>> 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.<<
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For the past year or so
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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Name calling is fine.
What the proletarian fighters coming to the fore need is understanding and
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
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
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
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
Here's a link for Ralph the purpose meister.
http://www.pearanalytics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Twitter-Study-August-2009.pdf
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