March 2011 ~ Permanent Revolution

Left Forum presentations: 'Socialism and Happiness', 'Marx, Freud and Alienation'

Alex SteinerMarch 28, 2011 No comments

If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here If the audio player is not visible click here to download the audio of part one of Frank Brenner's presentation, titled "Socialism and Happiness", at the 'Permanent Revolution' panel at the Left Forum given on Saturday, March 19, 2011. George...

Insults and intimidation: an SEP 'intervention' at the Left Forum

Alex SteinerMarch 26, 2011 6 comments

by Frank Brenner This website sponsored a lively and successful panel at this year's Left Forum in New York City on the subject of utopia, psychoanalysis and the Marxist theory of human nature. An audience of 40 or more, including a dozen or so university students as well as activists and progressives heard four talks –...

Some reflections on the revolution in Egypt

Alex SteinerMarch 01, 2011 1 comment

by Frank Brenner Tahrir Square Egypt In Egypt the archaeologists are on strike. So are a great many other workers. Revolution is about speed – in 18 days a 30-year-old dictatorship collapses. But it's also about turning the world upside down – or from the standpoint of human freedom, right side up. And when you do...