Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Marxism the Jewish Question: Selected Bibliography

2009-11-17 Thread Ralph Dumain
Thanks. I got some main ideas out of a cursory scan of this article, but I'm confused at other points. Also, I didn't follow the historical exposition too closely. If I could read this is a bone fide English translation I'd do better. I'll just note the points that leapt out at me. 1. The

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Marxism the Jewish Question: Selected Bibliography

2009-11-17 Thread yves coleman
Dear Ralph, you can write to Savas ( e...@ath.forthnet.gr ) and arlene clemesha ( aec...@hotmail.com ) to know if the first has an English version of his article and the second an English version of her book, or an article in English related to your research. I have never met them but they know

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Baraka on Barack

2009-11-17 Thread Ralph Dumain
Baraka is and has always been a first class political asshole. How ironic that an erstwhile petty bourgeois bohemian turned anti-Semitic black nationalist turned Maoist jackass--i.e. a lifelong romantic pseudo-revolutionary--should now turn on people just like him and engage in all kinds of

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Re: Baraka on Barack

2009-11-17 Thread Ralph Dumain
My apologies. I responded to a post over a year old, and so my response has no current relevance. I should have paid attention to the date. I don't think much of Baraka, though, as a poet or as a radical. Sometimes he hits the mark, but mostly he is a fool. I've seen him many times over the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Baraka on Barack ( old post and topic)

2009-11-17 Thread c b
At 10:54 AM 9/9/2008, yves coleman wrote: I think people can vote for whoever they want...but I don't want to hear their complains about the negative results of their votes afterwards ! Are Realpolitik and pushing Party X or Mr Y to do something they will never do, are these tactics worth the

[Marxism-Thaxis] post-Fordism and geographical scattering of the points of production

2009-11-17 Thread c b
Oddly enough in this post-Fordist era , Ford has a bit of a turnaround from disater. And afterall, even Wall Street went broke these days CB http://www.ford.com/about-ford/news-announcements/press-releases/press-releases-detail/pr-ford-posts-third-quarter-2009-net-31244 FORD POSTS Q3 2009 NET

[Marxism-Thaxis] YESTERDAY

2009-11-17 Thread c b
9 texts shared and 17 discussions started yesterday --- A-day-when-nothing-is-certain by Anarchist Various http://a.rg.org/text/6021/day-when-nothing-certain This is a collection of some of the best writings to come out of the Greek insurrections. A Feminine Cinematics Luce Irigaray, Women

[Marxism-Thaxis] Reading “Capital”

2009-11-17 Thread c b
http://home.mira.net/~andy/works/reading-capital.htm Shortly after Marx’s death, Jevon’s theory of marginal utility gained wide popularity and according to Engels: “[The poor state of political economy in England] is the fault of [Marx], to a great extent; he has taught people to see the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Reading “Capital”

2009-11-17 Thread c b
http://home.mira.net/~andy/works/reading-capital.htm Political economy is the system of thought forms within which people live by producing and exchanging commodities, and Capital demonstrated this – the whole universe of sweat-shops, insurance companies, industrial corporations,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Baraka on Barack ( old post and topic)

2009-11-17 Thread Ralph Dumain
When I responded to your recent posts, I found this old post sitting right next to it in alphabetical order in my in box. I should have been more attentive, but this is what sleep deprivation does to a person: you just keep going on semiautomatic pilot. The Obama presidency is already dead in

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Baraka on Barack ( old post and topic)

2009-11-17 Thread c b
On 11/17/09, Ralph Dumain rdum...@autodidactproject.org wrote: When I responded to your recent posts, I found this old post sitting right next to it in alphabetical order in my in box. I should have been more attentive, but this is what sleep deprivation does to a person: you just keep going

[Marxism-Thaxis] Reading “Capital”

2009-11-17 Thread c b
Implicit in the concept of value is the notion of the intrinsic equality of human beings. ^^ CB: Yes indeedy. Marx's concept of value is radically egalitarian. from Reading “Capital” by Andy Blunden So what is involved is the transhistorical necessity of every society making some

[Marxism-Thaxis] Foucault’s Discursive Subject by Blunden

2009-11-17 Thread c b
Andy Blunden September 2005 http://home.mira.net/~andy/works/foucault.htm Foucault’s Discursive Subject Foucault is credited with “deconstruction of the subject,” but in reality what Foucault has given us is a critique of the Cartesian subject, the intuitively-given individual subject deemed the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Foucault’s Discursive Subject

2009-11-17 Thread c b
Andy Blunden September 2005 Foucault’s Discursive Subject (continued) 1. Knowledge The epistemological problem of whether knowledge is entirely enclosed by the paradigm or discourse within which it exists is one that has received ample attention over the past century, and there is no need to

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Irish Socialist Workers Party has split.

2009-11-17 Thread Paddy Hackett
by Harry McIntyre from Indymedia Ireland --- Split centred around Belfast The Socialist Workers Party has split. There has been some speculation on Indymedia and elsewhere that the SWP was having internal difficulties in Belfast. The dust has now settled, and the bulk of their Belfast

[Marxism-Thaxis] PBS Tonight 9:00 Waterfront : struggle in Detroit

2009-11-17 Thread Waistline2
PBS Tonight 9:00 Waterfront : struggle in Detroit ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis

[Marxism-Thaxis] Biggest State Party to Obama: Get Out of Afghanistan

2009-11-17 Thread c b
Biggest State Party to Obama: Get Out of Afghanistan By Norman Solomon, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed truthout November 16, 2009 http://www.truthout.org/1116095?print The California Democratic Party has called for withdrawal from Afghanistan. (Photo: WikiMedia) This week begins with a significant