[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: 7. Re: Re: Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 23, Issue 25 (Victor)

2005-10-02 Thread A. Mani
7. Re: Re: Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 23, Issue 25 (Victor) >How is it wrong?  Note, I do  not advocate that much can be gained from deep >research  into the logical forms, categories, inherent to the individual >human brain,  i.e. abstract, qua formal, logic.  This is, indeed, the view >of

[Marxism-Thaxis] The bourgeoisie, by the rapid _improvement_ of all (3)

2005-10-02 Thread Charles Brown
Waistline2 : Here is what you state, which is simply syndicalism: CB: The fettering of the development of the forces of production is in relation to the beneficial use of the working masses, whose property relation to those forces of production is that of wage-laborer. << There is no Marxi

[Marxism-Thaxis] fettering

2005-10-02 Thread Charles Brown
Moving plants overseas, industrial plant closings, and then measuring this against employment opportunity of American workers, and on this basis speaking of the fettering of productive forces - in the context of job opportunity for American workers, is risky business for communists. Our relative p

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fettering

2005-10-02 Thread Charles Brown
WL:"Marx is not speaking about plant closing or relocation of production facilities " ^ CB: This conclusion is not supported by Marx's discussion as quoted on this thread. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To chan

[Marxism-Thaxis] Venezuela abandons the USD

2005-10-02 Thread Charles Brown
Venezuela abandons the USD * To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Subject: Venezuela abandons the USD * From: "michael a. lebowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chavez: Venezuela moves reserves to Europe SEP. 30 1:50 P.M. ET

[Marxism-Thaxis] Zimbabwe brings steam engines back

2005-10-02 Thread Charles Brown
The Hindu Saturday, Oct 01, 2005 Zimbabwe brings steam engines back PRETORIA: Zimbabwe has announced it is moving back into the steam age by re-commissioning 10 coal-fired locomotives to cope with the economic crisis. Further indications of shortages came from hospitals, which are turning a

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re: Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 23, Issue 25

2005-10-02 Thread Victor
Sorry for the briefness of my reply. You can get a more thorough picture from reading Lenin 1908, Materialism and Empirio-criticism, http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/index.htm#one1 Ilyenkov, 1979 Leninist Dialectics and the Metaphysics of Positivism http://www.marxists.org/

[Marxism-Thaxis] [Marxism] Mark Jones on Peak Oil

2005-10-02 Thread Charles Brown
[Marxism] Mark Jones on Peak Oil ".What form will this catastrophe take and what kind of working-class politics is appropriate to meet it? If the economists suffer from over-optimism, the geologists also are not clear about the historical implications of the global Hubbert-peak. Ho

[Marxism-Thaxis] Stan Goff on Peak Oil

2005-10-02 Thread Charles Brown
[Marxism] Stan Goff on Peak Oil Jon Flanders * Next message: [Marxism] Mark Jones on Peak Oil "The left doesn't want to tell the same people that their living standards are destined to fall based on the energetic

[Marxism-Thaxis] Hugo Chavez on Peak Oil

2005-10-02 Thread Charles Brown
"The following is an abridged version of the address given to the 60th UN General Assembly on September 15 by Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's revolutionary socialist president." excerpted from http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/644/644p28.htm "Ladies and gentlemen, we are facing an unprecedented e