The second book tackles another sacred cow of the modern world view, capitalism. Capitalism is bigger than democracy. Capitalism can thrive under regimes of autocracy, even presumptive communism! But according to Wolfgang Streek, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Research and Professor ...
Some of the pioneers of the new economy are saying very strange things. These moguls of modern-day capitalism solemnly deny that they are engaged in business for the purpose of making money. What's going on here? Adam Smith, the founding father of capital ism, presumed that people engage i...
The second book tackles another sacred cow of the modern world view, capitalism. Capitalism is bigger than democracy. Capitalism can thrive under regimes of autocracy, even presumptive communism! But according to Wolfgang Streek, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Research and Professor ...
Capitalism, erupting into the tranquil life of the nationalities which had been pushed into the background, was arousing them and stirring them into action. The development of the press and the theatre, the activity of the Reichsrat (Austria) and of the Duma (Russia) were helping to ...
I remember Bernstein once commenting that although in focussing on the increasing conflicts between social classes, Marx was right in identifying how capitalism might be overthrown, it was Durkheim’s ideas of organic solidarity and interdependence that revolutionaries such as Lenin would need if they ...
Capitalism and Healthcare May 4, 2017Leave a comment Martin Shkreli While the House ponders its looming vote to roll back the ACA in favor of something that offers fewer consumer protections and withholds a sizeable chunk of funding from Medicaid, it might be worth asking ourselves why we shou...
Jewishreligion, which becomes the enemy. He associates also their oppression and exclusion of “Jews as Jews” with capitalism, which is why some defenders of Marx argue that this is actually both a radical critique of bourgeois society and a radical critique of capitalism. He writes,” The ...
areally"modern" division that really meets the requirements,notof the Treasury,notof the bureaucracy,notof routine,notof the landlords,notof the priests, but of capitalism; and one of the modern requirements of capitalism is undoubtedly the greatest possible national uniformity of the population, ...
“Tributary System, Global Capitalism and the Meaning of Asia in Late Qing China” (MA thesis at the University of Ottawa, 2012), availablehere; Nianshen Song, “‘Tributary’ from a Multilaterial; and Multilayered Perspective,”Chinese Journal of International Politics, first published online (...
Socialists like Karl Marx and Otto Bauer took the existence of the Jews as a separate ethnic group to be the result of economic exclu- sion in the Medieval period.4 They regarded their continued survival in the modern era as an anomaly of capitalism in which Jews came to occupy certain ...