Re: [Marxism] [microsound] Avatar

2010-01-07 Thread Shane Mage
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Jan 7, 2010, at 5:52 PM, S. Artesian wrote: ...The thing with Avatar is-- it

[Marxism] slide show on Hubert Harrison - 1/27 - NYC

2010-01-07 Thread Dennis Brasky
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == January 27, 2010, Wednesday, 6:00 p.m., Jeffrey B. Perry will offer a slide

Re: [Marxism] MRZine: drunk on its own rotgut ideology

2010-01-07 Thread Shawn Redden
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I didn't have a chance to respond to this author's latest ravings yesterday. I

[Marxism] On Nonviolence in the Iranian People's Movement

2010-01-07 Thread Louis Proyect
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Re: [Marxism] [microsound] More idiocy at Counterpunch

2010-01-07 Thread New Tet
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jay Clinton wrote: Circumcision is genital mutilation, and to call it

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] More idiocy at Counterpunch

2010-01-07 Thread Jay Clinton
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == You are incredibly casual about loss of a significantly functioning piece of the

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] More idiocy at Counterpunch

2010-01-07 Thread Jay Clinton
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sorry, I think i misunderstood your point. Yes, I think many more egregious forms

Re: [Marxism] Turkey

2010-01-07 Thread Mehmet Bayram
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == You can get labor and social news from mostly Turkey and other places in ME in

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Popularity of Atlas Shrugged: r ( theory, practice)

2010-01-07 Thread CeJ
I'd say Ayn Rand is the person most responsible for both 'libertarianism' and the 'self-esteem movement' as we know them today, even if she is identified philosophically with the term 'objectivism' (her use of that term, that is). Also, for better or worse she helped popularize 'philosophy' as a

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Could God die again ?

2010-01-07 Thread c b
CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: Also interesting is what Engels wrote in 1843: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/10/23.htm The New Moral World No. 21, November 18, 1843 Germany had her Social Reformers as early as the Reformation. Soon after Luther had begun to proclaim

[Marxism-Thaxis] Matt Turney, RIP

2010-01-07 Thread c b
For Martha Graham fans... Mary Hinkson, Matt's close friend and associate, and a famous Graham prima ballarina herself , is my aunt. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/freetodance/biographies/hinkson.html I remember many happy times with Matt. She was very beautiful. Concerning a recent thread on the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Popularity of Atlas Shrugged: r ( theory, practice)

2010-01-07 Thread c b
Thanks. I'll take a look On 1/7/10, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: I'd say Ayn Rand is the person most responsible for both 'libertarianism' and the 'self-esteem movement' as we know them today, even if she is identified philosophically with the term 'objectivism' (her use of that term, that

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Popularity of Atlas Shrugged: r ( theory, practice)

2010-01-07 Thread c b
In her epistemology, Rand draws our attention to the fact that we humans obtain our information about reality through a process of integration. We integrate from a lower level of awareness to a higher one: from senses into percepts and from percepts into concepts. The very first information we

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Popularity of Atlas Shrugged: r ( theory, practice)

2010-01-07 Thread c b
I have just stated that human cognition begins with the ability to perceive entities directly through our senses, mostly by touch and sight. ^ CB: This is wrong. _Human_ cognitiion begins with language and communication with other humans, not with perceiving through the senses, except

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Popularity of Atlas Shrugged: r ( theory, practice)

2010-01-07 Thread c b
When I saw the painting above by the Belgian artist René Magritte at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, there was a young American couple trying to figure out the meaning of the banner in French (“Ceci n’est pas une pipe”). So I confirmed to them that, yes, it means “This is not a pipe.” “But

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Popularity of Atlas Shrugged: r ( theory, practice)

2010-01-07 Thread c b
Throughout the history of art, there have been many examples of fads against depicting images. The iconoclasts in Oriental Christianity and the Moslem law against representation of human beings are just two examples. Even in prehistoric times, we observe that the living form was often abandoned,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Popularity of Atlas Shrugged: r ( theory, practice)

2010-01-07 Thread c b
The young Aniska, whose portrait we see now, is a member of the Communist Young Pioneers organisation; you can tell by the red scarf she wears around her neck. What is moving in this picture is that the painter, David Sterenberg, has chosen to show the girl in the uniform of a collective

[Marxism-Thaxis] Evolutionary Surprise: Eight Percent Of Human Genetic Material Comes From A Virus

2010-01-07 Thread c b
Wow ! About eight percent of human genetic material comes from a virus and not from our ancestors, according to researchers in Japan and the U.S. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100107103621.htm ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Popularity of Atlas Shrugged: r ( theory, practice)

2010-01-07 Thread Jim Farmelant
This is what I had written about Rand over on LBO-Talk: -- Chris Sciabarra, some years ago, wrote an interesting book on Ayn Rand, titled, *Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical*, which seeks to trace out the Russian intellectual and cultural roots of Rand's thought. He

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Could God die again ?

2010-01-07 Thread CeJ
^ CB: Luther didn't have that much of a conflict belieiving in both, as most of the Bible is Ye Olde Testament, which is full of affirmation of the right divine of princes and landlords.  Moses was a king of sorts, handing down the Ten Commandments as law, i.e. state backed custom. Most

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Could God die again ?

2010-01-07 Thread CeJ
THESE were not Christians. I'm not sure we would call them communists today but the source is a late 19th century, early 20th century work: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=Eartid=478 Their Communism.(comp. B. M. ii. 11). No one possesses a house absolutely his own, one which