Robert Weil
Biographic Data
| ID | 341073 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Weil |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Weil |
| SIGNATURE | WEIL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5235-0932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1888 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Yuanmingyuan Revisited: The Confrontation of China and the West
In the northwest corner of Beijing lie the ruins of Yuanmingyuan, or Garden of Perfect Splendor, the “other” or Old Summer Palace. Destroyed by a British and French expeditionary force in 1860, wi
Is the Torch Passing? The Maoist Revolution in India
The basic contradiction is this: in the very heartland of what is often referred to as the “world's largest democracy” there is also occurring the “world's largest revolution.” Revolutionary forces
Class Bases of Chinese “Marxisms” Today
City of Youth: Shenzhen, China
Since ancient times, people have dreamed of a City of Youth, where the population never ages, and where any outsider who comes to live there will remain forever young. They probably did not have in mind, however, the "agelessness" of today's Shenzhen, China. Lying just over the border from Hong Kong, this "instant city" has grown in just over twenty-five years from a small fishing village to a sprawling metropolitan region approaching ten million…
Were Revolutions in China Necessary
Is socialist revolution necessary? Under what conditions? How far should it go? Is more than one revolution needed, even in the same society? What about the issue of revolutionary “excess”? Is ther
To be attacked by the enemy is a good thing”: The struggle over the legacy of Mao Zedong and the Chinese socialist revolution∗
∗I would like to thank Alex Day, Mobo Gao, Matt Hale, Tom Lutze, Matt Rothwell, Dan Vukovich and Yan Hairong for their comments on earlier drafts of this paper, and for helping to provide some of the materials and reviews referred to in it. As always, any remaining errors or misinterpretations are my own
Conditions of the Working Classes in China
This article is based primarily on a series of meetings with workers, peasants, organizers, and leftist activists that I participated in during the summer of 2004, together with Alex Day and another student of Chinese affairs. It is part of a longer paper that is being published as a special report by the Oakland Institute. The meetings took place mainly in and around Beijing, as well as in Jilin province in the northeast, and in the cities of Zh…
Thinking about Allegiance in the English Civil War
It was during the Civil War that political allegiance came to be conceived of as a problem or category in its own right, distinct if not divorced from confessional identity. This paper uses the narratives offered by 'delinquents' to the Committee for Compounding with Delinquents to interrogate discourses of allegiance in the civil war. Rather than try to determine the 'true allegiance' of individuals, this paper explores the claims within these n…
Red shift: Class effects of socialist egalitärianism and capitalist polarization
The tenth anniversary in 1999 of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and two years later of the collapse of the Soviet Union, provides a medium-term perspective from which to reflect on the nature of the societies of "actually existing socialism, " and in particular on the economic position once held by their working classes. The need for such an examination gains added weight from the triumphalist declarations of the spokespersons for capitalism that t…
On “emancipating the mind”: A reply to Professor Kang Ouyang
Chinese Rubicon: Ideological and Practical Dilemmas of Denationalisation
Of time and the changjiang Chinese history past, present and future
China at the Brink: Class Contradictions of "Market Socialism"—Part II
Of all the ideological pronouncements by Deng Xiaoping in advocating "market socialism," the idea that "some must get rich before others" has met with the most unqualified success. The "new wealth" enjoyed by many leading party and state functionaries, military officers, public enterprise managers, and especially business people, both private entrepreneurs and those in semi-privatized ventures, is increasingly apparent. Many of these people can b…
Contradictory Class Definitions: Petty Bourgeoisie and the 'Classes' of Erik Olin Wright
The 'two-class model' of capitalism widely attributed to Marx neglects his analysis of the capitalistic characteristics of the petty bourgeoisie. Erik Olin Wright exemplifies those who, by regarding petty bourgeois owners as 'precapitalist,' and rejecting the labor theory of value, fail to recognize the capitalist nature of the 'old' middle class. This leaves Wright without the conceptual tools needed to analyze the capitalistic relations of the …
Of Human Rights and Wrongs: China and the United States
The March visit of Secretary of State Warren Christopher to Beijing, calling on the Chinese government to improve its human rights record under the threat of denying it renewal of Most Favored Nation trade status, ended in fiasco. It should hardly have come as a surprise. After a semester teaching at a university and a month travelling in China, the attitudes and conditions I observed make clear why the U.S. human rights policy toward that nation…
China at the Brink: Class Contradictions of "Market Socialism"—Part I
In the Chinese boardgame wei qi, better known to many in the United States by its Japanese name go, two players alternate in placing white and black stones on a grid of lines, trying to surround and capture the opposing pieces. A more experienced player will open the game by racing around the board, leaving a piece here and there in what, to the novice, seems to be an arbitrary pattern, before settling down to more concentrated play in one or two…
Somalia in perspective: When the saints come marching in
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist (Brazilian Archbishop Dom Helder Camara)
Somalia in Perspective: When the Saints Come Marching In
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. - Brazilian Archbishop Dom Helder Camara. On hearing that the U.S. military was being used to bring food to starving people in Somalia, I was reminded that when Ronald Reagan was told of the 1988 hurricane that devastated Nicaragua, he said "Good."This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articl…
La sociologie en manuels
Besnard Philippe. La sociologie en manuels. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1991, 32-3. Reconstructions de la sociologie française, 1945-1960. pp. 493-502
“A communist named Salvador Allende …”: The teaching and unteaching of socialism in U.S. high school and middle school texts
Bureaucratization: The problem without a “class” name
A Comparative View of Comparative Education Society Conferences: A British view of the USA
A Comparative Study of School Textbooks used in the First Year of Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Various European Communities
(1977). A Comparative Study of School Textbooks used in the First Year of Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Various European Communities. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 3-15
Personality, Life Situation, and Communication: A Study of Habitual Abortion
Within the framework of a psychosomatic, interdisciplinary investigation of spontaneous and habitual abortion, 18 habitual aborters (3 or more consecutive abortions) were followed in weekly psychiatric interviews during one pregnancy. The research methods of this follow-up by the participating disciplines were briefly described. The personalities of these aborters and their life situations and communication at the time of their contact with us we…
American Commonwealths: Indiana: A Redemption from Slavery, by J. P. Dunn, Jr. ; American Commonwealths:—Ohio: First Fruits of the Ordinance of 1787, by Rufus King
Is the Torch Passing? The Maoist Revolution in India
The basic contradiction is this: in the very heartland of what is often referred to as the “world's largest democracy” there is also occurring the “world's largest revolution.” Revolutionary forces
Conditions of the Working Classes in China
This article is based primarily on a series of meetings with workers, peasants, organizers, and leftist activists that I participated in during the summer of 2004, together with Alex Day and another student of Chinese affairs. It is part of a longer paper that is being published as a special report by the Oakland Institute. The meetings took place mainly in and around Beijing, as well as in Jilin province in the northeast, and in the cities of Zh…
Yuanmingyuan Revisited: The Confrontation of China and the West
In the northwest corner of Beijing lie the ruins of Yuanmingyuan, or Garden of Perfect Splendor, the “other” or Old Summer Palace. Destroyed by a British and French expeditionary force in 1860, wi
Thinking about Allegiance in the English Civil War
It was during the Civil War that political allegiance came to be conceived of as a problem or category in its own right, distinct if not divorced from confessional identity. This paper uses the narratives offered by 'delinquents' to the Committee for Compounding with Delinquents to interrogate discourses of allegiance in the civil war. Rather than try to determine the 'true allegiance' of individuals, this paper explores the claims within these n…
China at the Brink: Class Contradictions of "Market Socialism"—Part I
In the Chinese boardgame wei qi, better known to many in the United States by its Japanese name go, two players alternate in placing white and black stones on a grid of lines, trying to surround and capture the opposing pieces. A more experienced player will open the game by racing around the board, leaving a piece here and there in what, to the novice, seems to be an arbitrary pattern, before settling down to more concentrated play in one or two…
La sociologie en manuels
Besnard Philippe. La sociologie en manuels. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1991, 32-3. Reconstructions de la sociologie française, 1945-1960. pp. 493-502
American Commonwealths: Missouri, by Lucien Carr
American Commonwealths: Indiana: A Redemption from Slavery, by J. P. Dunn, Jr. ; American Commonwealths:—Ohio: First Fruits of the Ordinance of 1787, by Rufus King
Personality, Life Situation, and Communication: A Study of Habitual Abortion
Within the framework of a psychosomatic, interdisciplinary investigation of spontaneous and habitual abortion, 18 habitual aborters (3 or more consecutive abortions) were followed in weekly psychiatric interviews during one pregnancy. The research methods of this follow-up by the participating disciplines were briefly described. The personalities of these aborters and their life situations and communication at the time of their contact with us we…
A Comparative Study of School Textbooks used in the First Year of Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Various European Communities
(1977). A Comparative Study of School Textbooks used in the First Year of Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Various European Communities. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 3-15
A Comparative View of Comparative Education Society Conferences: A British view of the USA
Bureaucratization: The problem without a “class” name
“A communist named Salvador Allende …”: The teaching and unteaching of socialism in U.S. high school and middle school texts
La sociologie en manuels
Besnard Philippe. La sociologie en manuels. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1991, 32-3. Reconstructions de la sociologie française, 1945-1960. pp. 493-502
Somalia in perspective: When the saints come marching in
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist (Brazilian Archbishop Dom Helder Camara)
Somalia in Perspective: When the Saints Come Marching In
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. - Brazilian Archbishop Dom Helder Camara. On hearing that the U.S. military was being used to bring food to starving people in Somalia, I was reminded that when Ronald Reagan was told of the 1988 hurricane that devastated Nicaragua, he said "Good."This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articl…
Of Human Rights and Wrongs: China and the United States
The March visit of Secretary of State Warren Christopher to Beijing, calling on the Chinese government to improve its human rights record under the threat of denying it renewal of Most Favored Nation trade status, ended in fiasco. It should hardly have come as a surprise. After a semester teaching at a university and a month travelling in China, the attitudes and conditions I observed make clear why the U.S. human rights policy toward that nation…
China at the Brink: Class Contradictions of "Market Socialism"—Part I
In the Chinese boardgame wei qi, better known to many in the United States by its Japanese name go, two players alternate in placing white and black stones on a grid of lines, trying to surround and capture the opposing pieces. A more experienced player will open the game by racing around the board, leaving a piece here and there in what, to the novice, seems to be an arbitrary pattern, before settling down to more concentrated play in one or two…
Of time and the changjiang Chinese history past, present and future
China at the Brink: Class Contradictions of "Market Socialism"—Part II
Of all the ideological pronouncements by Deng Xiaoping in advocating "market socialism," the idea that "some must get rich before others" has met with the most unqualified success. The "new wealth" enjoyed by many leading party and state functionaries, military officers, public enterprise managers, and especially business people, both private entrepreneurs and those in semi-privatized ventures, is increasingly apparent. Many of these people can b…
Contradictory Class Definitions: Petty Bourgeoisie and the 'Classes' of Erik Olin Wright
The 'two-class model' of capitalism widely attributed to Marx neglects his analysis of the capitalistic characteristics of the petty bourgeoisie. Erik Olin Wright exemplifies those who, by regarding petty bourgeois owners as 'precapitalist,' and rejecting the labor theory of value, fail to recognize the capitalist nature of the 'old' middle class. This leaves Wright without the conceptual tools needed to analyze the capitalistic relations of the …
Chinese Rubicon: Ideological and Practical Dilemmas of Denationalisation
On “emancipating the mind”: A reply to Professor Kang Ouyang
Red shift: Class effects of socialist egalitärianism and capitalist polarization
The tenth anniversary in 1999 of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and two years later of the collapse of the Soviet Union, provides a medium-term perspective from which to reflect on the nature of the societies of "actually existing socialism, " and in particular on the economic position once held by their working classes. The need for such an examination gains added weight from the triumphalist declarations of the spokespersons for capitalism that t…
To be attacked by the enemy is a good thing”: The struggle over the legacy of Mao Zedong and the Chinese socialist revolution∗
∗I would like to thank Alex Day, Mobo Gao, Matt Hale, Tom Lutze, Matt Rothwell, Dan Vukovich and Yan Hairong for their comments on earlier drafts of this paper, and for helping to provide some of the materials and reviews referred to in it. As always, any remaining errors or misinterpretations are my own
Conditions of the Working Classes in China
This article is based primarily on a series of meetings with workers, peasants, organizers, and leftist activists that I participated in during the summer of 2004, together with Alex Day and another student of Chinese affairs. It is part of a longer paper that is being published as a special report by the Oakland Institute. The meetings took place mainly in and around Beijing, as well as in Jilin province in the northeast, and in the cities of Zh…
Thinking about Allegiance in the English Civil War
It was during the Civil War that political allegiance came to be conceived of as a problem or category in its own right, distinct if not divorced from confessional identity. This paper uses the narratives offered by 'delinquents' to the Committee for Compounding with Delinquents to interrogate discourses of allegiance in the civil war. Rather than try to determine the 'true allegiance' of individuals, this paper explores the claims within these n…
Were Revolutions in China Necessary
Is socialist revolution necessary? Under what conditions? How far should it go? Is more than one revolution needed, even in the same society? What about the issue of revolutionary “excess”? Is ther
City of Youth: Shenzhen, China
Since ancient times, people have dreamed of a City of Youth, where the population never ages, and where any outsider who comes to live there will remain forever young. They probably did not have in mind, however, the "agelessness" of today's Shenzhen, China. Lying just over the border from Hong Kong, this "instant city" has grown in just over twenty-five years from a small fishing village to a sprawling metropolitan region approaching ten million…
Class Bases of Chinese “Marxisms” Today
Is the Torch Passing? The Maoist Revolution in India
The basic contradiction is this: in the very heartland of what is often referred to as the “world's largest democracy” there is also occurring the “world's largest revolution.” Revolutionary forces
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