EVERY CRISIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY
Peter Rachleff
St. Paul, Minnesota
August 10, 2009
This year's Postal Press Association Editors Conference
was abuzz with discussion of the Postal Service's
threats to close hundreds of' stations. Virtually every
editor present knew of one or more stations at risk
The original encyclopedists were considered important contributors to
the development of materialism by Engels. Is Wikipedia in that
tradition ? Knowledge for masses.
The whole essay, or book Marx and Engels On Literature and Art of
which the reference to discussions of Diderot is a small
Marx and Engels On Literature and Art
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/art/index.htm
Source: Marx Engels On Literature and Art. Progress Publishers. 1976;
Transcribed: by Andy Blunden.
The Materialism of the Encyclopedists
1. Socialism: Utopian Scientific
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/ch02.htm
2. The Holy Family
Frederick Engels
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
While we are on this subject for no reason at all. . . . On my web site:
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/diderot1.htmlDiderot,
Interpreter of Nature: Selected Writings
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/diderot3.htmlDenis Diderot
by Tamara Dlugach
Elsewhere:
Hemingway, the American Left, and the Soviet Union: Some Forgotten Episodes
Journal article by Cary Nelson; The Hemingway Review, Vol. 14, 1994
http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=KG9WPQZJhw8PGW8d12NnZQvpqRhgycgTMLcDJQltpBDvWWpXptlt!-229138872!-1934322800?docId=5000276828
Ralph, you have a way with words.
Guess I will send in something related to real life in America.
WL.
In a message dated 8/13/2009 11:34:28 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
rdum...@autodidactproject.org writes:
While we are on this subject for no reason at all. . . . On my web site:
Unemployment continues to mount as does home fore closures. Society begins
to move as the economic crisis develops. This social response then
polarizes society. At this point the left and right side of the movement reach
a
point – a fork in the road – a polarization within their ranks.
II.
How is the new logic against the poor - destitute proletarians, being
expressed?
The health Care debates are instructive. Over and over older workers
rallying against a single payer system - on Medicare, are asked why they oppose
single payer. I do not want government control over
On Aug 13, 2009, at 12:59 PM, waistli...@aol.com wrote:
Attacking the ultra right is nothing more than a clever way of
demanding
unconditional support of the Obama administration
Exactly.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an
Empty water bottles littered the table in front of Ray Nagin, whose shaved
head reflected the florescent lights above. On a damp night in early Dec.
2008, the New Orleans mayor had come before the city council to discuss the
$1.1 billion municipal budget it had just passed after 12 hours of
Shane Mage
Waistline2 at aol.com wrote:
Attacking the ultra right is nothing more than a clever way of
demanding
unconditional support of the Obama administration
Exactly.
^
CB: A point upon which
Well, at a very quick reading, I got a general idea of the
correlation of forces delineated by Waistline, though I will have to
study this again. But I don't understand how attacking the right =
unconditional support for Obama.
At 01:51 PM 8/13/2009, c b wrote:
Shane Mage
Attacking the ultra right is nothing more than a clever way of
demanding unconditional support of the Obama administration
Exactly.
^
CB: A point upon which sectarians/ultra-lefts, whether Stalinist or
Trotskyist, can agree.
Comment
1). It was in fact the Clinton Administration
Though I think most of the productions of Soviet Marxism-Leninism
should have been flushed down the toilet long before they were, and
that the Soviet version of dialectical materialism has done a great
deal of harm as has most else that came from that source, I am
nonetheless dedicated to
12 August 2009 was the 10th anniversary of my first web site, The
Autodidact Project, still going strong:
http://www.autodidactproject.org
In addition to my own rants, essays, translations, poems, book and
film reviews, I've contributed (and have been consulted on)--along
with bibliographies
In response to this:
http://www.marxmail.org/msg66028.html
It is worth adding that Donald Davidson was a socialist, too, as were
Gilbert Ryle and John Austin. Wittgenstein himself declared he was a
'communist at heart', wanted to move to Russia (since he was in agreement
with the gains made
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