Articles by Paul D’Amato
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Why Was Marx a Materialist?
Paul D’Amato – Socialist Worker,
31 Oct 2011
For Marx, materialism was about acknowledging the way the real world impacts on people’s lives, and acknowledging their ability to come together to change society. In the history of the philosophy, idealism and materialism have very different meanings than their popular usage. They represent the two main divergent ways of looking at the world we live in.
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Paul D’Amato – Socialist Worker,
9 Aug 2010
What if there was a three strikes law for Corporate America’s repeat offenders? As Rosa Luxemburg once wrote, bourgeois justice is “like a net, which allowed the voracious sharks to escape, while the little sardines were caught.”
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Paul D’Amato,
28 Oct 2009
To compare the condition of animals to groups of humans that are oppressed is to view the latter through a paternalistic lens, rather than a lens of human liberation.OUR SOCIETY engages in practices that are cruel toward animals. The spread of capitalism worldwide has seriously shrunk or destroyed the natural habitat of thousands of species, […]
→ read full articlePUTTING A HUMAN MASK ON IMPERIALISM
Paul D’Amato,
24 May 2009
Politicians and historians may argue that the U.S. is a force for good around the world, but the facts show the opposite.MAINSTREAM AND liberal opposition to the Iraq war is based on accepting the aims of the war, but criticizing its lack of success, its "excesses" or its tactical or strategic mistakes. The argument of […]
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