Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Cerberus Puzzles

2007-06-11 Thread Waistline2
>> WL, you are right to point out the DCB side of the story. One reason why this is a good deal for them is that they used leveraged debt to get Chrysler at a totally unrealistic price in the first place and now need to get some debt off their books. Also, by keeping a 20% stake, they might mak

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Cornel West & Marxism (5)

2007-06-11 Thread Ralph Dumain
I'm still trying to catch up, and doing a million things at once. The problem is, I can't remember the conversation. I don't think there's any written trace of it; I believe it was a verbal conversation. It has to do with the implications of rational = actual/real, whether this notion is conse

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] A note on positivism

2007-06-11 Thread CeJ
> More importantly for me, working in education and educational > linguistics, I came to peace with the term 'positivism' seeing how > psychologists such as Vygotsky, Elkonin and Piaget position themselves > against that term 'positivism'. What I meant by this , I guess, was a sort of Rortian part

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Cerberus Puzzles

2007-06-11 Thread CeJ
WL, you are right to point out the DCB side of the story. One reason why this is a good deal for them is that they used leveraged debt to get Chrysler at a totally unrealistic price in the first place and now need to get some debt off their books. Also, by keeping a 20% stake, they might make more

[Marxism-Thaxis] Death of a merger

2007-06-11 Thread Charles Brown
<http://cmsimg.detnews.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=C3&Date=20070611&Category=AUTO01&ArtNo=706110337&Ref=V2Q=100&MaxW=500> The Inside Story: Part 1 of 2 Death of a merger How dream marriage hit the rocks Bill Vlasic and Christine

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cornel West & Marxism

2007-06-11 Thread Charles Brown
(130) The basis of moral law, pace Kant, is an instinct for equality. ^^^ CB: This is the principle underlying _The Manifesto of the Communist Party_. Oppressed classes always struggle because its instinctive for humans to be treated equally by other humans. This gives rise to an ahistoric

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cornel West & Marxism (6)

2007-06-11 Thread Charles Brown
But there's much less to do on in claiming that Engels' view of morality really differs from Marx's. In a non-"philosophical" sense of the term, it is likely that Marx believed in moral progress, at least potentially if not in actuality. And it is not clear from the citations alone that Enge

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cornel West & Marxism (3)

2007-06-11 Thread Charles Brown
For Feuerbach, anthropology or philosophy of abstract man is the secret of theology; for Marx, a theory of history and a social analysis is the secret of anthropology. ^^ CB: Today, we have a much better basis for describing human species-being because of the studies of scientific cult

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cornel West & Marxism (2)

2007-06-11 Thread Charles Brown
West finds the Theses on Feuerbach to be the decisive turning point in Marx's thought. Commenting on thesis 2, West states: quote: --- Marx holds at arm's length the traditional theories of truth in philosophy, namely, the correspondence and coherence theories of truth. The do

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cornel West & Marxism (5)

2007-06-11 Thread Charles Brown
Just a personal note here, for those of you who remember Lisa Rogers. I think West's book was one of the last Lisa read before her sudden death. She discussed it with me vaguely. But I do remember that we discussed the opening argument of Engels in LUDWIG FEUERBACH and whether it did not i