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Introduction to a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

Introduction to a Critique of
Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

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For Germany the critique of religion has been essentially completed, and the critique of religion is the essential precondition for all criticism.

Secular errors are discredited once their sacred expressions have been refuted. Man, who sought a superhuman being in the fantastic reality of heaven and found nothing there but a reflection of himself, will no longer be inclined to find a mere nonhuman semblance of himself where he seeks and must seek his true reality.  Continue reading Introduction to a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right →

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CROSSFIRE

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This section includes an eclectic variety of documents that I have found useful or provocative in one way or another, though I may not agree with them on every point.

Introduction to a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (Marx, 1844)
Crime and Criminals: Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail (Clarence Darrow, 1902)
War Is the Health of the State (Randolph Bourne, 1918)
Stories of Mr. Keuner (Bertolt Brecht, 1920s-1956)
Karl Marx (Karl Korsch, 1938)
A Non-Dogmatic Approach to Marxism (Karl Korsch, 1946)
The Great Utopia (Josef Weber, 1950)
The Problem of Social Consciousness (1) (Josef Weber, 1957)
The Problem of Social Consciousness (2)
Writings on Art and Architecture (Asger Jorn, 1954-1958)
Designing Pacifist Films (Paul Goodman, 1961)
Banning Cars from Manhattan (Paul & Percival Goodman, 1961)
Buddhist Anarchism (Gary Snyder, 1961)
The Power of Negative Thinking (Robert Chasse, 1968)
The Tyranny of Structurelessness (Jo Freeman, 1970)
Total Self-Management (Raoul Vaneigem, 1974)
Disinterest Compounded Daily: A Critique of Point-Blank (Rosenberg & Shutes, 1974)
Two Gulf War Documents (James Brook et al., 1990-1991)
In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary (Ngo Van, 2000)

 

Ngo Van, Ngo Van En, Vietnam

Ancient utopia and peasant revolts in China – Ngo Van Xuyet

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The last essay completed by the veteran Vietnamese council communist, written in 2004 when he was 91 years old, is a brief introduction to the history of peasant revolts in China, with special emphasis on their Taoist origins and utopian and libertarian inspirations, and features many interesting quotations from historical and religious texts.

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General

Education For Obedience

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IMPORTANT CLARIFICATIONS:
I should point out that this video is not attacking the idea of education itself, nor is it blaming teachers for what the system requires them to do. It is criticising the *format* of education, state or private, in a state-capitalist society. I do not reject the idea that education ought to be provided for people according to need. Education can cultivate reason, independent thought, and creativity within a decent environment – just not a capitalist one!

So what are the alternatives? John Dewey’s ideas about education would be a good base to build from. Learning should be a process in which the learner actively participates, rather than passively receives information. Learning based on group discussion, practice by doing, and teaching others would be a good start. Alfie Kohn also has some interesting ideas about what you should look for in a decent education system.

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What The United States Really Wants

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whatCN: This video will discuss and contain some images you might find upsetting or disturbing – genocide, racism and extreme poverty…
This analysis of US foreign policy is essentially a summary of the arguments made in Volume I of Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman’s Political Economy of Human Rights, ‘The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism’. Although it’s a harrowing read, it is very informative and provides a devastating account of US-backed atrocities across the globe, and I would highly recommend it.

With regard to North Vietnam, in case people are wondering, I am not saying that the bloodbath during the land reform programme was acceptable or permissible – rather I included this point to highlight the hypocrisy of the US media which openly condemns bloodbaths such as this one but turns a blind eye to bloodbaths carried out by the United States and its allies.

My own position is that action against these kinds of atrocities ought to be strategic. It is the responsibility of populations to criticise and take action against their own state rather than other states, as this is arguably the most effective means of preventing atrocities and protecting human rights.