Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Albert Einstein, Paul Robeson and Israel

2009-01-12 Thread CeJ
I think the Soviet material support came in the early 1950s, to better arm and get ready for even more fighting Better correct myself on that. For example, see this (the site even has a photo of a Messerschmidt that went to Israel). It seems like a fairly pro-Israeli source at that. The aid was

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] 2 paragraphs; seven sentence explanation of financial crisis

2009-01-12 Thread CeJ
2 paragraphs; seven sentence explanation of financial crisis I said back in 2001 that so-called risk diversification and management just meant the crash would be big next around (that was on Duff Henwood's hostile LBO Talk list). Some wanted to believe that risk had been eliminated. Duff himself

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Albert Einstein, Paul Robeson and Israel

2009-01-12 Thread CeJ
See also http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/921/ee2.htm excerpt: After Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic and Slovakia, was liberated from the Nazis by the Red Army, it became a socialist republic, and its relations with the Middle East lurched in an even stranger direction. In 1948 Stalin

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Albert Einstein, Paul Robeson and Israel

2009-01-12 Thread CeJ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_(Israel) Eleven minutes after the Declaration of Independence was signed, President Truman de facto recognized the State of Israel, followed by Iran (which had voted against the UN partition plan), Guatemala, Iceland, Nicaragua, Romania and

[Marxism-Thaxis] Aronson's guide for the godless ( comments)

2009-01-12 Thread Charles Brown
Aronson's guide for the godless A WSU prof contemplates America as a not-so-religious nation MT Photo: Kim Heron http://www.metrotimes.com/culture/story.asp?id=13588#comments Comments On 1/7/2009 7:36:55 PM, jazzbutcher said: As I look at the scientific revolution I am disgusted on how

[Marxism-Thaxis] Natural Science and the Spirit World[1]

2009-01-12 Thread Charles Brown
Engels’ Dialectics of Nature http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/ch10.htm Natural Science and the Spirit World[1] THE dialectics that has found its way into popular consciousness finds expression in the old saying that extremes meet. In accordance with this we should hardly err in

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Legacy of Vicente Guerrero, Mex ico’s First Black Indian President

2009-01-12 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.williamlkatz.com/Essays/BookReviews/LegacyGuerrero.php Essays | Book Review The Legacy of Vicente Guerrero, Mexico’s First Black Indian President Author: Theodore G. Vincent Publisher: University of Florida Press, 2001 Reviewed by William Loren Katz Vicente Guerrero has been a

[Marxism-Thaxis] Vicente Guerro

2009-01-12 Thread Charles Brown
The US war against Mexico soon after Guerro's Presidency makes more sense now from the logic of Gringo imperialism and colonialism CB http://www.frenchcreoles.com/CreoleCulture/famous%20people/vincenteguerrero.htm Vicente Guerro Mexican Liberator and Mulatto President (1782-1831)

[Marxism-Thaxis] JP Morgan, finance capitalist: corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time.

2009-01-12 Thread Charles Brown
P. Morgan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from J.P. Morgan) Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the person. For today's banking institution, see JPMorgan Chase. For other people by this name, see J. P. Morgan (disambiguation). J. P. Morgan Born April 17,

[Marxism-Thaxis] JD

2009-01-12 Thread Charles Brown
John D. Rockefeller From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search John Davison Rockefeller John D. Rockefeller in 1885 Born July 8, 1839(1839-07-08) Richford, New York, USA Died May 23, 1937 (aged 97) The Casements, Ormond Beach, Florida, USA Occupation Chairman of

[Marxism-Thaxis] Thousands Expected to Protest NATO Summit

2009-01-12 Thread Charles Brown
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8710210833 Fars News Agency January 10, 2009 Thousands Expected to Protest NATO Summit TEHRAN - More than 20,000 people are expected to take to the streets of the German town of Baden-Baden and the French city of Strasbourg, both of them being

[Marxism-Thaxis] Speculation

2009-01-12 Thread Charles Brown
American capitalism is such that a speculative stock market dominates the policies of businesses. by Lawrence E Mitchell AlterNet (December 22 2008) Editor's Note: The following is an edited excerpt from The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry (2007), Lawrence Mitchell's

[Marxism-Thaxis] Gus Hall

2009-01-12 Thread Charles Brown
http://reds.linefeed.org/bios/gushall.html Gus Hall (1910-2000) Long-time American Communist Party leader. Hall was born Arvo Gus Halberg on October 8, 1910, in the Mesabi Iron Range of Minnesota. His parents were Finnish immigrants who were involved in the IWW and would later be charter members

[Marxism-Thaxis] Several Conclusions

2009-01-12 Thread Charles Brown
Vladimir Lenin’s Left-Wing Communism: an Infantile Disorder Several Conclusions The Russian bourgeois revolution of 1905

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [A-List] Natural Science and the Spirit World[1]

2009-01-12 Thread farmela...@juno.com
Engels was, course, quite right to debunk belief in ghosts and mediums. In fact there were some political reasons behind this. At the time that Engels wrote this, spiritualism was quite popular within the IWMA, especially in the US and UK. In the US, one of the leading figures in the IWMA,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [A-List] Natural Science and the Spirit World[1]

2009-01-12 Thread Ralph Dumain
I think that Engels was overall quite perspicacious in the passage cited, one of my favorites from Engels. The 4th dimension was quite a fad in the late 19th century, in addition to its strictly mathematical function. I'm not sure whether anyone dreamed of applying it to natural reality,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Imaginary numbers

2009-01-12 Thread Charles Brown
Engels poked fun of the notion of imaginary numbers, that is numbers that were derived from the square root of -1. But both imaginary numbers and complex numbers were already, in Engels's time, a quite respectable part of mathematics. And physicists and engineers were already using them in

[Marxism-Thaxis] Russell vs Hooks

2009-01-12 Thread Charles Brown
Second Phase of Moral Response: Above-Ground Tests of Hydrogen Bomb In the second phase of philosophical response, debate on the extinction thesis received increased attention and participants included several philosophical luminaries. During the 1950s, the earlier hope for international control

[Marxism-Thaxis] Van Heijenoort's critique of Engels

2009-01-12 Thread Charles Brown
Marxism-Thaxis] Van Heijenoort's critique of Engels Hans G. Ehrbar ehrbar at lists.econ.utah.edu Thu Mar 3 12:21:52 MST 2005 Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Van Heijenoort's critique of Engels Next message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Van Heijenoort's critique of Engels Messages sorted by: [ date ] [

[Marxism-Thaxis] Van Heijenoort's critique of Engels

2009-01-12 Thread Charles Brown
[Marxism-Thaxis] Van Heijenoort's critique of Engels Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com Thu Mar 3 11:52:44 MST 2005 Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Power to the People ! Next message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Van Heijenoort's critique of Engels Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ]

[Marxism-Thaxis] Barkley Rosser's Home Page: Aspects of Dialectics and Nonlinear Dynamics

2009-01-12 Thread Charles Brown
Marxism-Thaxis] Barkley Rosser's Home Page: Aspects of Dialectics and Nonlinear Dynamics Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org Thu Mar 3 15:14:44 MST 2005 Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Van Heijenoort's critique of Engels Next message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Power to the People ! Messages

[Marxism-Thaxis] Lenin on Dialectics

2009-01-12 Thread Charles Brown
[Marxism-Thaxis] Lenin on Dialectics Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org Wed Mar 9 07:53:10 MST 2005 Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Dialectics of Nature Next message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Lenin on Dialectics Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

[Marxism-Thaxis] MIA searches

2009-01-12 Thread Charles Brown
Marxism-Thaxis] Van Heijenoort's critique of Engels Robert Cymbala rcymbala at marxists.org Thu Mar 10 14:23:53 MST 2005 Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Van Heijenoort's critique of Engels Next message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Van Heijenoort's critique of Engels Messages sorted by: [ date ] [

[Marxism-Thaxis] Practicing physicist on Goedel

2009-01-12 Thread Charles Brown
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism-thaxis/2005-March/018429.html [Marxism-Thaxis] Les Shaffer on Kurt Gödel Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com Wed Mar 16 11:40:48 MST 2005 Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Does Gödel Matter? Next message: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Les Shaffer on Kurt

[Marxism-Thaxis] Marx conceiving of nature dialectically: debate

2009-01-12 Thread Charles Brown
Marxism-Thaxis] Another Old Thread: Marx conceiving of nature dialectically Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org Sat Feb 19 14:54:39 MST 2005 Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Old Thread: Dialectics of Nature Next message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Applied Dialectics of Change Messages sorted

[Marxism-Thaxis] Aronson and the issue of certainty

2009-01-12 Thread Charles Brown
Here we get back to the issue of agnosticism vs. materialism, or as Engels termed agnosticism , it shamefaced materialism and importantly in philosophy Kantian dualism/agnostocism. Liberalist attitude toward God is neo- or continuing Kantianism. By it, liberals chastise Marxists for their

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Aronson's guide for the godless

2009-01-12 Thread Ralph Dumain
Aronson makes some interesting points. Too bad most of the commentators are religious idiots. That level of retardation befits BlackPlanet.com. Interesting that Aronson doesn't hesitate to criticize Obama but not Cornel West. At 05:22 PM 1/11/2009, Charles Brown wrote: Spirituality Aronson's

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Aronson's guide for the godless

2009-01-12 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph Dumain rdum...@autodidactproject.org 01/12/2009 2:33 PM Aronson makes some interesting points. Too bad most of the commentators are religious idiots. That level of retardation befits BlackPlanet.com. Interesting that Aronson doesn't hesitate to criticize Obama but not Cornel West.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Proletarian _Inter_nationalism

2009-01-12 Thread Charles Brown
Marx's expression of species-being (solidarity with all the people of the earth, i.e. globe) was expressed in the terms proletarian internationalism. The first Party was The International. Workers of all countries, unite ! The Internationale From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Gus Hall

2009-01-12 Thread Waistline2
I voted the CPUSA ticket, led by Gus Hall back in 1976, along with the SWP candidate for governor of the state of Michigan in 76 or 78. The party I was a member of - Communist Labor Party, tended to not instruct members of who they should or should not vote for, if they were not running

[Marxism-Thaxis] US's Negative Net Worth at $59.3 Trillion

2009-01-12 Thread Waistline2
US's Negative Net Worth at $59.3 Trillion by Paul Craig Roberts CounterPunch (January 12 2009) According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nonfarm payroll employment declined by 3,445,000 from December 2007 through December 2008. The collapse in employment is across the board.