Re: [Marxism] Bank bailout list

2009-11-25 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Do you mean just the FRB/Treasury programs and the FDIC's Temporary Loan Guarantee

Re: [Marxism] Nazism and the Arabs: a debate

2009-11-25 Thread Jeff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == At 09:14 25/11/09 -0500, Louis Proyect wrote: http://chronicle.com/section/Home/5

[Marxism] religion and prosperity

2009-11-25 Thread Paula
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In a paper posted recently on the online journal Evolutionary Psychology,

Re: [Marxism] religion and prosperity

2009-11-25 Thread Greg McDonald
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Paula wrote: He also scored countries on their degree of religiosity, as

[Marxism] Elite Ignorance on Health Care?

2009-11-25 Thread michael perelman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jonathan Gruber is a health economist from MIT -- an expert, no doubt. David

Re: [Marxism] Eight Theses on the Economic Crisis

2009-11-25 Thread Waistline2
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == For the last 40 years Chrysler share of the US auto market hovered between 11 and

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

2009-11-25 Thread c b
Thanks CJ, I'll take a look. I'm not an expert, but from my experience, cats are less responsive to word symbols than dogs. Note that even dogs can learn a small number of symbols. They respond to their names. On 11/24/09, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: Hey CB, you might find this article

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Foucault�s Discursive Subjectby Blunden

2009-11-25 Thread farmela...@juno.com
It is my understanding that dogs can understand up to several hundred words. They are also excellent readers of human body language. Jim F. -- Original Message -- From: c b cb31...@gmail.com To: Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues raised by Karl Marx and the thinkers

[Marxism-Thaxis] Urgent call for more jobs gains momentum

2009-11-25 Thread c b
Urgent call for more jobs gains momentum EPI News - November 24, 2009 http://www.epi-data.org/epinews/epinews20091124.html EPI's urgent call for more jobs gains momentum EPI has joined forces with a coalition of national organizations in calling for more action to create jobs. On November 17,

[Marxism-Thaxis] The SWP and underconsumptionism

2009-11-25 Thread c b
CeJ jannuzi I would say HH and FDR were birds of a capitalist feather. FDR ran on a campaign that criticized Hoover for his profligate spending, the result of budget increases that resulted in high deficits (at least up until that time), and his tax increases. In practice, both HH and FDR

[Marxism-Thaxis] The SWP and underconsumptionism

2009-11-25 Thread c b
Finally, hey it's almost time to organize to get Obama re-elected. I know what he can run on: Don't let all our good work go unfinished. CJ ^^^ CB: And don't forget : Palin is a fascist. ( no smiley face; pace Trotskyists' analysis) ___

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

2009-11-25 Thread c b
CJ, have you studied Vygotsky ? He seems to be the most Marxoid of all the famous linguists. Oh I didn't send the Blunden essays on Vygotsky. Very interesting and Marxist development of the relationship between thought and language Vygotsky and the Dialectical Method

[Marxism-Thaxis] Soviet Cultural Psychology

2009-11-25 Thread c b
On his return to activity, the group began to work their way through all the theories of psychology which were contesting the field on the world stage: Freud, Piaget, James, ... critiquing them and appropriating the insights each had to offer. The group worked collaboratively, discussing the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Soviet Cultural Psychology

2009-11-25 Thread c b
Ilyenkov’s most widely noted contribution was his study of the ideal, of how ideals come into being as perfectly material cultural products, the archetype of which is money. His study of Capital, “The Abstract and Concrete in Marx’s Capital” is a masterpiece. Ilyenkov gained a formidable

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Soviet Cultural Psychology

2009-11-25 Thread farmela...@juno.com
In an old Marxmail post, I drew a connection between the debates that took place in the 1920s between the Soviet Mechanists and Deborinists and the later debates in Soviet philosophy and psychology, as exemplified in the work of Ilyenkov. See: http://tinyurl.com/djbre Jim Farmelant --

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

2009-11-25 Thread CeJ
JFIt is my understanding that dogs can understand up to several hundred words. They are also excellent readers of human body language. Yes, and the reason why so many humans get bit is that humans are not very good readers of canine body language. There is a theory out of Africa, Australia and

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

2009-11-25 Thread CeJ
Objective spirit might be interpreted materialisitically as culture, custom, tradition, systems of ideas shared by peoples. Spirit not as a wispy , non-material whatever , nor as a disembodied ghost, nor The Idea as a demiurge, but as shared ideas in many peoples' brains. On the Levi-Strauss

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

2009-11-25 Thread CeJ
CJ, have you studied Vygotsky ? He seems to be the most Marxoid of all the famous linguists. Back in the 80s it was quite common to cite: 1. Vygotsky in education and education psychology 2. Bakhtin in literary criticism 3. Elkonen (? unsure of romanization now) in 'reading science'. All

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

2009-11-25 Thread CeJ
See this, if you are interested in Vygotsky and/or Piaget: http://www.marxists.org/archive/elkonin/works/1971/stages.htm Wish they had more by him! CJ ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or

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

2009-11-25 Thread CeJ
http://www.marxists.org/subject/psychology/index.htm Going to this section of the the mo site, it's interesting to track down and compare Vygotsky on 'crisis of psychology' with Husserl on the subject. Husserl wrote a book about the topic. CJ ___

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

2009-11-25 Thread CeJ
Reading across Vygotsky, Elkonin, Merleau-Ponty and Husserl on psychological topics and concepts is an education in itself. M-P was a Marxist. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/merleau-ponty/ http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/merleaup.htm

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

2009-11-25 Thread steiger2001
Not being able to download the article I would appreciate being sent the password. Thanks! __ Od: CeJ Komu: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Datum: 26.11.2009 03:33 Předmět: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis]Foucault’s Discursive Subject by