Humphrey Glass
Biographic Data
| ID | 5580572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Humphrey Glass |
| GIVEN NAMES | Humphrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Glass |
| SIGNATURE | GLASS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zululand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Consumer barbarism
The impact of commodity production and the concomitant consumer life-style on the individual’s beliefs and perceptions has been revolutionary. The individual experiences liberation in consumption. However, this liberation must be philosophically understood as a decline of independent imaginative thinking. Therefore, notwithstanding the seduction of the individual into believing that he is liberated, the entire age drifts into barbarism with the d…
The crisis of Marxism
Marxism in the 20th century has had to come to grips with a number of crucial problems because of the failure of the revolution in the west and the success of capitalism. In this article it is argued that the development of a Marxian debate on the nature of the proletariat and the revolutionary agency, has shifted the very foundations of Marxism itself—leading to a crisis for Marxism. As the 20th century unfolds, leading Marxists advocate a supre…
The crisis of Marxism
Marxism in the 20th century has had to come to grips with a number of crucial problems because of the failure of the revolution in the west and the success of capitalism. In this article it is argued that the development of a Marxian debate on the nature of the proletariat and the revolutionary agency, has shifted the very foundations of Marxism itself — leading to a crisis for Marxism. As the 20th century unfolds, leading Marxists advocate a sup…
The Struggle for South Africa; Humphrey Glass Replies; War and Soviet Development Strategy; Sweezy Replies
How should an American socialist make a general assessment of the situation in Southern Africa? The Marxist methodology based on the materialist dialectic tells us that one should begin with an analysis of the internal development of those African peoples engaged in struggle. It is its basic premise that all social phenomena are determined by their intrinsic contradictions. It follows, therefore, that only a concrete analysis of the contradiction…
The Struggle for South Africa
On June 16, 1976, South African police fired into a crowd of African school children demonstrating against the mandatory use of the Afrikaans language, a language spoken by less than five million people in the entire world. Since then, South Africa has been in a state of turmoil. School children have burned down their classrooms, workers have stormed their factories, young men have thrown gasoline bombs into fashionable shops, and tens of thousan…
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The Struggle for South Africa
On June 16, 1976, South African police fired into a crowd of African school children demonstrating against the mandatory use of the Afrikaans language, a language spoken by less than five million people in the entire world. Since then, South Africa has been in a state of turmoil. School children have burned down their classrooms, workers have stormed their factories, young men have thrown gasoline bombs into fashionable shops, and tens of thousan…
The Struggle for South Africa; Humphrey Glass Replies; War and Soviet Development Strategy; Sweezy Replies
How should an American socialist make a general assessment of the situation in Southern Africa? The Marxist methodology based on the materialist dialectic tells us that one should begin with an analysis of the internal development of those African peoples engaged in struggle. It is its basic premise that all social phenomena are determined by their intrinsic contradictions. It follows, therefore, that only a concrete analysis of the contradiction…
The crisis of Marxism
Marxism in the 20th century has had to come to grips with a number of crucial problems because of the failure of the revolution in the west and the success of capitalism. In this article it is argued that the development of a Marxian debate on the nature of the proletariat and the revolutionary agency, has shifted the very foundations of Marxism itself—leading to a crisis for Marxism. As the 20th century unfolds, leading Marxists advocate a supre…
The crisis of Marxism
Marxism in the 20th century has had to come to grips with a number of crucial problems because of the failure of the revolution in the west and the success of capitalism. In this article it is argued that the development of a Marxian debate on the nature of the proletariat and the revolutionary agency, has shifted the very foundations of Marxism itself — leading to a crisis for Marxism. As the 20th century unfolds, leading Marxists advocate a sup…
Consumer barbarism
The impact of commodity production and the concomitant consumer life-style on the individual’s beliefs and perceptions has been revolutionary. The individual experiences liberation in consumption. However, this liberation must be philosophically understood as a decline of independent imaginative thinking. Therefore, notwithstanding the seduction of the individual into believing that he is liberated, the entire age drifts into barbarism with the d…
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