[Marxism-Thaxis] Obama seeks to abolish world nukes (!)

2009-04-05 Thread c b
http://news.aol.com/main/obama-presidency/article/obama-nuclear-weapons/412784?icid=main|main|dl1|link3|http://news.aol.com/main/obama-presidency/article/obama-nuclear-weapons/412784 ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To

[Marxism-Thaxis] Paul Cockshott on Leonid Kantorovich and the socialist calculation debate

2009-06-03 Thread c b
CeJ jannuzi If Cockshott had waited a bit more, he might not look the complete fool he does here. This is still largely an argument based on the idea that logistics is economics turned into a hard science. That would

[Marxism-Thaxis] Paul Cockshott on Leonid Kantorovich and the socialist calculation debate

2009-06-03 Thread c b
CeJ jannuzi The Nobel Prize in Economics is arguably not a real Nobel Prize since Alfred Nobel made no provision for such a prize in his will. It was instead established by the Bank of Sweden in the late 1960s

[Marxism-Thaxis] Paul Cockshott on Leonid Kantorovich and the socialist calculation debate

2009-06-05 Thread c b
CeJ jannuzi at gmail.com CB: What's logistics ? Basically, the science of how an economy supplies and distributes goods. ^^^ CB: Not to be cute, but isn't economics the science of supply and distribution of goods ? ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list

[Marxism-Thaxis] Paul Cockshott on Leonid Kantorovich and the socialist calculation debate

2009-06-05 Thread c b
CeJ jannuzi at gmail.com CB: Think about it. To admit that macroeconomics can be understood scientifically is to admit that there can be macroeconomic planning, ie. centralized planning, that Hayek is wrong. So, the bourgeoisie are always going to be leery of a prize for the science of economics.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Humanity in the Capitalist Cul-de-sac

2009-06-16 Thread c b
Humanity in the Capitalist Cul-de-sac As a result of 200 years of capitalism, humanity is deep in a very dangerous cul-de-sac which could result in barbarism on an unprecedented scale by Daniel Tanuro climateandcapitalism.com (June 05 2009) Climate change is a major challenge for humanity

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] An anti-imperialist perspective

2009-06-25 Thread c b
The comment is by a comrade from another list. I'll ask him On 6/25/09, steiger2...@centrum.cz steiger2...@centrum.cz wrote: Being not of the old list members I would very much appreciate being told the source of this extremely interesting document. Thanks in advance. Stephen Steiger

[Marxism-Thaxis] Remarks

2009-07-02 Thread c b
Author: Sam Webb, National Chair First published 07/01/2009 00:54 (Remarks to National Committee Meeting June 20, 2009) I make no attempt to be comprehensive in these remarks. My aim is much more modest, as you will see. Let me begin with a simple observation: If the last 30 years were an

[Marxism-Thaxis] Partial list of famous musical artists who died as young or younger than Michael Jackson

2009-07-10 Thread c b
Michael Jackson 50 Bessie Smith 37 Billie Holiday 44 Charlie Parker 34 John Coltrane 40 Jimi Hendrix 28 Mozart 35 Tupac Shakur 25 Biggie Smalls 24 Elvis Presley 42 Fats Waller39 Judy Garland 47 Marvin Gaye44 David Ruffin 50 Paul Williams 34 John Lennon40 Edith

[Marxism-Thaxis] Comrade

2009-07-10 Thread c b
http://www.evergreenreaders.com/online_publication.htm Evergreen Readers and Writes edi...@evergreenreaders.com 07/10/2009 11:33 AM Dear Comrade Charles Brown, Revolutionary Greetings! Enclosed is an article, Recession: A Bolshevik Viewpoint, which I would like to have your comments about.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Behind the Facade

2009-07-10 Thread c b
NY Times, July 4, 2009 Op-Ed Columnist Behind the Facade By BOB HERBERT Meeting Michael Jackson in the mid-1980s was one of the creepier experiences of my life. I was an editor at The Daily News and had to present him with an award in a large room with just a handful of onlookers and a

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Partial list of famous musical artists who died as young or younger than Michael Jackson

2009-07-13 Thread c b
Clearly ,even, Michael Jackson reached out to White people in a graphic and bodily manner , even. He sort of turned himself into a White person. He married Elvis Presley's daughter, the princess of white anglo saxon working masses. What a political marriage of old. He had children with very wasp

[Marxism-Thaxis] Michael Jackson

2009-07-13 Thread c b
Well, Adorno started thinking out this over 65 years ago. And this is when popular taste was probably far more discerning than it is today, pace Adorno's notions about jazz. The steady debasement of pop music since the late '70s is not much of a mystery, and with generational turnover and the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Michael Jackson - Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 69, Issue 6

2009-07-14 Thread c b
Of course this stuff is silly. Aside from the obvious, it might be interesting to delve into the ideological content of Jackson's songs and his views. Also, the social basis of his pathology. But to tell the truth, I'm more interested in the Jazz Icons DVDs, consisting of video footage

[Marxism-Thaxis] Behind the Facade

2009-07-14 Thread c b
Motown was the label that gave us the Jackson 5. But when Michael and his brothers released their first album in 1969, the label had already reached its creative peak and most of the best work — the stunning originality of the Miracles, the Marvelettes, Mary Wells, Martha and the Vandellas, the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Michael Jackson

2009-07-14 Thread c b
Well, Adorno started thinking out this over 65 years ago. And this is when popular taste was probably far more discerning than it is today, pace Adorno's notions about jazz. ^^^ CB: Didn't Adorno conclude that the working class is no longer the revolutionary subject class ? ^^^ The steady

[Marxism-Thaxis] Adorno

2009-07-14 Thread c b
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_W._Adorno Theory Adorno was chiefly influenced by Max Weber's critique of disenchantment, Georg Lukacs's Hegelian interpretation of Marxism, as well as Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history, although Weber's influence has until recently been underestimated.

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Partial list of famous musical artists who died as young or younger than Michael Jackson

2009-07-14 Thread c b
, Ralph Dumain rdum...@autodidactproject.org wrote: Reading your posts, I dread whatever senility awaits me. At 08:31 AM 7/13/2009, c b wrote: Clearly ,even, Michael Jackson reached out to White people in a graphic and bodily manner , even. He sort of turned himself into a White person. He

[Marxism-Thaxis] Partial list of famous musical artists who died as young or younger than Michael Jackson

2009-07-14 Thread c b
Ralph Dumain Reading your posts, I dread whatever senility awaits me. ^ Reading your post, evidently ,your senility has already arrived ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to:

[Marxism-Thaxis] Adorno

2009-07-14 Thread c b
Theodor W. Adorno First published Mon May 5, 2003; substantive revision Fri Aug 3, 2007 http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/adorno/#2 2. Dialectic of Enlightenment Long before postmodernism became fashionable, Adorno and Horkheimer wrote one of the most searching critiques of modernity to have

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Michael Jackson - Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 69, Issue 6

2009-07-14 Thread c b
On 7/14/09, waistli...@aol.com All this stuff about MJ brings people - black and white, together is a tad bit much. I believe what is meant is how in the flesh he expressed a certain homogenizing of the culture. First in America with the destruction of segregation and the race records as an

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Partial list of famous musical artists who died as young or younger than Michael Jackson

2009-07-14 Thread c b
Crossover (music) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Crossover is a term applied to musical works or performers appearing on two or more of the record charts which track differing musical tastes, or genres.[1] If the second chart is a pop chart, such as a Hot 100

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Partial list of famous musical artists who died as young or younger than Michael Jackson

2009-07-15 Thread c b
in children's literature | Fictional immortals | Fictional sword fighters | Child characters in written fiction | Kingdom Hearts characters | Peter Pan On 7/10/09, c b cb31...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Jackson 50 Bessie Smith 37 Billie Holiday 44 Charlie Parker 34 John Coltrane 40 Jimi Hendrix

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Partial list of famous musical artists who died as young or younger than Michael Jackson

2009-07-15 Thread c b
September 4th, 2008 [edit] External links On 7/15/09, Shane Mage shm...@pipeline.com wrote: On Jul 15, 2009, at 11:31 AM, c b wrote: It would seem that Michael Jackson aesthetic was a species of the bourgeois Romanticists Peter Pan philosophy...child as the father of the man,which more

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Partial list of famous musical artists who died as young or younger than Michael Jackson

2009-07-15 Thread c b
deities | Greek gods | Greek mythology | Sexuality in ancient Rome | Offspring of Zeus | Offspring of Hermes On 7/15/09, c b cb31...@gmail.com wrote: The Great God Pan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search The Great God Pan Author Arthur Machen Country United

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Partial list of famous musical artists who died as young or younger than Michael Jackson

2009-07-15 Thread c b
Michael Jackson's Thriller ( video) Michael Jackson's Thriller title card. Directed by John Landis Produced by George Folsey Jr. Written by John Landis Michael Jackson Starring Michael Jackson Ola Ray Distributed by Columbia Pictures Epic Records Productions Release date(s) December 2, 1983

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Partial list of famous musical artists who died as young or younger than Michael Jackson

2009-07-15 Thread c b
In the late nineteenth century Pan became an increasingly common figure in literature and art. Patricia Merivale states that between 1890 and 1926 there was an astonishing resurgence of interest in the Pan motif.[21] He appears in poetry, in novels and childrens' books such as The Wind in the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Partial list of famous musical artists who died as young or younger than Michael Jackson

2009-07-15 Thread c b
As far as the horror story/movie genre, Michael Pan Jackson's greatest album was _Thriller_, in the video of which he transforms from a teenage boy dating a girl into a Wherewolf stalking her, thereby weaving in the classic myth of The Beauty and the Beast. He features the voice of the classic

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Partial list of famous musical artists who died as young or younger than Michael Jackson

2009-07-15 Thread c b
to this article: The Great God PanThe Great God Pan at Project Gutenberg This article about a 19th century novel is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. On 7/15/09, c b cb31...@gmail.com wrote: As far as the horror story/movie genre, Michael Pan Jackson's greatest album

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] questions

2009-07-16 Thread c b
Usually, wooden tircotomies refers to some kind of poor and rigid effort at Hegelian dialectic. Look at Engels _The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State_ where the Teutonic-Christian , ancient Greek and Roman forms of the family are discussed from a Marxist standpoint. Word

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] relevance

2009-07-17 Thread c b
Spoken like a true autosundry On 7/16/09, Ralph Dumain rdum...@autodidactproject.org wrote: The relevance consists in this: IF: (1) You constantly submit to the list whole entries from wikipedia in an unreadable format, without comment, assuming that we can't use Wikipedia ourselves; (2)

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 69, Issue 11

2009-07-17 Thread c b
even reactionary artists can have useful insights for the cause of the working class, and otherwise in terms of understanding humanity and society. And always remember: The Soviet Union is your friend. On 7/17/09, c b cb31...@gmail.com wrote: Listen up better. In brief, Michael Jackson who

[Marxism-Thaxis] Free Thought

2009-07-20 Thread c b
MY SON WAS TAUGHT TO BELIEVE IN JESUS BY HIS MOTHER -- HOW DO I HELP HIM BECOME A FREE THINKER? By Danny Postel, New Humanist Panicked by his son's Jesus references, an agnostic dad discovers a skeptic's reading list for kids. But is counter-indoctrination really the answer?

[Marxism-Thaxis] Marx playing chess ?

2009-07-23 Thread c b
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1278768 Karl Marx vs Meyer Chess Manifesto (game of the day Jul-24-08) Casual Game 1867 · King's Gambit: Accepted. Double Muzio Gambit Paulsen Defense (C37 ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list

[Marxism-Thaxis] Book on Marx and Wittgenstein

2009-07-23 Thread c b
Preview this book Marx and Wittgenstein By D. Rubinstein http://books.google.com/books?id=F0FEE89yojQCdq=rubin+stein+karl+marxprintsec=frontcoversource=blots=sAqhn1i1vpsig=PJkih73R0XicL_vPZBkhtERFPEIhl=enei=WsVoSpWKNovUM-HFpYQFsa=Xoi=book_resultct=resultresnum=5

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] questions

2009-07-23 Thread c b
), officiated. Rest at: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ch04.htm On 7/16/09, c b cb31...@gmail.com wrote: Usually, wooden tircotomies refers to some kind of poor and rigid effort at Hegelian dialectic. Look at Engels _The Origin of the Family, Private Property

[Marxism-Thaxis] questions

2009-07-23 Thread c b
of kindred stock, had been organized in the same organic series as the Americans: gens, phratry, tribe, confederacy of tribes. The phratry might be absent, as among the Dorians, and the confederacy of tribes was not

[Marxism-Thaxis] Partial list of famous musical artists who died as young or younger than Michael Jackson

2009-07-30 Thread c b
http://www.michronicleonline.com/articlelive/articles/4054/1/DRUGS-THE-DESTOYERS/Page1.html DRUGS. THE DESTOYERS By Steve Holesey There will be debates, new information, denials, revelations, speculation, and just about anything else you can think of, for perhaps years to come. But the known

[Marxism-Thaxis] Partial list of famous musical artists who died as young or younger than Michael Jackson

2009-07-30 Thread c b
Bix Beiderbecke Bix Beiderbecke - died at 28 Background information Birth name Leon Bismark Beiderbecke Born March 10, 1903(1903-03-10) Origin Davenport, Iowa,[1] U.S. Died August 6, 1931 (aged 28) Genre(s) Jazz Dixieland Occupation(s) Musician composer Instrument(s) Cornet, Piano Years active

[Marxism-Thaxis] Young muscians' deaths

2009-07-30 Thread c b
Aaliyah This article is about the singer. For her self-titled album, see Aaliyah (album). Aaliyah Background information Birth name Aaliyah Dana Haughton Born January 16, 1979(1979-01-16) Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States Origin Detroit, Michigan, United States Died August 25,

[Marxism-Thaxis] I'm an atheist, so what?

2009-08-06 Thread c b
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] Marx relation to morality

2009-08-07 Thread c b
[lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in c b cb31450 at gmail.com Thu Aug 6 13:20:33 PDT 2009 Previous message: [lbo-talk] you know its bad when... Next message: [lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Search LBO-Talk Archives Limit search

[Marxism-Thaxis] Marx and morality

2009-08-07 Thread c b
[lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in c b cb31450 at gmail.com Fri Aug 7 07:25:16 PDT 2009 Marv Gandall Shane M. writes: On Aug 6

[Marxism-Thaxis] G.A. Cohen Goes Home

2009-08-07 Thread c b
farmela...@juno.com Above all, I found much of *Lire Capital* critically vague. It is perhaps a matter for regret that logical positivism, with its insistence on precision of intellectual commitment, never caught on in Paris. Anglophone philosophy left logical positivism behind long ago, but it

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] G.A. Cohen Goes Home

2009-08-07 Thread c b
On 8/7/09, Phil Walden p...@pwalden.fsnet.co.uk wrote: I live in Oxford and clashed with G. A. Cohen at seminars at which I tried to persuade him to take Hegel's dialectics and Marx's dialectics seriously. In particular, Hegel's Science of Logic was a completely closed book to Cohen because

[Marxism-Thaxis] Eating Less May Extend Your Lifespan -- But Is it Worth It?

2009-08-09 Thread c b
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/141792/eating_less_may_extend_your_lifespan_--_but_is_it_worth_it/ Eating Less May Extend Your Lifespan -- But Is it Worth It? By Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. Posted August 8, 2009. Recent studies indicate cutting your diet by 30 percent of what you're

[Marxism-Thaxis] IS THE U.S. ON THE BRINK OF FASCISM?

2009-08-09 Thread c b
IS THE U.S. ON THE BRINK OF FASCISM? By Sara Robinson, Campaign for America's Future There are dangerous currents running through America's politics and the way we confront them is crucial. http://www.alternet.org/rights/141819/is_the_u.s._on_the_brink_of_fascism/

[Marxism-Thaxis] Detroit

2009-08-10 Thread c b
AIG insuring of Detroit city bonds was not motivated by race hate or racism but profit motive. The first question is why did the leaders of Detroit go to AIG in the first place? I am not aware of any evidence that Detroit seeking insurance from AIG was racially motivated. AIG’s pricing of

[Marxism-Thaxis] Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Troops Do Corporate America's Dirty Work

2009-08-10 Thread c b
Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Troops Do Corporate America's Dirty Work By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet Posted on August 10, 2009, Printed on August 10, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/story/141860/ The recent spate of town hall dustups may look like an overnight sensation, but they've

[Marxism-Thaxis] Short obit for Jerry Cohen

2009-08-10 Thread c b
G. A. Cohen, 1941-2009 by James Farmelant Early in the morning on August 5th, one of the most notable left-wing political philosophers of the English-speaking world, Gerald Allan Cohen, (G. A. Cohen) or as he liked to be called by his friends, Jerry Cohen, died after suffering a massive stroke at

[Marxism-Thaxis] G.A. Cohen Goes Home

2009-08-10 Thread c b
From: jkschw1 at yahoo.com To: marxist philosophy marxistphilosophy at yahoogroups.com Subject: [marxistphilosophy] G.A. Cohen Goes Home Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 17:57:20 + Unless I missed it the death the other day of Jerry Cohen attracted no comment on a list devoted to Marxist philosophy. I

[Marxism-Thaxis] Wooo !

2009-08-12 Thread c b
Over the Top and Beneath Contempt By: Roger Simon Politico.com - August 11, 2009 04:44 AM EST http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/25991.html Today, we live in the age of rabid response. Not rapid response. Rapid response was yesterday. Rapid response was the political tactic of

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Nature and Paradoxes of Freedom

2009-08-12 Thread c b
farmelantj at juno.com farmelantj at juno.com Concerning the concepts of negative freedom that were embraced by both Hayek and Isaiah Berlin, Dogan is quite correct that for both men, the embracing of negative liberty (and the rejection of positive liberty) was very much motivated

[Marxism-Thaxis] Detroit

2009-08-12 Thread c b
Waistline2 In respect to AIG, I have not done the investigation into the rates charged to Detroit to determine if insurance of Detroit bonds required a higher premium rate. ^ CB: This switcheru was voted on in a public session, so, I'm sure of what I'm saying. AIG was insuring some of

[Marxism-Thaxis] Michigan event launches drive to abolish nuclear weapons

2009-08-12 Thread c b
Michigan event launches drive to abolish nuclear weapons Author: John Rummel People's Weekly World Newspaper, 08/11/09 16:01 BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — Imagine if the threat of nuclear weapons and the billions that go to building and maintaining them instead went to provide health care, education and

[Marxism-Thaxis] Socialist Feminist Revival

2009-08-12 Thread c b
Socialist Feminist Revival If not now, when? August 09, 2009 By Reihana Mohideen Reihana Mohideen's ZSpace Page Join ZSpace [Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] There is a revival of socialist feminism in Latin America, spearheaded by the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Encyclopédie

2009-08-12 Thread c b
Encyclopédie Title page of the Encyclopédie.Main article: Encyclopédie André Le Breton, a bookseller and printer, approached Diderot with a project for the publication of a translation of Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences into French, first undertaken by

[Marxism-Thaxis] Postal Service

2009-08-13 Thread c b
EVERY CRISIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY Peter Rachleff St. Paul, Minnesota August 10, 2009 This year's Postal Press Association Editors Conference was abuzz with discussion of the Postal Service's threats to close hundreds of' stations. Virtually every editor present knew of one or more stations at risk

[Marxism-Thaxis] Encyclopédie

2009-08-13 Thread c b
The original encyclopedists were considered important contributors to the development of materialism by Engels. Is Wikipedia in that tradition ? Knowledge for masses. The whole essay, or book Marx and Engels On Literature and Art of which the reference to discussions of Diderot is a small

[Marxism-Thaxis] Marx and Engels On Literature and Art

2009-08-13 Thread c b
Marx and Engels On Literature and Art http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/art/index.htm Source: Marx Engels On Literature and Art. Progress Publishers. 1976; Transcribed: by Andy Blunden.

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Materialism of the Encyclopedists

2009-08-13 Thread c b
The Materialism of the Encyclopedists 1. Socialism: Utopian Scientific http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/ch02.htm 2. The Holy Family Frederick Engels Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

[Marxism-Thaxis] Hemingway, the American left, and the Soviet Union: some forgotten episodes

2009-08-13 Thread c b
Hemingway, the American Left, and the Soviet Union: Some Forgotten Episodes Journal article by Cary Nelson; The Hemingway Review, Vol. 14, 1994 http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=KG9WPQZJhw8PGW8d12NnZQvpqRhgycgTMLcDJQltpBDvWWpXptlt!-229138872!-1934322800?docId=5000276828

[Marxism-Thaxis] Reaction, fascism, fighting the ultra right and Health 2.

2009-08-13 Thread c b
Shane Mage Waistline2 at aol.com wrote: Attacking the ultra right is nothing more than a clever way of demanding unconditional support of the Obama administration Exactly. ^ CB: A point upon which

[Marxism-Thaxis] Honduras Resistance

2009-08-14 Thread c b
THE ORGANIZER NEWSPAPER P.O. Box 40009 San Francisco, CA 94140 Email: theorgani...@earthlink.net Website: www.socialistorganizer.org Honduras Resistance Deepens, With Working Class at the Helm International Labor Solidarity Needed Urgently to Defeat the Coup EDITORIAL: The Honduran people --

[Marxism-Thaxis] Twitter: 40% pointless babble

2009-08-14 Thread c b
Here's a link for Ralph the purpose meister. http://www.pearanalytics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Twitter-Study-August-2009.pdf ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list

[Marxism-Thaxis] Forward from Rosa Lichtenstein on Analytic Marxism

2009-08-14 Thread c b
Some might conclude that the relatively hard line adopted in my Essays toward the alien-class origins of DM sits rather awkwardly with the apparently uncritical acceptance of ideas drawn from Wittgenstein's work --, an allegedly bourgeois philosopher and mystic himself. ^ CB: The class of the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Rosa

2009-08-14 Thread c b
Clearly, the idea that the world is rational must be forced onto nature; it cannot be read from it, since nature is not Mind. ^ CB: This seems an a priori statement by Rosa. It is not clear that the idea that the world is rational must be forced onto nature, nor that to read rationality from

[Marxism-Thaxis] Rosa

2009-08-14 Thread c b
Surely, the most that could legitimately be claimed here is that up to now the available evidence supports a dialectical view of reality. ^ CB: Correct . See Marxism thaxis threads in which I point out that for Engels, the dialectical quality of reality is an a posteriori, not a priori,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Soviet philosophy preserved online

2009-08-14 Thread c b
Ralph Dumain Though I think most of the productions of Soviet Marxism-Leninism should have been flushed down the toilet long before they were, and that the Soviet version of dialectical materialism has done a great

[Marxism-Thaxis] Legendary Lawyer Doris Brin Walker

2009-08-20 Thread c b
I didn't see it in the article below, but Dobby was an assistant prosecutor of the Nazis at the Nuremburg trials. CB Legendary Lawyer Doris Brin Walker Dies; Represented Angela Davis, Smith Act Defendants Aug 16, 2009 By Marjorie Cohn Marjorie Cohn's ZSpace Page / ZSpace

[Marxism-Thaxis] What's wrong with eugenics?

2009-08-24 Thread c b
The idea of creating better humans presuppose qualifying what is better and according to the founder of the eugenics movement, better is a class and social construct based on economic status and productive worth for capital. Productive worth for capital is called survival of the fittest. Those

[Marxism-Thaxis] It takes a fight to win

2009-08-26 Thread c b
It takes a fight to win By Sam Webb It seems clear that the prospects for a bipartisan health care bill are diminishing with each passing day. And as far as I'm concerned that is a good thing. Nothing good, nothing resembling reform could come from bipartisanship in this Congress. The Republicans

[Marxism-Thaxis] What's wrong with eugenics?

2009-08-26 Thread c b
Waistline2 : Shane is a racist CB: In my opinion, based on reading Shane's many posts over the years, his thinking and writing is not racist. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] What's wrong with eugenics?

2009-08-26 Thread c b
On 8/26/09, waistli...@aol.com cb31...@gmail.com writes: Shane is a racist CB: In my opinion, based on reading Shane's many posts over the years, his thinking and writing is not racist. Comment What you call racist I call white chauvinist. What I call racist is anyone

[Marxism-Thaxis] What's wrong with eugenics?

2009-08-26 Thread c b
Waistline2 cb31450 at gmail.com writes: CB: Shane's posts are not racist/white chauvinist. Comment Why the subterfuge ? I wrote nothing about Shane's post. I responded to the question: What's wrong with eugenics. Why not still to the point? ^ CB: I'm replying to where you say Shane is

[Marxism-Thaxis] Mitch Miller’s part in pop hi story

2009-08-26 Thread c b
Mitch Miller’s part in pop history By Elijah Wald Published: August 21 2009 14:38 | Last updated: August 21 2009 14:38 Record producer Mitch Miller took Rosemary Clooney’s ‘Come On-a My House’ to the top of the pop charts for eight weeks in 1951 In the summer of 1966, Paul McCartney stood

[Marxism-Thaxis] What's wrong with eugenics?

2009-08-26 Thread c b
I of course do not support or advocate for eugenics. Do you? WL. ^ CB: I support genetic engineering that would cure genetically based blindness, cancer, heart disease or other universally recognized diseases. See below CB: I can't say that I subscribe to any old eugenics theories,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Monthly Review's 60th Anniversary (NYC)

2009-08-27 Thread c b
Monthly Review's 60th Anniversary (NYC) MONTHLY REVIEW, the leading English language publisher of socialist thought, is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a gala celebration at 7pm on Thursday, September 17, at the NY Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street, NYC. Suggested donation:

[Marxism-Thaxis] class and classical music

2009-08-27 Thread c b
[lbo-talk] class and classical music Mike Beggs -clip-Alex Ross (author of the great 'The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century') has a very nice essay on this:

[Marxism-Thaxis] Change

2009-08-27 Thread c b
PROMISES, PROMISES: Early Katrina praise for Obama By BEN EVANS and BECKY BOHRER, Associated Press Writers Ben Evans And Becky Bohrer, Associated Press Writers 1 hr 55 mins ago WASHINGTON – As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama pledged to right the wrongs he said bogged down efforts to rebuild

[Marxism-Thaxis] Work song

2009-08-28 Thread c b
Work song A work song is a piece of music closely connected to a specific form of work, either sung while conducting a task (often to coordinate timing) or a song linked to a task or trade which might be a connected narrative, description, or protest song. Contents 1 Definitions and categories

[Marxism-Thaxis] What's wrong with eugenics?

2009-08-28 Thread c b
Alberta Eugenics Board In 1928, the Province of Alberta, Canada, passed legislation that enabled the government to perform involuntary sterilizations on individuals classified as mentally deficient. In order to implement the Sexual Sterilization Act of Alberta in 1928, a four-person Alberta

[Marxism-Thaxis] What's wrong with eugenics?

2009-08-28 Thread c b
Racial hygiene Racial hygiene (often labeled a form of scientific racism) is the selection, by a government, of the putatively most physical, intellectual and moral persons to raise the next generation (selective breeding) and a close alignment of public health with eugenics. Racial hygiene was

[Marxism-Thaxis] Ghosts of Germany's Communist Past Return for Election

2009-08-31 Thread c b
Ghosts of Germany's Communist Past Return for Election By: Erik Kirschbaum - Erik Kirschbaum is a Reuters correspondent in Berlin. August 28th, 2009 http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate-uk/2009/08/28/ghosts-of-germanys-communist-past-return-for-election/ Will the party that traces its roots to

[Marxism-Thaxis] Japan opposition takes on economy after landslide

2009-08-31 Thread c b
Japan opposition takes on economy after landslide By ERIC TALMADGE, Associated Press Writer Eric Talmadge, Associated Press Writer 1 hr 53 mins ago TOKYO – Japan's likely next prime minister rushed to select Cabinet ministers Monday after his party trounced the ruling conservatives in elections

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ghosts of Germany's Communist Past Return forElection

2009-08-31 Thread c b
If a non-European wants to really understand what is going on he (she) has to read a countervailing reports by ot er journalists (in differenr media). Stephen Steiger, Praue, Czech Republic ^^^ CB Got any countervailing reports ? ___

[Marxism-Thaxis] Japan Votes for Multipolarity

2009-08-31 Thread c b
Japan Votes for Multipolarity dredmond Voters roundly reject the LDP's watered-down variant of a US-subservient neoliberalism: http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200908300210.html Japan, it should be

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Japan opposition takes on economy after landslide

2009-09-01 Thread c b
Thanks Charles. I kinda thought u would clarify this thusly On 9/1/09, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: The thing to remember is this: the NEW RULING party is simply a set of factions that emerged from the OLD RULING party over 10 years ago. They ran as opposition on MORE FREE MARKETS,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Notes on the Japanese Elections of 2009

2009-09-01 Thread c b
Yoshie Furuhashi Notes on the Japanese Elections of 2009 Decades of increasing poverty, inequality, and insecurity, which created a powerful backlash against the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito, finally put an end to Japan's de facto one-party state. But the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Sahlins on Leslie White

2009-09-03 Thread c b
September 21, 2008 Leslie A. White In the pre-’60s at the University of Michigan, rebellion consisted of listening gleefully to the anthropologist Leslie White going mano a mano with God. White was one of those maverick intellectuals and politicians, like Thorstein Veblen, Charles Beard and Robert

[Marxism-Thaxis] Badiou

2009-09-03 Thread c b
Alain Badiou Alain Badiou French philosophy Contemporary philosophy Full name Alain Badiou Born 17 January 1937 (1937-01-17) (age 72) Rabat, Morocco School/tradition Continental philosophy Main interests Set Theory, Mathematics, Metapolitics, Ontology Notable ideas Event, truths Influenced

[Marxism-Thaxis] Obama speech to students sparks new controversy

2009-09-04 Thread c b
Obama speech to students sparks new controversy By LIBBY QUAID and LINDA STEWART BALL, Associated Press Writers Libby Quaid And Linda Stewart Ball, Associated Press Writers 2 hrs 4 mins ago DALLAS – When kids all across the country return to school Tuesday, some will see a welcoming message from

[Marxism-Thaxis] Where jazz meets hip hop

2009-09-04 Thread c b
Where jazz meets hip hop Detroit-born Karriem Riggins grooves at the corner By W. Kim Heron http://metrotimes.com/music/story.asp?id=14332 SEE ALSO More Jazz Stories Jazz fest highlights (9/2/2009) Some high notes among fest offerings Life lesson (9/2/2009) A tribute to Eric Dolphy — years

[Marxism-Thaxis] Materialism is a form of idealism

2009-09-04 Thread c b
major paradoxes , cause whole new thought boxes I disagree that materialism ( as defined by Lenin) or realism is logically incoherent. Maybe I'll critique Sahlins tomorrow --- On Thu, 9/3/09, c b cb31450 at gmail.com wrote: We never knew White was a member of the Socialist Labor Party

[Marxism-Thaxis] Materialism is a form of idealism

2009-09-04 Thread c b
Materialism is a form of idealism Chris Doss This is not evidence that ideas are not matter. Indeed, as always and inherently, it is the opposite. Because evidence is an idea. :) Really, people didn't only learn

[Marxism-Thaxis] While recovery waits, extend jobless benefits

2009-09-07 Thread c b
Posted: Sept. 7, 2009 EDITORIAL Detroit Free Press While recovery waits, extend jobless benefits It's hard to really celebrate Labor Day when 15% of your labor force is out of work, looking and growing increasingly anxious. That is the situation in which Michigan finds itself on this holiday,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Thirty Death Threats per day

2009-09-08 Thread c b
The right-wing hate speech polluting the debate over health care is generating more and more threats against President Obama, some truly frightening. CNN anchor Rick Sanchez reports that when President Obama visited Phoenix, Ariz. on August 17, local minister Steven Anderson of the Faithful World

[Marxism-Thaxis] Rosa L

2009-09-08 Thread c b
Here part of my old exchange with Rosa. The same issue of the contradiction in John is a man came up in Kliman's exchange with her Rosa gets CB Charles Brown charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us Thu Aug 23 09:48:11 MDT 2007

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Rosa Lichtenstein vs. Andrew Kliman on dialectics

2009-09-09 Thread c b
Spoken like a true know it all saying nothing. Ralph deserves himself, and that's about all he'll get. On 9/8/09, Ralph Dumain rdum...@autodidactproject.org wrote: I can't make a lick of sense out of Andrew Kliman's side of the debate with Rosa. But note that none of it has any relationship

[Marxism-Thaxis] Unicolonial Ants Pose Challenge to Selfish Gene Theory

2009-09-09 Thread c b
Unicolonial Ants Pose Challenge to Selfish Gene Theory It has been a mainstay of evolutionary theory since the 1970s. Natural selection acts purely on the level of the individual and any cooperation observed between organisms merely hides a selfish genetic motive. There have been two

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