Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] responses to law of value and meaning of proletariat fro...

2010-07-13 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 7/13/2010 9:23:23 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, cb31...@gmail.com writes: CB; Doesn't Marx consider that capitalism _emerges_ in the manufacturing system ? _http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch14.htm#S5_ (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/

[Marxism-Thaxis] Banksters

2010-07-13 Thread c b
IOU - Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester (Simon & Schuster, 2010). by Dwight Garner nytimes.com (January 05 2010) If you wanted to try to make sense of the global banking crisis, instead of merely weeping openly at your ATM balance, 2009 was a very good year. Books

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] responses to law of value and meaning of proletariat fro...

2010-07-13 Thread c b
wrote: > > > CB: Is the BP oil catastrophe the beginning of the conflict and > then antagonism you refer to ? > > Reply > > No. > > The material quoted states: > > "At a certain stage in their development means of production - instruments, > machinery and energy sources, come into confl

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Scope and Limits of Theory

2010-07-13 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 7/12/2010 11:11:52 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, _cb31...@gmail.com_ (mailto:cb31...@gmail.com) writes: In the context of _What is to be done_, I think Lenin's "revolutionary theory" is a synonym for Marxism. More specifcally, a revolutionary movement had to be based on a

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] responses to law of value and meaning of proletariat fro...

2010-07-13 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 7/12/2010 10:53:56 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, cb31...@gmail.com writes: CB: Is the BP oil catastrophe the beginning of the conflict and then antagonism you refer to ? Reply No. The material quoted states: "At a certain stage in their development me