Edward curtin By the lake’s lapping shore above the town and the railroad tracks, my wife and I stopped and marveled, struck stone silent by two dazzling Baltimore Orioles, clawed together as they tumbled, wrestling in the green morning breeze above our heads. They perched upon a branch and sang a morning hymn, an ode …
By the lake’s lapping shore above the town and the railroad tracks, my wife and I stopped and marveled, struck stone silent by two dazzling Baltimore Orioles, clawed together as they tumbled, wrestling in the green morning breeze above our heads. They perched upon a branch and sang a morning hymn, an ode to joy […]
Guest Post by Ravi Sinha (Marx Bicentennial lecture – Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, March 16, 2018) etaddhastidarshana iva jatyandhah That is like people blind by birth viewing an elephant. (Shankaracharya’s bhasya on Chandogya-Upanisad 18.1)[1] It was six blind men of Indostan, To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them … Continue reading To Gain a View of the Elephant – India, History, Modernity, and Marx : Ravi Sinha
Cette formule qui a fait date, est de l’écrivain français Anatole France. Elle est tirée d’une tribune du même nom, parue dans l’Humanité le 18 juillet 1922 pour dénoncer dans un bilan rétrospectif, l’absurdité de la Première Guerre mondiale. L’écrivain renommé est alors prix Nobel depuis quelques mois. Voici ce qu’il y écrit :
Have you ever thought that who you are as a person is determined in part by the government you live under? Political philosophers have been considering such a possibility going all the way back to the early Greeks. Government shapes us either by engaging and empowering us through participation or by assuming all power unto itself and leaving us to go our separate ways alone and isolated.
