Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Underground Man

2008-08-15 Thread Charles Brown
Here are some earlier thaxis discussions of Sartre. CB Marxism-Thaxis] Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980)There are numerous web sites on Sartre. Here's one: Sartre Online ... More information about the Marxism-Thaxis mailing list.

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Underground Man

2008-08-15 Thread Charles Brown
Sartre Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com Sat Mar 6 10:16:08 MST 2004 Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] RE: Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 5, Issue 3 Next message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re: Sartre Skinner Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

[Marxism-Thaxis] Ossetians

2008-08-15 Thread Charles Brown
There is a different explanation that had some currency in Sovietological circles. It is that Stalin's nationalities policies deliberately encouraged the cultivation of national identities and differences, in part attempting to secure central power by cultivation of local elites (often creation of

[Marxism-Thaxis] Marx and individualism

2008-08-15 Thread Charles Brown
Ossetians Paddy Hackett rasherrs at eircom.net Fri Aug 15 06:11:20 MDT 2008 Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ossetians Next message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ossetians Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Marx and individualism

2008-08-15 Thread Charles Brown
potential and not yet fully developed. Like the words of Aristotle ... ca.geocities.com/jazzchul2000/pols_econ/esse_man.htm - 26k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/15/2008 11:00 AM Ossetians Paddy Hackett rasherrs at eircom.net Fri Aug 15 06:11:20 MDT

[Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre on Thaxis

2008-08-15 Thread Charles Brown
M-TH: Life Is Beautiful Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us Wed Mar 3 07:07:16 MST 1999 Previous message: M-TH: Re: who reads marx? Next message: M-TH: Outlaw the Nazis and KKK ! Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author

[Marxism-Thaxis] Russian Support for Iran Sanctions at Risk amid Georgia Rift

2008-08-15 Thread Charles Brown
Russian Support for Iran Sanctions at Risk amid Georgia Rift To: A-List [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rad-Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [A-List] Russian Support for Iran Sanctions at Risk amid Georgia Rift From: Yoshie

[Marxism-Thaxis] Studying philosophy at the New School

2008-08-14 Thread Charles Brown
andie nachgeborenen We've been around this block before. Two reasons why we need a Marxian theoretical renaissance, one intellectual, the other political Intellectually there are big lacunae in Marxist theory, problems the tradition has not solved. To take some less controversial ones, old and

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Underground Man

2008-08-14 Thread Charles Brown
Paddy Hi I have been skimming through Notes from Underground.. Dostevosky seems, in it, to put great emphasis on the individual and individual spirit. He seems to hold the view that modernism (include here marxism) precludes individualism. The Enlightenment tradition with its overarching

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Studying philosophy at the New School

2008-08-13 Thread Charles Brown
andie nachgeborenen If there are they aren't contributing much to a theoretical renaissance of Marxism visible from the Anglo-American-European world. CB: Maybe we can discuss this. I don't see where Marxism needs a theoretical renaissance. It needs a revival in practice, but the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Ethnological Notebooks

2008-08-13 Thread Charles Brown
Having just read David´s announcement on his edtion of Marx´ Ethnological Notebooks I would like to know what - if any - differences - improvements, changes - this edition may have compared what I have in front of me and which is Lawrence Krader´s edition of 1974 published by Van Gorcum, Assen,

[Marxism-Thaxis] How the Left Saved Capitalism

2008-08-13 Thread Charles Brown
How the Left Saved Capitalism by Gregory W Esteven http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/esteven200708.html Monthly Review (July 20 2008) There is an entire genre of theory explaining why the Western capitalist democracies did not undergo socialist revolution in the 20th Century, as Classical

[Marxism-Thaxis] Pipes-Solzhenitsyn's troubled prophetic mission

2008-08-13 Thread Charles Brown
Pipes can't find much good to say about Solzhenitsyn. Ironically, he kind makes him out to be a creep. CB Pipes-Solzhenitsyn's troubled prophetic mission Solzhenitsyn's Troubled Prophetic Mission 07 August 2008 By Richard Pipes Alexander Solzhenitsyn, viewed as a political

[Marxism-Thaxis] Babylonia - Mesopotamia

2008-08-12 Thread Charles Brown
Well I was only in Berlin and Charlie, I guess, was not there either. Thanks for clarifying the conventional spelling of the name of Herodotus in English. I was really skimming through that part of the exhibition, and it was rather post-modernist in flavour. What I am certain of, is that German

[Marxism-Thaxis] Studying philosophy at the New School

2008-08-12 Thread Charles Brown
historically by philosophers who formerly did original work. --- On Tue, 8/5/08, Charles Brown charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us wrote: From: Charles Brown charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us Subject: [Marxism-Thaxis] Studying philosophy at the New School To: marxism-thaxis at lists.econ.utah.edu

[Marxism-Thaxis] Studying philosophy at the New School

2008-08-12 Thread Charles Brown
Logical Positivism was a relic even when I was an undergrad in the mid 70s and had a part of a class with one of the last great LPs, Carl Hempel, who, however, had implicitly renounced most of the tenets of classical LPism. Carnap and Hempel had actually deconstructed it from the inside in the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Babylonia - Mesopotamia

2008-08-12 Thread Charles Brown
Chris you asked: Can anyone point to previous contributions on the Asiatic mode of production on this list? See below Marxism-Thaxis] Preface Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org Thu Oct 20 06:58:04 MDT 2005 Previous message: [Marxism-Thaxis] Bourgeois property seminar Next

[Marxism-Thaxis] Babylonia - Mesopotamia

2008-08-12 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.driftline.org/cgi-bin/archive/archive_msg.cgi?file=spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1996/96-12-15.193msgnum=94start=7182end=7286 File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1996/96-12-15.193, message 94 Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 15:54:08 -0500 (EST)

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Babylonia - Mesopotamia

2008-08-07 Thread Charles Brown
Hello , Chris, long time , old comrade ! Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/07/2008 2:16 AM The Asiatic mode of production has probably been discussed several times on this list. If so apologies for missing it. Yesterday I attended an exhibition in Berlin entitled Babylon, which brings together the

[Marxism-Thaxis] From Feral Scholar

2008-08-06 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2008/07/31/switching-the-formulae-hiding-stagflation/#comments Lisa: Shifting China’s Export towards the Domestic Market By Henry C. K. Liu Part I: Breaking Free from Dollar Hegemony This article appeared in AToL on July 29, 2008 The vast

[Marxism-Thaxis] Column by Grace Lee Boggs

2008-08-06 Thread Charles Brown
The Worst and Best of Times By Grace Lee Boggs Special to The Michigan Citizen

[Marxism-Thaxis] Studying philosophy at the New School

2008-08-06 Thread Charles Brown
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/about-louis-proyect/ Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant MarxistAugust 1, 2008 Studying philosophy at the New School Filed under: Academia, philosophy - louisproyect @ 8:12 pm Hans Jonas Aron Gurwitsch A couple of items that I stumbled across on the net lately

[Marxism-Thaxis] Sorry folks

2008-08-06 Thread Charles Brown
Sorry folks - not all that much of a breakthrough http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/8/4/13531/71482 From Joe Romm, who knows what the fuck he is talking about when it comes to energy tech. = You say you want a revolution ... 'Major discovery' from MIT

[Marxism-Thaxis] Royalty

2008-08-05 Thread Charles Brown
The King of Thailand's Birthplace Go to page Thai His Majesty King Bhumipol Adulyadej of Thailand was born on December 5, 1927 at Mount Auburn

[Marxism-Thaxis] Obama vows to be ‘champion of working people’

2008-08-05 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.uft.org/news/champion_working_people/ Obama vows to be ‘champion of working people’ Aug 4, 2008 4:05 PM Speaking to hundreds of union leaders and activists on a July 31 conference call, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama vowed to be “a champion of working people.”

[Marxism-Thaxis] McCain Rapid Action in Michigan

2008-08-05 Thread Charles Brown
n solidarity jim From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sent: 8/4/2008 3:54:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time Subj: CORRECTION McCain Rapid Action in Michigan Greetings, CORRECTION ! Earlier today you should have

[Marxism-Thaxis] Discussion of recent solar storage discovery

2008-08-05 Thread Charles Brown
[Marxism] Major Discovery From MIT Primed to Unleash Solar Revolution II Les Schaffer schaffer at optonline.net Fri Aug 1 13:56:44 MDT 2008 Previous message: [Marxism] Major Discovery From MIT Primed to Unleash Solar Revolution II Next message: [Marxism] Major Discovery From MIT Primed to

[Marxism-Thaxis] Studying philosophy at the New School

2008-08-05 Thread Charles Brown
[Marxism] Studying philosophy at the New School Louis Proyect lnp3 at panix.com Fri Aug 1 14:15:29 MDT 2008 Previous message: [Marxism] Paul Le Blanc on the Trotsky Legacy conference Next message: [Marxism] Studying philosophy at the New School Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fidel Castro on Czechoslovakia in 1968:

2008-08-05 Thread Charles Brown
Fidel Castro on Czechoslovakia in 1968: (Excerpts from two speeches by Fidel Castro on August 23rd and 24th 1968, attacking the counter-revolutionary anti-Stalinist movement in Czechoslovakia and supporting the USSR's invasion. ) August 23, 1968 Fidel Castro Ruz Right here, I wish to make the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Obama vows to be ‘champion of working people’

2008-08-05 Thread Charles Brown
How funny to see a press release from a deeply anti-Communist union on a Marxism list. Doug ^^^ CB: Yes, it's hilarious. Maybe you don't have the stomach for this revolution stuff. Life is just so unfair for Commies. Marxists have continued to work in AFL-CIO unions despite the treachery

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Fidel Castro on Czechoslovakia in 1968:

2008-08-05 Thread Charles Brown
the anti-Soviet slanders do you , Ralph ? I didn't know you was such a sucker. At 02:45 PM 8/5/2008, Charles Brown wrote: Fidel Castro on Czechoslovakia in 1968: (Excerpts from two speeches by Fidel Castro on August 23rd and 24th 1968, attacking the counter-revolutionary anti-Stalinist movement

[Marxism-Thaxis] Solar discovery (more)

2008-08-05 Thread Charles Brown
Major Discovery From MIT Primed to Unleash Solar Revolution II Paddy Apling e.c.apling at btinternet.com Fri Aug 1 16:30:18 MDT 2008 Previous message: [Marxism] Major Discovery From MIT Primed to Unleash Solar Revolution II Next message: [Marxism] Major Discovery From MIT Primed to Unleash

[Marxism-Thaxis] Solar energy discussion

2008-08-05 Thread Charles Brown
demand 24/7. It is the problem of electricity storage which really stymies all the ideas of renewable or alternative energy sources. Wind power - only available when the wind is blowing within a range of sttrenths. Solar power - only available during daylight hours Tidal energy -

[Marxism-Thaxis] Solar discussion

2008-08-05 Thread Charles Brown
I tried to find more info on the web about this, and the best I could come across was the video at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/oxygen-0731.html. Cutting through the enormous amount of hype, it seems that what these MIT scientists may have done is come up with a better, more efficient way to

[Marxism-Thaxis] AUGUST IS NUCLEAR-FREE FUTURE MONTH!

2008-08-01 Thread Charles Brown
CALL TO ACTION! AUGUST IS NUCLEAR-FREE FUTURE MONTH! STOP NUCLEAR MADNESS! United for Peace and Justice has declared August Nuclear-Free Future Month. The specter of nuclear weapons in the hands of rogue states has become one of the top US excuses for waging war, yet the United States continues

[Marxism-Thaxis] Solar Revolution ?

2008-08-01 Thread Charles Brown
Major Discovery From MIT Primed to Unleash Solar Revolution Thursday 31 July 2008 by: Anne Trafton, MIT News _http://www.truthout.org/article/major-discovery-from-mit-primed-unleash-sola r-revolution_ (http://www.truthout.org/article/major-discovery-from-mit-primed-unleash-solar-revolution)

[Marxism-Thaxis] What's Wrong with the GDP?

2008-07-31 Thread Charles Brown
Since its introduction during World War II as a measure of wartime production capacity, the Gross National Product (now routinely measured as Gross Domestic Product - GDP) has become the nation's foremost indicator of economic progress. It is now widely used by policymakers, economists,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Why nations haven't been able to bypass capitalism to socialism

2008-07-31 Thread Charles Brown
With sincere due respect to Lou ( and I guess Trotsky), the reason Peru, China, Viet Nam, Korea, even Russia, et al. have not succeeded in building socialism without first having capitalism, is _not. some notion that _one_ country, nation or society cannot learn socialist relations of production

[Marxism-Thaxis] How do we get past the capitalists big advantages ?

2008-07-31 Thread Charles Brown
Louis Proyect Charles Brown wrote: This is what is behind Marx and Engels principle that the advanced capitalist countries must develop socialism first, or be among the first, not the mechanical or stagist notion that a people cannot learn socialism without first learning capitalism

[Marxism-Thaxis] You've Put Impeachment on the Table

2008-07-30 Thread Charles Brown
I happened to catch this House Judiciary Committee hearing on C-Span. Elizabeth Holtzman gets the Lenin prize. She said twice the bottom line is What is to be done ? Charles ^ CODEPINK: Women for Peace July 30, 2008 Dear Friend, CODEPINK activists have been steadily, faithfully, and

[Marxism-Thaxis] What did Lenin learn from Hegel?

2008-07-30 Thread Charles Brown
[Marxism] What did Lenin learn from Hegel? Arthur Kunkin Wed Jul 30 02:20:07 MDT 2008 Previous message: [Marxism] What did Lenin learn from Hegel? Next message: [Marxism] What did Lenin learn from Hegel? Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

[Marxism-Thaxis] Both personal and collective responsibility

2008-07-30 Thread Charles Brown
https://www.michigancitizen.com/print_this_story.asp?smenu=76sdetail=6292 Both personal and collective responsibility By Ron Walters NNPA Columnist Lou Dobbs of CNN prodded his panel the other night to explain what was underneath the awful image of castration used by Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., in

[Marxism-Thaxis] Has Socialism Failed?

2008-07-25 Thread Charles Brown
South African Communist Party Joe Slovo 1989 Has Socialism Failed? by Joe Slovo (Smile) http://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/slovo/1989/socialism-failed.htm This message has been scanned for malware by SurfControl plc. www.surfcontrol.com ___

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Current Oil Shock

2008-07-23 Thread Charles Brown
The Current Oil Shock http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/a-list/2008w28/msg00104.htm No Relief in Sight by Dilip Hiro www.tomdispatch.com (July 15 2008) When will it end, this crushing rise in the price of gasoline, now averaging $4.10 a gallon at the pump? The question is uppermost in

[Marxism-Thaxis] Michelle Obama

2008-07-23 Thread Charles Brown
Jones and others say that Michelle Obama knocks down old stereotypes of black women: Sapphire, the angry black woman; Mammy, the caretaker and nurturer of her own children and everybody else's, and Jezebel, the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Michelle Obama

2008-07-23 Thread Charles Brown
wrong list Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/23/2008 5:30 PM Jones and others say that Michelle Obama knocks down old stereotypes of black women: Sapphire, the angry black woman; Mammy, the caretaker

[Marxism-Thaxis] On Commanding-in-Chief

2008-07-22 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2008/07/21/on-commanding-in-chief/#comment-221962 Community-based theology On Commanding-in-Chief 21st July 2008, 11:54 am by Stan Goff Catastrophe: n. 1. A great, often sudden calamity. 2. A complete failure; a fiasco: The food was cold, the guests

[Marxism-Thaxis] Michelle Obama

2008-07-21 Thread Charles Brown
Michelle Obama credited with helping recast image of U.S. black women BY CASSANDRA SPRATLING ● FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER ● July 20, 2008 What’s this? There's a new joy and excitement among many of the patrons of the Spiral Collective, a collection of businesses owned by black women in

[Marxism-Thaxis] Demonstrate to stop the eviction of Rubie Curl-Pinkins

2008-07-21 Thread Charles Brown
Why is Countrywide and their law firm Trott Trott evicting a 72-year-old disabled woman from her home of 45 years, rather than accepting full payment for the house? Demonstrate to Stop the Eviction of Rubie Curl-Pinkins! Tuesday, July 22, 12 Noon at Bank of America Guardian Building, Congress

[Marxism-Thaxis] Barry's Black

2008-07-18 Thread Charles Brown
Obama responds to critics’ anti-Black accusations https://www.michigancitizen.com/default.asp?sourceid=smenu=1twindow=mad=sdetail=6256wpage=1skeyword=sidate=ccat=ccatm=restate=restatus=reoption=retype=repmin=repmax=rebed=rebath=subname=pform=sc=1070hn=michigancitizenhe=.com By Hazel Trice Edney

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Barry's Black

2008-07-18 Thread Charles Brown
. Perhaps he is the best neoliberalism has to offer. CB: I'd say Barry's setting a new record for the least debasing oneself in running for President. This ain't the same-o same-o At 12:33 PM 7/18/2008, Charles Brown wrote: Obama responds to critics’ anti-Black accusations https

[Marxism-Thaxis] Hope District:

2008-07-18 Thread Charles Brown
Hope District: https://www.michigancitizen.com/default.asp?sourceid=smenu=1twindow=mad=sdetail=6206wpage=1skeyword=sidate=ccat=ccatm=restate=restatus=reoption=retype=repmin=repmax=rebed=rebath=subname=pform=sc=1070hn=michigancitizenhe=.com Mike Wimberly / ERIC CAMPBELL PHOTO True community

[Marxism-Thaxis] Gillian Rose's book Hegel Contra Sociologyy

2008-07-18 Thread Charles Brown
Gillian Rose's book Hegel Contra Sociologyy Ralph Dumain This is the crux of all radical critiques of bourgeois social science, or even of Marxism turned into a natural science. Although mind is not the term generally used, it would be subjectivity or agency or praxis. CB: Marx seemed

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Barry's Black

2008-07-18 Thread Charles Brown
hatred of the Communist Party causes a form of Turette's syndrome At 01:37 PM 7/18/2008, Charles Brown wrote: Doug Henwood CB: I'd say Barry's setting a new record for the least debasing oneself in running for President. This ain't the same-o same-o I had a friend long ago who

[Marxism-Thaxis] Global trade

2008-07-17 Thread Charles Brown
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[Marxism-Thaxis] AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF KHAZARIA

2008-07-17 Thread Charles Brown
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF KHAZARIA by Kevin Alan Brook, Copyright © 1996-2004 Latest revision: September 2004. http://www.khazaria.com/khazar-history.html Of all the astonishing experiences of the widely

[Marxism-Thaxis] JULY 19 CELEBRATE

2008-07-17 Thread Charles Brown
http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/a-list/2008w28/msg00038.htm Tom Baker here sharing with you a recounting of the history of the people of Nicaragua. It is the work of Bob Siegel, member of the Executive Committee of Nicaragua Network Alliance for Global Justice, with me, and responding

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Obama not closing U.S. racial divide (I am so shocked)

2008-07-16 Thread Charles Brown
The nationwide telephone poll of 1,796 adults showed that 39 percent of blacks said there had been no real progress in recent years in getting rid of racial discrimination. Only 17 percent of whites said the same thing. CB: So a majority of Blacks said progress has been made ^^^

[Marxism-Thaxis] THE RIGHT TO STAY HOME

2008-07-16 Thread Charles Brown
THE RIGHT TO STAY HOME By David Bacon New America Media http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=66a8eccf43428bfe3542bfc7ddfb19ff JUXTLAHUACA, OAXACA, MEXICO (7/9/08) - For almost half a century, migration has been the main fact of social life in hundreds of

[Marxism-Thaxis] Obama: GM to survive economic woes

2008-07-15 Thread Charles Brown
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Obama: GM to survive economic woes David Shepardson / Detroit News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Likely Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama called General Motors Corp.'s plan for cutting jobs, truck production and other measures a sober reminder of the difficult

[Marxism-Thaxis] Bush: No bailouts for automakers

2008-07-15 Thread Charles Brown
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Bush: No bailouts for automakers David Shepardson / Detroit News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- President Bush said he wouldn't back government bailouts for automakers in the wake of a massive restructuring announcement by General Motors Corp. He also rejected efforts to

[Marxism-Thaxis] Evangelicals embrace science to become environmentalists

2008-07-15 Thread Charles Brown
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Ken Wilson: Faith and Policy Evangelicals embrace science to become environmentalists There is a shift in the American religious landscape. Evangelicals who have been known to affix the adjective wacko to the term environmentalist are starting to go green. Calls to

[Marxism-Thaxis] analytic-continental: denouement of bourgeois reason

2008-07-15 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph Dumain ... or, analytical philosophy's being-for-death. I thought I would die laughing reading this essay, as it gives the whole game away: ^^^ CB: Come on , Ralph. Elaborate ( pretty please) This message has been scanned for malware by SurfControl plc. www.surfcontrol.com

[Marxism-Thaxis] formal logic not static [WAS: Parting of the Wa ys: Reviews (7)]

2008-07-15 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph Dumain There are some who confine logic to the consistency of sets of statements and the validity of inference, and others who mix it up with metaphysics. I belong to the former camp. Answering your question with a question: what exactly does it mean to say that something is

[Marxism-Thaxis] analytic-continental: denouement of bourgeois reason

2008-07-15 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph Dumain You are, most likely, thinking of philosophy as the struggle between idealism and materialism, as Engels put it. I'll leave this aside for the moment. ^^^ CB: Sure, but it is also a sort of different aspect in itself, relationship between thought and being I mean. Interesting

[Marxism-Thaxis] Gillian Rose's book Hegel Contra Sociologyy

2008-07-15 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph Dumain My first reaction is, this is mostly horseshit, i.e. everything concerning the speculative proposition. The contrast between natural consciousness and transcendental or speculative consciousness is obscurantist. ^^^ CB; Yea, what is this transcendental ? Cultural ? symbolic

[Marxism-Thaxis] Gillian Rose's book Hegel Contra Sociologyy

2008-07-15 Thread Charles Brown
This is from the last chapter of Hegel contra Sociology: “Missing from Marx’s oeuvre is any concept of culture, of formation and re-formation (Bildung). There is no idea of a vocation which may be assimilated or re-formed by the determinations or law which it fails to acknowledge or the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Gillian Rose's book Hegel Contra Sociologyy

2008-07-15 Thread Charles Brown
The following quotation from Rose’s book is from a section called Morality and Method in Chapter 1, The Antinomies of Sociological Reason: “The development of the idea of a scientific sociology was inseparable from the transformation of transcendental logic into Geltungslogik, the paradigm of

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Meso-American literacy

2008-07-11 Thread Charles Brown
CeJ Well that and, if it did exist, mass literacy might not leave any artefacts. Drawings in the dirt, on leaves, etc. Sometimes we might erroneously think that everyone who lived in Jane Austen's world lived in Georgian manor houses scattered about the English countryside. CB: Yes, I

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] analytic-continental: denouement of bourgeois reason

2008-07-11 Thread Charles Brown
ON THE 'ANALYTIC-CONTINENTAL' DIVIDE IN PHILOSOPHY: NIETZSCHE AND HEIDEGGER ON TRUTH, LIES, AND LANGUAGE The Question of Philosophy. It is the difference in the reply that can be made to the question, What is philosophy?' that constitutes the difference - and the divide - between analytic and

[Marxism-Thaxis] formal logic not static [WAS: Parting of the Wa ys: Reviews (7)]

2008-07-11 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph Dumain The law of identity is a property of statements, not things. ^^^ CB: So, there is no law that a thing must be identical with itself ? This message has been scanned for malware by SurfControl plc. www.surfcontrol.com ___

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] analytic-continental: denouement of bourgeois reason

2008-07-11 Thread Charles Brown
How about the question of philosophy is the relationship between thought and being ? Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/11/2008 2:53 PM ON THE 'ANALYTIC-CONTINENTAL' DIVIDE IN PHILOSOPHY: NIETZSCHE AND HEIDEGGER ON TRUTH, LIES, AND LANGUAGE The Question of Philosophy. It is the difference

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] formal logic not static [WAS: Parting of the Wa ys: Reviews (7)]

2008-07-11 Thread Charles Brown
How can I get a copy of your book ? Why is it important to have a law that entities in statements are identical with themselves, but no similar law for actually existing things ? Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/11/2008 3:43 PM Not in my book. At 03:05 PM 7/11/2008, Charles Brown wrote

[Marxism-Thaxis] Green Party Taps Hip-Hop Activist Rosa Clemente For VP

2008-07-10 Thread Charles Brown
Wednesday, July 09, 2008 Green Party Taps Hip-Hop Activist Rosa Clemente For VP Signaling it is serious about courting the hip-hop vote, Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney http:// has tapped respected hip-hop activist Rosa Clemente as her Vice Presidential pick. If the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Gillian Rose's book Hegel Contra Sociologyy

2008-07-10 Thread Charles Brown
Tahir W.- lbo-talk While looking through some of my files for material on Heidegger, I found three extracts from Gillian Rose's book Hegel Contra Sociologyy, which I had typed out for discussion on a Hegel-Marx list a couple of years ago. This book has influenced me as much as, or more than,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Vatican says aliens could exist

2008-07-10 Thread Charles Brown
Tuesday, 13 May 2008 Vatican says aliens could exist http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7399661.stm By David Willey BBC News, Rome Father Funes says the universe is so vast that other life forms may exist http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7399661.stm This message has been scanned for

[Marxism-Thaxis] the law of identity

2008-07-10 Thread Charles Brown
The law of identity, as far as I am concerned, is about the non-contradictoriness of statements, or more precisely, propositions. The fact that something changes from moment to moment is irrelevant; the question is whether one makes consistent sets of statements or not. ^ CB: What do we

[Marxism-Thaxis] Patriotic Ballad Uncut and Wet

2008-07-09 Thread Charles Brown
From Marxmail: Patriotic Ballad Uncut and Wet Mark L Actually, the story behind the Star-Spangled Banner (originally the Defense of Fort McHenry) is amazing and interesting enough. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner The War of 1812 started as an attempt by the politicians

[Marxism-Thaxis] PAX ROMANA

2008-07-09 Thread Charles Brown
Reflections by comrade Fidel http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/reflexiones/2008/ing/f050708i.html PAX ROMANA I basically drew these data from statements made by William Brownfield, US ambassador to Colombia, from that country’s press and television, from the international press, and other sources.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Elections in the US

2008-07-09 Thread Charles Brown
GRANMA July 8, 2008 Elections in the United States Obama's Plan to Win RAMON SANCHEZ-PARODI MONTOTO* Most commentators and analysts coincide that following the process of US primary elections, Barack Obama is the candidate to beat in the November 4 elections. Signs supporting this observation

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fish fossils plug hole in evolutionary theory

2008-07-09 Thread Charles Brown
Fish fossils plug hole in evolutionary theory Previous message: [Marxism] Query concerning Jean van Heijenoort Next message: [Marxism] Dog Wags Tail, Bites Nobody Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

[Marxism-Thaxis] “Imperialism” reads li ke it was written yesterday

2008-07-04 Thread Charles Brown
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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Issues with phoneme, with categorical perception

2008-07-03 Thread Charles Brown
CeJ Minimal pairs, as I have already pointed out, would use lexical semantics to establish phonemes and then use phonemes to establish lexical semantics. ^^^ CB: I still don't quite understand what you mean on this. This message has been scanned for malware by SurfControl plc.

[Marxism-Thaxis] structuralist linguistics plus follow up on phoneme (compendium response)

2008-07-03 Thread Charles Brown
CeJ jannuzi at gmail.com CB:But they changed qualitatively when they became alphabetic and no longer pictographic. There was a revolution in their descent when they shifted to alphabetic. They qualitatively shifted from iconic to arbitrary representation. I doubt if they ever were truly

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] formal logic not static [WAS: Parting of the Wa ys: Reviews (7)]

2008-06-27 Thread Charles Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/27/2008 9:43 AM Probably the most widely used ones are the books Irving Copi's including his book, Introduction to Logic www.amazon.com/Introduction-Logic-Irving-M-Copi/dp/0130102024 and his, Symbolic Logic

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] structuralist linguistics plus follow up on phoneme (compendium response)

2008-06-26 Thread Charles Brown
CeJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/25/2008 8:38 PM CB: My thought is that there was an arbitrary connecting between g and the thing, Certainly not iconic, but not entirely arbitrary, but rather 'motivated' by human psychology (hence the use of a velar for much of the same purpose across cultures and

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] structuralist linguistics plus follow up on phoneme

2008-06-25 Thread Charles Brown
CeJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/24/2008 9:27 PM CB: That's interesting. Could you give some examples of words imitating non-sounds ? In English, the /g/ of gooey, gunky, greasy, gross, goop, glob, glop etc. seems to indicate that the /g/ sound is used to represent something in common, so we could

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] structuralist linguistics plus follow up on phoneme

2008-06-25 Thread Charles Brown
Actually Japanese is marked by 'voiceless' vowels. Some languages might have phonological /p/s that are voiced, even though you, as a non-speaker of that language, would still perceive some sort of [p]. My point was that the distinction between the words 'pig' and 'big' in English is

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] On illusion of phoneme

2008-06-25 Thread Charles Brown
CeJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/24/2008 9:34 PM CB:CB: So most linguists think the phoneme is a valid concept ? Most work in linguistics has become so specific and narrow that if a linguist in lexical semantics says that the phoneme is a valid concept, it is most likely because he or she hasn't read

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Da da da da

2008-06-25 Thread Charles Brown
CeJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/24/2008 10:00 PM I clearly got the effect--even on a tiny sub-note with a tinny speaker--watching a recording of that very same Japanese TV program. http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=Fke7GWcT5kofeature=related The illusion was I perceived da da da da When I closed my

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] On illusion of phoneme

2008-06-25 Thread Charles Brown
CB: This paragraph in the article you give us below, says that Chomsky and Halle do use phoneme. The Russian linguist Jan Baudoin de Courtenay (1845-1925) was one of the first to anticipate the modern notion of phoneme, developed in the structuralist movement initiated in 1916 with the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Potential for rev greater in 3rd world, but need for 1st world rev more

2008-06-24 Thread Charles Brown
activists have the responsibility of focusing on making a revolution in the US, even if the potential for revolution is greater in the Third World. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Pen-l] Naomi Klein: Beware of Obama's Chicago School of Economicsboys From: Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 19

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] On illusion of phoneme

2008-06-24 Thread Charles Brown
CeJ http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~lholt/publications/PhonemeIllusion.pdf Good paper. Very well thought out and reasoned--unlike most work in the field where the reality and validity of a concept is assumed to be true in order to 'prove' or at least support the position that the concept is real and

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Illusion of the Phoneme

2008-06-24 Thread Charles Brown
The Illusion of the Phoneme Andrew J. Lotto Loyola University Chicago Lori L. Holt Carnegie Mellon University 0. Caveat A caveat is warranted here. While our title is provocative, our ambitions are much more prosaic. Obviously the debate on the ontological status of the phoneme has a long and

[Marxism-Thaxis] Dobson accuses Obama of 'distorting' Bible

2008-06-24 Thread Charles Brown
Dobson accuses Obama of 'distorting' Bible Conservative is critical of Dem's stance on how the Bible should guide policy Dobson questions Obama's stance on Bible June 24: Evangelical leader James Dobson accuses Barack Obama of distorting the Bible. Journalists Brian Debose and Perry Bacon

[Marxism-Thaxis] Barack Obama: What's the big idea?

2008-06-24 Thread Charles Brown
Barry O is a big puzzle ( smile). Some people just can't figure him out. He's a mystery. CB ^ Barack Obama: What's the big idea? 16 months and 26 debates later he remains a puzzle to many voters Malcolm Gladwell: Who says big ideas are rare? The Talk of the Town By

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Parting of the Ways: Reviews (7)

2008-06-23 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph D: Now, point 10 is of some interest to me, unlike the rest of this insufferable banality. The more I read material like this, the more I come to the conclusion how worthless this whole gambit is. Here are some observations: (1) Ultimately, this is not about where we stand and what's

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Parting of the Ways: Reviews (7)

2008-06-23 Thread Charles Brown
Aren't many of the analyticals anti-Hegelians, find dialectic to be nonsense ? Frege, Russell don't deal with dialectic. Whitehead ? Does Wittgenstein ? Without dialectic, they would tend to treat reality as static. As to continentals, does Heidegger deal with dialectic ? Charles This

[Marxism-Thaxis] War danger

2008-06-23 Thread Charles Brown
Please forward widely. Dear Friend of United for Peace and Justice, The U.S. House of Representatives is considering a new resolution that could effectively demand a blockade against Iran -- an act that would be widely seen as an act of war and could invite Iranian retaliation, possibly leading

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ballad for Americans

2008-06-23 Thread Charles Brown
, art, music, parties, cabarets and labor. Charles Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/23/2008 3:21 PM I was thinking of this one too as a a specimen of Black Americanism, but couldn't remember the reference. At 12:41 PM 6/23/2008, Charles Brown wrote: Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes

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