The Old and the New – Eugene Onegin
The old and the new – Eugene Onegin May be the arrangement yesterday at the Bavarian Stateopera had been occasionally a bit over the top – incidentally I talked the afternoon with Lorena and Sylvia about appropriateness and of course lawyer, music therapist and political-economist differed substantially in finding a common ground. Anyway, without any … Lire la suite
Possibilities Thrown Away
The development of the means of production would allow, the mode of production does suspend … Spare the hand that grinds the corn, Oh, miller girls, and softly sleep. Let Chanticleer announce the morn in vain! Deo has commanded the work of the girls to be done by the Nymphs, and now they skip lightly … Lire la suite
Rosa Luxemburg – how wheelchairs indicate that she was right
Sure, there are good reasons for privatisation of elements of economic processes – at least if we trust the advocates of the respective measures. Now, leaving the serious central debate and its macro-perspective aside one came to my mind when I went to the grocer’s shop. But what do I say, really ‘grocer’s shop’? In … Lire la suite
the bible as textbook in economics
For the Scripture says, “Do not muzzle the ox while it is treading out the grain,” and “The worker deserves his wages.” 1 Timothy 5:18
in a nutshell …
About 24 hours ago: The day’s end nearing – I mean the end of the working day in the strict sense. Looking at the “official part”, it had been actually a short day only: about 6 hours meeting of attac’s scientific council, working on this very simple question: How to change the world. Measuring the … Lire la suite
The Iron Lady and the Postman
Well, many of us complained at the time: The Iron Lady Margret Thatcher reflecting in an interview for Women’s Own that there is no such thing as society. There are surely different ways to look at this statement. And one perspctive came to me the other day, something of a deeper meaning getting entirely hold of … Lire la suite
four in one – A Contribution to the International Women’s Day
Four-in-One-Perspective – or One Divided by Four Equals One Thoughts in connection with Frigga Haug’s presentation of Die Vier-in-einem-Perspektive (Haug, Frigga, 2008/20092: Die Vier-in-einem-Perspektive. Politik von Frauen für eine neue Linke; Hamburg: Argument Verlag – reference [i.e. page numbers in brackets], where not specified otherwise, is made to this book. Translations by P.H.) That the … Lire la suite
Greece – Few Impressions
The following is a short reflection of one part of a visit of different groups in Athens – the visit had been initialised by the cooperation between attac France and colleagues in Athens, but quickly included colleagues from other national attac networks and also other organisations that wanted to express their solidarity with the Greek … Lire la suite
David back on stage
Returning from Athens – a visit in solidarity with the …, well actually perhaps better to say: in search for an overall European and global solidarity – reading something about Donatello’s David, surely one of the most felicitous pieces of art. Originally standing in the Medici palace in Florence the capture read: The Victor is … Lire la suite
the world we live in …
Money! Nothing worse in our lives, so current, rampant, so corrupting. Money – you demolish cities, rot men from their homes, you train and twist good minds and set them on to the most atrocious schemes. No limit, you make them adept at every kind of outrage, every godless crime – money. (Sophocles [496-406])
