Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Sharpening class contradictions

2002-01-21 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 04:28:40 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: G'day all, I'd written, Or shall we wrap the old list up and slip her quietly into the dustbin? Well, I think the eloquent silence with which this was greeted can't be ignored. If no-one on the list nominates for the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Pierre Bourdieu dies

2002-01-24 Thread Jim Farmelant
The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has died of cancer. For French readers his obituary in Le Monde (http://www.lemonde.fr/) can be found at (http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3246--259825-,00.html). Jim Farmelant GET

[Marxism-Thaxis] Sidney Hook

2002-01-24 Thread Jim Farmelant
Page URL: http://www.nationalpost.com/tech/story.html?f=/stories/20011217/93.ht ml December 17, 2001 Embarrassing early books Authors change course: Hook embraced communism, then anti-Stalinism Jeet Heer National Post During the Reagan presidency, the philosopher Sidney Hook was

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Debuting as moderator

2002-01-29 Thread Jim Farmelant
The interesting thing will be see if the Argentinian crisis spills across its border, and spreads to the rest of Latin America. The US media has up to now been strongly insistant that this crisis is purely Argentinian, and that there is little danger of it spreading. I am far from being any

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: Israel peace lobby grows; defies expectations

2002-02-17 Thread Jim Farmelant
Published on Sunday, February 17, 2002 in the Observer of London Israel's Growing Peace Lobby Widens Rifts in Sharon's Ranks by Graham Usher The peace movement in Israel is gathering momentum again in defiance of expectations. Thousands took part in a rally in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square last

[Marxism-Thaxis] Alan Carling's reply

2002-02-20 Thread Jim Farmelant
- Forwarded message -- From: Alan Carling [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jim Farmelant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 18:30:04 + Subject: Re: Selectionism: Me, Popper, and Hayek Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from mx6.boston.juno.com (mx6.boston.juno.com

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Nash: A Beautiful Mind

2002-03-03 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 17:58:06 + Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has any one seen any discussion around this film that might illuminate his attitude of mind here, or has anyone read the biography by Sylvia Nasar? I doubt very much that there was any conscious influence of

[Marxism-Thaxis] Home Page for Dr. Anwar Shaikh

2002-03-07 Thread Jim Farmelant
http://homepage.newschool.edu/~AShaikh/ Dr. Anwar Shaikh is a leading contemporary Marxist economist, who teaches at the New School. Much of his research has been concerned with such issues as the transformation problem in Marxist economics, empirical and theoretical studies of the law of

[Marxism-Thaxis] Coup in Venezuela: an eyewitness account (posted on WSN)

2002-04-12 Thread Jim Farmelant
Please spread the word far and wide and call your foreign ministry or the U.S. State Department and tell them not to recognize the new government of Venezuela. Chavez has not resigned! According to people I spoke to this morning, who work close to Chavez, he is being held against his will by the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Chavez did not resign

2002-04-12 Thread Jim Farmelant
AFP. 12 April 2002. Chavez did not resign, his last education minister, daughter say. CARACAS -- Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez did not resign but was taken prisoner, his last education minister said Friday. Chavez told the military staff he was not resigning, that they could go ahead with

[Marxism-Thaxis] Venezuelan officials charge Chavez ousted in coup.

2002-04-12 Thread Jim Farmelant
AFP. 12 April 2002. Venezuelan officials charge Chavez ousted in coup. CARACAS -- Venezuela's comptroller general and attorney general Friday charged president Hugo Chavez was pressured out of power in a coup d'etat. We are in a situation of a coup d'etat that has taken place in Venezuela.

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Coup in Venezuela:

2002-04-13 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 19:52:11 +0100 Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 12/04/02 11:29 -0400, you wrote: Coup in Venezuela: It sounds as if by yesterday the battle was lost. How could the risk of this fall have been avoided? I am not sure that there is much that Chavez or

[Marxism-Thaxis] (Fwd) Risk reduction policies

2002-04-13 Thread Jim Farmelant
Posted on the A-List --- Forwarded message follows --- From: Gorojovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Risk reduction policies Date sent: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 01:21:02 -0300 The only way to reduce the risk

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: Venezuelan Slums Seethe at Chavez's Overthrow.

2002-04-13 Thread Jim Farmelant
- Forwarded message -- Reuters 13 April 2002 Venezuelan Slums Seethe at Chavez's Overthrow. CARACAS -- The sprawling slums of Venezuela's capital seethed with rage on Saturday at the military coup that toppled populist President Hugo Chavez as his political backers struggled

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] question

2002-04-13 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 13:25:49 -0400 Gail Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: source of the revolution won't be televised? From the song by Gil-Scott Heron, a great rap song before hip-hop even started. Also, one of the best political songs of the last forty years. Jim F. __

[Marxism-Thaxis] Interim Venezuelan president seeks protection in military fort: official.

2002-04-13 Thread Jim Farmelant
AFP (with additional material by Reuters). 13 April 2002. Interim Venezuelan president seeks protection in military fort: official. CARACAS -- Venezuela's interim president, Pedro Carmona, opted for the protection of a military fort in Caracas Saturday, leaving the presidential palace, which was

[Marxism-Thaxis] Vice president will lead Venezuela; assembly head

2002-04-13 Thread Jim Farmelant
AFP. 13 April 2002. Vice president will lead Venezuela; assembly head. CARACAS -- The president of Venezuela's newly-restored National Assembly, William Lara, said vice president Diosdado Cabello will become interim president until ousted leader Hugo Chavez can officially resign before the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Chavez supporters negotiating his release so he can return to office: assembly president

2002-04-13 Thread Jim Farmelant
AFP. 13 April 2002. Chavez supporters negotiating his release so he can return to office: assembly president. CARACAS -- Ousted president Hugo Chavez is being held prisoner at Turiamo naval base outside Caracas, and supporters are negotiating his release so he can return to office, William Lara,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Control of Venezuela's government in doubt.

2002-04-13 Thread Jim Farmelant
AFP. 13 April 2002. Control of Venezuela's government in doubt. CARACAS -- With supporters of ousted president Hugo Chavez in control of the presidential palace and the interim leader who replaced him under military protection, it was unclear who was running Venezuela late Saturday even as three

[Marxism-Thaxis] Collapsing coup?

2002-04-13 Thread Jim Farmelant
but was restored to power following days of massive protests by labor groups? Jim Farmelant --- Reuters. 13 April 2002. Chavez Deputy Says Assumes Venezuelan Presidency. CARACAS -- As Venezuela's one-day old interim government struggled to keep its grip

[Marxism-Thaxis] Karl Popper and Analytical Marxism

2002-05-01 Thread Jim Farmelant
The following is an e-mail that I sent to Alan Carling of Bradford University. I haven't received any response from him as of yet, but maybe people on this list might wish to comment. Jim Farmelant - Alan, I have recently been

[Marxism-Thaxis] Sam Pawlett on Confessions of a Philosopher

2002-05-01 Thread Jim Farmelant
- Forwarded message -- From: Sam Pawlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 10:40:45 -0700 Subject: Confessions of a Philosopher Confessions of a Philosopher by Bryan Magee. Weidenfeld and Nicholson.502p1997 This is an intellectual

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Albert Einstein, Paul Robeson and Israel

2002-05-11 Thread Jim Farmelant
Actually, Einstein did call himself a Zionist but his brand of Zionism which was shared with such people like Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt, and Hebrew University founder Judah Magnes embraced the notion of a secular bi-national state in which Jews and Arabs would be equals. Einstein feared that

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: Stephen Jay Gould is dead

2002-05-20 Thread Jim Farmelant
NY Times, May 20, 2002 Stephen Jay Gould, Biologist and Theorist on Evolution, Dies at 60 By CAROL KAESUK YOON Stephen Jay Gould, the evolutionary theorist at Harvard University whose lectures, research and prolific output of essays helped to reinvigorate the field of paleontology, died

[Marxism-Thaxis] Stephen Jay Gould, punctuationalism, and dialectics

2002-05-21 Thread Jim Farmelant
considerable effort to exposing the ideological roots of this particular constraining prejudice in order to open people's mind to alternative constraining prejudices that may prove to be more fruitful in various areas of research. Jim Farmelant

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Times (London) on Stephen Jay Gould

2002-05-21 Thread Jim Farmelant
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-303790,00.html Stephen Jay Gould Evolutionary biologist who challenged the orthodox thinking on Darwinism and had few rivals as a populariser of science Stephen Jay Gould was one of the most gifted evolutionary scientists of his generation.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Virus Alert!!

2002-06-23 Thread Jim Farmelant
If you receive a message on Thaxis with subject title: Agreement, from address marxism-news [EMAIL PROTECTED] please delete right away because it has an attachment with a W32/Klez-G worm. Jim Farmelant GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM

[Marxism-Thaxis] Moderator's Note

2002-07-02 Thread Jim Farmelant
problems with their subscriber settings (i.e. if your subscriber setting is supposed to be set to No Mail and now you are receiving posts) please contact me off-list. Jim Farmelant Thaxis - Moderator GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno

[Marxism-Thaxis] Sidney Hook

2002-07-09 Thread Jim Farmelant
Chronicles of Higher Education, July 12, 2002 Left Hook, Right Hook: the Rules of Engagement By CHRISTOPHER PHELPS It is August, a brilliant, sunny California morning. I am seated at a table reading correspondence from the Marxist years of the pragmatist philosopher Sidney Hook. My

[Marxism-Thaxis] New York Times review of Terry Eagleton's autobiography

2002-08-11 Thread Jim Farmelant
The Gatekeeper': A Hymn to Intellectual Thought August 11, 2002 By JENNY TURNER One morning, when Terry Eagleton is a boy, he makes a hole with his spoon in his bowl of porridge. He expects a telling off for it -- ''It was not a household in which one did anything without a point, unless

[Marxism-Thaxis] In war, some facts less factual (FWD: Christian Science Monitor)

2002-09-06 Thread Jim Farmelant
from the September 06, 2002 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p01s02-wosc.html In war, some facts less factual Some US assertions from the last war on Iraq still appear dubious. By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor MOSCOW - When George H. W. Bush

[Marxism-Thaxis] Why Hobsbawm remained a Communist

2002-09-18 Thread Jim Farmelant
New Statesman, September 16, 2002 The day when heaven was falling; Eric Hobsbawm saw the October revolution as the central reference point of the political universe. In this exclusive extract from his memoirs, he explains why, even when the crimes of Stalin were exposed, he could not bring

[Marxism-Thaxis] Mechanists versus Dialecticians in early Soviet philosophy

2002-09-23 Thread Jim Farmelant
Probably the most important debate that drew the attention of Soviet philosophers during the early years of the USSR was the debate between the mechanists and the dialecticians or Deborinists. This debate at first began as a discussion within the philosophy of science but over time came to

[Marxism-Thaxis] Decline of American Power?

2002-10-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
* Is the American empire already over? By DOUG SAUNDERS Saturday, October 5, 2002 - Page F3 ...The United States has been fading as a global power since the 1970s, and the U.S. response to the terrorist attacks has merely accelerated this decline. So says Immanuel Wallerstein, the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Red, Black, and Jewish

2002-10-24 Thread Jim Farmelant
Monday, October 28 6:30 pm BOOK PARTY/FORUM At the Tamiment Library 170 Washington Square South Red, Black, and Jewish Communist Cultural Workers and Identity Politics Alan Wald Along with his presentation, Alan Wald will be discussing his new book, Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of

[Marxism-Thaxis] New Left Review

2002-11-17 Thread Jim Farmelant
NEW LEFT REVIEW A full-spectrum internationalist critique of contemporary politics, economics and culture. Published every two months from London, the 160-page journal carries articles, interviews, polemics and book reviews. ONLINE ARTICLES FROM THE LATEST ISSUE OF NLR Force and Consent As war

[Marxism-Thaxis] Edward Said: Europe vs America

2002-11-25 Thread Jim Farmelant
Europe vs. America By Edward Said The Black World Today November 23, 2002 http://athena.tbwt.com/content/article.asp?articleid=1969 Although I have visited England dozens of times, I have never spent more than one or two weeks at a single stretch. This year, for the first time, I am in

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: Re: [marxistphilosophy] Einstein revisited

2003-01-25 Thread Jim Farmelant
From Ralph Dumain's MarxistPhilosophy list, see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/marxistphilosophy/ On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:47:21 -0500 Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Speaking of science, yesterday I made a pilgrimage to see the Einstein exhibit at the American Museum of Natural

[Marxism-Thaxis] Edmund Wilson�s adventure with Communism. (The New Yorker)

2003-03-17 Thread Jim Farmelant
New Yorker Magazine, 03/24/2003 THE HISTORICAL ROMANCE by LOUIS MENAND Edmund Wilson’s adventure with Communism. The idea for To the Finland Station came to Edmund Wilson while he was walking down a street in the East Fifties one day, in the depths of the Great Depression. Wilson was in his

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: URGENT: Keep the Inspectors in Iraq

2003-03-17 Thread Jim Farmelant
This is going out through Not In Our Name. Please forward and act today! Please write or call the Honorable Kofi Annan and various ambassadors to the U.N and demand that the inspectors STAGE A REVOLT against any order or request from the United States/Bush Administration/Pentagon for

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: A Russian view of the war

2003-03-25 Thread Jim Farmelant
The English translation, that appears below comes from Venik's Aviation http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news078.htm Jim F. -- War in Iraq - fighting the people March 25, 2003 www.iraqwar.ru The IRAQWAR.RU analytical center was created

[Marxism-Thaxis] Some of Hussein's Arab Foes Admire His Fight (FWD: NY Times)

2003-03-26 Thread Jim Farmelant
Some of Hussein's Arab Foes Admire His Fight March 26, 2003 By NEIL MacFARQUHAR DAMASCUS, Syria, March 25 - Normally the appearance of Saddam Hussein on television prompts catcalls, curses and prayers for his demise from a regular gathering of about 20 Saudi businessmen and intellectuals, but

[Marxism-Thaxis] Stan Goff's War Bulletin

2003-03-29 Thread Jim Farmelant
MILITARY MATTERS War Bulletin #2 Visions Revisions March 28, 2003 Stan Goff There have been two predictable aspects of Bush's war, one political and one related to the actual conduct of the war. These are not separable. The political destruction of Bush and his clique was stamped and

[Marxism-Thaxis] A Russian view of the war (March 30)

2003-03-31 Thread Jim Farmelant
The English translation, that appears below comes from Venik's Aviation http://www.aeronautics.ru/ Jim F. -- March 30, 2003, 2042hrs MSK (GMT +4 DST), Moscow - No significant changes have been reported during March 29-30 on the Iraqi-US front.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Venik answers some questions concerning www.iraqwar.ru and other matters

2003-04-01 Thread Jim Farmelant
Answering some questions I would like to thank everyone for visiting my site and commenting on my translations of the Russian military intelligence reports published by www.iraqwar.ru I am happy to say that during the past week or so I received close to 2,000 e-mails from people visiting my

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: A Russian view of the war (April 3)

2003-04-04 Thread Jim Farmelant
The English translation, that appears below comes from http://www2.iraqwar.ru/index.php?userlang=en Jim F. -- During the last and today early morning the coalition continued its advance toward Baghdad that it had begun three days

[Marxism-Thaxis] A Russian view of the war (April 1)

2003-04-02 Thread Jim Farmelant
The English translation, that appears below comes from Venik's Aviation http://www.aeronautics.ru/ Jim F. -- April 1, 2003, 1404hrs MSK (GMT +4 DST), Moscow - As of the morning of April 1 active combat operations continued along the entire

[Marxism-Thaxis] A Russian view of the war (April 4)

2003-04-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
The English translation, that appears below comes from http://www2.iraqwar.ru/index.php?userlang=en Jim F. -- April 4, 2003, 1507hrs MSK (GMT +4 DST), Moscow - By the morning of April 4 the situation on the US-Iraqi front showed

[Marxism-Thaxis] A Russian view of the war (April 5)

2003-04-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
The English translation, that appears below comes from http://www2.iraqwar.ru/index.php?userlang=en Jim F. -- Russian military intel update: War in Iraq, April 5 05.04.2003 [22:07] The situation on the US-Iraqi front is

[Marxism-Thaxis] Henry Liu, The war that may end the age of superpower

2003-04-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
The war that may end the age of superpower 05.04.2003 [06:51] The United States, like ancient Rome, is beginning to be plagued by the limits of power. This fact is tactically acknowledged by US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Richard B Myers that the war

[Marxism-Thaxis] Robert Fisk in Baghdad

2003-04-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
Where were the panicking crowds? Where were the food queues? Where were the empty streets? Robert Fisk in Baghdad 05 April 2003 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=394169 A kind of fraudulent, nonchalant mood clogged Baghdad yesterday. There appeared to be no

[Marxism-Thaxis] Troops Attacked in Baghdad in Fresh Signs of Resistance (NY Times)

2003-06-03 Thread Jim Farmelant
NY Times, June 2, 2003 Troops Attacked in Baghdad in Fresh Signs of Resistance By PATRICK E. TYLER BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 1 — Gunmen firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles attacked an American military convoy late today in the neighborhood where Saddam Hussein made his last

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: Re: John Holloway debate/McLaren

2003-06-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 09:08:34 -0400 Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mervyn Hartwig wrote: the capitalist state. As for 'scientistic', I think James Daly has argued on this list before, persuasively in my view, that the marxist tradition in the West has indeed tended to

[Marxism-Thaxis] Born in the eye of the FBI (The Guardian)

2003-06-08 Thread Jim Farmelant
Born in the eye of the FBI It is 50 years since Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed as spies. Their son Robert was just one of the 'red diaper' babies - children of communists, targets of McCarthy. Gary Younge tracks them down Thursday June 05 2003 The Guardian On the evening of June 19

[Marxism-Thaxis] Trotsky's ghost wandering the White House

2003-06-09 Thread Jim Farmelant
Trotsky's ghost wandering the White House Influence on Bush aides: Bolshevik's writings supported the idea of pre-emptive war Jeet Heer National Post Saturday, June 07, 2003 (snip) As evidence of the continuing intellectual influence of Trotsky, consider the curious fact that some of the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Security, Secrecy and a Bush Brother, by Margie Burns (FWD)

2003-06-22 Thread Jim Farmelant
Security, Secrecy and a Bush Brother By Margie Burns A company that provided security at the World Trade Center, Washington D.C.'s Dulles International Airport and United Airlines between 1995 and 2001 was backed by a private Kuwaiti-American investment firm whose records were not open to full

[Marxism-Thaxis] The 'Left-Wing Media? (Monthly Review - June 2003)

2003-06-22 Thread Jim Farmelant
The 'Left-Wing' Media? by Robert W. McChesney and John Bellamy Foster http://www.monthlyreview.org/0603editr.htm This article is a version of material that will appear in the authors' The Big Picture: Understanding Media through Political Economy, to be published by Monthly Review Press

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: [Admin] Fwd: Adolfo Olaechea extradited to Peru

2003-07-06 Thread Jim Farmelant
I am taking the considerable liberty of forwarding this to list administrators at marxism-administration, since marxism-psych is essentially a dead letter. But many of the lists here at Utah have some historical continuity with the marxism-unmoderated list, on which Adolfo Olaechea was a

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: Adolfo Olachea arrested in Spain

2003-08-14 Thread Jim Farmelant
Spain extradites Maoist rebel suspect to Peru 08 August 2003 LIMA: Peruvian police began interrogating a 60-year-old self-declared Maoist today after he was extradited from Spain to face charges that he spent much of the last 30 years in Europe promoting the Shining Path rebel group. Adolfo

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Are copies of FRAME 1-3 available?

2003-10-03 Thread Jim Farmelant
not: frame one panic frame two panic frame three panic Where are they? Write back: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you try checking this link? http://tinyurl.com/po30 On that page you should see posts for those other threads. Jim Farmelant -- Robert Cymbala Co-Director, Lenin

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Are copies of FRAME 1-3 available?

2003-10-04 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 19:07:08 -0400 Robert Cymbala [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 22:18:12 -0400 Did you try checking this link? http://tinyurl.com/po30 On that page you should see posts for those other threads. Jim Farmelant All

[Marxism-Thaxis] Revolt in Bolivia

2003-10-19 Thread Jim Farmelant
From Indymedia website BOLIVIA: CARLOS MESA, THE NEW PRISONER OF PAL[ace] Econoticiasbolivia (Translated by: Latinsol) (18/10/2003 05:54) After bringing down with stones and wooden sticks the government of millionaire Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, the rebellion of the poor and excluded has demanded

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: Hold On to Your Humanity (by Stan Goff)

2003-11-16 Thread Jim Farmelant
Hold On to Your Humanity: An Open Letter to GIs in Iraq by Stan Goff (US Army Retired) Dear American serviceperson in Iraq, I am a retired veteran of the army, and my own son is among you, a paratrooper like I was. The changes that are happening to every one of you--some more extreme

[Marxism-Thaxis] Ralp Dumain on Harry Wells on the History of Logic

2003-11-16 Thread Jim Farmelant
A former student of the Marxist philosopher Harry Wells sent me a paper Wells distributed in his course, before McCarthyism caught up to Wells: Wells, Harry K. Historical Origins of the Logic of Classification and the Logic of Genesis. Oneonta, New York, Dept. of Philosophy, Hartwick

[Marxism-Thaxis] James Heartfield reviews Doug Henwood's ANE in Spiked On-line

2003-11-21 Thread Jim Farmelant
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0006DFD4.htm 20 November 2003 After the New Economy by James Heartfield After the New Economy, Doug Henwood, The New Press, 2003, GBP £16.95 New Yorker Doug Henwood's multimedia assault on American capitalism ranges from the Left Business Observer

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tariq Ali: Remembering Edward Said

2003-12-07 Thread Jim Farmelant
New Left Review 24, November-December 2003 The physical and moral courage of a unique writer, and fighter - leading Arab intellectual, unconforming cultural theorist, champion of the Palestinian cause in the heartland of Israeli overseas power. TARIQ ALI REMEMBERING EDWARD SAID 1935 -

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Demand for Order and the Birth of Modern Policing (Monthly Review)

2003-12-07 Thread Jim Farmelant
The Demand for Order and the Birth of Modern Policing by Kristian Williams http://www.monthlyreview.org/1203williams.htm - --- Kristian Williams is a member of Rose City Copwatch, in Portland, Oregon. This essay is

[Marxism-Thaxis] James Heartfield on Saddam

2003-12-14 Thread Jim Farmelant
The WEEK ending 14 December 2003 SADDAMNED IF YOU DO... The detention of Saddam Hussein in Tikrit draws to a close a long relationship between the Iraqi dictator and the USA. Saddam Hussein was a leader of the Baathist party, whose 1963 coup in Iraq was directly supported by the US State

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Saddam's capture, Bush's victory?

2003-12-14 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:13:27 - Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: some good points on the background to Saddam's capture by James Heartfield. My initial attempt - Bush appeared to be unusually cautious in his victory televison broadcast, which seemed to be crafted towards

[Marxism-Thaxis] Saddam Arrest Cheer Fades Into Iraqi Ire at U.S. (Reuters)

2003-12-15 Thread Jim Farmelant
[The only difference is that Saddam would kill you in private, where the Americans will kill you in public...] Saddam Arrest Cheer Fades Into Iraqi Ire at U.S. Mon Dec 15, 5:03 AM ET By Joseph Logan BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Joy at the capture of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) gave way to

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Honor Roll: American Philosophers Professionally Injured During the McCarthy Era (by John McCumber)

2003-12-31 Thread Jim Farmelant
The Honor Roll: American Philosophers Professionally Injured During the McCarthy Era The thirteen philosophers named here would correspond to about 78 in today's profession, which is roughly six times as large as it was in those days. None of them, to my knowledge, has ever been commemorated in

[Marxism-Thaxis] What Next? No.27

2004-01-03 Thread Jim Farmelant
The new issue of the Trotskyist magazine, What Next? No.27, edited by Bob Pitt can be found online at http://mysite.freeserve.com/whatnext Jim F. The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: [marxistphilosophy] Evald Ilyenkov's Philosophy Revisited (Ralph Dumain)

2004-01-18 Thread Jim Farmelant
Unfortunately, this book is hard to come by, and I do not have my own copy, but I did manage to get a look at a library copy. I've put up the table of contents and other basic information: Evald Ilyenkov's Philosophy Revisited http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/ilyenkv2.html Just a few

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: [marxistphilosophy] Evald Ilyenkov'sPhilosophy Revisited (Ralph Dumain)

2004-01-19 Thread Jim Farmelant
Actually it was Ralph Dumain's discussion of Ilyenkov which I forwarded to this list. Jim Farmelant On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:03:54 -0800 Steve Gabosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Victor, I have been lurking on Marxism-Thaxis now for a few weeks. Jim's discussion of Evald Ilyenkov's

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Monthly Review on Ralph Miliband

2004-02-02 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 17:35:15 -0500 Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jim Farmelant wrote: We will comment here on just one aspect of Miliband’s thinking: what might be called the dialectic of reform and repression of the advanced capitalist state. Miliband consistently argued

[Marxism-Thaxis] Paul Marlor Sweezy (1910- 2004)

2004-02-28 Thread Jim Farmelant
Paul Sweezy, a man I loved, died last night. He was a Marxist revolutionary. john mage ___ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Sartre

2004-03-06 Thread Jim Farmelant
I don't know if this will be of any use to you or not, but Martin Morf had an article Sartre, Skinner, and the Compatibilist Freedom To Be Authentically in the journal Behavior and Philosophy, 26 (1), 29-43. (http://www.behavior.org/journals_BP/1998/Morf_abstract.cfm). In that article he

[Marxism-Thaxis] Ask No Questions

2004-03-22 Thread Jim Farmelant
Ask No Questions The US press may finally be realising it was hoodwinked over the war . but the coverage of Madrid proves it hasn't learned. By Ian Bell The Sunday Herald, 21 March 2004 Who was it who alerted British tabloids to the fact that our troops on Cyprus were under imminent threat of

[Marxism-Thaxis] Ideology and Economic Development (Monthly Review)

2004-05-06 Thread Jim Farmelant
Ideology and Economic Development by Michael A. Lebowitz http://www.monthlyreview.org/0504lebowitz.htm Michael A. Lebowitz is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver, and is the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] It may be one of the most extraordinary defeats in history

2004-05-03 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Mon, 3 May 2004 16:38:49 +0100 Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And BTW Patrick Cockburn likewise argues that the US has essentially lost the war in Iraq. The Independent on Sunday, 02 May 2004 It may be one of the most extraordinary defeats in history. Yes. My

[Marxism-Thaxis] NY Times obit for William Hinton

2004-05-22 Thread Jim Farmelant
William Hinton, Author Who Studied Chinese Village Life, Dies at 85 May 22, 2004 By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT William H. Hinton, whose accounts of Chinese village life helped shape America's understanding of Mao Zedong's revolution, died last Saturday at a nursing home in Concord, Mass., where

[Marxism-Thaxis] Some thoughts on the death of 'anti-Marxist' Maxime Rodinson (The Daily Star)

2004-05-29 Thread Jim Farmelant
Some thoughts on the death of 'anti-Marxist' Maxime Rodinson By Michael Young Special to The Daily Star Thursday, May 27, 2004 With the death of Maxime Rodinson on Monday, the world of Middle Eastern studies has lost a French Marxist scholar who rarely succumbed to dogma, and who always

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: Chalabi a Used-up Spook:Stratfor

2004-05-30 Thread Jim Farmelant
THE STRATFOR WEEKLY 28 May 2004 Overdoing Chalabi By George Friedman On Feb. 19, in a piece entitled Ahmed Chalabi and His Iranian Connection, Stratfor laid out the close relationship Chalabi had with the Iranians, and the role that relationship played in the flow of intelligence to

[Marxism-Thaxis] George Monbiot on the Indian election

2004-06-01 Thread Jim Farmelant
As the Indian election shows, the big money won't let the people win by George Monbiot Published in the New Statesman (May 27 2004) Democracy in India lasted for five days, two hours and eight minutes. Between the resignation of Atal Behari Vajpayee and the resignation of Sonia Gandhi, the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Maxime Rodinson

2004-06-03 Thread Jim Farmelant
Maxime Rodinson Marxist historian of Islam Douglas Johnson Thursday June 3, 2004 The Guardian The French historian and sociologist Professor Maxime Rodinson, who has died aged 89, was a renowned specialist on Islam and the Arab world. His Marxism meant that he studied Islam in terms of

[Marxism-Thaxis] Human Rights Botch: Vivanco Venezuela

2004-06-20 Thread Jim Farmelant
Human Rights Botch: Vivanco Venezuela By Al Giordano, Posted on Thu Jun 17th, 2004 at 03:04:21 PM EST José Miguel Vivanco of Human Rights Watch today launched a media-attention-seeking attack on the Venezuelan government for a new law providing a process for impeachment of Supreme

[Marxism-Thaxis] July-August issue of Monthly Review

2004-07-29 Thread Jim Farmelant
The July-August issue of Monthly Review is devoted in almost its entirety to a consideration of China's economy and what this tells us about the fate of socialism there, or as Harry Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster put it: We depart this year from our usual practice for MR's July-August double

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Economist's obit for Paul Foot

2004-07-31 Thread Jim Farmelant
PAUL FOOT Jul 29th 2004 Paul Foot, a British investigative journalist, died on July 18th, aged 66 THERE are more people walking the streets of Britain who have been freed from prison by Paul Foot than by any other person. Mr Foot was far from being vain or self-seeking, but he must have

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: Discussing Sudan #1

2004-08-01 Thread Jim Farmelant
SOUThern MILITIA ARMED and TRAINED BY ISRAELl, FINANCED BY u.s. republican regime and supported politically by the congressional black caucus, trans-africa, and most black american reactionary racialists. Discussing Sudan #1 by Lil Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] In an article posted

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: Discussing Sudan #1

2004-08-01 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 18:51:44 -0400 Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is always worthwhile to look beneath the surface and investigate the facts, but I don't trust Lil Joe's rhetoric. There's something sectarian and dishonest about this. Do you have any better sources that

[Marxism-Thaxis] John Kerry will make his adoring anti-war groupies look like fools - Ed Luttwak

2004-10-24 Thread Jim Farmelant
Sunday Telegraph October 24, 2004 John Kerry will make his adoring anti-war groupies look like fools By Edward Luttwak One of the more amusing spectacles of these less-than- amusing times is the emergence of a Kerry fan club among European anti-war enthusiasts. The letter-writing campaign of

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] John Kerry will make his adoring anti-war groupies look like fools - Ed Luttwak

2004-10-24 Thread Jim Farmelant
. At 12:47 PM 10/24/2004 -0400, Jim Farmelant wrote: Sunday Telegraph October 24, 2004 John Kerry will make his adoring anti-war groupies look like fools By Edward Luttwak ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options

[Marxism-Thaxis] The FBI and Science Society

2004-12-01 Thread Jim Farmelant
The lastest issue (Winter 2004-2005) of Science Society has an article, The FBI and Science Society, by David H. Price, which, using files that the author obtained from the FBI through the Freedom of Information Act, details the decades-long investigation of the journal from the 1940s to the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Bourgeois economists question trade theory

2004-12-13 Thread Jim Farmelant
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_49/b3911408.htm DECEMBER 6, 2004 SPECIAL REPORT -- THE CHINA PRICE Shaking Up Trade Theory For decades economists have insisted that the U.S. wins from globalization. Now they're not so sure Ever since Americans began fretting about

[Marxism-Thaxis] materialism and science: gravity anomaly revealed by measuring motion of probes (from Lil Joe)

2004-12-24 Thread Jim Farmelant
The philosophers have interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it Marx The article below examines unanticipated challenges to old perceptions, and

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Have a happy and merry December 25

2004-12-25 Thread Jim Farmelant
-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newton.html At 05:47 AM 12/25/2004 -0500, Jim Farmelant wrote: Today, as the world pauses on the birthday of one of history's greatest men, whose teachings continue to benefit the entire human race, let us join in toasting the memory of Sir Isaac

[Marxism-Thaxis] Israel's Culture of Martyrdom (The Nation)

2004-12-28 Thread Jim Farmelant
Israel's Culture of Martyrdom by Baruch Kimmerling Nations like to imagine themselves as unique, but one belief they have in common is that it is noble to die in their name. Death and redemption are the themes of almost every form of patriotism. In the case of Israel, however,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Sex. Race, Class (from Selma James, widow of CLR James)

2004-12-31 Thread Jim Farmelant
Sex, Race and Class Selma James There has been enough confusion generated when sex, race and class have confronted each other as separate and even conflicting entities. That they are separate entities is self-evident. That they have proven themselves to be not separate, inseparable, is

[Marxism-Thaxis] Stan Goff's reply to Li'l Joe on Haiti (from Marxmail)

2005-01-10 Thread Jim Farmelant
I have no idea who “Joe Radical” is or where he gets his information on Haiti, but the idea that the former FRAPH and FAdH paramilitaries that are demanding back pay in Haiti are some expression of “proletarian contestation” – if not asserted out of pure ignorance of Haiti’s class dynamics –

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tariq Ali on the Iraqi elections

2005-02-07 Thread Jim Farmelant
Out with the old, in with the new The Iraqi elections were designed not to preserve the unity of Iraq but to re-establish the unity of the west Tariq Ali Monday February 7, 2005 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1407404,00.html The US, unlike the empires of old Europe,

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