Re: [Marxism] FWD: Free Lynn Stewart

2010-03-29 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It's also a case that represents a frontal assault on the attorney-client privilege

[Marxism] Interview with Rudi Dutschke's Widow

2010-03-29 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == 2009 Deutsche Welle interview http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5031510,00.html

Re: [Marxism] Interview with Rudi Dutschke's Widow

2010-03-29 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Berlin to name street after him:

Re: [Marxism] Obama appoints Becker to NLRB

2010-03-29 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yeah, but hey, what do you want the guys from the National Right to Work Committee

[Marxism] Insurance companies seek to deny coverage of children with pre-existing conditions

2010-03-29 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NY Times March 28, 2010 Coverage Now for Sick Children? Check Fine Print By ROBERT

[Marxism] History of White People

2010-03-29 Thread Anthony Boynton
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I haven´t read the book reviewed in the article Louis posted, but a classic, but

[Marxism] Petraeus Backs Down - I never said Israel policy endangers U.S.

2010-03-29 Thread Dennis Brasky
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == By Natasha Mozgavaya, Haaretz Correspondent Commander of the U.S. Military's

[Marxism] CIA Paper Reveals Plans to Manipulate European Opinion on Afghanistan

2010-03-29 Thread Dennis Brasky
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == By Daniel Tencer Among its proposals, the policy paper suggests playing up the

[Marxism] Venezuela: Counter-revolution throws down a new challenge

2010-03-29 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.marxist.com/venezuela-counter-revolution-throws-down-new-challenge.htm

Re: [Marxism] A Fake Fight Over Fake Health Care Reform

2010-03-29 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: The current system is (and was) unsustainable and leaves

Re: [Marxism] A Fake Fight Over Fake Health Care Reform

2010-03-29 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A young British socialist's take on this very question:

[Marxism] unions again

2010-03-29 Thread Dan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Post-industrial Western society in no way resembles 1914 Russia. Instead of

Re: [Marxism] The awful truth about Social Democracy

2010-03-29 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Social democrats simply can't operate like they were able to during the 'golden

Re: [Marxism] A Fake Fight Over Fake Health Care Reform

2010-03-29 Thread Intense Red
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The current system is (and was) unsustainable and leaves American business at a

Re: [Marxism] A Fake Fight Over Fake Health Care Reform

2010-03-29 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Intense Red wrote: Thus, when you factor in the trend the cost of health

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] unions again

2010-03-29 Thread New Tet
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Daniel Koechlin wrote: Post-industrial Western society in no way resembles

Re: [Marxism] A Fake Fight Over Fake Health Care Reform

2010-03-29 Thread Jon Flanders
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 19:57 -0400, Louis Proyect wrote: It may be desired by

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] The awful truth about Social Democracy

2010-03-29 Thread New Tet
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Gary MacLennan wrote: Nevertheless the dialectic moves in mysterious ways and

Re: [Marxism] militias

2010-03-29 Thread nada
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I tend to agree with Louis. They have nothing to do with the working-CLASS at all,

Re: [Marxism] A Fake Fight Over Fake Health Care Reform

2010-03-29 Thread Charlie
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect wrote: ...does it make sense from the overall needs of the

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] The awful truth about Social Democracy

2010-03-29 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I slipped away last week on a short research trip to the Boston area. The flight

[Marxism] Shame on the Arg Left and their behavior on March 24th

2010-03-29 Thread Néstor Gorojovsky
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Those interested in a biased but not inaccurate (particularly as to what happened

Re: [Marxism] militias

2010-03-29 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == All my life, I've been hearing about the danger from the Right...especially around

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] The awful truth about Social Democracy

2010-03-29 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Rosa is an ignoramus who hasn't read Marx, except for the preface to Vol 1, and

Re: [Marxism] militias

2010-03-29 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It has nothing to do with whether or not the the ruling class wants to play with

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] The awful truth about Social Democracy

2010-03-29 Thread New Tet
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == S. Artesian wrote: Rosa is an ignoramus who hasn't read Marx, except for

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] The awful truth about Social Democracy

2010-03-29 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sewn up and bagged? Really? Why even bother to analyze anything, to criticize,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Pivotal moments in American health care history capped by President Barack Obama's health care law:

2010-03-29 Thread c b
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2010/03/23/1127733/a-historic-look-at-health-care.html Pivotal moments in American health care history capped by President Barack Obama's health care law: -1798: The Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen in 1798 marks the beginning of federal involvement in

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-29 Thread c b
On 3/26/10, Jim Farmelant farmela...@juno.com wrote: The Roy Rappaport mentioned here is the professor who got me into anthropology. I had anthro 101 with him. (It was during the 1970 BAM strike at University of Michigan, which we are commemorating in a couple of weeks. Rappaport held

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-29 Thread c b
Jim Farmelant : If you are going to bring up the Manhattan Project, then I think it ought to be compared with the German A-bomb project, which failed to produce a bomb. Why did it fail? Well, primarily because it was never funded, anywhere, close to the level that the Manhattan Project was

[Marxism-Thaxis] The X-Woman's Fingerbone

2010-03-29 Thread c b
The X-Woman's Fingerbone Carl Zimmer Discover Magazine Blogs / The Loom March 24, 2010 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2010/03/24/the-x-womans-fingerbone/ In a cave in Siberia, scientists have found a 40,000- year old pinky bone that could belong to an entirely new species of hominid. Or

[Marxism-Thaxis] _The Riddle of the Self_

2010-03-29 Thread c b
Felix Mikhailov' book considers the philosophical problems of the human consciousness, its relation to the surrounding world and the means by which self-knowledge can be theoretically investigated. It poses and offers solutions to many questions raised by the nature of human thought, the intellect

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] _The Riddle of the Self_

2010-03-29 Thread farmela...@juno.com
Within American philosophy, the pragmatists, John Dewey and George Herbert Mead advanced rather similar perspectives. Of course, they, like the Soviet philosophers, were influenced by Hegel. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant -- Original Message -- From:

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cultural materialism (anthropology)

2010-03-29 Thread c b
Cultural materialism (anthropology) Cultural Materialism is an anthropological research orientation. It is based on the simple premise that human social life is a response to the practical problems of earthly existence (Marvin Harris).[1] It was influenced by the writings of Karl Marx and

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Evolution of Culture

2010-03-29 Thread c b
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0858699.html Encyclopedia—human evolution The Evolution of Culture Among hominids, a parallel evolutionary process involving increased intelligence and cultural complexity is apparent in the material record. Evidence of greater behavioral flexibility and

[Marxism-Thaxis] Kottak on ecological anthro

2010-03-29 Thread c b
http://www.ksa.zcu.cz/studium/podklady-kfs/kul/Literatura/Kottak%201999.pdf ___ 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] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-29 Thread c b
http://iopscience.iop.org/0038-5670/27/7/R03;jsessionid=BA548348AC9FC50922E2EC91B65F8304.c1 Soviet Physics Uspekhi All Fields Title/Abstract Author Affiliation Fulltext PACS/MSC Codes Last Week Last Month This Year Last Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years All Dates All journals This journal only Home

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-29 Thread c b
[Marxism-Thaxis] hull_sociobiology Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org Wed Jan 25 15:11:26 MST 2006 Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Domains of knowledge, particular spheres; levels of organization of reality; materialist dialectic Next message: [Marxism-Thaxis] hull_sociobiology Messages

[Marxism-Thaxis] Lewontin letter on Lamarckian issue (was Re-evaluating Lysenko)

2010-03-29 Thread c b
I finally found my letter exchange with Lewontin as reported to this list in December 2005. Will look for the articles discussed. Charles http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism-thaxis/2005-December/019560.html Marxism-Thaxis] Response from Lewontin Charles Brown cbrown at

[Marxism-Thaxis] Lewontin reviews Steven Rose's latest book (was Re-evaluating Lysenko)

2010-03-29 Thread c b
Below Carrol mentions _Goedel, Escher and Bach_ which I just picked up again lately. CB ^ [Marxism-Thaxis] Lewontin reviews Steven Rose's latest book Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org Mon Mar 21 09:04:45 MST 2005 Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Lewontin reviews Steven Rose's

[Marxism-Thaxis] Revisting Lysenko

2010-03-29 Thread c b
Marxism-Thaxis] J. B. S. Haldane Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com Thu Dec 8 08:20:08 MST 2005 Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Marxist Philosophy and the Sciences by JBS Haldane Next message: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Marxist Philosophy and the Sciences Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread

[Marxism-Thaxis] Reevaluating Lysenko

2010-03-29 Thread c b
Neoevolutionism Neoevolutionism is a social theory that tries to explain the evolution of societies by drawing on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and discarding some dogmas of the previous social evolutionism. Neoevolutionism is concerned with long-term, directional, evolutionary social

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Lewontin letter on Lamarckian issue (was Re-evaluating Lysenko)

2010-03-29 Thread Ralph Dumain
Aside: I recall _Goedel, Escher and Bach_ as a load of New Age crap. As for Lamarckism and cultural evolution, I'm wary of such metaphorical thinking. Lewontin's response is unclear. More on this later. Another aside: In 1975, I attended a guest lecture by Lewontic on heritability, as part of

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Lewontin letter on Lamarckian issue (was Re-evaluating Lysenko)

2010-03-29 Thread c b
On 3/29/10, Ralph Dumain rdum...@autodidactproject.org wrote: Aside: I recall _Goedel, Escher and Bach_ as a load of New Age crap. ^^^ CB: No religion in it. Gödel, Escher, Bach Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Author Douglas Hofstadter Country USA Language English

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Lewontin letter on Lamarckian issue (was Re-evaluating Lysenko)

2010-03-29 Thread c b
Ralph Dumain As for Lamarckism and cultural evolution, I'm wary of such metaphorical thinking. Lewontin's response is unclear. More on this later. CB: I don't think it's used as a metaphor. Culture is a major adaptive mechanism for the human species, it is extra-somatic, but it

[Marxism-Thaxis] Arms Control Experts Applaud Announcement of New Nuclear Reductions Treaty with Russia

2010-03-29 Thread c b
Arms Control Experts Applaud Announcement of New Nuclear Reductions Treaty with Russia Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation March 26, 2010 http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/audience/media/experts_applaud_us_russia_03262010/ Washington, D.C. Today, the Obama Administration announced