Werner Dreibus war Mitbegründer der WASG, die sich 2007 mit der Linkspartei.PDS zur Partei DIE LINKE vereinigt hat. Von 2010–2012 war er Bundesgeschäftsführer der Partei DIE LINKE. Außerdem arbeitete er langjährig als Gewerkschaftssekretär.
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Dietmar Bartsch ist Bundestagsabgeordneter und einer von zwei Fraktionsvorsitzenden der LINKEN. 1977 trat er in die SED ein und promovierte 1990 in Moskau im Fach Ökonomie. Er war lange Jahre Schatzmeister der PDS. Außerdem ist er ehemaliger Geschäftsführer der Jungen Welt, später des Neuen Deutschlands. 2008–2010 war er Bundeswahlkampfleiter der LINKEN.
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AMONGST HIS MANUSCRIPTS Max Horkheimer left behind an essay, written in 1928 but unpublished during his lifetime, whose subject is Lenin's important work Materialism and Empiriocriticism, which had appeared in German translation the year before. The publication of Horkheimer’s response to Lenin was eventually undertaken by Horkheimer’s pupil and successor, Alfred Schmidt in 1985.
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On April 7, 2017 the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a discussion at its Ninth Annual International Convention in Chicago on the subject of “Marxism in the Age of Trump.” The event’s speakers were Chris Cutrone, President of the Platypus Affiliated Society and teacher of Critical Theory at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Catherine Liu, Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine and author of The American Idyll: Academic Anti-Elitism as Cultural Critique; and Greg Lucero, a founding member of the Revolutionary Students' Union and a member of the Chicago chapter of the Socialist Party USA.
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WHEN FIRST ENCOUNTERING the Impeach Bush movement in 2007 I responded, almost flippantly, “Why not impeach the system that gave us Bush?” “Otherwise,” I said, “we risk having someone in the White House who’ll make us long for Bush.” If prescient, my response was admittedly formulaic and evidently deficient.
Not surprisingly, whiffs of a new impeachment movement are again in the air since the November 2016 surprise. Those blowing from the Left, however, are again devoid of systemic/structural thinking and, alas, to its peril. It is to those who are wary of being seduced by this crowd that this more substantive response is directed, rather than to the lesser-evil true believers for whom hope springs eternal.
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