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 | | "Marxism and 'monopoly capital."' Progressive Labor 7/8:34-49, 1967. | | | Karl Korsch: His contribution to revolutionary Marxism." Controversy 1(1):11-21, Fall 1962. | | | "The Lorelei: Ending of Roosevelt's last fireside chat." LIVING MARXISM 4(3):72-78, May 1938. |
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| | Judgement: Srbian Concentration Camp? |
| | They had to be acting with a clear goal in mind. | | | A grim miscarriage of justice has just occurred in Britain. | | | Living Marxism, the iconoclastic magazine edited by Mike Hume, was found guilty of libel against ITN, the British news station. |
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| | Paul Mattick Bibliography A-LE |
| | This collection should be available through an interlibrary loan from many university libraries in the United States.. | | | Democracy and Marxism, by H.B. Mayo; review SL, 18 Feb 1956 | | | The German revolution of 1913; A study of German socialism in war and revolt, by A. Ryder; review. |
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| | Srpska Mreza -- ITN, Independent, Vulliamy vs Truth -- PC Week Feb. 4 |
| | Lockett went on to explain that if lTN is successful in persuading a court that its coverage of the war was not misleading, it could get an interim injunction against the magazine, "within 24 hours". | | | See the rest of reports on "ITN, Vulliamy vs Truth" expose | | | If Living Marxism ignored this injunction, the courts would be forced to take action against the ISP concerned, making it a first in British law. |
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| | Marxism became an increasingly ambiguous doctrine, serving purposes different from those initially contemplated. | | | This twofaced policy served the single end of preserving the Bolshevik state and securing the national interests of Russia. | | | This also holds for Marxism and its historical development. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Life after Living Marxism: Fighting for freedom - to offend, outrage and question ... |
| | Three months ago a high court libel jury forced the magazine LM, formerly Living Marxism, into closure and bankruptcy. | | | Conventional politics were declared exhausted and atrophied and in 1996 the RCP was disbanded and Living Marxism was reborn as the even glossier LM. | | | When the chief RCG theoretician, David Yaffe, decided that the time had come actively to engage with the Communist party and the anti-apartheid movement, the purists were horrified. |
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| | BBC News UK Bosnian prisoner praises ITN crew |
| | Ms Marshall and her colleague Ian Williams were each awarded £150,000 by the High Court on Tuesday, following a successful libel action against Living Marxism. | | | ITN wins Bosnian war libel case (14 Mar 00 | | | Muslim Fikret Alic paid tribute to ITN reporter Penny Marshall. |
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| | Oliver Kamm: 'Living Marxism' and 'Tory sleaze' |
| | I came across LM at first hand only once, when I worked on the election campaign of Martin Bell, the former BBC war correspondent turned Independent politician, against the Tory MP Neil Hamilton in the 1997 general election. | | | ITN and two of its reporters have won £375,000 in High Court libel damages from a Marxist magazine which claimed they had faked pictures of Bosnian Serb war crimes. | | | After the Tadic trial, Deichmann visited Trnopolje in December 1996 and talked with Bosnian Serb officials about the camp, which had been closed down shortly after the ITN visit in August 1992. |
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| | The Search for Method |
| | We are integrated alive in the supreme totalisation. | | | Existentialism and Marxism, on the contrary, aim at the same object; but Marxism has reabsorbed man into the idea, and existentialism seeks him everywhere where he is, at his work, in his home, in the street. | | | The game is played on two levels: there is in Marxism a constituting consciousness which asserts a priori the rationality of the world (and which, consequently, falls into idealism); this constituting consciousness determines the constituted consciousness of particular men as a simple reflection (which ends up in a sceptical idealism). |
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| | The Impermanent Revolution |
| | Irving Howe criticized its Marxism, while the British Trotskyist Tony Cliff accused him of "capitulation to Stalinism." Deutscher spoke at one of the first great anti-Vietnam War teach-ins, at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1965. | | | His first book, Stalin: A Political Biography, appeared in 1949, and his Trotsky trilogy was published between 1954 and 1963. | | | Ronald Aronson is the author of The Dialectics of Disaster, After Marxism and, most recently, Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel That Ended It. |
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| | Revolutionary Communist Party - SourceWatch |
| | Philip Ferguson, "Evolution of British RCP (http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2001w12/msg00013.htm)", Marxism mailing list, 19 March 2001 | | | This page was last modified 21:45, 4 Dec 2004. | | | Its political views moved swiftly from far left to libertarian. |
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| | Marxism message, Re: The Guardian Life after Living Marxism |
| | ETA and the Basque Struggle, Jay Moore Sun 30 Jul 2000, 18:42 GMT | | | Marxism message, Re: The Guardian Life after Living Marxism | | | Subject: Re: The Guardian Life after Living Marxism |
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http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2000w30/msg00207.htm
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| | The Unreasonable Man: Living Marxism |
| | Peter Stothard: 30 Days: A Month at the Heart of Blair's War | | | Posted by Ian Yorston on Saturday, January 03, 2004 at 01:51 AM in Current Affairs | | | Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Living Marxism: |
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| | Revolutionary Communist Party as in Living Marxism as in LM as in Spiked and Institute of Ideas — I agree with George ... |
| | Although it denied it in court, Living Marxism — on this issue at least — is first and foremost an apologist for the genocide orchestrated by Belgrade. | | | There is at the moment a remarkable convergence of trials: ITN vs Living Marxism wraps up in the high court; in The Hague, four guards at the Omarska camp go on trial. | | | But the pivot of Living Marxism's activities in the mainstream is, for some reason, the Economist Intelligence Unit, which has at times, backstage, been torn asunder by arguments over key positions held by the group's leading members. |
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| | Marxism - encyclopedia article about Marxism. |
| | Marxism · Leninism Leninism is a political and economic theory which builds upon Marxism (a form of Communism) and is a branch in its own right (it has been the dominant branch of Marxism in the world since the 1920s). | | | Some libertarian members of the laissez-faire and individualist schools of thought believe the actions and principles of modern capitalist states or big governments can be understood as "Marxist". | | | Further, although Marxism does see a role for a socialist "vanguard" government in representing the proletariat through a revolutionary period of indeterminate length, it sees an eventual lightening of that burden, a "withering away of the state." |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Marxism
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| | Gulli: "Praxis and the Danger: The Insurgent Ontology of Antonio Gramsci" |
| | This paradigm is, notably, the economist and productivist one, but there may be others. | | | This is indeed the living affirmative aspect of the relationship and of philosophy. | | | This labor remains at the margins of the spiral movement of capital, as a witness to the partiality of the latter. |
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| | This was the model adopted by the Furedians for LM. | | | Such observers claim that associates were encouraged to found their own organisations to act as seemingly independent platforms for LM and its political agenda. | | | Marxism Today became fashionable and media aware first, and it's contributors were frequently seen in the media espousing their 'new times' philosophy of not left or right, but inquistive and seeking. |
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| | diary of an anti-chomskyite |
| | They didn't "think" it was false; it was proven to be so in a court of law. | | | In his books Michael Moore goes on and on about the fact that Americans are racist because they live in white neighborhoods. | | | As some see it, one ill-judged choice of cause was the accusation made by Living Marxism magazine that during the Bosnian war, shots used by ITN of a Serb-run detention camp were faked. |
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| | LM had also flown in former State Dept official George Kenney, who became one of leading apologists for Serb aggression. | | | At Living Marxism defence-fund rally one Serbian member of audience claimed only eight documented cases of rape in former Yugo. | | | Something to do with Living Marxism position on war in general. |
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| | disinformation live from bosnia: the atrocity exhibition |
| | The vast contents of this web-site on the ITN vs. LM (formerly 'Living Marxism') libel case was recently 'pulled' offline during court proceedings. | | | Except, according to former 'LM' ('Living Marxism') editor Mike Hume, Marshall's footage did not reveal a Nazi-like death camp, but was in fact staged. | | | Unrepentant former 'LM' editor Mike Hume vents his anger about manipulation of the libel trial proceedings: "The court threw out all of our expert witnesses, including John Simpson of the BBC and a leading QC. |
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| | In Defence of Marxism - The Living Ideas of Karl Marx |
| | He lies buried next to his wife at Highgate Cemetery in London. | | | From Germany Marx travelled on to Paris, was again banished after the demonstration of June 13, 1849, and then went to London, where he lived until his death. | | | Of course those bourgeois who concede that Marx was right here or there write to bury him not to praise him. |
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| | Frank Furedi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Previously, as Frank Richards, he was founder and chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Great Britain, a left-wing political party which was expelled from the International Socialists in the 1970s, styling itself as the Revolutionary Opposition. | | | His family emigrated to Canada after the failed 1956 uprising and has lived in Britain since the 1970s. | | | This page was last modified 23:50, 24 October 2005. |
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| | Oliver Kamm: Norman Geras and Marxism |
| | It was from this time that he became reviled on the Left for his supposed embrace of political reaction. | | | The stereotype of his political views was moreover far from the truth, as a recent revival of interest in his philosophical writings has demonstrated. | | | Politically he became active in The Workers' Party in the 1930s, contending that "the only valid criticism of the Communist Party is that it is not communist enough". |
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| | LEON TROTSKY: 1937—Stalinism and Bolshevism |
| | Indeed, one branch of ’state’ Marxism, social democracy, after coming to power became an open agent of capitalism. | | | But Marxism is a theory of movement, not of stagnation. | | | The Bolshevik party has shown in action a combination of the highest revolutionary audacity and political realism. |
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| | The pictures they don't want you to see |
| | The Belgrade-based exhibition was banned by the Department of Trade and Industry on 13 January 1993, under sanctions imposed on Serbia by the United Nations. | | | The war in Croatia did not start until July 1991. | | | Before the war, there were 600 000 Serbs living in Croatia. |
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| | How They Oppress Us: The War Party’s slow denial of our freedom [Free Republic] |
| | For their pains they are facing bills of up to $1 million, the result being another bankrupted critic of the war party. | | | LM was founded as Living Marxism and was for a time the organ of the rather odd Revolutionary Communist Party. | | | Living Marxism (renamed LM) was taken to task by ITN (the "Independent" Television News company) for exposing their shoddy journalism when they manufactured a death camp scene for the sake of easy headlines. |
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| | Living Marxism - Festering Fascism? |
| | As you wade through back issues of Living Marxism, you can't help but conclude that the magazine's title is a poor guide to its contents. | | | Soon the RCP was collapsed into Living Marxism, which, hovering between three different parent companies, later changed its name to LM. | | | Its mission, the editors announced, was to promote human freedom based on a "confident individualism". |
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| | Critics question the politics of Hume and his colleagues, which have swung from doctrinaire Marxism to libertarianism (he is a columnist for the conservative Times of London). | | | Your use of this website constitutes acceptance of the Lycos Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions | | | The London-based journalist's former magazine, LM (once known as Living Marxism), was thrown into bankruptcy last year after being sued for libel by Britain's Independent Television News. |
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| | Bloody Crusaders Call the Shots in Iraq |
| | The answer is that this is the pay-off of the human rights crusade which liberal journalists, aid organisations and radical charities have been running over the past five years. | | | Nowadays, the political reputations of Western leaders are built not through gunboat diplomacy like Margaret Thatcher's Falklands War, but by supporting humanitarian causes like human rights or the rainforest...We need a new kind of politics to meet the challenge of a world where the rules of the game have been turned upside down. | | | As the September issue of Living Marxism explains, the campaign to highlight human rights abuses in Third World societies such as Iraq, and to demand that the West takes action against them, has succeeded only in demonising the Third World as immoral and depicting the West as a higher authority. |
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| | Supporters stood in the 1987 general election campaign as the Red Front, boldly proclaiming that the RCP was about to 'replace' the Labour Party, but the candidates all lost their deposits. | | | Sara Hinchliffe, Living Marxism, LM, Spiked, Novo, Feminists for Justice | | | UKC = individuals known to have studied or taught at the University of Kent at Canterbury where Frank Furedi is based. |
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| | Strange Bedfellows |
| | Mullan is also the registrant of the Spiked web-site, set up three years ago by Mick Hume, who headed the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) (See box at end). | | | Both were once regular contributors to a magazine called Living Marxism (later LM). | | | The RCP was born out of ideological in-fighting amongst the extreme left in the 1970s. |
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| | Peter Chauncy's Radio Weblog |
| | LM was Living Marxism, but they fell foul of a libel case about whether or not some pictures taken in 1982 in Bosnia were of a "concentration camp". | | | Couldn't place it for a while, until I did a search on the guy behind it, who used to run LM magazine. | | | http://www.guardian.co.uk/itn/article/0,2763,184815,00.html As I recall Living Marxism, came out of the Revolutionary Communist Party (always the best haircuts) (did that really happen ?), although having just looked at their website, maybe not.. |
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| | On 2000-03-14 the High Court ordered LM to pay UKP 375000 in libel damages to ITN, forcing it to close. | | | This is the strange story of a glossy magazine called LM, formerly known as "Living Marxism". | | | Living Marxism's interesting allegiances" in the November 1998 edition of Prospect. |
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| | Marxism Marxism is the political practice and or social theory based on the works of Das Kapital). | | | Autonomist marxism A branch of Marxist academics including Harry Cleaver, John Holloway and Steve Wright. | | | Living Marxism This article needs splitting into multiple articles and making into a disambiguation page. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Living Marxism and the Serbs |
| | Mea culpa, I am, as alleged, both a Serb and an employee of the Economist Intelligence Unit. | | | Alas, though, I have never been associated with LM, Living Marxism, or any Serbian or Yugoslav government agency, I have never authored any attacks, "virulent" or otherwise, on "bloody liberals". | | | I gave a talk at Leeds University in the early months of the Bosnian war, and the Revolutionary Communist Party turned up there too. |
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| | Living Marxism |
| | By this stage the RCP had been wound up. | | | This article should be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. | | | Living Marxism replaced the weekly newspaper The Next Step. |
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| | Spark - Political Theory |
| | Introduction Feminism Marxism Left of Centre Politics Right of Centre Politics Extreme Right Wing Politics Political Theory | | | Living Marxism Online (UK) This is the magazine of the Revolutionary Communist Party. | | | / Feminism / Marxism / Left of Centre Politics / Right of Centre Politics / |
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| | Weekly Worker 344 Thursday July 13 2000 |
| | In tsarist Russia, Peter Struve was one of the founders of the Russian Social Democratic Party - yet via 'legal Marxism' he became an unabashed apologist for 'liberal' tsarism and a notorious anti-revolutionist. | | | LM's uncompromising stance on freedom of speech led The Guardian, in its recent profile of the organisation, to make the asinine comment that for LM/IoI, "Holocaust-denial is acceptable" ('Life after Living Marxism', July 8). | | | Last month saw the latest manifestation of the organisation formerly known as the Revolutionary Communist Party and its journal formerly known as Living Marxism. |
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| | BBC News UK Magazine folds after libel bill |
| | The case, which also left the magazine - formerly known as Living Marxism - facing £500,000 legal costs has sparked a row over issues of free speech. | | | ITN, and its reporters Penny Marshall and Ian Williams, brought the action following the publication of LM's article accusing them of misrepresenting Bosnian war images. | | | LM, the left-wing magazine successfully sued for libel by ITN, has closed down after being ordered to pay £375,000. |
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| | Science Media Centre director is Living Marxism genocide apologist |
| | This Ms Fox used to help run Living Marxism, the defunct pro-GM journal in which Fiona established herself as an apologist for Rwandan genocide. | | | If the editor's office has been sombre since (and if there's been much of the usual horseplay, we haven't heard it up this end of the newsroom), this will be because of Fiona's vastly impressive record as a reliable heavyweight analyst. | | | Hume is the former editor of Living Marxism aka LM until the magazine was sued out of existence as a result of its campaign of denial of Serbian war crimes. |
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| | Ireland's OWN: Women Freedom Fighters |
| | This is not because the people there are in some special communion with history, as many academics would have it. | | | I had travelled north to see Bernadette McAliskey (or Bernadette Devlin to use her better-known maiden name); someone who has been fighting the British presence all her adult life. | | | The past is present all the time in the North because the Anglo-Irish conflict confronts people there every day of their lives. |
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| | MediaChannel.org - OP-ED Whitehead |
| | The magazine denies libel, claiming that its assertions were justified and that no corporate giant should use British libel law, which some argue is inherently unfair, to silence a small publication's right to free speech. | | | On Feb. 28, nearly seven years on, Britain's Independent Television News — the largest commercial news broadcaster outside the USA — took Living Marxism magazine to the High Court in London for alleged libel. | | | Truth may be the first casualty in war, but the patient remains under close observation, even in peacetime. |
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| | M-TH: Living Marxism and New Essays |
| | It should be noted though that since the dissolution of the Revolutionary Communist Party (UK) a couple or so years, their magazine is now known as LM rather than Living Marxism. | | | They (including especially Jim Heartfield) are great fans of Paul Mattick, especially of his critiques of Keynesianism and of Keynesian influenced brands of Marxism (i.e. | | | They follow Mattick in accepting an overaccumulation theory of crisis (based on the law of falling profit rates) and in rejecting theories of underconsumption even though one can easily come up with plenty of citations from Marx, Engels, and Lenin which indicate that they accepted such theories. |
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| | Living Marxism issue 97 |
| | The collection center was spontaneously created by refugees when the civil war escalated in the Prijedor region. | | | There are reports of refugees who left the camp briefly to visit their fields and homes, hoping to find food and belongings, and were never seen again. | | | For all that, in the middle of a bloody war zone, the camp could never be completely safe. |
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| | GAUCHE : December 2003 |
| | Otherwise, it was notable mainly for its quixotic front organisations, in particular East London Workers Against Racism (ELWAR), a squaddist fight-the-fash outfit, and, notoriously, the Red Front, a disastrously ineffective general election intervention in 1987. | | | The RCP was formally dissolved in 1996, Living Marxism became LM, and it ruffled feathers by coming out against censorship of pornography, against moral panics on child sexual abuse, against environmentalist doom-mongering and so on. | | | And in the next few years, its leading lights – particularly Frank Furedi (party name Frank Richards), the chief ideologist of the sect, and Mick Hume, the editor of the next step and subsequently Living Marxism – started to delight in taking political positions at odds with leftist orthodoxy. |
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| | LM was formerly known as Living Marxism, and published on behalf of the Revolutionary Communist Party. | | | I've lived in two societies where it was the pornographers and perverts who were publicly attacked and censored first - The Nazis and the Communists. | | | Milos Forman, the director of the film The People v. |
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| | Marxist Theory of Homosexuality: Past, Present, and Future |
| | This is the kind of schematically formulaic response that has for so long discredited marxists among other radicals engaged in the fight for radical social change. | | |
I would like to begin by citing a passage from an article in the November 1992 issue of Living Marxism which offers a trenchantly critical analysis of the state of “the queer movement”: | | |
Although I think this Living Marxism article correctly identifies some of the most serious problems with and limitations of the contemporary queer movement, I also think its critique is itself too dismissive and too simplistic. |
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| | THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2005 |
| | If we want to stick to the idea of natural laws, we could say that as nature itself evolves, the laws of nature also evolve, just as human laws evolve over time. | | | We're living in a draft version of the universe—and there is no final version. | | | Rather than saying every possible universe exists, I'd say, rather, that there is a sequence of possible universes, akin to the drafts of a novel. |
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| | Capitalism, by Robert Hessen: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty |
| | Before children began earning money working in factories, they had been sent to live in parish poorhouses, apprenticed as unpaid household servants, rented out for backbreaking agricultural labor, or became beggars, vagrants, thieves, and prostitutes. | | | Their claims of increasing misery, however, were based on ignorance of how squalid life actually had been earlier. | | | German sociologist Max Weber, writing in 1903, located the catalyst for capitalism in seventeenth-century England, where members of a religious sect, the Puritans, under the sway of John Calvin's doctrine of predestination, channeled their energies into hard work, reinvestment, and modest living, and then carried these attitudes to New England. |
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| | But the truth could not be more different: LM is an outgrowth of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), a small Trotskyite splinter group; for most of its life, the journal was known as Living Marxism. | | | For a time, the RCP was known in left circles as the "Socialist Workers Party with hair gel." Living Marxism hit newsstands in 1988, under the stewardship of Mick Hume, who previously edited the party weekly the next step. | | | Hume asserts simply that the new title "is a concession to cool Britannia: The trendy thing in the British magazine world was for everybody to reduce their title to initials." Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html) |
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