My Bookmarx 01/31/2012

• LENIN’S TOMB: Salaried bourgeois on “revolt of the salaried bourgeoisie”

  Zizek has expended a lot of polemical energy attacking a certain kind of poststructuralist and post-marxist politics for its abandonment of class.  But this critique was bound up with a simultaneous attack on ‘political correctness’, ‘multiculturalism’, and so forth, in the name of a ‘leftist plea for Eurocentrism’.

  tags: Slavoj_Zizek class bourgeoisie marx marxism

• Slavoj Žižek · The Revolt of the Salaried Bourgeoisie: The New Proletariat · LRB 26 January 2012

  The possibility of the privatisation of the general intellect was something Marx never envisaged in his writings about capitalism (largely because he overlooked its social dimension). Yet this is at the core of today’s struggles over intellectual property: as the role of the general intellect – based on collective knowledge and social co-operation – increases in post-industrial capitalism, so wealth accumulates out of all proportion to the labour expended in its production.

  tags: Slavoj_Zizek class bourgeoisie marx marxism

• Greece to leave the Eurozone and become a German colony | Bill Mitchell – billy blog

  The Euro leaders are having another Summit in Brussels today – another one – the 17th in two years. I think they are getting used to the nice wine and sumptuous food that is served up. Little ever comes from these summits that is of any productive import.

  tags: EU europe economy greece crisis summit

• أزمة الاحتياطى الأجنبى.. لماذا الاستدانة «لما الحل فى المحروسة؟» – شيرين عبد الرءوف القاضى – بوابة الشروق

  من الواضح أن أزمة السيولة اشتدت فى الجهاز الحكومى نتيجة قلة التدبير فى كبح جماح الإنفاق الحكومى والعجز المتزايد فى الموازنة، مما أدى إلى لجوء الحكومة بالضغط على السيولة المحلية بالجنيه المصرى وزيادة الاستدانة من الجهاز المصرفى من خلال أذون خزانة مما كان له الأثر البالغ فى رفع أسعار الفائدة.

  tags: egypt economy loans debt

• Egyptian Revolution: Bloody Wednesday / الأربعاء الدامي / الموقعة الجمل – YouTube

  الأربعاء ٢ فبراير كان يوم حاسم في الثورة المصرية
  Wednesday 2nd February was a pivotal day of the Egyptian Revolution

  tags: revolution egypt Jan25 thugs SCAF military video

• A Marxist History of the World part 60: The Paris Commune: the face of proletarian revolution | Counterfire

  The Franco-Prussian war produced the first proletarian revolution in history, and showed to the world for the first time what a workers’ state looks like.

  tags: history Paris_Commune workers revolution France Germany

• For Egypt, Aid Not Ransom

  It is winter again in Cairo. Amid continued civil disobedience, backsliding by the military “transitional” government and souring attitudes, people rightly took time this week to celebrate the rising that ejected Hosni Mubarak’s despotic regime a year ago.

  tags: egypt usa aid loans military SCAF Israel Camp_David IMF

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