Readers’ Views: July-August 2021, part two

July 5, 2021

Readers’ Views on Covid-19 in Prisons; Labor and Capitalism; Weeds and Flowers; Censorship; Politics of Snitching, and Voices from Behind Bars.

A different me from 20 years ago

November 17, 2019

A prisoner thinks through how she will approach life after prison.

DISCUSSION ARTICLE: Was Marx a materialist?
Many post-Marx Marxists have painted Marx as a materialist. While no one denies the aspects of Marx that are materialistic, to call his philosophy materialist is as accurate as calling ...
Attacking abortion rights undermines democracy
The raging attack on abortion rights is an attack on freedom by fascist leaders and their followers who want to undermine democracy and save a decrepit, unworkable, exploitative, racist-patriarchal capitalism.
Philosophic Essay: Marx’s demystified dialectic and the “new society”
Ours is an age of total crises and pervasive angst about humanity’s future. Marx’s recreation of Hegel’s freedom Idea, a humanism that is directly part of life and nature, is ...