Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst (response to arrowlessness)

2005-07-06 Thread Steve Gabosch
At 12:00 PM 7/5/2005 +0200, Oudeyis wrote: Steve, I really do not have enough time to devote to answering this message as it deserves. So please excuse the briefness of my responses. No problem at all. I am happy to let that response be the last major word on this discussion for now, which

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst (response toarrowlessness)

2005-07-06 Thread Victor
raised by Karl Marx and thethinkers he inspired marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 13:36 Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst (response toarrowlessness) At 12:00 PM 7/5/2005 +0200, Oudeyis wrote: Steve, I really do not have enough time to devote

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-29 Thread Victor
by Karl Marx andthe thinkers he inspired' marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 20:03 Subject: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst Victor : CB, Continued from last message. First, let's not forget that a lot of human learning is human see human do. And some

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-28 Thread Victor
social activity. Oudeyis - Original Message - From: Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues raised by Karl Marx andthe thinkers he inspired' marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 16:49 Subject: [Marxism-Thaxis] O

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-28 Thread Ralph Dumain
I've not had time to keep up with your ongoing debate on Ilyenkov. Since you are apparently preparing something for publication, I hope you will apprise us of the finished product. This line of enquiry, it seems to me, is much more important than most philosophical projects being undertaken.

[Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-27 Thread Charles Brown
Victor: I'm not sure of it either. However, it appears to me that we can distinguish social labour, direct cooperation, from characteristically human labour, that is social labour that is special since it involves the production and use of tools for realization of material social goals.

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-26 Thread Steve Gabosch
I am responding to a 6/22/2005 post from Victor, which I quote from. The quote below is a good example of where I think Victor gets Ilyenkov wrong 180 degrees. In the general section of Ilyenkov's 1977 essay The Concept of the Ideal that Victor quotes from, I believe Ilyenkov is making just

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-26 Thread Victor
This is going to take a little time, you raised some heavy questions here. Oudeyis - Original Message - From: Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 17:17 Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst At 02:12 PM

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-26 Thread Victor
- Original Message - From: Steve Gabosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues raised by Karl Marx and thethinkers he inspired marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 12:40 Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-26 Thread Steve Gabosch
Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst I am responding to a 6/22/2005 post from Victor, which I quote from. The quote below is a good example of where I think Victor gets Ilyenkov wrong 180 degrees. In the general section of Ilyenkov's 1977 essay The Concept of the Ideal

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-22 Thread Ralph Dumain
, Victor wrote: - Original Message - From: Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 10:17 Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst What in bloody hell does this mean? At 09:32 AM 6/21/2005 +0200, Victor wrote

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-22 Thread Ralph Dumain
I am confused by this beyond the reasonably clear first and third sentences of the first paragraph and the first sentence of the second paragraph. At 07:51 PM 6/20/2005 +0200, Victor wrote: I regard Ilyenkov's contribution rather as the Logic (method or met) for a practical (materialist or

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-22 Thread Ralph Dumain
Comments to selected extracts below At 01:43 PM 6/19/2005 +0200, Victor wrote: Ideality like spoken language is not one thing or another, but two things, the objectified notion in consciousness and its material representation by some form of language, united as a more concrete concept, the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-22 Thread Victor
AM 6/21/2005 +0200, Victor wrote: - Original Message - From: Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 10:17 Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst What in bloody hell does this mean? At 09:32 AM 6/21/2005 +0200

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-22 Thread Victor
I've isolated the difficult passages and commented on them below. - Original Message - From: Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:16 Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst I am confused by this beyond

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-22 Thread Victor
Comments on the commentary included below. - Original Message - From: Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:25 Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst Comments to selected extracts below At 01:43 PM

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-22 Thread Ralph Dumain
At 02:12 PM 6/22/2005 +0200, Victor wrote: Hegel regards objectification as simply the alienation of spirit in the object. The ideal itself is the alienated spirit that has become a universal through the mediation of language. True, I've not addressed the problem of whether Hegel regarded

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-21 Thread Ralph Dumain
What in bloody hell does this mean? At 09:32 AM 6/21/2005 +0200, Victor wrote: Science is founded as ideas, but unlike Hegel's ideal (which as Marx put it is as nothing else but the form of social activity represented in the thing or conversely the form of human creativity represented as a

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-21 Thread Victor
- Original Message - From: Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 10:17 Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst What in bloody hell does this mean? At 09:32 AM 6/21/2005 +0200, Victor wrote: Science

[Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-20 Thread Charles Brown
Victor As I see it, the key concept in this regard that Ilyenkov offers is that just as Marx discovered how social relations can be embodied into things in the form of commodities - through the incorporation of abstract labor into the value-form - so too, Marxists can explain that social

[Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-20 Thread Charles Brown
Steve Gabosch a) where is ideality located? I would answer a) in cultural artifacts, using the term in its broadest possible sense (tools, signs, all human creations and observations, etc.) I think you would answer a) in representations. ^ CB: How about in the relationship between the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-20 Thread Victor
@lists.econ.utah.edu Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 15:43 Subject: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst Victor The social relations are not embodied in a particular coat or in a particular bale of linen. These are material objects whose concreteness are beyond the capacity of human conceptualisation

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-19 Thread Steve Gabosch
Victor, I have read your response carefully. I think I am getting a handle on our differing approaches. They seem to emerge in the way we understand issues such as: a) where is ideality located? b) where is value is located? c) what is the essence of ideality? d) what is the essence of

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-19 Thread Victor
, 2005 10:11 Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst Victor, I have read your response carefully. I think I am getting a handle on our differing approaches. They seem to emerge in the way we understand issues such as: a) where is ideality located? b) where is value is located

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-17 Thread Victor
Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst Victor, I spent a little time reviewing Ilyenkov's article The Concept of the Ideal (available on MIA ), and the notes I published on xmca about it last year. Below, I have copied paragraphs 66 - 90 from EVI's 142-paragraph essay. I don't

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-16 Thread Steve Gabosch
PROTECTED] To: Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues raised by Karl Marx and thethinkers he inspired marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 4:30 Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst Hi Victor, Interestingly, footnote one in a paper by Lantolf

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-16 Thread Steve Gabosch
I am not at all up to speed on the German Marxist Sohn-Rethel (please help), but a thought immediately comes to mind on Popper's Three Worlds cosmology. If one ignores the positivist framework of these three worlds invented by Popper and attempts to make them as dynamic and dialectical as

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-15 Thread Steve Gabosch
Hi Victor, Interestingly, footnote one in a paper by Lantolf and Thorne that is getting discussed on the xmca list - the paper is at http://communication.ucsd.edu/MCA/Paper/JuneJuly05/LantolfThorne2005.pdfIntroduction, in Sociocultural Theory and the Genesis of Second Language Development -

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-15 Thread Victor
for the help. Oudeyis - Original Message - From: Steve Gabosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues raised by Karl Marx and thethinkers he inspired marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 4:30 Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-14 Thread Victor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:10 Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst Hi Victor, If I am getting your first point, that Bakhurst incorrectly takes Diamat as serious theory, then you are speaking to what I referred

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] O, Dialectics! :Bakhurst

2005-06-14 Thread Steve Gabosch
Victor, Thanks for the refresher course on Rosenburg, which becomes a history of the Nazi party from 1921. It is always good to be reminded of what happened in Germany. Your comments on Dubrovsky are very interesting, as is your analysis of Bakhurst. I also read your descriptions of