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Just in time for Christmas, Karl Marx is finding a new audience among Japanese comic book fans.
No other celebrity family encompasses the there-to-nowhere scope of fame quite like the Baldwins. A-list brother Alec leads the pack, B-list Billy comes in a distant second, and somewhere between reality TV fixture Stephen and complete obscurity lies Daniel. When the Baldwin brothers shot to fame in the late ’80s and early ’90s Daniel, whose looks didn’t measure up to the rest of the then-hunky brood, jumped on the back end of the fame bandwagon. Bit parts, low-budget films, and television one-offs soon became the norm for the second oldest B-boy, but even those roles became a rarity after a public battle with addiction left Daniel in the reality realm with “Celebrity Rehab.”
Some Germans seem to be seeking solace in the words of their countryman Karl Marx amid the global financial crisis — to the delight of a small academic publisher.
The Pot & The KettleTo think that Barack Obama, the leader of the Democratic Party, the most corrupt political organization in Western history, would lecture the President of Afghanistan on the merits of clean government and honest elections is just...incomprehensible.
Unemployment Flim-FlamWhether Democrats conceived the idea of a minimum wage as an economic tool with which to buy the votes of those at the bottom rung of the economic ladder, or if the potential political benefits occurred to them as an afterthought, we may never know.
Is Obama Impeachable?Article II, Section 4 of the United States Constitution tells us that "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." In t …
Rising Above the RabbleFor those who like to say with absolutely certainty, but with no basis in fact, that there is "not a dimes worth of difference" between the two major parties, consider this: the Republican Party is composed primarily of individuals whose primary political interest is in being …
Dead Labor: Marx and Lenin Reconsidered "Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks." --Karl Marx If Karl Marx and V. I. Lenin were alive today, they would be leading contenders for the Nobel Prize in economics.
Ghost of Marx haunts China's riotsThe weekend violence that has left 156 people dead and more than 816 injured in Urumqi, capital of northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is the latest example of growing conflicts between China's majority Han ethnic group and ethnic minorities.
The Dawn Blog » Blog Archive » Gone fishingNadeem F. Paracha is a writer for Pakistan's English daily newspaper, DAWN. In his younger years he was active in university politics. He gained fame in Pakistan with his humor.
At OpEdNews: Making a Monkey out of Pat BuchananIn his comments on a new book attacking Darwinism, Pat Buchanan endorses the claims (a) that Charles Darwin stole his theory from Alfred Wallace; (b) that the theory of evolution has proven to be "disastrous"; and (c) that belief in evolution is an example of faith-based science.
Top Jewish Israeli, "Tribal Marxism for dummies"re "tribal" Jewish Left & Israeli war crimes Top anti-racism Jewish Israeli Gilad Atzmon: "The Israeli war crimes against Palestinians are now well documented. No one needs the odd kosher 'righteous Jew' to approve that this is indeed the case".
Narcissus And Echo: Obama And The Mainstream MediaIt is troubling that our president is a pathological narcissist caught up in the thought patterns of Darwin, Marx, and Alinsky.
It really upsets me when people throw out attack code words to accuse people of not being as 'American' as they are, for daring to have different beliefs and / or ideas than they do... especially when the people using those words don't even know what they mean.
The point is to change it: Marx's analysis of the free-market economy is as relevant as ever, but implicit in every word he wrote is the idea that capitalism "brings into the world the material means of its own destruction."WITH THE collapse of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, and during the neoliberal economic boom since, it became very fashionable to declare Marxism dead. But now that the deepest economic crisis since the 1930s has arrived, Karl Marx is suddenly alive again.
Thoroughly Modern MarxThe economic crisis has spawned a resurgence of interest in Karl Marx.
My rural corner of Virginia is not often in the news and almost never in the financial section. The peaks and troughs of Wall Street are distant afterthoughts here.
Was Marx right all along?The way to save capitalism will be hotly debated in London this week and suddenly the man who predicted its demise is fashionable again. Two writers argue over his legacy.
China plans a Karl Marx musical A Chinese director is planning to stage a musical based on the founding text of communism, Karl Marx's Das Kapital. The plot will revolve around a group of office employees who find out they are being exploited by their boss.
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Ca, March 5...At the age of 102, blacklisted screenwriter Art Ostrovsky says he is witnessing something he never thought he would live to see--the overthrow of Capitalism.
The Obama ruse is now in full swing with his pennies from heaven being waved in front of all state governors in return for selling their souls to socialism and committing to programs that in the long run will offer nothing but massive debt to state budgets.
Marx Becomes a Marxist -- his ideas developed in an era of when young people were dedicating their lives to a struggle for new rights and freedoms. HOW DID Karl Marx become a Marxist? Marx developed his idea not just through study--although he was a voracious reader (really, the word "voracious" doesn't begin to touch it).
The return of Marx -- The ideas of Karl Marx--that class society creates great wealth for the few at the expense of the many--ring truer every day.IN THE last 150 years of U.S. history, you can't point to a generation whose most active, radical layers have not been drawn to the ideas of Karl Marx.
Stampede by banks to beat bonus crackdownBanks dependent on taxpayer support are planning to rush out hundreds of millions of pounds in bonuses to senior bankers and traders before a threatened crackdown.
What's a Corporate Job Worth?I believe in capitalism; but between the bailouts, corporatism, and corporate lobbying I have concluded that Marx was right on the corporation; and that they have, through their own stupid greed, come toencompass the very spirit of not only incompetence; but socialism itself.
On Friedrich Engels on the anniversary of his birthA spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. So starts one of the most important and powerful literary works in human history. On this day in 1820 one of the authors of The Communist Manifesto, Friedrich Engels, was born in Barmen, a town in the kingdom of Prussia.
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