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The history of Democratic Party from slavery to Obama
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The revolutions of species
20 November 2008, by Robert ParisClipboard From fly development to evolution
A major conundrum in evolutionary biology, about as old as the discipline itself, has been the question of how major changes in body form can come about. Darwin himself insisted on a strict gradualism in all evolutionary change. Even the radical reorganization of body plans was assumed by Darwin to proceed through many small, graded steps. This view, still widely held, carries with it a number of problems, not the least of which is the glaring (...) -
Felix Morrow Petty-Bourgeois Radicalism on the Struggle in India
15 November 2008Felix Morrow Petty-Bourgeois Radicalism on the Struggle in India (September 1942)
The essence of petty-bourgeois radicalism is phrase-mongering with no thought that the words will ever have to be followed by deeds. Unfettered by any responsibility to the participants in the struggle, the petty-bourgeois radical can afford unlimited intransigence of the word. It doesn’t cost anything, so he raises the stakes. Shouting and doing, Marx noted, are irreconcilable opposites. Quite conscious (...) -
THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY By Stephen Jay Gould.
2 November 2008, by Robert ParisTHE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY By Stephen Jay Gould.
Wednesday 30 December 2009
The Evolution Revolution
By MARK RIDLEY
Published: March 17, 2002
THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
By Stephen Jay Gould.
Illustrated. 1,433 pp. Cambridge, Mass.:
The Belknap Press/
Harvard University Press. . DARWINISTS have divided opinions about the fossil record. Darwin himself, and many of his followers, were skeptical. For them, it is so fragmentary and corrupt that we cannot (...) -
Communism and stalinism in USA
27 September 2008, by Robert ParisThe End of the Comintern And The Prospects of Labor Internationalism James P. Cannon
Comrade Chairman, Comrades:
The formal dissolution of the Communist International is undoubtedly an event of great historical significance, even though everybody understands that it is simply the formal certification of a fact that was long since accomplished. Some of the bourgeois commentators and politicians may exaggerate a bit when they speak of the dissolution of the Communist International as the (...) -
John Reed, "Ten Days that Shook the World", 2nd part
26 September 2008, by Robert ParisJohn Reed, "Ten Days that Shook the World", 2nd part
Chapter IV
The Fall of the Provisional Government
WEDNESDAY, November 7th, I rose very late. The noon cannon boomed from Peter-Paul as I went down the Nevsky. It was a raw, chill day. In front of the State Bank some soldiers with fixed bayonets were standing at the closed gates.
“What side do you belong to?” I asked. “The Government?”
“No more Government,” one answered with a grin, “Slava Bogu! Glory to God!” That was all I (...) -
Evolution of species and progress, Stephen Jay Gould
19 September 2008Stephen Jay Gould
In « Tales of a Feathered Tail » :
“The popular undestanding of evolution includes at least two false assumptions, so widely shared and so deeply (if unconsciously) embedded in the context of conventionnal explanations that many plain facts, easily grasped ar a superficial level of overt recitation, almost always enter the public discourse of newspapers, films, and magazines in a highly confused form that “science writer” either mistake for the actual opinions of (...) -
The betrayed revolution, Leon Trotsky
12 September 2008INTRODUCTION: The Purpose of the Present Work
I. – WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED
The Principal Indices of Industrial Growth
Comparative Estimates of These Achievements
Production per Capita of the Population
II. – ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE ZIGZAGS OF THE LEADERSHIP
“Military Communism”, “The New Economic Policy” (NEP) and the Course Toward the Kulak
A Sharp Turn: “The Five-Year Plan in Four Years” and “Complete Collectivization”
III. – SOCIALISM AND (...) -
C L R James 1939, The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas
23 August 2008, by Robert ParisBlack movement in USA
C L R James 1939 The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas
Source: SWP New York Convention Resolutions, 11 July 1939.
In 1930 Negroes in America constituted nearly twelve million, or 10 percent of the American population. Of these, two-thirds were still in the South, despite the war and postwar emigration to the North. In the cities of the North and East, the Negroes form only a small minority of the population, (...) -
C L R James, World Revolution 1917-1936, The Rise and Fall of the Communist International
23 August 2008, by Robert ParisTHIS BOOK IS AN INTRODUCTION TO AND SURVEY OF THE revolutionary Socialist movement since the War–the antecedents, foundation and development of the Third International–its collapse as a revolutionary force. The Bolshevik Party, and the Soviet Union which it controls, being the dominating factors in the Third International, are given extensive treatment.
The ideas on which the book are based are the fundamental ideas of Marxism. Since 1923 they have been expounded chiefly by Trotsky and a (...)