Capitalist

En Jon Kepa el 2009.05.26

Workers from the nearby town of Écija worked at the farming cooperative in Marinaleda, a Communist enclave of 2,700 people. MARINALEDA, Spain ? The people of this small Andalusian town have never been shy about their political convictions. Since they occupied the estate of a local aristocrat in the 1980s, they and their fiery mayor, Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo, have been synonymous in Spain with a dogged struggle for the rural poor. Now that Spain?s real estate bust is fueling rampant...

En Governance Focus el 2009.05.26

Chinese professionals are seeking moral grounding, and finding it in traditional values Chinese professionals in Shanghai and Beijing are concerned about the financial disaster that has spread from New York and London throughout the world. They read the Western press that blames both individual executive greed and false belief in the inherent self-control of the capitalist market system; they worry about their own real estate values dropping; they question Adam Smith's notion of the invisible hand of...

En JuanMapu el 2009.05.19

It took me around a while but I finally went throughout 8 essays from Portuguese sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos. Sociology is boring and difficult to read, but still de Sousa Santos is a highly recommended reading. It should be in your bookshelves my fellow comrades. Active in the Social World Forum, de Sousa Santos outlines a series of alternatives to approach a more inclusive world, far from the capitalist practices and social fascisms of the liberal democracy. Through concepts like ecology...

En Young Guns el 2009.05.17

Ellos son Otep y "Confrontation".Don't Be.....Silent.FIGHT.(violence, mêlées, & disturbances of the peace)Here's your introduction to destruction& the hate sustaining meAre we safer or in danger?Drowning in atrocities?Riot gear, the slaves are herePiling corpses highIts the rich man's warBut its the poor that fightMore capitalist crimes,More enemies than alliesNo WMD's - who gives a...

En Holismo Planetario en la Web el 2009.05.06

Illustration by Hanoch Piven for FP Thoroughly Modern Marx By Leo Panitch May/June 2009 Lights. Camera. Action. Das Kapital. Now. he economic crisis has spawned a resurgence of interest in Karl Marx. Worldwide sales of Das Kapital have shot up (one lone German publisher sold thousands of copies in 2008, compared with 100 the year before), a measure of a crisis so broad in scope and devastation that it has global capitalism?and its high priests?in an ideological tailspin. Yet even as faith in...

En venepoetics el 2009.05.05

New Socialism, Eco-Politics and Radical Critique ?Living their death, dying their life? (Heraclitus) The modernity-postmodernity debate crosses the possibility of rethinking and renovating socialist principles, transforming the landscape of the vocabulary of progress, modernization and development. New socialism entails escaping the traps of developmentalism. The socialist imaginary is living through a profound deconstruction of its foundations [desfundamentación], which impedes us from thinking...

En humano sin sentido el 2009.05.01

NW - You would feel most at home in the Northwest region. You advocate a large degree of economic and personal freedom. Your neighbors include folks like Ayn Rand, Jesse Ventura, Milton Friedman, and Drew Carey, and may refer to themselves as "classical liberals," "libertarians," "market liberals," "old whigs," "objectivists," "propertarians," "agorists," or...

En Miguel Ángel Santos el 2009.04.29

In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding among its actors and overseers of either its advantages or its hazards. Ignorance of what it can contribute has in the past led some countries to throw out the system or clip its wings. Ignor­ance of the hazards has made imprudence in markets and policy neglect all the more likely. Regaining a well-functioning capitalism will require re-education and deep reform. Capitalism is not the ?free market?...

En Colombian Metal Band el 2009.04.29

Consigue Flash ahora. Para poder escuchar o ver este contenido, tienes que actualizar tu versión de Flash. Nada mas terrible para los hombres y para los pueblos, que no tener rostro, no tener imagen, no tener esa parte tan importante que nos define, que nos caracteriza, que nos permite identificarnos y nos da un sello distintivo ante los hombres y los demas pueblos" Antonio Grass. Formed in 2003 by sick melomaniacs. The members of the band are: OSCAR NITOR, CARLOS PIÑEROS, CHRISTIAN...

En Tecnología y negocios el 2009.04.23

En el blog A VC (un capitalista de riesgo), el día de hoy su autor Fred Wilson, aplaude la iniciativa de SecondMarket, una empresa que tiene por objetivo ayudar a vender acciones de empresas Startup. Hasta el presente sólo había dos formas de poder salir de una inversión en una Startup para un inversionista de capitales de riesgo (Venture Capitalist), una es vender toda la empresa a otro inversionista que desee asumir el reto, o ir a una oferta pública de acciones a la...

En Ideas Libérrimas el 2009.04.19

By most measures, Nicolas Sarkozy ought to be having a good recession. Long before the crash came, the French president had called for an end to capitalist excess, appeals that were mocked at the time but now seem prescient. Tighter bank regulation and a more interventionist state à la française are both back in vogue. The government has not (yet) had to rescue any big French bank. French people are not personally much in debt. True, France?s economy has been battered, but less so than most...

En El alma es la carcel del cuerpo el 2009.04.07

Para aquellos interesados en conocer más sobre Carlos Octavio Bunge, uno de los sociólogos positivistas argentinos de principios de siglo, les dejo un artículo de mi autoría que analiza críticamente la obra de este verdadero ?arquitecto de la argentinidad?. Sociología positivista y argentinidad en el discurso de Carlos Octavio Bunge (1875-1918) por Luis García Fanlo. Resumen El artículo presenta el marco conceptual utilizado por el autor en su Tesis...

En MOLESKINE el 2009.04.07

Carátula de la novela. Fuente: labloga La cubana Achy Obejas asumió la muy peliaguda misión de traducir al castellano la verbalmente compleja novela de Junot Díaz, La maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao. Y si no falló en el intento es porque ella también es escritora, como lo prueba la publicación de Ruins (Akashic Books), ubicada en el llamado "periodo especial" en Cuba que tanta literatura ha dado, y que tan positivamente ha sido reseñada este...

En rsstopnews.net el 2009.04.01

Venture capitalist Scott Murphy (D) will win the special election in New York's 20th district by 210 votes after all outstanding absentee and...

En DiloYa! el 2009.03.31

Google vive de la innovación y no siempre la innovación parte de dentro de la empresa. Google tiene productos muy buenos que han partido de adquisiciones, como Google Earth y Panoramio (que casualmente fue creada por españoles). Y si la crisis financiera está afectando a alguien es a los emprendedores que necesitan financiación para llevar adelante sus proyectos. Los riesgos que se asumen son muy altos y hoy por hoy la adversión al riesgo es tremenda. Por ello,...

En Videos Musicales Youtube el 2009.03.28

Letra de la Cancion One (Alanis Morissette) I am the biggest hypocrite I’ve been undeniably jealous I have been loud and pretentious I have been utterly threatened I’ve gotten candy for my self-interest the sexy treadmill capitalist heaven forbid I be criticized heaven forbid I be ignored I have abused my power forgive me you mean we actually are all one one one one one one one one I?ve been out of reach and separatist heaven forbid average (whatever average means) I have been compensated...

En Banks of UK el 2009.03.28

Telegraph.co.ukMervyn King has calmly cancelled Gordon Brown's credit cardTelegraph.co.ukLong before the first anti-capitalist protester descende...

En El Republicano el 2009.03.26

Dos periodistas que acompañaban al equipo de béisbol se quedan en California Esta vez no se trató de deportistas, como es habitual. Los últimos cubanos que han desertado de la isla petenecen a la delegación que participó en el Clásico Mundial de béisbol, finalizado ayer en Los Ángeles, tras disputarse las primeras fases en Miami y San Diego. Se trata de dos periodistas elevados a la categoría de estrellas simplemente por el momento y el...