Piketty for Progressives
September 16, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Part 3 of Thomas Riggins's analysis of Thomas Piketty's book - Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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Piketty for Progressives
September 2, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts Part 2 of Thomas Riggins's analysis of Thomas Piketty's book - Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Piketty for Progressives
August 16, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts Part 1 of Thomas Riggins's analysis of Thomas Piketty's book - Introduction to Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Reading Lenin: Materialism and Empirio-Criticism Thomas Riggins
August 9, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Thomas Riggins talks us though the rest of Chapter 4 of Lenin's book Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
Lenin on the State and Revolution: The Paris Commune (1871)
August 5, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Thomas Riggins reviews Chapter IV of Lenin's State and Revolution (1917)
Piketty, The Wall Street Journal, and Rational Conservatives
June 16, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Thomas Piketty's book, Capital in the 21st Century, has almost had the effect of a tsunami on economic thinking in the United States, writes Thomas Riggins
Review: VJ McGill on Russell’s Critique of Marxism
June 11, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In the "The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell" volume in the Library of Living Philosophers (1944) VJ McGill (1897-1977) published a detailed critique of Russell's political and economic philosophy
Lenin on State and Revolution: The Paris Commune (1871) – Replacing the Bourgeois State
May 12, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts The form of state prevalent in the developed capitalist world at the time of the Commune was a state that functioned to support the bourgeoisie in its war against the working class
Lenin on the Paris Commune (1871): An Heroic Uprising
April 4, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts Thomas Riggins discusses Lenin's take on the Paris Commune
New York City Settles Fire Department Discrimination Case
April 2, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
New York City settlement of fire department discrimination is a blow against racism but panned by ultra-right New York Post