Constructive Criticism

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Jun 1, 2023
To face the coming climate crisis, a new vision and a new spirituality
The following is a translation of an article from Caminos (A Cuban journal of socio-theological thought). It was written by José María Vigil, Spanish-Nicaraguan liberation-theologian. Seeing: The climate …
May 30, 2023
Cuba’s Struggle for the Full Dignity of the Human Being
Housing and the Cuban Revolution “In the first three years of the revolution, 1959-61, all measures were taken to disarticulate the capitalist system at its base.” This is how Zuleica Romay Guerra …
May 18, 2023
Jewishness Abstractly and Concretely
This is a follow-up to the post “Class and Race”. This post gives an example of the way ethnic groups can serve as particular instantiations of historical roles which occur abstractly. Because I am …
May 18, 2023
Will Socialism End Racism?
This is a follow-up to the post “Class and Race”. There is a common, overly-simplistic argument sometimes put forward by Marxists that “socialism” will necessarily entail the …
May 18, 2023
Class and Race
This post has two follow-up posts: “Will Socialism End Racism?” and “Jewishness Abstractly and Concretely”. A friend asked me the others if I believe in the Marxist idea of class above …