[Marxism-Thaxis] Beware of the new racist counteroffensive

Beware of the new racist counteroffensive by: Sam Webb March 25 2010 tags: racism, African Americans, labor, Obama, ultra-right Many people say that racism is simply an attitude or a prejudice of one people toward another people. That allowed Republican senators to make the ludicrous claim

[Marxism-Thaxis] Crisis: The Motor of Capitalism

Crisis: The Motor of Capitalism by: André Orléan, Le Monde Truthout 29 March 2010 http://www.truthout.org/the-crisis-motor-capitalism58234 Capitalism's history coincides with the history of its crises. Over the 1970-2007 period, there were at least 124 banking crises, 208 exchange rate crises

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Evolution of Culture

CeJ jannuzi Why did we need dogs to develop gesturing. We could gesture to people. But drove forward that development? There is a really cute program on TV here in Japan that shows the adventures of a chimpanzee (who is very socialized to humans) who is paired up with a bull dog. The two animals

[Marxism-Thaxis] Arms Control Experts Applaud Announcement of New Nuclear Reductions Treaty with Russia

CeJ jannuzi CB:Nope. Nuclear disarmament is still species-being project numero uno. Which is why Israel ought to be disarmed. I think they are the only country that ever threatened to use its nukes

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Great British Tea Heist

The Great British Tea Heist Botanist Robert Fortune traveled to China and stole trade secrets of the tea industry, discovering a fraud in the process By Sarah Rose Smithsonian.com March 09, 2010 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Great-British-Tea-Heist.html [This is an excerpt

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Evolution of Culture

Carrol Cox wrote: This was a fascinating post, I learned a lot from it. But it seems to me the understandings of language and change it describes could be expressed in other terms than the metaphor of evolution. Natural selection, applied to human history, including the history of

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Riddle of Antagonism: (still at work)

Waistline2 Antagonism: Antagonism means the mutual resistance or active opposition of two opposing forces, physical or mental; active opposition to a force. Antagonism is a form of change resolution by

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Evolution of Culture

CB: You're the linguist. But to me, the essence of language is symbolling. Using something to represent something that it is not. The co-operation of dogs and humans was most likely very adaptive for dogs. I bet their population is a lot bigger than that of wolves , now. But the theory about

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Great British Tea Heist

Interesting article, but with a few comments seem in order. Tea is really a type of camellia bush (a broad-leafed evergreen), which grows as part of the undergrowth of southern temperate and sub-tropical broad-leaf evergreen forests across S. Asia. Hence, the great tea cultures of China, SE Asia,