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Erin Hamson

Communist Manifesto (Chapter 2) - 0 views

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  • The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to the other working-class parties. They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole. They do not set up any sectarian principles of their own, by which to shape and mould the proletarian movement.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      We are for you. You should join us. We will help you become equals, but not into a better position.
  • 1. In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality. 2. In the various stages of development which the struggle of the working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      working to unite the proletariat, which according to chapter one should equalise them with the others.
  • formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat.
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  • The theoretical conclusions of the Communists are in no way based on ideas or principles that have been invented, or discovered, by this or that would-be universal reformer.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      We don't recognise one world leader, or founder. Unlike capitalism (Smith) or democracy (Locke).
  • but the abolition of bourgeois property.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      mean to abolish their symbol of status, but not divide it to the masses. Say that it is commonly held together.
  • Abolition of private property
  • We Communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of a man’s own labour, which property is alleged to be the groundwork of all personal freedom, activity and independence.
  • , that quantum of the means of subsistence which is absolutely requisite to keep the labourer in bare existence as a labourer.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      tells the labourer they ought to be getting more for their hard work in support of the system.
  • allowed to live only in so far as the interest of the ruling class requires it.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      allowed to live only in so far as the interest of the state requires it. A state in which you have no say, but they really do care about you.
  • By freedom is meant, under the present bourgeois conditions of production, free trade, free selling and buying.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      What other sort of freedom is there?
  • It has been objected that upon the abolition of private property, all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Isn't this what happened? Isn't this why they failed? They couldn't get man to work and produce enough products to support the country on virtue?
  • bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness;
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      They have to work to keep all the property they supposedly have.
  • Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      How are the children currently exploited?
  • But, you say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social. And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, &c.?
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Secular learning might be taught in schools, but values, beliefs, toleration are all taught in the home. The only way to have successful society without these being taught in the home is to teach them in the schools. Which they currently are not.
  • Our bourgeois, not content with having wives and daughters of their proletarians at their disposal, not to speak of common prostitutes, take the greatest pleasure in seducing each other’s wives.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      They claim that this is universally true, but they forget the virtue of some people.
  • to freedom of commerce, to the world market,
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      capitalism has begun a reduction of national barriers.
  • The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality.
  • In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another will also be put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Appealing to the 3rd world countries of the globe. trying to make communism a good thing.
  • The charges against Communism made from a religious, a philosophical and, generally, from an ideological standpoint, are not deserving of serious examination.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      We don't have anything to refute these claims, so we'll say they aren't important. Further we don't believe in religion because it causes differences, we can't refute something we believe in or think should exist.
  • The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      censoship
  • traditional property relations
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      People as defined by their property, in a physical sense. Defied by the reputation economy.
  • traditional ideas
  • to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      manipulate the people to steal from other people, and then all will be stolen from all people.
  • Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Capitalism with the State having a monopoly in every area within the country.
  • State
  • exclusive monopol
  • State.
  • State;
  • public
Parker Woody

Communist Manifesto (Chapter 3) - 0 views

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    • Kristi Koerner
      Kristi Koerner on 04 Oct 10
       
      The conflict with Christianity is interesting.
  • disastrous effects of machinery and division of labour
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      are these laid in contrast to the benefits?
  • It proclaimed the German nation to be the model nation
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      city upon a hill
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  • The Socialistic bourgeois want all the advantages of modern social conditions without the struggles and dangers necessarily resulting therefrom. They desire the existing state of society, minus its revolutionary and disintegrating elements. They wish for a bourgeoisie without a proletariat.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      want everyone to be like them
  • It is summed up in the phrase: the bourgeois is a bourgeois — for the benefit of the working class
  • These proposals, therefore, are of a purely Utopian character.
  • the concentration of capital and land in a few hands; overproduction and crises; it pointed out the inevitable ruin of the petty bourgeois and peasant, the misery of the proletariat, the anarchy in production, the crying inequalities in the distribution of wealth, the industrial war of extermination between nations, the dissolution of old moral bonds, of the old family relations, of the old nationalities.
    • Parker Woody
      Parker Woody on 05 Oct 10
       
      Interesting how they appeal to the family and the loss of morals
Kevin Watson

Inside Chernobyl - National Geographic Magazine - 0 views

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    • Kevin Watson
      Kevin Watson on 11 Nov 10
       
      This definitely makes you think about whether or not it is worth having nuclear power plants. Or maybe there could be a better way to generate electricity.
  • Kevin Watson on 11 Nov 10
     
    If you would like to read a little more about the Chernobyl disaster, here is a great article in National Geographic.
Erin Hamson

Modern History Sourcebook: Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations, 1776 (Epitome) - 0 views

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    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      The process of specialization was later perfected by Henry Ford, in making cheap, durable cars.
  • This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labor, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labor, and enable one man to do the work of many....
  • Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favor, and show them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them. Whoever offers to another a bargain of any kind, proposes to do this. Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want, is the meaning of every such offer; and it is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater art of those good offices which we stand in need of. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      This is the basis of the Market Economy or Capitalism, exchange based in self-interest that benefits all.
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  • In order to avoid the inconvenience of such situations, every prudent man in every period of society, after the first establishment of the division of labor, must naturally have endeavored to manage his affairs in such a manner as to have at all times by him, besides the peculiar produce of his own industry, a certain quantity of some one commodity or other, such as he imagined few people would be likely to refuse in exchange for their produce....It is in this manner that money has become in all civilized nations the universal instrument of commerce, by the intervention of which goods of all kinds are bought and sold, or exchanged for one another....
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      The role/development of money. The problem with money is that it has to be regulated and who regulates it? If we let the governement regulate it, it might become manipulated...
  • The value of any commodity,
  • is equal to the quantity of labor which it enables him to purchase or command
  • Labor, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities....
  • The real price of everything
  • is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Note the difference between the value and the price. The price changes most significantly in relation to how much the consumer wants the product, as opposed to how much time it took the maker to make it.
  • which resolves itself into labor
  • resolves itself into rent
  • resolves itself into profit
  • ordinary or average rate both of wages and profit
  • partly by the general circumstances of the society,
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      A man cannot charge above that which can be paid him or he will lose business.
  • partly by the particular nature of each employment
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Some labor is simply worth more
  • ordinary or average rate of rent
  • partly by the general circumstances of the society or neighborhood in which the land is situated,
  • partly by the natural or improved fertility of the land
  • When the price of any commodity is neither more nor less than what is sufficient to pay the rent of the land, the wages of the labor, and the profits of the stock employed in raising, preparing, and bringing it to market, according to their natural rates, the commodity is then sold for what may be called its natural price.
  • The actual price at which any commodity is commonly sold is called its market price
  • he market price of every particular commodity is regulated by the proportion between the quantity which is actually brought to market, and the demand of those who are willing to pay the natural price of the commodity, or the whole value of the rent, labor, and profit, which must be paid in order to bring it thither.
  • A competition will immediately begin among them, and the market price will rise more or less above the natural price, according as either the greatness of the deficiency, or the wealth and wanton luxury of the competitors, happen to animate more or less the eagerness of the competition.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      The results of scarcity *footballs*
  • quantity brought to market exceeds the effectual demand
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Surplus
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      ,effect of
  • A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company has the same effect as a secret in trade or manufactures.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      See above
  • When by an increase in the effectual demand, the market price of some particular commodity happens to rise a good deal above the natural price, those who employ their stocks in supplying that market are generally careful to conceal this change
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      A monopoly
  • The exclusive privileges of corporations, statutes of apprenticeship, and all those laws which restrain, in particular employments, the competition to a smaller number than might otherwise go into them, have the same tendency, though in a less degree. They are a sort of enlarged monopolies,
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      See above
  • THE produce of labor constitutes the natural recompense or wages of labor.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      You get what you make
  • Such combinations, however, are frequently resisted by a contrary defensive combination of the workmen; who sometimes too, without any provocation of this kind, combine of their own accord to raise the price of their labor.....
  • Masters, too, sometimes enter into particular combinations to sink the wages of labor even below this rate
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Two combinations to react to one another. Like the checks and balances found in gov.
  • The demand for those who live by wages, therefore, necessarily increases with the increase of the revenue and stock of every country, and cannot possibly increase without it. The increase of revenue and stock is the increase of national wealth....
  • It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labor as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      equality in the pursuit of happiness
  • First, by restraining the competition in some employments to a smaller number than would otherwise be disposed to enter into them; Second, by increasing it in others beyond what it naturally would be; and, Third, by obstructing the free circulation of labor and stock, both from employment to employment and from place to place.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Problems of Mercantilism
  • First,
  • by restraining the competition in some employments to a smaller number than might otherwise be disposed to enter into them
  • and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbor is a plain violation of this most sacred property.
  • An exclusive corporation necessarily weakens the force of this discipline.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      the gov is not needed for regulation
  • Second,
  • by increasing the competition in some employments beyond what it naturally would be
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      pursuit of happiness
  • by obstructing the free circulation of labor and stock both from employment to employment, and from place to place,
  • Third,
  • Andrew DeWitt on 28 Sep 10
     
    Thanks for the annotations and the comments.
James Wilcox

Smith: Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 1 | Library of Economics and Liberty - 2 views

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  • Among the Tartars, as among all other nations of shepherds, who are generally ignorant of the use of money, cattle are the instruments of commerce and the measures of value
    • James Wilcox
      James Wilcox on 12 Oct 10
       
      That so interesting that cattle became the measure of money and wealth.  It seems that for something to be money it has to be able to come in large quantities, not have much difference between one to another, and carry a consistent value.
    • James Wilcox
      James Wilcox on 12 Oct 10
       
      This notion of a Gold or currency base stands so consistent that it is hard for us today to break away and have a purely digital or credit economy.  But ever so slowly we are getting there.
  • When those countries became commercial, the merchants found this prohibition, upon many occasions, extremely inconvenient. They could frequently buy more advantageously with gold and silver than with any other commodity the foreign goods which they wanted, either to import into their own, or to carry to some other foreign country. They remonstrated, therefore, against this prohibition as hurtful to trade.
    • James Wilcox
      James Wilcox on 12 Oct 10
       
      This principle of protectionism holds true today and is still argued about by growing economies.  Not so commonly with gold but with all different types of key commodities.
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  • They represented, secondly, that this prohibition could not hinder the exportation of gold and silver, which, on account of the smallness of their bulk in proportion to their value, could easily be smuggled abroad.*9 That this exportation could only be prevented by a proper attention to, what they called, the balance of trade
    • James Wilcox
      James Wilcox on 12 Oct 10
       
      I have heard this same argument for illegal drugs.  I have heard people say we should legalize it so that it can be tracked and limited in a legal manner.
  • hat wealth consists in money, or and silver, is a popular notion which naturally arises from the double function of money, as the instrument of commerce and as the measure of value. In consequence of its being the instrument of commerce, when we have money we can more readily obtain whatever else we have occasion for than by means of any other commodity. The great affair, we always find, is to get money. When that is obtained, there is no difficulty in making any subsequent purchase. In consequence of its being the measure of value, we estimate that of all other commodities by the quantity of money which they will exchange for. We say of a rich man that he is worth a great deal, and of a poor man that he is worth very little money. A frugal man, or a man eager to be rich, is said to love money; and a careless, a generous, or a profuse man, is said to be indifferent about it. To grow rich is to get money; and wealth and money, in short, are, in common language, considered as in every respect synonymous.
Katherine Chipman

Alsos:The Atomic Age: Historical Overview - 0 views

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  • scientists unraveled the structure of the atom, revealing the electron and proton. 
  • in 1938 fission of uranium atoms by neutrons was carried out in Germany. The energy associated with fission opened the possibility for powerful weapons and also the production of energy for civilian use.
  • The United Nations attempted to develop a policy for control of nuclear weapons, but the United States and the Soviet Union could not agree. This was but one component of the emerging Cold War between the two nations. Citizens of all nations saw the power of nuclear fission as massive threat as well as a source of useful energy for mankind.
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  • In 1963 the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty became the first agreement to control nuclear weapons.
  • The accidents at Three Mile Island in the United States (1979) and Chernobyl, in the Ukraine (1986) had adverse effects on the use of nuclear reactors for producing power
Morgan Wills

National Geographic Magazine - 0 views

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    Elegance. Simplicity. Intelligence.
Erin Hamson

The Frontier In American History: Chapter X - 0 views

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  • As the American pioneer passed on in advance of this new tide of European immigration, he found lands increasingly limited
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      The close of the Frontier
  • . But the captains of industry by applying squatter doctrines to the evolution of American industrial society, have made the process so clear that he who runs may read.
  • it seemed not impossible that the outcome of free competition under individualism was to be monopoly of the most important natural resources and processes by a limited group of men whose vast fortunes were so invested in allied and dependent industries that they constituted the dominating force in the industrial life of the nation
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      Unregulated turn of events, the people were turned loose and made the best of it. What is wrong with this? They set the standards, and there is no room for competition.
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  • Mr. Harriman
  • mastering the economic forces of the nation
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      According to Adam Smith and the free market economy theory, the people are the best regulators. This sounds like socialism...
  • The Granger and the Populist were prophets of this reform movement. Mr. Bryan's Democracy, Mr. Debs' Socialism, and Mr. Roosevelt's Republicanism all had in common the emphasis upon the need of governmental regulation of industrial tendencies in the interest of the common man
  • "the State University and the public school system which it crowns would be the strongest evidence of its fitness which it could offer."
  • "general system of education ascending in regular gradations from township schools to a State University, wherein tuition shall be gratis and equally open to all," expresses the Middle Western conception born in the days of pioneer society and doubtless deeply influenced by Jeffersonian democracy.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      applying pioneer principles of avaliability and indivdualism to education and other opportunities to suceed in life as presently constituted.
  • propaganda to induce students to continue
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      Want everyone to go to college to become their best individual self.
  • all under the ideal of service to democracy rather than of individual advancement alone
  • The times call for educated leaders.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      And have yet to cease to call for experienced leaders. Which is why we are all sitting here reading this, to become educated leaders.
  • The test tube and the microscope are needed rather than ax and rifle in this new ideal of conquest
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      influence of technology on life
  • It is hardly too much to say that the best hope of intelligent and principled progress in economic and social legislation and administration lies in the increasing influence of American universities.
  • able to think for themselves, governed Dot by ignorance, by prejudice or by impulse, but by knowledge and reason and high-mindedness,
  • The learning of the few is despotism; the learning of the many is liberty.
  • At first pioneer democracy had scant respect for the expert.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      individualism
  • That they may perform their work they must be left free, as the pioneer was free, to explore new regions and to report what they find; for like the pioneers they have the ideal of investigation, they seek new horizons.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      application of pioneer ideals
  • Thus it is the function of the university to reveal to the individual the mystery and the glory of life as a whole
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      opening the mind to new ideas and ideals
Gideon Burton

My activist Second Life - Red Pepper - 0 views

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cyberactivism

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  • Gideon Burton on 13 Oct 10
     
    Since 2006, the Second Life Left Unity (SLLU) has been involved in virtual activism and successfully ousted fascist group French Front National from Second Life
David Potter

Images of the American Revolution - 2 views

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government

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  • David Potter on 29 Sep 10
     
    This contains an article by the National Archive on the history of the American Revolution, followed by several images from the National Archive about the American Revolution.
Shaun Frenza

Communist Manifesto (Chapter 1) - 1 views

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  • holy alliance to exorcise
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Religious diction
  • All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Man is responsible for technology which is responsible for a fast paced world, which they don't like
  • It compels all nations, on pain of extinction,
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Japan
    • Shaun Frenza
      Shaun Frenza on 05 Oct 10
       
      Seems a little singular - is there a specific reason why you only say "Japan"
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  • The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Capitalism has taken over the world, and those that were slow to buy into the idealology are being left in the dust, and dependant on others, which they don't like.
  • Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Communists retaliate by not producing enough goods.
  • He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Paints these people as the suffers, clearly appealing to them to call for "equality"
  • Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois State; they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the overlooker, and, above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      In Communism all become slaves of the state and the state leaders, how is that better?
    • Shaun Frenza
      Shaun Frenza on 05 Oct 10
       
      Or they become the machine - They are not the slave, they are the mechanizm together... at least that is what they tell themselves.
  • All are instruments of labour, more or less expensive to use, according to their age and sex.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Conflicts with the MIT lesson, except for those that have to work. (in regard to females working) again an appeal to the working class people, who are the masses to revolt. This works less well in America because of the American dream and the possibility for change fostered by it.
  • At this stage, the labourers still form an incoherent mass scattered over the whole country, and broken up by their mutual competition.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Reminiscent of George Orwell's 1984, they hope lies in the masses of uncontrolled people
  • Thereupon, the workers begin to form combinations (Trades’ Unions) against the bourgeois; they club together in order to keep up the rate of wages; they found permanent associations in order to make provision beforehand for these occasional revolts. Here and there, the contest breaks out into riots.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      The working class fights back
  • so now a portion of the bourgeoisie goes over to the proletariat,
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      they aren't alone in their cause
  • The proletarian is without property; his relation to his wife and children has no longer anything in common with the bourgeois family relations;
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      The shear fact of having money and therefore time to spend with children brings these differences.
  • The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority.
  • Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Doesn't believe capitalism can survive.
    • Rhett Ferrin
      Rhett Ferrin on 05 Oct 10
       
      Wait, all these sound like good things. Is he saying its bad to have Toyotas? Is it bad to have bannanas in December?
  • rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.
    • Rhett Ferrin
      Rhett Ferrin on 05 Oct 10
       
      Can someone help me out here? Is he being sarcastic? He says capitalizm is bad then says that the bourgeoisie 'rescued' people from the 'idiocy of rural life' Thomas Jefferson thought the rural life was the ideal and to be sought after. I can't tell if Marx is for or against it.
  • By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labour
  • By proletariat, the class of modern wage labourers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labour power in order to live.
  • immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation
    • Shaun Frenza
      Shaun Frenza on 05 Oct 10
       
      Notice how we are in the same situation now as were were then - the facilitation of communication with the internet and how it shapes the world to become more homogenous.
Danny Patterson

Jean Bartik speaks with Google employees - 0 views

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  • Danny Patterson on 04 Nov 10
     
    Jean Jennings Bartik, one of the first computer programmers in the nation speaks to Google associates after saying that if she could choose to work anywhere she would pick Google.
Katherine Chipman

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  • Today, the world is attempting to control nuclear proliferation through diplomacy and treaties. In 1996, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty prohibited nations from using bombs for either military or research purposes. Forty-one states with nuclear capabilities have signed the treaty, but it cannot take effect until three more nations join. India, Pakistan, and North Korea are among the countries that have refused. Although the United States has signed the treaty, it has not ratified it yet.
Jeffrey Whitlock

Mobile Phones in Developing Countries Jerry Hausman, MIT First ... - 0 views

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economics mobile phones

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  • Jeffrey Whitlock on 17 Nov 10
     
    If you get the chance, you should really look into this paper on how Mobile Phones have penetrates and affected developing nations.
Gideon Burton

The digital age an age of stagnation? - 2 views

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future shock wired

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  • Gideon Burton on 22 May 12
     
    When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?
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  • Sean Watson on 23 May 12
     
    Fascinating article. Thanks for sharing this, Dr. Burton. Do you think it's because internet technologies are mainly looked at as entertainment sources and not utilized as educational, academic, and research empowering tools? Is there something about the facility of information that hampers one's creativity, kind of like the cat and mouse game of dating that heightens one's mojo? Or could it possibly just be the result of a nation that has become exhausted with the competitive level necessary to transform this into what it may become? Or finally, do you think it's just a matter of time like the economic historian, Paul David said?
  • Gideon Burton on 25 May 12
     
    I do think it is a matter of time. People fall into ruts, even with revolutionary technologies. But enough is happening to keep this sphere innovating on the large scale even if it appears same-old in the short term. Nice to hear from you, Sean.
  • Sean Watson on 26 May 12
     
    Very interesting! Nice to hear from you too, Dr. Burton.
Kristi Koerner

ScholarSearch - 0 views

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      Kristi Koerner on 16 Sep 10
       
      Open Government #3 by H. Perritt is an interesting view and explanation of open government.
    • Kristi Koerner
      Kristi Koerner on 16 Sep 10
       
      #9 From Dark to The Light: The open Government Debate in Britain. Good other nation perspective
Kevin Watson

Let Dialogue begin | openDemocracy - 0 views

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digiciv democracy open internet dialogue government media blog

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    • Kevin Watson
      Kevin Watson on 30 Sep 10
       
      Spot on! Technology really is changing the world, and the sharing of ideas all over it.
  • Globalization has shaped our era. Technology has minimized distances; ideas, values and news cross borders quicker than ever before. New definitions and complex debates over our identities as international and national citizens have arisen as a result. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. puts it: “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Shuan Pai

Curious Capitalist Blog - 1 views

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  • Shuan Pai on 28 Sep 10
     
    Time magazine blog on the nations economy state.
Danny Patterson

The concise encyclopedia of economics ADAM SMITH - 1 views

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The concise encyclopedia of economics Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations The invisible hand

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  • autumn gardner on 28 Sep 10
     
    i didn't know much about Adam Smith before this class. This is a good informative site.
anonymous

How The World Spends Its Time Online | - 3 views

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    • anonymous
      anonymous on 27 Sep 10
       
      I love the graphics on this page. I think I gained a substantial amount of info in bout 2 minutes by just glancing through.
    • autumn gardner
      autumn gardner on 28 Sep 10
       
      to me it's too much. we are spending our lives online in a world that can be valuable, but most of the time is not. it is so hard to balance time online with time doing other productive things. So much of our lives requires us to be on the computer, ugh.
  • Gideon Burton on 27 Sep 10
     
    I'm as interested by the host site for this graphic (visualeconomics.com) as I am the information it reveals about how we spend time online.
  • Andrew DeWitt on 27 Sep 10
     
    So, this begs the question... are we spending too much time on the Internet, too little? Or are we using our time online poorly or wisely? (We - personally, nationally, globally).
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