[Marxism] Veno - Nigeria Go Survive

2009-10-20 Thread Max Clark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm5QHPJIE_E '84 danceteria stylee (w/ explicit political content) going out to all the MarxMail massif. Even if dem drain the oil, Nigeria gon survive. (Also, check Simon Reynolds' http://blissout.blogspot.com/ for the latest in UK dance musics; its somehow

Re: [Marxism] Timpanaro Considerations on Materialism

2009-10-20 Thread Louis Proyect
Thomas Bias wrote: Is it just me? I graduated college, and I can't make head nor tail of this. I'm reminded of Bill Cosby's comment about his Philosophy major girlfriend at Temple University: She used to walk around asking, 'Why is there air?' Any PhysEd major knows why there's air.

Re: [Marxism] Thankless Bastards

2009-10-20 Thread Marv Gandall
Bhaskar writes: That .pdf that I linked to is still recommended... = Yes, well worth reading. ...the concept of instrumentalism that is so closely associated with Ralph Miliband’s theory of the state is not merely an oversimplication and caricature of

[Marxism] Fwd: Materialism and the will. (Was: (no subject))

2009-10-20 Thread Rosa Lichtenstein
This is an artifical 'problem' created by a misuse of langauge. More details here: http://anti-dialectics.co.uk/page_13_03.htm Rosa L On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:34 PM, David Picón Álvarez da...@miradoiro.com wrote: Nonsense, 'will' is an incoherent idea. The mind is a particular

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Materialism and the will. (Was: (no subject))

2009-10-20 Thread Rosa Lichtenstein
Well, I have actually done this already, at RevLeft; here: http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=894937postcount=2 in which post you will find links to other short posts where I elaborate on this topic. But, mine was a basic Wittgensteinian response. RL On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:52 AM,

Re: [Marxism] Materialism and the will. (Was: (no subject))

2009-10-20 Thread Les Schaffer
David Picón Álvarez wrote: Nonsense, 'will' is an incoherent idea. The mind is a particular organisation of matter in motion. What does it mean to speak of a will? The mind follows all the laws of matter in motion (physics) and its internal development is entirely characterised and

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Materialism and the will. (Was: (no subject))

2009-10-20 Thread Rosa Lichtenstein
You can also find a brief summary of the background to this sort of claim, here: http://www.revleft.com/vb/self-t105849/index.html?p=1408653#post1408653 In fact, I summarise nearly all of my essays (in less than 5000 words) here: http://anti-dialectics.co.uk/essay_sixteen%20Index.htm So, I am

Re: [Marxism] Materialism and the will. (Was: (no subject))

2009-10-20 Thread David Picón Álvarez
From: Les Schaffer schaf...@optonline.net even a hard-bitten reductionist like moi finds this last sentence incomprehensible. now if you substituted molecular biology and biochemistry for physics you might be able to salvage the thought, but biologists don't talk about laws of matter in

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Materialism and the will. (Was: (no subject))

2009-10-20 Thread David Picón Álvarez
In spite of having read a good deal of Rosa's essay and links, I'm not sure I understand the relevant to the particular questions of materialism and the will. My fault, not hers, I lack the time to go over it in detail. --David. YOU MUST clip

Re: [Marxism] (no subject)

2009-10-20 Thread Art Kunkin
Dear Oxford, I found the implications of your posting on the limitations of Marxist Materialism fascinating and would like to pursue this both in the forum and off-forum by email. For your information I am the founding publisher/editor of the 60s anti-war weekly newspaper, The Los Angeles Free

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fordism

2009-10-20 Thread c b
http://legacy.lclark.edu/~soan221/fordism2.html REPRESENTATIONS OF WORK IN TV ADS Fordism A mid-1990s ad for Ford Motor Company opens with a still photograph of Henry Ford, nominated, on the screen, his own scratchy voice-over apparently doing the narrating. It sounds as if it is part of a

[Marxism-Thaxis] Taylorism and Fordism (see An tonio Gramsci’s Notebook 22)

2009-10-20 Thread c b
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/Anthro/Anth101/taylorism_and_fordism.htm Taylorism and Fordism (see Antonio Gramsci’s Notebook 22) TAYLORISM Frederick Taylor (1911) Principles of Scientific Management devised a means of detailing a division of labor in time-and-motion studies and a wage system

[Marxism-Thaxis] fordism

2009-10-20 Thread c b
fordism As defined by Antonio Gramsci, this refers to a form of productive organization thought to be typical of advanced capitalism and exemplified by Henry Ford's system of mass automobile production. This allied labour management according to the principles of scientific management

[Marxism-Thaxis] MYTHS OF DISPERSED FORDISM

2009-10-20 Thread c b
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/2379/carlint.htm A Controversy About the Transformation of the Working Class MYTHS OF DISPERSED FORDISM Advocom/Echanges et Mouvement Published for Echanges et Mouvement BM Box 91 London WC1 3XX United Kingdom 1993 CONTENTS Introduction (Theo

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fordism and Post-Fordism

2009-10-20 Thread c b
Fordism and Post-Fordism Article View On the File menu, click Print to print the information. Fordism and Post-Fordism Fordism and Post-Fordism, stages of modern capitalism, comprising the so-called “Golden Age of Capitalism” from the 1940s and the early 1970s, characterized by institutions of