Re: [PEN-L] psychology Marxism [was: Gambling for Empire]

2007-03-17 Thread knowknot
Doug Henwood said: . . . any Marxist writers on the r.c. . . . [?] Query whether Frederick Vanderbilt Field's autobiographical and political musings - e.g., From Right to Left (Lawrence Hill Co. and Chicago Review Press) - would qualify?

[PEN-L] psychology Marxism [was: Gambling for Empire]

2007-03-12 Thread Jim Devine
On 3/12/07, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: It would be interesting if someone attempted a theory of imperialism that mediates socio-economic forces and structures with psychological structures of the ruling class and the power elite. I think Sartre once criticized Marxist theory for neglecting to

Re: [PEN-L] psychology Marxism [was: Gambling for Empire]

2007-03-12 Thread Michael Hoover
On 3/12/07, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have long criticized Marxism for ignoring psychology (though such worthies as Wilhelm Reich and Herbert Marcuse should be mentioned). Jim Devine / The truth is more important than the facts. -- Frank Lloyd Wright lists are always incomplete,

Re: [PEN-L] psychology Marxism [was: Gambling for Empire]

2007-03-12 Thread Jim Devine
I agree On 3/12/07, Michael Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/12/07, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have long criticized Marxism for ignoring psychology (though such worthies as Wilhelm Reich and Herbert Marcuse should be mentioned). Jim Devine / The truth is more important than

Re: [PEN-L] psychology Marxism [was: Gambling for Empire]

2007-03-12 Thread Yahya Madra
Dear Friends, I am not so sure about the link between psychology and marxism but there is growing literature on the intersection between psychoanalysis and marxism from the side of the psychoanalysis. With my co-author Ceren Ozselcuk, we have recently embarked upon bridging the gap from the

Re: [PEN-L] psychology Marxism [was: Gambling for Empire]

2007-03-12 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
On 3/12/07, Michael Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/12/07, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have long criticized Marxism for ignoring psychology (though such worthies as Wilhelm Reich and Herbert Marcuse should be mentioned). Jim Devine / The truth is more important than the facts.

Re: [PEN-L] psychology Marxism [was: Gambling for Empire]

2007-03-12 Thread Doug Henwood
On Mar 12, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Strange as it may seem, the Marxist tradition has not paid much attention to the ruling classes and power elites as they actually exist. A few months ago, when I told Bertell Ollman that I was working on a book about the ruling class, which

Re: [PEN-L] psychology Marxism [was: Gambling for Empire]

2007-03-12 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
On 3/12/07, Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 12, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Strange as it may seem, the Marxist tradition has not paid much attention to the ruling classes and power elites as they actually exist. A few months ago, when I told Bertell Ollman that I

Re: [PEN-L] psychology Marxism [was: Gambling for Empire]

2007-03-12 Thread Jim Devine
don't you man the ruling elite, not the ruling class? how about G. William Domhoff? Tom Bottomore has a nice little book on _Elites and Society_, BTW. The original elite theories came from folks like Pareto and Mosca, who were pretty conservative. On 3/12/07, Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PEN-L] psychology Marxism [was: Gambling for Empire]

2007-03-12 Thread Leigh Meyers
G. William Domhoff http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/ On 3/12/07, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't you man the ruling elite, not the ruling class? how about G. William Domhoff? Tom Bottomore has a nice little book on _Elites and Society_, BTW. The original elite theories