[Marxism] Joint ventures go global on Chinese terms

2010-12-30 Thread Marv Gandall
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == China Squeezes Foreigners for Share of Global Riches By SHAI OSTER, NORIHIKO

Re: [Marxism] True Grit follow-up

2010-12-30 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == An excellent example of this lingo is the HBO series Deadwood in which the

Re: [Marxism] True Grit follow-up

2010-12-30 Thread DW
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I was an early booster of Deadwood and participated in the internet campaign

[Marxism] Once more on democratic centralism

2010-12-30 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yesterday Nick Fredman of the Socialist Alliance in Australia, a very promising

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] Once more on democratic centralism

2010-12-30 Thread Ruperto31
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Solidarity after a majority vote is a principle of every political party, and not

[Marxism] Profits and investment in the recovery

2010-12-30 Thread Ian Aylett
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[Marxism] Fwd: Joint ventures go global on Chinese terms

2010-12-30 Thread Peggy Dobbins
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Peggy Powell Dobbins Sociology as an Art Form www.peggydobbins.net Begin

Re: [Marxism] True Grit follow-up

2010-12-30 Thread John Obrien
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I have not seen Deadwood and one reason is that I do not subscribe to HBO - but

Re: [Marxism] True Grit follow-up

2010-12-30 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == James Butler (Wild Bill) Hickok was portrayed by Keith Carradine, and his

[Marxism] Sins of South Beach

2010-12-30 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I've been down in South Beach, Florida for a week now and will be here until the

Re: [Marxism] Sins of South Beach

2010-12-30 Thread Walter Lippmann
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Good luck, Louis. You might try to look up a man named Jim DeFede who used to work

Re: [Marxism] True Grit follow-up

2010-12-30 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mark me down as a fan of Deadwood as well...for all the reasons noted. The writing

[Marxism] ¡Feliz año nuevo!

2010-12-30 Thread DW
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.marxists.org/espanol/index.htm

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [Marxism] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

2010-12-30 Thread c b
I am going to lay my cards on the table and say that I don't think there is any room in philosophy for theories and theses. So I get nervous and suspicious when the 'isms' come marching by. One that makes me particularly nervous is Scientific Realism. The reason for that is that I think that

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

2010-12-30 Thread c b
Rosa, Marxist philosophy without theses ? Without theory ? CB http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/index.htm Theses On Feuerbach The main defect of all hitherto-existing materialism — that of Feuerbach included — is that the Object [der Gegenstand], actuality,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

2010-12-30 Thread c b
That project was exemplified in Descartes' Meditations, and it laid two demands on any account of knowledge and the means to knowledge, demands that set the standard and defined the adequacy of any account. There had been urgent reasons for making those demands but the reasons were historical

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

2010-12-30 Thread Ralph Dumain
This is a commonplace analysis of Descartes critique of the whole epistemological tradition that came out of this. However, the disavowal of scientific realism is childish. Speaking of childish, It's worth contemplating the symbiosis between Rosa's juvenile Wittgensteinianism and

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

2010-12-30 Thread Ralph Dumain
I was thinking of the philosophical backwardness prevalent in the Second International. I do like this quote from Plekhanov, however: Strictly speaking, /partisan science/ is impossible, but, regrettably enough, the existence is highly possible of /scientists who are imbued with the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

2010-12-30 Thread c b
And here we have to say that Newton was a lot clearer about the status of what he called axioms and laws of motion than were later generations who looked on them as universal, and perhaps providential, truths about the cosmos. It took Henri Poincaré's hard work and careful analysis to bring out

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

2010-12-30 Thread Ralph Dumain
I tried checking the text at leninist.biz, but I found the Plekhanov volume impossible to navigate. I wish someone would make this correction for me, because I would like to use this quote. It looks like I already did some preliminary spadework, viz. . . . Neo-Kantianism, Its History,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

2010-12-30 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:22:14 -0500 Ralph Dumain rdum...@autodidactproject.org writes: Itsworth contemplating the symbiosis between Rosa's juvenile Wittgensteinianism and sectarianism. He differs from Henry Ford in declaring that, not history, but all philosophy, is bunk. And if

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

2010-12-30 Thread Ralph Dumain
Hasn't the British SWP been an advocate of Islamism? Furthermore, being caught in a struggle between inept arguments pro con diamat--doesn't this drag us back to the 19th century? What progress is there is this? On 12/30/2010 11:30 AM, Jim Farmelant wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:22:14 -0500

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

2010-12-30 Thread Ralph Dumain
What's interesting about Plekhanov's Cant Against Kant is that in the process of refuting Bernstein's scapegoating of the dialectic, Plekhanov falters at the very moment he first cites/Engels/. If there were a philosophical root of the confusion, here's where it would be. It begins with the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

2010-12-30 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:40:33 -0500 c b cb31...@gmail.com writes: Rosa, Marxist philosophy without theses ? Without theory ? I think that claim has to be understood within the context of Wittgensteinian philosophy. For Wittgenstein the only genuine propositions are those about the external

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

2010-12-30 Thread Ralph Dumain
It amazes me that this rubbish is considered the cornerstone of 20th century philosophy. From formalism to the censorship of thought. Ultrasophisticated juvenalia. I can see what Rosa--is Rosa really a she or really a Rosa or Lichtenstein?--sees in this. It prevents the self-reflection of a

[Marxism-Thaxis] Plekhanov: materialism vs Neo-Kantianism etc. (2)

2010-12-30 Thread Ralph Dumain
Plekhanov, Georgi. Bernstein and Materialism http://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1898/07/bernsteinmat.html (July 1898), in /Selected Philosophical Works/, Vol. II (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976), pp. 325-339. I am not versed in the relations among Spinoza, LaMettrie, the