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Ageism and the Status of Youth
The modern conception of youth as well as the contemporary treatment of young people are socially conditioned as much as they are determined by biological fact. Although not generally understood as a structure of oppression and exploitation, young people in most societies of the world are compelled to work for less money, sometimes no money, or confined to menial jobs and increasingly irrelevant educations. In the United States, there are more young people working for fast food industry then there are coal miners.
Response to Antonio Negri
Eurocentrism and Civil Society
Idealization of European forms of civil society has prevented Western comprehension of social and political development in other societies. Conceptions of superiority and universal applicability fuel the West’s appetite to universalize its form of “democracy” and “freedom.”
Universal Grammar of Insurgencies
The Commune: Freedom’s Phenomenological Form
Unpacking my Library
Ibn Khaldun: Dialectical Philosopher
Eros and Revolution
In his later work, Marcuse concerned himself with the nexus between social movements and unconscious dimensions of human nature. He understood Nature (including instincts) as an “ally” in the revolutionary process. In this paper, I seek to explore his insight through the concept of the "eros effect,"
The Necessity of Autonomy
Rethinking Huntington’s Third Wave
Herbert Marcuse as an Activist
The System is the Problem
Peter Kropotkin and People’s Uprisings:From the Paris Commune to Gwangju
The Real Axis of Evil
Coexistence with Islamic Fundamentalism?
In Defense of Picasso
Latent Universal in Identity Politics
The Relationship of Liberalism and Imperialism (1990)
The Eros Effect (1989)
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