Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Soviet Cultural Psychology

2009-12-03 Thread CeJ
All of which brings to mind something I saw at MR--which I do not subscribe to, but do read the MRZINE occasionally. http://monthlyreview.org/nfte091201.php In this issue we are reprinting C. Wright Mills’s “Psychology and Social Science” from the October 1958 issue of Monthly Review. The

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Bailout prediction

2009-12-03 Thread c b
On 12/3/09, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: Using the examples of what already happened under earlier presidents, there is nothing that surprising at all about the bank bailouts. As for the idea that it was unprecedented to bailout AIG (no one actually knows what to call it except it's something

[Marxism-Thaxis] Soviet Cultural Psychology

2009-12-03 Thread c b
I believe Hegel's Phenomenology of the Spirit is a sort of psychology. After some of Blunden's discussion, I've been thinking that Spirit in Hegel is roughly culture in the modern anthropological sense - custom, tradition, a certain People or nation's history. So, the title below might be better

[Marxism-Thaxis] Soviet Cultural Psychology

2009-12-03 Thread c b
[edit] Consciousness Consciousness is divided into three chapters: Sense-Certainty, Perception, and Force and the Understanding. [edit] Self-Consciousness Self-Consciousness contains a preliminary discussion of Life and Desire, followed by two subsections: Independent and Dependent

[Marxism-Thaxis] Soviet Cultural Psychology

2009-12-03 Thread c b
CB:I believe Hegel's Phenomenology of the Spirit is a sort of psychology. After some of Blunden's discussion, I've been thinking that Spirit in Hegel is roughly culture in the modern anthropological sense - custom, tradition, a certain People or nation's history. So, the title below might be

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Bailout prediction

2009-12-03 Thread CeJ
Before that there was the S L bailout. Chrysler was bailed in 1979. However, this latest one strikes me as a quantitative change that is turning into a qualitative change, to coin a phrase. The Financial Times wrote months ago that the bailout was $ 11 trillion; and I think more money has gone

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] In the Shadow of Hoover

2009-12-03 Thread CeJ
In an interview with Fox News, the president said: It is important to recognize if we keep on adding to the deficit, even in the midst of this recovery, that at some point people could lose confidence in the US economy in a double-dip recession. Maybe he didn't mean it. Or was merely nodding to