Interior at Paddington. Lucian Freud.
Corporations continuously shift responsibility for ethical consumption to the consumer, the worker, the labourer. The neo-liberal ideology has resulted in much fighting between different sections of the underclass. To salvage the livability of our planet, we need to unite and hold corporations accountable.
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The Steelworks. Maximilien Luce. Scientists have long been alienated from the results of their labour. Until we have direct say in the dissemination of our work, we will remain ensnared by for-profit, vanity publishers, who do not value the interests of scientists or the public.
Scientists ought to organize and retake control over scientific publishing from for-profit, vanity publishers. Why? This article outlines the benefits of a nationalized Canadian Journal of Science for scientists and the public.
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Reminiscences of Youth. William Kurelek. I dream of a scientific publishing paradigm free of capitalist corruption.
The battle lines have been drawn. Scientific funding agencies are taking on for-profit publishers and demanding that research be published in open access journals. Is this enough? I argue no. Instead, we ought to capitalize on the anger of scientists and push for full nationalization of scientific publishing.
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Peupliers, temps gris, Éragny. Camille Pissarro.
Advocates for capitalism have tried to link scientific progress with a profit motive. Yet, run-away capitalism has undoubtedly ushered some of the largest medical problems facing the world - lung cancer, type II diabetes, antibiotic resistance. Capitalism, in its pursuit of profit, creates problems that can be tackled by a capitalist model, if profitable, or, if not, left by the wayside, a new fixture in our late-stage capitalist society.
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Young Breton Woman. Paul Gauguin.
Bob Dylan is remembered as an integral member of hippy movement, having written political anthems like The Times They Are a-Changin'. However, by 1964, Bob Dylan began writing more and more about individualism and less about socialism. This shift in song-writing is on full display in the song, To Ramona.
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