Tuesday, January 4, 2011

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A formulator of the "Cloward-Piven strategy" in 1966 wants to revive the concept to force action on employment - Have the unemployed march on D.C.?  (Frances Fox Piven) The Nation
Jerry Brown begins his third term as governor of California - (Joel Kotkin) NewGeography
China announces the introduction of it's new stealth fighter aircraft - Aviation Week
And ahead of schedule, too. Hmm...
Capitalism and Degrowth-An Impossibility Theorem - (John Bellamy Foster) Monthly Review
Some real problems with this notion.
Marx's carbuncles; a symptom of alienation caused by capitalism? - (Phil Gasper) ISR
"According to the paper’s author, a professor of dermatology at the University of East Anglia in England named Stephen Shuster, medical evidence suggests that Marx suffered from a disease known as hidradenitis suppurativa in which the apocrine sweat glands—found mainly in the armpits and groin—become blocked and inflamed. According to Shuster while Marx complained of excruciating boils, he was actually a victim of this chronic skin disease."