[Marxism] Hegel: 'hopeless baggage'?

2014-01-11 Thread James Creegan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == An article I wrote for the 'Weekly Worker' several years ago may have some releva

Re: [Marxism] Hegel : 'hopeless baggage'?

2014-01-11 Thread dave x
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:35 AM, shaun may wrote: > > > > dave.x wrote : Marx's wor

Re: [Marxism] Hegel : 'hopeless baggage'?

2014-01-10 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, it's "an unfair reduction." As to the terms being introduced here, I prefer Ma

Re: [Marxism] Hegel : 'hopeless baggage'?

2014-01-10 Thread shaun may
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Damn fine words, Charlie. Enable us to say in one word which would take us a host o

Re: [Marxism] Hegel : 'hopeless baggage'?

2014-01-10 Thread Charlie
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Agreed that quantitative prediction is not the criterion of scientific knowledge.

Re: [Marxism] Hegel : 'hopeless baggage'?

2014-01-10 Thread Leigh Phillips
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mark Lause and Shaun May appear to want to draw a sharp line between the predictive

Re: [Marxism] Hegel : 'hopeless baggage'?

2014-01-10 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Getting back to the original point about Positivism. The conceit of bourgeois socia

Re: [Marxism] Hegel : 'hopeless baggage'?

2014-01-10 Thread shaun may
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Predictive? Well, I think it depends what we mean by 'predictive'. Physics is predi

Re: [Marxism] Hegel : 'hopeless baggage'?

2014-01-10 Thread Charlie
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mark Lause wrote: < Saying that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west is h

Re: [Marxism] Hegel : 'hopeless baggage'?

2014-01-10 Thread Charlie
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mark Lause rejected the claim: > "that Marxism can, in some serious alchemical way,

Re: [Marxism] Hegel : 'hopeless baggage'?

2014-01-10 Thread Vince Garton
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't have much to add to Mark and Shaun's excellent observations -- Marxism div

[Marxism] Hegel : 'hopeless baggage'?

2014-01-10 Thread shaun may
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == dave.x wrote : Marx's words are not holy writ on stone tablets. SM : That is true

Re: [Marxism] Hegel : 'hopeless baggage'?

2014-01-10 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In many respects, though, much of what passes for Marxism--the blind faith in techno

Re: [Marxism] Hegel : 'hopeless baggage'?

2014-01-09 Thread dave x
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Marx's words are not holy writ on on stone tablets. Marx began, and advised others t

[Marxism] Hegel : 'hopeless baggage'?

2014-01-09 Thread shaun may
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == dave.xx wrote: *I think Hegel is hopeless baggage and Quine and modern naturalism i