Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 69, Issue 12

2009-07-17 Thread Karl Dallas
And if I substitute mindless abuse for reasoned discussion, what does THAT prove? Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:13:50 -0400 > From: Ralph Dumain > Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] relevance > To: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] relevance

2009-07-17 Thread Paul
Having just joined the list a day or two ago, I was beginning to regret the decision. . . But I'll hang around for a bit more. If I may say, a relevant response to the Jackson claptrap, Misters Dallas & Dumain. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Tha

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 pr

[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, the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] relevance

2009-07-17 Thread c b
Spoken like a true autosundry On 7/16/09, Ralph Dumain 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) Randomly pick up on

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

2009-07-17 Thread c b
Listen up better. In brief, Michael Jackson who had the "ears" of millions sought to unite Black and White. Any _Marxist_ in the United States who is not concerned about this issue is not a Marxist. Are you a "Marxist" or what ? Pay attention and respond to that. On 7/16/09, Karl Dallas wrote: