Iain Aitken (GLW #150) accuses Lisa Macdonald of dogmatism for arguing that in seeking to understand and combat capitalist domination socialists should rely exclusively on the scientific approach of Marxism.
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Ron Guignard ("Marxism and science", GLW #150) repeats his argument in GLW #145 that Marxism is not a scientific theory of society because it does not accord with his personal definition of what constitutes science. In his
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Ron Guignard (GLW, June 1) argues that Marxism is not scientific because it fails to meet "a rigorous definition of pure science", and because a series of predictions about the development of society supposedly made by Marx have
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"The complexity of the Israel/Palestine conflict is that at its root is a conflict between two fundamentally legitimate aspirations", Vivienne Porzsolt claimed in һƷ̽ Weekly No. 110. This assertion is
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Contrary to Graeme Merry and Arnaud Gallios' assertion, Jorge Jorquera's article on the March 26 student demonstration in Melbourne was not based on "hearsay from Sydney", but on reports from people who attended the Melbourne
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In his article on nuclear fusion (GLW, No 41), Phil Shannon criticises the Democratic Socialist Party's Socialism and Human Survival document for its "breathless account of how nuclear fusion could be a 'long term solution to
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After decades of denouncing those in the peace movement who argued that unilateral nuclear disarmament moves by the Western powers would do more to reverse the arms race than lengthy arms control negotiations, the US government
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"We are witnessing the beginning of a populist dictatorship", wrote British historian Sir Michael Howard, commenting on Russian President Boris Yeltsin's assumption of control over the machinery of Soviet state power. As the
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The gun-related deaths of 11 people in Sydney over the last week have brought renewed calls for tighter gun-control laws. On August 17, a man armed with a semi-automatic rifle killed eight people in Sydney's suburban
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"The industrial economies are awash with excess capacity, most are experiencing disinflation and some are threatened by outright deflation. With unfortunate echoes of the 1930s, policy-makers are being tempted to use exchange rates
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"Iran should be on notice that attempts to remake Iraq in Iran's image will be aggressively put down", US war secretary Donald Rumsfeld declared on May 27. Rumsfeld's comment was part of a steadily mounting campaign to make Iran the