’t? I certainly do; on both counts. Recently, as some are no doubt aware, there has been a strange trend for unions and associations to [...]

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Human Self-Emancipation

Monday, June 26, 2006

Roy Bhaskar’s essay, “Critical Realism, Social Relations and Arguing for Socialism” found in the collection Reclaiming Reality, acts as both introduction to the volume and as an attempt to articulate the relationship between epistemology (specifically, his own) to politics (specifically, socialist). He writes, I take it whatever our politics, in the narrow party or factional [...]

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