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On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:10:24 -0500 farmela...@juno.com writes: > > Jim Farmelant > http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant > www.foxymath.com > Learn or Review Basic Math > > Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math Obama Urges Homeowners to Refinance If you owe under $729k you probably qualify for Obama's Refi Program http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4cf6c1638cc1a4a8968st04vuc ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
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I may be lliterate, but at least she admits I'm logical. CB ^^^ Logical Illiterates Strike Again A year or so ago I had the great misfortune to correspond with an irascible fellow who could not resist making ill-informed comments about my Essays, all the while refusing to read them. I refused to continue to correspond with him on that basis, and, it seems, he has been sulking ever since. Last year I had occasion to slap some materialist sense into him (here), but I fear that this incorrigible Idealist is beyond even my help. Despite several attempts to inoculate him from his own folly, Mr B has once again demonstrated that he is immune to the influence of modern logic, preferring his own brand of sub-Hegelian make-believe. Commenting on an argument of mine, he had this to say: "CB: The sentence 'John is a man' means John is both the same and different from Joe, Jack, Rosa, Charles... It is precisely the 'is' of predication that is a unity and struggle of opposites. The 'is' of identity 'He is John.' -- that is not a tautology. CB: This should be 'that is a tautology'." [Quotation marks changed to conform to the conventions adopted here.] This odd piece of reasoning was exposed for what it is here, and here. Despite this, Mr B hopes to neutralise my arguments by referring merely to his own not inconsiderable authority in this field -- that is, the field usually occupied by Popes and assorted dictators whose word is law. And in matters logical, that should be enough for us. It certainly is for Mr B. He now deigns to comment on the musings of my colleague Babeuf; here is an example of truly innovative historical materialism: "CB: Another fundamental activity was the raising of children. I'm thinking language/culture emerged between parents and children." It is reasonably clear that Mr B has shot from the hip again -- or rather shot from the holster and into his foot --, for if the above were the case, not only would parents and children confront each other like Pentecostal ecstatics, mouthing incomprehensible noises at one another, no two families would share the same idiolect. Communication between families would thus be impossible. In that case, 'culture', as Mr B sees it, would soon begin to resemble that cacophony which constantly sounds in his head. Now, in Essay Twelve Part One, I asserted that most Marxists give lip-service to the idea that language is a social phenomenon, but fail to think through the implications of that fact, and talk and write as if language were a private affair. Mr B has shown once again that when it comes to getting things wrong, he is keen to elbow his way to the front of the queue. How language can be social, but remain a family affair is perhaps another one of the 'contradictions' that still compromises his thought processes: "Before I had even heard of dialectics -- living in the a mental (sic) world of strict formal logic -- I started to 'run into' lots of contradictions and paradoxes. My own road to dialectics was a posteriori, not a priori." Mr B here confuses matters biographical with matters logical; unless --, of course, he thinks paradoxes are a posteriori. But, even if he were right, this otherwise commendable public confession of his own confused thought should not be read as mere humility. On the contrary, the road to Hermetic-enlightenment -- a path which all true dialecticians have to pass along in order to qualify as adepts (and the reasons for this are exposed here) -- elevates them way above the rest of us mortals. This means that if ever they regain power somewhere they can screw-up once more in a truly almighty and awe-inspiring manner. After all, they have a suitably screwy theory to help them on their way. But what is this? It is none other than our old friend Mr D, who volunteers a riposte so devastating I hesitate to post it here for fear it might affect the reader's sanity: "This is just stupid, even more stupid than the Trotskyist recitations of dialectics." Mr D, someone who is not known for his ability to string a clear argument together -- but a well-respected expert at drawing attention to that fact --, probably does not know that the material about which he is commenting has to be compressed into a three minute slot, and has to be kept to a level that makes it comprehensible to mere workers. And here he can be forgiven, for over the years, at his site, he has developed an enviable skill at repelling such lowly types, and to the extent that he has probably forgotten their limitations. One of which is that they find the mystical ideas he spouts incomprehensible. It's a good job then that we have substitutionists of his calibre to do their thinking for them. Now, we have already seen that Mr D takes exception to anyone who cannot compress a PhD thesis into a sentence or two --, a skill he taunts the rest of us with, since, as the sentence above reveals, he can squeeze s
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Test - Please ignore Comment Have every intention on completing a different approach to Marx and what he calls the metabolic process. Its not leally a different approach as much as a willing to discuss the metabolic process. I am having difficulty in explaining the metabolic process to an audience that has never . . . . ever . . . talked about it. Plus, I am momentarily blackballed for being uncouth, vulgar and an intellectual hooligan . I will tell you this Jim, . . . comrade., I will never be a reporter on events. What we do is break new ground. And I ain't a bourgeois nationalist. ** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] (test) on USSR imploded/attention Ralph/reposted 1
(Here is what I thought was an interesting article from within Russia today by someone born under the Soviet regime). Melvin P. >From the Cultural Revolution of 1917 to the Counter-Revolution of the Present Submitted by admin on Tue, 2006-03-14 18:53. ?? Ludmila Bulavka >From the Cultural Revolution of 1917 to the Counter-Revolution of the Present Culture and revolution. Revolution and culture. This theme has been written about and dissected so much in our country that it would seem that a point of exhaustion has been reached. What more remains for anyone to say? The overwhelming consensus is that its problematical character has been perceived as little more than an ideological ritual. The fact remains, however, that new things can indeed be said, and that the relationship between these two forces contains the utmost contemporary significance, especially in our current climate of an emerging bourgeois counter-revolution in Russia. The country of my birth - the USSR - is no longer in existence today, and for anyone to look back at its history and to highlight, not just the obvious tragedies incurred by the Soviet peoples, but also its achievements and successes - and more than that, to demonstrate pride in those achievements - is tantamount for many to be little more than a sign of disease. But what motivates my desire to go back to the past, and what fortifies my courage, is a recognition that what we are living through now is a fundamental crisis of culture of global proportions, which has not just affected Russia in the most squalid of ways, but which has also destroyed a culture which always united the most contradictory periods of Soviet history. It is my belief that the destruction of these former cultural values has evoked a tragic sensation in the vast majority of ordinary people, whereby they feel nothing more than immigrants in their own country. To add to their belief that they have no real future ahead of them, devoid as they are of economic resources, they are also told that they have no past. What is otherwise a very abstract belief in the so-called 'End of History' is for us extremely tangible and real. The Dialectical Road The dialectical relationship at work here can be explained as follows. In the 1920s and early 1930s history clearly existed firstand foremost as a transfonnative event; as a qualitative development of society which prioritised history as a category of time. By the 1970s and the period of Brezhnevite stagnation, history had effectively been transformed into a kind of hypostasis. It now served first and foremost as a social concept and as an act of memory, which now gave priority to history as a category of space. During these years, people could not directly experience for themselves the humanitarian ideas of social creativeness which lay at the heart of the socialist ideal, but they could at least experience it indirectly as an act of (staged) memory. What exists today, however, has taken everything one stage further. Not only is there no direct historical creativity of the masses, but there is also no longer any cultural embodiment of historical memory. In short, the individual, as a social subject, exists in a situation where he can neither create history nor have a memory of it. If this is one attribute of the present situation, there is also another one which likewise deserves recognition. If, during the period of stagnation, we could say that history bore no sense of time (as a process of development) but did give scope for space (as a cultural event), then in today's situation there exists the unique position of an existence which lies both outside the principles of development as well as outside culture; that is to say, an existence both outside of time and space. Moreover, having torn asunder the umbilical cord connecting the present with the past, any conceptual notion of the future must also be affected. It is from this starting point, then, that one must understand this sensation of people being immigrants not just in their own country, but in the whole of history. The introduction of so-called 'democracy' and 'liberalism' in Russia has thus accomplished something that the Gulags of Stalin and the stagnation of Brezhnev were both unable to accomplish - the destruction of hope and the creation of an overwhelming sense of meaninglessness. Mankind as a generic being has been thrown overboard into the Sargasso sea of postmodemity. In the domain of work, relations, and general life as a whole, everything is oriented towards one thing and one thing only - how to make the most amount of money (with the emphasis on make rather than earn). It is here that we can locate the foundations of the modem crisis of culture, which
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G'day Thaxlotls, In case you've been wondering why some messages have been getting delayed (and generating 'pending approval' messages), it's coz we've had a little setting problem. Just sending this to check that Hans's magic touch has fixed things and that we are back to normal service. Cheers, Rob. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
