Tearing Down the Global Plantation
Editor’s Note: This article was originally written by Liam Fox on February 29, 2012. It becomes very easy to forget that singular, overwhelming goal necessary for success. It is much easier to be satisfied by taking aim at the low hanging fruit than to tackle the tree that is rotting from the roots out. […]
US Election 2012: The Illusion of Democracy
“Leader of the Free World” or PR Person for the Global Corporate Oligarchy? Tonight President Obama will “debate” Mitt Romney. The topic seems to be of critical importance to the rest of the world: it is after all about the United States’ foreign policy. The president of the United States of America is often emphatically […]
What Went Wrong With Occupy?
By Joost van Steenis There is no unifying target of Occupy, the struggle against the one percent has been abandoned, and leaders with old leftist ideas have converted the leaderless movement into a kind of organization. The 99 percent know that, with action methods and tactics that failed in the past, real change is impossible. […]
Human Relations’ Web: Praxis, Community, Responsibility and Survival
The notion of praxis has been largely worked upon, since the Greek Philosophers, but it was Marx who expanded the notion to economic, political and social levels of noisy polemic argumentativity, when the author defined it as a concrete human activity of production/reproduction and transformation of nature, of society and of men. Praxis literally means: […]
Global Revolution: Can We Take Money Out of the Social Equation?
Our neo-liberal capitalist world order is crumbling. Massive popular protests have erupted in the past few weeks in Greece, Spain, Portugal, Haiti and France. The current system has made money and financial considerations at the core of everything. People are valued for their assets or net worth, not for what they are as human beings. […]
