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

2010-12-14 Thread c b
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 5:19 PM, 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_ by Frederick Engels. > _Everything_ has a beginning , middle and end. A mobius strip

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

2010-12-13 Thread Waistline2
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_ by Frederick Engels. _Everything_ has a beginning , middle and end. A mobius strip has none of those aspects. Nothing lasts f

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

2010-12-13 Thread c b
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > > On Dec 13, 2010, at 3:38 PM, c b wrote: > >>> >>> Beginning and end are points.  Neither in time nor in space do they >>> occupy any part of any dimension.  The "middle" between the two is >>> also a point.  What "exists" materially exists in

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

2010-12-13 Thread Shane Mage
On Dec 13, 2010, at 3:38 PM, c b wrote: >> >> Beginning and end are points. Neither in time nor in space do they >> occupy any part of any dimension. The "middle" between the two is >> also a point. What "exists" materially exists in time and space. If >> the whole of the existence of somethi

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

2010-12-13 Thread c b
> > Beginning and end are points.  Neither in time nor in space do they > occupy any part of any dimension.  The "middle" between the two is > also a point.  What "exists" materially exists in time and space.  If > the whole of the existence of something is taken to be the "middle" > then that some

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 > 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_ by Fr

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

2010-12-13 Thread c b
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Shane Mage 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_ by Frederick Engels.  _Everything_ has >> a beginning , middl

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

2010-12-13 Thread Shane Mage
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_ by Frederick Engels. _Everything_ has > a beginning , middle and end. A mobius strip has none of those aspects. > Nothi

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

2010-12-13 Thread c b
The Fate of a Cold War Vestige by Dmitry Orlov Club Orlov (November 28 2010) ...It is something of a law of history that sooner or later all empires must collapse. ^ CB: See _Dialectics of Nature_ by Frederick Engels. _Everything_ has a beginning , middle and end. Nothing lasts forever.

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

2010-12-10 Thread c b
The Fate of a Cold War Vestige by Dmitry Orlov Club Orlov (November 28 2010) We are currently witnessing increasingly nasty displays of deadly force on both sides of the Korean divide. The North appears to be getting ready to call America's bluff. What will the South do, faced with growing bell