[Marxism-Thaxis] Jump for Joy

2010-03-12 Thread c b
No Im mixing up Jump for Joy with Black, Brown and Biege. CB Civil Rights Ellington participated in the Civil Rights movement from the 1940s on. In 1941 he wrote the score for the musical Jump for Joy, a show intended to debunk common movie stereotypes of African American popular culture.

[Marxism-Thaxis] At the Tea Party

2010-03-16 Thread c b
At the Tea Party By Jonathan Raban New York Review of Books March 25, 2010 People who watched the Tea Party Convention in Nashville on television in early February saw and heard an angry crowd, unanimous in its acclaim for every speaker. Standing ovation followed standing ovation, the fiery

[Marxism-Thaxis] Have the new money-credit-derivitive instruments fundamentally changed things?

2010-03-16 Thread c b
Progressive Economics pe...@xx Have the new money-credit-derivitive instruments fundamentally changed things? http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pen-l/2010w10/date.htm must ask for your patience at what may seem to economic experts an impossibly naive question. Perhaps it

[Marxism-Thaxis] PROGRESSIVES BLUNT ‘TEA-BAGGE R’ ATTACK ON REP. KILROY!

2010-03-17 Thread c b
PROGRESSIVES BLUNT ‘TEA-BAGGER’ ATTACK ON REP. KILROY! Bruce Bostick Hundreds showed up at what was supposed to be a right wing attack on Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy’s office yesterday in Columbus (Ohio). The event, however, proved to be much different from what the “Teabaggers”

[Marxism-Thaxis] The big short; Freefall america, free markets, and the sinking of the world economy

2010-03-18 Thread c b
by G. Pascal Zachary, Special to The Chronicle Sunday, March 14, 2010 http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/14/RV7D1CCONQ.DTL The big short Inside the doomsday machine By michael lewis Norton; 266 pages; $27.95. Freefall america, free markets, and the sinking of the world economy

[Marxism-Thaxis] In Havana, is it Lenin or Lennon

2010-03-18 Thread c b
In Havana, is it Lenin or Lennon? by: Scott Marshall March 15 2010 http://www.peoplesworld.org/in-havana-is-it-lenin-or-lennon/ HAVANA - Here is a city where statues of Vladimir Lenin and John Lennon coexist without a second thought. Although, some of the guide books poke fun at the notion

[Marxism-Thaxis] Mexican government on full-blast offensive against workers

2010-03-18 Thread c b
Mexican government on full-blast offensive against workers http://www.peoplesworld.org/mexican-government-on-full-blast-offensive-against-workers/ by: Emile Schepers March 17 2010 Last week, Mexico's Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare Javier Lozano Alarcon announced a series of legislative

[Marxism-Thaxis] Californians March into the Heartland

2010-03-19 Thread c b
Californians March into the Heartland By David Bacon The Nation, web edition, March 17, 2010 http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100329/bacon Shafter, CA - As the March for California's Future left Bakersfield, marchers trudged past almond trees just breaking into their spring blooms. From Shafter

[Marxism-Thaxis] Class antagonism as class struggle: the dialectic (OK Ralph)

2010-03-19 Thread c b
Is the difference between antagonism and contradiction that antagonism is irreconcilable, but contradiction is reconcilable ? There were some other new classes in the new bourgeois system besides the bourgeoisie and the proletariat - slaves and colonial subjects. The new forces and relations of

[Marxism-Thaxis] Class antagonism as class struggle: the dialectic (OK Ralph)

2010-03-19 Thread c b
Thanks, but I am not sure what this means for a description of class antagonism and its emergence within the feudal system. ^ CB; You mentioned kings and queens in your analysis of class antagonism and its emergence within the feudal system. So, whatever your mention of them meant for a

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Class antagonism as class struggle: the dialectic (OK Ra...

2010-03-19 Thread c b
On 3/19/10, waistli...@aol.com waistli...@aol.com wrote: Reply 1. The concept of antagonistic and non-antagonistic contradictions is not put forth in the glossary, with no disrespect meant to the Soviet Textbook of Marist Philosophy or Mao’s writings on Contradiction. Antagonism is not

[Marxism-Thaxis] HISTORY MADE: HEALTH-CARE REFORM BILL PASSED BY CONGRESS

2010-03-22 Thread c b
HISTORY MADE: HEALTH-CARE REFORM BILL PASSED BY CONGRESS By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet Once Rep. Bart Stupak announced he would vote for the Senate version of the health-care reform bill that came before the House, Democrats had their votes.

[Marxism-Thaxis] To Socialism! How?

2010-03-22 Thread c b
To Socialism! How? By Daniel Rubin How do we go from where we are to socialism? Not an easy question and there is more than one contradictory approach on the left and even in and around our Party. There is much in Marxist theory and methodology to help give us a general approach, while the

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

2010-03-23 Thread c b
On 3/23/10, waistli...@aol.com waistli...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 3/23/2010 11:03:24 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, cb31...@gmail.com writes: CB; Strategy deals with the wide, the biggest context, the general. Strategy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy Comment I prefer

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

2010-03-23 Thread c b
On 3/23/10, waistli...@aol.com waistli...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 3/23/2010 10:40:21 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, _cb31...@gmail.com_ (mailto:cb31...@gmail.com) writes: CB: He says capitalist production... begets its own negation. WL: Correct. What is capitalist production if not

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Objective Subjective (object and subject)::

2010-03-23 Thread c b
On 3/23/10, waistli...@aol.com waistli...@aol.com wrote: Objective Subjective (object and subject):: object refers to everything outside the human mind or the subject as human. Reality, say a tree, an automobile or the sun has an objective existence outside the human mind or the life of

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

2010-03-23 Thread c b
Ralph Dumain wrote: 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

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Objective Subjective (object and subject)::

2010-03-23 Thread c b
On 3/23/10, waistli...@aol.com waistli...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 3/23/2010 1:01:54 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, cb31...@gmail.com writes: CB: Lenin defines materialism as the belief in the existence of objective reality, objective reality being defined as you do above. Reply

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Objective Subjective (object and subject)::

2010-03-23 Thread c b
CB: Lenin defines materialism as the belief in the existence of objective reality, objective reality being defined as you do above. Reply This mans go. ^ CB: I don't understand these words (smile) ^^^ This glossary is being produced under the name Retried Workers Educational

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

2010-03-23 Thread c b
On 3/23/10, waistli...@aol.com waistli...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 3/23/2010 11:36:40 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, cb31...@gmail.com writes: CB; What are more of the specifics of Stalin's approach ? Reply Check out his articles in the 1920's on strategy and tactic of Russian

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Objective Subjective (object and subject)::

2010-03-23 Thread c b
CB: My buddy, Bob King. Comment Bob's cool and at this point see himself as a one time president. He has invited all and anyone to come forth with new proposition on what to do in the fight for the life of the trade union movement. This includes the Reds and especially the Reds because

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] glossary--a suggestion

2010-03-24 Thread c b
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[Marxism-Thaxis] The People versus the Financial Monopolies

2010-03-24 Thread c b
The Banks and Wall Street are making the plans and pulling the strings! Detroit Mayor Bing and Emergency Financial Dictator Robert Bobb are their tools DON'T LET THEM DESTROY DETROIT and Detroiters DEBTORS OF AMERICA , UNITE Behind Mayor Bing and Robert Bobb stand the big banks and

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tax the Rich

2010-03-25 Thread c b
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism-thaxis/2001-January/016940.html [Marxism-Thaxis] Finance Capitalism 2001 Charles Brown CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us Sat Jan 6 10:53:48 MST 2001 Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Socialism For Skeptics Next message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Second part

[Marxism-Thaxis] Bailout the Poor

2010-03-25 Thread c b
Marxism-Thaxis] Second part on Finance Capitalism 2001 Charles Brown CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us Sat Jan 6 10:58:09 MST 2001 Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Finance Capitalism 2001 Next message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Death Penalty Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

[Marxism-Thaxis] A Dialectical-Materialist View of Progressive Development in the Physical World

2010-03-25 Thread c b
A Dialectical-Materialist View of Progressive Development in the Physical World http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/view/1497/1/108/ By Erwin Marquit One of the most difficult questions faced by contemporary dialectical materialism is the concept of progressive development in

[Marxism-Thaxis] Reevaluating Lysenko

2010-03-25 Thread c b
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism-thaxis/2001-February/017071.html [Marxism-Thaxis] LYSENKO, VIEWS OF NATURE AND SOCIETY Charles Brown CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us Fri Feb 16 08:54:44 MST 2001 Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] LYSENKO, VIEWS OF NATURE AND SOCIETY Next message:

[Marxism-Thaxis] Marx conceiving of nature dialectically

2010-03-25 Thread c b
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism-thaxis/1999-January/013154.html M-TH: Re: Marx conceiving of nature dialectically Andrew Wayne Austin aaustin at utkux.utcc.utk.edu Tue Jan 5 12:03:17 MST 1999 Previous message: M-TH: Re: Marx conceiving of nature dialectically Next message: M-TH:

[Marxism-Thaxis] No more NUMM

2010-03-25 Thread c b
UAW - The United Auto Workers' campaign to keep the New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) plant open has ended in defeat: Toyota held fast in its decision to stop using the plant, and the union is now resigned to severance. http://peoplesworld.org/workers-lose-fight-to-keep-nummi-open/

[Marxism-Thaxis] largest immigrant rights demonstration since the mega marches of 2006.

2010-03-25 Thread c b
WASHINGTON -- On the first really warm day here in Washington D.C., March 21, after a winter of record-breaking cold and snow, the National Mall saw the largest immigrant rights demonstration since the mega marches of 2006.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Jazz-blues opera brings ‘Forg otten’ labor history to life

2010-03-25 Thread c b
byDave Elsila, retired Solidarity Magazine editor. CB CLINTON TOWNSHIP - A cast of 22 actors and musicians will bring the story of Lewis Bradford, a Methodist minister and labor organizer, to the stage at the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts in Clinton Township, Mich., on Friday, March

[Marxism-Thaxis] Left critique of New Atheism

2010-03-25 Thread c b
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 http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/culture-barbarism-0 Terry Eagleton Why are the most unlikely people, including myself, suddenly talking about God? Who

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Lenin the philosophers ship (1)

2010-03-26 Thread c b
In the movie Reds, John Reed gets imprisoned in Finland on his way to Russia to join up with the Bolsheviks. When he gets to Moscow released from prison, it is in exchange for some Russian intellectuals. He is riding in a car with a young Bolshevik, who tells him Lenin said he would trade fifty

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-26 Thread c b
This from wikipedia says that Pavlov was a LaMarckian. So, maybe that had some play in the Lysenko situation. CB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism Neo-Lamarckism Unlike neo-Darwinism, the term neo-Lamarckism refers more to a loose grouping of largely heterodox theories and mechanisms

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-26 Thread c b
Science 7 April 2000: Vol. 288. no. 5463, p. 38 DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5463.38 Prev | Table of Contents | Next News Focus GENETICS: Was Lamarck Just a Little Bit Right? Michael Balter Although Jean-Baptiste Lamarck is remembered mostly for the discredited theory that acquired traits can be

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-26 Thread c b
Received: 3 February 1998; Accepted: 24 June 1998 Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1002/(SICI)1096-987X(19981115)19:141639::AID-JCC103.0.CO;2-B About DOI On 3/26/10, c b cb31...@gmail.com wrote: Science 7 April 2000: Vol. 288. no. 5463, p. 38 DOI

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-26 Thread c b
Re-evaluating Lysenko Ralph Dumain rdumain at autodidactproject.org Fri Mar 26 00:04:27 MDT 2010 Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko Next message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-26 Thread c b
Ralph Dumain 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

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-26 Thread c b
Marxism-Thaxis] Alan Carling's synopsis of *The Proofofthe Pudding: Reason and Value in Social Evolution* Charles Brown CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us Tue Feb 19 12:29:02 MST 2002 Marxism-Thaxis] Alan Carling's synopsis of *The Proofofthe Pudding: Reason and Value in Social Evolution* Charles

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-26 Thread c b
Marxism-Thaxis] Alan Carling's reply Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com Wed Feb 20 02:55:29 MST 2002 Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] An exchange with Alan Carling Next message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: Monty Python on Bombing for Peace Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-26 Thread c b
Alan Carling's synopsis of *The Proofofthe Pudding: Reason and Value in Social Evolution* Charles Brown CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us Wed Feb 20 13:43:09 MST 2002 Here is what seems to be a significant error

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-26 Thread c b
Marxism-Thaxis] Alan Carling's synopsis of *TheProofofthePudding: Reason and Value in Social Evolution* Charles Brown CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us Tue Feb 19 13:19:37 MST 2002

[Marxism-Thaxis] Left critique of New Atheism

2010-03-26 Thread c b
Article Culture Barbarism Metaphysics in a Time of Terrorism Terry Eagleton -clip- If Marxism once held out a promise of reconciling culture and civilization, it is partly because its founder was both a Romantic humanist and an heir of Enlightenment rationalism. Marxism is about culture and

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-26 Thread c b
Memes, and Related Ideas about the Evolution of Culture 31 Dec 2009 16:57 Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody. ---Attrib. Stanislaw Lem Just what is a meme? Dawkins calls it an

[Marxism-Thaxis] Univ of Mich BAM strike 40 years ago

2010-03-26 Thread c b
This is the Harvard Crimson's report on the Univ of Michgan Black Action Movement strike for affirmative action. Obviously the strike could not have shut down the school without the support of most White students, who were the overwhelming majority of the population (obviously) CB ^

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fidel Castro on THE US HEALTHCARE REFORM

2010-03-26 Thread c b
Reflections by comrade Fidel THE US HEALTHCARE REFORM Barack Obama is a zealous believer in the imperialist capitalist system imposed by the United States to the world. ?God bless the United States,? is the final phrase of his speeches. Some events hurt the sensitivity of the world

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] an·tag·o·nist Sorry Charlie , Just nailed it down

2010-03-26 Thread c b
Yes, antagonism is a contradiction that cannot be resolved without a qualitative change in the system. On 3/24/10, waistli...@aol.com waistli...@aol.com wrote: 7.5 Antagonism: Antagonism is the basis of destruction and a form of transition to a new mode of production. It is a form of

[Marxism-Thaxis] Pivotal moments in American health care history capped by President Barack Obama's health care law:

2010-03-29 Thread c b
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2010/03/23/1127733/a-historic-look-at-health-care.html Pivotal moments in American health care history capped by President Barack Obama's health care law: -1798: The Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen in 1798 marks the beginning of federal involvement in

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-29 Thread c b
On 3/26/10, Jim Farmelant farmela...@juno.com wrote: The Roy Rappaport mentioned here is the professor who got me into anthropology. I had anthro 101 with him. (It was during the 1970 BAM strike at University of Michigan, which we are commemorating in a couple of weeks. Rappaport held

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-29 Thread c b
Jim Farmelant : If you are going to bring up the Manhattan Project, then I think it ought to be compared with the German A-bomb project, which failed to produce a bomb. Why did it fail? Well, primarily because it was never funded, anywhere, close to the level that the Manhattan Project was

[Marxism-Thaxis] The X-Woman's Fingerbone

2010-03-29 Thread c b
The X-Woman's Fingerbone Carl Zimmer Discover Magazine Blogs / The Loom March 24, 2010 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2010/03/24/the-x-womans-fingerbone/ In a cave in Siberia, scientists have found a 40,000- year old pinky bone that could belong to an entirely new species of hominid. Or

[Marxism-Thaxis] _The Riddle of the Self_

2010-03-29 Thread c b
Felix Mikhailov' book considers the philosophical problems of the human consciousness, its relation to the surrounding world and the means by which self-knowledge can be theoretically investigated. It poses and offers solutions to many questions raised by the nature of human thought, the intellect

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cultural materialism (anthropology)

2010-03-29 Thread c b
Cultural materialism (anthropology) Cultural Materialism is an anthropological research orientation. It is based on the simple premise that human social life is a response to the practical problems of earthly existence (Marvin Harris).[1] It was influenced by the writings of Karl Marx and

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Evolution of Culture

2010-03-29 Thread c b
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0858699.html Encyclopedia—human evolution The Evolution of Culture Among hominids, a parallel evolutionary process involving increased intelligence and cultural complexity is apparent in the material record. Evidence of greater behavioral flexibility and

[Marxism-Thaxis] Kottak on ecological anthro

2010-03-29 Thread c b
http://www.ksa.zcu.cz/studium/podklady-kfs/kul/Literatura/Kottak%201999.pdf ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-29 Thread c b
http://iopscience.iop.org/0038-5670/27/7/R03;jsessionid=BA548348AC9FC50922E2EC91B65F8304.c1 Soviet Physics Uspekhi All Fields Title/Abstract Author Affiliation Fulltext PACS/MSC Codes Last Week Last Month This Year Last Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years All Dates All journals This journal only Home

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-29 Thread c b
[Marxism-Thaxis] hull_sociobiology Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org Wed Jan 25 15:11:26 MST 2006 Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Domains of knowledge, particular spheres; levels of organization of reality; materialist dialectic Next message: [Marxism-Thaxis] hull_sociobiology Messages

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

2010-03-29 Thread c b
I finally found my letter exchange with Lewontin as reported to this list in December 2005. Will look for the articles discussed. Charles http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism-thaxis/2005-December/019560.html Marxism-Thaxis] Response from Lewontin Charles Brown cbrown at

[Marxism-Thaxis] Lewontin reviews Steven Rose's latest book (was Re-evaluating Lysenko)

2010-03-29 Thread c b
Below Carrol mentions _Goedel, Escher and Bach_ which I just picked up again lately. CB ^ [Marxism-Thaxis] Lewontin reviews Steven Rose's latest book Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org Mon Mar 21 09:04:45 MST 2005 Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Lewontin reviews Steven Rose's

[Marxism-Thaxis] Revisting Lysenko

2010-03-29 Thread c b
Marxism-Thaxis] J. B. S. Haldane Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com Thu Dec 8 08:20:08 MST 2005 Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Marxist Philosophy and the Sciences by JBS Haldane Next message: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Marxist Philosophy and the Sciences Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread

[Marxism-Thaxis] Reevaluating Lysenko

2010-03-29 Thread c b
Neoevolutionism Neoevolutionism is a social theory that tries to explain the evolution of societies by drawing on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and discarding some dogmas of the previous social evolutionism. Neoevolutionism is concerned with long-term, directional, evolutionary social

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

2010-03-29 Thread c b
On 3/29/10, Ralph Dumain rdum...@autodidactproject.org wrote: Aside: I recall _Goedel, Escher and Bach_ as a load of New Age crap. ^^^ CB: No religion in it. Gödel, Escher, Bach Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Author Douglas Hofstadter Country USA Language English

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

2010-03-29 Thread c b
attended a guest lecture by Lewontic on heritability, as part of a course on scientific racism. At 02:51 PM 3/29/2010, c b wrote: I finally found my letter exchange with Lewontin as reported to this list in December 2005. Will look for the articles discussed. Charles http

[Marxism-Thaxis] Arms Control Experts Applaud Announcement of New Nuclear Reductions Treaty with Russia

2010-03-29 Thread c b
Arms Control Experts Applaud Announcement of New Nuclear Reductions Treaty with Russia Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation March 26, 2010 http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/audience/media/experts_applaud_us_russia_03262010/ Washington, D.C. Today, the Obama Administration announced

[Marxism-Thaxis] Intelligible Happenstance

2010-03-30 Thread c b
WHY 'THE UNIVERSE IS PERFECTLY SET UP FOR LIFE' IS A TERRIBLE JUSTIFICATION FOR GOD'S EXISTENCE By Greta Christina, AlterNet If you think the Universe is so perfectly fine-tuned to allow life to come into being so therefore life must have been created this way on purpose -- think again.

[Marxism-Thaxis] _The Riddle of the Self_

2010-03-30 Thread c b
a materialist aphorism. It refers to Nature as infinite, not the Idea. So, this would be Marx's influence , too, Marx's transformation of Hegel. ^^^ From: c b cb31450 at gmail.com Felix Mikhailov' book considers the philosophical problems of the human consciousness, its relation to the surrounding

[Marxism-Thaxis] A New New Deal: How Regional Activism Will Reshape the American Labor Movement

2010-03-30 Thread c b
A New New Deal: How Regional Activism Will Reshape the American Labor Movement 20 questions with ... Amy Dean http://www.inthesetimes.com/community/20questions/5720/amy_dean/ Anyone with even a passing interest in progressive politics knows the labor movement is in trouble. Millions of lay-offs

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Riddle of the Self

2010-03-31 Thread c b
Thanks for that CeJ. I went to that first link, and I could see how M-P is complementary to M'ist tradition. Levi-Strauss was associated with M-P , though I never studied their connection much. He sounds left existential, and before Sartre was so left, maybe. I'm wondering if thinking of myself

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Arms Control Experts Applaud Announcement of New Nuclear Reductions Treaty with Russia

2010-03-31 Thread c b
Nope. Nuclear disarmament is still species-being project numero uno. On 3/31/10, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: These arms control experts are people embedded in the very national security state that makes and maintains so many nukes in the first place. The US side of the bargain is simply: they

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] A healthcare time line

2010-03-31 Thread c b
CeJ wrote: End most tendentiously. 1. Does it aim or can it achieve? 2. Extending federal plans to 30 million does not come anywhere near close to universal coverage or universal access to insured health care. 3. Directs federal subsidies towards and into the unsustained pricing bubbles

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Lewontin reviews Steven Rose's latest book (was Re-evaluating Lysenko)

2010-03-31 Thread c b
CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: The pure concentrated thesis that he never got around to stating very clearly in GEB is: we are conscious because we are strange loops. CB: OK Yeah. Self-reference seems to be the culprit in generating insoluable paradoxes in mathematics. The set of all sets that

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Evolution of Culture

2010-03-31 Thread c b
Why did we need dogs to develop gesturing. We could gesture to people. On 3/31/10, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: One interesting theory is about what separates our line of development from other homonids--co-evolution with another highly intelligent, highly social animal--dogs. This might lead

[Marxism-Thaxis] AlterNet

2010-03-31 Thread c b
Top Stories, Video and Blog Posts for AlterNet March 31st, 2010 http://www.alternet.org ___ Exposing the Deep Swamp of Republican Hypocrisy -- How a Party Alienated the Nation By Russell King, Russ' Filtered News I grew up in a profoundly

[Marxism-Thaxis] Alternet

2010-03-31 Thread c b
Top Stories, Video and Blog Posts for AlterNet March 31st, 2010 http://www.alternet.org ___ Exposing the Deep Swamp of Republican Hypocrisy -- How a Party Alienated the Nation By Russell King, Russ' Filtered News I grew up in a profoundly

[Marxism-Thaxis] When a Union Acts Like a Big Corporation

2010-03-31 Thread c b
When a Union Acts Like a Big Corporation by Carl Finamore, 2010-03-29 http://beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=7959 A Report From SEIU’s Civil Trial Against California Union Reformers The quiet decorum of a court room is a far cry from a union hall. But in San Francisco, it is precisely

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party, Coffee Party: Why Not A Black Party?

2010-03-31 Thread c b
Tea Party, Coffee Party: Why Not A Black Party? By Ron Walters NNPA Columnist

[Marxism-Thaxis] Exposing the Deep Swamp of Republican Hypocrisy -- How a Party Alienated the Nation

2010-03-31 Thread c b
AlterNet Exposing the Deep Swamp of Republican Hypocrisy -- How a Party Alienated the Nation By Russell King, Russ' Filtered News Posted on March 31, 2010, Printed on March 31, 2010 http://www.alternet.org/story/146237/ Dear Conservative Americans, The years have not been kind to you. I grew

[Marxism-Thaxis] Brits tune to telly for look at Detroit's 'dytopia'

2010-03-31 Thread c b
http://apps.detnews.com/apps/blogs/detroitcityhallinsider/index.php Category: Life in Detroit Posted by Joel Kurth (The Detroit News) on Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:00 PM Brits tune to telly for look at Detroit's 'dytopia' Call it ruin porn or decay worship, but the Euro fascination with Detroit

[Marxism-Thaxis] Beware of the new racist counteroffensive

2010-04-05 Thread c b
Beware of the new racist counteroffensive by: Sam Webb March 25 2010 tags: racism, African Americans, labor, Obama, ultra-right Many people say that racism is simply an attitude or a prejudice of one people toward another people. That allowed Republican senators to make the ludicrous claim

[Marxism-Thaxis] Crisis: The Motor of Capitalism

2010-04-05 Thread c b
Crisis: The Motor of Capitalism by: André Orléan, Le Monde Truthout 29 March 2010 http://www.truthout.org/the-crisis-motor-capitalism58234 Capitalism's history coincides with the history of its crises. Over the 1970-2007 period, there were at least 124 banking crises, 208 exchange rate crises

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Evolution of Culture

2010-04-05 Thread c b
CeJ jannuzi Why did we need dogs to develop gesturing. We could gesture to people. But drove forward that development? There is a really cute program on TV here in Japan that shows the adventures of a chimpanzee (who is very socialized to humans) who is paired up with a bull dog. The two animals

[Marxism-Thaxis] Arms Control Experts Applaud Announcement of New Nuclear Reductions Treaty with Russia

2010-04-05 Thread c b
CeJ jannuzi CB:Nope. Nuclear disarmament is still species-being project numero uno. Which is why Israel ought to be disarmed. I think they are the only country that ever threatened to use its nukes

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Great British Tea Heist

2010-04-05 Thread c b
The Great British Tea Heist Botanist Robert Fortune traveled to China and stole trade secrets of the tea industry, discovering a fraud in the process By Sarah Rose Smithsonian.com March 09, 2010 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Great-British-Tea-Heist.html [This is an excerpt

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Evolution of Culture

2010-04-05 Thread c b
Carrol Cox wrote: This was a fascinating post, I learned a lot from it. But it seems to me the understandings of language and change it describes could be expressed in other terms than the metaphor of evolution. Natural selection, applied to human history, including the history of

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Riddle of Antagonism: (still at work)

2010-04-05 Thread c b
Waistline2 Antagonism: Antagonism means the mutual resistance or active opposition of two opposing forces, physical or mental; active opposition to a force. Antagonism is a form of change resolution by

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Lewontin reviews Steven Rose's latest book (was Re-evaluating Lysenko)

2010-04-06 Thread c b
On 4/1/10, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: CB: I happened to have had a personal intellectual history of studying paradoxes, going back to when I heard of Russell's paradox as a college freshman. This was before I studied dialectics , wherein paradoxical contradiction is central. So, I was

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Dynamics of Complex Civilisations

2010-04-06 Thread c b
The Dynamics of Complex Civilisations To: a-l...@lists.econ.utah.edu Excerpt from Tipping Point: Near-Term Systemic Implications of a Peak in Global Oil Production Posted by Gail the Actuary The Oil Drum (March 29 2010) Recently, a 55 page paper called Tipping Point: Near-Term Implications

[Marxism-Thaxis] How much longer will America's 'gravest recession' last?

2010-04-09 Thread c b
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-sloan/the-last-sad-laughs_b_522138.html?view=print The Last (Sad) Laughs How much longer will America's 'gravest recession' last? Of course, no one knows for sure, but a table produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which since 1939 has tracked the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson essay

2010-04-14 Thread c b
as if he's discovering something new. The paragraph beginning with a rejection of the correspondence theory of truth is a mess. His dislike of noptions of objective reality, citing the Theses on Feuerbach, is familiar BS. The rest of this first essay is crap. At 10:23 AM 4/14/2010, c b wrote

[Marxism-Thaxis] Communitarianism

2010-04-14 Thread c b
Communitarianism Communitarianism, as a group of related but distinct philosophies, began in the late 20th century, opposing individualism. Not necessarily hostile to social liberalism or even social democracy, communitarianism emphasizes the need to balance individual rights and interests with

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

2010-04-14 Thread c b
On 4/14/10, Ralph Dumain rdum...@autodidactproject.org wrote: . . . Robinson's big obsession is that philosophers allegedly neglected practices as the basis of mathematical concepts. ^^^ CB: This sounds like Engels , who specifically argues that mathematics derives from practice. ^ For

[Marxism-Thaxis] Praxis interpreters of Marxism

2010-04-14 Thread c b
Advanced Search Praxis interpreters of Marxism Results 1 - 10 of about 58,600 for Praxis interpreters of Marxism. (0.33 seconds) Search ResultsMarx's ontology of the praxis-relations of social productionby W Yu - 2009 - Related articles Orthodox interpreters have distorted Marx's philosophy

[Marxism-Thaxis] Praxis interpreters of Marxism

2010-04-14 Thread c b
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.autodidactproject.org/other/ruben-dh-1.html - Cached David-Hillel Ruben on

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

2010-04-14 Thread c b
Yeah I almost sent this to the list CB On 4/14/10, Ralph Dumain rdum...@autodidactproject.org wrote:

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

2010-04-14 Thread c b
as well as to the efforts of many later scholars to disassociate Marxism from inquiries into physical nature in order to protect Marx’s teachings from the charge of vulgar materialism. ^ CB: I wonder if those who charge Marx with vulgar materialism have some other materialism that is

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Praxis interpreters of Marxism

2010-04-14 Thread c b
://www.autodidactproject.org/my/ruben-dh-2.htmlMarxism and Materialism: A Study in Marxist Theory of Knowledge 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

[Marxism-Thaxis] The purpose of knowledge: pragmatism and the praxis of marxist criminology

2010-04-14 Thread c b
Here's an interesting one. I wonder if it discusses the Absolute General Law of Capitalist Accumulation, the lumpen proletariat/dangerous class and all that. Charles The purpose of knowledge: pragmatism and the praxis of marxist criminology Journal Crime, Law and Social Change Publisher Springer

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Praxis interpreters of Marxism

2010-04-14 Thread c b
”, activity. ^^^ At 01:40 PM 4/14/2010, c b wrote: It's not necessary to develop the concept of praxis ? On 4/14/10, Ralph Dumain rdum...@autodidactproject.org wrote: Here is where I would agree with Hillel-Rubin as against Robinson, Dunayevskaya, and many others. Trying

[Marxism-Thaxis] translation into English of the German edition of _Capital_ I

2010-04-14 Thread c b
Here's some of the translation into English of the German edition of _Capital_ I CB ^^ http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/commodity.htm Marx 1867 (Capital) The Commodity This is an English

[Marxism-Thaxis] A little march on Wall Street, finally

2010-04-15 Thread c b
A visit at the end of the month of April would be close to May Day. CB A critical terrain of struggle http://peoplesworld.org/a-critical-terrain-of-struggle/ by: Sam Webb April 14 2010 tags: economy, banks, financial reform, labor The AFL-CIO and its new president, Richard Trumka, are going

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