[Marxism] Spiegel nails Obama's falseness

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Although I never saw any magic in Obama's slick smoke-and-mirrors style, Spiegel

Re: [Marxism] Spiegel nails Obama's falseness

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == David Thorstad wrote: ... I never saw any magic in Obama's slick

Re: [Marxism] Spiegel nails Obama's falseness

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == My attention waned last night after the first 15 minutes. One thing is certain:

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[Marxism] NYT: OpEd on John Brown 150 years later

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Freedom’s MartyrBy DAVID S. REYNOLDSIT’S important for Americans to recognize our

[Marxism-Thaxis] We May Be Born With an Urge to Help

Take that Social Darwinism. Humans are instinctively social. CB We May Be Born With an Urge to Help By NICHOLAS WADE December 1, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/science/01human.html What is the essence of human nature? Flawed, say many theologians. Vicious and addicted to warfare,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Soviet Cultural Psychology

So, phenomenology is psychology. Sounds like quintessential positivism- starting with the individual and trying to derive a fundamental of humans. I see why Husserl is first cousin to the existentialists like Heidegger. They all fall into the bourgeois error of primacy of the individual.

[Marxism-Thaxis] South American Revolution continues

Uruguay Elects Former Guerrilla as Next President Written by DarÃ-o Montero Monday, 30 November 2009 http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/2229/48/ (IPS) - Left-wing candidate José Mujica was elected president of Uruguay with nearly 52 percent of the vote Sunday, seven to eight

[Marxism-Thaxis] In the Shadow of Hoover

We were discussing this the other day. CB In the Shadow of Hoover Capitolism By William Greider November 23, 2009 While he was in China, Barack Obama made a bizarre declaration that the US government must reduce its budget deficits in order to avoid a double-dip recession. The remark was

[Marxism-Thaxis] Positivism

Positivism For other meanings of positivism, see positivism (disambiguation). Sociology Portal v • d • e Positivism is a philosophy which holds the only authentic knowledge is that which is based on actual sense experience. Though the positivist approach has been a 'recurrent theme in

[Marxism-Thaxis] Antipositivism

[edit] Weber's Antipositivism Main article: Antipositivism At the turn of the 20th century, the first wave of German sociologists formally introduced methodological antipositivism, proposing that research should concentrate on human cultural norms, values, symbols, and social processes viewed from

[Marxism-Thaxis] Bailout prediction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Edward_Griffin CB: I know this guy is a rightwing libertarian, gold bug and all, but I skimmed the second chapter of his book on the Federal Reserve, and it read like a precise prediction from 2002 of the big bank bailout. When I can borrow a copy , I'll copy

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Soviet Cultural Psychology

Soviet Cultural Psychology CB: So, phenomenology is psychology. Sounds like quintessential positivism- starting with the individual and trying to derive a fundamental of humans. I see why Husserl is first cousin to the existentialists like Heidegger. They all fall into the bourgeois error of

[Marxism-Thaxis] Positivism

What it has come to mean is, well, basically meaningless--most post-mos without a course in the philosophy of science or a lecture on the Vienna Circle wouldn't even know what it is--or to put it in Vygotskian terms--wouldn't have a conception of what it might be. And even those in the