[Marxism-Thaxis] How British is BP?

2010-05-27 Thread CeJ
I was wondering this because of the anti-BP backlash being given 'BP is foreign connotations'. It's not really foreign, it's not even really very British in terms of who owns the equity stakes. The second largest holder of the stock, Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney Strauss Inc., links to its parent,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Net neutral

2010-05-27 Thread c b
Internet freedom is under attack. Sign our petition asking Representative Carolyn Kilpatrick to support Net Neutrality. Sign the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] How British is BP?

2010-05-27 Thread c b
On 5/27/10, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering this because of the anti-BP backlash being given 'BP is foreign connotations'. It's not really foreign, it's not even really very British in terms of who owns the equity stakes. ^^^ CB: I agree with your implication that the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Recursion

2010-05-27 Thread c b
On 5/26/10, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: Recursion in language The use of recursion in linguistics, and the use of recursion in general, dates back to the ancient Indian linguist Pāṇini in the 5th century BC, who made use of recursion in his grammar rules of Sanskrit. Linguist Noam Chomsky

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man

2010-05-27 Thread c b
What about the transition in labor in the transition from ape to man ? This essay uses labor in the sense that it is something that apes do. So, it is not the labor ( or is it work ?) that produces capitalist surplus value in _Capital_I, but the more general labor that Marx describes in Chapter

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Evolutionary timeline for language

2010-05-27 Thread c b
On 5/26/10, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Evolutionary timeline for language The entire article looks dubious and would require a lifetime to discuss. CB: A lifetime ? What is dubious ? Most articles on linguistics at wiki are awful. Any attempt to revise them will

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man

2010-05-27 Thread c b
All extant anthropoid apes can stand erect and move about on their feet alone, but only in case of urgent need and in a very clumsy way. Their natural gait is in a half-erect posture and includes the use of the hands. The majority rest the knuckles of the fist on the ground and, with legs drawn

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man

2010-05-27 Thread c b
http://mehring.com/part-played-by-labor.html In this short pamphlet, written over 130 years ago, Engels presents his understanding of the key factors in human evolution, using the dialectical materialist method and what little was known about human physical and cultural evolution. Engels'

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man

2010-05-27 Thread c b
The Labour-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value Contents Section 1 - The Labour-Process or the Production of Use-Values Section 2 - The Production of Surplus-Value

[Marxism-Thaxis] Obama security strategy highlights domestic terrorism

2010-05-27 Thread c b
Obama security strategy highlights domestic terrorism Page last updated at 10:58 GMT, Thursday, 27 May 2010 11:58 UK E-mail this to a friend Printable version At Fort Hood 13 people were killed The US president's national security strategy highlights home-grown terrorism for the first time, an

[Marxism-Thaxis] Launching Language: The Gestural Origin ofDiscrete Infinity

2010-05-27 Thread c b
Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu Charles, I don't understand the purpose of so many posts. Since reading them all is out of the question, and I have no principle of selection that would work, I end up not reading any

[Marxism-Thaxis] Launching Language: The Gestural Origin of Discrete Infinity

2010-05-27 Thread c b
CeJ jannuzi at gmail.com CB: In other words, the fact that the signifier is _not_ the thing or processes that it signified is the characteristic that allows it to get across the death barrier that the body of the

[Marxism-Thaxis] A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush

2010-05-27 Thread c b
Well, here's a change we can believe in (smile) CB A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush JAMES A. HAUGHT Free Inquiry - Secular Humanism, May 25, 2010 http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=librarypage=haught_29_5 Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques

[Marxism-Thaxis] A new stage in the crisis of capitalism

2010-05-27 Thread c b
A new stage in the crisis of capitalism part one Written by Alan Woods Wednesday, 26 May 2010 After talk of the so called credit crunch gave way to optimistic comments about the green shoots in the economy, events in Greece caught the bourgeois commentators unaware. Now the world economy has once

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man

2010-05-27 Thread cda
CB “What about the transition in labor in the transition from ape to man ? This essay uses labor in the sense that it is something that apes do. So, it is not the labor ( or is it work ?) that produces capitalist surplus value in _Capital_I, but the more general labor that Marx describes in

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man

2010-05-27 Thread c b
As Marx says, Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind, and especially on his countrymen, when he showed that free competition, the struggle for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical achievement, is the normal state of the Animal Kingdom. Was

[Marxism-Thaxis] Engels to Lavrov on Darwin

2010-05-27 Thread c b
Marx-Engels Correspondence 1875 Engels to Lavrov 12 November 1875 Source: Labour Monthly, July 1936, pp. 437-442, “Engels and Darwin – Letter to Lavrov,” edited by Dona Torr; Transcribed: by Ted Crawford. The

[Marxism-Thaxis] Relation of Marx and Engels to Darwin

2010-05-27 Thread c b
http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/1998/1998-August/005426.html Except that Stephen Jay Gould in Darwin' Delay ( in _Ever Since Darwin_) says: In 1869, Marx wrote to Engels about Darwin's _Origin'_: 'Although it is developed in the crude English style, this is the book which contains the basis in

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man

2010-05-27 Thread c b
Engels: Much more important is the direct, demonstrable influence of the development of the hand on the rest of the organism. It has already been noted that our simian ancestors were gregarious; it is obviously impossible to seek the derivation of man, the most social of all animals, from

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man

2010-05-27 Thread c b
Engels: But the decisive step had been taken, the hand had become free and could henceforth attain ever greater dexterity; the greater flexibility thus acquired was inherited and increased from generation to generation. ^ CB: Ahhh but how ? How did the experience of repetition of use of _a_

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man

2010-05-27 Thread c b
Engels: First labour, after it and then with it speech – these were the two most essential stimuli under the influence of which the brain of the ape gradually changed into that of man, which, for all its similarity is far larger and more perfect. CB: The relationships between labour , speech and

[Marxism-Thaxis] Unions Battle European Leaders Over Austerity Measures

2010-05-27 Thread c b
Unions Battle European Leaders Over Austerity Measures Wednesday May 26 12:21 pm By Akito Yoshikane http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/6036/unions_face_rift_with_european_leaders_over_new_austerity_measures/ Less than a week after the European Union and Latin America secured a free trade

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Launching Language: The Gestural Origin of Discrete Infinity

2010-05-27 Thread CeJ
CB: A demonstration is worth 10,000 words. But ten thousand words can get across the death barrier and a bodily demonstraton cannot .Most of what I'm saying, my premises are anthropology a,b,c. I'm just posing a little esoteric hypothesis for some basic anthropology. Alas, apparently 10,000