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• The Copenhaguen Interpretation of Quantum Physics and Critics of that Philosophical Conception
  16 January 2022

  The Copenhaguen Interpretation of Quantum Physics and Critics of that Philosophical Conception
  Arguments of Bohr against Einstein
  https://www.matierevolution.org/spip.php?article6136
  Discussions between Einstein and Bohr
  https://www.matierevolution.org/spip.php?article4756
  The History of Quantum Theory, by Heisenberg
  https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/heisenb2.htm
  The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Theory, by Heisenberg (…)

• The legacy of Charles Darwin - L’héritage de Charles Darwin
  21 April 2015, by Robert Paris

  The legacy of Charles Darwin
  150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species
  Roy Farrar, from The Socialist (weekly paper of CWI England and Wales)
  Charles Darwin’s theory of ’natural selection’ changed the way that we look at ourselves. It contradicted the idea of an outside ’intelligent designer’, so it met a reaction from the religious establishment that still exists in part today. Some schools, particularly in the US, are teaching evolution as ’one point of view’ (…)

• Revolution and counter-revolution in Spain
  19 September 2010

  FOR the new generations moving into political life a study of the Spanish Civil War of 1936–39 contains valuable lessons. This book, hammered out in time with the dramatic events it describes, stands in direct line with the great writings of Marx and Engels on the Revolutions of 1848 and the Paris Commune and Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution. No doubt later historical research has been able to uncover from the record a more detailed account of the facts, and the reports of (…)

• Writings on Discontinuity of Nature
  14 January 2022, by Robert Paris

  Writings on Discontinuity of Nature
  Discontinuity of Matter, Energy, Light and Vacuum
  https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article4260
  What is continuity and discontinuity?
  https://www-matierevolution-fr.translate.goog/spip.php?article11&_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr
  Continuity, a mathematical property?
  https://www-matierevolution-fr.translate.goog/spip.php?article18&_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr
  How discontinuity, general and fundamental, (…)

• What Future ? Capitalism ? Socialism ?
  8 août 2025, par Robert Paris

  What Future ? Capitalism ? Socialism ?
  Capitalism’s "recovery plans" are a symptom of the impending death of the old dominant socio-economic system in artificial survival mode.
  https://www-matierevolution-fr.translate.goog/spip.php?article5841&_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr
  When big capital no longer bets on... capitalism
  https://www-matierevolution-fr.translate.goog/spip.php?article8286&_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr
  In the face of the current (…)

• Claude Lévi-Strauss 1962 History and Dialectic
  12 August 2019, by Robert Paris

  In the course of this work I have allowed myself, not without ulterior motive, to borrow a certain amount of Sartre’s vocabulary. I wanted to lead the reader to face a problem, the discussion of which will serve to introduce my conclusion. The problem is to what extent thought that can and will be both anecdotal and geometrical may yet be called dialectical. The savage mind totalizes. It claims indeed to go very much further in this direction than Sartre allows dialectical reason, for, on (…)

• John Brown, Warrior of the Abolitionist Revolution
  12 October 2018

  Speech to the Court at his Trial, after his conviction (2 November 1859) :
  “In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted, the design on my part to free the slaves.…”
  John Brown, Warrior of the Abolitionist Revolution
  John Brown was a revolutionary militant of liberty. There was nothing alien or exotic about him; he was a genuine growth of the American soil. The roots of his family tree on both sides reached back among the first English settlers of (…)

• Physics and philosophy
  15 September 2010, by Robert Paris

  Readings on Physics and philosophy
  https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article7294
  "Physics and philosophy" by Heisenberg
  The History of Quantum Theory
  THE origin of quantum theory is connected with a well-known phenomenon, which did not belong to the central parts of atomic physics. Any piece of matter when it is heated starts to glow, gets red hot and white hot at higher temperatures. The colour does not depend much on the surface of the material, and for a black body it (…)

• Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
  21 January 2022

  Karl Marx - Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
  Introduction
  For Germany, the criticism of religion has been essentially completed, and the criticism of religion is the prerequisite of all criticism.
  The profane existence of error is compromised as soon as its heavenly oratio pro aris et focis [“speech for the altars and hearths,” i.e., for God and country] has been refuted. Man, who has found only the reflection of himself in the fantastic reality of heaven, where he sought a (…)

• Trotsky’s answer to Stalin
  13 December 2023, by Robert Paris

  Trotsky’s answer to Stalin
  November 1926
  The following speech was delivered by Trotsky at the Seventh Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International in November 1926.
  Comrades! The resolution accuses the Opposition including me, of a social democratic deviation. I have thought over all the points of contention which have divided us, the minority of the CC from the majority during the period just past, that is, the period in which the designation “Opposition bloc” has (…)