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 fo
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
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
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, A
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 ?
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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
>>> 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
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 care
CeJ
The law of identity is a property of statements, not things.
CB: Are you saying said statements don't refer to things ?
If I remember correctly, at least in Leibnizian logic, it could be
stated in terms of things. If A and B are the same thing, then any
property you specify of
Meso-American literacy
CeJ jannuzi
CB: >>Check out Mixtec or Aztec picture writing.<<
In their most developed forms for representing glottographic language,
the scripts and texts to check out are Mayan and Zapotec.
Ralph Dumain
Miller, James. History and Human Existence: from Marx to
Merleau-Ponty. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.
I picked up this book for a few bucks at a used book store yesterday.
Never
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
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Agro-Profiteering and Predictable Food Scarcity
The Human Right to Eat
By JOAN P. MENCHER
http://www.counterpunch.org/mencher06282008.html
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>>> "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 t
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 has tapped
respected
hip-hop activist Rosa Clemente as her Vice Presidential pick.
If the Green Party
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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
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. I
>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 politici
From Marxmail
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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
Ralph Dumain
The law of identity is a property of statements, not things.
CB: Are you saying said statements don't refer to things ?
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>>> 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.
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to logic. Anyway, it's
all in George Reisch's book.
At 09:09 AM 6/27/2008, Charles Brown wrote:
> >>> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/27/2008 9:43 AM
>>>
>
>Probably the most widely used ones are the books
>Irving Copi'
>>> "[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"
www.amazon.com/Symbolic-Logic-Ir
>>> CeJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/25/2008 9:11 PM >>>
>>CB: Categorical perception is still fundamental to how language
works,
and how symbolling and culture works. In what sense is categorical
perception a house of cards ? Categorical thinking is fundamental to
humans, and it is fundamentally soc
>>> 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 c
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 publicat
>>> CeJ
A couple more things to ponder before I head off to classes.
The idea of the phoneme is sometimes built on the house of cards that
is categorical perception (though minimal pairs and complementary
distribution have also been tried, as have featural matrices). Yet
categorical perception
>>> 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=Fke7GWcT5ko&feature=related
The illusion was I perceived da da da da
When I clo
>>> 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
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 essentially
>>> CeJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/24/2008 9:27 PM >>>
>>CB: I don't know. You have to voice a vowel , don't you ? Otherwise,
you can't hear it; or it becomes whispering. So, of course voicing has
to come in after the "p" as you go into the vowel.>>
Actually Japanese is marked by 'voiceless' vowel
>>> CeJ
CB>>Could you elaborate what you mean here ? I know when I and most of
the people I talk with say "pig" or "big" , there is some level of
clean , crisp segments.>>
An illusion of phonics. Co-articulation is the rule.
^^^
CB: But the p and g are not simultaneously articulated. They are
>>> 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,
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 Dorothy
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 sp
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 compl
>>> 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 a
>>> CeJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/24/2008 12:19 PM >>>
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=jtsfidRq2tw&feature=related
What you see and hear, what you hear, and what you see are THREE
different things. The McGurk Effect.
^
CB: I thought he was saying "ah" "ah" "ah", not da, da , da
But also note t
>>> CeJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/24/2008 12:19 PM >>>
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=jtsfidRq2tw&feature=related
What you see and hear, what you hear, and what you see are THREE
different things. The McGurk Effect.
But also note that it can not be done with a single sound. It takes a
syllable. Wh
>>> CeJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/24/2008 12:00 PM >>>
Sorry for all the typos in the last mail, but it's past midnight and
my eyes are too tired to read it in detail enough to correct. If
something is totally messed up, quote it and I'll try to clarify
tomorrow.
Meanwhile, to explain the voice-ons
This wikipedia article disagrees with you on Chomsky and Halle.
Charles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneme
The term phonème was reportedly first used by Dufriche-Desgenettes in 1873, but
it referred to only a sound of speech. The term phoneme as an abstraction was
developed by the Polish lin
>>> CeJ
CB 1:
>>There's a strange phenomenon right now where all these babies are
into to saying "Obama", sort of on their own when they hear it.>>
Are you sure the Teletubbies haven't endorsed Barack Obama?
^^^
CB: I know this sounds strange, but , it's actual babies, not teletubbies. And
we US
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.
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From: "Charles Brown" <
It'd be really fine if you took the time to elaborate and articulate the
below more precisely, and with historical specific examples
Charles
For the moment I would like to point out something that is
fundamental to Hegel and Marx in different and incompatible
formulations. I need to find
Note: "Though Hegel is a leading German idealist, analytical
philosophers now turning to Hegel routinely draw a tacit distinction
between Hegel and idealism. Everything happens as if it were possible
to appropriate Hegel for analytic concerns while simply bracketing
his idealism. Though they ar
To name a few linguistic phenomena worthy of consideration as
motivated (not arbitrary): sound symbolisms, like phonomimes,
phenomimes, pscyhomimes. I can tell you, for example, the words for
'knock knock' as in knocking on a door, in English are not that
different from Japanese (kan-kan). Why the
Chomsky and Halle don't "overthrow" the basic concept of phoneme,
distinctive features, e.g. voiced and unvoiced as a binary opposition,
do they ? That makes too much obvious sense. provable by any human
speaker. Surely , in English "big" is differentiated from "pig" by
voiced/unvoiced significant
structuralist linguistics
CeJ jannuzi at gmail.com
That worldwide so many languages have
similar-sounding words for babies to say 'mama'. There are NATURAL
reasons why babies everywhere say such similar things. Because their
physiological and phonological development limits what they can say to
Static, I think is another issue distinct from "dialectic".
CB: Please elaborate.
What's your understanding of what Frege brings to logic ? Your words
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http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/txt/paulh01.htm
From: "Paul Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hegel's 'Absolute Idealism'
After taking up Andy's suggestion, that I should look at Cyril Smith's
comments about Hisorshi Uchida's book: Marx's Grundisse and Hegel's
Logic, I reached the foll
Dialectical Philosophy ( u relationship between thought and being)
http://www.marxists.org/subject/dialectics/index.htm
General Overview
Theses on Feurbach. In this essential work, Marx and Engels lay the
found
e can be proud of
parts of American culture, 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
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 u
Let America Be America Again
by Langston Hughes
!
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that grea
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 mess
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 wor
gger the Southwestern.
At 07:34 PM 6/22/2008, Jim Farmelant wrote:
>
>On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:05:27 -0400 "Charles Brown"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > What's Southwest Neo-Kantianism ?
> >
>
>Wikipedia says the following at:
>http://en.wikipedia.o
Change may be coming faster than we think.
Charles
By JENNIFER McKEE - IR State Bureau - 06/05/08
Republican U.S. Senate nominee Bob Kelleher wants a "nonviolent
revolution" to overthrow the foundation of American government. He
favors enormous, FDR-style government work programs to reduce pover
in Devine writes:
Marvin Gandall:
That was then, this is now. There's faster growth in capital formation
and
wages in developing countries than in developed countries, suggesting
the
beginnings of a world-historic shift in the centre of gravity of the
global
economy from the old imperialist powe
C-SPAN Video Library, Created by Cable. Offered as a Public Service.
Obama Speech to Mayors ... U.S. Mayors Conference
www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=index
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Iowa Flooding Could Be An Act
Thanks. Mach was another neo-Kantian as discussed by Lenin in
_Materialism and Empirio-Criticism_.
>>> Jim Farmelant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/22/2008 8:34 PM >>>
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:05:27 -0400 "Charles Brown"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/business/05farm.html?_r=1&em&ex=1212984000&en=3920ed5de889ff2b&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin
The Food Chain
Food Is Gold, So Billions Invested in Farming
Emergent Asset Management
A cattle farm in South Africa is among the holdings of Emergent Asset
Management.
SANTIAGO DE JUXTLAHUACA, OAXACA, MEXICO - 31MAY08 - The assembly of
the Indigenous Front of Binational Organizations in the Mixteca
region of Oaxaca, one of the poorest areas in Mexico. A large
percentage of the indigenous population of Oaxaca and other states
has left to work in northern Mexi
What's Southwest Neo-Kantianism ?
>>> Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/22/2008 6:09 PM
>>>
Houkes, Wybo. Review: Michael Friedman, A Parting of the Ways:
Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger, Journal of the History of
Philosophy, vol. 40, no. 4, October 2002: 554-555.
Concise summary with some pr
For Women's Liberation: A Comradely
Critique of _The Manifesto_ and Historical
Materialism
(For Angela Y. Davis)
By Charles Brown
"Because exploited classes are coerced into producing surpluses for exploiting
exposeobama.com
Over at the FoRK list (geared toward tech/geeks), where a lot of
debates
over religion take place, one of the subscribers inclined toward
atheism
iirc forwarded some conservative claptrap about obama, his background,
etc.
it's from human events. man, these folks are obsessed!
S
n it. Tom Rockmore has an entirely different view, it
seems.
^^^
CB: You should take a look at Claude Levi-Strauss, _Structural
Anthropology_.
I should be taking my nap now.
At 03:34 PM 6/20/2008, Charles Brown wrote:
>
>
>BTW it is worth mentioning that the arbitrariness of th
Dear Friend,
While George Bush has been touring through Europe, beating the drums
for war with Iran, CODEPINK has been creating -- city by city -- a
groundswell of support for peace. Thanks to our initiative, the U.S.
Conference of Mayors (http://usmayors.org/), which is holding its annual
meetin
BTW it is worth mentioning that the arbitrariness of the sign was the
one insight -- dodgy as it is -- that poststructuralism took from
linguistics. You take that away from them and the whole edifice
collapses, from Lacan to Derrida to Barthes to Althusser and the rest
(perhaps not Zizek), as we
>>> "Phil Walden"
Epistemological questions and questions about how we have knowledge of
the
world have been brilliantly confronted by Hegel. Marxists who want to
know
about epistemology must start with a serious study of Hegel. Hegel
tackled
the problem of scepticism - both Cartesian and Pyrr
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Comment
The ultimate culprits are the Marxists.
Engels get somewhat of a bad rap for "converting" Marx (method and
approach
to unraveling the most general laws of society and commodity
production) into
a "distinct philosophy," due to his efforts to popularize
eing moved from my sense that "white" comes before "women" for white
women.
At 08:11 AM 6/18/2008, Charles Brown wrote:
> From Women for Barack Obama
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ANTI-VIOLENCE
Obama Passed Law to Help Combat Violence Against Women. Obama
co-sponsored a bill that would authorize increased appropriations for
FY2006-FY2010 for grants to combat violent crimes against women, revise
provisions specifying purposes for grants to inc
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To change your opti
Alexander's Ragtime Band (film)
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Original film poster
Directed by Henry King
Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck
Written by Irving Berlin
Richard Sherman
Starring Tyrone Power
Alice Faye
Don Ameche
Ethel Merman
Music by Irving Berlin
Alfred Newman
Cinematography J. Peverel
More of my search for humanist Americana, Ballad for Americans in
American songs
Charles
Alexander's Ragtime Band
For the film of this name, see Alexander's Ragtime Band (film).
Cover, 1911 sheet music"Alexander's Ragtime Band" is the name of a song
by Irving Berlin. It was his first majo
Leslie White
Leslie Alvin White (19 January 1900, Salida, Colorado – 31 March 1975, Lone
Pine, California) was an American anthropologist known for his advocacy of
theories of cultural evolution, social evolutionism and especially
neoevolutionism, and his role in creating the department of an
>Either as fodder or foil, hopefully a bit of both, I think you would
>find the opening statements of Machiavelli and Marx in a
>hypothetical debate about the Iraq War, U.S. militarism and the
>current global e
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/hegel.htm
Feuerbach is the only one who has a serious, critical attitude to the Hegelian
dialectic and who has made genuine discoveries in this field. He is in fact the
true conqueror of the old philosophy. The extent of his achievement
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/feuerbach/index.htm
The Feuerbach Internet Archive
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Cuba to abandon salary equality
Cuba is to abolish its system of equal pay for all and allow workers and
managers to earn performance bonuses, a senior official has announced.
Vice-Minister for Labour Carlos Mateu said the current system - in place
since the communist revolution in 1959 -
http://www.feuerbach-international.com/
Ludwig Feuerbach (1804 - 1872), maybe the most famous atheist of the
19th century, who never denied God in the sense of a construct of
human
imagination but as the creator, understood his criticism of religion
as
continuation of the enlightenment, which was
Condorcet: Male Prophet of Feminism, by Jeff Nall
I thought the following was an interesting thought (from the end of the section
on Condorcet's below):
"Today, this remains true. While women and men receive much of the same
schooling, their cultural education, via media and marketing, is vastl
juan De La Cruz
...well, i didn't have the opportunity and the time to read all
the bull shit about cuba and its bourgeois project in Latin
America...that is to say the same project of the capitalist class
worldwideDon't you see the historical role played by the "socialist
state" in Cuba sin
GRANMA June 9, 2008
Cuban-Venezuelan Revolutionize Communications
JUAN ANTONIO BORREGO
CARACAS.? Venezuelan and Cuban specialists have finished mapping out a
1,550 kilometer highway of underwater fiber-optics cable linking the two
countries that will forever change the history of international
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-June/029586.html
Statement by Cynthia McKinney, Power to the People
Candidate for U.S. President,
on the nomination of Barack Obama as the Democratic Party's
Presidential Candidate in 2008
(statement issued June 9, 2008)
On Saturday, June 7, 200
Ancient laborer burial ground excavated near Rome
By FRANCES D'EMILIO, Associated Press Writer
Mon Jun 9, 8:41 PM ET
First-century burial grounds near Rome's main airport
are yielding a rare look into how ancient longshoremen
and other manual workers did backbreaking jobs,
archaeologists said Mon
Ralph Dumain
I may have brought this up before, but I have long entertained the
notion of the U.S. South as the first fascist state.
CB: Yea, me and Waistline take this line too. It was open terrorist
rule of the most reactionary section of finance capital in the US, well,
blooming finan
Jim Farmelant
>
>
We might also point out how
for many years the Southern
viewpoint dominated US historiography
concerning the Civil War, Reconstruction,
and the Grant Administration. For
years, US history books portrayed
Reconstruction as a "terrible injustice"
done to the defeated South,
I do not believe you are accurately characterizing my position, which I
believe is more sophisticated than you are interpreting. I do NOT
believe consumption choices are inherently rational, independent,
internally-generated, etc. People are absolutely affected by what
others do, etc. My point i
Please forward widely.
Dear Friend of United for Peace and Justice,
We know we've been asking you to make a lot of phone calls to Congress
lately. Tomorrow, as part of a "Time to Talk with Iran" event, UFPJ will
be asking members of Congress to come out of their offices to make a
phone call to Ir
Elections and the Death Cult
http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2008/06/06/elections-and-the-death-cult/#comment-193509
6th June 2008, 06:38 am by Stan
I will venture a guess that, contrary to what many believe, Hillary Clinton’s
biological status as a woman was as much an asset as a lia
I do not believe you are accurately characterizing my position, which I
believe is more sophisticated than you are interpreting. I do NOT
believe consumption choices are inherently rational, independent,
internally-generated, etc. People are absolutely affected by what
others do, etc. My point i
"We the people, in order to form a more perfect union ..." — 221 years ago, in
a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with
these simple words, launched America's improbable experiment in democracy.
Farmers and scholars, statesmen and patriots who had traveled ac
Naturally organized sociality and symbolically organized sociality
Charles Brown
As sexual instinct is an instinct that shapes a _social_ relationship
it
is different than some other instincts. Since culture or symbolic
systems or social structures or_social_ construction by symbol systems
The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to
structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of
hegemony
in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and
rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of
struc
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The Soviet Union: a no-party state?
Review by Alex Miller
The Soviet Union: a no-party state?
Review by Alex Miller
The Soviet Century
By Moshe Lewin
Verso 2005
416 pages
The standard view of the Soviet Union promulgated by the corporate media and
capitalist i
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