[Marxism-Thaxis] Revoke Krugman's Nobel Prize!

2009-02-05 Thread Charles Brown
Barkley Rosser is a Thaxis alum. CB ^^^ Revoke Krugman's Nobel Prize! by Barkley Rosser Yes, I know, not only has no Nobel Prize ever been revoked for anything, but they certainly do not do so for idiotic statements made by winners after they have won. However, as the first winner of the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Russia agrees to Afghan request for defence aid

2009-02-05 Thread Charles Brown
Russia agrees to Afghan request for defence aid Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:13pm IST By Sayed Salahuddin KABUL (Reuters) - Russia has accepted a request from President Hamid Karzai to provide military aid to Afghanistan, the Afghan government said on Monday. The move comes amid complaints by many

[Marxism-Thaxis] Kyrgyzstan starts moves to close U.S. airbase

2009-02-05 Thread Charles Brown
Kyrgyzstan starts moves to close U.S. airbase Wed Feb 4, 2009 3:04pm EST By Olga Dzyubenko BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan's government asked parliament on Wednesday to approve the closure of a U.S. military air base which supplies U.S.-led troops fighting in Afghanistan. The decision by the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Etta James Doles Out Harsh ‘La st’ Words for Beyonce, Obama

2009-02-05 Thread Charles Brown
Evidently, Etta James agees with Ralph (smile) http://h30405.www3.hp.com/print/pdf/2EJYDHE7CMAC/news Etta James Doles Out Harsh ‘Last’ Words for Beyonce, Obama (Feb. 5) - Etta James sure can hold a grudge, that much is certain after the RB icon vented her gripes about singer Beyonce Knowles and

[Marxism-Thaxis] Proletarianization and Overaccumulation

2009-02-05 Thread Charles Brown
Let us examine the matter a little more closely. Overproduction and Underconsumption are two sides of the same coin. Over or too much production of what and relative to what ? Too much is produced when the rate of profit starts to fall. Too much _from the perspective of the capitalists_. Not

[Marxism-Thaxis] Proletarianization and Overaccumulation

2009-02-05 Thread Charles Brown
Perhaps we can get an understanding of the issues on this thread by imagining Waistline's totally robotized or automated factory. As Walter Reuther said (to Ford ?) if automobile production is 100% robotized, then who will buy the cars produced ? This refers to a zero profit realization

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Etta James Doles Out Harsh †˜La st’ Words for Beyonce, Obama

2009-02-05 Thread Ralph Dumain
Thank you, Etta! At 02:45 PM 2/5/2009, Charles Brown wrote: Evidently, Etta James agees with Ralph (smile) http://h30405.www3.hp.com/print/pdf/2EJYDHE7CMAC/news Etta James Doles Out Harsh ‘Last’ Words for Beyonce, Obama (Feb. 5) - Etta James sure can hold a grudge, that much is certain

[Marxism-Thaxis] Marx against creationism

2009-02-05 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm The creation of the earth has received a mighty blow from geognosy – i.e., from the science which presents the formation of the earth, the development of the earth, as a process, as a self-generation. Generatio aequivoca is

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [politicalaffairs] Re: Political Affairs Magazine - The Concept of quot; Auraquot; and the Question of Art in Althusser, Benjamin and Greenberg

2009-02-05 Thread Charles Brown
Hello, Thanks for your response. Yes, I kinda thought the idea might be that much humanism is philosophical idealism ( in Engels famous sense in _Ludwig Feuerbach: The End of Classical German philsophy_, two great camps of philosophy,idealism and materialism, especially modern philosophy, on

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [politicalaffairs] Re: Political Affairs Magazine - The Concept of quot; Auraquot; and the Question of Art in Althusser, Benjamin and Greenberg

2009-02-05 Thread Ralph Dumain
Althusserian and French anti-humanism in general is bullshit, the French intellectual's way of, as they say, epater les bourgeois. If humanism alludes to something else, then that should be decoded. And I think Tedman is quite mistaken. At 11:10 PM 2/5/2009, Charles Brown wrote: Hello, Thanks