Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Obama said on Tunisian rebellion :

2011-01-26 Thread Shane Mage
giving full support to Mubarak's stable (meaning the army is still torturing, jailing, and shooting down the people) regime. Hopefully he soon will take about standing with the people of Egypt. Once they have forced him to stop standing on their backs. Shane Mage The communist creed: From each

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Obama said on Tunisian rebellion :

2011-01-26 Thread Shane Mage
is still giving full support to Mubarak's stable (meaning the army is still torturing, jailing, and shooting down the people) regime. Hopefully he soon will talk about standing with the people of Egypt. Once they have forced him to stop standing on their backs. Shane Mage The communist creed

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] What is human knowledge?

2011-01-26 Thread Shane Mage
connection. Shane Mage When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even downright silly. When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Martin Luther King Jr. and the attack on public workers

2011-01-18 Thread Shane Mage
. Some Democrats!!! Shane Mage The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed. Joe Stack (1956-2010) ___ Marxism

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Fate of a Cold War Vestige

2010-12-13 Thread Shane Mage
lasts forever. The universe lasts forever. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures. Herakleitos of Ephesos ___ Marxism-Thaxis

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Fate of a Cold War Vestige

2010-12-13 Thread Shane Mage
On Dec 13, 2010, at 3:07 PM, c b wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Shane Mage shm...@pipeline.com wrote: On Dec 13, 2010, at 2:07 PM, c b wrote: ...It is something of a law of history that sooner or later all empires must collapse. ^ CB: See _Dialectics of Nature_

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Fate of a Cold War Vestige

2010-12-13 Thread Shane Mage
approximate. Now imagine that it is accurate to an unlimited (virtually infinite) number of digits. That's a point in time. Before, you were an unborn baby. Afterward, you were a born baby. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Genes don't have selves

2010-08-12 Thread Shane Mage
are not survival machines... Every species of dinosaur went extinct. Their descendant gene- carriers are all around us. Every one of our ancestral hominid species went extinct. We all carry most of their genes. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Calhoun

2010-07-16 Thread Shane Mage
entitled the chapter on Calhoun The Marx of the Master Class. Shane Mage All things are an equal exchange for fire and fire for all things, as goods are for gold and gold for goods. Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr, 90 ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] American Jews Who Reject Zionism

2010-06-26 Thread Shane Mage
) in their migration from Khazaria to the Pannonian plains. Shane Mage Thunderbolt steers all things. Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64 ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] American Jews Who Reject Zionism

2010-06-26 Thread Shane Mage
On Jun 26, 2010, at 11:51 PM, Shane Mage wrote: Whoops. I wrote eastward when I meant westward. On Jun 26, 2010, at 11:27 PM, CeJ wrote: As I understand it, the now infamous Koestler 13th Tribe thesis was really an attempt of a non-religious Zionist to show that the Jews of Europe

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Launching Language: The Gestural Origin ofDiscrete Infinity

2010-05-24 Thread Shane Mage
be competing with. The wheel or how to make a stone axe may be invented by some chimp genius, but if there is no way to pass it on Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out

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

2010-02-28 Thread Shane Mage
is by definition a petit bourgeois behavior. But exactly what makes anyone put this particular terrorist *on the right*? Shane Mage The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right

2010-02-18 Thread Shane Mage
comfort every card-carrying A.C.L.U. member. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures. Herakleitos of Ephesos ___ Marxism

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right

2010-02-18 Thread Shane Mage
Corporations that they hate! On 2/18/10, Shane Mage wrote: Common ground? Tea Party leaders say they know their complaints about shredded constitutional principles and excessive spending ring hollow to some, given their relative passivity through the Bush years. In some ways, though, their main

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Foreign Policy In Focus (February 02 2010)

2010-02-08 Thread Shane Mage
there was no global economy in existence during at least seventeen of those eighteen centuries, and also since at no time in those eighteen centuries was China involved in international trade to any significant extent. Shane Mage L'après-vie, c'est une auberge espagnole. L'on n'y trouve que ce qu'on

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Contradiction in text

2010-02-03 Thread Shane Mage
is best described in the brilliant book by Alexander Erlich, The Soviet Industrialization Debate, 1924-1928. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures. Herakleitos of Ephesos

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Contradiction in text

2010-02-03 Thread Shane Mage
in Evasion. And the CPSU majority (the members, not the apparatus) favored either Bukharin or Trotsky, with Stalin acting only within the apparatus and the Central Committee it controlled by manipulation and indirect election. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always

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

2010-01-11 Thread Shane Mage
Euergetes (and, the Egyptians being expert astronomers who knows for how many years before that?) the Egyptians refused to accept leap years until the Julian calendar was imposed upon them by Augustus. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] More Rosa Logica

2009-10-22 Thread Shane Mage
it's still you. Whether standing on its feet or its head, it's still the same, real, world. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures. Herakleitos of Ephesos

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Michael Moore: Capitalism has proven it's failed

2009-09-29 Thread Shane Mage
On Sep 29, 2009, at 4:36 PM, c b wrote: What is democracy? CB: My short definition is popular sovereignty. And so CB, coming full circle, endorses the slogan of the slaveocracy, like Douglas in the debate with Lincoln. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Self-reference

2009-09-17 Thread Shane Mage
the receiver off the hook *This foot* came through the line (In prosody, a foot is a metric unit) Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures. Herakleitos of Ephesos

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The State and Revolution

2009-09-12 Thread Shane Mage
--in the absence of modern working classes, significant proletarian parties, or meaningful trade unions, (not to mention soviets)--seize state power by electoral means. Who could have imagined how much more *die vernunft* has gotten *listige* nowadays! Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] What's wrong with eugenics?

2009-08-21 Thread Shane Mage
*means* for conscious direction of evolution, on a planetary scale, are already, or imminently, at hand. And our species will adopt them--in the remote possibility that capitalism has not wiped it out before then. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] What's wrong with eugenics?

2009-08-20 Thread Shane Mage
are they to be told-- as they are by Antiabortion Prohibitionists (themselves choice examples of disgenics)--that they are Hitlerites? Evil people use good words lyingly, to hide their true purposes. Were Hitler and Stalin socialists? Were Bush and Clinton democrats? Shane Mage This cosmos did none

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] What's wrong with eugenics?

2009-08-20 Thread Shane Mage
, the evolution of our species the object of a *fully* conscious process. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures. Herakleitos of Ephesos

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Reaction, fascism, fighting the ultra right and Health 2.

2009-08-13 Thread Shane Mage
On Aug 13, 2009, at 12:59 PM, waistli...@aol.com wrote: Attacking the ultra right is nothing more than a clever way of demanding unconditional support of the Obama administration Exactly. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Partial list of famous musical artists who died as young or younger than Michael Jackson

2009-07-15 Thread Shane Mage
of the species name of the chimpanzee. But pan as genus (not species) name for chimpanzees is taken from the resemblance of chimps and bonobos to the iconography of the Great God Pan. And there is absolutely nothing childlike about Pan. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make

[Marxism-Thaxis] Historical Markers (was Re: Obama’s inauguration address)

2009-01-20 Thread Shane Mage
Hundred years ago the French chose a Corsican as their Emperor Now the Americans have chosen a Black as their President Two Hundred years from now the Jews will choose an Arab as Prime Minister of Israel You should live so long! Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Historical Markers (was Re: =?win...

2009-01-20 Thread Shane Mage
of Obama I thought his name would be Powell. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures. Herakleitos of Ephesos ___ Marxism

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Krugman critiques Obama stimulus plan

2009-01-07 Thread Shane Mage
On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:04 PM, Charles Brown wrote: Brezhnev was to the left of...Krugman. How many counterrevolutionary invasions did Krugman launch? How many political opponents did he send to labor camps? How many did he imprison in mental hospitals? Was Krugman a Stalinist? Shane Mage

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Krugman critiques Obama stimulus plan

2009-01-07 Thread Shane Mage
On Jan 7, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Charles Brown wrote: Shane Mage On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:04 PM, Charles Brown wrote: Brezhnev was to the left of...Krugman. How many counterrevolutionary invasions did Krugman launch? How many political opponents did he send to labor camps? How many did he imprison

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Krugman critiques Obama stimulus plan

2009-01-07 Thread Shane Mage
many political opponents did he send to labor camps? How many did he imprison in mental hospitals? Was Krugman a Stalinist? Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Why is Nationalization A Dirty Word in America?

2008-12-13 Thread Shane Mage
hold on only at public expense, nationalization is not like asking for unconditional surrender--it only takes the guts to just say no. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Trotsky biography recommendations

2008-11-19 Thread Shane Mage
with historical or technical controversy but would still give the reader a good sense of what Trotsky went through and was trying to do The only possible choice is the magnificent autobiography, My Life. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Voting for Obama - yep.

2008-10-03 Thread Shane Mage
with any potential for a meaningful vote is Nader/Gonzalez. Shane Mage It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want--and get it. (Gene Debs) ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Babylonia - Mesopotamia

2008-08-11 Thread Shane Mage
made no personal investigations of that sort he would have been virtually unique among Western (or Eastern!) travellers. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures. Herakleitos

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Babylonia - Mesopotamia

2008-08-09 Thread Shane Mage
, especially the Thebans and Ephesians. The most successful Persian naval commander was a Greek, Queen Artemisia. Shane Mage Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus. Herakleitos of Ephesos ___ Marxism

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Hillary going down in flames

2008-05-09 Thread Shane Mage
be lucky to escape lynching. Shane Mage Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus. Herakleitos of Ephesos ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] ] Aimé Césaire, voice of French Black pride, dies

2008-04-18 Thread Shane Mage
Césaire, even offering burial in the Pantheon--but Césaire's family, his party, and the whole Martiniquaise people reject that. He will be buried in his country, Martinique. Shane Mage Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus. Herakleitos of Ephesos

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Precis on theories of capitalist crisis

2008-03-25 Thread Shane Mage
capital has been leveraged into fictitious capital rather than invested as real capital. Shane Mage Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus. Herakleitos of Ephesos ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: Imus isn't the real bad guy

2007-04-25 Thread Shane Mage
CeJ wrote: ...I never much cared for the Godfather opus... But G 3 at least nailed the Mafia/Curia conspiracy that elevated Wojtyla to the papacy through the murder of Luciani. Give them credit for that. Shane Mage Mortals immortals, immortals mortals, living their deaths, dying

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Logical Empiricism (reformatted)

2005-12-12 Thread Shane Mage
. In my view, the hallmark of all vulgar economics (including the huge amount of it masquerading as Marxist) is the treatment of capital as a mass of things rather than as an amount of capitalized (ie., accumulated) surplus value. Shane Mage When we read on a printed page the doctrine

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 18, Issue 4

2005-04-04 Thread Shane Mage
A. Mani wrote: ...Chernobyl was an accident...Even during the cold war, the soviets maintained high ecological standards... I may be dating myself, but I must confess to being old enough to remember a time when there was an Aral Sea. Shane Mage When we read on a printed page the doctrine