like to live in. If communism is out for Petras, we are
entitled to ask: Well then, what manner of future could it possibly be
that you Petras want to live in?
Phil Walden
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Jim Farmelant farmela...@juno.com wrote:
In recent years, I have found a lot
,
Phil Walden
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, and the 'it' is the transnational-capitalist-corporations-economy,
which none of them control but whose rules they must obey.
Phil Walden
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of the State controlling them) is a fact and is a major change of which
socialists need to take account if they are not to be starting from mistaken
assumptions about the ontology of the world economy.
Phil Walden
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change in the structure of world capitalism then you could
contact A World to Win and order their book on it.
Phil Walden
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Can you tell me what VEBA stands for in the response that you were given?
Phil Walden
On 9/9/09, Phil Walden phil at pwalden.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
I have the GM bankruptcy petition in front of me and under an item
?
Or is there some other explanation for this $20 billion?
Phil Walden
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the question: what are the positive proposals of 'Analytical
Marxism' for how society should be in the futurean individualistic
'utopia' in which there is a strategic denial that the fundamental
contradiction in human society is that between capital and labour.
Phil Walden
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Dear Jim,
I'm glad you are making the offer to circulate your article by email.
Could I have a copy.
My email address is p...@pwalden.fsnet.co.uk
Best wishes,
Phil Walden
(Oxford, England)
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Phil Walden: It was a bourgeois state because it was part of a world system
of bourgeois relations - all states extracting a surplus from their
populations. Thus the Soviet Union could not have been some form of workers
state. But it wasn't capitalist because the surplus extracted in the Soviet
built a developed understanding of the Cold
War. Adam Westoby's COMMUNISM SINCE WORLD WAR TWO is however a good start,
despite faults.
Phil Walden
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intrigued by this because although I look to a range of
philosophical resources - Hegel, Marx, Adorno, Jameson, etc - they do tend
for me to be politically progressive figures.
I wonder if you can give any examples of how you find non-politically
progressive individuals to be fruitful?
Phil Walden
of ideas but he seems to hold
the view that Marxist writers *have* on the whole properly considered the
questions but for some unspecified reason Marxism has not won out.
It's an enormous question, I know. But what do you think?
Phil Walden
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of the dialectic:
Hegel. That Hegel is *the* master of the dialectic according to Marx is a
fact that many find uncomfortable but it cannot be got around, despite
contemporary Marxism's attempt to do so through a doomed strategy of
avoidance.
Phil Walden
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to be a pupil of the master of the dialectic:
Hegel. That Hegel is *the* master of the dialectic according to Marx is a
fact that many find uncomfortable but it cannot be got around, despite
contemporary Marxism's attempt to do so through a doomed strategy of
avoidance.
Phil Walden
to Marx is a
fact that many find uncomfortable but it cannot be got around, despite
contemporary Marxism's attempt to do so through a doomed strategy of
avoidance.
Phil Walden
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- that deep problems at the level of human psychology and interpretation and
the structure of contemporary life (low attention spans, passive nihilism,
etc) mean that postmodernism is a deep-seated *condition*. How to fight it
is a very big question. I think Hegel has most of the answers.
Phil
And what is your considered reaction, Ralph?
Phil Walden
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such as the USA itself is contaminated with both excessive
subculturalism and celebrity media culture, and a fragmented
consciousness as well as existence.
I can and will give several relevant examples.
At 02:27 PM 10/1/2007, Phil Walden wrote:
Thanks for the reply. Haven't got much time so
of the masses on a global
scale, and just as importantly, their consciousness of what they are
doing and of the nature of the world they live in?
At 07:54 PM 9/30/2007, Phil Walden wrote:
Ralph,
Why are you saying all this stuff about humanity is doomed and there will
never be communism? It contradicts
-debated and intelligent programme for communism. For the beginnings of
this try googling the Democratic Socialist Alliance and reading the pieces
by Phil Sharpe.
Cheer up doom may never happen,
Phil Walden
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appear in the bulletin of that Society which is automatically posted to all
members. I suspect that this bicentennial must also have been marked by
events in Germany, the US, and France too, although I have no evidence of
this.
Phil Walden
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Try abebooks.com
Phil Walden
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their heads unstuck
from
their assholes). In particular I argued that Nietzsche represents a
regression rather than an advance in social theory. I'll have to put
this
stuff together and make a web page out of it.
Phil Walden replies:
Please do! I'm sure there are a large number of embattled Marxists
the whole
thing.
Phil Walden replies:
I can photocopy this at the Bodleian Library in Oxford (UK) and could
send it to your postal address (which I don't have - if you want to let
me know it off-list I'm at [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Is this too slow
Reply to CB below:
First of all, it makes
the transformation of capitalist society into socialist society look
like the transformation of a kitten into a cat, when in reality it is
much more like the transformation of a rat into a cat's dinner. We
cannot look at capitalism and say there, but for
(and even mystical) phase but
I am told that his latest work which he is starting to propagate is much
more grounded in empirical research. For some years now Bhaskar has
been working in Sweden at the same university where Goran Therborn, the
noted social thinker and researcher, is based.
Phil Walden
Reply to CB below at the end:
For Marxists, the importance of Bhaskar's distinction above is that
it foregrounds the importance of ontology. In my view Marxism had got
into
a near-terminal crisis because the Trotskyist groups were focussing
almost
exclusively on trying to realise their
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