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Ultimately the blame lies not with Apple and other electronics companies – but with us, the consumers. And ultimately we are the ones who must demand change.
~ Apple hit by boycott call over worker abuses in China | Technology | The Observer -
“A new infographic posted on the Dangerous Minds blog shows some striking differences between the Occupy movement and the Tea Party. The movement is younger, more politically independent, less wealthy and, unfortunately for all of the folks crying laziness, MORE EMPLOYED.’
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C’est ce point clé de l’écologie politique qui effraie tant M. Bruckner – et les Ferry et Allègre de tout poil : pour résoudre la crise écologique, il faut résoudre la question sociale. Et la question sociale, aujourd’hui, c’est une inégalité devenue insupportable, tant au sein des sociétés qu’à l’échelle du globe.
~ Réponse à Pascal Bruckner : oui, il faudra reprendre aux riches | Rue89 Planète -
The Occupy Jakarta group comprises university lecturers, non-government organisation activists and people working in the arts. They expressed the view that Indonesia has unknowingly been coopted by capitalist economic ideas like the US. According to the protesters, capitalism has derailed the course of national development as mandated by the 1945 Constitution and has created sharp disparities between owners of capital and the working class or the majority of ordinary people.
~ [Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières] Occupy Indonesia has started and continues -
Those protesting in New York have been circulating a list of grievances, most of which are aimed at corporations that they say are too powerful and often unethical. Among the complaints: bank executives received “exorbitant” bonuses not long after receiving taxpayer bailouts and companies have “poisoned the food supply through negligence” and “continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate better pay and safer working conditions.
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What was ‘historic’ social democracy about? It was a reformist force which accepted capitalism on the condition that it be regulated by the state. Its ethos was egalitarian and it aimed to achieve social justice and economic redistribution through an interventionist state in socio-economic areas. Social democracy possessed two other essential features: a strong working-class base and a close relationship (and in some cases, solid organic links) with trade-union organisations. A number of political scientists have argued that what constituted the originality of social democracy was less a set of policies (e.g. Keynesianism) than its proximity with the working classes and a specific cultural and partisan tradition (party organisation, activism).
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~ Une note de lecture de Jacques Van Rillaer - Le blog de Michel OnfrayPlotkin commence par examiner les conditions de réception du freudisme en Argentine. Avant l’introduction de l’analyse freudienne, les Argentins se passionnaient déjà pour les rêves, l’hypnose, les questions sexuelles et la psychothérapie. Le freudisme leur est apparu comme la réponse « scientifique » et moderne à ces intérêts. Les psychiatres l’ont adopté sans beaucoup de réticences.
Plotkin présente ensuite l’histoire du Mouvement psychanalytique argentin. La première association a été créée en 1939 par Juan Beltran, professeur à l’Académie militaire et à l’Université de Buenos Aires. Beltran était « proche de la droite catholique et des groupes militaires antidémocratiques. […] Il considérait la psychanalyse comme un outil éducatif destiné à maintenir l’ordre social » (p. 63s).
