A New York Times article praising Karl Marx for being “right” has been spreading on social media. This is an interesting article, and not for the reason the author intended.
The author notes that
“The key factor in Marx’s intellectual legacy in our present-day society is not “philosophy” but “critique,” or what he described in 1843 as “the ruthless criticism of all that exists.”
Within certain segments of the Christian community, primarily the Christian Reformed tradition imported from the Netherlands, there is considerable support for the creation of Christian labor unions as an alternative to the secular unions of today. Outside of the Christian Reformed circles, there is almost no discussion of this program within churches. One or two denominations, most notably the Seventh Day Adventists, discourage members from belonging to labor unions. On the whole, the trade union issue is not discussed by churches in any official capacity.
This weekend’s historic meeting between the leaders of North and South Korea offered hope for a peaceful resolution to a conflict that has gone on for over 60 years.
Twenty-three-month-old Alfie Evans, passed away in a British hospital on Saturday. While the official cause of death was a degenerative brain disease, Alfie may have been murdered by the British health system and the British high court. Doctors at the hospital treating Alfie decided to remove his life support, against the wishes of Alfie’s parents. The high court not only upheld the doctors’ authority to override the parents’ wishes, it refused to allow the parents to take Alfie abroad for treatment.
As ZeroHedges notes, a recent report from Bank of America’s Barnaby Martin indicates that the banking industry seems to be waking up to the very real risk posed by the Federal government’s continued fiscal recklessness.
Martin notes that recently:
One of my favorite sports events of the year has always been the NFL Draft, a love that only has deepened with my appreciation of economics. One of the big story lines going into tonight’s draft is how Cleveland will take advantage of the impressive bounty of draft picks they have amassed over the last few years, which includes five picks in the first two rounds (1, 4, 33, 35, and 52.)
One of the pieces of legislation Ron Paul pushed while leading the Congressional committee overseeing monetary policy was a bill to audit the US gold reserves. As one may expect when dealing with the Fed, there has long been a general lack of transparency with America’s gold holdings. In fact, last year was the first time in over four decades that any member of Congress had been allowed inspect Fort Knox.
