In The Service of Historical Falsification

12 November 2009 in Episteme
Tags: David North, Trotsky, Falsification, Robert Service, Deutscher, Frida Kahlo, Bolshevik, Sokolovskaya

A Review of Robert Service’s Trotsky: A Biography
By David North
11 November 2009

 
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/serv-n11.shtml
Trotsky: A Biography
Robert Service
Harvard University Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2009
The Specter of Leon Trotsky
In 1955 James Burnham, the intellectual godfather of modern American neo-conservatism, reviewed The Prophet Armed, the first volume of Isaac Deutscher’s monumental biography of Leon [Lev Davidovich] Trotsky. Fifteen years had passed since [...]

The “Hegel renaissance” and other questions: Part 1

4 November 2009 in Episteme
Tags: Alexander Fangmann, Engels, Hegel, Hegelian dialectics, Marx, Puzzling Hegel, The Cambridge Companion to Hegel

A comment on The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
By Alexander Fangmann
3 November 2009
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, edited by Frederick C. Beiser. Cambridge University Press, 2008 Cambridge, Massachusetts. Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521539388), $32.99.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/heg1-n03.shtml
This is the first part of two.
Last year saw the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and [...]

PBB Memproses Kesalahan Israel

18 Oktober 2009 in Episteme
Tags: Dewan HAM PBB, Goldstone, Haaretz, Mahmud Abbas, Nabil Shaath, resolusi Dewan HAM PBB, Zionis

Minggu, 18 Oktober 2009 | 03:55 WIB
Mustafa Abd. Rahman

http://cetak.kompas.com/read/xml/2009/10/18/03551444/pbb.memproses.kesalahan.israel
Setelah beberapa pekan menuai protes dan kontroversi, akhirnya sidang khusus Dewan HAM PBB digelar, Kamis dan Jumat (15-16/10) di Geneva, Swiss, untuk membahas laporan Goldstone. Sidang tersebut menyetujui laporan Goldstone dengan 25 suara setuju, 6 suara menolak, dan 11 abstain.
Di antara isi resolusi Dewan HAM PBB itu [...]

Anak Bertanya pada Bapaknya

21 Agustus 2009 in Episteme

Bimbo
Ada anak bertanya pada bapaknya
Buat apa berlapar-lapar puasa
Ada anak bertanya pada bapaknya
Tadarus tarawih apalah gunanya
Lapar mengajarmu rendah hati selalu
Tadarus artinya memahami kitab suci
Tarawih mendekatkan diri pada Ilahi
Lihat langit keanggunan yang indah
Membuka luas dan anginpun semerbak
Nafsu angkara terbelenggu dan lemah
Ulah ibadah dalam ikhlas sedekah
http://adibsusilasiraj.blogspot.com/2009/08/anak-bertanya-pada-bapaknya.html

Hegel, Marx, Engels, and the Origins of Marxism

19 Agustus 2009 in Episteme
Tags: Engels, Hegel, Marx, Marxism, Tom Rockmore

A review of Marx After Marxism: The Philosophy of Karl Marx by Tom Rockmore
By David North
3 May 2006
The following is second of a two-part series. The first part can be read here.

http://wsws.org/articles/2006/may2006/rock-m03.shtml
The purpose of Rockmore’s assault on Engels becomes transparent as soon as he turns his attention to Marx. By claiming that it was the [...]

Hegel, Marx, Engels, and the Origins of Marxism

19 Agustus 2009 in Episteme
Tags: Engels, Hegel, Marx, Marxism, Tom Rockmore

A review of Marx After Marxism: The Philosophy of Karl Marx by Tom Rockmore
By David North
2 May 2006
The following is the first of a two-part series. The second part will be posted tomorrow.
Marx After Marxism: The Philosophy of Karl Marx, by Tom Rockmore. 224 pages, Blackwell Publishers, 2002. US$29.95

http://wsws.org/articles/2006/may2006/rock-m02.shtml
Tom Rockmore, who teaches Philosophy at Duquesne [...]