Do we really have to work more creatively?

From: Arena Journal | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: Magee, Paul | Copyright information

... did not Marx's own son-in-law write a book called The Right to be Lazy? Fredric Jameson

A Moribund Left

To say the Left is in crisis is not only a cliche, it is an unwarranted optimism. Crisis implies the necessity, and thereby also the possibility, of decisive action and change. I think it would be far truer to say the Left is in a state of paralysis. It has nowhere to go, no way to take. Since the fall of 'actually existing socialism', the possibility o...

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