Actually, a lot of critics of Marxism have branded Marx as a
positivist. They of course were using the word as a perjorative.
There have been Marxists who were explicitly positivists. The
Bolshevik, Alexander Bogdanov and his allies were avowed disciples of
Ernst Mach and Richard Avenarius,
I personally, believe the equity firm is basically the last form of
capital and it really changes
the rules that have governed the relationship between industrial worker and
financial industrial capital.
It seems more and more these private equities want to be holding
companies for
Wall Street Journal - June 14, 2007
Detroit Pursues
Sweeping Cuts
In Union Talks
Big 3 Cite Wide Cost Gap
With Asian Auto Rivals;
Threat to Export Jobs
By JEFFREY MCCRACKEN
Detroit's Big Three, facing their worst crisis in decades, are
seeking unprecedented concessions from the United
Will check it out when I get the chance.
Note also that the Poznan school links marx with Galileo. While this has a
relation to analytical philosophy, I think, I would not call this positivist at
all. But another time . . .
I am still out of commission, though hopefully I will have a new
Reflections by the Commander in Chief
NEEDING AFFECTION
By Fidel Castro
June 13, 2007
Albania was really the only place where Bush got any affection; to
such an extent that the reception in Bulgaria where several thousand
people awaited him waving little American flags seemed cool to him.
Ralph Dumain
Over the past few years I have grown much more skeptical of Ralph Ellison.
Though I had some prior indication of his failure to support other black
writers, and I was aware of his support of advocacy of LBJ and hostility to
the black power generation, I was unaware of the
LENIN’S RETURN
Lenin Rediscovered: ‘What Is to Be Done?’ in Context, by Lars T. Lih.
Leidin/Boston: Brill, 2006, 867 pages, including index. Hardcover
$181.00.
James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left,
1890-1928, by Bryan D. Palmer. Urbana and Chicago:
When Arnold Rampersad showed up to hawk his new bio of Ellison, I
learned more than I ever knew of what an obstructionist Ellison
actually was. And since looking over Rampersad's bio I took out the
library yesterday, I realize now that I totally underestimated what a
son of a bitch he actually
