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DESCRIPTION:Radical Marxists may soberly confront the dismal facts of today's economic 
 and human crises, but none are better at it than Al Gore, now a 
 self-described recovering politician, for whom the hijacked U.S. 
 constitutional democracy has humanity on a course of total devastation of 
 increasing poverty, permanent unemployment and destruction of the life 
 sustaining capacity of the planet. \nIn his book, The Future, Gore shows 
 the roots of today's bleak trajectory all the way back to the way 
 capitalist elites in the U.S. reacted to the 1871 Paris Commune. Gore 
 quotes Karl Marx's prediction that the Commune would be "forever celebrated 
 as the glorious harbinger of the new society." \nYet Marx's prediction came 
 out of a critique of constitutionalism as a very limited freedom which 
 would become the handmaiden of capitalism. Against constitutionalism Marx 
 saw a new and deeper concept of freedom in the Abolitionist movement and 
 the emergent struggle for the eight-hour day that ensued after the victory 
 over slavery in the U.S. Civil War. \nToday's global Occupy movement and 
 especially Arab Spring face the challenge of constitutionalism even as they 
 attempt to deepen their stifled new beginnings in freedom. How can Marx's 
 practice of his philosophy of revolution in permanence help us now?\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/07/03/18739257.php
SUMMARY:Constitution, anyone?
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Library\n6501 Telegraph Ave. (at Acatraz)\nOakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/07/03/18739257.php
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