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

), we could easily argue that Marx is a positivist. Of course, this also hangs on the definition of 'science', which in German historically does not have the restricted scope of the English term. At 06:58 AM 6/9/2007 -0400, Jim Farmelant wrote: >On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:09:54 -0400 R

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Capitalism, Marxism, and the Black Radical Tradition

It's only the 'else' that really matters in a productive way, as the concoction of such an intellectual 'tradition' as an actual entity is where the trouble lies. And his academic standing matters a great deal, as the politics of academic departments has a lot to do with the way careers are ma

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] A note on positivism

The fact that Frege and Husserl are seen as belonging to entirely different worlds relates to the peculiar conditions that created this artificial concept known as "continental philosophy". As for scientists, naturally, there are only a small percentage who are philosophically inclined and only

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Capitalism, Marxism, and the Black Radical Tradition

At 03:13 PM 6/9/2007 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >(Three pages of discussion. The Black Marxism thing begins under >Section III) Is there a black radical tradition in American society? Did >there develop or emerge a Marxist current within this black tradition? >Did there develop amongst t

[Marxism-Thaxis] Baldwin again

I am tied up with other matters now, and I've basically blown my wad on the previous discussion, but I just stumbled onto this piece: Excerpts A Reconsideration of the Career of James Baldwin Henry Louis Gates' "The fire last time"-- Source: New Republic June 1, 1992 Vol. 206 Issue 22, p. 37, 6 p

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Cornel West & Marxism (5)

I'm still trying to catch up, and doing a million things at once. The problem is, I can't remember the conversation. I don't think there's any written trace of it; I believe it was a verbal conversation. It has to do with the implications of rational = actual/real, whether this notion is conse

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

I don't know if the Robinsonade thing pervades all of this epistemoloigcal heritage, offhand, though certainly one can find this presupposition in modern philosophy since Descartes. I have not been sufficiently precise in my treatment of positivism as relates to Kautsky. Maybe I will follow up

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

Will check it out when I get the chance. Note also that the Poznan school links marx with Galileo. While this has a relation to analytical philosophy, I think, I would not call this positivist at all. But another time . . . I am still out of commission, though hopefully I will have a new mon

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

I hope to have my monitor problem solved within the next 4 days. When I saw Rampersad in person, he did have some things to say about Ellison's procrastination, which probably involves his perfectionism and concern over his status as much as it does the fire that destroyed his ms. While I was s

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

But aside from the citation from TS Eliot, what specifically did Ellison admire about Eliot? Surely not Eliot's religion or politics. People have different reasons for admiring Eliot, as a poet if nothing else. (CLR James once said that Eliot is a great poet who reminds him just what he doesn

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

Forgot to mention, I have this big fat book: The politics of method in the human sciences : positivism and its epistemological others / George Steinmetz, editor. Durham : Duke University Press, 2005. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@li

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

Forgot to mention, I have this big fat book: The politics of method in the human sciences : positivism and its epistemological others / George Steinmetz, editor. Durham : Duke University Press, 2005. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@li

[Marxism-Thaxis] Das Kapital: the novel

Das Kapital: A novel of love and money markets by Viken Berberian http://www.amazon.com/Das-Kapital-novel-money-markets/dp/0743267230/ref=sr_1_1/102-7053945-7459354?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181941001&sr=1-1 ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Th

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cornel West & Marxism (8)

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, not nature. Marxist

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Cornel West & Marxism (8)

ckt: >Di., 3. Jul. 2007, 14:03 Thema: [Marxism-Thaxis] >Cornel West & Marxism (8) Ralph Dumain Chapter 6 >is on Lukacs, particularly HISTORY AND CLASS ONSCIOUSNESS ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To c

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Anti-dialectics at Marxism 2007

This is just stupid, even more stupid than the Trotskyist recitations of dialectics. At 08:43 PM 7/12/2007, Jim Farmelant wrote: >http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rosa.l/Marxism_2007.htm ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Anti-dialectics at Marxism 2007

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 but if anyone cares

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Socialism as praxis

And where can we find this article or book? A complete citation is needed first of all. And in any case, what can hermeneutics or philosophy for that matter tell us about the future of socialism? At 10:50 PM 7/22/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >For more theoretics, read "Marx's philosophy as

[Marxism-Thaxis] Review-a-Day: Europe At War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory [fwd]

Today's Review From The Atlantic Monthly Europe At War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory by Norman Davies <<> Read today's review in HTML at: http://www.powells.com/n/216/atl/review/2007_07_24 Voice your opinion by posting a comment on the Powells.com blog: http://www.powells.com/n/216/blog/?p=2275

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Rosa Lichtenstein again

I haven't checked the links, but am I Mr. D? You know, this is a sad case of Trotskyist obsessive-compulsive behavior, i.e. of a Trot consumed by his quarrels with other Trots, and to a lesser extent his competitors among other Marxist-Leninists. It's pathetic. It's true that diamat--at least

[Marxism-Thaxis] Lisa Rogers (25 August 1961 - 15 September 1996)

Every year I commemorate the days Lisa was born and died. In Memoriam: Lisa Rogers 25 August 1961 - 15 September 1996 Co-Moderator of Spoons Marxism lists (mid-'90s, maybe including marxism-th

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Rosa gets CB

But what conclusions to draw without knowing what people do and how they behave off-list? This doesn't just pertain to Marxists, but to any political movement, and to many ostensibly non-political subjects. There is often a political correlation to debates over how many Hegels and surplus valu

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] More Rosa

I am so touched. A whole page, just for me. It's the Trot version of Krazy Kat. Maybe I should revive my Dead Trotsky Jokes after a decade. Does your head have a hard-on or is that an ice-pick in your skull? At 09:09 PM 8/29/2007, Jim Farmelant wrote: >http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rosa.l/mor

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] More Rosa

PS: I wouldn't fuck Rosa with Lou Proyect's gopher dick. At 10:46 PM 8/29/2007, Ralph Dumain wrote: >I am so touched. > >A whole page, just for me. It's the Trot version of Krazy Kat. > >Maybe I should revive my Dead Trotsky Jokes after a decade. Does >your head

[Marxism-Thaxis] Soviet philosophy & other theoretical works online

In addition to my own study guide and materials provided on my web site, another important project, aiming at indiscriminate comprehensiveness, is this invaluable resource: http://leninist.biz/ Note that this is a comprehensive bibliography in progress of relevant Marxist literature in English

[Marxism-Thaxis] Religion & Marx (1)

Wise, Rick B. A. Religion & Marx. Austin, TX: American Atheist Press, 1988. xv, 268 p. I must have purchased this book within a few years of its publication. I even remember Madelyn O'Hair talking about it and mentioning the dialectic on some video of some American Atheists Conference program

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

I don't have the Raine compilation. Does it differ significantly from ON RELIGION published both by Progress Publishers and Niebuhr via an American publisher? I don't know what to make of Marx, Critical Theory, And Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice just from the description. Gary North

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

I'm familiar with the Aptheker title and most likely read at least parts of it decades ago. Can't say much about this except this sort of dialogue doesn't do much for me. It can of course be useful to delineate what separates Marxist method or world view from even the most allegedly revolutio

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

Great reading list. Thanks. Naturally, there must have been much progress in Marxist as well as anthropological and sociological analysis of religion since Marx's time. Another question is how Marxology in relation to religion--i.e. analysis of Marx's views on religion--has progressed. There

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Religion & Marx

Expositions of Marxism have tended to limit treating Feuerbach as a thinker in his own right, but not all scholars, Marxist and non-Marxist, have imposed such limitations. I don't know whether Marx or Kierkegaard even knew of one another's existence, so I don't know what is to be said on that s

[Marxism-Thaxis] Engels review

"A HELLO TO ENGELS?" by G.W. SMITH Review: Christopher J. Arthur (ed.), Engels Today: A Centenary Appreciation, Res Publica Vol. IV no.2 [1998] http://www.springerlink.com/content/cj681t01212jh4l6/fulltext.pdf Articles from this journal will be available to the general publis for a limited time

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Re: Religion & Marx

08:13 AM 9/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Marx Wartofsky's massive study, Feuerbach (Cambridge University >Press,1977), would, I think be an exception to that rule. > >Jim F. > >-- Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Expositions of Marxism have tended to limit

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Presentations to the Fifth International Marx Congress

>The absolute limit to the capitalist development >of the productive forces of society lies >in this negation of the complete domination of >the very powers of social labor. Therefore, the >ultimate capitalist barrier to the development >of productive forces lies in the mutilation >imposed on

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Presentations to the Fifth International Marx Congress

Re: "Scientific method: logical representation vis à vis dialectical reproduction (i.e., the consciousness dominated by alienation for believing itself an abstractly free one vis à vis the consciousness that advances in its freedom by being aware of its alienation)" I have never been able to und

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Notion of falsifiability (from RE: Presentations to the Fifth International....)

I thought that Popper trashed psychoanalysis and Marxism as non-scientific because non-falsifiable as ad hoc auxiliary hypotheses could always be brought in to account for any discrepancies between the theory and empirical evidence. But perhaps this is different from holism and the web of beli

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Re: Notion of falsifiability (from RE: Presentations to the Fifth International....)

sophy is a > > purely > > formalistic enterprise. > >I don't think that there is any such thing, except >maybe (and I don't know enough to say about this) pure >mathemaetics. >--- Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I thought that Poppe

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Re: Notion of falsifiability (from RE: Presentations to the Fifth International....)

r Bernard Williams. Can't say I disagree >very much if at all. > >Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. > >-Original Message- >From: Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:31:30 >To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc:marxism-thaxis@list

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Presentations to the Fifth International Marx Congress

One would think from reading a certain sort of Marxist literature that these people live in a closed subculture, which means a metaphysical and ideological mental universe cloistered from the actual world it constantly beats its head against. I don't think it is in human nature to give up even

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Presentations to the Fifth International Marx Congress

As I said, it's not in our nature to give up however severely the odds stack up against us. Those of us who operate mentally as well as materially outside of media and celebrity culture find ourselves effectively bound and gagged. We can of course have and have had a small impact, but lacking

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Presentations to the Fifth International Marx Congress

w revised position (he used to be a black nationalist) that the >way forward for black people is to forget the race question and adopt >universal humanism is very important and very smart. That doesn't make him >a Marxist of course but we Marxists can learn things from peopl

[Marxism-Thaxis] Christopher Caudwell Centenary Conference

A CONFERENCE TO CELEBRATE THE CENTENARY OF CHRISTOPHER CAUDWELL Admission by free ticket From: Caudwell Conference Marx Memorial Library 37a Clerkenwell Green London EC1R 0DU (please enclose SAE) Politics into Culture – Christopher Caudwell Centenary Conference/Celebration Saturday 20 October

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Mr Anonymous and the not-so-spontaneous birth of the libertarian movement

I don't see any more information on this web page other than a photo of William S. Volker (1859-1947). This page seems pretty useless to me as is. At 07:40 PM 10/6/2007, steve houston wrote: >http://www.populistindependent.org/blogs/anaxarchos/2007/09/mr-anonymous-and-the-notsospon.html > >Disc

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 48, Issue 9

I look forward to reading this, thanks. PDF files are fine. If you want to provide an alternative, can you automatically convert your files to HTML format? Most people can read WORD files and certainly RTF files, but everyone will read an HTML file and it could be purtier. At 04:34 AM 10/17/2

[Marxism-Thaxis] Marx's Method in Social Science: Poznan School

1. (Issue theme: Aspects of the Production of Scientific Knowledge, edited by J. Witt-Hansen.) http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/poznan1.html See also my comments: Note on the Poznan School by Ralph Dumain http://www.autodidactproject.org/

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

Obviously! And if you've ever dealt with thugs, you'd know that for sure. And those not part of organized crime and not even free-lancers will do anything for their capitalist masters as enforcers, hooligans, and other sub rosa miscreants. They'll stomp your (proletarian) ass for fifty cent;

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] New website - The Revolutionary Imperative

And what new perspective do you bring to this imperative? At 11:38 AM 11/1/2007, Karl Dallas wrote: >As the world staggers on towards destruction, the need to overthrow global >capitalism becomes more than just a necessity. It is an imperative. If we do >not move on to the next stage in the develo

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Rosa Luxemburg

Interesting. I didn't know Rosa Luxemburg got mixed up in philosophy, let alone attack Neo-Kantianism. I'm not going to pay $25 to learn what she said about it, but I am curious. At 06:18 AM 12/3/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Rosa Luxemburg, the Legacy of Classical German Philosophy and the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Eagleton vs. M. Amis & C. Hitchens

Jusding from this article alone, Eageleton is as much as asshole as the other two. I never thought much of him, but now that he's having a major attack of Catholicism and thirdworldism in his dotage, he's really insufferable. At 11:59 AM 12/27/2007, CeJ wrote: >I wouldn't buy Eagleton's new boo

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Bradley effect

I don't find this a terribly illuminating discussion. As important as it is to analyze segregation's past, these comments don't shed much light on the current situation. The question was asked why people accept an integrated public sphere, including the workplace, but still live in segregated

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] A friend thought you might be interested in this article

This may be the only interesting item other than recipes that Essence has ever published. It accords with Jackson's interview on Tavis Smiley. It's reasonably sound for what it says, but what is not said is just as important, viz.: the media manipulation of the primary process, the money and m

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] A friend thought you might be interested in this article

I am disheartened that Move.On is going to endorse a candidate. They should stay out of it. I don't like either Clinton or Obama, but I despise the Clintons, so I could vote for Obama out of spite. But either way, if the Republicans run McCain, which is their only rational choice, we are in

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] What's going wrong for the man who would be president?

Some of the personal biographical information is not totally germane to the main issue. Obama's personality and self-fabrication may be important to know about, but one doesn't even have to know all that to see through the hype. It can't be a state secret that Obama is a phony. He got where h

[Marxism-Thaxis] Adolph L. Reed Jr. on the Democrats

Sitting This One Out By Adolph L. Reed Jr. November 2007 Issue The Progressive http://www.progressive.org/mag_reed1107 All true, and obvious. But I think the key is to disabuse oneself of illusion, and not endorse either Hillary or Obama at this point. Sure, vote for the lesser of two evils in

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] B.H.M. 2008 - first writing; part 3 - The original "G"

This analysis looks pretty sound to me so far. I am rather pessimistic about the presidential election, however. The outcome could spell the end of American democracy. Unlike many others, I am not terribly impressed that the Democratic Party will choose either a white woman or a black man, as

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] SIGNIFICANCE OF OBAMA AND CLINTON

The first question would be: how many blacks and women have been taken in by all the hype over a potential black or woman president. I don't have handy access to any potential survey data, and my circle of acquaintances is hardly representative. Hillary Clinton's presidency has been in the maki

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] SIGNIFICANCE OF OBAMA AND CLINTON

I may have missed something, but the massive black engagement with Obama is sudden and recent. Before S.C., I can recall only the endorsement of Oprah. I never bothered to check: Did Oprah give any reasons for backing Obama? There are a number of developments that concern me more. Frankly, g

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Great Black Hope

A few bullet points for now. Given the three main contenders, I was an Edwards supporter. I was sorry to see him drop out, but it was probably inevitable. The worst development though is the push by MoveOn for Obama on SuperTuesday. This is a big, big mistake. I'm willing to accept the limi

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Is there a political crisis in the U.S. ruling class ?

The conclusion is demonstrable absurd. There is a political crisis a-brewing, but the working class will not take advantage of it. Furthermore, the tremendous distraction of Clinton/Obama will be brought down to earth once the convention is over and the victor faces off against McCain. There

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Hype and glory

You are certainly correct to have a bad feeling. The Obamamaniacs are living in a wish-fulfillment world. I expect this from the upper middle class liberal whites I know; what's going on in other people's "minds" is a mystery to me. But yeah, as I've said, Obama is being set up for a fall.

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] An Eisenhower backs O

This testifies to Obama's centrist appeal and to recognition of the damage that Bush has caused. Obama's appearance of being free of traditional ties (vs. Clinton) and the weakness of Republican politics has enabled this black man with an African name to get this far, a feat that might have be

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Obama's White Men: Do They Hear Something Blacks Don't?

Such cynicism is certainly warranted, but there's something missing in this excerpt, which you can pick up in the Youngstown piece. Obama's appeal is both vast and exaggerated, and highly precarious. But this excerpt, which paints white males as the most reactionary element of American society

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Is America's attitude changing ?

I wouldn't wipe my ass with The Final Call. And there's not much content to this article. As for Obama as a unifier, his claim is not just to unify black and white, rural and urban, etc., but Democrat and Republican, and all social interests. This is an impossibility, and the extreme vagary o

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Democrats’ Class War

Further analysis of this paradox is needed. I'm not fully convinced by these statements: >“If Obama started talking like John Edwards and >tapped into working-class, blue-collar >proletarian rage, suddenly all of those white >voters who are viewing him within the lens of >transcendence would

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Zinn on Obama?????

Support Cynthia McKinney for what? IF she is running for re-election, more power to her. I'm not too thrilled about Nader throwing his hat into the ring, unless there's organizing for something other than his useless campaign involved. He described his web site on Meet the Press, and it soun

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Challenges and opportunities in the 2008 elections

As uninterested as I am in the CPUSA, I don't disagree with this perspective, which is comprised of obvious truisms couched in party jargon. The bankruptcy of the Democratic Party is not exactly a secret to the left, is it? Or is cloistered sectarianism so rampant that the left can no longer

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Challenges and opportunities in the 2008 elections

I'm out of the loop, having long ago lost interest in the leftist subculture when it functions as a subculture, thinking about itself and its identity, which one would think only people who live privileged lives can do. I don't need the CP rhetoric to understand such basic principles. And if t

[Marxism-Thaxis] Review-a-Day: A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited about Obama and Why He Can't Win [fwd]

Review-a-Day Monday, February 25, 2008

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Challenges and opportunities in the 2008

There is one thing you are quite wrong about: though Obama is a consummate opportunist and little more, it makes a big difference who gets elected in November, especially for Americans. I live in the USA, not elsewhere, and I live for myself, not for everyone but me. I am not an "activist", i

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] For those who read German

An abstract in English, perhaps? At 09:00 PM 3/6/2008, Jim Farmelant wrote: >My article, "„Neuer Atheismus“ (und „Neuer Humanismus“) >in den USA," which is being published this month >in the journal, "Aufklärung und Kritik" (http://www.gkpn.de/), >is now avaliable online at their website at: >h

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Weekly Worker and Rosa Lichtenstein

For some reason, Conrad's article does not load properly in my browser, and all the lines are truncated. But my initial reaction is: these two deserve one another. Trotskyism means never having to get a life. At 09:20 PM 3/7/2008, Jim Farmelant wrote: >The CPGB's Jack Conrad critiques Rosa L

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Weekly Worker and Rosa Lichtenstein

e- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralph >Dumain >Sent: 08 March 2008 02:48 >To: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu >Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Weekly Worker and Rosa Lichtenstein > >For some reason, Conrad's article does not lo

[Marxism-Thaxis] Your message to Marxism-Thaxis awaits moderator approval [I'm getting sick of this sh*t]

Your mail to 'Marxism-Thaxis' with the subject Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Weekly Worker and Rosa Lichtenstein Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: Message has a suspicious header Either the message will get posted to the list,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Weekly Worker and Rosa Lichtenstein

Reading this crap is not rewarding. Probably I will not bother to read Rosa's reply. Conrad moves from theme to theme: (1) the actual historical development confutes the bourgeois notion of progress, (2) Hegelian dialectic is referenced by Marx as critical and revolutionary; (3) Engels' thre

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Weekly Worker and Rosa Lichtenstein

Reading this crap is not rewarding. Probably I will not bother to read Rosa's reply. Conrad moves from theme to theme: (1) the actual historical development confutes the bourgeois notion of progress, (2) Hegelian dialectic is referenced by Marx as critical and revolutionary; (3) Engels' thre

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Weekly Worker and Rosa Lichtenstein

To answer your first question: "And so, what is the negation of the negation? An extremely general ­ and for this reason extremely far-reaching and important ­ law of development of nature, history, and thought" "Dialectics, however, is nothing more than the science of the general laws of mot

[Marxism-Thaxis] Popper in the Weekly Worker

There are numerous references to Karl Popper in this periodical. These two seem to be the most substantial (relatively speaking) from what I've seen: Weekly Worker 700 Thursday December 6 2007 Powerful because it coherently explains Jack Conrad defends dialectical materialism against positivist

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Alain Badiou in _New Left Review_ on "The Communist Hypothesis"

Can't access the full article, but hopefully it is not as vacuous as this extract. At 12:34 PM 3/10/2008, Charles Brown wrote: >Content-Transfer-Encoding: >base64Content-Disposition: >inlinehttp://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-March/024922.html > >http://www.newleftreview.org/[EMAI

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] spam: Nice essay on television and cinema

I didn't see the film, but I think the review is brilliant. "American Beauty" was a crypto-fascist piece of shit. I rarely see live theater, but last night I saw August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom". That was brilliant, though I suspect my own perspective on Wilson's plays are radically

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] the insights of post-modernism?

I.e. no insight at all. Except insofar as mimicking the cynicism, incoherence and fragmentation of contemporary culture is insight. But traditionally the goal of intellectuals was not to mimic mystification, but to penetrate to its core and create coherent understanding in its place. Postmode

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] the insights of post-modernism

And what, pray tell, are Hegel's answers? What do you think of David Harvey's THE CONDITION OF POSTMODERNITY? If there is such a thing as postmodernity (the condition), distinct from postmodernism as a theoretical approach, when do you think it began? It seems to me that historical amnesia and

[Marxism-Thaxis] Frankfurt School study update: new Adorno discussion group

Resulting from an ad hoc discussion of Theodor Adorno on a Hegel discussion list, a new yahoo group was established on 9 March for close readings and detailed discussions of Adorno's work: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adorno-Hegel I had alerted the c

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] the insights of post-modernism

Was there really a time when Hegel was THE MAN outside of the German principalities and foreign students in Berlin? Hegel was imported into a number of countries--the USA, UK, Italy, et al--but I never got the impression that everything revolved around where one stood on Hegel. Furthermore, i

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Jack Lessenberry on Clinton

Hillary is going down in flames and taking the Democratic Party with her. Doing those primaries over is a big waste of money. Just like prolonging the competition between her and Obama. I am rather indifferent to the dirty tricks, the personalities, and the minuscule substantive differences th

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Democrats Face Racial Issue Again

Given the emotional, personality-based childishness of both media and public response to these distractions, they have a certain efficacy independent of reason. I am rather indifferent to the allegedly offensive remarks of all these people. However, given the way things are, they have a dra

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] This is pitiful

At 01:51 PM 3/13/2008, Charles Brown wrote: >Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64Content-Disposition: inline >"She (Ferraro) accused the Obama campaign of >misrepresenting her remarks to hurt Mrs. >Clinton, saying: “They have played the race card >time after time after time. The campaign has a >go

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] blaming all their misfortunes on whites?

This person is wrong about Obama's motives and behavior. But otherwise there is something to the writer's cynicism. The problem is all this should have hashed out long ago, and in a less destructive fashion. It's too late now; Hillary is beaten, and unless she sticks to the high road, she ca

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Clinton Addresses Ferraro Backlash: Comments

All of this demonstrates why I can't get involved in this melee. As long as politics gets conducted on this level, how can anything get straightened out? However, the Clinton campaign, whichever way it goes, has to straighten itself out. The more fundamental problem is that the legitimacy of

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Barack Obama's camp furious at claim he is winning only because he is black

You see what a godawful mess this is? If the Dems and Americvan politics weren't so fucked up to begin with, things wouldn't have come to this. The Clintonites have no high ground to stand on. Of course Obama was given a free ride by the media until recently, just as Hillary got a free ride

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] This is pitiful

I don't claim to be a mind-reader, either of Ferraro's or of the sort of appeal she intends to make on her white listeners/primary voters. I don't make the inferences that you do, and I find them far-fetched. Of course, this could be a rare case in which I'm less cynical than I should be. He

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Obama's pastor condemned by rightists

This he said she said is going to go on forever. I don't know why I have to keep reminding myself that this is a nation of channel-surfing ADD idiots. What does the intent of anyone's remarks matter when the ideological environment is such that they immediately become framed in a scurrilous (u

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] overcoming postmodernism

This is all sophisticated insipidity. What a poseur! At 08:41 PM 3/14/2008, CeJ wrote: >Another social thinker who finds large audiences, some revulsion, but >is much-discussed is Zizek. He would appear to have been an >undistinguished academic in Yugoslavia, but emerges as an original >thinker,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Lyotard and postmodernism

Utterly juvenile! No real history, just metaphysical masturbation. At 10:34 PM 3/14/2008, CeJ wrote: >http://www.iep.utm.edu/l/Lyotard.htm#SH2a > >excerpt: > >b. The Postmodern Condition > >Lyotard soon abandoned the term 'paganism' in favour of >'postmodernism.' He presents his initial and highly

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] overcoming postmodernism

You're writing gibberish. More below. At 09:40 PM 3/14/2008, CeJ wrote: >Well, Zizek does tend to draw such reactions as RD's. I think it is >worth reading his articles occasionally. That is the beauty of the >internet, I only pay for it with eyestrain and connection times. > >I think there is th

[Marxism-Thaxis] science & morality

A preponderance of material from the now-defunct Progress Publishers of the now-defunct USSR is deadly dull and formulaic. A number of serious Soviet philosophical works were translated into English along with the dross. There are certain topics that tended to bore me, and my books on those

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Iyenkov on Hegel

A multiply ironic response. I'm not so naive about continental philosophy as this asshole CeJ thinks. But just as what's peddled in the Anglo-American sphere is a selective culling of the resources actually available, and is selected specifically in the service of an irrationalism of a degener

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Marx on the ideal ; Zizek on Lenin on Hegel

In a hurry: (1) Coincidentally, I'm now reading NEGATIVE DIALECTICS, just forwarded a post on materialism. (2) CeJ is wrong on materialism, as usual. (3) Zizek's essay in pretty good, not exactly a great revelation to me. I did not quite get his point on "interpretation" vs "formalization".

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: [FRA:] Frankfurt School study update: new Adorno discussion group

-Forwarded Message- >From: Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Mar 13, 2008 1:24 AM >To: Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [FRA:] Frankfurt School study update: new Adorno discussion group > >Resulting from an ad hoc discussion of Theodor Adorn

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Iyenkov on Hegel

You certainly cannot understand Marx without understanding the Young Hegelian milieu. The Second International Marxists never understood it and Engels' pamphlet on Feuerbach did not provide sufficient information and perspective. As for Lenin's MAEC, these issues have been argued endlessly. MAE

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Iyenkov on Hegel

what's worse was when Soviet boot-lickers in the western bourgeois democracies (note publications of Gruner publishing co.) imitated this style of argumentation. I have spent a fair amount of time extracting the usable from the offal. -Original Message- >From: Ralph Dumain <[EM

[Marxism-Thaxis] dream team

I don't have time to bore you with the lengthy reasoning, deliberation, and conversation that went into the following conclusions I reached in the past week. (1) After the Pennsylvania primary, Clinton should withdraw from the race. (2) The Clintons should throw the full weight of their influen

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