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'The Karl Marx Society'
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Posted 07/19/07 - 01:45 AM:
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My name is Sal and I aim to encourage everybody to please kindly help and support me with any information towards the development of 'The Karl Marx Society'. However, the reason for creating 'The Karl Marx Society' is because after writing to other related websites and institutions, it has left me exhausted and frustrated that no one ever replies. For this reason, I have taken the task to proceed towards creating a new innovative method for those who have been in the same situation as myself. As a result, 'The Karl Marx Society' will be a dedicated society for gathering literature, also it will focus on issues concerning politics, philosophy, sociology etc. The advantage of having such a society will also contribute towards the collection of all political philosophy as a discipline in one complete centre or a body, for those who are students or generally interested in partaking in discussions with Marx in mind. Furthermore, in the future 'The Karl Marx Society' will host open seminars and debates including a reading list, incorporating with Universities and other political institutions. Also, creating a rapid system of response for those who seek information or just answers on FAQs.
I sincerely hope that everybody will understand that I am very enthusiastic and I really do need some help and contribution to create 'The Karl Marx Society'. Thus, once again please do log.in and help to create something NEW or lets open up a debate, such as if it is in any interest to create such as society.

SAL.

Edited by Capital on 07/21/07 - 03:45 AM. Reason: spelling!
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Posted 07/21/07 - 02:46 PM:
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Don't know if this will help you but this is a good site to get Marx files.
http://www.appstate.edu/~stanovskydj/marxfiles.html

Also have a question I'm new to the study of Marx and communism and it seems that one of the flaws of communism is that people tend not to take good care of things considered public property or lack pride in their work. Is there any remedy for this? Can a adequate reward system be put in place for societal contribution , care and maintenance of public property or does such a system already exist?

Thanks Todd
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Posted 07/23/07 - 03:02 PM:
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I am not necessarily interested in your society, but I am curious to know if it is Marxist or simply historical. Which is it?
"You say there are no absolutes... are you absolutely sure?"
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Posted 07/23/07 - 04:40 PM:
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teczob wrote:
Also have a question I'm new to the study of Marx and communism and it seems that one of the flaws of communism is that people tend not to take good care of things considered public property or lack pride in their work. Is there any remedy for this? Can a adequate reward system be put in place for societal contribution , care and maintenance of public property or does such a system already exist?

Thanks Todd


I think it's called capitalism grin
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Posted 07/24/07 - 03:44 AM:
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I am not necessarily interested in your society, but I am curious to know if it is Marxist or simply historical. Which is it?

Dear, viewer.
Historical, yes that is if one is looking for a Maxist interpretation of material development of human history. For example, human evolved historically because they in each nation understood the manipulation of material differently. However, please, do keep cheking and may be one day you will be interested in 'The Karl Marx Society'.
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Posted 07/24/07 - 04:14 AM:
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Here is a quote from TROTSKY, A DOCUMENTARY by Francis Wyndham and David King. Published by Penguin Books 1972.
Testament.
"For fourty three years of my conscious life I have remained a revolutionist; for forty two of them I have fought under the banner of Marxism. If i had to begin all over again I would of course try to avoid this or that mistake, but the main course of my life would remain unchanged. I shall die a proletarian revolutionsist, a Marxist, a dialectical materialist and consequently, an irreconcilable athiest. My faith in the communist future of mankind is not less ardent, indeed it is firmer today, than it was in the days of my youth".
'Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright geer strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence and enjoy it to the full'.

Now than everybody lets hear your views and interpretations of this quote.

SAL.
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AIMS and OBJECTIVES of 'THE KARL MARX SOCIETY'.

THE AIMS.
1. To examine philosophical techniques and arguments through looking at the problem of Capitalism, Communism, Different types of Government, Politics, Philosophy etc.
2. To discuss (a) the solution to these problems provided by Marx and (b) a modern solution to this problem.

OBJECTIVES.

1. Understand the problems of civilisation and see how politics is the appropriate subject to solve it.
2. Develop an argument, in form of premises and a conclusion 'For and Against' Communism.
3. Illustrate Marx's solution to the problem of Capitalism etc and the crucial steps of Marx's interpretations of his solution.
4. Understand why Marx draws a link between the way people are governed (Labour or Hands) and their individual virtue (Superstructure) and form an opinion on this link.
5. Describe the method that Marx favours for discovering the 'Proletariat'etc.
6. State and discuss various views why some nations have taken Marx's politics as being an argument for change.
7. Provide a defence for Communism as an alternative to e.g. Democracy as a solution to the problem of how to legitamise society.
8. Demonstrate how communism does preserve some sense of Marx's demand that the people govern themselves e.g. redistribution of wealth.

'THE KARL MARX SOCIETY'. FUTURE.

1. Cooperation, Seminars, Debates etc with Univerities.
2. Support students and promote Marx.
3. Create a reading list, 'For and Against' Communism.
4. Work towards opening an officail wesite.

sal.
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Posted 10/11/07 - 03:18 AM:
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Capital wrote:
AIMS and OBJECTIVES of 'THE KARL MARX SOCIETY'.

THE AIMS.
1. To examine philosophical techniques and arguments through looking at the problem of Capitalism, Communism, Different types of Government, Politics, Philosophy etc.
2. To discuss (a) the solution to these problems provided by Marx and (b) a modern solution to this problem.

OBJECTIVES.

1. Understand the problems of civilisation and see how politics is the appropriate subject to solve it.
2. Develop an argument, in form of premises and a conclusion 'For and Against' Communism.
3. Illustrate Marx's solution to the problem of Capitalism etc and the crucial steps of Marx's interpretations of his solution.
4. Understand why Marx draws a link between the way people are governed (Labour or Hands) and their individual virtue (Superstructure) and form an opinion on this link.
5. Describe the method that Marx favours for discovering the 'Proletariat'etc.
6. State and discuss various views why some nations have taken Marx's politics as being an argument for change.
7. Provide a defence for Communism as an alternative to e.g. Democracy as a solution to the problem of how to legitamise society.
8. Demonstrate how communism does preserve some sense of Marx's demand that the people govern themselves e.g. redistribution of wealth.

'THE KARL MARX SOCIETY'. FUTURE.

1. Cooperation, Seminars, Debates etc with Univerities.
2. Support students and promote Marx.
3. Create a reading list, 'For and Against' Communism.
4. Work towards opening an officail wesite.

sal.

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Posted 10/11/07 - 03:22 AM:
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KneeGrow wrote:
I am not necessarily interested in your society, but I am curious to know if it is Marxist or simply historical. Which is it?

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Posted 10/11/07 - 04:12 AM:
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teczob wrote:
Also have a question I'm new to the study of Marx and communism and it seems that one of the flaws of communism is that people tend not to take good care of things considered public property or lack pride in their work. Is there any remedy for this? Can a adequate reward system be put in place for societal contribution , care and maintenance of public property or does such a system already exist?

If we think of the Soviet Union, we see not a communist society as imagined by Marx and Engels, but a permanent dictatorship of the proletariat (and that is being generous). People tend to put pride in their work regardless of economic incentive, but the communist state is supposed to provide incentives because of the memory that people and society as a whole has about just how bad capitalism is. The dictatorship of the proletariat lasts long enough to ensure that capitalists do not mount a counter-revolutionary rebellion and then it relinquishes power to some new political system. Marx and Engels seemed to take the position that they could not imagine what would follow the post-dictatorship because human psychology would be much different at that period.
"Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive nature of things." - KM, V, P and P

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"…Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and science leads you to killing people." -Ben Stein [This is included for the irony.]
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