Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] the insights of post-modernism?

I.e. no insight at all. Except insofar as mimicking the cynicism, incoherence and fragmentation of contemporary culture is insight. But traditionally the goal of intellectuals was not to mimic mystification, but to penetrate to its core and create coherent understanding in its place. Postmode

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] the insights of post-modernism

And what, pray tell, are Hegel's answers? What do you think of David Harvey's THE CONDITION OF POSTMODERNITY? If there is such a thing as postmodernity (the condition), distinct from postmodernism as a theoretical approach, when do you think it began? It seems to me that historical amnesia and

[Marxism-Thaxis] Frankfurt School study update: new Adorno discussion group

Resulting from an ad hoc discussion of Theodor Adorno on a Hegel discussion list, a new yahoo group was established on 9 March for close readings and detailed discussions of Adorno's work: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adorno-Hegel I had alerted the c

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] the insights of post-modernism

Was there really a time when Hegel was THE MAN outside of the German principalities and foreign students in Berlin? Hegel was imported into a number of countries--the USA, UK, Italy, et al--but I never got the impression that everything revolved around where one stood on Hegel. Furthermore, i

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Jack Lessenberry on Clinton

Hillary is going down in flames and taking the Democratic Party with her. Doing those primaries over is a big waste of money. Just like prolonging the competition between her and Obama. I am rather indifferent to the dirty tricks, the personalities, and the minuscule substantive differences th

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Democrats Face Racial Issue Again

Given the emotional, personality-based childishness of both media and public response to these distractions, they have a certain efficacy independent of reason. I am rather indifferent to the allegedly offensive remarks of all these people. However, given the way things are, they have a dra

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] This is pitiful

At 01:51 PM 3/13/2008, Charles Brown wrote: >Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64Content-Disposition: inline >"She (Ferraro) accused the Obama campaign of >misrepresenting her remarks to hurt Mrs. >Clinton, saying: “They have played the race card >time after time after time. The campaign has a >go

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] blaming all their misfortunes on whites?

This person is wrong about Obama's motives and behavior. But otherwise there is something to the writer's cynicism. The problem is all this should have hashed out long ago, and in a less destructive fashion. It's too late now; Hillary is beaten, and unless she sticks to the high road, she ca

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Clinton Addresses Ferraro Backlash: Comments

All of this demonstrates why I can't get involved in this melee. As long as politics gets conducted on this level, how can anything get straightened out? However, the Clinton campaign, whichever way it goes, has to straighten itself out. The more fundamental problem is that the legitimacy of

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Barack Obama's camp furious at claim he is winning only because he is black

You see what a godawful mess this is? If the Dems and Americvan politics weren't so fucked up to begin with, things wouldn't have come to this. The Clintonites have no high ground to stand on. Of course Obama was given a free ride by the media until recently, just as Hillary got a free ride

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] This is pitiful

I don't claim to be a mind-reader, either of Ferraro's or of the sort of appeal she intends to make on her white listeners/primary voters. I don't make the inferences that you do, and I find them far-fetched. Of course, this could be a rare case in which I'm less cynical than I should be. He

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Obama's pastor condemned by rightists

This he said she said is going to go on forever. I don't know why I have to keep reminding myself that this is a nation of channel-surfing ADD idiots. What does the intent of anyone's remarks matter when the ideological environment is such that they immediately become framed in a scurrilous (u

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] overcoming postmodernism

This is all sophisticated insipidity. What a poseur! At 08:41 PM 3/14/2008, CeJ wrote: >Another social thinker who finds large audiences, some revulsion, but >is much-discussed is Zizek. He would appear to have been an >undistinguished academic in Yugoslavia, but emerges as an original >thinker,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Lyotard and postmodernism

Utterly juvenile! No real history, just metaphysical masturbation. At 10:34 PM 3/14/2008, CeJ wrote: >http://www.iep.utm.edu/l/Lyotard.htm#SH2a > >excerpt: > >b. The Postmodern Condition > >Lyotard soon abandoned the term 'paganism' in favour of >'postmodernism.' He presents his initial and highly

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] overcoming postmodernism

You're writing gibberish. More below. At 09:40 PM 3/14/2008, CeJ wrote: >Well, Zizek does tend to draw such reactions as RD's. I think it is >worth reading his articles occasionally. That is the beauty of the >internet, I only pay for it with eyestrain and connection times. > >I think there is th

[Marxism-Thaxis] science & morality

A preponderance of material from the now-defunct Progress Publishers of the now-defunct USSR is deadly dull and formulaic. A number of serious Soviet philosophical works were translated into English along with the dross. There are certain topics that tended to bore me, and my books on those

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Iyenkov on Hegel

A multiply ironic response. I'm not so naive about continental philosophy as this asshole CeJ thinks. But just as what's peddled in the Anglo-American sphere is a selective culling of the resources actually available, and is selected specifically in the service of an irrationalism of a degener

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Marx on the ideal ; Zizek on Lenin on Hegel

In a hurry: (1) Coincidentally, I'm now reading NEGATIVE DIALECTICS, just forwarded a post on materialism. (2) CeJ is wrong on materialism, as usual. (3) Zizek's essay in pretty good, not exactly a great revelation to me. I did not quite get his point on "interpretation" vs "formalization".

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: [FRA:] Frankfurt School study update: new Adorno discussion group

-Forwarded Message- >From: Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Mar 13, 2008 1:24 AM >To: Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [FRA:] Frankfurt School study update: new Adorno discussion group > >Resulting from an ad hoc discussion of Theodor Adorn

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Iyenkov on Hegel

You certainly cannot understand Marx without understanding the Young Hegelian milieu. The Second International Marxists never understood it and Engels' pamphlet on Feuerbach did not provide sufficient information and perspective. As for Lenin's MAEC, these issues have been argued endlessly. MAE

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Iyenkov on Hegel

what's worse was when Soviet boot-lickers in the western bourgeois democracies (note publications of Gruner publishing co.) imitated this style of argumentation. I have spent a fair amount of time extracting the usable from the offal. -Original Message- >From: Ralph Dumain <[EM

[Marxism-Thaxis] dream team

I don't have time to bore you with the lengthy reasoning, deliberation, and conversation that went into the following conclusions I reached in the past week. (1) After the Pennsylvania primary, Clinton should withdraw from the race. (2) The Clintons should throw the full weight of their influen

[Marxism-Thaxis] dream team

I don't have time to bore you with the lengthy reasoning, deliberation, and conversation that went into the following conclusions I reached in the past week. (1) After the Pennsylvania primary, Clinton should withdraw from the race. (2) The Clintons should throw the full weight of their influen

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Iyenkov on Hegel

Wow, Engels is better than I remembered him. Still, no one who did not read more than this historical summary would get a full view of what happened and why. Two points to ponder: (1) Note that the battle was fought out in religion and politics. Engels doesn't say what happened to the compre

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] dream team

t that O is an average Black person , not a Clarence >Thomas/Thomas Sowell negro-type. But his being an actual Black person >is what will prevent him from winning. > >I don't know if O can get the nomination. The super-delegates are >likely to be pragmatic enough to see th

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O and racism

People should have seen this development coming long ago. The only surprise is the timing and the slimy tactics of the Clintonites. I've watched some of the spin doctors, and of course the tenor of the Obama discussion hasw changed, including what the media mavens who were saying a couple weeks

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O and racism

It was a fatally flawed program from the start, but amazingly, Obama has made it this far. I'm sure that if he survives this Jeremiah Wright "crisis" that he will face equally formidable obstacles in the months to come. I was singularly unimpressed by Obama's allegedly inspiring 2004 speech.

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Mark Tomasik: Don’t discount Gore-led ticket

I'm discounting a Gore-led ticket, because I think it is an utterly unrealistic, preposterous idea, that would do more harm than the Clintonites are already doing. There are further developments re the Clintonite shenanigans. Very briefly: (1) Today's move.on initiative to back Nancy Pelosi (wh

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Next American Revolution

Thanks for this report. All the members of the Johnson-Forest Tendency persisted in their tendency towards dogmatic, prophetic, and unrealistic political thought. Grace has come up with some nutty philosophy in recent decades. This is not to pooh-pooh her or anyone else's community organzing

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Vienna Circle ettc.

I'm not sure why you think this is such a crucial issue at this point. I don't know what ground communism stands on at this point but it cannot stand on a pure logical relationship or a notion of inevitability in a highly contingent world. Much of the vagary in institutional Marxism--particula

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Womanism

The mere association of "womanism" with theology is sufficient to discredit it. I once heard a radio interview in which Walker said she called herself a womanist because she's a Southern woman, which is also enough to cast suspicion on her perspective. I wrote an unflattering blog entry on th

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Vienna Circle ettc.

I can't find an English translation on the web. But I could have sworn I've seen it in print somewhere else. Could it be in Ayer's anthology LOGICAL POSITIVISM? At 08:56 PM 3/31/2008, Jim Farmelant wrote: > >On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 02:36:44 +0100 "rasherrs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >writes: > > Interest

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Doug Henwood on Barack Obama

I agree with this assessment. When I talked to Obamamaniacs, all of whom were white, ranging from dippy Unitarians to independentd and moderate Republicans, I couldn't find any rational basis for their support of Obama. The most rational response I got was from a white female independent who

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Doug Henwood on Barack Obama

I'm not impressed. (1) OK, so if the demographics indicate that the Obamamania is mostly generational (though the Obamamaniacs I know are not spring chickens), does this speak well for the kids? (2) What Obama means racially according to Joaquin is unconvincing and propagandistic. I don't bu

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] More debate on O

These leftist debates look like subcultural masturbation to me. Excessive inbreeding is another way to put it. It's important not to be fooled but it's not so important to always have to prove that you're not being fooled. At 04:04 PM 4/1/2008, Charles Brown wrote: >http://lists.econ.utah.edu/

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] A Free-Spirited Wanderer Who Set Obama?s Path

Obama's "exotic" life story did not prevent him from gaining the respect and support of significant members of the elite. How this happened is worthy of study. People are only now reminded of Obama's "deviant" status due to the Rev. Wright flap, but neither Obama's supporters nor his detracto

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] More O debate

This inbred and rather unintelligent leftist breastbeating reminds me why I have quit so many groups. I wouldn't dignify this drivel with the notion of "debate". At 01:47 PM 4/1/2008, Charles Brown wrote: >http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-March/026094.html > >my "obsessive oppos

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Alice Walker on Obama and Clinton

Perhaps it is too harsh to ridicule someone who comes from a troubled background, but to be honest, I think Alice Walker is more than a little bit of an airhead. I've read plenty of crap from her just like this. Much of what she writes is this sort of bathos undergirded with New Agey vacuity.

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Vienna Circle etc.

If Popper had been more scrupulous and less provincial, esp. given what I'm told is a skepticism towards institutionalism, he could have easily differentiated the intrinsic revisability of a theory vs. the specific way it has resisted testing and improvement due to a specific institutionalizati

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Vienna Circle etc.

Interesting. I wonder if I should put this or similar items into my bibliography. This is a Marxist advocating the Popperian approach as a way of circumventing doctrinal rigidification. Can you think of other Marxists who have taken this road? At 07:41 PM 4/1/2008, Jim Farmelant wrote: > >On

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Vienna Circle etc.

This must be the document I downloaded earlier today. It was linked from the Wikipedia article on the Vienna Circle, if I recall correctly. It is rather confusing in its structure. Someone should check the print source to see if the whole manifesto is here included. I always remember this quot

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Vienna Circle etc.

I wonder if this is unequivocally true about the Frankfurters. For sure, Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marcuse had an animus against positivism, but it is not necessarily the case that they viewed the neopositivists themselves as reactionaries. The closest approach to specific animosity I can think

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Vienna Circle etc.

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralph >Dumain >Sent: 03 April 2008 05:08 >To: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu >Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Vienna Circle etc. > >I wonder if this is unequivocally true about the Frankfurters. For >su

[Marxism-Thaxis] 40 years after

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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Character issue

The comparison is rather dubious, and insulting. If Obama were a truth-teller, he would not have made it to this point. He plays straight to the middle of the road, trying to please everyone. And how do you know Obama is risking his life? You think the secret service will punk out on him? Th

[Marxism-Thaxis] Age of Materialism?

I thought that decades ago I used to see a book in the stores called The Age of Materialism. I have not been able to locate such a title in any online library catalog I've checked nor in the online used book services. Doing a web search, I found exactly one blog that mentions this title: Age o

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Age of Materialism?

odern Europe, edited by William L. Langer >published by Harper Torchbooks, 1963 >originally published in 1941 > >It's the kind of item that easily finds its way into used book >stores! But let >me know >off list if you want to borrow it. > >- Bill >[EMAIL PROTECTED

[Marxism-Thaxis] Lenni Brenner: Obama's Constitution, His Pastor, & His Unbelieving Mom In Heaven [fwd]

Obama's Constitution, His Pastor, & His Unbelieving Mom In Heaven By Lenni Brenner According to the classic publishing world joke, Lincoln, doctors and dogs are always public favorites, so a book about Lincoln's doctor's dog would always be the best seller the year it came out. But today it would

[Marxism-Thaxis] irrationalism vs democracy

Excellent articles found in Democracy & Nature (now The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy): Biehl, Janet. "Reply to Hart and Melle," Democracy & Nature, vol. 4, no. 2/3 [11/12], 1998.

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] "New Atheism (and "New Humanism") by Jim Farmelant

What exactly did I miss? I don't recall a discussion on a "new atheism" or "new humanism". I did, coincidentally, however, just discover an interesting book: Toward

[Marxism-Thaxis] Paul Robeson's 110th birthday

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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] "New Atheism (and "New Humanism") by Jim Farmelant

ogy.html>Secular Humanism­-Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress At 07:43 PM 4/9/2008, Jim Farmelant wrote: > >On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:53:19 -0500 Ralph Dumain ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What exactly did I miss? I don't recall a disc

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] "New Atheism (and "New Humanism") by Jim Farmelant

as recently published in the German >freethough/humanist journal >Aufklärung und Kritik. I have >been trying to get it published in >English in the US. > >Jim F. > > > > > CB > > > > >>> Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/09/2008 5:53 PM

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] "New Atheism (and "New Humanism") by Jim Farmelant

ublishers, 2001). Scott Atran, In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (Oxford Univ. Press, 2002). Pascal Boyer, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religion (Basic Books, 2002). At 09:18 PM 4/10/2008, Ralph Dumain wrote: >I can't wait to read this in E

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] "New Atheism (and "New Humanism") by Jim Farmelant

scussions. > >So far, it is only the German version that is >avalable online. It can be downloaded at: >www.gkpn.de/Farmelant_Atheismus.pdf > >It was recently published in the German >freethough/humanist journal >Aufklärung und Kritik. I have >been trying to get it publi

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Vienna Circle etc.

Science and Phenomenology by Herbert Marcuse <http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/marcuse8.html>Comment on the Paper by H. Marcuse by Aron Gurwitsch <http://www.autodidactproject.org/my/adornohuss.html>Adorno contra Husserl by Ralph Dumain "<http://www.autodidactproject

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Obama out of touch or in touch with impoverished sectors of the working class ?

Excellent commentary. Isn't it interesting that I haven't seen a single black journalist included in any of the panel discussions on Obama's alleged slight to small town America? And is it any wonder why? At 12:00 PM 4/15/2008, Charles Brown wrote: >http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] What if O gets even more real with these jokers ?

Do you know if Obama has read Thomas Frank? The most interesting aspect of this is that, unlike Edwards, Obama exploited unity rhetoric rather than class rhetoric. This was his fatal weakness as far as the older New Deal/Great Society Democrats were concerned. It was also Clinton's weakness,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Thomas Frank on the latest Obama flap

Much of this marxmail debate is silly inbred self-indulgence, but there is a point to be made without either retreating to the clubhouse or harboring illusions about Obama's alleged radicalism. The ruling elite is obviously divided among itself regarding which horse to back. Note also the se

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Kristol on Marx and Obama on religion, in NYT

I took a break from the campaign for awhile, only to discover last night that Obama is allegedly in hot water for saying that rural/small town America is bitter over economic loss, and then cling to guns and religion for a sense of security. And what is wrong with this, pray tell? White people

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Glen Beck: "The Obamas are Marxists"

You can dream. But chances are all they will read is Freakonomics. Maybe Marxists are "reaching across the aisle" now? What school of Marxism is that? Will multimillionaire Hillary's slur on Obama as elitist stick? Once a Goldwater Republican . . . At 03:08 PM 4/14/2008, Charles Brown wrote:

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Marxism list on O

This is all very interesting, but the alleged political realignment is not clear to me. Clinton's self-destruct could reach all the way back to Bill's administration, because after all there wasn't much in his administration for working class people other than personal charm and relief from Bu

[Marxism-Thaxis] More 'inclusive democracy' vs Obama propaganda

The International Journal of INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY, vol.4, no.1, (January 2008) Democrats and the Myth of Change JOHN SARGIS http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol4/vol4_no1_sargis_democrats.htm Again, all this is pretty obvious, but significant numbers of people choose to deny the obvious.

[Marxism-Thaxis] inclusive democracy vs Obama propaganda

The International Journal of INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY, vol.4, no.2, (April 2008) The American celebration of "democracy" JOHN SARGIS http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol4/vol4_no2_john_american_celebration_democracy.htm This critique of the electoral industry including Obama is obvious and t

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Carl Davidson on Fidel

My late friend Jim Murray told me he sparked the Venceremos brigades. At 01:56 PM 4/17/2008, Charles Brown wrote: >Carl Davidson on Fidel > >http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2008w15/msg00204.htm > >There is a report (by someone else) on the transition in Cuba on Carl >Davidson's blog

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fwd: An Open letter to Charlie Gibson and George Stephanapolus

Good for Bunch and vanden Heuvel for letting these characters have it. I missed most of the debate, esp. the provocative baiting of Obama mentioned, but Obama seemed to have much more of a commanding presence than Clinton, or that could be my bias showing. What's amusing about 'divisiness' is h

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] More 'inclusive democracy' vs Obama propaganda

She tends to do that herself, if you've seen her political signs. Perhaps it's to differentiate herself from Bill? Other motives? I'm not sure. In Barack's case, his first name is as distinctive as his last, but there's no one else we know with a name like that, except for his wife. BO does

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Lets get a troop surge in the War on Poverty

Like Ritchie Havens sang, " . . . here comes Johnny with his hand rolled up in a fist . . . marching to the Birmingham war . . . " At 01:56 PM 4/18/2008, Charles Brown wrote: >Well, first we have to redeclare a war on poverty and a poor >peoples' campaign. _

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Gil Scott-Heron

Heron, though, doesn't belong to the same era as Charlie Parker. I heard about his smack rap but I was kinda surprised. I could see maybe if he was hooked back in the '60s or earlier, but it seems so odd for something so recent. Getting busted back in parker's time was serious business, becau

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] ] Aimé Césaire, voice of French Black pride, dies

Re negritude: Fellow Caribbean (Also Martiniquan, I think), intellectual Rene Menil sharply distinguished between Cesaire and Senghor. See my review: For Rene Menil, Caribbean Surrealist-Philosopher At 10:23 PM 4/18/2008, Shane Mage wrote: >O

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Television and the rev

Two points: (1) Part of his meaning is probably that what's really going on in terms of radical politics is going on outside the purview of television watching. This could be an admonition to stop watching TV or to stop thinking it's the whole of reality. So the message could mean stop being

[Marxism-Thaxis] Engels on religion evaluated

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Review-a-Day: Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

Review-a-Day Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Riley and Watson on O and C

It is remarkable how possessed by trivia, if not just apathetic and bored shitless, America is. All of this is a mere manipulation of symbolism, though that is important as well. We are all guinea pigs in a huge experiment in market research. Who gets to manage the neoliberal order and wit

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] "New Atheism (and "New Humanism")

The role of religion in politics today signifies the death throes of American democracy. The Democratic Party has declared itself a party of faith, overthrowing a whole generation of secularism marked by JFK's speech about the total separation of church and state, Madelyn Murray O'hair's vanqu

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Western Illusion of Human Nature:

One paragraph of this shit is enough to make me barf. Turning western civilization into a metaphysical category already invalidates this crackpot. I cannot stand anthropologists or anarchists. At 03:13 PM 4/22/2008, Charles Brown wrote: >Sahlins, Marshall The Western Illusion of Human Nature:

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] From Black women : " Ain't I a woman ?"

Reading this drivel makes me ill. Rochelle Riley is an idiot. While I agree with the anti-Hillary remarks, the level of superficiality exhibited here demonstrates why America, a nation of mental couch potatoes incapable of reacting to anything other than market manipulation, will never get

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] However, I think Rev. Wright missed an opportunity to advance unity

Unity of black and white is not going to happen. Black unity is not going to happen either. Perhaps if blacks and whites kicked their respective clergies to the curb, closed their Bibles and began to examine the world around them rationally, they'd actually get somewhere. But that's not going

[Marxism-Thaxis] Review-a-Day: John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights

Review-a-Day Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] May Day

Two lists so not worth participating in. Important? Have you lost your mind? I might as well join everyone else and schedule a lObamatomy. At 11:30 AM 5/1/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Today is the tenth anniversary of the launch of two important >progressive email lists: Doug Henwood's L

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] May Day

Good luck to you. I was in the hospital early for a diagnostic and ran into two former neighbors form two different locations. Everybody's gotta get into the act. Hope you enjoyed Marx's birthday yesterday. At 09:04 AM 5/6/2008, Charles Brown wrote: >Here's a tardy Happy May Day > >Unfortuna

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Wright"s logic ?

Wrong on all counts. Wright sabotaged Obama. Some folks I have talked with claim he did this deliberately, whereas I assumed he was just trying to promote himself. Obama is just another wouild-be administrator of the neoliberal order, perhaps less slimy than Clinton. Wright is a nationalist

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Wright"s logic ?

thoughtless criteria possible, on both sides of the racial divide. At 12:53 PM 5/6/2008, Ralph Dumain wrote: >Wrong on all counts. Wright sabotaged Obama. Some folks I have >talked with claim he did this deliberately, whereas I assumed he was >just trying to promote himself. Obama is jus

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Marx on Lincoln; Lincoln owned German language newspaper

Fascinating the way Marx sizes up Lincoln. Yeah, the German '48-er refugees played a significant role in the abolitionist movement and the Civil War. I think August Willich headed up a German-speaking regiment in the Union Army, also wrote a book on how to organize a democratic army. The s

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] New pro-PRC group

What kind of vile little shits would participate in something as disgusting as this? At 01:33 PM 5/8/2008, Charles Brown wrote: >[for facebook users] > > From Marxmail: >http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-May/027991.html > > >Sukant Chandan > >please join in: >http://www.facebook.c

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] No contradiction ?

There are, however, a few things askew re the argument in the Black Commentator. (1) The interpretations of anti-Obama remarks, such as the SNL sketch, are sometimes less than convincing. What really makes the case is Hillary's claim that she and McCain are qualified, Obama not, and a number

[Marxism-Thaxis] Hillary going down in flames

The Democratic Party leadership is going to have to squash this crazy woman like a bug, and not a minute too soon. The problem is not merely her race-based pitch, but her wording, which is outrageous beyond belief: ". . . that found how Senator Obama's support among working, hardworking Ameri

[Marxism-Thaxis] hardworking ignorance

Hillary digs deep into her Goldwater Republican psyche. "Hardworking" is now a hardworking code-word for her. Expertise and elitism http://www.samefacts.com/archives/election_2008_/2008/05/expertise_and_elitism.php Excerpts from this mini-critique: Hillary Clinton on

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] so much for the new coalition...

I disagree with this in certain respects. I mostly agree with Adolph Reed Jr., except I do not agree that Hillary is the lesser of two evils or even more electable than Obama. While it is important to burst the Obama bubble among self-deluded progressives, it's also important to keep in mind t

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] much of what is wrong with obama

Interesting what people focus on. Naturally they are interrelated, but I only thought about domestic policy, i.e. what happened to the New Deal/Great Society contingent which looms large in the destiny of the Democratic Party. I wouldn't expect much different from anyone on foreign policy, but

[Marxism-Thaxis] Unfinished business: Martin Luther King in Memphis

Unfinished business: Martin Luther King in Memphis International Socialism Issue: 118 Posted: 31 March 08 Brian Kelly Very interesting article. __

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Wright and "leftbrain /rightbrain"

Actually, all this means is that Wright is just another crackpot black cultural nationalist, a typical obscurantist mediocrity produced by black nationalism. It's bad enough to be a preacher, but to peddle this ignorant bullshit makes one wonder why Obama was so impressed by him. At 05:35 PM 5

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Wright and "leftbrain /rightbrain"

politics is at the top of the list. We live in such an anti-intellectual country that even progressives never progress mentally beyond the level of talk radio. At 08:09 PM 5/10/2008, Doug Henwood wrote: >On May 10, 2008, at 9:55 PM, Ralph Dumain wrote: > > > It's bad enough to be

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Crafty post headings of slanderous innuendo

This New York TImes article, if it's an accurate picture, helps tremendously to clarify what's going on here: May 11, 2008 The Long Run Pragmatic Politics, Forged on the South Side By JO BECKER and CHRISTOPHER DREW http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/us/politics/11chicago.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=sl

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of Clinton

Don't blame me. You asked for it. Y-Haiku Licking her sweet thigh . . . What a snack had in the shade-- I ate at the Y! R. Dumain, 9 May 2008 At 11:40 AM 5/14/2008, Charles Brown wrote: >Electoral Haiku >Ralph Dumain rdumain at autodidactproject.o

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] bad for the party?

Barry? I don't have the context for this discussion from the snippets given, but nothing is phonier than the white--and it's white white white!--feminist fanaticism for Hillary. If this were how "feminists" think, what greater indictment of white middle class feminism could there be? It's ide

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ballad for Americans love of country

Yes, Robeson's performance was a radical act for its time, per Earl Robinson's intention to put the Negro at the center of the American experience--a radical act even now, but increasingly common even in the 1940s, per Duke Ellington, Richard Wright, et al. What this has to do with Obama, I d

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Barack Obama Wins the Sojourner Truth Vote

Alice Walker is an airhead, and "womanism" is an obscurantist ideology. The author is a pastor, which means her argument has to be padded with BS. Otherwise, all this is true and it's obvious that "women" is just a code word for "white women". In every movement there is a political vanguard am

[Marxism-Thaxis] Booker Rising

I just stumbled upon a disgusting black conservative blog called "Booker Rising": http://bookerrising.blogspot.com/ Speaking of Booker T. Washington's crimes, recently I learned how international and pivotal his malfeasance was. See: ANDREW ZIMMERMAN "A German Alabama in Africa: The Tuskegee E

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] OBAMA - An Analysis

The crux is in the cited passages below. At 01:30 PM 5/31/2008, Charles Brown cited: >Obama is more attuned and reflective of the >emerging new transnational capitalist order >created by imperialist globalization. To reverse >the erosion of U.S. imperialism’s world >position, Obama wants to

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