Blogs
Mainstream blogging is a kind of cross between personal diary, journalism,
and editorial comment. Political blogs seem to focus for the most part on
opinionated commentary on current events.
As our project evolves, we're
coming to see blogging differently,
as a forum for original theory and strategy published informally,
open to discussion.
Ted Stolze:
"A Principle of Self-Emancipation: Actions undertaken to improve the well-being
of the oppressed should be either led by the oppressed themselves or, to the extent
that this is not feasible, at their behest and under their authority."
Self-Emancipation and Political Marxism.
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"Ninotchka"
"Patriotism has nothing to do with whether you agree with the President or even the
majority vote. To be patriotic is to love your country for what it is and what it can become."
The Great American Bitch Rant.
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Mark Zepezauer:
"But if the right loves America so much, why do they keep subsidizing
the corporations that foul our air, despoil our coasts, and clear-cut
our forests? Just how patriotic is the Bush administration's new rule
that allows mining companies to shear off the tops of our purple-
mountain'd majesty and dump them into our streams?"
Why the Right Hates America.
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W. Hunter Roberts:
"You know, in
the long view of human evolution, this peace thing is a very new idea. A
hundred years ago, it was just beginning. There was significant pacifism
before and during WWI, and certainly during Viet Nam, but the world has
never seen anything like this before."
Red and white.
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Mark Phillips:
"The Revolutionary War could aptly be called the First American Civil War.
Were its issues ever resolved? Or has American history since 1776 been a continuation of the
same disagreements in new forms and historical contexts?"
American Tories?
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Howard Zinn:
"Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism
which has caused so much death and suffering. If national boundaries should not be obstacles to
trade - we call it globalization - should they also not be obstacles to compassion and generosity?"
A Kinder, Gentler Patriotism.
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Recent Posts
- December 29, 2006: Ted Stolze: Pomegranates and Activism
- December 28, 2006: Ted Stolze: Resistance, Yes, But What About Governance?
- December 28, 2006: Ted Stolze: Two Modes of Political Liberation
- September 17, 2006: Ted Stolze: C.P. Snow on Science, Obedience, and Rebellion
- September 17, 2006: Mark Phillips: Trouble-Tickets, the flag, struggle, sectarianism, and surrender (2)
- September 16, 2006: Mark Phillips: Chomsky and meaning
- September 15, 2006: Mark Phillips: Ideology and consciousness (1)
- July 27, 2006: Ted Stolze: Theory-Blogging for the Head and Heart (4)
- July 06, 2006: Ted Stolze: The Revolutionary Phrase Revisited
- June 30, 2006: Ted Stolze: A Marxist Theory of Celebrity
- June 18, 2006: Ted Stolze: What Do We Mean When We Say "Strategy"? (5)
- June 16, 2006: Steven Dunlap: Machiavelli in the 21st century
- June 15, 2006: Ted Stolze: Self-Emancipation and Truth (4)
- June 11, 2006: Mark Phillips: One of the myths about Lenin and Trotsky
- May 30, 2006: Mark Phillips: Organizational conservatism (1)
- May 02, 2006: Emmett Goodhope: On Contradiction #5: Conclusions
- May 02, 2006: Emmett Goodhope: On Contradiction #4: "Contradiction" in Nature
- May 02, 2006: Emmett Goodhope: On Contradiction #3: Marx and Althusserians
- May 02, 2006: Emmett Goodhope: On Contradiction #2: More Definitions (3)
- April 29, 2006: Mark Phillips: Kurdistan and the prime directive
- April 11, 2006: Mark Phillips: Ruling class formation in Los Angeles
- April 07, 2006: Mark Phillips: What does "materialism" mean? (2)
- April 04, 2006: Wayne Rothschild: Racism from below (7)
- March 30, 2006: Mark Phillips: The "Crisis of Leadership"
- March 29, 2006: Mark Phillips: Triumph of the speakers bureau
More Information
- "Taking blogging seriously", Phillips
- "Self-Emancipation and Political Marxism", Stolze
- "The New Testament for Activists", Dunlap
- "Socialist Mindfulness", Stolze
- "Complexity", Phillips
- "weblogs: a history and perspective", blood
- "You've got blog", Mead
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