Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Chicago School's long descent

2008-09-16 Thread CeJ
Hudson is a babbler. Why not just say it in about 20 words? The Greenspan Bubble is finally coming undone and no one really knows what to do about it. CJ ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Cultural Logic

2008-09-16 Thread CeJ
That seems like such a weak way to attack the position--personal inconsistency. Is it really even a current debate? In the analytic tradition, after Lakatos and Feyerabend, Popper--on what is a science and how it works--is thoroughly demolished. In the non-philosophical 'mainstream', Marxism is

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Cultural Logic

2008-09-16 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:12:48 +0900 CeJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That seems like such a weak way to attack the position--personal inconsistency. Is it really even a current debate? In the analytic tradition, after Lakatos and Feyerabend, Popper--on what is a science and how it

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Cultural Logic

2008-09-16 Thread CeJ
Remember that classical Marxism always insisted that it was a science. So did Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science. So did a lot of things trying to get people to follow them. So did a lot of people or fields trying to get people to believe that they were espousing a TRUTH. Most likely 'classical

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Cultural Logic

2008-09-16 Thread CeJ
Popper of course argued those things too, but he believed that it was Marxism's ability at convincing people that it was a genuine science that helped persuade people to go along with it. Perhaps this helps explain his somewhat negative relationship with the contemporaneous logical positivists?