[Marxism-Thaxis] Obama just announced the most anti-war foreign policy doctrine in decades

2014-05-29 Thread Charles Brown
babylonsister http://www.democraticunderground.com/ Obama just announced the most anti-war foreign policy doctrine in decades (Vox) President Obama made a commencement speech at West Point on Wednesday that the White House had aggressively billed as a grand articulation of Obama's foreign policy

[Marxism-Thaxis] LISTSERV

2014-05-28 Thread Charles Brown
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISTSERV The term Listserv (written by the registered trademark licensee, L-Soft International, Inc., as LISTSERV) has been used to refer to a few early electronic mailing list software applications, allowing a sender to send one email to the list, and then

[Marxism-Thaxis] How The Tea Party Toasted Itself

2014-05-27 Thread Charles Brown
http://take10randa.blogspot.com/2014/05/how-tea-party-toasted-itself.html Monday, May 26, 2014 How The Tea Party Toasted Itself By Randa Morris Time after time we hear Tea Party representatives telling us that their extreme policies are what the majority of Americans want and the entire

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fwd: Well organized 99%'ers arrested protesting McDonald's low pay

2014-05-22 Thread Charles Brown
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2014/05/well-organized-99ers-arrested.html Well organized 99%'ers arrested protesting McDonald's low pay By Charlie Brown More than 100 well organized McDonald's workers and their activist supporters were arrested protesting low pay at the company's

[Marxism-Thaxis] For the People Owning the Too-Big-To-Fail Corporations

2014-05-21 Thread Charles Brown
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2014/05/for-people-owning-too-big-to-fail_18.html Labor Power Sunday, May 18, 2014 For the People Owning the Too-Big-To-Fail Corporations By Charlie Brown It is important to point out that the Too-big-to-fail banks and corporations did in fact fail back

[Marxism-Thaxis] Occupy Economics facebook page

2014-05-20 Thread Charles Brown
Occupy Economics https://www.facebook.com/groups/372946956055502/887749277908598/?comment_id=889280854422107notif_t=group_comment_reply Open GroupOpen Group The purpose of this group is to establish a forum of mutual education and problem solving. The focus will be the many current practical and

[Marxism-Thaxis] The matter with Kansas now: The Tea Party, the 1 percent and delusional Democrats

2014-05-20 Thread Charles Brown
The matter with Kansas now: The Tea Party, the 1 percent and delusional Democrats http://www.salon.com/2014/02/16/the_matter_with_kansas_now_the_tea_party_the_1_percent_and_delusional_democrats/ ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list

[Marxism-Thaxis] P H I L O S O P H Y P A T H W A Y S

2014-05-14 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.philosophypathways.com/newsletter/current.html P H I L O S O P H Y P A T H W A Y S ISSN 2043-0728 http://www.philosophypathways.com/newsletter/ Issue No 185 12th May 2014 Edited by Peter Jones CONTENTS I. 'City in Words' by Lukas Clark-Memler II. 'Hegel's

[Marxism-Thaxis] Free All Caring and Re-productive Labourers

2014-05-13 Thread Charles Brown
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2014/05/free-all-caring-and-re-productive.html Labor Power Tuesday, May 13, 2014 Free All Caring and Re-productive Labourers ! I named this blog Labor Power, because its theme will be the working class , the 99%. One form of labor which is not always clearly

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fwd: H.R.4277 - Humphrey-Hawkins 21st Century Full Employment and Training Act of 2012 text

2014-05-09 Thread Charles Brown
-- Forwarded message -- From: c b cb31...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:09 PM Subject: H.R.4277 - Humphrey-Hawkins 21st Century Full Employment and Training Act of 2012 text To: charles brown cb31...@gmail.com http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h4277/text

[Marxism-Thaxis] This is the full 50 volumes of the Lawrence Wishart MECW in searchable, retail-like quality.

2014-05-06 Thread Charles Brown
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/10041593 This is the full 50 volumes of the Lawrence Wishart MECW in searchable, retail-like quality. Marx/Engels Collected Works (MECW) is the largest collection of translations into English of the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It contains all works

[Marxism-Thaxis] For the People Owning the Too-Big-To-Fail Corporations

2014-05-05 Thread Charles Brown
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2014/05/for-people-owning-too-big-to-fail.html?showComment=1399298378827#c8724000205712259992 ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to:

[Marxism-Thaxis] Social Scientific American

2014-05-03 Thread Charles Brown
Social Scientific American http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/many-prisoners-on-death-row-are-wrongfully-convicted/?WT.mc_id=SA_BS_20140502 ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu To change your options or

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature. with an Appendix

2014-05-02 Thread Charles Brown
https://web.archive.org/web/20131007002835/http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1841/dr-theses/ ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to:

[Marxism-Thaxis] The French economist Thomas Piketty

2014-05-01 Thread Charles Brown
The French economist Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics) discussed his new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century at the Graduate Center. The Graduate Center at CUNY – April 23, 2014 Capital in the Twenty-First Century https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heOVJM2JZxI The French economist

[Marxism-Thaxis] Imagine Living in a Socialist USA: A conversation with Michael Steven Smith and Bhaskar Sunkara

2014-05-01 Thread Charles Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIYlFQ5P4D8 Imagine Socialism starts in a few! Imagine Living in a Socialist USA: A conversation with Michael Steven Smith and Bhaskar Sunkara Some 48 percent of young people have a favorable view of socialism according to a recent poll. What might this new

[Marxism-Thaxis] Workers on the Edge

2014-04-22 Thread Charles Brown
from Peggy: http://prospect.org/article/workers-edge#.U1Z071n8VIQ.facebook ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to:

[Marxism-Thaxis] Marx and Engels On Literature and Art

2014-04-22 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/art/index.htm ct Archive Marx and Engels On Literature and Art Source: Marx Engels On Literature and Art. Progress Publishers. 1976; Transcribed: by Andy Blunden. Preface

[Marxism-Thaxis] Genes or cultural beliefs cannot anticipate every situation that each individual being will face in its lifetime

2014-04-19 Thread Charles Brown
Proof that individuals have free will: Genes or cultural beliefs cannot anticipate every situation that each individual being will face in its lifetime, therefore neither genes nor cultural beliefs can specify by an algorithm ,as they say these days, how the individual organism is to respond to

[Marxism-Thaxis] Bruce Bartlett:Wankers overwhelmingly blame the poor for being poor.

2014-04-18 Thread Charles Brown
Bruce Bartlett 16 hrs · Wankers overwhelmingly blame the poor for being poor. http://cdn.yougov.com/cumulus_uploads/document/14m9ixw1kk/tabs_HP_poverty_20140416.pdf HR Loveless - The GOP 'strategy' (and it obviously works) is to create an imagined enemy (usually the underprivileged, but

[Marxism-Thaxis] Carl Bloice remembered, 1939-2014

2014-04-18 Thread Charles Brown
https://portside.org/2014-04-17/carl-bloice-remembered-1939-2014 Carl Bloice remembered, 1939-2014 Carl Bloice, Portside moderator, journalist, editor, political theorist, activist and teacher, died April 12 in San Francisco, after a long battle with cancer. He was 75. He was one of the founding

[Marxism-Thaxis] tendency to monopoly

2014-04-14 Thread Charles Brown
Charles Brown 19 mins Chapter Thirty-Two: Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation/ in a word concentration. In another word, monopoly. One capitalist always kills many. The board game Monopoly captures the concept well. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch32.htm

[Marxism-Thaxis] Eugene Kamenka The Ethical Foundations of Marxism, et al

2014-04-12 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.marxists.org/archive/kamenka/index.htm Eugene Kamenka 1928-1994 Eugene Kamenka was born in Cologne in 1928 and taken to Australia in 1937. He was educated at the Sydney Technical High School, and went on to take first-class honours in philosophy at

[Marxism-Thaxis] vietnam-s-solution-corrupt-bankers-firing-squads

2014-04-12 Thread Charles Brown
Revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is one step beyond the Iceland model. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/vietnam/140402/vietnam-s-solution-corrupt-bankers-firing-squads Vietnam is sentencing corrupt bankers to death, by firing squad Others just get life

[Marxism-Thaxis] The shortening of the working-day is its ( the true realm of freedom's), basic prerequisite.

2014-04-11 Thread Charles Brown
The shortening of the working-day is its ( the true realm of freedom's), basic prerequisite. http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/ch48.htm Hurray for May Day ! The Haymarketters sought a shortening of the work-day. http://www.art.com/products/p22113302828/product.htm... A Garland

[Marxism-Thaxis] Marxism and Ethics

2014-04-11 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.marxists.org/subject/ethics/index.htm Marxism and Ethics A collection of articles by Marxists on the ethical problems of Marxism. Social-Democracy Ethics of Social-Democracy, Joseph Dietzgen 1875 E. Belfort Bax Socialism and Religion, June 1884

[Marxism-Thaxis] Marxists' focused political economic atheism

2014-04-09 Thread Charles Brown
I'd say the main reason Marxists must be atheists in analysis of the class struggle is that the bourgeoisie are atheists or their effective activity in class struggle and their political actions to keep the working class ruled and oppressed are based in thinking and analysis that does not at all

[Marxism-Thaxis] ML King on W.E.B. Dubois

2014-04-08 Thread Charles Brown
http://pmeaye.tripod.com/kingondubois.pdf ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis

[Marxism-Thaxis] The struggle to be equal to the rich in history as a history of class struggles is a human natural and therefore natural moral law by inference from its empirical universality.

2014-04-07 Thread Charles Brown
I'd say there is morality or ethics of equality of all human beings implied in historical materialism or the theory underpinning _The Manifesto of the Communist Party_ . Because class struggle resistance to exploitation and oppression by the exploited and oppressed classes is trans-historical, in

[Marxism-Thaxis] /web-dubois-picking-where-marx-left-off

2014-04-04 Thread Charles Brown
http://voices.yahoo.com/web-dubois-picking-where-marx-left-off-143407.html?cat=9 W.E.B. DuBois: Picking Up Where Marx Left Off Katherine Jones, Yahoo Contributor Network Dec 25, 2006 More: W.E.B. Dubois Proletariat Feudal Social Theory Marxist FlagPost a comment Many people have tried to poke

[Marxism-Thaxis] If the universe were only 6, 500 years old, how could we see the light from anything more distant than the Crab Nebula? Tyson asks

2014-04-02 Thread Charles Brown
It is the male supremacist family, private property and the state, so-called civilization, that originate about 6,000 years ago , not the universe or even the human species. The human species , homo sapiens, is at least 40,000 years old. The Bible is picking up the origin of domestication of

[Marxism-Thaxis] Socialism overcomes and preserves capitalism

2014-04-01 Thread Charles Brown
David I think the west is eventually (in the next generation) going to actually embrace socialism, and from there, it will likely develop and become full-blown communism. That's my two cents. I have substantial agreement with you on this. I think more in terms of objective tendencies within

[Marxism-Thaxis] Socialism overcomes and preserves capitalism

2014-04-01 Thread Charles Brown
This is our goal : the transformation of capitalistic private property, _already practically resting on socialized production_, into socialized property. We can preserve practically all of that is already practically resting on socialized production and overcome the private property with

[Marxism-Thaxis] Live a good life

2014-03-28 Thread Charles Brown
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=811299465564334set=a.301251116569174.86774.123916950969259type=1theater Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but

[Marxism-Thaxis] How big corporations really buy off politicians.

2014-03-28 Thread Charles Brown
Bruce Bartlett shared a link. 2 hours ago How big corporations really buy off politicians. http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/director-watch/elaine-chao ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu To change your

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Western illusion of human nature: with reflections on the long history of hierarchy, equality and the sublimation of anarchy in the Wes

2014-03-28 Thread Charles Brown
The Western illusion of human nature: with reflections on the long history of hierarchy, equality and the sublimation of anarchy in the West, and comparative notes on other conceptions of the human condition Marshall David Sahlins Prickly Paradigm Press, Jun 24, 2008 - History - 112 pages 4

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Social and Historical Context of the Detroit Bankruptcy by Jerry White

2014-03-28 Thread Charles Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rMzgEwuTpwfeature=youtu.be ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis

[Marxism-Thaxis] Killing Conservative Books: The Shocking End Of A Publishing Gold Rush

2014-03-23 Thread Charles Brown
A decade ago, mainstream publishers became convinced they could make millions by churning out books for the right -- and now the bubble may be bursting. From Allan Bloom to Ann Coulter. http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/killing-conservative-books-the-shocking-end-of-a-publishing

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fwd: Miles Davis - Nature Boy (1955)

2014-03-19 Thread Charles Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bn9P07Fj8k ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis

[Marxism-Thaxis] What is Anthropology about ?

2014-03-17 Thread Charles Brown
What is Anthropology about ? _The Essence of Anthropology_ defines Anthropology as the study of human beings in all times and places, systematically and objectively, a very good definition. Studying all of something , the whole or holistically, systematically and objectively is scientific study

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Sexes Throughout Nature by Antoinette Brown Blackwell

2014-03-05 Thread Charles Brown
The Sexes Throughout Nature From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Sexes Throughout Nature Title page of The Sexes Throughout Nature Author Antoinette Brown Blackwell Publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons Publication date 1875 The Sexes Throughout Nature is a book written by Antoinette Brown

[Marxism-Thaxis] Darwinian Feminism

2014-03-02 Thread Charles Brown
https://www2.bc.edu/~richarad/lcb/fea/scmla.html Darwinian Feminism Special Session, South Central Modern Language Association Meeting Austin, Texas., October 31-November 2, 2002 Chair: Nancy Easterlin, University of New Orleans In just over thirty years, the

[Marxism-Thaxis] The two fundamental types of magic, according to Frazier

2014-02-21 Thread Charles Brown
85. The two fundamental types of magic, according to Frazier, are and ___. ANS: imitative (sympathetic), contagious TYPE: Factual PG: 331 86. A __ is a spiritual movement promising resurrection of

[Marxism-Thaxis] Chapter 4: Human Evolution

2014-02-18 Thread Charles Brown
Chapter 4: Human Evolution Multiple Choice 1. Which of the following statements is considered to be true? A.human biology has changed more than human culture B. human culture has changed more than human biology C. human culture and biology change at differing rates

[Marxism-Thaxis] The words subhuman mongrel, which Ted Nugent called President Barack Obama, were used by the Nazis to justify the genocide of the Jewish community.

2014-02-18 Thread Charles Brown
Wolf Blitzer: The words subhuman mongrel, which Ted Nugent called President Barack Obama, were used by the Nazis to justify the genocide of the Jewish community. http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/feb/18/wolf-blitzer/wolf-blitzer-ted-nugent-used-nazi-terminology-subh/ Wolf

[Marxism-Thaxis] take home quiz

2014-02-16 Thread Charles Brown
Ant 152 Professor Brown - take home quiz Chapter 2: Biology and Evolution Multiple Choice 1. How do anthropologists classify the Nez Perce story about Coyote and Wishpoosh? A.apocalyptic myth B. salvation myth C. children's myth D.creation myth 2.

[Marxism-Thaxis] What is anthropology about ?; A.L. Kroeber

2014-02-16 Thread Charles Brown
https://archive.org/stream/anthropologyrace00kroe#page/n15/mode/2up ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to:

[Marxism-Thaxis] Test questions on chapter on Human Evolution

2014-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
Chapter 4: Human Evolution Multiple Choice 1. Which of the following statements is considered to be true? A.human biology has changed more than human culture B. human culture has changed more than human biology C. human culture and biology change at differing rates

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism

2014-02-12 Thread Charles Brown
Got this from Jim Farmelant: http://www.roberttrivers.com/Robert_Trivers/Publications_files/Trivers%201971.pdf ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to:

[Marxism-Thaxis] The_Hunger_Games

2014-02-10 Thread Charles Brown
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games_%28film%29 ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis

[Marxism-Thaxis] Quiz #1

2014-01-31 Thread Charles Brown
CB: Based on expert advice from Lb-observers-teachers, no multiple choice questions; open book Anthropology 152 Professor Brown Quiz #1 1. What is anthropology ? What are its four sub-fields and what do they do ? What is the anthropological

[Marxism-Thaxis] One of the questions every great biologist invariably faces is Do we debate the creationists?

2014-01-28 Thread Charles Brown
Lenin said truth is derived from correction of error. When I debated Intelligent Design theory, it occurred to me to think of Natural Selection as Intelligible Happenstance Charles http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fun:Austrian_school Fun:Austrian school Jump to: navigation, search [edit]

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Austrian theory of everything--workers are pa id too much.

2014-01-28 Thread Charles Brown
: Charles Brown cb31...@gmail.com To: Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues raised by Karl Marx and the thinkers he inspired marxism-thaxis@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu, marxist-debate marxist-deb...@googlegroups.com, a-list a-l...@lists.econ.utah.edu, lbo-talk lbo-t...@lbo-talk.org, pen

[Marxism-Thaxis] Assholes like this guy should be reading up on the French Revolution and what happened to people like him.

2014-01-28 Thread Charles Brown
Bruce Bartlett Assholes like this guy should be reading up on the French Revolution and what happened to people like him. http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/28/news/economy/super-rich-attack/index.html?section=money_news_economy ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing

[Marxism-Thaxis] ANT 153 INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY- Syllabus

2014-01-27 Thread Charles Brown
ANT 153 INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 34796 ANT 153 TR 4:00pm -5:55pm Physical Anthropology is the study of humans from a biological perspective: genetics, comparative behavior of human and nonhuman primates, human growth and development, the concept of race and racial variation, fossil

[Marxism-Thaxis] Chapter 2: Biology and Evolution

2014-01-26 Thread Charles Brown
Chapter 2: Biology and Evolution Multiple Choice 1. How do anthropologists classify the Nez Perce story about Coyote and Wishpoosh? A.apocalyptic myth B. salvation myth C. children’s myth D.creation myth ANS: D TYPE: Applied PG: 31

[Marxism-Thaxis] Describe the discipline of anthropology and make connections among each of its four fields.

2014-01-26 Thread Charles Brown
žChapter 1 Objectives Describe the discipline of anthropology and make connections among each of its four fields. žCompare anthropology to the sciences and humanities. žIdentify the characteristics of anthropological field methods and the ethics of anthropological research. žExplain the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Describe the discipline of anthropology and make connections among each of its four fields.

2014-01-26 Thread Charles Brown
biologically, historically and scientifically Charles Brown cb31...@gmail.com wrote: žChapter 1 Objectives Describe the discipline of anthropology and make connections among each of its four fields. žCompare anthropology to the sciences and humanities. žIdentify the characteristics of anthropological

[Marxism-Thaxis] Today, Darwin’s evolutionary theory is supported by data from all of the following except

2014-01-24 Thread Charles Brown
Today, Darwin’s evolutionary theory is supported by data from all of the following except: A.population genetics B. comprehensive understanding of heredity C. molecular genetics D.proto-genetics ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list

[Marxism-Thaxis] A reproductively isolated population or group capable of interbreeding to produce fertile offspring is a:

2014-01-24 Thread Charles Brown
A reproductively isolated population or group capable of interbreeding to produce fertile offspring is a: A.genus B. category C. family D.species What is the name of the human species ? What is the name of the human genus, the genus that the human species shares with other

[Marxism-Thaxis] Debates about US federal fiscal and monetary policy are tacit admission of centralized planning of the economy

2014-01-19 Thread Charles Brown
American economists have an implied or crypto theory of centralized planning by all the debate on federal government fiscal and monetary policies that are best for the economy. The whole nine yards of arguments about Keynesian stimulus, the federal budget, the federal debt and deficit,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Why Marxists consider a planned economy in accord with human nature

2014-01-18 Thread Charles Brown
A la Karl Marx, the distinct characteristic of human labor is that it is planned. This is part of the sapiens or rationality or wisdom of _homo sapiens_. (Sapiens, a Latin word meaning wise) The anarchy of production of capitalism is contrary to our human nature and original species wisdom.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Why have there been no cyclical busts in the Chinese economy ?

2014-01-18 Thread Charles Brown
Although China has permitted a certain amount of capitalist enterprise into the country , there has so far been no cyclical bust as much predicted by western economists (the same economists who never admit that the business cycle is inherent in a free market economy. Could this be because the

[Marxism-Thaxis] -40-helpful-tips-for-anti-communists

2014-01-16 Thread Charles Brown
http://kasamaproject.org/news-analysis/2486-40-helpful-tips-for-anti-communists Thanks to Dustin for this. by J. Slavyanski 1. Constantly insist that Marxism is discredited, outdated, and totally dead and buried. Then proceed to build a lucrative career on beating that supposedly ‘dead’ horse

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Why Egypt’s Liberal Intellectuals Still Support the Army

2014-01-15 Thread Charles Brown
through the 1919 revolution and the revolution in 1952 Rest at: http://cp-egypt.com/2013/08/12/the-egyptian-communist-party-june-30-revolution-its-nature-duties-and-prospects/ On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Charles Brown cb31...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/01

[Marxism-Thaxis] The transition in labor in the transition from apes to humans

2014-01-14 Thread Charles Brown
Under this group ( Marxists Internet Archive https://www.facebook.com/groups/5636348598/10152129227653599/?notif_t=group_comment_reply) area - questions relevant to Marxist theory - I would like to see if there is anyone here interested in discussing the following: A critique of Frederick Engels

[Marxism-Thaxis] the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one

2014-01-13 Thread Charles Brown
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had someone pulled up

[Marxism-Thaxis] Needed: Constitutional Amendment for the Right to a Decent Job

2014-01-13 Thread Charles Brown
Needed: Constitutional Amendment for the Right to a Decent Job by: Charles Brown November 3 2009 tags: living wage, labor movement, workers rights, constitution, human rights, poverty, employment Introduction The goal of full employment and the highest quality of life for all is at the heart

[Marxism-Thaxis] Hypothesis on adaptive advantage of upright posture-bipedal mobility in hominids

2014-01-13 Thread Charles Brown
Paleoanthropologists find that Hominid species are distinguished by upright posture and bipedal mobility in contrast with hominoid species in prior times. This is a hypothesis as to what might have been the adaptive advantage to upright posture combined with bipedal mobility over knuckle walking

[Marxism-Thaxis] Why Egypt’s Liberal Intellectuals Still Support the Army

2014-01-09 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/01/why-egypts-liberal-intellectuals-still-support-the-army.html?utm_source=tnyutm_campaign=generalsocialutm_medium=twitter January 8, 2014 Why Egypt’s Liberal Intellectuals Still Support the Army Posted by Negar Azimi When the Egyptian writer

[Marxism-Thaxis] George Bernard Shaw :A Study of the Bourgeois Superman

2014-01-06 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.marxists.org/archive/caudwell/1938/studies/ch01.htm Christopher Caudwell. Studies in a Dying Culture 1938 I. George Bernard Shaw A Study of the Bourgeois Superman ‘A good man fallen among Fabians.’ Lenin Shaw in his life acquired general recognition among the ordinary members of the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Caudwell on on language's inability to reflect the changing nature of reality

2014-01-05 Thread Charles Brown
Reality constitutes for us our environment. and our environment , which is chiefly social, alters continuously -sometimes barely perceptibly, sometimes at dizzy speeds. The socially accepted pictures we make in words of reality cannot change as if they were reflections in a mirror. An object is

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Caudwell on on language's inability to reflect the changing nature of reality

2014-01-05 Thread Charles Brown
https://www.facebook.com/les.schaffer/posts/10201928954559777?comment_id=6317795notif_t=like On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Charles Brown cb31...@gmail.com wrote: Reality constitutes for us our environment. and our environment , which is chiefly social, alters continuously -sometimes barely

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [lbo-talk] Caudwell on on language's inability to reflect the changing nature of reality

2014-01-05 Thread Charles Brown
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:49 PM, JOANNA A. 123...@comcast.net wrote: He was a smart, well educated, insightful guy. Even though he says print and Plato in the same sentence, a lot of what he describes is true for post-writing culture. Joanna ^^ CB: uhhuh Another thought: Engels

[Marxism-Thaxis] Why are class struggles the ultimate determinant of written history ?

2013-12-29 Thread Charles Brown
Charles Brown Speak of thinking critically about Marx and Engels, WHY is history a history of class struggles ? Like · · Share · Stop Notifications · 7 hours ago Carl Davidson Somewhere Mao points out that its also the struggle for production and scientific experiment--not that there's an iron

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Have a happy and merry December 25

2013-12-24 Thread Charles Brown
Thanks for your annual reminder, Jim Farmelant. The standing on the shoulders of giants quote is one of my favorites. I consider it is a clever encapsulation of the concept of culture in cultural anthropology. Humans' signal characteristic is that dead generations communicate majorly with living

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] 65th anniversary for Rootless Cosmopolitans

2013-12-23 Thread Charles Brown
Rootless cosmopolitan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For the music album, see Rootless Cosmopolitans. Part of a series on Antisemitism Part of Jewish history History Timeline Resources Manifestations[show] Antisemitic canards[show] Antisemitic