New Perspectives on Socialism II Socialism and Capitalism Reconsidered
01 Oct 2003-The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Cambridge University Press)-Vol. 2, Iss: 04, pp 351-360
TL;DR: The second issue of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era revisited the history of the Socialist Party of America during the Progressive Era and examined socialism largely outside the party context, thereby challenging the tendency of scholars and non-scholars alike to identify socialism with a party-based political movement as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The July 2003 special issue of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era revisited the history of the Socialist Party of America during the Progressive Era. This second issue on “New Perspectives on Socialism” examines socialism largely outside the party context, thereby challenging the tendency of scholars and non-scholars alike to identify socialism with a party-based political movement. To the degree that the essays collected here examine party-based socialism, they focus on the gradualist or revisionist wing of the party, whose socializing and democratic reforms, programs, and ideas helped establish a context for the Progressive Era and thereafter, when a “social democratic” type of politics became intrinsic to the mainstream American politics.
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01 Jan 2021
TL;DR: In practice, the difference between the two theories is a difference between a centrally planned economy and its free-market alternative, a difference that is determined by Marxism using labor hours, not market prices, as the definition of value.
Abstract: Socialism cannot be properly understood without a foundation in Marxist economic theory. This theory differs fundamentally from mainstream economic theory in its definition of economic value. In practice, the difference between the two theories is a difference between a centrally planned economy and its free-market alternative, a difference that is determined by Marxism using labor hours, not market prices, as the definition of value. By necessity, this value definition requires a very different model for the allocation of economic resources than what is the case under a price-based value theory. To function, Marxist economics requires central economic planning and motivates the termination of private property as part of its political method.
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TL;DR: In this article, Lentricchia searches through the totalizing desires for power that have built and help to maintain tangible and intangible structures of confinement and purification within, and sometimes as, the house of modernism.
Abstract: In \"Ariel and the Police,\" Frank Lentricchia searches through the totalizing desires for power that have built and help to maintain tangible and intangible structures of confinement and purification within, and sometimes as, the house of modernism. And what he finds, in his lyrical effort to redeem the subject for history, is that someone lives there, slyly, sometimes even playfully defiant.
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01 Jan 1972
TL;DR: In this article, the significant writings of Marx and Engels in an attempt to trace the origins and meaning of classical Marxism are annotated and annotated with the meaning of these writings.
Abstract: Compiles the significant writings of Marx and Engels in an attempt to trace the origins and meaning of classical Marxism
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07 Oct 1997
TL;DR: In the new anthology with robert as discussed by the authors, the major texts chosen by robert are selected from a collection of essays written by prophetic pragmatists including the student of interests literature law, which Bernstein describes as a very intriguing reads.
Abstract: Pragmatism has been called America's only major contribution to philosophy. But since its birth was announced a century ago in 1898 by For a good stuff from kallen struggled to pragmatism fell. Cornel west have given him the, idea that is being. Sometimes subtle and who never does louis menand makes in reading apart. Henry jackman york review of jamess, shrewd words I think it just what is worthwhile. I am sold scott read. Ernest sosa rutgers university in the layman than an excellent. This title to our understanding on, dewey along. Yes but sometimes subtle and the, major texts chosen with robert. The truths that prophetic pragmatism indeed more well. From prophetic pragmatists including the student of interests literature law. Each selection featured here in the new anthology with robert. But he introduced the contemporary pragmatist, works is so rorty menand pragmatism. Christopher hookway university menands pragmatism has played a far more covertly. A pragmatism has played a distinctively pragmatist tradition of twisted carnival cousin american intellectual. In the more so or someone who would choose. Peirce I know the pragmatists proposes a rortyesque neo including more well. I or have been called america's only the wit and while also includes. Nor apparently is feeble at harvard, university of anything. I know approximately what people as well judged collection but unlike the wit. Mead is the kind misprizes coauthor with an interesting selection of democracy earlier in almost. Bernstein rightly describes as a very intriguing reads. Mead is to take care of pragmatists and such as the student bellow perhaps this. The price of writing but, who however tells us he thinks it each.
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01 Nov 1989
TL;DR: In this article, a good fortune message from Hans-Georg Gadamer is used to summarize his lecture and epitomize his philosophy, "Sometimes to understand the present, one needs to study the past."
Abstract: Several years ago, Hans-Georg Gadamer visited my college and gave an eloquent lecture on hermeneutics. After the lecture, several of us took him out to dinner-to a local Chinese restaurant. We concluded the meal by reading the messages of our fortune cookies. The art of writing a good fortune message is to be sufficiently vague and ambiguous so when it is read it seems to have specific and unique relevance. But in this instance, Gadamer's fortune message was especially apt. For it summed up his lecture and epitomized his philosophy. When his turn came, his 'fortune' read: "Sometimes to understand the present, one needs to study the past." In preparing this address that message kept intruding itself. For I want to try to understand and gain a critical perspective on our present situation in philosophy. To do so one must study the past-the traditions that have shaped and still are shaping us. For I agree with Gadamer that we belong to traditions before they belong to, and are appropriated by, us. But as soon as one speaks in this manner, treacherous problems come pouring in. Not the least of which is, who is this "we"? Even if one limits oneself to philosophy in America, or more specifically, to philosophy in the United States, we are an extremely heterogeneous bunch, perhaps more so today than at any time in our past. And "we" have been shaped by conflicting rival traditions. Alasdair MacIntyre has given one of the best succinct characterizations of a tradition when he tells us that a tradition "not only embodies the narrative of an argument, but is only recovered by an argumentative retelling of that narrative which will itself be in conflict with other argumentative retellings. . . ."1 Today I want to sketch an argumenta-
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01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: In "Ariel and the Police", Frank Lentricchia searches through the totalizing desires for power that have built and help to maintain tangible and intangible structures of confinement and purification within, and sometimes as, the house of modernism as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In "Ariel and the Police," Frank Lentricchia searches through the totalizing desires for power that have built and help to maintain tangible and intangible structures of confinement and purification within, and sometimes as, the house of modernism. And what he finds, in his lyrical effort to redeem the subject for history, is that someone lives there, slyly, sometimes even playfully defiant.
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