Link to a lecture by Slavoj Žižek:
“Let Us Be Realists And Demand The Impossible: Communism”
The title of the talk alludes to the May 1968 slogan “Be realistic, demand the impossible.” This is one of Žižek’s more coherent lectures.
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Brendan McGeever – The Bolsheviks and Antisemitism
Link to an article by Brendan McGeever:
Paul Street – Twelve Blasphemous Thoughts
Link to an article by Paul Street:
Michael Parenti – Quotations
Link to a list of quotations by Michael Parenti:
Honest Accounts 2017: How the World Profits from Africa’s Wealth
Link to a report by Global Justice Now:
“Honest Accounts 2017: How the World Profits from Africa’s Wealth”
John Kenneth Galbraith Quote
“The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man’s oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
Cliff Weathers – Your HR Department Hates You
Link to an article by Cliff Weathers:
“Your HR Department Hates You: How Corporate Overseers Exploit Workers”
Stephen Resnick & Richard Wolff – The Economic Crisis
Link to an article by Stephen Resnick & Richard Wolff:
Walden Bello – Europe’s Faustian Bargain with Big Finance
Link to an interview of Walden Bello:
M.G. Piety – Academic Bullying: the Vacuum of Moral Leadership in the Academy
Link to an article by M.G. Piety:
“Academic Bullying: the Vacuum of Moral Leadership in the Academy”
Most of this is general enough to apply outside academia. Interesting that she cited Plato in one place about just behavior, but, rather than another philosopher like Rousseau, cites cognitivist scientists regarding trusting human nature.