Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XV
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[4] Preceding this chapter the Introduction would supply it on Owen (myself: and perhaps in the conclusion).
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This book is supposed to be about freedom. The way this book is written, freedom is a desid-eratum, the absence of which is a criticism of society. Owen himself didn’t think he needs free-dom at all. That is a fact. Under freedom of the individual, that he has the freedom to starve. Owen introduced this term.
Owen himself had to introduce the discipline of hunger in [5] the Village of Union – the inden-tured debtor of a worker who can’t leave. We must go into this. We must limit the points that we make.
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[6] We must be careful about the Builders Guild which was a tremendous movement but failed forever in England. However it continuer in France. All the small contractors said that they could supply the labour and material and make a contract to obtain the capital on a piece-meal basis. We should say more about this idea of the old world and new world existing side-by-side. Also, we must find the right place for socialism. We can only do this if there is an overall idea. It doesn’t matter if the chapter become longer.
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"Freedom and Technology" - General Comments (5)
Trade and Market in the Early Empires (4)
The Market
Interdisciplinary Project (4)
Sartre and Camus (3)
Paul Schweitzer
Notes
The New Philosophy
K.P. Personal (4)
Socialism
Religion and Capitalism
Economic Motives
Russia (3)
[46] P. thinks that the rehabilitation of Trotsky is the question which is prerequisite to moral sanity and recuperation in Russia.
P. thought that Trotsky openly conspired with the Germans.
They have already rehabilitated Tukhachevsky. Here Stalin was involved and the story is that the Nazi ambassador trapped him and produced false documents against Tukhachevsky which Stalin needed.
Stalin was a person of very shaky morality. The same thing happened previously to Blucher (1939)↑
Iron Curtain Literature
The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
"Psychology and Ideology" (2)
P. worked hard in New York on the sociology paper with Terry[1]. It is a real sociology of ideology and has much relevance to institutional sociology.[2] ↑