[Marxism-Thaxis] dialectical materialism/activist materialism

2009-01-14 Thread Charles Brown
Re: M-TH: Re: dialectical materialism/activist materialism Chris Burford Sun, 15 Aug 1999 04:27:44 -0700 At 09:09 13/08/99 -0400, Jim Farmelant wrote: On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:41:21 GMT J.WALKER, ILL [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why should we, as socialists or Marxists, adopt such a perspective? In

[Marxism-Thaxis] Dialectical Materialism

2008-03-10 Thread Charles Brown
Haines Brown --http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-March/024942.html-- At the risk of furthering a side thread, allow me to reply to Carrol briefly. Carrol writes: may I suggest that dialectics not be

[Marxism-Thaxis] Dialectical materialism

2008-03-06 Thread Charles Brown
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-March/024894.html Haines Brown Thu Mar 6 14:31:28 MST 2008 Previous message: [Marxism] The Obama Bubble - Black Agenda Report Next message: [Marxism] China Labor Watch: Dongguan Fuan Textile Mill Laying off Thousands of Workers Messages sorted

[Marxism-Thaxis] Dialectical materialism

2006-01-18 Thread Charles Brown
I thought similarly. What about Bhakar , before he became idealist ? Is that the way to spell it ? I was on a list. It sounded like sort of dialectical materialism to me, but the people interested in it didn't cop to that. There were a whole lot of people interested in it. CB Ralph Dumain

[Marxism-Thaxis] Dialectical materialism (materialist dialectic)

2006-01-18 Thread Charles Brown
Jim Farmelant : As far as I can tell the term dialectical materialism was first coined by the German worker Josef Dietzgen, who had independently arrived at political and philosophical views that were akin to those of Marx and Engels. Plekhanov is usually credited

[Marxism-Thaxis] Dialectical materialism

2006-01-17 Thread Charles Brown
Dialectical materialism Jump to: navigation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_materialism#column-one , search http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_materialism#searchInput http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mergefrom.gif It has been suggested that Marxist philosophy of nature

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Dialectical materialism

2006-01-17 Thread Ralph Dumain
Encyclopedia entries like these can always be improved upon. There is one paragraph in this one which puzzles me. See below. Examples would have helped. Of course there have been philosophers interested in dialectical materialism as an ontology independent of its political marxist

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Dialectical materialism

2006-01-17 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:42:49 -0500 Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Encyclopedia entries like these can always be improved upon. There is one paragraph in this one which puzzles me. See below. Examples would have helped. Of course there have been philosophers interested in

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Dialectical materialism

2006-01-17 Thread Waistline2
Here is the fun part. Marx is quoted as stating: Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes. --Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1. This is translated as number two of the three laws of dialectics. The three laws of dialectics are: *The law of the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Dialectical materialism - What!

2006-01-17 Thread Waistline2
I wrote, for about the twentieth time over the past four years, in response to by dear friend and Comrade CB: It is not accurate to say that quantity or quantitative change turns into qualitative change and quality turns into quantity because this expresses only a perceptual understanding of