[Marxism-Thaxis] Infrastructure does not micromanage the economy

2005-09-18 Thread Charles Brown
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Graham Priest vs Erwin Marquit

2005-09-18 Thread Charles Brown
I know that's right. Well, well, well. You might want to take a look at that collection of articles, _Dialectical Contradictions : Contemporary Marxist Discussions_. Somebody mentions, maybe Lawler, the square root of negative one. There is an article by Narski there. Marquit (1981)

[Marxism-Thaxis] written history of society is a history of class struggles.

2005-09-18 Thread Charles Brown
WL: The issue is your definition of history as class struggle. I reply that history is not class struggle but rather the progressive accumulation of productive forces and society moving in class antagonism. The bourgeoisie role in revolutionizing production is irrelevant to the definition of

[Marxism-Thaxis] The bourgeoisie, by the rapid _improvement_ of all instruments of production

2005-09-18 Thread Charles Brown
The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation. The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Ontological Status of Women and Abstract Entities

2005-09-18 Thread Charles Brown
[Bibliographic note: Following is the conclusion of a lecture that the logician Alonzo Church presented at Harvard University on April 18, 1958. In this excerpt, which was first published on the web site of Cathy Legg, Church was arguing against the nominalistic approach of the philosophers Nelson

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Graham Priest vs Erwin Marquit

2005-09-18 Thread Ralph Dumain
At 10:09 AM 9/18/2005 -0400, Charles Brown wrote: I know that's right. Well, well, well. You might want to take a look at that collection of articles, _Dialectical Contradictions : Contemporary Marxist Discussions_. Somebody mentions, maybe Lawler, the square root of negative one. There is an

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Graham Priest vs Erwin Marquit (2)

2005-09-18 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:54:33 -0400 Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The upshot, I think, is that even if Priest can prove Marquite wrong in arguing for contradictions in 'the same respect', that one point does not render his analysis of the issues involved any subtler, nor does

[Marxism-Thaxis] Contradiction inherent in symbolling

2005-09-18 Thread Charles Brown
There is an inherent contradiction in all efforts to represent, as the process is fundamentally establishing an identity between two different things - the thing represented and the thing being used to represent. I think this is the contradiction that always pops up in math , logic , dialectics

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the sin...

2005-09-18 Thread Waistline2
CB: If Marx had thought changing the technological regime were the focus for revolutionary activity , _Capital_ would have been a book of engineering-physics, not political economy. The following demonstrates that followers of Marx and Engels would focus on changing property relations,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the sin...

2005-09-18 Thread Waistline2
Correction The issue in discussing Marx meaning of the productive forces in conflict with the relations of production, and what it means for us at our moment of history, has never been the form, content, or substance of ones revolutionary activity as communist or Marxists. Should read The