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	<description>// Culture. Consciousness. Critical Thought. //</description>
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		<title>Towards a Revolutionary Anti-Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/towards-a-revolutionary-anti-capitalism</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Logan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Schwartz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Phillip Logan  As the irrationality of the neoliberal political economy takes its toll on America, the masses have begun to stir for something new. From the Tea Party to the newly created Occupy Wall Street movement, there is a foreboding sense amongst the American people that something is fundamentally wrong with the dominant social-economic order.]]></description>
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		<title>Discourses on the Nature of Society under Capitalism and Socialism I</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/discourses-on-the-future-nature-of-participation-in-civil-society-under-capitalism-and-socialism-on-participation-and-money</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/discourses-on-the-future-nature-of-participation-in-civil-society-under-capitalism-and-socialism-on-participation-and-money#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 03:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Logan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alienation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Discourses]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The beginning of an inquiry on the nature of civil and social participation in capitalist society and what dialogues are necessary to bring the subject of socialism back into the mainstream ]]></description>
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		<title>From Protest to Disruption: Frances Fox Piven on Occupy Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/from-protest-to-disruption-an-interview-with-frances-fox-piven</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/from-protest-to-disruption-an-interview-with-frances-fox-piven#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[direct action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frances Fox Piven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frances Fox Piven has spent decades writing about and participating in social movements in the United States. She was gracious enough to sit down for an interview with Chris Maisano, a writer and activist in the New York local of Democratic Socialists of America, to discuss the Occupy Wall Street protests, the complex interplay between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Global Crisis of Legitimacy</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-global-crisis-of-legitimacy</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[class struggle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legitimacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neoliberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Left]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zbigniew Brzezinski]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MAISANO The world is not simply in the midst of a deep economic slump. This is but one aspect of the crisis of legitimacy that confronts almost all of the political and economic institutions that comprise the capitalist world system today. The ongoing revolt in the Arab world against political corruption and socioeconomic exclusion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Marx Was Right&#8230;Again</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/why-marx-was-right-again</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Terry Eagleton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MICHAEL HIRSCH At a time when plutocracy goes beyond a description of the American upper class to a prescription proffered by hired-gun editorialists and corporate flacks, or when the barely centrist Barack Obama is named a DSA flunky or when the parlous international economic order can be safely described as Greek socialists bearing debts, it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Digging: The Case Against Jobs</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/stop-digging-the-case-against-jobs</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/stop-digging-the-case-against-jobs#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[full employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guaranteed income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Conyers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Maynard Keynes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[work]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PETER FRASE Much of the left has, mostly without debating it, coalesced around &#8220;jobs&#8221; as a unifying political demand. The motivation for this is clear: one of the biggest problems the country faces is that there are 20 million people who are unsuccessfully seeking full time employment. But while it may seem obvious that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Long Exception: An Interview With Jefferson Cowie</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-long-exception-an-interview-with-jefferson-cowie</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-long-exception-an-interview-with-jefferson-cowie#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jefferson Cowie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Harrington]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jefferson Cowie is a teacher, historian, and writer at Cornell University. As a social and political historian, his work focuses primarily on how class, inequality, and work shape American politics and culture. Professor Cowie was gracious enough to conduct an email interview with The Activist about his great new book Stayin&#8217; Alive: The 1970s and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diagnosing Consciousness</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/diagnosing-consciousness</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/diagnosing-consciousness#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[consciousness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hegemony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Marx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nurses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organic intellectuals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The German Ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vulgar Marxism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theactivist.org/blog/?p=3806</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MAISANO In the body of Marxist thought, there are probably few concepts that have come in for more criticism than the so-called &#8220;correspondence theory&#8221; of consciousness, which Marx articulated most explicitly in his 1845 essay The German Ideology. In this famous attack on the idealism that dominated German philosophy in the early part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Government Nonsense</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/small-government-nonsense</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/small-government-nonsense#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[conservatism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHILLIP LOGAN On a dark and somewhat stormy night, I was sitting in a Starbucks, drinking a double vanilla, tall caramel latte, reading Karl Marx&#8217;s Capital. As I began to read chapter 15, I overheard a conversation that was becoming rather a heated debate behind me. I should have minded my own business, yet I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;R&#8221; Word</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-r-word</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-r-word#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 16:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[austerity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Brooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Madison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neoliberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niccolo Machiavelli]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MAISANO With the exception of Marxism, republicanism might be the most abused, misused, and misunderstood of all the political traditions produced by the West. In recent decades, the concept has been selectively appropriated by from ideologists from across the political spectrum in service of whatever dismal policy agenda they happen to be flogging at [...]]]></description>
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