I continue to enjoy this thread, but will be gone for some days and it will
probably be a little while after that before I can reengage. I will think
about the position Charles and Ralph have taken on the relationship of the
brain to the origins of humanity. I think Engels' argument about how
>>TONC also takes the Millions More Movement’s march on Wash. DC on October
15 very seriously and we are already beginning to strategize as to how we can
best unite the struggle against the war with that effort. We don’t want the
two
dates, October 15, and Sept. 24, just three weeks apart, to c
Very interesting post. Just a few isolated comments to begin . . .
At 03:10 PM 6/7/2005 +0200, Victor wrote:
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The fact that life forms activities are directed to concrete future
states, they are, no matter how simple or mechanical, exercises in
reason. This why, if you wil
Yes, I have this book somewhere. So are you going to forward your review
to this list?
At 03:31 PM 6/7/2005 +0200, Victor wrote:
Unfortunately, the mainstay of Western interpretations of
Ilyenkov's works is the absolutely wierd product of a Brit academic who
represents them as a sort of sociol
Cover Story:
June-teenth 2005: African Americans and the Politics of Class
http://www.lrna.org/league/PT/PT.2005.6/PT.2005.6.1.html
Slavery was abolished in all Federal territories on June 19, 1862. That date,
commonly referred to as "June-teenth", is celebrated as the beginning of the
destr
An interview with Maureen Taylor, Detroit's grassroots City Council candidate
http://www.lrna.org/league/PT/PT.2005.6/PT.2005.6.4.html
By People's Tribune Staff
Editor's note: The People's Tribune recently interviewed Maureen Taylor, who
is a candidate for the Detroit City Council. Excer
We could have a world not tied to oil
http://www.lrna.org/league/PT/PT.2005.6/PT.2005.6.6.html
This column is a place for revolutionaries to debate why a cooperative
society is a practical solution to the problems people are fighting out. We
welcome
your thoughts about the articles we are ru
Charles Brown
Victor victor
Of course objectivity reality exists, but we have to realize that what Marx,
Lenin and other intelligent Marxists like Ilyenkov meant by objective
reality is not reality contemplated by some totally uninvolved
philosophical being. Just the reverse is true obj
to Dawkin's projection of the mechanics of
>population genetics to the science of culture (memics and all that).
CB: Interestingly this "memics" thing reminds of both Levi-Strauss and
Marvin Harris who analogized to the idea in phoneme, with the emphasis on
"eme", from phonetics and linguist
I've inteleaved my comments in the foliage of your commentary.
- Original Message -
From: "Ralph Dumain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 3:51
Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics!
Interleaved comments on further fragments of your po
The problem here is simply that I'm not sure of the ground of our
discussion. If this is tautological to you, then we share at very least the
point of view that science is at root a product of men's response to their
needs and not simply a reflection of the universe in consciousness.
Oudeyis
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My full response is in the prior message. So here I'll just make a couple of
short responses (see below).
- Original Message -
From: "Ralph Dumain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 4:24
Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics!
Your reas
This apparent piece of nonsense of mine is the key issue in a nutshell. It
embodies almost all the issues of our discussion, our differences (and I
might add our concordances): the determination of rationality, of
objectivity and of men's relation to nature and nature's to men.
These issues are
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