In this famous passage, Marx
distinguishes human labor from
that of animals by the existence
of imagination, plan and purpose.
This fits with the very interesting
wikipedia article on culture, which
claims that human children's learning
in imitation of adults is focused
on learning the intent and
Putting The Social Back Into Language: Marx, Vološinov and Vygotsky reexamined
Marnie Holborow
Dublin City University
Studies in Language & Capitalism
1, 2006: 1 – 28
[Studies in Language & Capitalism is a peer-reviewed online journal
that seeks to promote and freely distribute interdisciplinary
Well Ralph . . . I hope U R are to B damn happy because U jus expanded the
word count on section 3, which ain't rewritten yet.
Ain't it enough to just say the world first fascist form of state, which
most "Marxist" historians call "a racist state" in appeasement with the
historic
Souther
The characterization of Obama is not very informative.
Yes, this is a crossroads . . . a conjuncture of the election of the first
black president and a major crisis of capitalism. Those two facts are
interdependent, interrelated, and quite important, but I've yet to see an
insightful
eluc
The characterization of Obama is not very informative.
Yes, this is a crossroads . . . a conjuncture of the election of the first
black president and a major crisis of capitalism. Those two facts are
interdependent, interrelated, and quite important, but I've yet to see an
insightful elucidati
Black History Month 2009 Change and continuity: The election of Barack Obama
By Waistline2
Part 2 of 6
The cause in the Civil War was to preserve the Union. Implicitly, that
meant under the domination of the Northern industrial capitalist. But the "big
picture" vision articulated by
Black History Month 2009 Change and continuity: The election of Barack Obama
By Waistline2
Obama: Change or continuity? (Part III) By Elíades Acosta Matos raises a
question whose answer is "both!"
_http://progreso-weekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=800&Ite_
(http://prog
This subsection of the
wikipedia article on
culture, brings in
the concept of symbols
as a distinguishing
characteristic of human
culture.
This author distinguishes
imitative from emulative
Using "imitative" differently
than I have been using it.
Emulative would be "monkey see, monkey do."
The
This article does not raise the
issue of symbols. It turns on
imitative learning. But my
anaylsis assumes that animals
can imitate - monkey see, monkey do.
It is symboling that they can't do.
They can't understand the concept
of representation; or at least
not abstractly enough to do
it tens of tho
Also, do you think other animals have an ability to use language
across generations? It has been noted how groups of animals within a
species will display their own 'culture'.
CJ
CB: My opinion on this is that
the examples of animals having
culture that are given are not
"really" culture
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