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It should be of interest for us discuss The Philosophy of Poverty because it is an understudied text in the canon of Marxist theory even though its contents are of vital importance. This is also surprising because so much of elementary Marxist criticism bases itself on the argument that philosophical metaphysics is undermined by a proper understanding of historical materialism. This argument overlaps with the really lousy naive realism included in the modern reception of ideological scientism by both our scientific research institutions and by the popular culture at large....

We should understand objective conditions of the early history of the International. Arguments held between Marx and the anarchist Bakunin during the 1st International will be very instructive for us, in that they held the same aims but it was ultimately required and easily justified on rational grounds for Bakunin to be expelled from the International. It is usefully quoted in an Ann Robertson text1 from 2003: “Bakunin, however, proceeds: “There are about forty million Germans....

Politicians from the major bourgeoisie parties in power today have proven themselves to us once again. The stimulus package passed through both Houses of Congress this week and signed into law by President Trump is a disaster. We are told by the media that the American government has produced emergency aid in response to the emergency of the covid-19 virus pandemic. Even Sen. Sanders ended up compromising with the Republican majority and the corporate Democrats, voting in favor of the bill and leaving it in the end unanimously unopposed, 96 votes to 0....

Plato 429-347 bc The Republic. c. 375 bc Aristotle 384-322 bc Politics. c. 350 bc More, Thomas 1478-1535 ce Utopia 1516 Machiavelli, Niccolò 1469-1527 ce The Prince 1532 Bacon, Francis 1561-1626 ce New Atlantis 1626 Hobbes, Thomas 1588-1679 ce De Cive - 1642(1647) De Corpore - 1645(1655) Humane Nature, or, The Fundamental Elements of Policy - 1650 Leviathan - 1651 De Homine - 1658 Locke, John 1632-1704 ce Second Treatise of Government....

Old Testament Genesis 22 The Book of Job. 6th c. bc Plato 429-347 bc Meno Republic, Allegory of the Cave (514a–520a) Euthyphro Phaedo Aristotle 384-322 bc Nicomachean Ethics On Generation and Corruption Cicero 106-43 bc Tusculan Disputations 45 bc Lucretius 1st c. bc On the Nature of Things Ovid 43 bc - 17 ce Metamorphosis 8 ce Aurelius, Marcus 121-180 ce The Meditations 167 ce Dionysius the Areopagite 5th c. ce The Divine Names c....