Re: M-TH: Re: Meszaros article: "Communism Is No Utopia"

1999-11-26 Thread Hugh Rodwell
>Dear Rob, > >> Where I am with Simon is the sensibility that we're not at the planning >> stage until lots'n'lots of people are engaged. And then they'll be part >of >> the planning, too, eh? I've never worn that 'saviours waving the >programme >> at the masses' stuff. Don't reckon it gets you

Re: M-TH: Meszaros article: "Communism Is No Utopia"

1999-11-26 Thread J.WALKER
Going back to the original article Meszaros says: > freedom is not something that simply falls out of the sky and hits us, > and then everything is all right. It is a very complex social > transformation, and at the same time involves a certain conception of > humanity and its conditions of existe

Re: M-TH: Re:LOV, butterflies and babies

1999-11-26 Thread J.WALKER
Simon, I was fascinated to read your comment: > Please, not imperialism. Capitalism. Well, I had no idea that there were socialists of any sort who actually opposed the word Imperialism entirely. It is hardly a Leninist term as the the nice Mr. Hobson was a staunch Liberal. Unless you are acc

M-TH: Re: Stephen Jay Gould on Biological & Cultural Determinisms

1999-11-26 Thread Chris Burford
Good quote. I am copying it to marxism-thaxis. Chris Burford London At 14:10 25/11/99 -0500, you wrote: >Stephen Jay Gould writes in "Nurturing Nature," _An Urchin in the Storm: >Essays about Books and Ideas_ (NY: Norton, 1987): > >* ..._Not in Our Genes_ [by R.C. Lewontine, Steven Ros