Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] relevance

2009-07-17 Thread c b
Spoken like a true autosundry On 7/16/09, Ralph Dumain rdum...@autodidactproject.org wrote: The relevance consists in this: IF: (1) You constantly submit to the list whole entries from wikipedia in an unreadable format, without comment, assuming that we can't use Wikipedia ourselves; (2)

[Marxism-Thaxis] Leszek Kolakowski dies

2009-07-17 Thread farmela...@juno.com
*Leszek Kolakowski, philosopher, sociologist and essayist has died, aged 82. * “We receive this news with great pain and sorrow,” said Rector of Warsaw University, Katarzyna Chalasinska-Macukow. “This is a big loss not just for Poland but for the world.” Poland’s lower house of parliament,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 69, Issue 11

2009-07-17 Thread c b
Marxists should be interested in mass phenonomena, mass culture, mass consciousness of many forms. Adorno may have been wrong about popular music and culture (smile), but he wasn't wrong to investigate popular music and culture vis-a-vis working class mass consciousness. That was not a project