Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] What are the CPUSA’s views on the USSR?

2009-02-07 Thread Charles Brown
--- On Sat, 2/7/09, juan De La Cruz wrote: From: juan De La Cruz Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] What are the CPUSA’s views on the USSR? To: cdb1...@prodigy.net Date: Saturday, February 7, 2009, 2:15 PM ...I think or want to recommend to start our critical study of the exussr by using th

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Concept of "Aura" and the Question of Art in Althusser, Benjamin and Greenberg

2009-02-07 Thread Charles Brown
The Concept of "Aura" and the Question of Art in Althusser, Benjamin and Greenberg By Gary Tedman click here for related stories: science 1-28-09, 10:33 am I think we should not expect Marxism to produce a scientific (correct) theory of art, which would be like a Marxist theo

[Marxism-Thaxis] Political Affairs Magazine - The Concept of " Aura" and the Question of Art in Althusser, Benjamin and Greenberg

2009-02-07 Thread Charles Brown
:Picking up on Jim F's discussion below it seems to me that the structuralist and other objections to "humanism" are objections to "individualism". That is  humanism/individualism as a failure to understand Marx's notion that human in individuals are an "ensemble of their social relations".  The hu

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [politicalaffairs] Re: Political Affairs Magazine - The Concept of " Aura" and the Question of Art in Althusser, Benjamin and Greenberg

2009-02-07 Thread dogangoecmen
Jim, thank you very much for this illuminating background knowledge. Dogan -Original Message- From: Jim Farmelant To: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu CC: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Sent: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 15:27 Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [politicalaffairs] Re: Political Affai

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [politicalaffairs] Re: Political Affairs Magazine - The Concept of " Aura" and the Question of Art in Althusser, Benjamin and Greenberg

2009-02-07 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 05:30:54 -0800 (PST) Mehmet Cagatay writes: > > Mr. Dumain, would you please clarify why you regard Althusserian > anti-humanism as a kind of "epater les bourgeois"? The whole debate seems peculiarly French to me. In France since the 19th century humanism was seen as somethi

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [politicalaffairs] Re: Political Affairs Magazine - The Concept of " Aura" and the Question of Art in Althusser, Benjamin and Greenberg

2009-02-07 Thread Mehmet Cagatay
Mr. Dumain, would you please clarify why you regard Althusserian anti-humanism as a kind of "epater les bourgeois"? Thank you in advance, Mehmet Çagatay http://weblogmca.blogspot.com/ --- On Fri, 2/6/09, Ralph Dumain wrote: > Althusserian and French anti-humanism in general > is bullshit