Developing a philosophically grounded alternative to capitalism
The dream of the imminent end of the world inspired the struggle of the early Christians against the Roman Empire and gave them confidence in victory. Scientific insight into the inevitable disintegration, now taking place before our eyes, of the prevailing social order . . . is sufficient guarantee that the moment a truly proletarian revolution breaks out, the conditions for its immediate initial (if certainly not idyllic) modus operandi will also be there. –Karl Marx
Fire and Dust
This essay attempts to rethink the concept of pedagogy from the vantage point of current US domestic and foreign policy. It advances the concept of socialist pedagogy to build upon the notion of creating a concrete utopia outside of the law of value of capitalist social relations. Some general concepts of a post-capitalist society are proposed.
Thrombus formation after aortic valvular replacement using Björk-Shiley valve occluding the right coronary orifice.
We describe a patient with unstable angina due to occlusion of the orifice of the right coronary artery by thrombus formation after aortic valvular replacement using a Björk-Shiley valve. After strict anticoagulant treatment, transesophageal echocardiography demonstrated disappearance of the thrombus formation around the orifice of the right coronary artery.