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Welcome to the Surplus Value website Surplus Value
is a project of The Praxis Network, a loose community of Marxian
thinkers and activists from around Australia. Our initial plan is
to build a viable and useful network amongst ourselves. We also
trust that others may be interested in joining in this project.
To carry this out, we have established this website and an email group
for discussions and debate. We also publish a journal (currently
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Latest Additions to our site.
April 2015
External Articles:
Marx
and the Machine
Boer
Concentration Camps
Supply of Raw Materials
Serf
or Slave
4th January, 2015
Humphrey
McQueen site:
see latest articles on that site,
eg:
May Day 2013 Speech
Individualism
- the threat it poses
Healthcare is not a product
Eureka Day Speech 2013
Democracy
Bust the Business Councils Budget 2014
BIS Annual Report 2014 - Notes
Defending Liberty in Wartime - Dec 1917
Science:
Bragg in Adelaide
Contributed:
The dialectics of Finance
Robots and Constant Capital
The
Railways and Capitalism
Open Letter - anti-racism
External Articles:
The
BLF - Never Powerless
Geneology of the term "Terra Nullius"
Mineral
Rents
Factory
Discipline in the Industrial Revolution
Bank of International Settlements
LIBOR Explained
BLF
- Lessons for the 21st Century
Fair Value Accounting
Professing In-Equality
Financial Sytem - Current Notes
Poem -
The Shopper
-(Brecht)
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Our aims are threefold - to:
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reintroduce class as fundamental to developing political understanding
and strategy, particularly for the labour movement to respond to
current strategies and tactics of capital in a globalised world.
- reintroduce a materialist approach to our own history and into everyday political practice.
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bring a dialectical approach to our political activity, so that
strategies are based on the lives and experiences of everyday
Australian people - both workers, and those currently dependent on
social security – rather than on a dogmatic assertion of “political
truths”.
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a paired series of mural-like canvases, titled “Builders” and
“Pastimes”, the French painter and Communist Fernand Leger (1881-1955)
depicted scaffolders as acrobats and circus performers as collective
workers. Here, creativity appears as work while work is represented as
art, in a world where both jobs and play enrich human capacities. Leger
portrayed “new-fangled” human beings, reliant on each other and hence
unafraid of machinery or frameworks of steel. For a glimpse of what
work should look like, consider the joy in Leger’s paintings." (John Berger, Permanent Red,
Methuen , London , 1960, pp. 121-25. ) |
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Please Note:
this web site is still under development, so please be patient if there
is no content on some of the pages. Please contact us via the email
address if you find any problems or have any suggestions to make. |
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