Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XXII
Shaw (5)
[2] P. thinks that the Shaw chapter should lead up to the postulate of the reform of human consciousness. That is what the chapter would be based on. It would be at the end and perhaps this could only be done by a poet who was 100 years old.
The Shavian consciousness is based on the consciousness of the reality of the society. One would have to watch out for the Eastern philosophy (The Simpleton of the U.I.)
Shaw wanted us to know that he had taken his wisdom from Marx. Is that so? He wasn't a believer in democracy. […]
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Shaw's anti-democracy may be a step towards the reality of society [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22]
Paul Medow (2)
[23] Paul has used Schumpeter's second chapter of his theory of economic development and applied it to two neo-mercantilist countries, Japan and Russia.
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In ethics he wants to use Fromm's and P.'s position on the market and in economics he wants to establish Schumpeter.
[…] A.F. Burns in the Rockefeller report uses Schumpetarian economics … […]
[24] … Adam Smith … Mandeville, the becs, [25] [26] [27]
Freedom and Technology (6)
[28] One is thrown back on the reality of society. Both the freedom question and the technological question involve the question of what is society.
The reality of it runs over the recognition that we cannot contract out. […]
Jaspers gives support to the idea of our civilization being technological but doesn't link to the freedom.
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Marx (5)
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Robert Owen (7)
One cannot overlook the Gotha program affair. M.P. has an article in Encounter and it is on the Gotha program - the distinction of communism and socialism and the transition. The whole is Owenite and is of the greatest interest.
The discovery was overlooked that it was his thoughts that determined the ideology and program of the social democratic world and passed into communism and made a realistic idea. That was the transition to socialism for society as a whole and secondly that the success would hinge on that part which was socialized. That hinges on the Villages of Union. Nobody thought of this meaning of it and this must be said.
We attach a very great importance to this idea. It is one of the idea that was most fruitful in the history of socialism. It completely contradicts the discussion of Owen as a Utopian.
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Interdisciplinary Project (9)
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Metaphysics of Everyday Life (2)
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Comments on my "Not by Organization Alone", Draft #4
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Notes
"The Capitalist Manifesto" (2)
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Absolutes
Adam Smith
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