Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Class, politics and the art of struggle: the concept of ...

2009-08-14 Thread Waistline2
>> Clinton in 1996 had nothing to run on but fear of the far right. That's all the Democratic Party has going for it. But all the alternatives have been squashed and relegated to the fringe. Unless there is a route to the younger generation I see no hope.<< Reply For the past year or so

[Marxism-Thaxis] Soviet philosophy preserved online

2009-08-14 Thread c b
Ralph Dumain Though I think most of the productions of Soviet Marxism-Leninism should have been flushed down the toilet long before they were, and that the Soviet version of dialectical materialism has done a great d

[Marxism-Thaxis] Rosa

2009-08-14 Thread c b
Surely, the most that could legitimately be claimed here is that up to now the available evidence supports a dialectical view of reality. ^ CB: Correct . See Marxism thaxis threads in which I point out that for Engels, the dialectical quality of reality is an a posteriori, not a priori, concl

[Marxism-Thaxis] Rosa

2009-08-14 Thread c b
Clearly, the idea that the world is rational must be forced onto nature; it cannot be read from it, since nature is not Mind. ^ CB: This seems an "a priori" statement by Rosa. It is not "clear" that the idea that the world is rational must be forced onto nature, nor that to "read" rationality

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Forward from Rosa Lichtenstein on Analytic Marxism

2009-08-14 Thread Ralph Dumain
As I've said, Rosa combines two ideological tendencies of the undead, Trotskyism and Wittgenstein, either of which will suck the life force out of you. This obsession with the formulas of dialectical materialism--to defend or attack it--is simply childish, as it's only a drop in the bucket of h

[Marxism-Thaxis] Forward from Rosa Lichtenstein on Analytic Marxism

2009-08-14 Thread c b
Some might conclude that the relatively hard line adopted in my Essays toward the alien-class origins of DM sits rather awkwardly with the apparently uncritical acceptance of ideas drawn from Wittgenstein's work --, an allegedly bourgeois philosopher and mystic himself. ^ CB: The class of the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Class, politics and The Ultra Right Fiction 2

2009-08-14 Thread Ralph Dumain
I understand the logic of this, but the whole political system is based on nothing but blackmail. Though national politics has been bankrupt for a generation, it's arrived at the point of morbidity. Clinton in 1996 had nothing to run on but fear of the far right. That's all the Democratic Par

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Reaction, fascism, fighting the ultra right and Health 2.

2009-08-14 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 8/13/2009 1:51:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, cb31...@gmail.com writes: CB: A point upon which sectarians/ultra-lefts, whether Stalinist or Trotskyist, can agree. Comment Name calling is fine. What the proletarian fighters coming to the fore need is understanding and

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Class, politics and the art of struggle: the concept of "ultra right" is wrong

2009-08-14 Thread Ralph Dumain
OK, but re: >From this point of view what is blocking and >containing the spontaneous movement of the most >destitute sections of the proletariat is not the >"ultra rights" but the relative stability of >the economic middle, as it stabilizes the system >of capital rule and advances a set

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Class, politics and The Ultra Right Fiction 2

2009-08-14 Thread Waistline2
Strategy in the Class struggle Part 2 The Ultra Right Fiction Here is why focusing our attack or line of march to "attack the ultra right" insures our defeat. The battle has to be through the political middle or winning the middle to the side of class demands of the proletariat fused t

[Marxism-Thaxis] Class, politics and the art of struggle: the concept of "ultra right" is wrong

2009-08-14 Thread Waistline2
Strategy in the Class struggle Part 1 There are some thing in life I just hate. Missing the lottery by one number, hitting my knee on the edge of the coffee table and being stuck in wrong thinking or using Marx approach like a true believing Jehovah witness. Somewhere in Marx writing

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Twitter: >40% pointless babble

2009-08-14 Thread Ralph Dumain
Maybe you should twitter your moment-to-moment survey of Wikipedia. At 11:42 AM 8/14/2009, c b wrote: >Here's a link for Ralph the purpose meister. > > >http://www.pearanalytics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Twitter-S

[Marxism-Thaxis] Twitter: >40% pointless babble

2009-08-14 Thread c b
Here's a link for Ralph the purpose meister. http://www.pearanalytics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Twitter-Study-August-2009.pdf ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-T

[Marxism-Thaxis] Honduras Resistance

2009-08-14 Thread c b
THE ORGANIZER NEWSPAPER P.O. Box 40009 San Francisco, CA 94140 Email: theorgani...@earthlink.net Website: www.socialistorganizer.org Honduras Resistance Deepens, With Working Class at the Helm International Labor Solidarity Needed Urgently to Defeat the Coup EDITORIAL: The Honduran people -- wi