Thinking about Luxemburg’s analysis of monopolies - Part 3
Thinking about Luxemburg’s analysis of monopolies - Part 3
Thinking about Luxemburg’s analysis of monopolies - Part 2
Thinking about Luxemburg’s analysis of monopolies - Part 1
Fields of study in modern universities are results of history, as well as the job opportunities in the broader economy. How might a leftist university’s research areas and majors reflect leftist interests in what is socially valuable, rather than the capitalist interests in profit and market stability?
Thoughts on the intellectual diversity of university professors, and my personal experience in one sociology class with an apparently libertarian/conservative professor.
Rosa Luxemburg’s analysis of crises from chapter 2 of ‘Reform or Revolution’, similarities to the 2008 crisis, and general comments on characteristically Marxist methods of analyzing the economy.
Some quotes from Marx, and many quotes from Luxemburg’s Reform or Revolution.
In Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence, G.A. Cohen quotes Marx from his Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859) in one of the most useful epigraphs I’ve ever encountered. A full reproduction of the passage, and some small discussion.
I watched Bo Burnham’s newest special. I finally confront my pessimism around the possibility of Left success.
I describe how we might understand our ‘identity’ in the normative sense, through Wilfred Sellars’ framework from Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind. I connect this to discussions of Kantian understandings of the sources of our obligations.