[Marxism-Thaxis] Cornel West Marxism (5)

2007-06-11 Thread Charles Brown
Just a personal note here, for those of you who remember Lisa Rogers. I think West's book was one of the last Lisa read before her sudden death. She discussed it with me vaguely. But I do remember that we discussed the opening argument of Engels in LUDWIG FEUERBACH and whether it did not

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cornel West Marxism (2)

2007-06-11 Thread Charles Brown
West finds the Theses on Feuerbach to be the decisive turning point in Marx's thought. Commenting on thesis 2, West states: quote: --- Marx holds at arm's length the traditional theories of truth in philosophy, namely, the correspondence and coherence theories of truth. The

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cornel West Marxism (6)

2007-06-11 Thread Charles Brown
But there's much less to do on in claiming that Engels' view of morality really differs from Marx's. In a non-philosophical sense of the term, it is likely that Marx believed in moral progress, at least potentially if not in actuality. And it is not clear from the citations alone that

[Marxism-Thaxis] Death of a merger

2007-06-11 Thread Charles Brown
http://cmsimg.detnews.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=C3Date=20070611Category=AUTO01ArtNo=706110337Ref=V2Q=100MaxW=500 The Inside Story: Part 1 of 2 Death of a merger How dream marriage hit the rocks Bill Vlasic and Christine Tierney / The Detroit News *

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cornel West Marxism (5)

2007-06-12 Thread Charles Brown
Frederick Engels Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy Part 1: Hegel hegel The volume before us (1) carries us back to a period which, although in time no more than a generation behind us, has

[Marxism-Thaxis] A note on positivism (was Re: Cornel West Marxism (7))

2007-06-12 Thread Charles Brown
Jim Farmelant I would suggest that in following discussions concerning whether such and such a thinker is a positivist it might be useful to keep in mind the typology of positivism that Russell Keat presented in his 1981 book _The Politics of Social Theory_. There, he provided the following

[Marxism-Thaxis] Criticism of positivism ?

2007-06-12 Thread Charles Brown
Angela Davis and Turn Around Your Thinking Subject: Quote of the Day Quote of the Day - Angela Davis June 10, 2007 'I hope that you will treasure the approaches and ways of thinking that you have learned more than the facts you have

[Marxism-Thaxis] Join Redstockings at U.S. Social Forum June 30 in Atlanta

2007-06-12 Thread Charles Brown
Redstockings of the Women's Liberation Movement Presents: Confronting the Myth of America workshop and consciousness-raising U.S. Social Forum, Atlanta June 30, 2007 time and location: tba Dozens of countries have: -- national health insurance not dependent on jobs or marriage -- free or

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Sopranos, Capitalism And Organized Crime

2007-06-12 Thread Charles Brown
Swans The Sopranos, Capitalism And Organized Crime by Louis Proyect November 15, 2004 A philosopher produces ideas, a poet poems, a clergyman sermons, a professor compendia and so on. A criminal produces crimes. If we look a

[Marxism-Thaxis] In Landmark Case, Court Upholds Habeas Corpus Rights

2007-06-13 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.brennancenter.org/press_detail.asp?key=51subkey=49077 In Landmark Case, Court Upholds Habeas Corpus Rights For Immediate Release June 11, 2007 Contact Susan Lehman, 212-998-6318 Mike Webb, 212-998-6746 Jonathan Hafetz, 212-998-6289 In Landmark Case, Court Upholds Habeas Corpus

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cerberus Puzzles

2007-06-14 Thread Charles Brown
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

[Marxism-Thaxis] Big Three have it out for UAW

2007-06-14 Thread Charles Brown
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

[Marxism-Thaxis] NEEDING AFFECTION

2007-06-14 Thread Charles Brown
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.

[Marxism-Thaxis] A note on positivism [et al]

2007-06-14 Thread Charles Brown
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

[Marxism-Thaxis] LENIN’S RETURN By Paul Le Bla nc

2007-06-14 Thread Charles Brown
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:

[Marxism-Thaxis] Chavez on Gramsci

2007-06-19 Thread Charles Brown
Check this out ! Comrade Gramsci would be proud. CB ^^ Subject: Chavez on Gramsci Chavez Dismisses International Disapproval of Venezuela's Media Policy Hundreds of Thousands March in Support of Chavez By Gregory Wilpert - Venezuelanalysis.com Jun 05, 2007 As several hundred thousand

[Marxism-Thaxis] Victoria Gotti: the real mob is in Washington, DC

2007-06-19 Thread Charles Brown
Victoria Gotti: the real mob is in Washington, DC NY Daily News, Monday, June 11th 2007, 4:00 AM The real mob's in D.C.! Fuhgeddaboud the Mafia my hubby, take a look at Iraq war: Gotti widow By MIKE JACCARINO and ADAM LISBERG DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Victoria Gotti visits St. John's

[Marxism-Thaxis] Things Fall Apart: China and the Decline of US Imperialism

2007-06-19 Thread Charles Brown
Online at: http://politicalaffairs.net/article/view/5044/ Things Fall Apart: China and the Decline of US Imperialism By Gerald Horne Archives - Dates and Topics 2007 April click here for related

[Marxism-Thaxis] restless spirit of Mark Jones stirred, crying forth

2007-06-21 Thread Charles Brown
As someone once said, If you don't hit it, it won't fall. And there is no one anywhere with mobilized strength preparing to swing at U.S. Imperialism. Defeats abroad won't really hurt it unless (on the model of 1890-1914) one expects a war (say) between Europe and the U.S. Not likely.

[Marxism-Thaxis] restless spirit of Mark Jones stirred, crying forth

2007-06-22 Thread Charles Brown
CeJ jannuzi More likely the illiberal, unoriginal spirit of Mike Keaney in answer to Carroll Cox regarding the 'imperalism' piece you posted to this and other lists, CB. ^^^ CB: No contradiction between opposing the liberalism of Carrol Cox's position on this and a restless spirit.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Love Me, I'm a Liberal

2007-06-22 Thread Charles Brown
CeJ jannuzi In part, a response to Re: Things Fall Apart: China and the Decline of US Imperialism It's interesting to compare this review below (and presumably the book it reviews) with the 'China and Decline of US Imperialism' piece. Really the 'lefty liberal' stance one sees on A certain

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cornel West Marxism (8)

2007-07-03 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph Dumain Chapter 6 is on Lukacs, particularly HISTORY AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS and particularly the essay on reification. First West summarizes Hegel's notion of dialectic. Then he shows how Lukacs' Marxian dialectic differs, and emphasizes that it applies only to history and society,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cornel West Marxism (8)

2007-07-03 Thread Charles Brown
dogangoecmen Charles, you know that Lukacs placed this book outside and said it did Marxism more harm than benefit. Dogan ^ CB: Thanks Dogan. I didn't know that. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fidel Castro analyzes the CIA's Family Jewels

2007-07-03 Thread Charles Brown
REFLECTIONS BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF THE KILLING MACHINE Sunday is a good day to read something that would appear to be science fiction. It was announced that the CIA would be declassifying hundreds of pages on illegal actions that included plans to eliminate the leaders of foreign

[Marxism-Thaxis] Castro blog

2007-07-04 Thread Charles Brown
Castro has what amounts to a blog. http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/secciones/reflexiones/index.html Once you are on a particular article there are links you can click to see English, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Arabic or Russian translation.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Interview giving a view from inside the venezuelan military

2007-07-04 Thread Charles Brown
http://leftclickblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/view-from-inside-venezuelan-milita ry.html ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to:

[Marxism-Thaxis] footnote on Darwin

2007-07-05 Thread Charles Brown
CeJ jannuzi I didn't use the main thread title on West and Marxism. -- In a speech over Marx's grave, Engels (1883) pointed out the relations between Marx and Darwin in the following terms: 'Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic

[Marxism-Thaxis] I TINKLED MOM

2007-07-05 Thread Charles Brown
From: Valeria B A woman pregnant with triplets was walking down the street when a masked robber ran out of a bank and shot her three times in the stomach. Luckily the babies were OK. The surgeon decided to leave the bullets in because it was too risky

[Marxism-Thaxis] Gotta Love This Nurse

2007-07-05 Thread Charles Brown
From: Valeria GOTTA LOVE THIS NURSE A highway patrolman was rushed to the hospital with an inflamed appendix. The doctors operated and advised him that all was well. However, the patrolman kept feeling something pulling at the hairs in his crotch.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Smart Ass

2007-07-10 Thread Charles Brown
From: Valeria A stranger was seated next to a little girl on the airplane when the stranger turned to her and said, Let's talk.  I've heard that flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger. The little girl, who had just

[Marxism-Thaxis] More on gangsterism in the class struggle (!)

2007-07-10 Thread Charles Brown
Stalin's image, was: Re: great moments in the history of liberalism Chris Doss Koba was the guy in charge of expropriations in the Caucasus. Expropriations is a euphemism. It means the Koba was the head of a large organization that specialized in armed robbery, extortion, kidnap-for-money,

[Marxism-Thaxis] very good arguments for taxing the rich

2007-07-12 Thread Charles Brown
[lbo-talk] Incentive to work (Was Re: Liberal Intellectuals and the Coordinator Class) andie nachgeborenen If you use progressive taxation to control the accumulation

[Marxism-Thaxis] cell phone

2007-07-12 Thread Charles Brown
Is this an urban legend 7/2/2007 3:29 PM REMINDER9 days from today, all cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls. .YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS To prevent this, call the following number from your cell

[Marxism-Thaxis] Smart Ass

2007-07-12 Thread Charles Brown
Turns out this is an urban legend too. A stranger was seated next to a little girl on the airplane when the stranger turned to her and said, Let's talk. I've heard that flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger. The little girl, who had just opened

[Marxism-Thaxis] Emailing: attachmentTHE PRIMACY OF POLITICS

2007-07-12 Thread Charles Brown
TLS - July 11, 2007 Holiday reading for Gordon Brown Vernon Bogdanor Sheri Berman THE PRIMACY OF POLITICS Social democracy and the making of Europe's twentieth century 218pp. Cambridge University Press. £40; paperback £14.99 (US $65; paperback, $23.99). 978 0

[Marxism-Thaxis] Emailing: attachment

2007-07-12 Thread Charles Brown
Charles is an urban legend in his own mind. ^^ CB: Yes, I 'm actually a Buddhist. I don't think I really exist as a unified self. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change

[Marxism-Thaxis] Emailing: attachment

2007-07-12 Thread Charles Brown
-- In the case of Germany, the Nazis were able to successfully implement social democratic economic and social policies that the German business community would have accepted, ^ Would or would not have accepted if an SPD-lead government had attempted to implement. And

[Marxism-Thaxis] Anti-dialectics at Marxism 2007

2007-07-13 Thread Charles Brown
Jim Farmelant http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rosa.l/Marxism_2007.htm Presentation Most of the time humans have existed, there were no social classes. All the able-bodied produced food, clothing and shelter collectively. Language emerged as they interacted in their work. Using

[Marxism-Thaxis] Anti-dialectics at Marxism 2007

2007-07-13 Thread Charles Brown
Here are Rosa's most important ideas in summary. Charles ^^^ Essay Sixteen: Summary This Essay contains an outline of the most important ideas found at this site. The vast majority of the minor -- and all of the subsidiary -- issues have been omitted. Each point is developed more fully in

[Marxism-Thaxis] Anti-dialectics at Marxism 2007

2007-07-13 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph Dumain This is all pretty juvenile leftism. Then again, it's not Kevin Trudeau. The entire history of philosophy to Rosa is a scheme, a ruse, duplicity. Novack was indeed a hack. Anything of substance in this essay comes down to the criticism of Lenin. I don't have time for this

[Marxism-Thaxis] Anti-dialectics at Marxism 2007

2007-07-13 Thread Charles Brown
Lets examine this a little further: The Gospel Of John: In The Beginning Was The Word Is -clip- [UO = Unity of Opposites.] ^^ CB: The sentence John is a man means John is both the same and different from Joe, Jack, Rosa, Charles... It is precisely the is of predication

[Marxism-Thaxis] Trudeau

2007-07-17 Thread Charles Brown
_ [Marxism-Thaxis] 9 in progress - Trudeau and the other white meat Waistline2 at aol.com Waistline2 mailto:marxism-thaxis%40lists.econ.utah.edu?Subject=%5BMarxism-Thaxis%5D%20 9%20in%20progress%20-%20Trudeau%20and%20the%20%22other%20white%0A%09meat%22 In-Reply-To= at aol.com Mon

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fetters , integument: on metaphor for literature class

2007-07-17 Thread Charles Brown
[lbo-talk] Fetters , integument: on metaphor for literature class Carrol Cox wrote: I'm in an intellectually lethargic state just now I don't want to reread the Critique of the Gotha Programme to check for myself. Does the phrase unfettering of the productive forces (or any clearly

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fetters: literary criticism/self-criticism

2007-07-17 Thread Charles Brown
Literary criticism/self-criticism: I left out the conclusion ( although it's trivial , like math, the geometry of the circle, Q.E.D.) The workers of the world, world wide web of workers, burst asunder private appropriation and enter the realm of freedom, highly social appropriation, the

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Trinity Formula

2007-07-18 Thread Charles Brown
Thus it gives rise to a stage ... Karl Marx Capital: Volume 3 Abstract from Ch. 48: The Trinity Formula Like all its predecessors, the capitalist process of production proceeds

[Marxism-Thaxis] We're all out of Africa

2007-07-19 Thread Charles Brown
Skulls confirm we're all out of Africa By Ben Hirschler Wed Jul 18, 1:08 PM ET LONDON (Reuters) - An analysis of thousands of skulls shows modern humans originated from a single point in Africa and finally lays to rest the idea of multiple origins, British scientists said on Wednesday.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Scattering of the means of production, and no cooperation

2007-07-19 Thread Charles Brown
I thought I had come up with the use of scattering to refer to dispersal of the means of production ( today with globalization). But Marx used that term, AND IN THE SAME SENTENCE WITH REFERENCE TO THE UNDERMINING OF COOPERATION ! Charles This mode of production pre-supposes  parcelling of the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Test

2007-08-23 Thread Charles Brown
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Rosa gets CB

2007-08-23 Thread Charles Brown
I may be lliterate, but at least she admits I'm logical. CB ^^^ Logical Illiterates Strike Again A year or so ago I had the great misfortune to correspond with an irascible fellow who could not resist making ill-informed comments about my Essays, all the while refusing to read them. I

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Test

2007-08-23 Thread Charles Brown
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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Test

2007-08-23 Thread Charles Brown
at. Word Count: 2710 Return to the Main Index © Rosa Lichtenstein 2007 Hits since August 14 2007: Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/23/2007 12:07 PM Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/23/2007 11:41 AM ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism

[Marxism-Thaxis] Rosa gets CB

2007-08-27 Thread Charles Brown
I've put this to plain text , but this pc sometimes causes the posts to show up in long lines across the page anyway. I gotta admit that Rosa L.packs in so many putdowns per essay, that I find it hard not to get diverted into repartee; and it kind of bogs me down in reading through her stuff.

[Marxism-Thaxis] More Rosa L.

2007-08-27 Thread Charles Brown
Here some more Rosa L. with interlinear comments: One of Mr D's side-kicks --, a Mr Charles Brown (who grew rather upset with me when I refused to correspond with him for continually sniping at me without bothering to read my Essays), ^^ CB: No, Comrade L., I was not upset with you, nor

[Marxism-Thaxis] More Rosa L.

2007-08-30 Thread Charles Brown
Here Ilyenkov may address Rosa's problem with Lenin's discussion of John is a man, the is of predication, attributing to John the predict of humanity. CB Ilyenkov The dialectics of the Abstract the Concrete in Marx’s Capital Chapter One - Dialectical Metaphysical Conception of the Concrete

[Marxism-Thaxis] Commemorating Ho Chi Minh

2007-09-13 Thread Charles Brown
Nhan Dan http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/ September 4, 2007 Activities commemorate Uncle Ho http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/news/040907/domestic_a.htm [Offering incense to President Ho Chi Minh in Nghe An.] Localities across the countries held many activities on September 2 to

[Marxism-Thaxis] Aijaz Ahmad is a leading Marxist intellectual

2007-09-18 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.newsocialist.org/index.php?id=1386 THE EYE OF THE STORM A 40TH ANNIVERSARY INTERVIEW WITH AIJAZ AHMAD By Seemin Qayum This interview was conducted for the 40th anniversary issue of NACLA Report on the Americas. It is available here. Aijaz Ahmad is a leading Marxist intellectual

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Religion Marx (1)

2007-09-25 Thread Charles Brown
Herbert Aptheker, _The Urgency of Marxist /Christian Dialogue_; Kautsky wrote a classic on the history of Christianity. Try a search engine. Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/25/2007 12:06 PM Another Marxist book on religion was by the social democrat, Michael Harrington, The

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Religion Marx (1)

2007-09-25 Thread Charles Brown
Marx on Religion ( http://www.amazon.com/Marx-Religion-John-C-Raines/dp/1566399408/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-4952599-6116004?ie=UTF8amp;s=booksamp;qid=1190746749amp;sr=1-1 ) by John C. Raines (Paperback - April 2002) Buy new (

[Marxism-Thaxis] Thugs know thugs; lumpens as wanna be capitalists

2007-10-24 Thread Charles Brown
5. 50 Cent In 2005, Fiddy told GQ he thought Dubya was 'incredible ... a gangsta'. He revealed he would vote for Bush if his felony conviction didn't prevent him from voting. 'I wanna meet George Bush, just shake his hand and tell him how much of me I see in him.' ^^^ Observer

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Thugs know thugs; lumpens as wanna be capitalists

2007-10-24 Thread Charles Brown
The point is also that capitalists are thugs. Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/24/2007 1:44 PM From his bio 50 Cent was a lumpen. Thug is a self-description of those in 50 Cent's genre.That's why I clipped the reference to 50 Cent out of the article. The vast majority of lumpen

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Thugs know thugs; lumpens as wanna be capitalists

2007-10-24 Thread Charles Brown
From his bio 50 Cent was a lumpen. Thug is a self-description of those in 50 Cent's genre.That's why I clipped the reference to 50 Cent out of the article. The vast majority of lumpen or thugs don't make it to capitalist. But the point is that the values sung about in thug music are

[Marxism-Thaxis] Reaganomics Finally Trickles Down To Area Man

2007-10-24 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/reaganomics_finally_trickles_down The Onion October 13, 2007 | Issue 43 41 Reaganomics Finally Trickles Down To Area Man Hazelwood, Mo. - Twenty-six years after Ronald Reagan first set his controversial fiscal policies into motion, the deceased

[Marxism-Thaxis] Russia enters 'space race' to build moon base

2007-10-24 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/31/wrussia131.xml The Telegraph (Britain) September 1, 2007 Russia enters 'space race' to build moon base By Graeme Baker Russia has revived another Cold War rivalry by entering a new space race with America to build a permanent

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Thugs know thugs; lumpens as wanna be capitalists

2007-10-24 Thread Charles Brown
From his bio 50 Cent was a lumpen. Thug is a self-description of those in 50 Cent's genre.That's why I clipped the reference to 50 Cent out of the article. The vast majority of lumpen or thugs don't make it to capitalist. But the point is that the values sung about in thug music

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Warfare State Is Part of Us

2007-10-24 Thread Charles Brown
The Warfare State Is Part of Us by Norman Solomon http://www.zmag.org (October 09, 2007) The USA's military spending is now close to $2 billion a day. This fall, the country will begin its seventh year of continuous war, with no end in sight. On the horizon is the very real threat of a massive

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] the 17th Congress of the CCP:princelings mean legitimacy?

2007-10-26 Thread Charles Brown
What does mandarin mean ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/25/2007 10:05 PM As outcome of the 17th Party Congress,Xi Jinping, a princeling, whose father is elder Xi Zhongxun, was set as heir presumptive to Hu Jintao. In the new 25-member Politburo, Xi and his fellow princelings, which come from families

[Marxism-Thaxis] Auto pact: the good, the bad and the ugly

2007-10-26 Thread Charles Brown
Auto pact: the good, the bad and the ugly The wages and working conditions of union autoworkers have always set standards for all manufacturing. These in turn have put upward pressure on wages and benefits for all workers. But in today’s political and economic climate, major

[Marxism-Thaxis] Capitalism in the Era of Monopoly and Imperialism

2007-10-26 Thread Charles Brown
Capitalism in the Era of Monopoly and Imperialism The chronic problems working people face today are rooted in the birth and history of the capitalist system itself. “Free” competitive capitalism was replaced at the end of the nineteenth century by monopoly capitalism. Great amounts of

[Marxism-Thaxis] World Balance of Forces

2007-10-26 Thread Charles Brown
World Balance of Forces Historical Developments The Soviet Union and the socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Mongolia collapsed at the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s. This resulted from a complex combination of internal and external factors. The world communist movement and

[Marxism-Thaxis] Auto pact: the good, the bad and the ugly

2007-10-29 Thread Charles Brown
Auto pact: the good, the bad and the ugly The wages and working conditions of union autoworkers have always set standards for all manufacturing. These in turn have put upward pressure on wages and benefits for all workers. But in today’s political and economic climate, major contract

[Marxism-Thaxis] World Balance of Forces

2007-10-30 Thread Charles Brown
(Resend , hopefully plain text) World Balance of Forces Historical Developments The Soviet Union and the socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Mongolia collapsed at the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s. This resulted from a complex combination of internal and external factors.

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Injuries of Class

2007-10-30 Thread Charles Brown
Blog artcle by Michael Yates http://mike.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/ ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis

[Marxism-Thaxis] Unmarried women leading reform voters

2007-11-01 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.gqrr.com/index.php?ID=2092 A New America: Unmarrieds Drive Political and Social Change Stan Greenberg, Andrew Baumann, and Dave Walker Greenberg Quinlan Rosner November 01, 2007 from US Politics Key Groups: Gender Executive Summary In 2006, unmarried women voted for change in

[Marxism-Thaxis] On Hudson

2007-11-01 Thread Charles Brown
CeJ jannuzi His work was interesting in the early 1970s, when the Nixon admin. did so much unilaterally on trade and monetary policies while the US superpower's militarism looked about to be clipped. But his thoughts have advanced little and he fails to analyze the hard power the US asserts

[Marxism-Thaxis] Capitalism in the Era of Monopoly and Imperialism

2007-11-02 Thread Charles Brown
Capitalism in the Era of Monopoly and Imperialism The chronic problems working people face today are rooted in the birth and history of the capitalist system itself. “Free” competitive capitalism was replaced at the end of the nineteenth century by monopoly capitalism. Great amounts of

[Marxism-Thaxis] Auto pact: the good, the bad and the ugly

2007-11-02 Thread Charles Brown
Auto pact: the good, the bad and the ugly The wages and working conditions of union autoworkers have always set standards for all manufacturing. These in turn have put upward pressure on wages and benefits for all workers. But in today’s political and economic climate, major contract

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] On Hudson

2007-11-02 Thread Charles Brown
I'm assuming Hudson is on our side and Stiglitz and Reich are on their side. Charles CeJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/02/2007 10:26 AM CB: What does Hudson's analysis imply for practice , for political activism ? What do Stiglitz or Reich have to add? Very little as individuals in the realm you are

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cerberus shrinks Chrysler

2007-11-02 Thread Charles Brown
Did Big Three purposely drag their feet relative to Toyota and Honda all these years, so as to bust unionized auto workers robust wages and benefits ? ! I smell a rat (duh finally I smell it ) CB Friday, November 2, 2007 Cerberus shrinks Chrysler 12,000 jobs slashed as sales fall; new vehicles

[Marxism-Thaxis] On Hudson

2007-11-05 Thread Charles Brown
On Hudson CeJ jannuzi at gmail.com Fri Nov 2 18:20:56 MDT 2007 Hudson on 'our' side? Why, because he hangs out at A-List? I supposed Brad 'BIFF' Delong is on our side because he hung out at LBO? And Leo Casey too, while I'm dropping names. ^ CB: So, you think that Hudson's

[Marxism-Thaxis] The CAW and Magna: What if Magna Builds an Assembly Plant?

2007-11-05 Thread Charles Brown
The CAW and Magna: What if Magna Builds an Assembly Plant? Sam Gindin In the discussions of the proposed Magna-CAW (Canadian Auto Workers) 'Framework of Fairness' deal, the focus has been on Magna as a components company. But what if Magna opened an assembly plant? Under the language of the

[Marxism-Thaxis] latest truth and beauty

2007-11-09 Thread Charles Brown
http://nikitskyfund.com/files/tnb/The%20Decline%20of%20the%20West,%20Act%20II.pdf ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to:

[Marxism-Thaxis] Venezuela

2007-11-16 Thread Charles Brown
November 14, 2007 Venezuelan Democracy, the Presidency of Hugo Chavez and the Great Majority of Popular Classes Face a Mortal Threat Venezuela Between Ballots and Bullets By JAMES PETRAS Venezuela's democratically elected Present Chavez faces the most serious threat since the April 11, 2002

[Marxism-Thaxis] World financial situation

2007-11-18 Thread Charles Brown
http://countercurrents.org/hensman171107.htm ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis

[Marxism-Thaxis] No recession

2007-11-19 Thread Charles Brown
Greetings Economists, On Nov 18, 2007, at 6:25 AM, Charles Brown wrote: In fact, where has there been a recession anywhere in the world lately ? Is the business cycle obsolete ? Doyle, Iraq. Like you wrote before there are spots. The question before us is systemic recession. As Roubini

[Marxism-Thaxis] The conservative nanny state

2007-11-19 Thread Charles Brown
The conservative nanny state (downloadable from http://www.conservativenannystate.org). ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to:

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Heart of the Matter: Capitalism vs. the Planet

2007-11-26 Thread Charles Brown
The Heart of the Matter: Capitalism vs. the Planet The Trouble With Mars In the recent TV docu-drama, 'Race to Mars', a stirring vision is bequeathed the attentive viewer: Humankind, ready at the last to break free of its evolutionary infancy, is set to colonize the moon, the planets, and

[Marxism-Thaxis] Launching Radio Venezuela en Vivo: Broadcasting Live from Venezuela's Constitutional Reform Referendum

2007-11-27 Thread Charles Brown
Launching Radio Venezuela en Vivo: Broadcasting Live from Venezuela's Constitutional Reform Referendum Radio Venezuela en Vivo: Broadcasting Live from Venezuela's Constitutional Reform Referendum http://radiovenezuelaenvivo.blogspot.com/ What is Radio Venezuela en Vivo? Radio

[Marxism-Thaxis] What can be done in the aftermath of the Australian Labor Party election victory...

2007-11-27 Thread Charles Brown
Remember the Warfie's strike ! What can be done in the aftermath of the Australian Labor Party election victory Mike Ballard Mon Nov 26 distributed outside Melbourne Central railway station today

[Marxism-Thaxis] Relational dialectics

2007-11-28 Thread Charles Brown
Relational dialectics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Relational dialectics is a concept within communication theory. The theory, originated by either L.A. Baxter[1] or W. K. Rawlins[2][3] in 1988, defines long-term conflict patterns between individuals as the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Vietnamese strike at Nike plant

2007-12-03 Thread Charles Brown
BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/ Last Updated: Thursday, 29 November 2007 Vietnamese strike at Nike plant http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7118902.stm Thousands of workers have gone on strike at a Vietnamese plant that makes shoes for Nike, demanding higher pay.

[Marxism-Thaxis] To build harmony, Hu says goodbye to Adam Smith

2007-12-10 Thread Charles Brown
China Daily (10/20/07) To build harmony, Hu says goodbye to Adam Smith BEN JOHNSON Communist Party of China General Secretary Hu Jintao's commitment on Monday to increase transfer payments, intensify the regulation of incomes through taxation, break business monopolies, create equal

[Marxism-Thaxis] Not us. We’re not going. ’

2007-12-12 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2007/12/12/%e2%80%98not-us-we%e2%80%99re-not-going%e2%80%99/ Not us. We’re not going.’ Here is a real situation in Iraq that is rich in contradictions and symbols, beginning with the mortar attack on the Burger King and Cinnabon. It occurs to me that

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cats cloned

2007-12-13 Thread Charles Brown
Picture at http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2007/12/123_15447.html Researchers found a way to clone pet cats five years ago. Now they can play a trick on their genes to change their color. A Gyeongsang National University team said they have succeeded in cloning cats after modifying a

[Marxism-Thaxis] Capitalism Cannot Satisfy Us

2007-12-13 Thread Charles Brown
From Truthout: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120707G.shtml Capitalism Cannot Satisfy Us Daniel Fortin and Mathieu Magnaudeix interview Pascal Lamy Challenges Thursday 06 December 2007 World Trade Organization Director Pascal Lamy, one of globalization's shrewdest observers,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Report: Clemens' name in steroids report

2007-12-13 Thread Charles Brown
Report: Clemens' name in steroids report NEW YORK (AP) - Seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens and Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte were the first names to emerge Thursday from the Mitchell report. ESPN.com reported Brian McNamee, a former trainer for the Yankees and

[Marxism-Thaxis] Mitchell report implicates big names

2007-12-13 Thread Charles Brown
Mitchell report implicates big names Associated Press, Updated 13 minutes ago STORY TOOLS: pMitchell report implicates big names Roger Clemens, Miguel Tejada and Andy Pettitte were among more than 75 players named in the long-awaited Mitchell Report on Thursday,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Slave labor in Florida

2007-12-19 Thread Charles Brown
Slave labor in Florida The Independent, 19 December 2007 09:05 Slave labour that shames America Migrant workers chained beaten and forced into debt, exposing the human cost of producing cheap food By Leonard Doyle in Immokalee, Floride Three Florida fruit-pickers, held captive and brutalised

[Marxism-Thaxis] Origins

2007-12-31 Thread Charles Brown
Noble or Savage 12-22-7 HUMAN beings have spent most of their time on the planet as hunter-gatherers. From at least 85,000 years ago to the birth of agriculture around 73,000 years later, they combined hunted meat

[Marxism-Thaxis] C. Loring Brace

2008-01-09 Thread Charles Brown
C. Loring Brace From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search C. Loring BraceC. Loring Brace (born 1930) is an anthropologist at the University of Michigan. He considers the attempt to introduce a Darwinian outlook into biological anthropology to be his greatest contribution

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Young Communists collect 150, 000 signatures against

2008-01-10 Thread Charles Brown
Thank you Comrade Steiger, Please let us know anything further that you think is important. Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/09/2008 10:30 PM Dear comrade Brown, as a Czech staying for a few weeks in NY but knowing what is going on in my country I cann add to your information about

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