Monthly Archives: November 2015

Bopsecrets, Crossfire, Marx

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 →

Bopsecrets, Crossfire, Ken Knabb

CROSSFIRE

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CROSSFIRE

 

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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