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• Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
  4 December 2021

  C.L.R. James 1947
  Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
  Mankind has obviously reached the end of something. The crisis is absolute. Bourgeois civilisation is falling apart, and even while it collapses, devotes its main energies to the preparation of further holocausts. Not remote states on the periphery but regimes contending for world power achieve the most advanced stages of barbarism known to history. What civilised states have ever approached Nazi Germany and Stalinist (…)

• 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’ (…)

• The dialectic of geology
  17 June 2008

  from " Reason in Revolt: Marxism and Modern Science"
  By Alan Woods and Ted Grant
  There is an English saying, "as solid as the ground under our feet." This comforting idea, however, is very far from the truth. The earth beneath our feet is not as solid as it seems. The rocks, the mountain ranges, the continents themselves, are in a continuous state of movement and change, the exact nature of which has only begun to be understood in the latter half of this century. Geology is the science (…)

• 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, (…)

• Indochina and revolution
  22 May 2008, by Robert Paris

  On Vietnam
  The text below is extracted from Sur le Vietnam, a series of articles published in Informations et Correspondences ouvrières from the end of 1967 and the beginning of 1968, at the height of the movement against the Vietnam war in Europe and North America. Whilst this description as a whole has not hitherto appeared in English, the final chapter, The Saigon Insurrection of 23 September 1945, was the only account of the events available in Britain for many years, having been first (…)

• Communisme et Trotskisme en Grèce
  18 February, by Robert Paris

  Communisme et Trotskisme en Grèce
  The domination of the Thermidorian regime of Stalin in the Soviet Union, the bureaucratisation of the regime, the overthrow of the soviet system, the revision of the Constitution of October, the bureaucratic structure of the plan, the industrialisation (at first at snail’s pace, later at maximum) and collectivisation, and the incorporation of the kulak into Socialism (“Kulaks enrich yourselves”), the crisis in the relations between town and country (the (…)

• Estranged Labour, Karl Marx
  25 October 2018

  "We have proceeded from the premises of political economy. We have accepted its language and its laws. We presupposed private property, the separation of labor, capital and land, and of wages, profit of capital and rent of land – likewise division of labor, competition, the concept of exchange value, etc. On the basis of political economy itself, in its own words, we have shown that the worker sinks to the level of a commodity and becomes indeed the most wretched of commodities; that the (…)

• Albert Einstein, Relativity, The Special and General Theory
  4 August 2021, by Robert Paris

  Albert Einstein, Relativity, The Special and General Theory
  Part I
  The Special Theory of Relativity
  Physical Meaning of Geometrical Propositions
  In your schooldays most of you who read this book made acquaintance with the noble building of Euclid’s geometry, and you remember — perhaps with more respect than love — the magnificent structure, on the lofty staircase of which you were chased about for uncounted hours by conscientious teachers. By reason of our past experience, you (…)

• Est-il vrai que le rire est le propre de l’homme ?
  11 octobre 2016, par Robert Paris

  Le rire, c’est l’homme par opposition à l’animal ?
  Ils me font bien rire tous ces grands auteurs qui se croient supérieurs à l’animal... par le rire !!!
  « L’homme est le seul animal qui ait la faculté de rire »
  Aristote, « Parties des animaux »
  « Mieux vaut traiter du rire que des larmes Parce que rire est le propre de l’homme. »
  Rabelais, « Gargantua »
  « Il n’y a pas de comique en dehors de ce qui est proprement humain... Plusieurs ont défini l’homme « un animal qui sait rire (…)

• Where we stand
  23 October 2018, by Robert Paris

  Where we stand and ... what we don’t want more
  December 14, 2009, by Robert Paris, Levi Tiekoura Hamed
  "The workers have no country. (...) Abolish the exploitation of man by man, and you eliminate the exploitation of one nation by another nation. (...) The ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of all countries, unite!"
  Karl Marx (1848), The Communist Manifesto
  "We like to assign (…)