Por Robert kurz: Alguma coisa pode não estar bem com os direitos humanos. A esta conclusão chegou, há mais de 150 anos, um homem chamado Karl Marx. Ele constatou o que tem um lugar central nas declarações de direitos humanos: liberdade dos sujeitos do mercado, garantia da propriedade privada, segurança policial das transacções. Por […]
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Tensions of Citizenship
By Be Young and Shut up: In the much debated discourse over the consequences of economic globalization and the pervasive constructs of neoliberal governmentality that is seemingly creeping into every imaginable space of the world today, it appears that the contested frameworks of citizenship and the democratic principles it assumes have once again come into […]
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A Emancipação Política e a defesa de direitos
Por Sérgio Lessa: [excerpts] “O “império” da “cidadania” e do “Estado político”, ao emancipar politicamente a propriedade privada burguesa, “despojou o mundo inteiro” (“tanto o mundo dos homens como a natureza”) “de seu valor peculiar”, e o converteu em um “universal” abstrato (abstrato, no sentido que cancela o “valor peculiar” de todas as coisas) que […]
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The humanitarian myth
By Richard Seymour Within days of Haiti suffering an earthquake registering 7.0 on the Richter scale, the U.S. government had sent thousands of 82nd Airborne troops and Marines, alongside the super-carrier USS Carl Vinson. By this Sunday, a total of more than 20,000 U.S. troops were scheduled to be operating in Haiti, both on land […]
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PUBLIC NOTE ON ELTON BRUM’S MURDER FOR THE MILITARY POLICE OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL – BRAZIL – August 21, 2009
MST releases photo and public note to society: The Rural Landless Workers Movement (MST – Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra) comes to public to manifest his grief again for the loss of companheiro Elton Brum loss, to manifest solidarity to the family and for: 1. To denounce one more harsh and violent action of […]
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Inscribing Subjects to Citizenship: Petitions, Literacy Activism, and the Performativity of Signature in Rural Tamil India
By Francis Cody “But for the women who had come to the office that day from Katrampatti, my sense is that they would only have been satisfied that they had performed the act of petitioning at grievance day if they had been able to see the collector and plead with him orally using generic conventions […]
Continue readingCapitalism and Social Rights
By Ellen Meiksins Wood “In fact, we could just as easily say that the history of rights has been a contraction, not an expansion, of political rights — not an expansion from one set of rights to another but a contraction of political rights to exclude the social and the economic. Political rights have certainly […]
Continue readingPolitical Economy of the Man’s Rights
By Robert Kurz See it at: http://www.geocities.com/grupokrisis2003/rkurz_en110.htm Powered by ScribeFire.
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