"Six Prominent American Freethinkers"
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/fl161208.html
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Concerning Marxism and theology, while I am
no expert on liberation theology, I am quite
aware that many leading 20th century theologians
took an interest in old Chuck (along with
Feuerbach, Nietzsche and Freud), including such
figures as Karl Barth, Reinhold Niebhur, and
Paul Tillich, to name jus
Ralph Dumain posted a response which
bounced to me. I approved it for the list,
but it seems that it has gotten lost in
cyberspace. So, I would suggest that Ralph
either try posting it again, or send it
directly to me, so I can post it.
Jim Farmelant
-- Susan F Dane wrote:
Dear Jim:
Thank you
d by
both Stalinism and liberation theology. The deeper issue of dialectic is not
simply one of materialism vs idealism, but the dialectical relation between
consciousness and the state of society.
-Original Message-
From: "farmela...@juno.com"
Sent: Dec 23, 2008 6:50 AM
To: m
Well, revisited only briefly, but I will have to make a careful study of Karl
Korsch’s 1923 book Marxism and Philosophy when I can squeeze it into my reading
schedule. These issues are all old now, but they were new then, and they
continue to resurface in our milieu. I’ve just read a few essa
bouncing. Perhaps I should just unsubscribe.
-Original Message-
>From: "farmela...@juno.com"
>Sent: Dec 23, 2008 12:14 PM
>To: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu
>Subject: [Marxism-Thaxis] Korsch revisited (from Ralph Dumain)
>
>
>Well, revisited only briefly, b
-- Ralph Dumain wrote:
(11)
"Lenin chose physics to illustrate his theories. He could have picked any
number of sciences had he so wished. I should also note the conditions of 1908
are not unique. Marxism itself, as a scientific world view, is going through a
similar crisis today in 2008 a
Forwarded from Mehmet Cagatay.
Jim Farmelant
--- On Wed, 1/7/09, Mehmet Cagatay wrote:
> From: Mehmet Cagatay
> Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Evidence please. Productive &. Industrial
> capital U have...
> To: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu
> Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 3:11 PM
> He
>From Richard Seymour's (aka "Lenin") blog.
---
http://leninology.blogspot.com/2009/01/lie-you-werent-supposed-to-bel...
Let's be clear about this. On 6 January, three UN-run schools in Gaza were
attacked by Israeli forces, not just one. What is more, the previous day an
Israeli bombing o
Engels was, course, quite right to debunk belief
in ghosts and mediums. In fact there were some
political reasons behind this. At the time that
Engels wrote this, spiritualism was quite popular
within the IWMA, especially in the US and UK.
In the US, one of the leading figures in the IWMA,
Victo
Wall Street Journal - January 24, 2009
How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas
By ANDREW HIGGINS
Moshav Tekuma, Israel
Surveying the wreckage of a neighbor's bungalow hit by a Palestinian
rocket, retired Israeli official Avner Cohen traces the missile's
trajectory back to an "enormous, stupid mista
-- CeJ wrote:
"Isn't it interesting just how the French colonial experience has
produced so many leading French intellectuals, writers, academics?"
Do you mean like Camus? Althusser? Derrida?
Jim Farmelant
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You already list several articles of mine on your web site. As a physicist, my
primary field is conceptual foundations of physics so that I have put on my
university web site a collection of some of my published articles on
dialectical materialism and the philosophy of the nature scien
Jim,
Essay Thirteen Part Three has finally been published --
on 'Mind', Language and 'Cognition'. It has been delayed
many months since it is exceedingly long.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rosa.l/page_13_03.htm
Apart from Essay Twelve Part One, it is
my most Wittgensteinian essay.
Jim,
I apologize for omitting www from the link. I should have written:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~marqu002 since since I did not realize that omission of
the “www” generates an alias that leads to the website of the Marxist
Educational Press (MEP), which I also manage. Although I manage both, they
In the piece, "Six Prominent American
Freethinkers," Mark Lindley and I discussed
Michael Harrington's take on Marx and religion.
See:
http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/fl161208.html
-- Ralph Dumain wrote:
Articles by Karl Marx in The Rheinische Zeitung
The Leading Article in No. 179 of the
I am going to have Hans look
into this issue. This Skoost
character or entity is not,
as far as I can tell, a subscriber
to the list, but appears to
be, perhaps, piggybacking off
of someone who is a legitimate
subscriber.
Jim Farmelant
Thaxis -Moderator
-- Original Message --
Fr
The Nobel Prize in Economics is arguably
not a "real" Nobel Prize since Alfred Nobel
made no provision for such a prize in his
will. It was instead established by the
Bank of Sweden in the late 1960s as a Prize
in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
And they arguably did this for ideolo
*Leszek Kolakowski, philosopher, sociologist and essayist has died, aged
82. *
We receive this news with great pain and sorrow, said Rector of Warsaw
University, Katarzyna Chalasinska-Macukow. This is a big loss not just
for Poland but for the world.
Polands lower house of parliament, the
in like a good
social democratic liberal attempted to
mediate between the interests of capitalists
and workers under capitalism.
Jim F.
-- Original Message --
From: Dogan Gocmen
To: farmela...@juno.com
Subject: [Marxism] The Nature and Paradoxes of Freedom
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10
New Statesman obits for Jerry Cohen and
Francis Jeanson.
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2009/08/ga-cohen-death-equality
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2009/08/francis-jeanson-1922-france
Jim Farmelant
Well on Marxmail I had posted
the following in response to
another poster, who had drawn
a comparison between Cohen and
Althusser.
---
I suspect that Jerry Cohen would
not have minded if people took
note of his passing by debating
the merits of his works.
Actually, I find his rea
CB wrote:
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Seems likely that the Canadian CP's materialism was dialectical,
not mechanical. Stages of history or mode of production analysis
denigratingly labelled "stagist" seems to be a Trotskyist theoretical
shortcoming.
Also, history in the Soviet Union and China seem to
In the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/10/ga-cohen-obituary
In the Times:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6790514.ece
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It should be noted that before the
actions of the Third Reich had discredited
eugenics. It was something that was
widely supported by intellectuals across
the board from far right to far left,
and all points in between. Bertrand
Russell and G.B. Shaw were noted
supporters of eugenics. It also
h
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[Greg Grandin, prof of Latin American history at NYU (and a frequent
guest on Behind the News), just sent this around.]
Seems like a deal has been reached in Honduras, though still has to be
voted on by Congress (see Ti
That reminds me of the days of Imported Publications, Inc.
of Chicago, who were the official distributors
in the US for Progress Publishers and MIR as
well as other eastern European publishing houses.
That company seems to have disappeared with
the Soviet Union.
In addition to works of philosop
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Claude Lévi-Strauss, Anthropologist, Dies at 100
By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Published: November 3, 2009
Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist who transformed Western
understanding of what was once called primitive man, died overnight
between Saturday and Sunday. He was 100.
[...]
Mr. Lévi-S
General McChrystal is believed by many to
have Potomac fever, that is, he wants
Obama's job. Both Abe Lincoln and
Harry Truman in their times had their
experiences with politically ambitious
generals. A major test for Obama
will be whether he has the guile
and intestinal fortitude to deal
with
Those Marxists like Michal Kalecki
or Paul Sweezy (under the influence
of Keynes) who embraced the
underconsumptionist thesis did not
hold that capitalist states would
automatically adopt looser fiscal
and monetary policies in order to
stop or even to prevent economic
downturns. On the contrary
I should point out that many
conservative economists would
agree with the portion of Paddy's
piece down below. Right-wing critics
of Keynes (both in his day and
our own) argued that attempts
to deal with economic downturns
through the loosening of fiscal
and monetary policy would most
likely resu
Charles is right about that.
Obama's policies more closely
resemble those followed by
Herbert Hoover rather than
those followed by FDR. An
unabashed Keynesian would
criticize Obama for not directing
enough of his spending to lower
income people, who, according
to Keynes, would have a higher
propen
It is my understanding that
dogs can understand up to several
hundred words. They are also excellent
readers of human body language.
Jim F.
-- Original Message --
From: c b
To: Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues raised by Karl Marx and the
thinkers he inspired
Subj
In an old Marxmail post, I drew a connection
between the debates that took place in
the 1920s between the Soviet Mechanists
and Deborinists and the later debates
in Soviet philosophy and psychology,
as exemplified in the work of Ilyenkov.
See:
http://tinyurl.com/djbre
Jim Farmelant
-- O
Marx & Engels, while generally favorable
to free trade, weren't always as gung-ho
about it as Engels was in Anti-Durhing.
In other writings, they recognized that
under certain conditions that infant industry
arguments for protectionism did have some
strength. And Marx at times advanced the
argum
That's a criticism that is often made
of Dawkins et al. In reality, Dawkins
is quite aware of the fact that theologians
have a variety of "sophisticated" notions
of God, but he also knows that most of
these notions have little to do with the
beliefs embraced by the folk that sit in
the pews. Daw
To me one of the most interesting
aspects of the history of Christianity,
was how a religion that for many years
was regarded by the Roman establishment
as a politically subversive cult was
eventually embraced by that establishment
and became the official religion of the
Empire.
As the article no
I think you are referring to
Nestorian Christianity.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestorianism)
It was declared heretical by both
the Western and Eastern churches,
but it enjoyed official support
in Syria and Persia, and its missionaries
were active throughout the Middle East
and even the Far Ea
They seem to exaggerate
Carl Schurz's relationship.
He certainly knew Marx and
had worked with him in 1848,
but he doesn't seem to have
liked him very much. Anyway,
as Schurz rose up in GOP politics,
his views became more conservative.
Many of the other people listed
in that article were close
My take on the New Atheists
(including Dennett) here:
http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant/Papers/129476/The-New-Atheism--and-New-Humanism-
Jim F.
-- Original Message --
From: c b
To: Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues raised by Karl Marx and the
thinkers he
Since the comment quoted refers to
Professor Kevin MacDonald, it should
be noted that the good professor holds
funny views concerning Jews which can
be quite fairly characterized as antisemitic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_B._MacDonald
As for people like Ayn Rand or
Ludwig von Mises bein
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Yesterday, on WGBH-TV's "Greater Boston," hosted by
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http://www.wgbh.org/greater_boston/index.cfm
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Apparently, creationism is not just
an American disease now.
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Of course lots of people
who were politically aligned
with Stalin in the 1920s
eventually found themselves
in a labor camp or looking
at the wrong end of a gun
later on. Just ask Bukharin.
Jim F.
http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant
-- Original Message --
From: c b
To:
Another factor that is helping to push
Obama and the DP to the right, is the
possibility, if not the likelihood of
a GOP split, with that party splitting
between the more traditional
conservatives and right-wing populists
associated with the tea-partiers. If
the GOP splits, much of the party m
Well, feel free to make corrections
in that article.
Jim Farmelant
http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant
-- Original Message --
From: c b
To: a-l...@lists.econ.utah.edu, Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues
raised by Karl Marx and the thinkers he inspired
Su
Arnold Beichman, Political Analyst, Dies at 96
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/us/04beichman.html?hpw
Arnold Beichman, Political Analyst, Dies at 96
By DENNIS HEVESI
Arnold Beichman, a prominent political analyst, author and newspaper columnist
known for being ardently anti-Communist, died Feb
Shouldn't we also take
a look at the life and
career of the Soviet
geneticist Nikolai Vavilov,
who was the leading Mendelian
geneticist in the Soviet Union
of his time and who suffered
imprisonment, where he died,
because of his opposition to
Lysenkoism?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Vavi
Up through the 1920s and 1930s,
neo-Lamarckianism was still quite
a respectable viewpoint in biology.
The experiments that discredited it
were not done until the late 1930s
and into the 1940s. So during
the lifetimes of Michurin and
Pavlov, neo-Lamarckianism was
still scientifically respectable.
Within American philosophy,
the pragmatists, John Dewey
and George Herbert Mead advanced
rather similar perspectives.
Of course, they, like the Soviet
philosophers, were influenced
by Hegel.
Jim Farmelant
http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant
-- Original Message --
From:
As I recall, Merleau-Ponty
was one of the few continental
philosophers that A.J. Ayer
had any time for. As I recall,
Ayer gave a respectful account
of Merleau-Ponty in his book,
"Philosophy in the Twentieth
Century."
http://books.google.com/books?id=ouELk-xPkGQC&pg=PA433&lpg=PA433&dq=%22+a.j.+
Rosa Lichtenstein has just published
a third essay of Guy Robinson's at
her website.
All three essays can be accessed at:
http://anti-dialectics.co.uk/other_material.htm
Scroll to the foot of the page.
Jim Farmelant
http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant
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Anybody here have an answer
to the following question?
Jim Farmelant
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Hey there Jim
Since you know a ton about Marxist intellectual history, do you know why
the Franco German Yearbooks were published only once, in 1844, when the
in
Another great one passes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/24/us/24gardner.html?hpw
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