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The power of money
In all such cases, whatever may be the form of existence of this additional money-capital, it represents, so far as it is capital in spe, nothing but…
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Who are the Proletariat?
Working class? Middle class? Ruling class?
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The letter to Vera Zasulich
Is there a non-capitalist road to socialism?
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Marxism's second biggest idea
Understanding base and superstructure
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On theories that don’t matter
If they're true, they're not even false
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A bad attack of physics envy
Introduction Anyone who has witnessed even a single episode of the majestic science documentary, The Big Bang Theory, will readily acknow­ledge the…
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Intelligent Design – So what?
Non-sequiturs on a cosmic scale
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Who is Donald Trump?
The worst human being ever to hold the US Presidency
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Is human evolution over?
How society overcomes evolution
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Environmental justice? I doubt it.
A persistent theme in much writing about the coming decades is the need for global agreements that go a good deal further than the technical questions…
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Return on investment: it doesn’t add up
Why capital is so bad at helping the environment
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Should we save industrial civilisation?
or, How to completely miss the point.
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Who are the wealth creators?
Debunking economic myth no.1
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The Shape of History
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