Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Working class - mode of production

>>CB: The Marxist idea is that the working class is the only class that can overthrow capitalism, and that in the process it abolishes itself as a class, and all classes.<< WL: OK . . . these Marxists should follow their heart and convert their belief into a strategy or strategic approach to the

[Marxism-Thaxis] integrative levels & library science on the web

THE CLASSIFICATION RESEARCH GROUP AND THE THEORY OF INTEGRATIVE LEVELS L OUISE F. S PITERI http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/review/summer1995/spiteri.pdf or http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/review/summer1995/spiteri.html Integrative level classification Research project http://www-dimat.unipv.it/biblio/isko/ilc/

Re: [marxistphilosophy] Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Old Thread: Dialectics of Nature

She's a co-author of EINSTEIN A-Z. I saw both of them here in Washington, and both are foxes. The book itself seems to be primarily of value to those not already well versed in Einstein lore. At 09:33 PM 2/21/2005 -0500, Jim Farmelant wrote: Science writer, Karen C. Fox, has posted on her webs

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Old Thread: Dialectics of Nature

I will track down those references I promised and give all these posts the careful read they deserve. Great stuff! But I gotta devote some serious attention to an overdue project for the next week or something like that. I'll be back ... ~ Steve

[Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] matter & motion [fwd]

This essay is now on my web site: "Matter and Motion" by L. Bazhenov http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/bazhenov.html While generally this kind of material has a tendency to get tedious, this article sums up the issues very succinctly and is useful both to the general reader and the miseducated

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Old Thread: Dialectics of Nature

There's a treasure trove buried inside mountains of crap, but nevertheless there is a lot of important Soviet work, in the history of philosophy and philosophy of science. Even some of the more general programmatic works are important, because the Soviets had some basic orientations, which were

[Marxism-Thaxis] Working class

[Marxism-Thaxis] Waistline2 Comment Depends upon ones point of view. What is fairly clear is the industrial class of workers did not over throw any bourgeois regime in the past century - especially in the imperial centers. The two basic classes of a social system are not free to overthr

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Working class

>>>In a message dated 2/24/2005 12:57:34 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Is the working class declining ? 2. What defines membership in the working class ? 3. Does the working class include others besides wagelaborers in material production ? 4. Do wagelaborers outside o

[Marxism-Thaxis] Working class

1. Is the working class declining ? 2. What defines membership in the working class ? 3. Does the working class include others besides wagelaborers in material production ? 4. Do wagelaborers outside of the sphere of material production create value ? 5. What are service workers ? 6. Are

[Marxism-Thaxis] dialectical "laws"

For some reason, natural scientists chose a jurisprudential metaphor as central in its discourse. In the original context, laws _are_ broken, i.e. , they are not absolute. In fact the central dialectical law is abstract "anti-absolute lawism": All laws are eventually broken, everything turns into i

[Marxism-Thaxis] Dialectics.Quantity and Quality

Anti-Dühring by Frederick Engels 1877 Part I: Philosophy XII. Dialectics. Quantity and Quality "The first and most important principle of the basic logical properties of being refers to the exclusion of contradiction. Contradiction is a category which can only appertain to a combination of thoug

[Marxism-Thaxis] Anarchists of the world , unite !

Anarchists of the world unite you have nothing to loose but your decentralized principles! tfast ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listi

[Marxism-Thaxis] l Salaam Comrade Robeson

l Salaam Comrade Robeson Vijay Prashad Assistant Professor of International Studies Trinity College Acknowledgements to Elisabeth Armstrong and Johnny Williams for leads and for interpretation. Paul Robeson, 1931

[Marxism-Thaxis] Behind the claim that men are better than women at math...Sexism disguised as science

Behind the claim that men are better than women at math... Sexism disguised as science Socialist Workers, February 18, 2005 PHIL GASPER exposes the pseudo-science myths of Harvard President Lawrence Summers. IN THE nineteenth century, scientific opinion held that women were biologically unsuited