Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: June 2009

Jacob Lawrence, "Struggle...From the History of the American People No. 19" (1956) — Jacob Lawrence, Struggle...From the History of the American People No. 19. Thousands of American citizens have been torn from their country and from everything dear to them: they have been dragged on board ships of war of a foreign nation. —Madison, 1 June 1812 (1956)

Workbook: June, 2009

June 30, 2009: It's like walking under water.
June 29, 2009: Booted.
June 28, 2009: She thinks it's possible for a country to "go Marxist".
June 27, 2009: I felt so much better after he left.
June 26, 2009: Afraid of each other.
June 25, 2009: Fortune cookie: "Whatever you do, make it fun."
June 24, 2009: When proponents of so-called Intelligent Design argue that the world is so marvelously adapted to human beings, their logic is upside down.
June 23, 2009: When proponents of so-called Intelligent Design argue that complexity indicates design, their logic is upside down.
June 22, 2009: From the point of view of the individual socialist who wants to 'do something', we would summarize our suggestion as follows:
June 21, 2009: "Debate" over global warming as displaced discussion of Capitalism.
June 20, 2009: Chair, cigarettes, television, cat.
June 19, 2009: Jigsaw puzzles.
June 18, 2009: Working group of junior technologists.
June 17, 2009: Junior technologist, uncomfortable with the "junior" designation.
June 16, 2009: Mafia culture.
June 15, 2009: The most feeble vision of job security.
June 14, 2009: Patronage culture.
June 13, 2009: The Bolsheviks failed to smash the state. Instead, they fused with it.
June 12, 2009: The Third International mythologized the history and practice of the Bolshevik group.
June 11, 2009: Draper and Althusser.
June 10, 2009: Lenin's strategy driving the creation of Third International parties went more or less like this.
June 9, 2009: Exodus.
June 8, 2009: The techies are sad.
June 7, 2009: But note the teleology implied by the definition of vanguard.
June 6, 2009: While time is the central category in Marx's thought, unevenness is the core of Lenin's.
June 5, 2009: Althusser makes possible for the first time a non-subjective history of ideas.
June 4, 2009: Karl Marx is the great philosopher of Time and Freedom.
June 3, 2009: Mr. Counselor.
June 2, 2009: His feet on the desk.
June 1, 2009: You were a long, cool glass of water.