Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] relations of production as fetter on product... correction

2005-09-11 Thread Waistline2
>>>CB: What do u mean by "the Marxist standpoint" ? <<< WL: The standpoint of the class struggle. "The class struggle" is shortspeak for "how society moves in class antagonism" and on what basis this takes place. What do u mean by stating that viewing relations of production as more t

[Marxism-Thaxis] Graham Priest: dialectic & dialetheic

2005-09-11 Thread Ralph Dumain
Priest, Graham. 'Dialectic and Dialetheic', Science and Society 1990, 53, 388-415. Priest is an odd duck. He illustrates the problem of combining two disparate enterprises: the pursuit of logic as a pure formal enterprise (in his case paraconsistent logic, which admits of true contradictions,

[Marxism-Thaxis] relations of production as fetter on production

2005-09-11 Thread Charles Brown
Pardon, my misquoting your definition of an epoch. ^ CB: This seems a disingenous pardon. ^ An epoch in the Marxist standpoint is a historical period of time distinguished in its geenral framework on the basis of the mode of production, rather than by "more than one generation."

[Marxism-Thaxis] General Baker and Marian Kramer

2005-09-11 Thread Charles Brown
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Strategy Includes Preemptive Use Against Banned Weapons

2005-09-11 Thread Charles Brown
"My country is the GREATEST purveyor of violence in the world today." --Martin Luther King, Jr. washingtonpost.com Pentagon Revises Nuclear Strike Plan Strategy Includes Preemptive Use Against Banned Weapons By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, September 11, 2005; A01 http://www

[Marxism-Thaxis] Christopher Caudwell : His aesthetics and film

2005-09-11 Thread Charles Brown
JUMP CUT A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA Christopher Caudwell His aesthetics and film by Ellen Sypher from Jump Cut, no. 12/13, 1976, pp. 65-66 copyright Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 1976, 2004 Christopher Ca

[Marxism-Thaxis] Caudwell

2005-09-11 Thread Charles Brown
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Graham Priest: Dialetheism & Marx

2005-09-11 Thread Ralph Dumain
Priest, Graham. 'Was Marx a Dialetheist?', Science and Society, 1991, 54, 468-75. While I don't expect everyone to be held spellbound by this question, it is illustrative of a recurring problem in intellectual history (and also in popular intellectual culture, which is another story. Priest's

[Marxism-Thaxis] Liberty:A study in bourgeois illusion

2005-09-11 Thread Charles Brown
Christopher Caudwell 1938 Liberty A study in bourgeois illusion Source: "Studies in a Dying Culture," first published 1938. Republished 1977 in "The Concept of Freedom," Lawrence & Wishart, London. Transcribed: by Dominic

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re:Christopher Caudwell : His aesthetics and film

2005-09-11 Thread Ralph Dumain
Terrific to see a piece on Caudwell I never read taken out of the mothballs. (did you find this on the web, perchance?) More has appeared since 1976, but I have apparently failed to document it comprehensively in my bibliography: http://www.autodidactproject.org/bib/caudwell.html E.P. Thomp

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] relations of production as fetter on production

2005-09-11 Thread Waistline2
CB: The Marx quote focused on here would seem to suggest that the social revolution begins when the property relations or relations of production prevent development of the productive forces, WL: I believe you explain the exact nature of our discussion in the above. Social Revolution begins as t

[Marxism-Thaxis] Christopher Caudwell : His aesthetics and film

2005-09-11 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph Dumain : Terrific to see a piece on Caudwell I never read taken out of the mothballs. (did you find this on the web, perchance?) More has appeared since 1976, but I have apparently failed to document it comprehensively in my bibliography: http://www.autodidactproject.org/bib/caudwell.h

[Marxism-Thaxis] relations of production as fetter on productionWaistline2

2005-09-11 Thread Charles Brown
Waistline2 Actually, social revolution comes about as the result of a qualitative addition in the material power of production that demands the restructuring of the productivity architecture. ^^^ CB: In the New Orleans flood type of example, it might be better said that it is the failure to ma

[Marxism-Thaxis] that man and woman was born free, but was crippled through social organisation.

2005-09-11 Thread Charles Brown
that man (sic) was born free, but was crippled through social organisation. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis

[Marxism-Thaxis] Key idea in Caudwell

2005-09-11 Thread Charles Brown
Key idea in Caudwell is ye ancient antagonism between predominantly mental and predominantly physical labor. ^ Caudwell had sought to discern the most basic thought patterns and to discover the lines of connection between these and the most basic socio-economic realities. At the heart of it

[Marxism-Thaxis] Monopoly of media and First Amendment

2005-09-11 Thread Charles Brown
"Under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to mak

[Marxism-Thaxis] potentialities accomplished, it had become a brake to further development.

2005-09-11 Thread Charles Brown
potentialities accomplished, it had become a brake to further development. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis

[Marxism-Thaxis] Scientific American on New Orleans (Oct. 2001)

2005-09-11 Thread Jim Farmelant
- A major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under twenty feet of water, killing thousands. Human activities along the Mississippi River have dramatically increased the risk, and now only massive reengineering of southeastern Louisiana can save the city by Mark Fischetti Scientific American (Oc