I'll offer a few suggestions nevertheless: ABOLITION: wage slavery is a metaphor. Do you really want to include this under this heading?
AMERICAN REVOLUTION; Why do you say that the conclusion of the Vietnam War is the end of the epoch of national liberation? POPULISM: Some more relevant historical info is in order. For example, what happened to populism at the end of the 19th century (Tom Watson). ANARCHISM needs to be fleshed out. ANARCHO-SYNDICALISM: Too abstract & prescriptive. ANTAGONISM needs to be re-done. ANTI-IMPERIALISM: Conclusion about Vietnam War needs to be justified. Also, the periodization 1776-1976 fails to account for what happened in between. For example, the 19th century was still a century of colonial conquest. National liberation movements of central and Eastern Europe were the result of different factors from those in the 20th century colonized world. As the world was ruled by empires, much political thinking was based on that reality. Base (economic) and superstructure: (political): a construct not to be taken literally. Bourgeoisie: . . . To "act bourgeoisie" : I can guess the audience for this colloquialism, but I caution against allowing this to pass uncritically. Chauvinism applies to more than just nations. Class antagonism as class struggle: the dialectic : Meaning of the term "dialectic" is not clear, nor is it clear why such reference is even needed here. COMMUNIST REVOLUTION: Given the experience of Russia, China, et al, communism must mean more than the abolition of private property. Contradiction: Needs to be revamped. Dialectics, quantity, quality, the antagonistic element. Awful. Dialectal materialism: (materialist dialectics) : Godawful. Doctrine and Science: awful. I'll stop here ands await the next draft. This document reads too much like Marxist-Leninist agitprop to me, continuing the bad habits of the past. One must think of the purposes to which this glossary will be put: is it to decipher a restricted set of musty tomes of the past, or to actively and critically engage both past concepts and current perspectives? At 08:36 PM 3/22/2010, waistli...@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 3/22/2010 4:56:33 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, >rdum...@autodidactproject.org writes: > >And when we see what this phony health care reform amounts >to, there's going to be a much bigger clash than what occurred on >Capitol Hill this weekend. Which reminds me, I have to make time to >read Waistline's Marxist glossary. > >Comment > >Stop . . . . don't read the glossary. It at 6.5 with rewrites that makes >6.0 obsolete. I need seven days. Should be at 8.0 > > >WL. > > >_______________________________________________ >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 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
