Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Power to the People !

2005-03-04 Thread Waistline2
CB: Note the last question is in recognition of the issue we are debating here,usage of mode of production. And , yes, I know that Marx is ambiguous in that usage. However, he does use it to refer to especially property relations in one of those double usages, and that is the usage connected to

[Marxism-Thaxis] Banks and Bonds

2005-03-04 Thread Waistline2
Friends, what are our choices in modifying our position on making these scandalous payments? This is the same position of power and theft that the World Bank and IMF holds over the subjugated countries of the South. Thanks to Diane and Bankole for their reporting and editing on these articles.

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Power to the People !

2005-03-04 Thread Waistline2
Communism - not socialism, is impossible unless one has the economic legs to stand on or a revolution in the mode of production (not simply the property relations) that destroys value by qualitatively reconfiguring the labor process where the great mass of humanity's labor is not needed in the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Van Heijenoort's critique of Engels

2005-03-04 Thread Charles Brown
Of course, the SU's sciences and math was not without errors,etc. In fact , trial and error as a process of the development of anything, including science, is what Marxism expects. This is some of that same rhetoric and ideology, Marxist rhetoric and ideology , that you refer to below. It comes

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Van Heijenoort's critique of Engels

2005-03-04 Thread Oudeyis
Have been following your discussion with considerable interest. Sorry to lurk so long, but I was occupied in finishing up a paper. I was particularly interested in your earlier discussion on emergence. I agree strongly with Jay Gould that dialectics; Hegelian and Marxist alike,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Big Jesse on Malcolm X

2005-03-04 Thread Waistline2
The princely paradox of Malcolm X Forty years on, his legacy offers an example to people of all ethnicities Jesse Jackson Tuesday February 22, 2005 The Guardian As I reflect on the life of Malcolm X 40 years after his assassination, I do so with a keen understanding of the political, social and

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 17, Issue 4

2005-03-04 Thread A. Mani
1. Re: Van Heijenoort's critique of Engels (Ralph Dumain) 2. Van Heijenoort's critique of Engels (Hans G. Ehrbar) 3. Van Heijenoort's critique of Engels (Charles Brown) 4. Re: Van Heijenoort's critique of Engels (Ralph Dumain) 5. Re: Van Heijenoort's critique of Engels (Ralph Dumain)

[Marxism-Thaxis] Particleless process

2005-03-04 Thread Charles Brown
I have been reading Ralph Dumain's notes. The notion of everything as process /nothing is a particle seems a neo-Hericlitean one. Charles ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to:

Dialectics and systems theory (was Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Van Heijenoort's critique of Engels)

2005-03-04 Thread Jim Farmelant
I wrote the following back in 1998 for Proyect's Marxmail list. Jim F. -- The Fall 1998 issue of SCIENCE SOCIETY is a special issue devoted to dialectics: The New Frontier. It features noted Marxist scholars, Bertell Ollman and Tony Smith, as the guest

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Van Heijenoort's critique of Engels

2005-03-04 Thread Ralph Dumain
I'm substantially in agreement with you here. Now, if one wants to unify the marxist and natural-scientific perspectives, in place of relegating them to separate perspectives, then one has to rise to that level of abstraction to construct a unified account of both. This ridiculous meme