[Marxism-Thaxis] So what

2009-08-06 Thread Charles Brown
O STREET PIMP MY BLOG CHALLENGE I'm an atheist, so what? FINALIST By PETER JURICH • O STREET GUEST BLOGGER • August 3, 2009 I was at work when someone brought up that I am an atheist. A nearby coworker nearly had a heart attack. You are? she asked. But ... you're such a ... good person!

[Marxism-Thaxis] WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE AN ATHEIST IN THE BIBLE BELT

2009-08-06 Thread Charles Brown
WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE AN ATHEIST IN THE BIBLE BELT By Susan McCarthy, Comment Is Free Even in the South's big cities, many atheists feel they have to stay closeted. http://www.alternet.org/belief/141801/what_it%27s_like_to_be_an_atheist_in_the_bible_belt/

[Marxism-Thaxis] An anti-imperialist perspective

2009-06-25 Thread Charles Brown
Date: Tues, Jun 23 2009 12:45 pm by Julio The passages below are from an old (mid 1970s) document. Some list members will recognize the author. If you don't and are interested in locating the source, please e-mail me off-list. (Between * designates Italics from the author. Between _

[Marxism-Thaxis] Why Oprah Deserves to Be Rich and the Wall Street moguls notRalph

2009-04-05 Thread Charles Brown
Dumain Why Oprah Deserves to Be Rich and the Wall Street Moguls Deserve... by Jed Diamond Posted March 14, 2009 http://www.thirdage.com/today/giving-back/why-oprah-deserves-to-be-rich-the-wall-street-moguls-dont?utm_medium=emailutm_source=nl_community-connections_20090319utm_campaign=thirdage

[Marxism-Thaxis] Babel's dawn

2009-03-30 Thread Charles Brown
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Administration unveils financial system overhaul

2009-03-26 Thread Charles Brown
Administration unveils financial system overhaul By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer Martin Crutsinger, Ap Economics Writer   WASHINGTON – The Obama administration on  Thursday unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the financial system designed to impose greater  regulation on major players

[Marxism-Thaxis] sarkozy-under-pressure-as-millions-take-to-streets-

2009-03-20 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sarkozy-under-pressure-as-millions-take-to-streets-1648608.html ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to:

[Marxism-Thaxis] Notes on an Orientation to the Obama Presidency

2009-03-17 Thread Charles Brown
Notes on an Orientation to the Obama Presidency by Linda Burnham http://alainet.org/active/29144lang=es The election of Obama, while enthusiastically embraced by most of the left, has also occasioned some disorientation and confusion.   Some have become so

[Marxism-Thaxis] Babel's dawn note

2009-03-16 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.babelsdawn.com/babels_dawn/   The Group and the Individual are mutually dependent. Is there a way to talk about the whole as a unit, or must we choose between them whenever we talk about social change? This blog’s long-time emphasis on the role of cooperation and community  in human

[Marxism-Thaxis] Babel's dawn

2009-03-16 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.babelsdawn.com/babels_dawn/ A Tale Without Episodes Radio transmitters provide a misleading metaphor for speech.  They encourage the notion of a signal that must be encoded and then decoded rather than an active tool whose meaning comes from where it directs one's attention. The

[Marxism-Thaxis] Man the hunted

2009-03-16 Thread Charles Brown
Non-profit Charity Promotes Altruism as Key to Man's Evolution and Well-Being ST. LOUIS, March 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Anthropedia Foundation has teamed with the National  Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and Washington University Center

[Marxism-Thaxis] Read the big four to know capital ’s fate

2009-03-16 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5e61e20c-0f44-11de-ba10-779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=ae1104cc-f82e-11dd-aae8-77b07658.html ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to:

[Marxism-Thaxis] As capitalism stares into the abyss, was Marx right all along? ( Yes)

2009-03-13 Thread Charles Brown
Does a bear s___ in the woods ? ^^ Stephen King: As capitalism stares into the abyss, was Marx right all along? We may avoid a 1930s Depression but the best we can hope for may be a 1990s Japan Monday, 2 March 2009   http://us.mg204.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.partner=sbc.rand=c27i56kobk3ja

[Marxism-Thaxis] The US Financial System is Effectively Insolvent

2009-03-13 Thread Charles Brown
 Meaning , what ? Its firms can't pay their debts ? depression = stag-deflation CB The US Financial System is Effectively Insolvent     by Nouriel Roubini Forbes.com (March 05 2009) For those who argue that the rate of growth of economic activity is turning positive - that economies are

[Marxism-Thaxis] Stirner, Feurbach, Marx and the Young Hegelians - David McLellan

2009-03-13 Thread Charles Brown
Stirner, Feurbach, Marx and the Young Hegelians - David McLellan Submitted by Ret Marut on Feb 27 2009 http://libcom.org/history/stirner-feurbach-marx-young-hegelians-david-mclellan A summary of Stirner's ideas and their strong impact on his fellow Young Hegelians. McLellan asserts that

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fictitious capital and the transition out of capitalism - Loren Goldner

2009-03-13 Thread Charles Brown
Subject: Fictitious capital and the transition out of capitalism - Loren Goldner Fictitious capital and the transition out of capitalism - Loren Goldner Submitted by libcom on Nov 17 2005 An exploration of the growing fictitious dimension of the economy and its implications for class

[Marxism-Thaxis] What is the Crisis About? Fictitious Capital or the Destruction of Wealth?

2009-03-11 Thread Charles Brown
What is the Crisis About? Fictitious Capital or the Destruction of Wealth? michael perelman This short essay briefly describes the financial side of my interpretation that the crash reflected a disconnect between the underlying investment in the economy and

[Marxism-Thaxis] rah, rah team fight

2009-03-10 Thread Charles Brown
Comment In what relation do the  Communists stand to the proletarians as a whole? The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to the other  working-class parties. They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as  a whole. They do not set up any sectarian

[Marxism-Thaxis] rah, rah team fight

2009-03-10 Thread Charles Brown
Waistline2 Communists do not have separate demands from various   segment of the working class. IN fact it is these real world demands  that   creates the line of march. Here is how Marx and Engels defined  the task and role  of communists. ^^^ CB: So, stop talking about a communist

[Marxism-Thaxis] Obama opens up stem cell work, science inquiries

2009-03-09 Thread Charles Brown
Obama opens up stem cell work, science inquiries By SETH BORENSTEIN and BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writers Seth Borenstein And Ben Feller, AP – President Barack Obama signs an Executive Order on stem cells and a Presidential Memorandum on scientific … WASHINGTON – From tiny embryonic cells

[Marxism-Thaxis] A Backlash Against Obama's Budget ; which side are you on

2009-03-09 Thread Charles Brown
There's a big class battle brewing. Which side are you on ? http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_11/b4123016507664.htm BusinessWeek BusinessWeek Exchange Search all of BusinessWeek.com: NEWS MarBusinessWeek BusinessWeek Exchange Search all of BusinessWeek.com: NEWS March

[Marxism-Thaxis] Obama gets high marks in the latest NEWSWEEK poll,

2009-03-09 Thread Charles Brown
It's the People vs the Business class. Which side are you on ? CB ^^^ Newsweek Honeymoon In Hell Amid all the gloom, Obama gets high marks in the latest NEWSWEEK poll, with the GOP in the doghouse. Michael Hirsh Newsweek Web Exclusive Despite the tumbling economy,  Barack Obama

[Marxism-Thaxis] weather in Detroit

2009-03-07 Thread Charles Brown
Yea, its kind of nice down here in Florida . .  .76. WL. ^^ CB : My bad. When you said you hated the weather in Detroit, I thought you were in it visiting. (smile) In a message dated 3/6/2009 3:23:39 P.M. Eastern  Standard Time, cdb1003 at prodigy.net writes: Man, I hate the  

[Marxism-Thaxis] Are you really a champion of the poorest sectors of the ...

2009-03-07 Thread Charles Brown
Waistline2 The issue is always what is wrong rather than who is wrong. Labeling people haters . . . left haters, who do not support Obama the   person and the Obama presidency in a country where the working class is so and   devisive and sectarian that the

[Marxism-Thaxis] How Cash Starved States Can Create their Own Credit

2009-03-07 Thread Charles Brown
How Cash Starved States Can Create their Own Credit by Ellen Brown Global Research (March 03 2009) He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. --- Francis Bacon On February 19 2009, California narrowly escaped bankruptcy, when Governor

[Marxism-Thaxis] Obama says US may reach out to Taliban

2009-03-07 Thread Charles Brown
Obama Says US May Reach Out to Taliban http://news.aol.com/article/obama-afghanistan-taliban/373693 CB:If I was Obama , I'd say to the Taliban look bros, obviously, you are some bad motherfuckers  because even Alexander couldn't conquer y'all, or was it that Alexander was the only one who

[Marxism-Thaxis] Are you really a champion of the poorest sectors of the

2009-03-07 Thread Charles Brown
 ...Ralph Dumain Charles lost his mind a long time ago. But he has gotten really bad in recent months. After you have partaken too much of what the CP is serving, you get the itis. A lot of words are wasted wrangling in sectarian environments. ^^^ CB: Ah Ralph has been caused to take up

[Marxism-Thaxis] Which side are you on ?

2009-03-07 Thread Charles Brown
The real issue is over concentrating on private sector jobs - as   government spending or socially necessary means of life. The pouring of  trillions of dollars down the rabbit hole of modern speculative finance is  designed to starve the workers of these needed funds. ^ CB: Well, yeah,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Are you really a champion of the poorest sectors of the

2009-03-07 Thread Charles Brown
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Work Ethic

2009-03-06 Thread Charles Brown
Marxism in the Realm of Necessity as negation of the attitudes toward work in the classical European period I happened to read the below and it occurred to me that a lot of Marx's fundamental concepts on work and labor are almost simple negations of the attitudes toward them in the European

[Marxism-Thaxis] Work Ethic 2.0: Attention Control

2009-03-06 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.internetnews.com/commentary/article.php/3793561 Work Ethic 2.0: Attention Control Commentary: A person who works with total focus has an enormous advantage over a workaholic who's multi-tasking all day, answering every phone call, constantly checking Facebook and Twitter, and

[Marxism-Thaxis] weather in Detroit

2009-03-06 Thread Charles Brown
Man, I hate the  weather in Detroit. WL. ^ CB: In the ex-motor city,it's been a really cold winter, with record snow, but today it's like spring ! Feels good ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your

[Marxism-Thaxis] Human language gene's origin not as recent as thought

2009-03-05 Thread Charles Brown
This implies that language originated earlier in human evolution than thought. CB http://www.babelsdawn.com/babels_dawn/ The Neanderthal genome includes the human version of the FOXP2 gene. In my most recent post on that finding (see: Narrowing Down the Suspects) I said: The original dating

[Marxism-Thaxis] FOXP2 and the Evolution of Language

2009-03-05 Thread Charles Brown
FOXP2 and the Evolution of Language Alec MacAndrew   Introduction  This article addresses the history and the significance of the discovery of the relevance of FOXP2 in the development of speech. It is a remarkable scientific detective story that has been in the making for some time.  In its

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Language of Looting

2009-03-04 Thread Charles Brown
What Nationalize the Banks and the Free Market Really Mean in Today's Looking-Glass World The Language of Looting By MICHAEL HUDSON Banking shares began to plunge Friday morning after Senator Dodd,  the Connecticut Democrat who is chairman of the banking committee, said in an interview with

[Marxism-Thaxis] Finance Capitalism Hits a Wall

2009-03-04 Thread Charles Brown
Finance Capitalism Hits a Wall The Oligarchs' Escape Plan By MICHAEL HUDSON The financial “wealth creation” game is over. Economies  emerged from World War II relatively free of debt, but the 60-year global run-up has run its course. Finance capitalism is in a state of collapse, and marginal  

[Marxism-Thaxis] Capitalism, Socialism and Crisis

2009-03-04 Thread Charles Brown
OK . . . fair enough. Maybe later. It was so bad I was embarrassed to actually comment on it. WL. ^^ CB:  You haven't been too embarrassed to post bad stuff yourself in the past. When did you get to be so sensitive ? (smile) ___

[Marxism-Thaxis] Capitalism, Socialism and Crisis

2009-03-03 Thread Charles Brown
Capitalism, Socialism and Crisis By Prabhat Patnaik   http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/8201/  Original source: People's Democracy (India) A common view of the current financial crisis of capitalism holds  that it is essentially an aberration. Some attribute this aberration to

[Marxism-Thaxis] Obama , getting money to the working class pronto

2009-03-03 Thread Charles Brown
Obama , getting money to the working class, pronto 3/3/09 Notice of Certain Benefits Unemployed Workers May Be Eligiole For Under the Economic Stimulus Package. 1)Extra $25 per week in unemployment benefits 2)Period for Collecting Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extended 3)Partial  (first

[Marxism-Thaxis] Capitalism, Socialism and Crisis

2009-03-03 Thread Charles Brown
 Waistline2 at aol.com  Capitalism, Socialism and Crisis By Prabhat Patnaik   _http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/8201/_ (http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/8201/) is one of the worse, if not the worst economic analysis, I

[Marxism-Thaxis] James Petras' critique of the Communist Manifesto

2009-03-01 Thread Charles Brown
James Petras' critique of the Communist Manifesto * To: pe...@xxx, marxism-internatio...@xx, cm15...@xxx * Subject: James Petras' critique of the Communist Manifesto * From: Louis Proyect

[Marxism-Thaxis] Obama: The brother from another planet

2009-03-01 Thread Charles Brown
Waistline2 Waistline2 Obama as a uniter is an interesting Marxist approach. ^ CB: Marxist as in Workers of all nations and races , unite ! ^ Perhaps if all of  us was raised by a white parent and white  grandparents, we too would be uniters. ^ CB: Makes sense. It would

[Marxism-Thaxis] Lenin's discussion of monopoly and speculation

2009-02-28 Thread Charles Brown
Brown http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch01.htm “Even in the purely economic sphere,” writes Kestner, “a certain change is taking place from commercial activity in the old sense of the word towards organisational-speculative

[Marxism-Thaxis] Evgeny Pashukanis

2009-02-28 Thread Charles Brown
Evgeny Pashukanis From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Evgeny Bronislavovich Pashukanis (February 23, 1891[1] – 1937) was a Soviet legal scholar, best known for his work The General Theory of Law and Marxism. Contents[hide] * 1 Early life and October

[Marxism-Thaxis] Black History Month 2009 Change and continuity 6/end

2009-02-28 Thread Charles Brown
Waistline2 Obama as a uniter is an interesting Marxist approach. ^ CB: Marxist as in Workers of all nations and races , unite ! ^  Perhaps if all of  us was raised by a white parent and white grandparents, we too would be   uniters. ^ CB: Makes sense. It would engender  need

[Marxism-Thaxis] Massacre of Chilean students in Florida panhandle

2009-02-28 Thread Charles Brown
[Marxism] Massacre of Chilean students in Florida panhandle * Subject: [Marxism] Massacre of Chilean students in Florida panhandle * From: Joaquin Bustelo jbust...@gmail.com * I guess xenophobic murder is becoming so common in the United States it's become a dog-bites-man non-story

[Marxism-Thaxis] John Bellamy Foster interview on the financial crisis

2009-02-28 Thread Charles Brown
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/foster270209.html ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to:

[Marxism-Thaxis] Black History Month 2009 Change and continuity: The election of Barack Obama 1

2009-02-27 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph:Yes, this is a crossroads . . . a conjuncture of the election of the first black president and a major crisis of capitalism. Those two facts are interdependent, interrelated, and quite important, but I've yet to see an insightful elucidation of the nature of that importance. Decisive in

[Marxism-Thaxis] Black History Month 2009 Change and continuity: The election of Barack Obama 1

2009-02-27 Thread Charles Brown
Now that American society is undergoing a profound revolution in the society machinery ^^^ CB: What is the evidence and argument that _society_ is going through a profound revolution in machinery ? What characteristics of today's new machinery make the revolution _profound_ in comparison

[Marxism-Thaxis] Black History Month 2009 Change and continuity: 4

2009-02-27 Thread Charles Brown
The most noteworthy aspect of taking the high road is that Obama can appear, and probably believes he is, totally nonpartisan, bipartisan, or whatever, CB: Well isn't he ? That's basically what you say here. all along being forced to take more liberal or social democratic measures to

[Marxism-Thaxis] Definition of symbolic

2009-02-27 Thread Charles Brown
Another crucial element is that human language is symbolic: the sound of words (or their shape, when written) bear no relation to what they represent.[64] In other words, their meaning is arbitrary. That words have meaning is a matter of convention.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Black History Month 2009 Change and continuity: 4

2009-02-27 Thread Charles Brown
The huge mass that was once dubbed the reserve army of labor, was called  such precisely because it was a reserve to be thrown into the battle for  production during peak period of production. No level of production and  consumption today can throw this huge mass of labor into the production

[Marxism-Thaxis] Black History Month 2009 Change and continuity: 6/end

2009-02-27 Thread Charles Brown
Barack Obama wonderful book, Dreams from My Father, is the immigrant  story, a black immigrant, rather than the history of the Negro People, and his  acute awareness of this living history accounts for his unique and individual  ability to cross the color line. When Obama writes, My identity

[Marxism-Thaxis] Forward from Rosa Lichtenstein

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Brown
This article does not raise the issue of symbols. It turns on imitative learning. But my anaylsis assumes that animals can imitate - monkey see, monkey do. It is symboling that they can't do. They can't understand the concept of representation; or at least not abstractly enough to do it tens of

[Marxism-Thaxis] Symbols as unique in human learning (was Forward from Rosa Lichtenstein)

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Brown
This subsection of the wikipedia article on culture, brings in the concept of symbols as a distinguishing characteristic of human culture. This author distinguishes imitative from emulative Using imitative differently than I have been using it. Emulative would be monkey see, monkey do. The

[Marxism-Thaxis] Putting The Social Back Into Language : Marx, Vološinov and Vygotsky reexamined

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Brown
Putting The Social Back Into Language: Marx, Vološinov and Vygotsky reexamined Marnie Holborow Dublin City University Studies in Language Capitalism 1, 2006: 1 – 28 [Studies in Language Capitalism is a peer-reviewed online journal that seeks to promote and freely distribute interdisciplinary

[Marxism-Thaxis] Symbols as unique in human learning (was Forward from Rosa Lichtenstein)

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Brown
In this famous passage, Marx distinguishes human labor from that of animals by the existence of imagination, plan and purpose. This fits with the very interesting wikipedia article on culture, which claims that human children's learning in imitation of adults is focused on learning the intent and

[Marxism-Thaxis] Forward from Rosa Lichtenstein

2009-02-25 Thread Charles Brown
CB: On your comments below, notice I said language and culture. Material culture might be thought of as the products of gestures. In my hypothesis , the nature of symbols as the use of something to represent something it is not is critical. The critical communication is not between living humans,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Did the Soviet state whither away ?

2009-02-23 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph Dumain Total idiocy, delusional nonsense, senseless gibberish, from first word to last. CB: This is wishful and lazy thinking a childish , whining critique, because you can't make a good argument. You are stumped, trumped and checkmated. Pitiful really. You should be

[Marxism-Thaxis] Forward from Rosa Lichtenstein

2009-02-23 Thread Charles Brown
Interesting that Rosa should mention Lamarckianism in this context, as I have argued that culture and language give humans a Lamarckian-like adaptive mechanism. Culture and language , symboling, allow inheritance of acquired, extra-somatic , characteristics. CB The 'Lamarckian' Origin Of

[Marxism-Thaxis] Did the Soviet state whither away ?

2009-02-23 Thread Charles Brown
CB, you a damn lawyer, why do I have to write this and continuously explain the most elementary understanding of the Marxist approach to the state!!! ^^^ Waistline, I'm willing to discuss this with you but , you know, _on the surface_ at least, your discussion doesn't have the appearance of a

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Did the Soviet state whither away ?

2009-02-23 Thread Charles Brown
-thaxis-boun...@lists.econ.utah.edu [mailto:marxism-thaxis-boun...@lists.econ.utah.edu] On Behalf Of Charles Brown Sent: 23 February 2009 14:06 To: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Subject: [Marxism-Thaxis] Did the Soviet state whither away ? Phil Walden I would agree with Jim F

[Marxism-Thaxis] Review of Sokal's Beyond the Hoax

2009-02-22 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph Dumain I thought Proyect hated Sokal. ^ CB: I don't know about that. I think he doesn't hold much truck with post-modernism ^ The review is hardly brilliant but it is to the point. I am sure Sokal got all his information about India from Meera Nanda, who has written numerous

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Did the Soviet state whither away ?

2009-02-21 Thread Charles Brown
--- On Sat, 2/21/09, Jim Farmelant farmela...@juno.com wrote: From: Jim Farmelant farmela...@juno.com The Socialist Workers Party (USA) has long been insistent that Russia remains a kind of workers state. Their formulations strike me as nutty, but I think that they have stumbled on

[Marxism-Thaxis] Did the Soviet state whither

2009-02-21 Thread Charles Brown
What is socialism? ^ CB: Abolition of private property in the basic means of production. ^ ...we could start or continue our conversation having a clear and Communist understanding of socialism in this particular moment. What do you think? Let me know if you are interested so we

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Did the Soviet state whither away ?

2009-02-21 Thread Charles Brown
--- On Sun, 2/22/09, Jim Farmelant wrote: Well in Russia the state renationalized most of the energy industry several years ago. Putin, as president, went a long way towards reestablishing the leading role of the state in the management of Russia's economy. The state is a major

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Did the Soviet state whither away ?

2009-02-21 Thread Charles Brown
Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Did the Soviet state whither away ? To: cdb1...@prodigy.net, marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Cc: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Date: Sunday, February 22, 2009, 12:53 AM On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:35:43 -0800 (PST) Charles Brown cdb1...@prodigy.net writes

[Marxism-Thaxis] Review of Sokal's Beyond the Hoax

2009-02-21 Thread Charles Brown
[Marxism] Brilliant review of Alan Sokal's Beyond the Hoax To: arch...@xx Subject: [Marxism] Brilliant review of Alan Sokal's Beyond the Hoax From: Louis Proyect l...@x Date: Tue, 17

[Marxism-Thaxis] Sokal: law as a heuristic for natual science

2009-02-21 Thread Charles Brown
Hoax and Reality Jerold Touger Suppose I am asked to pick a number from 1 to 99,999,999,999. I claim to have a method for getting it right on the first try despite seemingly insuperable odds. If I then proceed to do so, it gives my claim enormous credibility. If others claiming the same

[Marxism-Thaxis] Did the Soviet state whither away ?

2009-02-20 Thread Charles Brown
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/02/social-collapse-best-practices.html Someone named Orlov says in the essay linked above: When the Soviet system went away, many people lost their jobs, everyone lost their savings, wages and pensions were held back for months, their value was wiped out by

[Marxism-Thaxis] Guatemala apologizes to Cuba for Bay of Pigs

2009-02-18 Thread Charles Brown
Fox 40 KTXL TV/DT Sacramento Guatemala apologizes to Cuba for Bay of Pigs By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ HAVANA (AP) — Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom apologized to Cuba on Tuesday for his country's having allowed the CIA to train exiles in the Central American country for the 1961 Bay of Pigs

[Marxism-Thaxis] In Defense of Washington and Wall Street

2009-02-18 Thread Charles Brown
In Defense of Washington and Wall Street Robert Fitch 1. The Crisis of 2007-2008 THE VERY ELDERLY ARE PRONE TO FALL. And unlike infants who also tumble frequently, each time seniors stumble, they risk a disabling or even a fatal injury. On August 9th 2007, after an unparalleled quarter

[Marxism-Thaxis] unemployment

2009-02-18 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn02132009.html Every president since Reagan, particularly Clinton, has jimmied the unemployment criteria to produce an undercount. The actual number for the two months is nearer one and three quarter million. The actual total unemployment rate, according to

[Marxism-Thaxis] Up and out of poverty, now

2009-02-16 Thread Charles Brown
The Marxist reform solution for getting us out of crisis depression is up and out of poverty ,now ! Unrestrict the consumption of the masses ! CB ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe

[Marxism-Thaxis] Ukrainian workers occupy a farming machinery plant

2009-02-16 Thread Charles Brown
http://red-news.livejournal.com/1462.html Ukrainian workers occupy a farming machinery planthttp://red-news.livejournal.com/1462.html ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to:

[Marxism-Thaxis] Alain Badiou

2009-02-15 Thread Charles Brown
Ruthless Critic of All that Exists : Full: http://mondediplo.com/2009/02/17sarkozy Alain Badiou's book on Sarkozy reveals the philosopher's own advocacy of change based in reality, which is beginning to displace the old 'new philosophy' of Bernard-Henri Lévy et al By Christopher Bickerton From

[Marxism-Thaxis] WHY THE U.S. STIMULUS PACKAGE IS BOUND TO FAIL

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
WHY THE U.S. STIMULUS PACKAGE IS BOUND TO FAIL DAVID HARVEY Much is to be gained by viewing the contemporary crisis as a surface eruption generated out of deep tectonic shifts in the spatio-temporal disposition of capitalist development. The tectonic plates are now accelerating their motion

[Marxism-Thaxis] Ian Angus on Charles Darwin

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
Ian Angus on Charles Darwin http://www.socialistvoice.ca/?p=366 February 6, 2009 Charles Darwin and Materialist Science http://www.socialistvoice.ca/?p=366 *By Ian Angus. *February 12, 2009 is Darwin Day, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. His masterwork, /On the Origin

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Jewishness of Jews Without Money

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.jbooks.com/interviews/index/IP_Buhle_Gold.htm The Jewishness of Jews Without Money By PAUL BUHLE Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the 1996 edition of Jews Without Money (originally published in 1930) was how the political wrangling of the past had slipped into history,

[Marxism-Thaxis] from the kingdom of necessity to the kingdom of freedom

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
From Anti-Duhring With the seizing of the means of production by society, production of commodities is done away with, and, simultaneously, the mastery of the product over the producer. Anarchy in social production is replaced by systematic, definite organization. The struggle for individual

[Marxism-Thaxis] Marxism and Humanism; Laborious Humanism

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
CB: In Althusser's terms, ^^^ CB: As far as I know, Althusser doesn't say what I say below. It is an extension, by me, of Althusser's basic argument in his famous essay beyond what he says. I believe Althusser concludes that there is no humanism in the mature Marx. I am disagreeing with

[Marxism-Thaxis] Why is history a history of class struggles ? Critique of Althusser

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
Charles Brown Althusser says: In 1845, Marx broke radically with every theory that based history and politics on an essence of man. This unique rupture contained three indissociable elements. (1) The formation of a theory of history and politics based on radically new concepts

[Marxism-Thaxis] from the kingdom of necessity

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
From Anti-Duhring With the seizing of the means of production by society, production of commodities is done away with, and, simultaneously, the mastery of the product over the producer. Anarchy in social production is replaced by systematic, definite organization. The struggle for individual

[Marxism-Thaxis] Douglass and Feuerbach

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph D: And here's an atheist treat: Letter to Ludwig Feuerbach from Ottilie Assing about Frederick Douglass http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/dougls1.html ^ CB: Cool , Ralph ! ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list

[Marxism-Thaxis] socialism icon needed

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph Dumain Aside from the hammer-and-sickle, and photos of Marx or other iconic figures, what other emblem of socialism can you think of? ^^^ CB: The color red. red flag ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To

[Marxism-Thaxis] Locus of material necessity in human society and history

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
This is a reworking and expansion of a thesis I have been developing on Thaxis Charles Materialism, Necessity and Freedom: Rehearsal of the Fundamentals of Marxism By the _Manifesto of the Communist Party_ every Marxist knows the A,B,C's of historical materialism or the materialist

[Marxism-Thaxis] kingdoms of necessity and freedom

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
--- On Sat, 2/14/09, Charles Brown cdb1...@prodigy.net wrote: From: Charles Brown cdb1...@prodigy.net Subject: kingdom of necessity To: cdb1...@prodigy.net Date: Saturday, February 14, 2009, 8:31 PM From Anti-Duhring With the seizing of the means of production by society, production

[Marxism-Thaxis] Insert for Locus of material necessity in human society and history

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
I didn't finish these thoughts in what I posted CB The Second Thesis on Feuerbach - the test of theory is practice - is also rooted in or expresses the determination of ideas by material practice, practical- critical , revolutionary,activity (from the First Thesis on Feuerbach) Theory, a system

[Marxism-Thaxis] Marxism and Humanism; Laborious Humanism

2009-02-13 Thread Charles Brown
CB: In Althusser's terms, the mature Marx significantly relocates humanism and essentialism, philosophical anthropology to human labor in that it is a main source of value; and there is a sense of human essence in the abstract equality of all abstract human labor. It's homogeneous and

[Marxism-Thaxis] Marx's laborious humanism, species-being

2009-02-13 Thread Charles Brown
Here is more elaboration of human essence in labor in the abstract, human species-being. For Marx, labor is human creative essence. Making is essentially human ( as is making out; smile) Of course human leisure, play, recreation is of species-being , and human essence , too. In this sense,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Why is history a history of class struggles ?

2009-02-13 Thread Charles Brown
Althusser says: In 1845, Marx broke radically with every theory that based history and politics on an essence of man. This unique rupture contained three indissociable elements. (1) The formation of a theory of history and politics based on radically new concepts: the concepts of social

[Marxism-Thaxis] Toolmaking and use as an aspect of the human labor and essence

2009-02-13 Thread Charles Brown
Benjamin Franklin defines humans as toolmakers, Franklin anthropology. Control of fire, chemistry, is toolmaking, and Promethean anthropology. CB http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch07.htm An instrument of labour is a thing, or a complex of things, which the labourer

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Concept of Aura and the Question of Art in Althusser, Benjamin and Greenberg

2009-02-12 Thread Charles Brown
Gary Tedman (unregistered) wrote, in response to bing: Hi, Yep, very interesting. I agree about Marx and his concept of human nature, and sexuality, and what you say. But it is different to the classical humanist essence (very). I did write about this (sort of) in an essay in RM

[Marxism-Thaxis] Political Affairs Magazine - The Concept of quot; Auraquot; and the Question of Art in Althusser, Benjamin and Greenberg

2009-02-07 Thread Charles Brown
:Picking up on Jim F's discussion below it seems to me that the structuralist and other objections to humanism are objections to individualism. That is  humanism/individualism as a failure to understand Marx's notion that human in individuals are an ensemble of their social relations.  The human

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Concept of Aura and the Question of Art in Althusser, Benjamin and Greenberg

2009-02-07 Thread Charles Brown
The Concept of Aura and the Question of Art in Althusser, Benjamin and Greenberg By Gary Tedman click here for related stories: science 1-28-09, 10:33 am I think we should not expect Marxism to produce a scientific (correct) theory of art, which would be like a Marxist

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] What are the CPUSA’s views on the USSR?

2009-02-07 Thread Charles Brown
International.   with revolutionary salutations, ballista    ^ Is it your conclusion that the great october revolution was not really that great ? --- On Mon, 2/2/09, Charles Brown cdb1...@prodigy.net wrote: From: Charles Brown cdb1...@prodigy.net Subject: [Marxism-Thaxis] What are the CPUSA’s

[Marxism-Thaxis] Revoke Krugman's Nobel Prize!

2009-02-05 Thread Charles Brown
Barkley Rosser is a Thaxis alum. CB ^^^ Revoke Krugman's Nobel Prize! by Barkley Rosser Yes, I know, not only has no Nobel Prize ever been revoked for anything, but they certainly do not do so for idiotic statements made by winners after they have won. However, as the first winner of the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Russia agrees to Afghan request for defence aid

2009-02-05 Thread Charles Brown
Russia agrees to Afghan request for defence aid Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:13pm IST By Sayed Salahuddin KABUL (Reuters) - Russia has accepted a request from President Hamid Karzai to provide military aid to Afghanistan, the Afghan government said on Monday. The move comes amid complaints by many

[Marxism-Thaxis] Kyrgyzstan starts moves to close U.S. airbase

2009-02-05 Thread Charles Brown
Kyrgyzstan starts moves to close U.S. airbase Wed Feb 4, 2009 3:04pm EST By Olga Dzyubenko BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan's government asked parliament on Wednesday to approve the closure of a U.S. military air base which supplies U.S.-led troops fighting in Afghanistan. The decision by the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Etta James Doles Out Harsh ‘La st’ Words for Beyonce, Obama

2009-02-05 Thread Charles Brown
Evidently, Etta James agees with Ralph (smile) http://h30405.www3.hp.com/print/pdf/2EJYDHE7CMAC/news Etta James Doles Out Harsh ‘Last’ Words for Beyonce, Obama (Feb. 5) - Etta James sure can hold a grudge, that much is certain after the RB icon vented her gripes about singer Beyonce Knowles and

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