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A Commentary on the Passing Scene by Robert Paul Wolff rwolff@afroam.umass.edu
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The following books by Robert Paul Wolff are available on Amazon.com as e-books: KANT'S THEORY OF MENTAL ACTIVITY, THE AUTONOMY OF REASON, UNDERSTANDING MARX, UNDERSTANDING RAWLS, THE POVERTY OF LIBERALISM, A LIFE IN THE ACADEMY, MONEYBAGS MUST BE SO LUCKY, AN INTRODUCTION TO THE USE OF FORMAL METHODS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.
Now Available: Volumes I, II, III, and IV of the Collected Published and Unpublished Papers.
Now Available: Volumes I, II, III, and IV of the Collected Published and Unpublished Papers.
NOW AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE: LECTURES ON KANT'S CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON. To view the lectures, go to YouTube and search for "Robert Paul Wolff Kant." There they will be.
NOW AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE: LECTURES ON THE THOUGHT OF KARL MARX. To view the lectures, go to YouTube and search for Robert Paul Wolff Marx."
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- As I observed in one of my books, in politics I am an anarchist, in religion I am an atheist, and in economics I am a Marxist. I am also, rather more importantly, a husband, a father, a grandfather, and a violist.
3 comments:
Right but overall vtoer turnout was up 4.7%, so it seems hasty to conclude that there wasn't a working class rebellion against the establishment just because voting was lower in some of the states he won....?
Also interesting analysis on the election results:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/11/debunking_myths_about_trump_voters_with_exit_polls.html
The problem wasn't angry voters, it was absent voters?
Keep going. The problem isn't absent voters, its the design of a political economy in which
political parties represent coalition of owners so that owners may capture control of government.
Many of the people who don't vote understand, know, and feel that government doesn't represent them.
The problem is election fraud and toleration of it. Interstate crosschecking purged at least tens of thousands
of voters and likely much more.
The problem is that in the United States voting is not a right, it's a privilege granted by the state for which you
must qualify.
The problem is that the framers feared democracy and created a system that would check popular impulses: ie,
HRC won the popular vote.
It is easy to blame the people who don't vote but if we lived those miserable directed lives where both parties represent elites and if we were the ones without dignity, and who had wealth extracted from us year after year, voting wouldn't mean very much to us either.
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