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 Militant Tendency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Militant Tendency was a Trotskyist faction within the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, accused of entryist tactics.
Although, as Marxists they did not really share the same analysis of much of the rest of the Labour Party, they were a visible component of that coalition.
Many Labour figures saw the Militant tendency as a primary reason for their "loony left" image, as portrayed by the right-wing press, although most of the councils attacked as 'loony' were in fact influenced by the soft-left ideas of Tribune.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Militant_Tendency   (1191 words)

  
 Economics
The limits of rationality have been the subject of intense study, for example Herbert Simon's model for "bounded rationality", which was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1978.
The Marxist paradigm of economics is not generally held in high regard by market economists, though some concepts from his work are occasionally used in mainstream contexts, particularly in labor economics and in political economy.
The older term is still often used instead of economics, especially by radical economists such as Marxists who strongly question assumptions of "mainstream" technical and quantitative economics.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/e/ec/economics_1.html   (4799 words)

  
 Bakhtin Circle [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
This might include Hegel's tendency to view the particular incident as meaningful only as an instance of the unfolding of reason, Husserl's sublation of inter-subjective relations in transcendental subjectivity or the positivistic assumption that categorisation of a phenomenon is sufficient to explain that phenomenon.
Marxist criticism, he argued, should value Formalism as an object of serious criticism through which the bases of the former can be clarified.
This can be seen in the tendency to see social groups as collective subjects rather than institutionally defined collectives and such assertions as those which suggest the meaning of a word is 'totally determined' by its context.
www.iep.utm.edu /b/bakhtin.htm   (8222 words)

  
 The anarchist economical-political map
Marxist collectivism close to the anarchist left; social democracy close to the middle, and the more statist and authoritarian socialist left and state communism (leninism) located at the left corner and down, close to fascism, respectively.
Marxist semi-libertarian collectivism close to the anarchist left; social democracy close to the middle, and the more statist and authoritarian socialist left and state communism (leninism and similar) located at the left corner and down, close to fascism, respectively.
Thus, doing away with the existing rule or tendencies of authority may easily result in ochlarchy, mob rule, and not anarchy, if not a firm horizontal social organization, ideally or practically is established with a sufficient police corps to create security and libertarian law and order and to do away with tendencies towards ochlarchy.
www.anarchy.no /a_e_p_m.html   (14951 words)

  
 The Verdict: A Shameless Frame-up!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The signers of the following statement represent a rather wide range of tendencies in the left.
Some belong to no organized formation but are strong advocates of free and honest dialogue among working-class organizations and are veteran battlers against the introduction of frame-up methods.
James Robertson (for the International Executive Committee of the International Spartacist Tendency)
www.marxists.org /history/etol/document/swp-us/verdict.htm   (810 words)

  
 Europe and the Post-Modern Left
In particular, Marxists in academia, in European political parties and in power are not isolated, rootless entities.
Indeed, modern Radical Marxists - with their race and gender class theories and their rejection of "white male rationalism" - are closer in spirit to Rousseau than Marx himself.
In other words, even if they are right in their attempt to make nonsense of language (and the critiques of Derrida on this point have been blisteringly effective) the Post-Modern Deconstructionists offer nothing to the great mass of humanity except the prospect of kissing Derrida's feet as "the prophet" of a new age.
www.wildmonk.net   (7397 words)

  
 JAH Roundtable   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The term "power interest" may be appropriate when it refers to rights of a state in international law, since a state should defend its interest with its own power.
As for the reception of the document in Japan, I may conclude that this historic document has completed its political and spiritual role in this country, having successfully transferred its basic ideas to the Japanese Constitution.
Tadashi Aruga is professor of international studies at Dokkyo University, Saitama, Japan.
www.chnm.gmu.edu /declaration/japanese/aruga2.html   (9917 words)

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