Thursday, November 5, 2015

Catalan secessionist resolution provokes political crisis in Spain - World Socialist Web Site

Catalan secessionist resolution provokes political crisis in Spain - World Socialist Web Site  





Like most Marxists  the SEP which sponsor this web site have tended to view national questions as diversions  from the class struggle ,when they have not tailed national movements as anti-imperialist -since Lenin anyway. They have some good points on the sacrifices an interdependent state would impose even ,if since all parties are in the Eu pseudo- independence is really involved.  I wonder what they would do if the middle class intellectuals actually resorted to armed conflict if the constitutional court overrules the separatists .   In the case of Quebec

in which the Independence referendum failed the old hard core nationalists thought the referendum failure was not legitimate because the majority included immigrants and English speakers. I bet the no voters included worker immigrants from Castile.

Monday, November 2, 2015

Steve Jobs fails to transcend conventional mythologizing - World Socialist Web Site

<em>Steve Jobs</em> fails to transcend conventional mythologizing - World Socialist Web Site



They forgot to say that Marx was  often accused of being egocentric or worse ,had Engels take the rap for his serva padrona's child though very close to his legitimate children, and that Trotsky Frieda Kahlo affair  affair and his wife's resentment was not ended for higher political reasons taccrding to one source at least but thatKahlo got tired of an old man.