Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-28 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:41:54 +0900 CeJ jann...@gmail.com writes: Caroll Cox's limitation is he has, like Chomsky, this almost quaint left-wing libertarian view about intellect, science, research and academia. Perhaps he ought to sit down and do a Marxist critique of his own career. Now

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-28 Thread Carrol Cox
Jim Farmelant wrote: On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:41:54 +0900 CeJ jann...@gmail.com writes: I guess if the project hadn't been authoritarian, it would have ben more 'efficient' and yielded enough bombs to wipe out even more of Japan. No, it would have been _less_ efficient. No one

[Marxism-Thaxis] Soviet Cybernetics

2010-03-28 Thread Ralph Dumain
http://www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=488 Language, Mathematics, and Ideology SIAM NEWS November 7, 2002 Book Review Philip J. Davis From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics. By Slava Gerovitch, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2002, 369 pages (54 of which are notes

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Benjamin Button

2010-03-28 Thread Ralph Dumain
Interesting. But I thought the message of Forrest Gump is that being white and a retard is a formula for bliss. At 11:06 AM 3/28/2010, Paddy Hackett wrote: I watched the video version of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button some weeks ago. As a movie it was moderately entertaining and visually

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Benjamin Button

2010-03-28 Thread Carrol Cox
Ralph Dumain wrote: Interesting. But I thought the message of Forrest Gump is that being white and a retard is a formula for bliss. Or as Swift put it in Tale of a Tub, the serene, blissful state of being a fool among roguess. Carrol ___

[Marxism-Thaxis] CORRECTION Re: Benjamin Button

2010-03-28 Thread Carrol Cox
I butchered Swift's phrase. It should be serene, peaceful state of a fool among knaves. Still from memory, but I think correct now. Carrol Carrol Cox wrote: Ralph Dumain wrote: Interesting. But I thought the message of Forrest Gump is that being white and a retard is a formula for