[Marxism-Thaxis] WHY THE U.S. STIMULUS PACKAGE IS BOUND TO FAIL

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
WHY THE U.S. STIMULUS PACKAGE IS BOUND TO FAIL DAVID HARVEY Much is to be gained by viewing the contemporary crisis as a surface eruption generated out of deep tectonic shifts in the spatio-temporal disposition of capitalist development. The tectonic plates are now accelerating their motion

[Marxism-Thaxis] Ian Angus on Charles Darwin

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
Ian Angus on Charles Darwin http://www.socialistvoice.ca/?p=366 February 6, 2009 Charles Darwin and Materialist Science http://www.socialistvoice.ca/?p=366 *By Ian Angus. *February 12, 2009 is Darwin Day, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. His masterwork, /On the Origin

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Jewishness of Jews Without Money

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.jbooks.com/interviews/index/IP_Buhle_Gold.htm The Jewishness of Jews Without Money By PAUL BUHLE Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the 1996 edition of Jews Without Money (originally published in 1930) was how the political wrangling of the past had slipped into history,

[Marxism-Thaxis] from the kingdom of necessity to the kingdom of freedom

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
From Anti-Duhring With the seizing of the means of production by society, production of commodities is done away with, and, simultaneously, the mastery of the product over the producer. Anarchy in social production is replaced by systematic, definite organization. The struggle for individual

[Marxism-Thaxis] Frederick Douglass (14 Feb 1818 – 20 Feb 1895)

2009-02-14 Thread Ralph Dumain
Happy birthday Valentine's Day . . . Fred was born the same year as Marx and died the same year as Engels. Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass And here's an atheist treat: Letter to Ludwig Feuerbach from Ottilie Assing about Frederick Douglass

[Marxism-Thaxis] Marxism and Humanism; Laborious Humanism

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
CB: In Althusser's terms, ^^^ CB: As far as I know, Althusser doesn't say what I say below. It is an extension, by me, of Althusser's basic argument in his famous essay beyond what he says. I believe Althusser concludes that there is no humanism in the mature Marx. I am disagreeing with

[Marxism-Thaxis] Why is history a history of class struggles ? Critique of Althusser

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
Charles Brown Althusser says: In 1845, Marx broke radically with every theory that based history and politics on an essence of man. This unique rupture contained three indissociable elements. (1) The formation of a theory of history and politics based on radically new concepts: the

[Marxism-Thaxis] from the kingdom of necessity

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
From Anti-Duhring With the seizing of the means of production by society, production of commodities is done away with, and, simultaneously, the mastery of the product over the producer. Anarchy in social production is replaced by systematic, definite organization. The struggle for individual

[Marxism-Thaxis] Douglass and Feuerbach

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph D: And here's an atheist treat: Letter to Ludwig Feuerbach from Ottilie Assing about Frederick Douglass http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/dougls1.html ^ CB: Cool , Ralph ! ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list

[Marxism-Thaxis] socialism icon needed

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph Dumain Aside from the hammer-and-sickle, and photos of Marx or other iconic figures, what other emblem of socialism can you think of? ^^^ CB: The color red. red flag ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To

[Marxism-Thaxis] Locus of material necessity in human society and history

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
This is a reworking and expansion of a thesis I have been developing on Thaxis Charles Materialism, Necessity and Freedom: Rehearsal of the Fundamentals of Marxism By the _Manifesto of the Communist Party_ every Marxist knows the A,B,C's of historical materialism or the materialist

[Marxism-Thaxis] kingdoms of necessity and freedom

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
--- On Sat, 2/14/09, Charles Brown cdb1...@prodigy.net wrote: From: Charles Brown cdb1...@prodigy.net Subject: kingdom of necessity To: cdb1...@prodigy.net Date: Saturday, February 14, 2009, 8:31 PM From Anti-Duhring With the seizing of the means of production by society, production

[Marxism-Thaxis] Insert for Locus of material necessity in human society and history

2009-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
I didn't finish these thoughts in what I posted CB The Second Thesis on Feuerbach - the test of theory is practice - is also rooted in or expresses the determination of ideas by material practice, practical- critical , revolutionary,activity (from the First Thesis on Feuerbach) Theory, a system