[Marxism-Thaxis] Lenin philosophy blog

2009-01-04 Thread Ralph Dumain
Thomas Riggins' started another blog on Bastille Day, which but there has been nothing since: LENIN'S MATERIALISM AND EMPIRIO-CRITICISM http://materialismandempiriocriticism.blogspot.com/ See also the entry on Thomas Riggins' blog: Reading Lenin 23 [Finis] http://leninlives.blogspot.com/2008/

[Marxism-Thaxis] Thomas Riggins' blog (1)

2009-01-04 Thread Ralph Dumain
Thomas Riggins' blog http://leninlives.blogspot.com I discovered this a couple months ago and may have made some notes to myself, but I don't believe I wrote anything for public consumption. The blog includes entries on philosophical as well as on political topics. Examples are: Engels on earl

[Marxism-Thaxis] philosophy in POLITICAL AFFAIRS (3): other authors

2009-01-04 Thread Ralph Dumain
Hannah Arendt and “The Human Condition” By Reuven Kaminer http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5108/ This Month’s Conference on Hannah Arendt at Bar-Ilan University By Reuven Kaminer http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5091/ From "Dominion" to Domination: The Duplic

[Marxism-Thaxis] philosophy in POLITICAL AFFAIRS (2): Confucianism

2009-01-04 Thread Ralph Dumain
Marxism and Confucian Relevance By Thomas Riggins http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/318/ This is a review of Daniel A. Bell and Hahm Chaibong's anthology Confucianism for the Modern World (Cambridge, 2003). It is, unfortunately, a confused critique. Riggins lists and criticiz

[Marxism-Thaxis] philosophy in POLITICAL AFFAIRS (1)

2009-01-04 Thread Ralph Dumain
Somewhere I came across Thomas Riggins recently; maybe I landed on his blog somehow. Now I see he seems to be the resident philosopher of the CPUSA's magazine POLITICAL AFFAIRS, though there are a number of other contributors on philosophical subjects as well. A number of his articles are intere

[Marxism-Thaxis] Alexander Saxton interview on religion

2009-01-04 Thread Ralph Dumain
Role of Religion in Human History: Interview with Alexander Saxton By Political Affairs 3/21/07 http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/view/5021/1/248/ I've read and possibly commented on Saxton's Monthly Review interview. Here I'm extracting some quotes of particular interest. - Marx