[Marxism-Thaxis] Hochschild on Lumumba

2011-01-17 Thread Jim Farmelant
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[Marxism-Thaxis] John O'Neill Thomas Ubel on Otto Neurath

2011-01-08 Thread Jim Farmelant
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[Marxism-Thaxis] On Paul Samuleson as a tragic figure

2011-01-07 Thread Jim Farmelant
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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

2010-12-30 Thread Jim Farmelant
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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

2010-12-30 Thread Jim Farmelant
, they turn out to be propositions of logical analysis which are still a species of pseudopropositions. Hence, that's why for Wittgenstein there cannot be theses or theories in philosophy. CB http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/index.htm Jim Farmelant http

[Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

2010-12-23 Thread Jim Farmelant
Rosa Litchenstein has now published on her site the last of the Marxist philosopher Guy Robinson's essays: http://anti-dialectics.co.uk/Robinson_Essay_Four_On_Misunderstanding_Scie nce.htm It's all about Thomas Kuhn. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant

[Marxism-Thaxis] Terry Eagleton on The death of universities

2010-12-19 Thread Jim Farmelant
? But there is no university without humane inquiry, which means that universities and advanced capitalism are fundamentally incompatible. And the political implications of that run far deeper than the question of student fees. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn

[Marxism-Thaxis] James Petras - The Democratic Party Debacle and the Demis of the Left-Center Left

2010-12-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
In recent years, I have found a lot of Petras's commentary on various subjects to be rather loopy, but not this piece. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- http

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] We must dream!

2010-11-08 Thread Jim Farmelant
king of the east who summoned his wise men and commanded them to inquire into the source of all the miseries in the world. The wise men duly investigated, and returned to the king with the answer that the source of the miseries was him. Terry Eagleton's On Evil is published by Yale. Jim

[Marxism-Thaxis] On Tea Bagger Finance, Ideology and Behavior (FWD from Lil Joe)

2010-10-15 Thread Jim Farmelant
Great on time real deal analysis Joe! Thanks. David On Tea Bagger Finance, Ideology and Behavior by Lil Joe liljoe.radi...@gmail.com October, 2010 There has been two national protest rallies held in Washington, DC thus far this year: the Teabagger's protest rally that was financed and

[Marxism-Thaxis] Mark Lindley on Marx and Engels on music

2010-08-18 Thread Jim Farmelant
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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Labor aristocracy

2010-07-22 Thread Jim Farmelant
in the First World, but rather in the Third World. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:49:47 -0400 c b cb31...@gmail.com writes: Labor aristocracy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_aristocracy Labor aristocracy or Labour aristocracy

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ghandi rejected Zionism

2010-06-27 Thread Jim Farmelant
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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ghandi rejected Zionism

2010-06-27 Thread Jim Farmelant
Drumont, who was then a very famous anti-Semitic agitator. Why should things be that different with the Indians? Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant Do you know anything about Gandhi's letters to Hitler, or is this just Pakistani propaganda? On 6/27/2010 11:35 AM

[Marxism-Thaxis] American Jews Who Reject Zionism Say Events Aid Cause - NY Times

2010-06-26 Thread Jim Farmelant
Allan C. Brownfeld, a longtime member of the council and editor of its magazines, Issues and Special Interest Report. “We are Americans by nationality and Jews by religion. And while we wish Israel well, we don’t view it as our homeland.” E-mail: s...@columbia.edu Jim Farmelant http

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Thailand

2010-05-29 Thread Jim Farmelant
(who was assasinated) and apparently at least some degree of support within the country's security forces. When the government decided to suppress the red shirts, there were reports of clashes between different army and police units. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-28 Thread Jim Farmelant
submit, contributed to the success of the project. If a senior scientist, even an Oppenheimer or a Fermi, had made an error in his calculations, there would have been other, perhaps more junior, scientists who would have been willing to step forward to make the necessary corrections. Jim Farmelant

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Speaking of the disaffected...

2010-02-28 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:43:20 EST waistli...@aol.com writes: Comment I asked myself, why would a human being work a 100 hour week voluntarily? That sort of thing is not or was not uncommon in the high tech world. Seven days 12 hours a day is only 72 hours. Add another 28 hours

[Marxism-Thaxis] Giving radicalism a good name (David Niose on Howard Zinn - Worcester Telegram)

2010-02-06 Thread Jim Farmelant
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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Setting the record straight

2010-01-31 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:55:44 -0500 Ralph Dumain rdum...@autodidactproject.org writes: Looks like the real story to me. Notice the entry ends with Gerald Ford. Social liberalism was killed off during the Carter administration. The secret of all mysteries lies in the '70s. One of the ironies

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Setting the record straight

2010-01-31 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:16:17 +0900 CeJ jann...@gmail.com writes: JF: I don't think that it is any great mystery what happened in the 1970s. In the mid-1970s, we had the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. It became clear that the institutional framework which modern

[Marxism-Thaxis] Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87

2010-01-27 Thread Jim Farmelant
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/01/howard_zinn_his.ht ml Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87 January 27, 2010 05:40 PM By Mark Feeney, Globe Staff Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Setting the record straight

2010-01-24 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:52:04 -0500 Ralph Dumain rdum...@autodidactproject.org writes: Brain-dead. Delusional. Cretinous Party USA on its deathbed. Can anyone figure out what the CPUSA gets in return for its apparently unrecquited love for Obama and the DP? Jim F. At 09:34 AM 1/24/2010, c

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 75, Issue 21: Setting the record straight

2010-01-24 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:57:51 + Karl Dallas karldal...@f2s.com writes: As a former member of the Communist Party of Britain, and a continued activist in struggle on such issues as Palestine, I cannot subscribe to the basic analysis of Sam Webb in Setting the Record Straight. I wrote

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Popularity of Atlas Shrugged: r ( theory, practice)

2010-01-08 Thread Jim Farmelant
to an enduring appeal. Old timers on this list may remember that one of the moderators of this list used to be Chris Sciabarra, who is a leading Rand scholar, but he is hardly, I'd dare say, a typical Randoid. Jim Farmelant ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Popularity of Atlas Shrugged: r ( theory, practice)

2010-01-07 Thread Jim Farmelant
fiction as a means for conveying her philosophical and political outlook to the general public in the US. Jim Farmelant On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 20:58:09 +0900 CeJ jann...@gmail.com writes: I'd say Ayn Rand is the person most responsible for both 'libertarianism' and the 'self-esteem movement' as we

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Could God die again ?

2010-01-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:49:44 -0500 Ralph Dumain rdum...@autodidactproject.org writes: The weak points in the abstract materialism of natural science, a materialism that excludes history and its process, are at once evident from the abstract and ideological conceptions of its spokesmen,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Barack Obama Worked For The CIA - John Pilger

2010-01-01 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:16:35 +0900 CeJ jann...@gmail.com writes: Ignoring the deluge of repeated WMR stuff, I found this , which at least at first glance looks a lot more credible--it cites Wm Blum and a NYT article. It also 'speculates' that Clinton did similar bootboy service for the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Barack Obama Worked For The CIA - John Pilger

2010-01-01 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 10:54:36 -0500 Doug Henwood dhenw...@panix.com writes: On Jan 1, 2010, at 10:35 AM, Jim Farmelant wrote: That would be an interesting issue to look into. How does the US ruling class go about recruiting political talent? How were people like Jimmy Carter, Bill

[Marxism-Thaxis] Have a happy and merry December 25

2009-12-25 Thread Jim Farmelant
Today, as the world pauses on the birthday of one of history's greatest men, whose teachings continue to benefit the entire human race, let us join in toasting the memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and of all the giants on whose shoulders he stood. Jim Farmelant

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Soviet Cultural Psychology

2009-11-26 Thread Jim Farmelant
saw himself as a physiologist. He described his famous work on conditioned reflexes as part of the physiology of the higher nervous system. He was generally dismissive of psychology which he tended to view as a kind of pseudo-science. Jim Farmelant

[Marxism-Thaxis] Interview with Michael D. Yates: The ABCs of the Economic Crisis

2009-11-21 Thread Jim Farmelant
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Islamic creationism- Boston Globe

2009-10-25 Thread Jim Farmelant
Islam’s Darwin problem In the Muslim world, creationism is on the rise By Drake Bennett October 25, 2009 Three weeks ago, with much fanfare, a team of scientists unveiled the fossil skeleton of Ardi, a 4-foot-tall female primate who lived and died 4.4 million years ago in what is now

[Marxism-Thaxis] Sechs prominente amerikanische Freidenker

2009-10-25 Thread Jim Farmelant
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Edgar Zilsel

2009-10-03 Thread Jim Farmelant
Of the members of the Vienna Circle with Marxist leanings, Otto Neurath was the best known figure. Another member of the Circle with Marxist leanings was the historian and philosopher of science, Edgar Zilsel, who is probably best remembered today for what is known as the Zilsel Thesis, which

[Marxism-Thaxis] Welcome to the library. Say goodbye to the books. (The Boston Globe)

2009-09-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
Welcome to the library. Say goodbye to the books. Cushing Academy embraces a digital future By David Abel, Globe Staff | September 4, 2009 ASHBURNHAM - There are rolling hills and ivy-covered brick buildings. There are small classrooms, high-tech labs, and well-manicured fields. There’s even

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Welcome to the library. Say goodbye to the books. (The Boston Globe)

2009-09-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
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[Marxism-Thaxis] The Boston Globe on radical films

2009-09-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
http://tinyurl.com/mlasou Rad, bad, dangerous to know Films rarely take up radical causes. Thre result can be a mix of Karl and Groucho Marx. By Ty Burr, Mark Feeney, and Wesley Morris, Globe Staff | September 6, 2009 The revolution is once more being screened. Opening Friday is Uli Edel’s

[Marxism-Thaxis] Forward from Rosa Lichtenstein on Analytic Marxism

2009-08-13 Thread Jim Farmelant
In response to this: http://www.marxmail.org/msg66028.html It is worth adding that Donald Davidson was a socialist, too, as were Gilbert Ryle and John Austin. Wittgenstein himself declared he was a 'communist at heart', wanted to move to Russia (since he was in agreement with the gains made

[Marxism-Thaxis] Short obit for Jerry Cohen

2009-08-08 Thread Jim Farmelant
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Jerry Cohen, RIP

2009-08-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Francis Jeanson dies

2009-08-02 Thread Jim Farmelant
For those who can read French there is an obit at: www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gk_HA3eO_bSmjiFqzSeTGY0aPL6g He was a philosopher, who was a friend and disciple of Jean-Paul Sartre. He was probably best known for his work during the time of the Algerian struggle for

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [Marxism] (fwd) Ralph Dumain revisits Boris Hessen

2009-07-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
Here are some links on Boris Hessen, Jim Farmelant On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:01:58 -0400 Les Schaffer schaf...@optonline.net writes: [from Jim Farmelant, came as html-only] - Forwarded Message - Introduction to The Social and Economic Roots of Newton's 'Principia' by Boris

[Marxism-Thaxis] Coup in Honduras

2009-06-28 Thread Jim Farmelant
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090628/wl_nm/us_honduras_president Troops detain Honduras president: government TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduran soldiers detained leftist President Manuel Zelaya on Sunday in a constitutional crisis over his attempt to win re-election, government officials said.

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 68, Issue 15

2009-06-27 Thread Jim Farmelant
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Article on New Atheism (and 'New Humanism')

2009-06-26 Thread Jim Farmelant
mispells my name as Farmalant, rather than Farmelant. The same article had appeared last year in the German humanist journal, Aufklärung und Kritik (http://www.gkpn.de/Farmelant_Atheismus.pdf). The Germans, of course, spelled my name correctly. Jim Farmelant

[Marxism-Thaxis] Boris Hessen and Philipp Frank

2009-06-14 Thread Jim Farmelant
Probably at least a few people here have heard of Boris Hessen, the Soviet physicist and historian and philosopher of science, whose groundbreaking paper, The Social and Economic Roots of Newton’s Principia (http://webfiles.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/rereadingClassics/Hessen.pdf/V1_Hess en.pdf) would

[Marxism-Thaxis] Translation history of Das Kapital

2009-05-31 Thread Jim Farmelant
only first translated into English later on by Ernest Untermann for an American edition that was published by Charles H. Kerr Co. of Chicago. Is that correct, or am I in error on that point? Thanks in advance. Jim Farmelant You're never

[Marxism-Thaxis] Paul Cockshott on Leonid Kantorovich and the socialist calculation debate

2009-05-24 Thread Jim Farmelant
Paul Cockshott on how the Soviet economist and mathematician, Leonid Kantorovich (who was the only Soviet economist to ever win the Nobel Prize in economics), used his work on linear programming to answer the arguments of economists like Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek who argued that

[Marxism-Thaxis] Article on the Scottish roots of historical materialism

2009-05-11 Thread Jim Farmelant
Courtesty of Rosa Lichtenstein. Readers might be interested in an article that attempts trace the roots of Marx's materialist conception of history back to the Scottish Enlightenment. http://jcs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/7/3/339 It is the first detailed study of the links between

[Marxism-Thaxis] Review of Ron Aronson's *Living without God: New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists, and the Undecided*

2009-05-01 Thread Jim Farmelant
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Tristram Hunt on Engels

2009-04-25 Thread Jim Farmelant
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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Did the Soviet state whither away ?

2009-02-21 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:47:31 -0800 (PST) Charles Brown cdb1...@prodigy.net writes: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/02/social-collapse-best-practices.html Someone named Orlov says in the essay linked above: When the Soviet system went away, many people lost their jobs, everyone lost

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Did the Soviet state whither away ?

2009-02-21 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:35:43 -0800 (PST) Charles Brown cdb1...@prodigy.net writes: --- On Sat, 2/21/09, Jim Farmelant farmela...@juno.com wrote: From: Jim Farmelant farmela...@juno.com The Socialist Workers Party (USA) has long been insistent that Russia remains a kind

[Marxism-Thaxis] The violence network (Boston Globe)

2009-01-18 Thread Jim Farmelant
www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/01/18/the_violence_network / The violence network It's biased, gruesome, and totally compelling. How Al-Jazeera makes one American think differently about war By Eric Calderwood | January 18, 2009 DAMASCUS - This morning, while I made my coffee and

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [A-List] Albert Einstein, Paul Robeson and Israel

2009-01-10 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:35:45 -0500 Paul Wright pwri...@prisonlegalnews.org writes: This is hardly new or unexpected. Vladimir jabotinsky was one of the leading Zionists of the 1930s and no crime was too vile (including collaboration with the Nazis) if it meant a Zionist homeland.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Have a happy and merry December 25

2008-12-25 Thread Jim Farmelant
Today, as the world pauses on the birthday of one of history's greatest men, whose teachings continue to benefit the entire human race, let us join in toasting the memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and of all the giants on whose shoulders he stood. Jim Farmelant

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Have a happy and merry December 25

2008-12-25 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 19:59:01 +0900 CeJ jann...@gmail.com writes: Was Newton really that great a man? In terms of his achievements, he most definately was. In terms of his personality and character, he was not so great. In fact he was often downright mean and nasty CJ

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Have a happy and merry December 25

2008-12-25 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:18:16 +0900 CeJ jann...@gmail.com writes: I found this one to get me into that holiday mood! http://www.historicist.com/newton/p1c4.htm Wikipedia has an article on Newton's studies of the occult: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton's_occult_studies

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The playboy philosopher

2008-10-09 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:09:38 +0900 CeJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, I admire Sartre's contributions to philosophy, social science and politics. And his relationships with Camus, De Beauvoir and Merleau Ponty have long fascinated me. I think JF you are thinking of someone else on

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The playboy philosopher

2008-10-06 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:35:48 -0400 Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What a useless piece of shit Badiou is. His politics are even more worthless than his philosophy. As for Sartre, there are others on the anti-Stalinist left who bear a grudge against him for his erstwhile

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The playboy philosopher

2008-10-06 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:35:48 -0400 Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What a useless piece of shit Badiou is. His politics are even more worthless than his philosophy. As for Sartre, there are others on the anti-Stalinist left who bear a grudge against him for his erstwhile

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] communism mailing list

2008-10-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 17:01:46 +0100 Paddy Hackett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps you only say this Hans because I have highlighted what may be the hidden strategy. Get rid of the smallest mailing lists then proceed to the bigger ones. It is strange that you should want to close down the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] A New Kind of Revolutionary Organization Surfaces on the World Wide Web

2008-09-27 Thread Jim Farmelant
://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-September/036461.html Therefore, unless people here are eager to read more unformatted postings from him, I will do what Les Schaffer is doing with him on Marxmail. Jim Farmelant Visit the Big

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Pablo Picasso

2008-09-26 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:15:20 -0400 Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso Pablo Picasso http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8vaOI-lovoNR=1 Pablo PicassoWords and music: jonathan richman Well some people try to pick up girls And get called

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Cultural Logic [Popper vs Marx]

2008-09-22 Thread Jim Farmelant
is a prime example here. I don't have Miller's book, but I'm guessing I should add it to the section of my bibliography on Popper Marx. I will do same with Little. I'm tempted to scan the section on falsifiability. At 08:32 PM 9/16/2008, Jim Farmelant wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:12:48

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Cultural Logic

2008-09-17 Thread Jim Farmelant
the positivists and Popper. Also see pp 304-313 for his discussion of positivists and politics. Jim F. At 12:29 PM 9/13/2008, Jim Farmelant wrote: Louis Proyect posted the following announcement on his Marxmail list concerning the latest issue of the journal Cultural Logic. I found

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Cultural Logic

2008-09-16 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:12:48 +0900 CeJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That seems like such a weak way to attack the position--personal inconsistency. Is it really even a current debate? In the analytic tradition, after Lakatos and Feyerabend, Popper--on what is a science and how it

[Marxism-Thaxis] Death of Peter Camejo

2008-09-14 Thread Jim Farmelant
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-camejo14-2008sep14,0,5153282 .story From the Los Angeles Times Green Party activist Peter Camejo dies at 67 From the Associated Press 6:07 PM PDT, September 13, 2008 SACRAMENTO — Peter Camejo, a Green Party leader who was a third-party candidate in

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cultural Logic

2008-09-13 Thread Jim Farmelant
Louis Proyect posted the following announcement on his Marxmail list concerning the latest issue of the journal Cultural Logic. I found the article by Hristos Verikukis Popper's Double Standard of Scientificity in Criticizing Marxism , to be quite interesting. Verikukis basically convicts

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre on Thaxis

2008-08-15 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:56:22 -0400 Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: M-TH: Life Is Beautiful Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us Wed Mar 3 07:07:16 MST 1999 Previous message: M-TH: Re: who reads marx? Next message: M-TH: Outlaw the Nazis and KKK ! Messages sorted

[Marxism-Thaxis] Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89 (NY Times)

2008-08-03 Thread Jim Farmelant
www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/books/04solzhenitsyn.html?_r=1hporef=slogin August 4, 2008 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89 By MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose stubborn, lonely and combative literary struggles gained the force of prophecy he revealed the heavy afflictions of

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Marxism the Origins of British Socialism

2008-07-12 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:44:26 -0400 Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now: http://autodidactproject.org/other/pierson-Marxism-UK.htmlMarxism and the Origins of British Socialism: The Struggle for a New Consciousness by Stanley Pierson (1973). Included are the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Re: friendly fascism for the 21st century

2008-06-08 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:06:17 - rtvinwfny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.lsus.edu/la/journals/ideology/contents/vol29/vol1and2/towardf riendlyfascismmilanzafirovsky.pdfToward Friendly Fascism? American

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Re: friendly fascism for the 21st ce...

2008-06-08 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:18:17 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Good stuff and right on the money. The political basis of reaction - fascism, has always been historically in the South. We tend to write as if we forget the right to work laws, Taft Hartley and how Hayes Tilden -

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Moritz Schlick

2008-04-20 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:15:23 +0100 rasherrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Have been reading Schlick. Heavish going. Do you know of any online sources that provide a summary of his philosophy. Wikipedia is always a good place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Schlick There is

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Moritz Schlick

2008-04-20 Thread Jim Farmelant
While web surfing on Schlick, I came across this obit for the Finnish philosopher, Pertti Lindfors, who was apparently both a logical empiricist and a Marxist. This obit appears on the website of the Atheist Association of Finland. http://www.dlc.fi/~etkirja/Atheist.htm

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] New Atheism (and New Humanism) by Jim Farmelant

2008-04-09 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:32:42 -0400 Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jim, Could you explain contra-causal free will ? I'm thinking it has to do with determinism and free will, of course. I guess it's that free will is free of determinism outside the person. That's the idea

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] New Atheism (and New Humanism) by Jim Farmelant

2008-04-09 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:53:19 -0500 Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What exactly did I miss? I don't recall a discussion on a new atheism or new humanism. I did, coincidentally, however, just discover an interesting book:

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Symbolic Logic

2008-04-07 Thread Jim Farmelant
/download.php?d41747e60573503029d688f3267cc6cf Paddy - Original Message - From: Jim Farmelant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 12:49 AM Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Symbolic Logic Also see these posts on Marxmail from ten

[Marxism-Thaxis] Test

2008-04-06 Thread Jim Farmelant
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: [Marxism] marxmail will be offline Sunday, April 6

2008-04-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
Since Thaxis, like Marxmail is based on University of Utah servers, I suspect that this list will likewise be offline tomorrow. Jim Farmelant - Forwarded message -- From: Les Schaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:52:34 -0400 Subject: [Marxism

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Vienna Circle etc.

2008-04-03 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 17:05:10 +0100 rasherrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How does A.J. Ayer fit into this matter of the peculiarities of the reception of logical empiricism into the anglophone world. I obtained my initial more direct experience of it throug Ayer's titles? Ayer was

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Vienna Circle ettc.

2008-04-01 Thread Jim Farmelant
. in Neurath, Otto. Empiricism and Sociology. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1973. 299-318. Also in Analytic Philosophy. Ed. Jordan J. Lindberg. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 2000. 147-158. - Original Message - From: Jim Farmelant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Cc

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Vienna Circle etc.

2008-04-01 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:19:46 +0900 CeJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Popper at one time had wanted to join the Circle and was evidently very envious of the admiration Wittgenstein received from them (though by most accounts, Wittgenstein did not see himself as engaged in their scientific

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Vienna Circle ettc.

2008-03-31 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:22:21 -0400 Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rasherrs rasherrs - --- The argument between the Vienna Circle and Karl Popper on the matter of the verification principle.

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Iyenkov on Hegel

2008-03-18 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:08:52 +0900 CeJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ^^^ CB: Cause he [Popper] was doing anti-communist/anti-Soviet hack work . ^^^ The interesting post-modern aspect of Popper for me is that he opened up 'anglo-analytic' philosophy of science to

[Marxism-Thaxis] For those who read German

2008-03-06 Thread Jim Farmelant
My article, „Neuer Atheismus“ (und „Neuer Humanismus“) in den USA, which is being published this month in the journal, Aufklärung und Kritik (http://www.gkpn.de/), is now avaliable online at their website at: http://www.gkpn.de/Farmelant_Atheismus.pdf Jim F.

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Fwd: First draft document

2008-02-10 Thread Jim Farmelant
This, I take it, was the message that Juan wished to forward to this list. Please note that it was sent as an attachment to an attachment. The listserver software strips out attachments, to prevent viruses from being sent to list subscribers. So in the future, I would suggest that Juan and any

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Fwd: Notes on FBI terrorist activities

2008-01-27 Thread Jim Farmelant
Juan, in the future, please do not forward articles as attachments, since the listserve software is configured to strip out attacments. Jim Farmelant - Moderator

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tariq Ali on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto

2007-12-27 Thread Jim Farmelant
The Guardian - December 28, 2007 http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2232632,00.html A tragedy born of military despotism and anarchy The assassination of Benazir Bhutto heaps despair upon Pakistan. Now her party must be democratically rebuilt Tariq Ali Even those of us sharply

[Marxism-Thaxis] Have a happy and merry December 25

2007-12-25 Thread Jim Farmelant
Today, as the world pauses on the birthday of one of history's greatest men, whose teachings continue to benefit the entire human race, let us join in toasting the memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and of all the giants on whose shoulders he stood. Jim Farmelant

[Marxism-Thaxis] Reuters declares Chavez victor in constitutional referendum

2007-12-02 Thread Jim Farmelant
Chavez wins Venezuela vote: sources By Saul Hudson and Ana Isabel Martinez Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez appeared headed for victory on Sunday in a referendum on allowing the leftist to rule for as long as he keeps winning elections, government-linked sources said, citing exit polls. Three

[Marxism-Thaxis] Marxism and Inequality

2007-11-06 Thread Jim Farmelant
A friend of mine will be conducting a philosophy cafe on the following topic. He would appreciate it, if I can provide him with some readings written from a Marxist perspective that would pertain to the topic. Does anybody have any suggestions? Jim F. --- “Outcomes and

[Marxism-Thaxis] Adolfo Olaechea win his case

2007-10-31 Thread Jim Farmelant
Reported on Louis Proyect's Marxmail. --- From: Monica Velazco To: Louis R Godena Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 8:43 PM Subject: OLAECHEA WINS TERRORISM CASE IN PERU I though I let you all know that today, by unanimous decision, the Peruvian High Court (Sala

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Notion of falsifiability (from RE: Presentations to the Fifth International....)

2007-09-30 Thread Jim Farmelant
I have discussed falsifiability on various lists. See: http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2002/2002-January/82.html http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2004w52/msg00209.htm On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:51:26 -0700 (PDT) andie nachgeborenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am not sure about

[Marxism-Thaxis] More Rosa

2007-08-29 Thread Jim Farmelant
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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Lisa Rogers (25 August 1961 - 15 September 1996)

2007-08-26 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:56:40 -0400 Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Every year I commemorate the days Lisa was born and died. In Memoriam: Lisa Rogers 25 August 1961 - 15 September

[Marxism-Thaxis] Real News

2007-07-17 Thread Jim Farmelant
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Anti-dialectics at Marxism 2007

2007-07-12 Thread Jim Farmelant
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