Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Milton Rogovin, Working Class Artist and Activist, Presente!

I remember seeing his exhibits in Buffalo decades ago. Glad he made it past 100. I hope Manny Fried beats his record. On 1/20/2011 10:11 AM, c b wrote: > Milton Rogovin, Working Class Artist and Activist, Presente! > > 1. Milton Rogovin, Photographer, Dies at 101 > New York Times, January 18,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Universal Races Congress 1911

This July will mark the centennial of the Universal Races Congress? Does anyone know of any scholarly commemorations in the works? ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lis

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Fundamental difference

This is, however, a superficial analysis of what this is all about. There is, as far as I can tell, a qualitative difference between a quasi-existentialist position like the Biblical narrative of Job and the existentialist sensibility we find from the 19th century on. I imagine one could find c

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Existentialism, European LIbertarianism

I don't think the analogy between existentialism and libertarianism holds up. I should also point out that there is a strain of left libertarianism that has nothing in common with American libertarianism as we know it. I think of British Solidarity and Noam Chomsky as examples. But our libertar

[Marxism-Thaxis] Plekhanov: materialism vs Neo-Kantianism etc. (3)

Plekhanov, Georgi. "Materialism or Kantianism ," in /Selected Philosophical Works/, Vol. II (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976), pp. 398-414. __. "Materialism Yet Again

[Marxism-Thaxis] Plekhanov: materialism vs Neo-Kantianism etc. (2)

Plekhanov, Georgi. "Bernstein and Materialism " (July 1898), in /Selected Philosophical Works/, Vol. II (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976), pp. 325-339. I am not versed in the relations among Spinoza, LaMettrie, the Encyclop

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

It amazes me that this rubbish is considered the cornerstone of 20th century philosophy. From formalism to the censorship of thought. Ultrasophisticated juvenalia. I can see what Rosa--is Rosa really a she or really a Rosa or Lichtenstein?--sees in this. It prevents the self-reflection of a Bri

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

ss one proceeds beyond propaganda to explain the connection. Plekhanov combats Bernstein's empirical assertions with his own. He combats metaphysics with metaphysics, empiricism with empiricism. These two elements interplay in an entirely confused fashion. On 12/30/2010 11:29 AM,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

30 Dec 2010 10:22:14 -0500 Ralph Dumain > writes: > > >> Itsworth >> >> contemplating the symbiosis between Rosa's juvenile >> Wittgensteinianism >> and sectarianism. He differs from Henry Ford in declaring that, not >> >> history, but all philo

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

ted by the Neo-Kantian influence. These debates are a small part of the overall picture. On 12/30/2010 11:14 AM, Ralph Dumain wrote: > I was thinking of the philosophical backwardness prevalent in the Second > International. I do like this quote from Plekhanov, however: > >

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

re: "so much from *belong*": doesn't make sense. On 12/30/2010 10:49 AM, c b wrote: > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Ralph Dumain > wrote: >> This is a commonplace analysis of Descartes& critique of the whole >> epistemological tradition that

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

This is a commonplace analysis of Descartes & critique of the whole epistemological tradition that came out of this. However, the disavowal of scientific realism is childish. Speaking of childish, It's worth contemplating the symbiosis between Rosa's juvenile Wittgensteinianism and sectarianism

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

It would have been a better essay without the Wittgensteinianism. And Rosa continues to show what a jackass he--excuse me, she--is. The historical turn of the '60s and after went in a number of directions: that is a phenomenon worth analyzing. For example, there is conceptual material galore in

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Terry Eagleton on "The death of universities"

Historically, radicals have come from the ranks of the scientific-technical intelligentsia as well, as arch-reactionaries from the humanities. When I was in elementary school and high school, English and history teachers were the worst reactionaries. I hated these subjects, loved math and scien

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ramblin' Tommy Scott-She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain

Here's another version, since you asked for it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mwWYeOF6Ww On 12/9/2010 10:10 AM, c b wrote: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghd-xL5gAjc > ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change yo

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Stoop down, baby

I didn't know this was a problem. The only thing I can think of to do is to eliminate the reply-to field altogether, unless there is something else I can do using Thunderbird. On 12/1/2010 1:02 PM, waistli...@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 12/1/2010 12:46:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > _

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Stoop down, baby

This is the funniest thing I remember you writing. I'm trying to figure out though which one is the proletariat. I would hate to associate the capitalist class with All That Ass. On 12/1/2010 12:40 PM, waistli...@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 12/1/2010 10:02:07 A.M. Eastern Standard Time

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Charles Brown: Merry Christmas Baby & Please Come Home For Christmas

t; also performed by Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi > later released the track along with two other Christmas themed songs > on the single for Please Come Home for Christmas > > In 2008, Elliott Yamin included a cover of the song in his Christmas > album "My Kind of Hoiday" > > The

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Charles Brown: Merry Christmas Baby & Please Come Home For Christmas

I used to hear all these songs regularly. My favorite is still "Back Door Santa". On 12/1/2010 10:08 AM, c b wrote: > Charles Brown: Merry Christmas Baby& Please > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMfGPZI59Zw > > ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marx

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Revolutionary literature

I believe that John Strachey cited Lawrence as an exemplar of the "fascist unconscious", which I think is correct. In any case, Eagleton's futile exercise reminds me of how CLR James' ridiculed Sartre's conception of engaged literature in the late '40s / early '50s. Inter alia, James wrote that

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Revolutionary literature

This is just another example of what a pretentious ass Eagleton is. What is genuine revolutionary art but a posturing notion? Furthermore, the vitriol directed at liberalism is the language of the right. There is insight among the disillusioned conservatives, to be sure, but this is hardly a pe

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Margaret Burroughs: Co-founder of DuSable Museum and prominent artist

I love this stuff. I'm not so knowledgeable about museums, but there's many a story about black bibliophiles. Check this one out: Blockson, Charles L. /"Damn Rare": The Memoirs of an African-American Bibliophile/. Tracy, CA: Quantum Leap Publisher, Inc., 1998. On 11/23/2010 10:40 AM, c b wrote

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] We must dream!

I'm guessing CLR James would have enjoyed this article. I don't have a detailed enough knowledge of the progress of the revolutionary movement from 1902 to 1917, but I find Lih's scenario convincing enough. Once the Bolsheviks took power, though, they discovered how intransigent social reality

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Review: The Scottsboro Boys @ The Guthrie Theater

I hate musicals to begin with. And opera too. I can't stand any of them. OK, I did like the movie CABARET. But otherwise I think Mel Brooks summed it all up in "Springtime for Hitler" . . . until he turned his movie into a musical (which I saw and admittedly enjoyed, with stubborn reservation

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Fidel Castro Blasts Ahmadinejad As Anti-Semitic

It would be interesting to know what he has to say about Hugo Chavez and his former Eastern bloc patrons in this respect. On 9/9/2010 1:00 PM, c b wrote: > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/08/fidel-castro-blasts-ahmad_n_708592.html > > > > > > Fidel Castro Blasts Ahmadinejad As Anti-

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Fwd: Roy Haynes, Jazz Drummer...

Wow. I haven't seen him for close to 30 years. He did indeed play with Trane. I'm from the LP era, so I don't know about CDs, but I believe Haynes was the drummer on my favorite version of "My Favorite Things" ever (1963), on the /Selflessness/ album. (Dammit, I don't have this on CD!) I thin

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Peace, Freedom and McCarthyism - Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement

This is great stuff, except for the attack on CLR James. But I guess all publicity can be considered good publicity. Incidentally, when someone once brought up Malcolm X at one of James's talks, he responded that the person who really counts is Paul Robeson. I don't know anyone other than me

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Genes don't have selves

The selfish gene metaphor surreptitiously reintroduces teleology into evolutionary discourse, esp. in the popularization and metaphorical extension of evolutionary thinking. Dawkins' bullshit concept of *memes* immediately illustrates the danger. On 8/12/2010 10:21 AM, c b wrote: > Post to Pen-

[Marxism-Thaxis] my new bibliographies: Second International, Neo-Kantianism, et al

Here is my latest bibliography: Second International Marxism, German Social Democracy, Austro-Marxism: Selected Secondary Bibliography . . . which complements this one: Neo-Kantianism, Its History, Influence, and Relation to

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] A play about Stalin

Yet another document demonstrating how little confidence can be placed in a revolution of peasants. The crude, shrewd and ruthless pragmatism of Stalin marks why he came out on top, just what you would expect in the situation. Stalin is one tough piece of shit. So far it's a compelling drama. T

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Scope and Limits of Theory: Provisional Draft

If we are talking about Lou Proyect, which I'm sure we are, then any word uttered or action taken by this character should not catch anyone by surprise. You're bound to come up with fleas. Trotsky's inflexible dogmatism has been noted by many. One interesting example is Jean van Heijenoort's me

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ghandi rejected Zionism

Really? I thought Hindutva fascism was connected to anti-Semitism? Do you know anything about Gandhi's letters to Hitler, or is this just Pakistani propaganda? On 6/27/2010 11:35 AM, Jim Farmelant wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:00:21 +0900 CeJ writes: > >> http://www.twf.org/News/Y2001/0

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] American Jews Who Reject Zionism

I can't say I keep up with Zionist arguments since 1967. There have been a number of arguments for over a century to bolster the obviously shaky arguments for the colonization of a patch of desert that had no live connection with the European Jews of the 19th century. How much weight those argu

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] American Jews Who Reject Zionism Say Events Aid Cause - NY Times

An interesting factual account, but one is loathe to draw definitive conclusions from it. Coincidentally, a Pakistani Facebook friend recently posted a video called Judaism vs Zionism, featuring someone with an English accent contrasting Jewish ethics with the Zionist state. Such simple-minded

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Martin Gardner - RIP

I slightly expanded my initial reaction into a blog entry: Martin Gardner Dead at 95 On 5/24/2010 7:49 AM, farmela...@juno.com wrote: > Another great one passes. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/24/us/24gar

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Neo-Taylorism

Didn't Hitler drive a VW? On 06/07/2010 02:14 PM, c b wrote: > VW plant trains 'industrial athletes' > Chattanooga workers prepared to 'perform at the highest level' > Bill Poovey / Associated Press > Chattanooga, Tenn. -- Volkswagen is requiring production workers hired > for its new U.S. assembl

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Rightwing pundit: Helen Thomas voices world's view on Israel

Of course this is a pack of right wing lies. Re Helen Thomas: her remarks, if she has been quoted correctly, are repellent, but one should add that there is a logical distinction between Israel's right to exist as a state, Jewish or otherwise, and the right of Jewish people to live there, regar

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Rules are symbolic , built on symbols.

The issue is not coherence in the semantic sense, but syntactic intelligibility. The early phase of TG grammar did a remarkable job of explaining how certain transformations were possible and others not, in this case, in the English language. In this *sentence, "what" is the direct object of "s

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Fromm and Bourdieu

I do not see Fromm's psychoanalysis as idealist at all, no matter what Marcuse says. However, Fromm's specific assessments of people and ideas, e.g. Pope John XXIII or D.T. Suzuki, smack of a lack of groundedness. Marcuse, Horkheimer, and Adorno spent the 1930s turning idealism on its head, b

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Pierre Bourdieu and Erich Fromm

y.htm Note esp. the essay by Neil McLaughlin, which deals with the disputes between Fromm and the others. On 06/02/2010 05:46 PM, Ralph Dumain wrote: > Lenin is a separate question from the Fromm vs Marcuse controversy. I > will have to make another thorough study of Lenin's MAEC one d

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Why , oh, why are humans so thoroughly socially determined ?

Seems to me this claim about Greece stealing from Egypt is predicated on a mystical/esoteric conception of philosophy, and smacks of the crackpot mentality of all Afrocentric philosophy. On 06/01/2010 12:33 PM, c b wrote: > .. > Cheikh Anta Diop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheikh_Anta_Diop

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Pierre Bourdieu and Erich Fromm

Lenin is a separate question from the Fromm vs Marcuse controversy. I will have to make another thorough study of Lenin's MAEC one day. My take on it is that Lenin's critique of positivism's phenomenalism is basically sound. Whether he missed something important about positivism I won't venture

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Chris Hedges: the USA needs a few good communists

Chris Hedges spent too much time at the Harvard Divinity School. And I don't care for his characterization of Marx. On 05/31/2010 09:47 AM, Jim Farmelant wrote: > > This Country Needs a Few Good Communists > http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/this_country_needs_a_few_good_communi > sts_20100531/

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Martin Gardner - RIP

Say it ain't so. I discovered Martin Gardner in the *Mathematical Games* column of /Scientific American/, having innocently bought it off the newsstand because of my boyhood interest in science. I think the issue I bought was June or July 1967. And then I was hooked. I also read some of his ot

[Marxism-Thaxis] highest stage of white supremacy

I don't know whether I mentioned this book years ago; just came across it while re-organizing my books: ? Cell, John W. /The Highest Stage of White Supremacy: The Origins of Segregation in South Africa and the American South/. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 19

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Fwd: Fwd: [MLL] Fwd: Stalin Archive now on the Revolutionary Democracy website

Truly disgusting, but archives are always useful, as is toilet paper. At 12:31 PM 4/18/2010, Marxist Front wrote: >- Forwarded Message - From: editor >revdem To: >marxist-leninist-l...@lists.econ.utah.edu Sent: >Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:07:08 +0530 (IST) Subject: >Stalin Archive now on the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson: blog (4)

There is at least one surviving blog by Guy Robinson: Guy's Philosophical Nuggets http://dalkeyguy.blogspot.com/ Among other things, his correspondence with Thomas Kuhn can be found here. As is usual for all reactionary philosophies, Robinson's bugbear is Descartes and the Enlightenment. For an

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Praxis interpreters of Marxism

om the Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts of Karl Marx (1844) At 09:20 AM 4/15/2010, c b wrote: >I certainly quote all those often. > >Charles > >On 4/14/10, Ralph Dumain wrote: > > I'm in a rush right now, but the main > > inspirations for my perspective come fro

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Praxis interpreters of Marxism

g/quote/marxsci1.html> of Karl Marx (1844) Marx of course made key statements on praxis from the doctoral dissertation & Epicurean notebooks of 1841 through The German Ideology and Theses on Feuerbach (1945). At 01:57 PM 4/14/2010, c b wrote: >On 4/14/10, Ralph Dumain wrote: >

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Praxis interpreters of Marxism

Syntactic ambiguity or ineptitude on my part. I meant: . . . nor is attempting to deny Marx's materialism necessary in order to develop the concept of praxis. At 01:40 PM 4/14/2010, c b wrote: >It's not necessary to develop the concept of praxis ? > > >On 4/14/1

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Praxis interpreters of Marxism

nowledge At 01:15 PM 4/14/2010, c b wrote: >Ralph Dumain: Autodidact Project: David-Hillel Ruben on ...Jan 11, >2008 ... I will look at three of Marx's interpreters, Georg Lukacs, > Marxism is literally the study of praxis, because praxis is its >object. ... >www.autod

[Marxism-Thaxis] Marxs Lucretian Project / Thomas R Laehn & Cecil L Eubanks

http://www.allacademic.com/one/www/www/index.php?cmd=www_search&offset=0&limit=5&multi_search_search_mode=publication&multi_search_publication_fulltext_mod=fulltext&textfield_submit=true&search_module=multi_search&search=Search&search_field=title_idx&fulltext_search=Marx%27s+Lucretian+Project Laeh

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Communitarianism

I consider communitarianism to be a metaphysical concept, a manifestation of organic conservatism, essentially right-wing in character, and essentially inimical to Marxism. I see communitarianism, which I would say has roots in the 19th century, as opposing liberalism and Marxism from the rig

[Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson: Philosophy and Mystification (3)

"'I think, therefore I am,' said Descartes, and the world rejoiced at the perspective of the expansion of individual personality and human powers through the liberation of the intellect." -- Facing Reality, by C.L.R. James, Grace C. Lee, Pierre Chaulieu [pseudonym of Cornelius Castoriadis] (De

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson essay

Essay 2 is a mixed bag: http://anti-dialectics.co.uk/Robinson_Essay_Two_Introduction.htm Some of this is on the right track--plowing familiar ground--and some intellectually messed up. Essay Three: The Concept of Nat

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson essay

c b wrote: > Ralph Dumain wrote: > > > I think Magee is full of crap. Rosa undoubtedly likes this because > > Magee creates a mystical Hegel that evokes revulsion in any > > materialist. There are Marxists who like Magee for the same reason, > > to validate their own per

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson essay

I think Magee is full of crap. Rosa undoubtedly likes this because Magee creates a mystical Hegel that evokes revulsion in any materialist. There are Marxists who like Magee for the same reason, to validate their own perspective, e.g. Cyril Smith. It's easy to demolish diamat, but this does no

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Free Ebook Service Of Interest (Was U of C Ebooks)

ell >as an indicator to others willing to laboriously scan a work. I've noted that >items requested often show up a few days later! > >To date, only Verso has issued a formal cease and desist request. > >- Bill > >Ralph Dumain wrote: > > University of California

[Marxism-Thaxis] University of California Press e-books

University of California Press has made a whole collection of e-books available online, many of them in their entirety for free. I'm oting just a few such books on Marxism (& a few realated topics) of interest: Review of James Mill

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Lewontin letter on Lamarckian issue (was Re-evaluating Lysenko)

Aside: I recall _Goedel, Escher and Bach_ as a load of New Age crap. As for Lamarckism and cultural evolution, I'm wary of such metaphorical thinking. Lewontin's response is unclear. More on this later. Another aside: In 1975, I attended a guest lecture by Lewontic on heritability, as part of a

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Benjamin Button

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 visuall

[Marxism-Thaxis] Soviet Cybernetics

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 an

[Marxism-Thaxis] Descartes & Marxism: Selected Bibliography

OK, here's my work in progress: Descartes & Marxism: Selected Bibliography http://www.autodidactproject.org/bib/descartes-marx.html Passing references to Descartes are legion, but substantive additions are needed and welcome. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing

[Marxism-Thaxis] Atom and Individual in the Age of Newton

Difficult to judge whether there's an analytical perspective here comparable to the recent co-edited volume on Hessen and Grossman. Freudenthal, Gideon. Atom and Individual in the Age of Newton: On the Genesis of the Mechanistic World View, translated by Peter McLaughlin. Springer; original pub

[Marxism-Thaxis] Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific Revolution: Hessen & Grossman

Here's an exciting new publication, which unfortunately costs US $189: The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific Revolution: Texts by Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann Freudenthal, Gideon; McLaughlin, Peter (Eds.) Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 278 Springer, 2009,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Descartes, Smith and the Theory of Subject

I just came across this old email. I'm compiling a bibliography on Marxism and Descartes, and it looks like this might fit in. I'd also like to read the paper itself. Is it available online? At 01:27 PM 10/11/2008, dogangoec...@aol.com wrote: >Dear All, please find below the abstract of my >pa

[Marxism-Thaxis] Lenin & the "philosophers ship" (1)

Chamberlain, Lesley. Lenin’s Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2007. Contents: The night before -- The Paper Civil War -- The Janus year -- Arrest and interrogation -- Journey into exile -- Joining the emigratio

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

There are other things to look at in addition to recycling this crackpot horseshit. For example: (1) The misuse by vulgar ignoramuses of the well-intentioned but logically muddled notions of Engels, who habitually confused subjective with objective dialectics, conflated empirical laws and logi

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Left critique of New Atheism

I always thought Eagleton was full of shit, just as a literary theorist, even before he returned to God. At 01:40 PM 3/25/2010, c b wrote: >I can't remember whether Jim F. cites this in his essay. > >CB > >March 27, 2009 > >Article > >Culture & Barbarism >Metaphysics in a Time of Terrorism > >htt

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] WL's glossary--a suggestion

Prior to this latest flurry of posts, I thought CeJ was an intelligent man. I didn't realize how mistaken I was. I can see this Wiki will be like a stable, except that we won't be able to shovel the shit fast enough. It's really essential to define the purpose of this project, its audience, an

[Marxism-Thaxis] Global Class War

The Global Class War : How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What It Will Take to Win it Back by Jeff Faux "Why, in 1993, did the newly elected Bill Clinton pass the North American Free Trade Agreement, a pro-business measure invented by his political adversaries and opposed by h

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Negation of the negation: let try this out

More to the point about the nature of capitalism: not only private property, but the separation of the worker from implements of production, control of labor process, and ultimately from knowledge and skills. Role of technological deployment in reducing worker to appendage of machines, etc. I

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] To Socialism! How?

I'll offer a few suggestions nevertheless: ABOLITION: wage slavery is a metaphor. Do you really want to include this under this heading? AMERICAN REVOLUTION; Why do you say that the conclusion of the Vietnam War is the end of the epoch of national liberation? POPULISM: Some more relevant histo

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] To Socialism! How?

I don't know which is worse, this CPUSA bullshit or the postmodern horseshit recently posted. I've been reading programmatic statements of the Democratic Socialists of America, which don't satisfy me either. It seems everybody these days, however, is engaged in attempts to characterize the capi

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Historical-Critical Dictionary of Ma...

I post all these references not because I believe in them but because they are historical examples of reference and pedagogical material that one can either use or discard in whole or in part. I'm not thrilled to death with any of it. And most of this stuff about quality and quantity and the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ralph: Class antagonism ... the dialectic (OK Ralph) .

itive. Curiously, I never see this topic covered comprehensively and comprehensibly. At 10:55 AM 3/20/2010, Ralph Dumain wrote: >Old stuff: > * ><http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/howtothink.html>"How >to Think" (Sojourner Truth Organization) > * >

[Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism : Dialectics (1) [fwd]

Yesterday I mentioned the Berliner Instituts für kritische Theorie (InkriT) . . . http://www.inkrit.de/ and its project the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism (HCDM), particularly its . . . Section in English and various free downloadable ar

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ralph: Class antagonism ... the dialectic (OK Ralph) .

xist web sites. I am going to be late, so I must sign off now. At 10:47 AM 3/20/2010, Ralph Dumain wrote: >In a hurry, as I must meet with someone soon. In >order to process this paragraph I had to copy it >into a Word file and break it up into paragraphs. >Printing it out, will lo

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ralph: Class antagonism ... the dialectic (OK Ralph) .

In a hurry, as I must meet with someone soon. In order to process this paragraph I had to copy it into a Word file and break it up into paragraphs. Printing it out, will look it over with care later. Will work on "dialectical materialism"--needs a complete overhaul, keeping in mind this is not

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ralph: Class antagonism ... the dialectic (OK Ralph) .

I think we should all discuss this publicly, pooling our knowledge and abilities. I doubt I have a unique ability lacking in others here. But you are most welcome to send me a copy of the whole text and I'll give whatever useful feedback I can. Have you found the first or second edition of Bo

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Agamben - Coming Community vs. Negri & Hardt - (Coming?) Commonwealth

As trivial as I find all this stuff, I find that sometimes Zizek hits the mark, though his specific insights never add up to a comprehensive picture. The only thing I really dislike in this extract is his charitable remarks about Islam. He is, though, quite correct about this: " With the dyna

[Marxism-Thaxis] Merab Mamardashvili: Bibliography & Web Links

Here is my latest bibliography (always 'in progress'): Merab Mamardashvili: Selected Bibliography & Web Links (with Annotations) http://www.autodidactproject.org/bib/mamardashvili.html Here we have another example of the relation between self and social environment and the problem of self-develo

[Marxism-Thaxis] Merab Mamardašvili online

You can listen to M.'s lectures in Russian on YouTube, but in English here's what you get, for starters. Merab Mamardashvili - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merab_Mamardashvili "THE CIVIL SOCIETY: An Interview With Merab Mamardashvili", /The Civic Arts Review/, V

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: Mamardašvili & Soviet philosophical culture

/6/2010, Ralph Dumain wrote: >Evert van der Zweerde, “Philosophy in the Act: >The Socio-Political Relevance of Mamardašvili’s >Philosophizing,” Studies in East European >Thought (2006) 58: 179­203. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Ma

[Marxism-Thaxis] Mamardašvili & Soviet philo sophical culture

Evert van der Zweerde, “Philosophy in the Act: The Socio-Political Relevance of Mamardašvili’s Philosophizing,” /Studies in East European Thought/ (2006) 58: 179–203. ‘. . . Loneliness is my profession . . .’ — Merab Konstantinovic( Mamardašvili (1930–1990) ‘Loneliness is my profession,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Speaking of the disaffected...

"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!" This guy reminds me of the Unabomber, also what it means that Americans are totally lacking in political and social consciousness. While other people are just as fucked up in their own ways, white people of this type have a peculiarly apol

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Piaget & dialectic (1)

nd and build up an original body of work >that hangs together. It's a challenging thing that I enjoy. My article >of last year in the Journal of Pragmatics 41(2) refers, 'Adherence and >Abstraction in Discourse Processes' -- if you'll pardon the >advertisement. I'l

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] African-American History Month Program (4 & 5)

Like your presentation, but as usual, I wonder about your projections for the future: "The destitute proletariat will tackle questions for itself when it learns it has no other recourse." Where are the signs that this is happening? I see fascist mass movements as a likelier outcome. At 01:16

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Piaget & dialectic (1)

ge book >called Language and Learning: The Debate between Jean Piaget and Noam >Chomsky, edited by Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini (1983). It is actually a >set of verbatim debates and also includes contributions from the floor >and postscripts by a range of others includi

[Marxism-Thaxis] Piaget revisited

As this subject was brought up some time ago, I figured I would stick in another two cents here. Also, I need a favor. First, a fairly crappy article from the standpoint of dialectical materialism, mentioned before: Piaget and Marxist Philosophy by A. J. Durak http://marxistphilosophy.org/Piage

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Wiki Lenin

Some oddities. Seems to be a largely pro-Lenin narrative, rather than anti-, or neutral as mandated. I do not know who the "traditional" Marxists are that think Lenin deviated from Marxism. I'd like to know why Lenin's gramophone recording against anti-Semitism was suppressed. Given what Russia

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Leibniz & Ideology (3): Bibliography

OK, I see your links viz. Leibniz & Deleuze. I don't see a reference to Negri's writing on Leibniz, however. At 10:55 AM 2/7/2010, CeJ wrote: >I don't know if the little bit of info. Amazon offers will give any >clue as to the value of these works. There is no info. about the Negri >book. > >htt

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Leibniz & Ideology (3): Bibliography

I'm aware of Deleuze's and Negri's books on Spinoza. I found The Savage Anomaly unreadable. But folks can judge for themselves: http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpnegri17.htm I'm not aware of these authors' takes on Leibniz. Please point me t

[Marxism-Thaxis] Leibniz & Ideology (3): Bibliography

Here's a new bibliography as an inroad to the subject of Leibniz's biography, political activity, political and legal ideas, metaphysics, theology, and logic as an object for ideological analysis and insight into the contradictions of the Enlightenment and modernity:

[Marxism-Thaxis] Political Biography of the Young Leibniz (2)

te u. von der Freiheit ' (2006). Both run to nearly 500 pp. and there's no reason to expect an English translation soon. I will work up a list of specific references to Leibniz on Adorno's part (and on the part of Horkheimer as well). But I am above all looking forward to nex

[Marxism-Thaxis] Political Biography of the Young Leibniz

This appears to be a Marxist work. It also appears that the author himself made an appearance on marxism-thaxis in 2006. I'll have to check into the archive and see what became of this thread. I also have to put this book on my want list. The Political Biography of the Young Leibniz in the Age

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Rightwinger David Brooks

I can't discern where this was published. It's miraculous that a little shit like David Brooks would be so perceptive about AVATAR, or maybe AVATAR really is just standard-issue entertainment for simpletons . . . including the left. At 11:04 AM 2/4/2010, c b wrote: >Rightwinger David Brooks m

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Robotic Nation by Marshall Brain

I refuse to use self-checkouts under any circumstances. Well, I've done it on Amtrak, but not in supermarkets or drug stores. Hopefully, live cashiers will not be eliminated completely. At 12:12 PM 2/2/2010, waistli...@aol.com wrote: >Robots like these will come into our lives much more qu

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Setting the record straight

The CPUSA wore itself out licking Brezhnev's balls for decades while operating social-democratically in American politics. I'm surprised it still exists after everyone left but Gus Hall, his chaffeur, and his dog. It is however just one variant of the intellectual collapse of the left. All of t

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Setting the record straight

Looks like the real story to me. Notice the entry ends with Gerald Ford. Social liberalism was killed off during the Carter administration. The secret of all mysteries lies in the '70s. At 05:39 AM 1/26/2010, CeJ wrote: >Sometimes in the American political lexicon, a 'liberal' is someone >who es

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