[Marxism-Thaxis] Tailism and the Dialectic: online reviews

Issue 89 of INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM JOURNAL Winter 2000 A comment on Tailism and the Dialectic MARK O'BRIEN http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj89/obrien.htm Issue 86 of INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM JOURNAL Spring 2000 In defence of Marxism A review of Georg Lukács, A Defence of 'History and Cl

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Antagonism between social production and private property

CB: Then I can't find anything in what you are saying. WL: Of course you can't. That is why I can describe antagonism as a specific mode of resolution of contradiction and you define antagonism as irreconcilable conflict. That is why I presented you with the historical source of the issue of

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Homespun philosophy

>>>Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they WILL think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us. Pass it on if yo

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tailism and the Dialectic: condensed & revised draft review

A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic, by Georg Lukács; translated by Esther Leslie, with an introduction by John Rees and a postface by Slavoj Zizek. London; New York: Verso, 2000. vii, 182 pp. Lukacs’ lost ms. comes to 100 pages (45-149) of text nestled amid

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tailism and the Dialectic (3)

Ralph Dumain >^^^ A few remarks here. It seems you are making a play on words in altering the meaning of the epistemological term "thing-for-us" to mean utilitarian-uses-for-me/them/us. The result is a confusion of arguments. ^^^ CB: What is the confusion of arguments ? "Things-for-us"

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At 03:09 PM 11/16/2005 -0500, Charles Brown wrote: Entrapment within immediacy becomes firmer if experiment is used as a 'category of knowledge of society and history'. for the methodological precision of experiment gets lost, and the contemplative attitude comes to the fore: i.e. political inter

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tailism and the Dialectic (3)

Ralph Dumain rdumain at igc.org A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic, by Georg Lukács; translated by Esther Leslie, with an introduction by John Rees and a postface by Slavoj Zizek. London; New York: Verso, 2000. 182 pp. (Lukacs' ms: pp. 45-149.) II. Diale

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RD Sounds very similar to our discussion several months back (just saved the string to my disk). Would really appreciate your reproduction of Section 2--"Simple and higher categories of the dialectic"(pp. 108-113)-- Thanks and, Highest regards, Victor Friedlander-Rakocz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tailism and the Dialectic (2)

Lukacs counterposes historical materialism to the old materialism that Marx and Engels criticized. Key here is the notion of mediation, opposed to the naive positing of immediacy. (95) The relationship to nature is socially mediated, not immediate. (96) ^^ CB: This is also Marx's issue o

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A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic, by Georg Lukács; translated by Esther Leslie, with an introduction by John Rees and a postface by Slavoj Zizek. London; New York: Verso, 2000. 182 pp. (Lukacs' ms: pp. 45-149.) II. Dialectic of Nature 4. For us and f

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A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic, by Georg Lukács; translated by Esther Leslie, with an introduction by John Rees and a postface by Slavoj Zizek. London; New York: Verso, 2000. 182 pp. (Lukacs' ms: pp. 45-149.) II. Dialectic of Nature 1. Exchange of m