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Here's a video I made explaining why.
Here's a video I made explaining why.
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Absolutely not
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Totally agree
YES, please – because I am tired of all that EU bashing in Britain!
I enjoyed the video. Lot's of outstanding info! What presentation software was in made on? Looks and sounds great…
Excellent presentation! Valid arguments and explanations.
Very engaging, instructive and pursuasive presentation. I enjoyed your use of the entertainment media time get your point across. Excellent!
ECONOMICS!!! Loved it. But still confused. Britain is powerful but leaving EU? Er.. It is pretty unpredictable!!
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It was a really informative video with amazing info! Britain should definitely not leave
British people should decide
I wrote an essay regarding tis topic!!!
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Should Britain leave the EU
I believe so yes. Until the world is a better place for us all to live
Of all Europe and the EU – Britain has the best standards and ideas and organization and crime here is not so bad
Excellent video! Compelling scenario however Britain can't be soundly compared to Switzerland (not as competitive nor known for great quality products & services) nor to Norway (not as rich ie filled with oil). My humble opinion is that UK needs EU, which is less the case for f ex Switzerland. Anything branded 'Swiss' sells itself …
there are other possibilities – the refugee crisis is causing a lot of debate about free movement. A lot of countries are not happy about this – UK is not alone. The may be the breaking of the camel's back.
In its heart, I don't believe Britain has ever really joined the EU.
An issue that should be tackled wisely and pragmatically
Very neat and concise presentation of all the options. Of course with the new trade deal between the EU and the US it adds even more pressure as an independent Britain would have necessarily benefit from said treaty.
Much like the argument that an independent Scotland or Catalonia would not have gotten necessari;y entry into the EU, would they become independent… Kudos!
No! Great video share thank you.
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Good video. Britain should not leave the EU, it would be problematic for the economy. Plus being in the EU has many benefits.
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@Dutch2Haze @VANILLAVVV @rinku2610 #nice— #shyamis (@rinku2610) November 6, 2015
As I've traveled through Europe the past three months there's been a lot of talk about this. It will be interesting to see what becomes of this issue.
I believe so yes. Until the world is a better place for us all to live


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The Necessity of Marxists' Convergence and the Marxist Revival Project
The following is Maziar Razi's speech at the Marxist Revival seminar in Cologne, Germany, on November 22, 2013.
In the current situation the convergence of Marxists at the international level is on the agenda. The concept of convergence, from a Marxist perspective, is to break with the existing series of distorted views and traditions in the labour movement and, on that basis, to determine the components for Marxist convergence for the purpose of intervention in the Labour movement and preparation for the socialist revolution.
In order to determine the components of convergence, Marxists must return to Karl Marx's own theories, analytical approach and method.
What is our motive?
Our motive is in fact the same as that of Marx during his period. Having broken away from the elitist socialists, Utopian socialists and the philosophers of his time, Marx was able to transform socialism into a science. We also agree with such a motive: i.e., to update or to clarify the science of the liberation of humanity in relation to the present situation of the living labour movement. In other words, our motive is to re-define Marxism for use in the twenty-first century. By breaking away from the distorted and non-socialist tendencies operating under the cover of "socialism" and "Marxism", we, like Marx, can enable ourselves to achieve a true and scientific Marxism and realise the convergence of the Marxists quite successfully.
Obviously, in order to break away completely from these distorted views, we must have components with which we show our differences from these views.
Before explaining our components, it is necessary for us to use the Marxist method to review the task, method and significant points of the present situation of the international labour movement and to deduce from the current situation the necessity of the convergence of Marxists at the international level and the Marxist Revival project.
What is our objective?
Our final objective is the same as that which Marx himself sought: "formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat."[i]
One hundred and sixty-five years after the Communist Manifesto was first published this theory still holds true. Not only is there no doubt about its validity but in the present world situation, its necessity is felt even more than ever before. Other than a general outline, Karl Marx did not write much in relation to the specifics and the different aspects of socialist society, or the transition period to the socialist formation, which begins with the seizure of power by the proletariat, through which the socialist classless society is born. Limiting himself to the outlines and future perspectives was not because of any theoretical weakness, conversely it was Marx's materialist conception of history and his scientific method that clearly separated him from the petty-bourgeois Utopian socialism who imagined the future with idealistically pre-determined plans and models.
Marx believed that the proletariat and all of its toiling allies, after overthrowing the supremacy of the bourgeoisie, will plan the new society carefully. However, what Marx was quite sure about was that capitalism was no longer able to satisfy the needs of the majority in society, and therefore must be overthrown by the proletariat, which itself is the product of the birth and growth of capitalist relations and becomes the "grave digger" of those relations.
Like Marx, we also believe that in the 21st century our task cannot be anything other than making preparations for the overthrow of capitalism by the proletariat and establishing the socialist order. This is because capitalism imposes wars and massive destruction, that is, with destruction of massive capacity of the productive forces, has propelled humanity into regression. Thus, the working class and the oppressed masses of the world have constantly been the main victims of these conflicts, and capitalism's huge profits generated from war. All this not only proves the state of degradation and decay of world capitalism, but also demonstrates the dilemma facing humanity: "socialism or barbarism". The working class, by eventually relying on its own power, as the main and genuine producer, by organising the social revolution, by enduring the defeats and the victories, will create a new order; a new order which will indeed serve the interests of humanity. This will be the communist system where eventually the principle of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" will be put into effect.
What is our method?
Marxists' convergence, according to Marx's teachings, can only be realised through using the critical-revolutionary-practical method. Marx, in his critique of Feuerbach in Theses on Feuerbach, says that Feuerbach's problem, like all the materialists prior to him, is the fact that he "does not grasp the significance of 'revolutionary', of 'practical-critical', activity" (first thesis).[ii] Here the adjective "critical" is used to mean the need to find the roots of the current situation of workers' struggles; "revolutionary" means that the objective is to change and to transform the present situation; and "practical" means purposeful action or conscious activity. We also shall use the same method for Marxists' convergence, in order to re-define Marxism as a science – the science of the conditions of the liberation of the working class.
What are the reasons for proposing the Marxist Revival project today?
What is the present world political situation? Today, in the current situation of the struggles of the working class, we are witnessing two phenomena side by side. To see and to have an understanding of these phenomena, one needs neither any special analysis nor exhausting discussions; anyone can see them.
The first phenomenon is the protests of the millions of people against the systematic threats and attacks of capitalism. Particularly in the past few years, through their routine struggles, the masses have been able to develop a better understanding of the true nature of capitalism and the states protecting it. Following the thirty years of Neoliberalism's domination and the stagnation of class struggles throughout the world, in the past few years we have witnessed protests, risings and uprisings of millions around the world. The real nature of the banks, financial centres and the capitalist states as their protectors, has now unfolded in front of the eyes of the masses. The disclosure of countless documents and testaments has debunked the myth of the citizens' "right to privacy".
Not long ago, if we, the Marxists, were to claim that the banks and the financial institutions had been defrauding and taking advantage of people, nobody would have paid us any attention. If we had claimed that the capitalist states are the sponsors of the banks nobody would have paid any attention. But now, there is no need to bring these matters up. Today, millions around the world, from Greece to Spain and from Latin America to North Africa, who have taken to the streets and are protesting against the social programmes of austerity and restrictions have reached this level of consciousness.
The disclosures made by Julian Assange and Edward Snowden (and other whistle-blowers), have deepened this consciousness. At the international level the masses in huge numbers have reached anti-capitalist and even socialist consciousness. Holding a critical view, they demand a change in the present conditions; they are demanding a break with capitalism and want to go beyond this system.
The second phenomenon is that, despite the fact that these changes in the objective conditions and the consciousness of the masses in favour of revolution have taken place, we have not witnessed any socialist revolution. The Marxists, who for over three decades have prepared themselves in their own organisations for such a day, in order to lead the masses towards the socialist revolution, have either been completely absent or their presence in the calculations of the class struggles has been insignificant or slight. The Marxists are more than ever scattered and divided. The political and organisational crisis among a wide range of Marxists has actually become deeper than before. The theoretical crisis is palpable. Fundamental Marxist beliefs, and specifically Karl Marx himself, have been thrown aside and even buried under a pile of theoretical deviations, dogmatism and ideological concepts. In the conflicts and wars between the imperialist states and the reactionary capitalist states in the Middle East, some of the "Marxist" organisations, implicitly or explicitly, sided with imperialism; while others, implicitly or explicitly, sided with the reactionary regimes of the region. Bureaucracy, splits and differences are rife in the various Marxist groups. The reality is that Marxism, as the science of the working class liberation, has been distorted and forgotten. In addition, socialism's crisis of credibility on the world level, caused by the deviations of the "Socialist Camps" such as the USSR, China and their dependent states, still remains. The deliberate and systematic distortions of the fundamental ideas of Marxism by the Moscow Academy of Sciences on one hand, and the practical co-operation of Moscow and Beijing with the bourgeoisie against the labour and communist movements around the world on the other hand, have inflicted massive and disastrous damage to the working class internationally. Consequentially, globally millions of the working class people are doubting socialism. In the eyes of millions of workers and toilers around the world the credibility of socialism has been undermined.
Putting these two inconsistent phenomena side by side helps us reach one conclusion: the masses are ready for the socialist revolution but the Marxists are in crisis and are not able to intervene and lead the masses in order to reach their objective, which is the total smashing of the capitalist states and establishment of socialism.
To surmount this appalling situation today, the Marxists need to seek a solution. The solution is the same as the one that worked during Marx's time: to update and to evolve the science of the proletariat's liberation (scientific socialism which is the same as Marxism) and to break away from all the elitist and utopian tendencies hindering Marxism, using the critical-revolutionary-practical method.
What are the pre-conditions for reviving Marxism?
For Marxists to align in Marxist Revival and re-define Marxism in the 21st Century, there are two pre-conditions that they need to consider and carry out collectively and generally:
First, to review and examine the roots of Marxism (avoiding biased and one-sided methods, or what Marx clearly called "ideological" analysis). To look into the opinions of the socialists before Marx and jointly to research and study, in order to define and clarify the reason why Marx had to break away from the socialists who came before him. Also to look into his break with the pre-existing philosophies and to discover his method of analysis of social issues. These pre-conditions are of course the minimum key points and obviously not enough. These measures must be taken collectively and generally among the Marxists tendencies.
Second, to review and to learn lessons from socialism in practice during the last century. This means to analyse Russian socialism and Chinese socialism (and Cuban, Venezuelan, guerrilla warfare, and so on). This review and process of learning lessons must also take place collectively and generally and without bias and taking sides.
It is with this background that Marxists hold the responsibility of their original duty which is to re-define Marxism for the 21st Century.
However, for the re-defining of Marxism, it is not enough to master and arm ourselves with the knowledge of the historical roots and to draw positive and negative lessons from the 20th century's revolutionary experiences only. According to Marx, the Marxists must also be involved in the critical-revolutionary practices of today's current working class struggles at the international level and intervene along the path of changing the present situation. The interventions of Marxists in the working class's current movement can only take place if the critical-revolutionary-practical method (conscious activity) is applied. For this to be realised, it must rely on a socialist programme. A socialist programme not only includes the theory, the historical and international experiences of the communist movement, but also mainly conscious activity, which is the same as the conscious actions of the workers themselves in their class struggles today. It has been said that without revolutionary theory the revolution will not be victorious. Namely, revolutionary theory without a socialist programme cannot guarantee the revolution's victory. However, this theory itself has two parts: first, a historical and international part and also, the practical substance of the proletariat's conscious activity. These two parts of the theory which make up the socialist programme are absolutely vital, because the socialist programme cannot remain suspended, for it will not last without an organisational framework, and gradually under the ideology of the ruling class will be crushed. In fact, a socialist organisation is the highest expression of the transition of the socialist programme into the working class's current struggles. What kind of organisational form can it be? Karl Marx explains in his Communist Manifesto:
"The communists, therefore, are on the one hand, practically, the most advanced and resolute section of the working-class parties of every country, that section which pushes forward all others; on the other hand, theoretically, they have over the great mass of the proletariat the advantage of clearly understanding the line of march, the conditions, and the ultimate general results of the proletarian movement."
"The immediate aim of the communists is the same as that of all other proletarian parties: formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat."[iii]
The organisational form that is meant here by Karl Marx, today cannot be anything other than the "workers' vanguard party".
Thus, the highest form of Marxists' convergence is to organise themselves within a workers' political party with a socialist programme stemming from the science of Marxism. It ought to be stressed here that in their routine struggles, the masses will reach socialist consciousness and will realise the necessity of the socialist revolution and the need to overthrow the capitalist state. According to Marx, the workers' vanguard party is organised by "the most determined" (intellectual-workers and worker-intellectuals) who joined together around a socialist programme. The members of this party do not converge on the basis of "Marxism", because Marxism is a science. Marxism is the theoretical foundation of the cognition and change of capitalist society. Marxism's validity, as with any other science, is evaluated based on the data currently available. Marxism, as with any other science, is able to change and evolve based on new data. Therefore, Marxist activists will join a socialist and a practical programme.
However, the present conditions are not ready for establishing such an organisational body today. As a result of the crisis in the credibility of socialism, Marxism's crisis and the labour movement's lack of vanguard workers, today the conditions are not favourable for direct intervention in the workers' movement towards the socialist revolution. But at the present time it is possible to create a bridge between the present situation and the ideal one. Marxist Revival is our proposal for creating the bridge that can take us from where we are to reach where we want to be. In order for all of us to co-operate in this project, we would need a series of components. Like Marx's idea, these components must be based upon repudiating elitism on the one hand, and utopianism (that is socialism from above) on the other, in the socialist movement. The general outline of these components has been presented below. We believe, the acceptance of these components helps the start of the process of convergence among Marxists for the final objective, which is unity on the basis of a socialist programme.
On the one hand the four components are based on Karl Marx's repudiation of the socialists of his own time, and on the other hand, they represent the practical experiences of the labour movement of his time. The first three components (socialism as a science, a socialism "from below" and a socialism that is democratic) exhibit his repudiation of the "top-down" socialists (such as Babeuf, Saint-Simon and the Utopian socialists), and the first component (to reject the concept of ideology) is mainly Marx's conclusion in regard to his past and the young Hegelians (such as Bruno Bauer and Ludwig Feuerbach). The fourth component (socialism's radicalism) consists of the experiences of workers' struggles within the spontaneous labour organisations, such as the trade unions, and the role of the communists in organising the socialist revolution and the battle against the capitalist state, specifically regarding the experience of the Paris Commune in 1871.
I shall try to present the historical roots of these components, before coming to the conclusion.
What were the historical roots of Marx's repudiation of elitism and utopianism?
The workers' political movement has on one hand emerged from petty-bourgeois radicalism and on the other hand from unionised spontaneous organisations. If we suppose that the mother of this infant is the trade union, the father is petty-bourgeois radicalism. The child, however, on the day of its birth separated itself from both its mother and father.
The reason for this is the fact that although the spontaneous movement of the working class in the 18th and 19th centuries had a decisive role in the advancement of labour struggles, they limited the workers' resistance merely to economist consciousness. The unionised and economic struggles of the working class never resulted in their class liberation, but eventually suffered under the influence of the bourgeoisie and petty-bourgeoisie. As a result, the political movement of the working class was compelled to split completely and firmly from this mother forever.
The political movement of the working class, on the other hand, has been the historical product of petty-bourgeois democracy. Amongst the left-wing of the Jacobins, there emerged a group which stood against the supporters of the bourgeois revolution, and disclosed the bourgeois deception of the masses by "equality" and "fraternity". The very first political ideas of the working class were formed by Babeuf and his followers in the Great French Revolution. In the beginning Marx and Engels themselves co-operated with the press, and appeared in the movement, of the ultra-left democratic petty-bourgeoisie. Splitting from the radical democratic forces of "populism", Lassalle and Wilhelm Liebknecht established the first social democratic organisations in Germany. Plekhanov, the father of "Russian Marxism" and the founder of the Russian workers' political movement, in the beginning was a member of the populist Land and Freedom organisation. In England, the founders of the workers' political movement often came from within petty-bourgeois radicalism.
While syndicalism confined the labour movement, petty-bourgeois radicalism ultimately served the interests of the small independent producers. The radical petty-bourgeois ideas of the 19th century ultimately inhibited the continuous struggle of the working class for its own specific interests.
After rejecting the ideas of the reactionary, feudal, bourgeois and other socialists in the Communist Manifesto, Marx specifically had criticisms of the radical socialists, who were involved in workers' struggles (Marx himself had earlier been influenced by some of the ideas of the radical socialists). Marx scrutinised the radical socialist ideas with a critical-revolutionary view. At first, he criticised the socialists who had a radical petty-bourgeois past, who were from those groups mainly involved in the Great French Revolution and had supported Babeuf (the left-wing of the Jacobins) and years later were followed by the Blanquists. These were radical socialists after the defeat of the French revolution, the Jacobin's left-wing headed by Babeuf came to a series of ideas. They reasoned that basically the working class, in the general definition of the word, would not be capable of going through another revolution because it has actually been defeated during the French Revolution. The right-wing of the Jacobins used the working class, but could not bring the working class to victory, therefore a new method was needed. Thus, Babeuf believed that the solution for the communists is in the hands of a number of elitists and experts in socialist affairs. These socialist elitists in many different ways and with different means, such as using terrorist or radical methods would reach the capability of toppling the capitalist state and then only themselves (without the working class) would move on to building a "temporary dictatorship" or an "educational dictatorship". In other words, these socialist elitists who are communist and socialist activists will then take over power.
One of Karl Marx's first criticisms was directed at this theory. He criticised this tendency very harshly and ruthlessly and explained that through plotting coups and operations dependent on a number of elitists, we would not be able to realise a socialist revolution. This would in fact defeat the purpose. We communists basically rely on the mass of workers. If the workers do not join to carry out the revolution, then obviously an elitist cannot do that for them (as Marx put it: the liberation of the working class must take place by the workers themselves). Marx made a ruthless critique of these positions of elitism.
Thus, having repudiated the socialism of these elitists, Karl Marx took the first step towards forming Marxist socialism.
The next step was to deal with the Utopian socialists. These socialists, such as Saint-Simon, who unlike the petty-bourgeois socialists, believed that revolution is basically useless; that revolution only brings about chaos and bloodshed. He reasoned that there is no need for using such extreme methods and that we must find ways to avoid having revolutions. The ways that Saint-Simon had in mind were, for a number of people with goodwill, a number of well-to-do socialists make an ideal world (a utopia) and then through peaceful negotiations from above and through forming social welfare by the elites who run the country, socialism will be established step-by-step and stage-by-stage. In other words, through peaceful actions and modernism, the intellectuals gather together and reach socialism reasonably and without a revolution and chaos and massacre.
Marx opposed this idea too; he not only opposed this theory, but also all the other similar theories that were presented by Robert Owen from the Great Britain. These Utopian socialists perhaps did make some positive changes. For example, in Lanark, Scotland, Robert Owen who was a capitalist himself, had a factory in which the workers did not sell their labour power, but in exchange for their needs they voluntarily worked there. In other words, they were not exploited and had a relatively higher income, and the level of production was rather good too. However, in these communities there was no place for the individual creativity of the workers. Everybody had to wear a uniform and look the same way and accept the same culture. This was exactly the problem that Marx opposed and called this method reactionary. He basically stood against these Utopian socialists and rejected them.
All of the petty-bourgeois Utopian socialists also had one similarity, and that was the fact that they had a completely undemocratic approach to the building of their ideal socialism. In fact, they were elitists who wanted to assume power in place of the working class, or they did not in fact recognise the creativity of the working class. They presumed that the working class should fit in the specific moulds and patterns which these elites had in mind in order to reach socialism. Thus, they were named "Utopian socialists" by Marx.
Therefore, the history of Marxist socialism is synonymous with the repudiation of the petty-bourgeois ideas, elitist ideas, utopian ideas, and the modernist ideas of a number of intellectuals. Based on the components of socialism, Marx discussed and opposed this method of building of socialism with his revolutionary-critical method many times throughout his life.
Marx and Engels were among the first communists who separated their organisation from petty-bourgeois radicalism on the theoretical and political levels. They wrote the following on petty-bourgeois radicalism in 1850:
"At the moment, while the democratic petty bourgeois are everywhere oppressed, they preach to the proletariat general unity and reconciliation; they extend the hand of friendship, and seek to found a great opposition party which will embrace all shades of democratic opinion; that is, they seek to ensnare the workers in a party organisation in which general social-democratic phrases prevail while their particular interests are kept hidden behind, and in which, for the sake of preserving the peace, the specific demands of the proletariat may not be presented. Such a unity would be to their advantage alone and to the complete disadvantage of the proletariat."[iv]
"While this utopian doctrinaire socialism, which subordinates the total movement to one of its stages, which puts in place of common social production the brainwork of individual pedants and, above all, in fantasy does away with the revolutionary struggle of the classes and its requirements by small conjurers' tricks or great sentimentality, while this doctrinaire socialism, which at bottom only idealizes present society, takes a picture of it without shadows, and wants to achieve its ideal athwart the realities of present society; while the proletariat surrenders this socialism to the petty bourgeoisie; while the struggle of the different socialist leaders among themselves sets forth each of the so-called systems as a pretentious adherence to one of the transit points of the social revolution as against another – the proletariat rallies more and more around revolutionary socialism, around communism, for which the bourgeoisie has itself invented the name of Blanqui. This socialism is the declaration of the permanence of the revolution, the class dictatorship of the proletariat as the necessary transit point to the abolition of class distinctions generally, to the abolition of all the relations of production on which they rest, to the abolition of all the social relations that correspond to these relations of production, to the revolutionizing of all the ideas that result from these social relations."[v]
What are the components of Marxist Revival?
First component: Marxist socialism is a science. It is neither an aspiration, nor a social model, nor a fixed ideology, nor a predetermined design to be imposed from above. Marxist socialism, like any other science, is based on a specific analysis of exiting reality that is dynamic. Marxist socialism is based on a programme for the transformation of capitalist society. Marxist socialism starts from the living practice and the critical-revolutionary critique of the oppressed masses of their society, and codifies a programme for the transformation of the present society into a new society. Marxist socialism is in fact the science of the comprehension and transformation of capitalist society. It is the science for dismantling the capitalist mode of production and replacing it with the new socialist mode of production for the benefit and social welfare of all the people of the world (in a socialist formation, social classes and therefore the state, have disappeared and the law of value does not operate, commodities are replaced by use-values and the products of labour. The ownership of the means of production in society takes on a social and collective character, supervision over the society's affairs is democratic and done by the people).
Scientific socialism is rational. It does not start from a utopia. It does not have a set formula for the liberation of humanity. Marx says: We are witnessing today that the workers' struggle is ending in socialism because of the logic of the struggle. Socialism emerges from the heart of the labour movement. The proletariat transforms itself in the process of its continuous class battles. The proletariat that we see today, that in some of the elitists' opinion is "uneducated" and "dispirited", according to Marx, will "in its continuous class battles" reach consciousness and will become "fit for political domination".
Marx explains how by starting with the present bitter realities in society, we must recognise what sorts of tendencies exist within it and what direction they are taking. The tendencies that goes further than the present situation should be reinforced by the intervention of the communists (the workers' vanguard party). On the basis of which demands that were realised in today's class life, can we support the working class in gaining the competence in class domination through the continuous battles. Marxist socialism is scientific because, we need to make these developments according to the present situation.
Second component: Marxist socialism is connected to the labour movement and forms itself from below, and it does not recognise the pretentious intellectual "elites" and "theoreticians" who have nothing to do with the labour movement. Marxist socialism condemns elitism. It rejects the intellectuals who suppose they can make decisions on behalf of the toiling masses and play the role of the educator, without even being taught themselves. Marxism in its origin, basically believes in the principle of the workers' self-liberation. Marx is correct to say that "the emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves." Marxism respects the individual creativity and innovation of the workers and everyone in society. Marxist socialism considers the class position as the only fundamental difference, and not differences in nationality, language, race, religion, and so on. Genuine Marxism does not believe that socialist consciousness is brought to the working class from the outside of this class, by some intellectuals. In direct opposition to the belief of the traditional left, Marxism believes that socialist consciousness emerges from within of the working class itself, and the practical leaders of the workers are their genuine leaders, not the pompous saviours, who have actually no contact with the labour movement but consider themselves the guardians of the working class.
Marxism is based on socialism from below and is not elitist. The revolutionary vanguard that Marx has in mind, absolutely did not mean that some individuals from outside the class, impose themselves on the labour movement and take political power.
Beginning with the critical-revolutionary practices of the toiling masses and everyone involved in social production, Marxism intended to advance society to socialism. The social engineering and model-building that some "scientists" and "professors" have put forward, are against this view. Marx states that we must build socialist society moving forward from the critical-revolutionary practice of the real human beings. Marxist socialism builds from below and has nothing to do with the dictatorship of charitable individuals from above. Marxism does not believe in a monolithic and ideological human being. Marx believed that the only way to reach socialism was for human beings to take control of their fate in all areas, including the economic sphere. Socialism covers all aspects of civil society. Certainly, it is the struggles of the working class that historically move this objective forward, but the picture of socialist society that it draws for us is: the withering away of all classes in society (including the proletariat itself). The proletariat's revolutionary dictatorship is a means for the withering away of classes. That means all human beings reaching socialist society, and not just the working class. The working class is the only class with the revolutionary prognosis, simply because the working class reaches this conclusion through the logic of its struggles.
Third component: Marxist socialism is completely democratic. It believes in independent labour organisations and democratic rights for everyone. It stands for the right to organise factions and the right to expression opinions for everyone in society. Genuine Marxism believes that the process of transition from capitalism to socialism will not be possible without observing and applying a democracy that is very much superior to the superficial democracy of the bourgeoisie. It means that political democracy, merged with economic democracy (for everyone in society to have political and economic equality), exists. Freedom of speech, press and democratic rights will be for all the people, and not just for the party, a small number of individuals or a special class. Marxist socialism demands no kind of superiority and discrimination with recourse to force and "dictatorship" in the society. The concept of the "dictatorship of the proletariat" by Marx has been distorted by the bourgeoisie and petty-bourgeoisie, specifically by the Stalinists. What Marx meant by the "dictatorship of the proletariat" state was not for the proletarian state to enforce "dictatorship" (with today's distorted concept of despotism by the bourgeoisie and Stalinism). He meant it to have the "right to veto" and not to impose despotism. In other words, this phrase is the highest form of democracy that ever existed in history. Unlike bourgeois democracy which is exactly dictatorship and imposition of the minority's will upon the majority of the toiling people in society, reinforcing the workers' democracy (revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat) is the only form of government that can respect the rights of all people, including those opposed to it. However, after the capitalist state has been toppled and the transition period from capitalism to socialism has begun, the new workers' state (soviet government), will stand up against a small minority's preparation for a comeback and its repressive apparatus (police and intelligence networks), and will resolutely defend the rights obtained by the majority in society and will not allow the return of capitalism and its repressive apparatus.
Marxist socialism is democratic. Socialism cannot be realised with bayonets. Marxist socialism believes in workers' independent organisations. Marx was one of the first socialists to defend workers' independent organisations, i.e., trade unions. Although they try to improve the present situation, these unions are the only organisations that allow the workers to take a step forward in their consciousness. Marxism believes in conscious interventions. The concept of "vanguard" from Marx's point of view is not for some to take over the workers' movement and call themselves "leaders", "professors" and "elites" and try to educate everybody else, but to have a good understanding and assessment of the present situation and tendencies, meaning with a scientific analysis and understanding the communist vanguards work within the movement and take it step-by-step forward towards the socialist revolution. This is what Marx meant by "vanguard": to intervene in the present situation and around workers' demands and tries to help them in their next step. The vanguard communists stand in the front row of the anti-capitalism front and have the most resolute elements and their only advantage is the fact that they realise the perspective and the final objective. Marx stated that the communists do not build a separate movement from the working class. They intervene in that movement as they find it but with the right to have a tendency and a democratic transition.
In the First International, the right to tendency was accepted: the supporters of Proudhon, Bakunin and even the European socialists argued against Marx. Everyone's rights were officially recognised.
All of humanity should have the right to intervene, not only the working class. While the political revolution means the conquest of political power by the proletariat and workers' councils, but the social revolution on the path to socialism must be done by all the people; this is not possible unless everyone in society intervenes in making decisions and power is spread among all the various layers of toilers in society.
Fourth component: Marxist socialism is radical and revolutionary. It takes workers' liberation beyond the legal framework. It stands for smashing the capitalist state apparatus. It looks for political struggles in the streets, in strikes and revolutions, and not behind the closed doors of the intellectuals' gatherings who are totally out of touch with the current anti-capitalists movements. The Marxist socialists stand for the preparation of the working class for general strikes and arming the masses for the mass insurrection and overthrowing the capitalist state.
Revolutionary Marxism believes in mass movements. Revolution is nothing but having the masses come on to the streets. Marxism believes in going beyond the existing legal institutions and smashing the state apparatus. Marx drew the following lessons from the Paris Commune in 1871: using the existing state apparatus, the masses cannot reach socialism. The proletariat must smash the state apparatus of the bourgeoisie. Marxism believes that the legislative, judiciary and executive must become integrated. The legislators must implement the law, and not some bureaucrats, professors and intellectuals. In other words, the state bureaucracy must be abolished. Marx stated that the free assemblies of the masses of independent producing should organise society. The Russian revolution of 1917 formed this kind of government through organising the workers' soviets.
Marxism also believes that economically socialism is not a national matter and it must be built on the international level. Marx claimed that if socialism is not built on the international level, then it will "return to the old filth", because the bourgeoisie is an international phenomenon. If communism is not established on the international level, then it will mean the distribution of poverty. The workers' socialist revolution can even occur in an underdeveloped country, but building socialism must be achieved on the international level.


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Val Haller, a music-obsessed baby boomer and the founder of the website Valslist.com, matches tracks from her generation to those of her 20-something sons' generation.
Baby boomers grew up on protest music. We looked at our world and spoke up through music. Today we barely look up at all.
No living American musician was as involved in as many waves of protests as Pete Seeger — from the Depression to the McCarthy era to the Vietnam War to Earth Day — and that was just his first 50 years. Mr. Seeger, who died on Monday at the age of 94, spoke about using music for political ends in a 2009 interview with Alec Wilkinson, author of "The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger." In the 1930s, Mr. Seeger said, he became aware that "the powers that be like to keep songs from questioning, asking questions which shouldn't be asked." Most of those songs, he noted, "were sentimental, beautiful, funny." "One of the purposes of music is to help you forget your troubles; another, help you learn from your troubles (some do), and some will help you do something about your troubles." Music, he said, can "help you understand the world."
Here is a video of some of that interview:
In tribute to Mr. Seeger's rich life and spirit, below are three original protest songs, with a cover that retells each.
'Tom Joad,' Original by Woody Guthrie
Bruce Springsteen, 'Ghost of Tom Joad'
Cover by Elvis Costello / Mumford & Sons
'Masters of War,' Original by Bob Dylan
Cover by Ed Sheeran
'Driven to Tears,' Original by The Police
Cover by Robert Downey Jr. and Sting
I didn't set out this past weekend to write a tribute to Pete Seeger. But in light of his passing, keeping protest music alive is more important than ever. Young artists: carry on.


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Reading Club structure
Keen Academy Reading Club follows a structure to encourage reading and discussion amongst its members. We have incorporated some activities from the ones mentioned below. Read on.
Welcoming Activity
To set participants at ease, many book clubs begin with a welcoming activity in which all members participate. This activity is relatively short and most often related to the book participants have read. For example, participants may share one new or interesting word they learned from the book, share a short entry from their reading journal, or name their favorite character from the book.
A portion of each book club meeting is usually devoted to announcements. For example, members may want to tell others about upcoming events at local libraries or schools, or discuss the book club schedule.
Book Discussion
Discussion is the heart of the book club, and the majority of time should be devoted to discussion. Depending upon the size of the group and the ages of the children, discussion can range from 20 minutes to about an hour. Whether your book club's discussion is led by parents, children, or both, it is a good idea to have some questions prepared ahead of time.
Extension Activities
Some book clubs provide opportunities for members to complete activities to accompany books. For instance, after reading "Call It Courage" by Armstrong Sperry, parents and their fourth-graders in one book group built miniature outrigger canoes based on the book's rich description of life in the South Pacific.
Both children and parents look forward to a portion of the meeting in which they can talk informally and share a snack. Many book clubs plan snacks related to the book being discussed, such as magic wand cookies for a Harry Potter meeting.
Book Rating
To close discussion of a book, many book clubs offer an opportunity for members to rate the book. Using an agreed-upon system, such as a star or number system, each book club member rates the book and briefly states the reason for his rating. The club's organizer can keep track of the books the club has read and the ratings each book received to share with other book clubs.
Book Talks and Book Selection
After the current book has been discussed fully, it is time to agree on the club's next selection. Many book clubs do this by having children bring in books they are interested in reading and doing a short "book talk" or a summary of their books. After book talks, the group can vote on the next book to be read. While it is ideal for children to find books that interest them, they may need some help with book selection. Parents as well as librarians and teachers can provide children with suggestions for books appropriate for book clubs.
Here is a partial listing of books a mother-daughter book club enjoyed over a four-year span of time. The book club was formed when the girls were in third grade and continued until the end of eighth grade. As the girls grew and matured, so did the books and discussions.
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan
To Grandmother's House We Go by Willo Davis Roberts
Goody Hall by Natalie Babbitt
Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
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Tang, W., Wan, T. and Huang, D., 2016. Interactive Thin Elastic Materials. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 27 (2), pp. 141-150.
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Despite great strides in past years are being made to generate motions of elastic 1 materials such as cloth and biological skin in virtual world, unfortunately, the computational cost of realistic high-resolution simulations currently precludes their use in interactive applications. Thin elastic materials such as cloth and biological skin often exhibit complex nonlinear elastic behaviors. However, modeling elastic nonlinearity can be computationally expensive and numerically unstable, imposing significant challenges for their use in interactive applications. This paper presents a novel simulation framework for simulating realistic material behaviours with interactive frame rate. Central to the framework is the use of a constraint-based multi-resolution solver for efficient and robust modelling of the material nonlinearity. We extend a strain limiting method to work on deformation gradients of triangulated surface models in three dimensional space with a novel data structure. The simulation framework utilises an iterative nonlinear Gauss-Seidel procedure and a multilevel hierarchy structure to achieve computational speed ups. As material non-linearity are generated by enforcing strain limiting constraints at a multilevel hierarchy, our simulation system can rapidly accelerate the convergence of the large constraint system with simultaneous enforcement of boundary conditions. The simplicity and efficiency of the framework makes simulations of highly realistic thin elastic materials substantially fast and is applicable of simulations for interactive applications.
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The user does get a LTPA token. But when I display a Domino page containing @Name([abbreviate]; @UserName), the name displayed contains a different character than the national one that is supposed to be a part of his name.
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Inspired by the true story of a little boy on his first camping trip, faced with an impossible choice.
Shot and edited in a weekend, this short is adapted from a story submitted to the Art Theater Co-op's Vacation Horror Story contest. It screened before "Sightseeers" in June 2013 as a part of the Late Nights at the Art program.


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AS Ramadan is about to end you might hear two phrases - Ramadan Kareem and Ramadan Mubarak.
The phrases have slightly different meanings. Here is all you should know about why they are different.
What is Ramadan?
Ramadan, the ninth month in the Islamic calendar, is a period of fasting observed by Muslims across the globe to celebrate "the best of times".
It celebrates the first time the Koran was revealed to Muhammad, according to Islamic belief.
Fasting is only obligatory for healthy adult Muslims, anyone who is suffering from an illness, travelling, elderly, pregnant, breastfeeding, diabetic, chronically ill or menstruating are exempt from the practice.
The fasting period, during which Muslims are not allowed to eat or drink, is from dawn to sunset and Muslims engage in increased prayer activity.
Muslims often try and practice an increased self-discipline during the month of Ramadan.
In 2018 it starts on the evening of May 15 and ends in the evening of June 14
What do Ramadan Mubarak and Ramadan Kareem mean?
Ramadan Mubarak translates to mean either "blessed Ramadan" or "happy Ramadan".
Ramadan Kareem means "may Ramadan be generous to you" but there is some debate as to if it should be used during Ramadan.
Are the greetings different and when are they used?
The greetings are different as Ramadan Mubarak offers a blessed or happy Ramadan to the person it is exchanged with.
Whereas Ramadan Kareem has debate around its use as it asks Ramadan to be generous to the other person.
There is some disagreement over its use as some people believe that asking Ramadan to be generous to you goes against the teachings of Islam, because Ramadan itself cannot be generous to an individual.
Saudi Arabian scholar Sheikh Al-Uthaymeen told the Express: "It should be said 'Ramadan Mubarak', or whatever is similar to it, because it is not Ramadan itself that gives so that it can be kareem (generous), in fact it is Allah who placed the grace in it, and made it a special month, and a time to perform one of the pillars of Islam."
Ramadan Mubarak is the most commonly used of the two as it was originally used by the prophet Muhammad
However, others believe using Ramadan Kareem is fine because they say the phrase represents the blessings that Allah gives his followers during the month.
Jordan's Iftaa' Department, which is responsible for religious decrees, last year ruled: "Describing Ramadan to be honourable does not in fact attribute the quality to the month.
"Rather, the word comes from the fact that God gives his worshippers blessings during the month.
"It's thus acceptable to call the thing by the name of its reason or cause."
Some Muslims view Ramadan Kareem as a more respectful way of referring to Ramadan.
Both greetings can be used throughout the whole month of Ramadan but Ramadan Murbarak tends to be the more commonly used of the two.


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This is the tutorial to show you how you can make your own Heart Cushions.
Velvety fabric(Half meter for 1 cushion) :Being velvety adds luster and soft touch to the Cushion. I choose Chocolate and cream colors.
Satin Ribbon(1.5 mtrs for 1 cushion) : I choose same colors as the fabric.
Fabric Glue.
Measuring tape.
Soft Cushion stuffing.
Tapestry needle.
And a bit of patience.
How To:
Now let us see how to make these lovely cushions.
Step 1:
First of all fold the fabric in the middle.
Now make an outline of heart shape over it probably with a chalk. The measurements can be seen in the picture below. Don't cut the fabric over the chalk outline but after almost leaving half inch more. The outline will be used to stitch over and extra fabric will come inside!
step 2:
With this done you will have two sides of the heart.
pick one of the sides and start outlining it with the ribbon.
Ribbon is attached from the right side.
You can either Fold ribbon or use it full.
Near the curves fold ribbon a bit and continue to stitch.(ref pic below)
I know this part is a bit tricky.
Step 3:
Place this on other side of the heart with both right faces of fabric facing each other and wrong faces outwards and stitch them together.
You can take the first stitch(to join the ribbon) as the guide for your second stitch(joining the sides).
Leave a space or opening of about 10-15 cms to turn it inside out.
Step 4:
Turn it inside out and start stuffing it.
You will see the heart shape becoming prominent.
When you are done with stuffings close the opening with the help of your tapestry needle and thread.
Small stitches are recommended so that they wont show.
when done you will have a cushion like this:
Step 5:
You are almost done. Now it is time to paste some rhinestones over it.
Fabric glue is fabric friendly adhesive used to paste any sort of applique to the fabric.
It is must have tool in your fabric crafts.
How to use this glue: Put a thin layer of fabric glue over the applique and then put the applique over the fabric.
Press for 10 seconds and then release.
Wait for 24 hrs before you actually use your fabric.
So I kept ,y cushions for 24 hr before i used them in my bedroom to complement my chocolate and cream color bedding!
They look phenomenal.
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Biogen: 1, Carl Icahn: 0, Yahoo: ?
Look out Jerry Yang, Carl Icahn now has one fewer distraction as he prepares to propose his slate of dissident board nominees at Yahoo's Aug. 1 shareholder meeting.
At its own shareholder meeting yesterday, Biogen (BIIB) investors voted to support management's preferred board candidates and to reject a slate of directors proposed by Icahn, who's been squabbling with the company's leadership in call-and-response SEC filings since its failed effort to sell Biogen last year. With 4% of Biogen's stock, Icahn had been keen on a sale and accused its board of screwing things up when one didn't occur.
Biogen shareholders obviously didn't see things that way and seem to have dealt Icahn a knockout blow. "I don't think there's any way in which outside observers could fairly criticize Biogen management for the way they handled the sale process," said Eric Schmidt, an analyst with Cowen in New York. "They can't be faulted or praised. They have done the best they can with the cards they were dealt."
Meanwhile, the slate of dissident directors Icahn's put together for Yahoo (YHOO) continues to attract support. Said one Yahoo shareholder, "He should go ahead. It's an indicator of the widespread dissatisfaction of shareholders with Yahoo's management and the board. If nothing else, (it's) to keep them honest and nobody's really sure if Microsoft (MSFT) is completely out of the picture."


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Virgin Media has expanded its London Underground Wi-Fi service across 20 more stations, bringing to the total number of sub-surface stations covered to 92.
With a further 28 stations due to be connected at the beginning of next year, Virgin Media is on track to reach 120 Wi-Fi enabled stations by early 2013.
Commuters at the newly optimised stations, which include Clapham Common, Notting Hill Gate and Camden Town, can join the 800,000 other users already registered for the Virgin Media service.
Gareth Powell, Director of Strategy and Service Development for London Underground, said: "Thousands of our customers are already using WiFi at Tube stations to keep up-to-date with live travel information, news and entertainment. The arrival of WiFi at these extra 20 stations will allow even more of our passengers to connect to the net while they are on the move across London."
Delivered by Virgin Media's fibre-optic cable network, the London Underground Wi-Fi was launched in July as a free service to all tube users. Next year, however, whilst Virgin Media customers will retain use of the service free of charge, other ISP users will be required to pay.
Ahead of the upcoming pay wall, Virgin Media recently announced a partnership with EE and Vodafone UK, meaning customers of all three networks will have access to the service at no extra cost.
Other network users will be able to opt into a Pay-As-You-Go service, due to be launched the beginning of next year.
How have you found the London underground Wi-Fi service so far? Do you think the service could be improved? Let us know via the Trusted Reviews Twitter and Facebook feeds or via the comments boxes below.


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LONG POND, Pa. --For the second week in a row, Jeff Gordon will be filling in for Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the No. 88 Nationwide Chevrolet SS.
While Gordon said the experience has been a bit "strange" and "awkward," it's been "fun" as well acclimating into the No. 88 team.
The four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion said communication has been key throughout this process, whether it be between himself and the No. 88 team or with his teammate, Earnhardt.
"He likes to FaceTime," Gordon said of Earnhardt. "He's just real interested in what we're up to and how it's going and things we're working on."
And meshing with the No. 88 team is atop the priority list for Gordon.
"A lot of it through this process is evaluating where they're at as a team and some of the setups and whether I'm going to be making the same comments he was making when he was in the car," Gordon said. "So far I feel like it's been very, very similar."
Following a 13th-place finish last week at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Gordon will take the green flag Sunday at a track where he's claimed six wins and 32 top-10 finishes.
"It was nice to get that race under my belt at Indy," Gordon said. "I feel a little more confident in understanding the car and the limits and the competition and working with (No. 88 team crew chief) Greg (Ives) and the No. 88 team. I felt like they did a really, really nice job in Indianapolis."
While the driver said last week's experience at Indianapolis strengthened his confidence in the No. 88 team and his own driving skills, there are still challenges to face.
"When you're not in the car week in and week out, going through that process on a regular basis, it's hard to get in a rhythm, hard to be smooth and be consistent," Gordon explained. "I feel like I've got a pretty good feel for the grip level of the car so then it comes down to getting balance right but because of the inconsistencies there -- trying to understand how deep can I drive it into the corner, do I need to arc it more with this aero package -- it's a few little details that are different in the way the cars drive."
The experience has been surreal so far for Gordon, who said he never could have anticipated something like this happening. However, he said his main focus is doing the absolute best he can for the No. 88 team.
"For me, I'm out there trying to gain that confidence and consistency back and I'm also trying to evaluate the car to give them feedback on how we can make it go faster," Gordon said. "It's not easy, I can tell you that. It's all about doing it when it counts, not what times are on the board. It's about when we go to qualify, when they drop the green flag for the race. Other than that, everything's a learning experience for me and the team up until race time."


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Jesus said in Matthew 28:19, "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit". This great commission is our mission and thus our goal is singular; to make disciples in our church and the community we live in. To that end, we have established this Vision: Connect. Grow. Reach.
Acts 2:42 "And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers." Our prayer is that the Holy Spirit would draw people to Him so that we would in turn invite them to come along with us in the spirit of brotherly love and authentic relationships–introducing them to God and our church family through the following sources: Sunday services, House2House Groups, Youth Ministry, Children's Ministry, New to the Fellowship Lunches, Outreaches and Events, Website, Facebook, Radio and more.
Ephesians 4:12 "…for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ." The Book of Acts is our model to grow believers in strong devotion to the Lord, building us up to be equipped to live as committed followers of Jesus Christ–emphasizing sound teaching through the entire Bible, prayer, worship, and unity of the church. Some other resources we offer at CCM include: House2House Groups and the Cross Training Discipleship School. We also have opportunities to serve and grow in several ministries, including: Usher & Greeter Ministry, Children & Youth Ministry, Music Ministry, to list a few.
Acts 1:8 "But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." Our desire is that everyone connected to our church would be involved in the ministry. We pray that the Holy Spirit would empower us to use our gifts to love our neighbor and ignite a passion for evangelism to reach the world around us, through missions, events, outreaches and evangelism.


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Desktop Software Revolution in the Making?
The hype around the use (…or rather non-use) of Vista continues to be in full swing as we close out April 2008, a mere 2 months before the "official" Microsoft mandated end date for availability of Windows XP on new computers. Computerworld published an article on the web today "Vista 'inevitable' for enterprises, says Forrester analyst". The article has prompted numerous comments from a mixed variety of interested parties, with an equally mixed bag of thoughts and predjudices.
I'm not really sure why there seems to be so much "fuss" around the article in question, or the Forrester analysts comments more precisely. Personally, I took the view that Vista was inevitable for me soon after it was released. As an independent software developer I have neither the desire nor the clout to demand how my clients run their business or their investments on hardware and infrastructure. My job becomes providing them with what they need and desire to effectively run their business applications using the tools they choose – I just knew Vista would be a part of that.
Please do not misunderstand — I'm not necessarily an early adopter of new OS's or technology for that matter. In my opinion, Vista offers little for the average business user. Looking at the fancy ribbon bars etc. that are part of MS Office 2008 I find pretty, but just too much. They are pleasing on the eyes, but add little other than clutter and confusion for the casual user. Vista vs XP is a similar story at the functionality level.
It seems to me that IF there is ever going to be significant exodus from Microsoft Windows desktops it will be NOW! I believe that Microsoft has never been so vulnerable — but I also see no real alternatives on the horizon other than perhaps Linux, which by its very nature as open source is vulnerable. If so many don't like Vista — it could be a long wait for the next Microsoft product. What's the alternative? Does somebody know of the next disruptive OS that's just waiting for the day to jump out and tell the world "I'm Here!" and have the world IT organizations gobble it up?


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BRIDGEWATER, Mass. -- Bridgewater State University freshman Gilley Kabamba has been selected as the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) Men's Cross Country Rookie of the Week.
Kabamba placed 43rd out of a field of 266 runners at the 22nd Annual James Earley Invitational hosted by Westfield State University this past weekend at Stanley Park. The Lynn, Massachusetts product covered the eight-kilometer layout in a time of 27:58.81.
Up next on the schedule, the BSU men's cross country team will compete at the Connecticut College Invitational held on Saturday at Harkness Memorial State Park.