[Marxism-Thaxis] Fundamental difference : objectivity of human consciousness.

2011-01-21 Thread c b
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_and_Nothingness Analysis While a prisoner of war in 1940/1941 Sartre read Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, an ontological investigation through the lens and method of Husserlian phenomenology (Husserl was Heidegger's teacher). Reading Being and Time initiated

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fundamental difference: Ressentiment

2011-01-21 Thread c b
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ressentiment Ressentiment Question book-new.svg This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (November 2007) In philosophy and psych

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fundamental difference: personal responsibility

2011-01-21 Thread c b
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ressentiment Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre used the term bad faith to describe a highly similar phenomenon of blaming one's own failure on external factors and therefore denying responsibility for oneself. The major difference between the two is that Sartre presupposed the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fundamental difference: Menu of choices presented to a free will is socially determined

2011-01-21 Thread c b
In other words: "Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightma

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fundamental difference: Menu of choices presented to a free will is socially determined

2011-01-21 Thread c b
Bad faith http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_faith_%28existentialism%29 A critical claim in existentialist thought is that individuals are always free to make choices and guide their lives towards their own chosen goal or "project". The claim holds that individuals cannot escape this freedom, even

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fundamental Difference: Mommy, can a corporation be embarrassed?

2011-01-21 Thread c b
, Eubulides wrote: > [Mereological mayhem for methodological individualism] ^^^ CB: Yes indeed US lawyers in establishing the legal fiction of the personhood of the corporation or the Personhood of Capital make a nice representation of the deep bourgeois ideological mythical concept of Indi

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fundamental Difference: Personhood of Capital

2011-01-21 Thread c b
(The Myth of the Wizard of Oz) [lbo-talk] Mommy, can a corporation be embarrassed? Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net [Mereological mayhem for methodological individualism] http://www.propublica.org/blog/item/as-citizens-united-turns-1-u.s.-supreme-court-considers-corporate-personhoo As C

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fundamental Difference: bourgeois' myth of individual determination of society

2011-01-21 Thread c b
the larger human community is predicated upon the pre-existence of individuals. With due respect, this is the crux. Social determinists r saying that the community is not predicated on pre-existing , independent, isolated individuals, or “selves”. Rather the opposite: Society preexists the in

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fundamental difference

2011-01-21 Thread c b
US lawyers in establishing the legal fiction of the personhood of the corporation or the Personhood of Capital make a nice representation of the deep bourgeois ideological illusory concept of Individual Determinism. Capital is a profoundly determining _social_ institution in capitalism, natch. By

[Marxism-Thaxis] Roe v. Wade 38th Anniversary: A Time for Celebration - and Commitment

2011-01-21 Thread c b
Roe v. Wade 38th Anniversary: A Time for Celebration - and Commitment by Merle Hoffman On The Issues Magazine A Magazine of Critical, Independent Thinking January 19, 2011 http://www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/cafe2/article/135 As we celebrate the 38th anniversary on Jan 22nd of the Supreme Court

[Marxism-Thaxis] Crisis on the corner

2011-01-21 Thread c b
http://metrotimes.com/columns/crisis-on-the-corner-1.1092036 Crisis on the corner Should we legalize drugs to save the hood? By Larry Gabriel Published: January 19, 2011 Print Email Twitter Facebook MySpace Stumble Digg More Destinations The War on Drugs has been fought from corner to corner i

[Marxism-Thaxis] Straight shooters

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http://metrotimes.com/columns/straight-shooters-1.1092038 Politics & Prejudices Straight shooters All I want is a weapon of mass destruction By Jack Lessenberry Published: January 19, 2011 "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to k

[Marxism-Thaxis] revolutionary situation

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The Tunisian revolution was "sparked" , according to one report, by an act of self-burning by an unemployed college graduate who was selling fruit on the street and had his carts taken away by the police. Lenin said a revolutionary situation exists  when the ruling class can no longer rule in the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tunisia

2011-01-21 Thread c b
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Killing Joke

2011-01-21 Thread CeJ
A lot of music watchers have argued that Jaz Coleman, the frontman of Killing Joke, is over the deepend in paranoia and conspiracy, but when he shouts stuff like 'Fuck the bankers' and 'take back your country' at a concert in Greece, he seems pretty sane to me. He uses the mass rock concert platfo