The essay is scrutinising our verbal clichés. Meanwhile its rises uncomfortable questions like what kind of hassle would Marxian communism create to everyday life.
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Occupy and the Tasks of Socialists
The post provides a deep – power and class structure – analysis of the Occupy Wall Street movement which emerged on the autumn of 2011. The movement, following the philosophy of spontaneous anarchy, rejects all fixed hierarchy of decision making. This "perfect spontaneity", however, opened room for arbitrary decisions and for actions of self-appointed "avant-garde" groups that were destructive for the movement as a whole. The Socialist felt joined the events late but this still provides an opportunity have not seen for decades for rebuilding a capable and radical left in the US.
Original article is Pham Binh: Occupy and the tasks of socialists. Links – International Journal of Socialist Renewal, 2011. december 14. http://links.org.au/node/2657
Some Remarks to Pham Bin’s Post
The American state cannot tolerate any political alternative even if it emerges on the symbolic field. However, street events were retaliated almost similarly what we had seen concerning the Arab Spring. The hysteria against rising alternatives and the brutal state repression probably have shaken the image of "the freest country" thus Occupy maybe started something. It is hard to tell what might develop from it but something has actually changed.
Occupy Wall Street, Composers and the Plutocracy: Some Variations on an Ancient Theme
Composers and musicians – who are also hierarchical leaders on their own way, since the concert hall follows the model of Darwinian competition – are at the mercy of the political and business elite. Bankers, politicians and businessman finance culture not exactly benevolent and free from their own interests. So, although composers did appear in the Occupy movement and their anti-capitalistic commitment cannot be questioned but their performance and role still contradictory.
Original article is at Occupying New Music: Guest Blog Occupy Wall Street, Composers and the Plutocracy: Some Variations on an Ancient Theme By John Halle.
No. 93 | (Spring 2012)
The first block of this issue of Eszmélet is addressing the nature of global capitalism, which shows more and more convincingly symptoms of the capital system, which cannot be cured without structural changes. The second important topic is the analysis of the neoconservative, neo-Horthyist state system developed by Orbán after the 2010 "system change". This shows the practical consequences of the global crisis on the semi-periphery of Europe. Third, a closer look is taken into the significant anti-regime, and radical anti-capitalist social movements of the year 2011, especially the shocking US movement of Occupy Wall Street!, whose significance mainly lies in the fact that public discussion finally started to address the system itself, the global crisis of capitalism. At the end, a comprehensive study is analysing the possibility of a democratic planning-based socialist society – beyond the market.