PUBLIC MARKS with tags politique & theory

Pourquoi toute critique construite et réfléchie de la société libéraliste, est-elle assimilée à de la conspiration, de la paranoïa ou plus généralement aller à l'encontre du cours naturel de l'Histoire ?

Socialisme et collectivisation : sur quelques paradoxes et ambiguïtés de la critique marxienne de la « propriété bourgeoise »

Un spectre hante le capitalisme international - le spectre de la libre information. Toutes les puissances de la "globalisation" ont conclu une alliance bien peu sacrée afin de l'exorciser : Microsoft et Disney, l'Organisation Mondiale du Commerce, le Congrès des Etats-Unis et la Commission Européenne.

The simple question “what’s wrong with software patents?” stirs up controversy and divides the IT industry into two camps like no other. Every group has their own ideology about software patents. Those who don’t like them claim that they are anti-competitive, that they are tools used by industry giants to crush free and open software, that they are bad for innovation, that they are monopolies, etc. Those who like them claim that they are simply units of intellectual property, to be traded like any other commodity.

The purpose of Michael Harrington’s essay is to document and interpret the democratic foundations of Marxism through three different ways: first, reviewing Marx’s analyses of democracy and his political conclusions; second, dealing with Marx’s theory of democracy and capitalism; and finally, discussing bureaucratic collectivism in the [former] Soviet Union and the role of democracy in collectivized societies.