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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 (…)

• 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, (…)

• 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 (…)

• 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 (…)

• It is their crisis, not ours !
  7 December 2008, by Robert Paris

  Rising Unemployment:
  Why Not Share The Work
  With No Cut In Pay!
  Unemployment is now officially over nine percent in California and expected to go higher. Jobs have been cut in construction, manufacturing, transportation, retail, the high tech and service sectors and city and state and federal governments.
  In addition, there has been an increase in the numbers of workers who have had their hours cut or who are forced to work part-time because they can’t find a fulltime job. And many (…)

• 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 (…)

• One in five US children do not have enough to eat
  27 April 2014

  One in five US children do not have enough to eat
  By Andre Damon Feeding America, the US national network of food banks, released its annual report on local food insecurity Thursday, showing that there are dozens of counties throughout in the US where a third of children do not get enough to eat.
  Fourteen million people, or 16 percent of the population, lived in food insecure households in 2012, the latest year for which figures are available. This is up from 11.1 percent in 2007. The (…)

• 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 (…)

• What is Quantum Vacuum ?
  16 December 2016, by Robert Paris

  What is Quantum Vacuum ?
  An article of Albert Einstein, “On the Ether” (1924) :
  If we are here going to talk about the ether, we are not, of course, talking about the physical or material ether of the mechanical theory of undulations, which is subject to the laws of Newtonian mechanics, to the points of which are attributed a certain velocity. This theoretical edifice has, I am convinced, finally played out its role since the setting up of the special theory of relativity. It is rather (…)