[Marxism-Thaxis] _Bourgeois_ Philosophy

2005-09-12 Thread Charles Brown
Christopher Caudwell 1938 Reality A Study in Bourgeois Philosophy CB: Importantly, Caudwell discusses philo in terms of classes. This is a fundamental and continuous theme in his approach. This is critical in making his writing Marxist philosophical,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Graham Priest: Dialetheism Marx

2005-09-12 Thread Charles Brown
Graham Priest: Dialetheism Marx Ralph Dumain : Priest, Graham. 'Was Marx a Dialetheist?', Science and Society, 1991, 54, 468-75. While I don't expect everyone to be held spellbound by this question, it is illustrative of a recurring problem in intellectual history (and also in popular

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Graham Priest: Dialetheism Marx

2005-09-12 Thread Ralph Dumain
Yes, I have this book, haven't read it yet. Know Lawler, knew him in Buffalo. Got an article by him on my web site. Of late he's written articles for the Open Court series on popular culture and philosophy, e.g. in THE SIMPSONS AND PHILOSOPHY, and some of the later books in the series. I

[Marxism-Thaxis] that man (sic) was born free, but was crippled through social organisation.

2005-09-12 Thread Charles Brown
excerpt from Liberty A study in bourgeois illusion From this it follows that the animals are less free than men. Creatures of impulse, acting they know not why, subject to all the chances of nature, of other animals, of geographical accidents and climatic change, they are at the mercy of

[Marxism-Thaxis] Russell, number is class of all classes

2005-09-12 Thread Charles Brown
Liberty A study in bourgeois illusion Suppose someone had performed the regrettable experiment of turning Bertrand Russell, at the age of nine months, over to a goat foster-mother, and leaving him to her care, in some remote spot, unvisited by human beings, to grow to manhood. When, say forty

[Marxism-Thaxis] On Zeleney's On the Relation of Analytic and Dialectical Thinking

2005-09-12 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph D: I also know Marquit and have published in his journal, most recently, a book review on Marcuse. ^^^ CB: And I just noticed that one of your reviews On Zeleney's On the Relation of Analytic and Dialectical Thinking, with response by Jindrich Zeleny, is in the same issue (Vol.3, No.1 ,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] that man (sic) was born free, but was crippled through social organisation.

2005-09-12 Thread Ralph Dumain
I'm no Rousseau expert, but this doesn't sound right to me. The Rousseau quote in itself seems to be a quintessentially dialectical statement: how is it that a human being born a tabula rasa (socially if not genetically), who has the potential to become anything, is then socialized in a

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] that man (sic) was born free, but was crippled through social organisation.

2005-09-12 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:55:03 -0400 Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: excerpt from Liberty A study in bourgeois illusion Caudwell seems to have held to a type of compatibilism concerning the issue of free will and determinism. As such it seems to bear more than a passing

[Marxism-Thaxis] COVERUP: The dynamiting of the New Orleans levy system

2005-09-12 Thread Charles Brown
COVERUP: The dynamiting of the New Orleans levy system by Ernesto Cienfuegos La Voz de Aztlan Los Angeles, Alta California - September 11, 2005 - (ACN) New evidence is surfacing concerning the sabotaging of the New Orleans levy system that resulted in the flooding of primarily Black

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] that man (sic) was born free, but was crippled through social organisation.

2005-09-12 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:27:00 -0400 (GMT-04:00) Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm no Rousseau expert, but this doesn't sound right to me. The Rousseau quote in itself seems to be a quintessentially dialectical statement: how is it that a human being born a tabula rasa (socially

[Marxism-Thaxis] Philosophy of Rousseau

2005-09-12 Thread Charles Brown
Philosophy of Rousseau http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau [edit http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean-Jacques_Rousseauaction=edit section=3 ] Nature vs. society Rousseau saw a fundamental divide between society http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society and human nature