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• The Copenhaguen Interpretation of Quantum Physics and Critics of that Philosophical Conception
  16 January 2022

  The Copenhaguen Interpretation of Quantum Physics and Critics of that Philosophical Conception
  Arguments of Bohr against Einstein
  https://www.matierevolution.org/spip.php?article6136
  Discussions between Einstein and Bohr
  https://www.matierevolution.org/spip.php?article4756
  The History of Quantum Theory, by Heisenberg
  https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/heisenb2.htm
  The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Theory, by Heisenberg (…)

• The legacy of Charles Darwin - L’héritage de Charles Darwin
  21 April 2015, by Robert Paris

  The legacy of Charles Darwin
  150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species
  Roy Farrar, from The Socialist (weekly paper of CWI England and Wales)
  Charles Darwin’s theory of ’natural selection’ changed the way that we look at ourselves. It contradicted the idea of an outside ’intelligent designer’, so it met a reaction from the religious establishment that still exists in part today. Some schools, particularly in the US, are teaching evolution as ’one point of view’ (…)

• What Future ? Capitalism ? Socialism ?
  8 août, par Robert Paris

  What Future ? Capitalism ? Socialism ?
  Capitalism’s "recovery plans" are a symptom of the impending death of the old dominant socio-economic system in artificial survival mode.
  https://www-matierevolution-fr.translate.goog/spip.php?article5841&_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr
  When big capital no longer bets on... capitalism
  https://www-matierevolution-fr.translate.goog/spip.php?article8286&_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr
  In the face of the current (…)

• Writings on Discontinuity of Nature
  14 January 2022, by Robert Paris

  Writings on Discontinuity of Nature
  Discontinuity of Matter, Energy, Light and Vacuum
  https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article4260
  What is continuity and discontinuity?
  https://www-matierevolution-fr.translate.goog/spip.php?article11&_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr
  Continuity, a mathematical property?
  https://www-matierevolution-fr.translate.goog/spip.php?article18&_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr
  How discontinuity, general and fundamental, (…)

• Religion : its social roots and role
  2 June 2008, by Robert Paris

  Definitions of religion, like definitions of the state, generally tell us more about the social and political allegiances of the author of a given definition than about the true nature of religion or the state. Loyalties – that is, class interests and class outlook – are transferred into definitions; especially is this true of religion. Typical of such definitions is a theologian’s formula for Christianity as ‘the synthesis of the highest aspirations of man’. The fact that definitions are (…)

• The first open declaration of opposition by old Bolshevik leaders to Stalinism in 1923
  27 December 2021

  The Platform of the 46
  A week after Leon Trotsky had sent his letter to the Central Committee 46 prominent Bolsheviks, some of whom occupied leading posts in economic management, presented their own criticism of the economic and inner-Party policy of the Party leadership of Kamenev, Zinoviev, Stalin, Rykov and Tomsky. This statement of opposition which became known as ‘The Platform of the 46’ was submitted to the Politburo on October 15, 1923, after being circulated among a number of Party (…)

• Hegel’s philosophy and science
  10 February 2009

  Hegel’s philosophy and science
  Friday 1 January 2010
  Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature
  Analytical Table of Contents Preliminary
  § 192 Nature has presented itself as the idea in the form of otherness. § 193 Hence nature exhibits no freedom in its existence, but only necessity and contingency. § 194 Nature is to be viewed as a system of stages, in which one stage necessarily arises from the other. § 195 Nature is, in itself a living whole. § 196 The idea as nature can be named mathematics, (…)

• John Brown, Warrior of the Abolitionist Revolution
  12 October 2018

  Speech to the Court at his Trial, after his conviction (2 November 1859) :
  “In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted, the design on my part to free the slaves.…”
  John Brown, Warrior of the Abolitionist Revolution
  John Brown was a revolutionary militant of liberty. There was nothing alien or exotic about him; he was a genuine growth of the American soil. The roots of his family tree on both sides reached back among the first English settlers of (…)

• Raskolnikov’s Open Letter to Stalin
  28 July 2014, by Robert Paris

  F.F. Raskolnikov
  Tales of Sub-Lieutenant Ilyin
  Raskolnikov’s Open Letter to Stalin
  This document, dated August 17, 1939, was first published in the Paris émigré newspaper Novqya Rossya of October 1, 1939. According to Roy Medvedev, Let History Judge, (p.257), in 1964 the author’s widow, a resident of France, brought the original of the letter to Moscow. It circulated widely through samizdat channels in the mid-1960s. The translator is indebted to the Current Affairs Research Section of (…)

• Hegel and Schelling (1802) - The Critical Journal of Philosophy
  3 January 2022

  IN WHATEVER DOMAIN OF ART or [speculative] science it is employed, criticism requires a standard which is just as independent of the person who makes the judgment as it is of the thing that is judged – a standard derived neither from the singular [i.e. the immediate occasion for critical judgment] nor from the specific character of the [judging] subject, but from the eternal and unchangeable model [Urbild] of what really is [die Sache selbst]. Just as the idea of fine art is not first (…)