Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] the battle for concession under the Obama Regime

2009-01-15 Thread Waistline2
Why does our working class behaves the way it does? What is the prospect for political revolution? What does revolution in the mode of production means for us in real time.? Why is it possible to win some concessions something, but nothing at other times? What is the meaning of reform? Why h

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] the battle for concession under the Obama Regime

2009-01-15 Thread Waistline2
>>3). National health care is the perfect example of a winnable concession because of the identity of interest between workers, capitalist and unemployed, and everyone else.<< Yeah, right, it's just around the corner, like the withdrawal from Iraq is. CJ Iraq is different from the issue

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Motown turns 50/James Brown

2009-01-15 Thread Waistline2
Every so often in a field or endeavor, someone comes along and revolutionizes standards or reshape the rules of the game. Such people are considered innovators and revolutionary. Then you have a chance element that defies convention and requires new language be created to encapsulate new sha

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] the battle for concession under the Obama Regime

2009-01-15 Thread CeJ
>>3). National health care is the perfect example of a winnable concession because of the identity of interest between workers, capitalist and unemployed, and everyone else.<< Yeah, right, it's just around the corner, like the withdrawal from Iraq is. CJ ___

[Marxism-Thaxis] Realm of Necessity

2009-01-15 Thread Charles Brown
On Materialism ( speaking of Mao), there are two levels of the relationship between thought and being: "economics" and "physics". While society remains in the Realm of Necessity , ruling classes control masses by conditioning fulfillment of the _material_ needs of the exploited classes on

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Towards A Left

2009-01-15 Thread Waistline2
The period of the 60's involved huge intersecting layers of interest between the bourgeoisie and the working class via the Negro Peoples struggle. This struggle did reform the system. Today there are no reforms left in the capital relations. Meaning we are more than less on our own; without t

[Marxism-Thaxis] Towards A Left

2009-01-15 Thread Waistline2
Carrol Cox wrote: > > I sent the following to the marxism list last Thursday. It is a > fragment, or rather a draft of a fragment, of a paper I am writing for a > panel, sponsored by Critical Sociology, at this year's Left Forum. It's > pretty vague so far, but my working title is "Meditatio

[Marxism-Thaxis] The battle for concession under the Obama Regime

2009-01-15 Thread Waistline2
1). The working class is tied to the capitalist class because they are employed by them. Individuals rise and fall in and out of employment. Some are able improve their wages and standard of living. The tend is an increasing mass of underemployed, low wage labor and unemployment. The qu

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Obama Generation: How Youth Trumped Race (BS)

2009-01-15 Thread Ralph Dumain
"The Obama Generation: How Youth Trumped Race" by Gwen Ifill The Wall Street Journal, JANUARY 15, 2009. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123197804827983661.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy adapted from "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama" by Gwen Ifill. "Campaign Used Whites

[Marxism-Thaxis] Engels is demystifying not denying use

2009-01-15 Thread Charles Brown
Erwin Marquit: Engels is not arguing that imaginary numbers should not be used. He is arguing against their mystification. In my view, the complex plane (real and imaginary axes) has a one-to-one correspondence with a two-dimensional vector space, so their logical structure is identical, which