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Socialist Standard, June 1996. Maximilien Rubel who died at the end of February was not just a Marx-specialist, he was also someone who wanted Socialism in the real sense of a society of common ownership and democratic control from which what he along with Marx regarded as the two great expressions of human alienation,...
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Socialist Standard, January 1994. We live in unfriendly times. As neighbourhoods have made way for wretched anonymous towerblocks, so neighbourliness has become outdated. It is not that people have chosen to become careless and uncooperative; as social animals we are never happier than when we are able to behave in mutuality, empathy and compassion...
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(Socialist Standard) Open a few Sunday colour supplements and you’re likely to see a mention of some variety of “Personal Growth”. Look at the notices on the wall in most health food shops, or look in the back of city’s listing magazines and you’ll see adverts for this or that new approach. This term...
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(Socialist Standard, July 1906)   No point in the Socialist philosophy arouses such controversy as that of the “class-struggle” and “class-consciousness.” …What then is the meaning of this term “class-consciousness?” At a certain stage in the life of every individual he acquires a “consciousness” of personal identity. He becomes aware of his distinctiveness, physically and...
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