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Hofstede’s Power Distance Index
Geert Hofstede and others produced Cultural Dimension theory to explain six dimensions of culture “that society needs to come to term with in order to organize itself.” source Of particular interest to anarchism is the Power Distance Index (PDI), and maybe the Masculinity and Individualism indexes. Whether they are actually …
Breaking Through Power
Nader is still at it: Breaking Through Power If we go down this road, then these are also worth a shot: Jonathan Matthew Smucker: Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals Bernie Sanders’ campaign team: Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything Kevin Carson: Organization Theory: A Libertarian …
Uprooting Entrenched Systems of Power
In spite of some of Chris Hedges shortcomings, his recent time on Law and Disorder radio was on point: mp3 “…the military industrial complex, the corporate centers of power, the security and surveillance state, these are the institutions that largely determine policy, and any president is captive to those institutions, …
Black Power Mixtape
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/black-power-mixtape/ Swedish journalists came to the United States to document the anti-war and Black Power movements of the late 60s and early 70s. The Black Power Mixtape combines music, original 16mm footage, and contemporary audio interviews from leading African American artists, activists, musicians, and scholars.
Liberalism and social control: The New Class’ will to power
Kevin A. Carson source Twentieth century liberalism, as an ideology of social control, goes back to the Progressive movement in this counry and Fabianism in Britain. Its primary base of support was the New Class of social engineers, planners, technocrats and “helping professionals” who saw themselves as divinely appointed to …
Libertarianism Means Worker Empowerment
Roderick Long source Advocates of free markets and advocates of worker empowerment often find themselves at odds, as is attested by the current controversy between Bertram, Robin, and Gourevitch on the one hand and members of this blog on the other. This was not always so. In the 19th century, free-market libertarians …
How Law Enforcement Officers got their Power
by Dr. Eduardo M. Rivera source My enrolled Students know how the Officers named in the Constitution of September 17, 1787 got their power. For readers who have not yet accepted my generous offer in my July 7, 2011 Post, I will summarize the transfer and substitution of power process, …
Marx and Anarchism
I Some years ago, shortly after Frederick Engels died, Mr. Eduard Bernstein, one of the most prominent members of the Marxist community, astonished his colleagues with some noteworthy discoveries. Bernstein made public his misgivings about the accuracy of the materialist interpretation of history, and of the Marxist theory of surplus …
Capitalization of Labor
The Marvel of Modern Finance Since the abolition of slavery, humans ownership has been banned. People are no longer allowed to sell their labor by the lifetime. Instead they must rent themselves temporarily for a salary or wage. As Paul Samuelson says in Economics Interestingly enough most of society’s economic …