In Le Monde, of the 5th of February 2010, there was a big spread in Le Monde des Livres, about communism, a philosophical “spectre”.  “20 years after the fall of the Berlin wall the communist “idea” has become again a standard for some intellectuals of note. Philosophers or sociologists are inspired by the marxist narrative […]

The three MPs and one Lord thrown to the wolves looks like some people have been made scapegoats for the expenses saga.
It seems many more MPS and Lords had their hands in the till. Many of those who did so are resigning their seats before the next general election. So maybe that is why they […]

They have nothing to do with ecology, they are against the regime of the madman: Armadinejad. They are not against nuclear power, they don’t like the way Arma is using -or going to use it.
Source: Radio 4/ 8 Feb, 2010.

“According to Monsignor Slawomir Oder, a “postulator,” - that is to say a defender of John Paul II - said recently that the Polish Pope indulged in practices of mortification. Not only did he eat fish on Friday, but he also wore a cilice. Usually, a  cilice is a barbed wire-like spiked chain worn around […]

The economic crisis has hit the Champagne country. Many workers in that industry are going to lose their jobs, and although the Champagne produced 298 millions bottles, sales are not sufficient to avoid streamlining the work force. Reims in the fifties and sixties was a town with alot of money. Its football team was number […]

Aw come on. This stuff is cosmic. Can you imagine what it must have felt like to stumble upon this at the time? By accident or design? Fair point - the system recuperated most of it after 1968, but still. The elan…
“Everyone must search for what they love, for what attracts them.
We would like to […]

“What interests me in recent years is the New Interpretation of Marx’s critical theory published by Moishe Postone by Cambridge University Press. “If I can make a wish it is to see it translated along with the three books published by Robert Kurz in French.”
Gorz went on to say:  “It is too late that […]

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Nicotine is not only bad for us it is bad for plenty of the garden pests that gardeners used to kill with dangerous and persistent insecticide produced by a massive agro-chemical industry.
Next time your garden is under threat from aphids etcetera remember that nicotine is a powerful insecticide that is admirably biodegradable. With hand in […]

Interview with Moishe Postone at Workers’ Liberty: www.workersliberty.org/story/2010/02/05/zionism-anti-semitism-and-left