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• 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 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 (…)

• 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 (…)

• BACON – HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
  7 December 2021

  BACON – HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
  There was already being accomplished the abandonment of the content which lies beyond us, and which through its form has lost the merit it possessed of being true, and is become of no significance to self-consciousness or the certainty of self and of its actuality; this we see for the first time consciously expressed, though not as yet in a very perfect form, by Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans. He is therefore instanced as in the (…)

• Hegel’s Philosophy of History - Introduction
  3 December 2021

  Philosophy of History
  Introduction
  Geographical Basis of History.
  Contrasted with the universality of the moral Whole and with the unity of that individuality which is its active principle, the natural connection that helps to produce the Spirit of a People, appears an extrinsic element; but inasmuch as we must regard it as the ground on which that Spirit plays its part, it is an essential and necessary basis. We began with the assertion that, in the History of the World, the Idea of (…)

• 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 (…)

• 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 (…)

• Le rôle des rêves, Freud
  27 novembre 2009, par Robert Paris

  "Le rêveur a à sa disposition le mode d’expression symbolique qu’il ne connaît ni ne reconnaît à l’état de veille."
  Sigmund Freud
  La fonction des rêves - Le rêve anxieux
  Maintenant que nous savons que tout au long de la nuit, le préconscient est orienté vers le désir de dormir, nous pouvons suivre le processus du rêve avec une bonne compréhension. Mais résumons d’abord ce que nous savons déjà de ce processus. Nous avons vu que les résidus diurnes sont restés de l’activité de veille de (…)

• Revolution and counter-revolution in Spain
  19 September 2010

  FOR the new generations moving into political life a study of the Spanish Civil War of 1936–39 contains valuable lessons. This book, hammered out in time with the dramatic events it describes, stands in direct line with the great writings of Marx and Engels on the Revolutions of 1848 and the Paris Commune and Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution. No doubt later historical research has been able to uncover from the record a more detailed account of the facts, and the reports of (…)

• Critical Battle Against French Materialism
  23 March 2022, by Robert Paris

  Critical Battle Against French Materialism
  Karl Marx, The Holy Family
  “Spinozism dominated the eighteenth century both in its later French variety, which made matter into substance, and in deism, which conferred on matter a more spiritual name.... Spinoza’s French school and the supporters of deism were but two sects disputing over the true meaning of his system.... The simple fate of this Enlightenment was its decline in romanticism after being obliged to surrender to the reaction which (…)