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» 16/11/2010 6:49:40 AM This piece makes much more sense (thankfully) than Holmes' screed on Marx vs. Hegel (and M.....
» 16/11/2010 6:25:50 AM >Looking a little more at materialism, descartes split between the obviously non-mater.....
» 16/11/2010 6:07:04 AM Since Yabby is not in the least interested in addressing any issues we bring up here which.....
» 9/11/2010 1:46:18 PM Well jeeze, squeers: it just sounds like you're contradicting yourself now. Which is it, t.....
» 9/11/2010 9:25:13 AM >My point is Groky, that it is even to delude yourself, as in your case. Look around y.....
» 9/11/2010 9:06:54 AM >First of all, by science I assume we mean empirical, methodological practice: scienti.....
» 8/11/2010 10:16:43 AM >Science and materialism was on the rise in Marx's time. He was just trying to catch a.....
» 8/11/2010 3:57:37 AM >>*Speak for yourself and not for others.* >Groky, you can be assured, I am not a.....
» 8/11/2010 3:42:18 AM >Marx might have got that a bit, dare I say it, wrong. Marxism -- being science -- is .....
» 8/11/2010 3:29:41 AM >Marx could not, any more than anyone else, predict what might 'emerge' out of the dyn.....
» 2/11/2010 3:04:23 AM >the disputants lack even an ABC of Marx's thought. The disputants lack even a basic g.....
» 2/11/2010 2:39:26 AM >We have no intentions of being your experimental guinea pigs in finally proving that .....
» 31/10/2010 4:13:50 PM >It's not an either/or world, black vs. white, all-bad vs. all-good. Loudmouth: You a.....
» 31/10/2010 2:43:26 PM I guess you people have simply not had enough of capitalist fascism yet... May you live ju.....
» 29/10/2010 4:03:11 AM >I would rather not see you in the streets. >I will be 85 on Sunday and would probab.....
» 29/10/2010 3:37:23 AM >I am against Marxism because I see the class struggle as another divisive we/they ges.....
» 28/10/2010 4:19:32 AM >David f: You know what reality is? You slander me by connecting me with Murdoch. Howe.....
» 27/10/2010 11:54:17 AM Jeezus H. Kee-rist, Loudmouth: it has been stated over and over and over again to you that.....
» 27/10/2010 11:45:00 AM >I don't think I have misread Marx at all. Frankly, that is for marxists to decide. An.....
» 26/10/2010 3:14:18 PM I prefer to talk about the present-day mass murderers of U.S and NATO imperialism, David F.....
» 26/10/2010 8:21:21 AM In fact, stalinism is a debasement of marxism, which follows on the even earlier (pre-WWI).....
» 26/10/2010 5:18:58 AM See Squeers? These people are impervious to logic or inconvenient facts. Or facts, period,.....
» 21/10/2010 4:13:28 AM Hey -- even his royal hippy-dippy highness Prince Charles is all for "balance" i.....
» 20/10/2010 2:33:15 PM Yabby: >I guess the conclusion to all of this is that interesting as it was at its tim.....
» 20/10/2010 2:17:44 PM GHolmes: >Why the focus on 'materialism'? Just because Marx said it is that way? The .....
» 20/10/2010 2:01:56 PM spinna: >Marxism, neo-Marxism and European Philosophy were key elements of my tertiary.....
» 18/10/2010 4:22:32 PM >To further critique Marx, IMO, any eco-utopian shift within our society is likely to .....
» 18/10/2010 3:23:42 PM >>"...Marx wrote in 1859: "It is not the consciousness of men that determ.....
» 18/10/2010 1:52:34 PM >no philosophy or ideology has meaning as an abstraction. It takes shape according to .....
» 18/10/2010 1:19:34 PM >However, Marxists and Nazis do not appreciate free expression when they take power al.....
» 17/10/2010 1:30:36 PM Anybody who actually still wants to discuss dialectical-materialism -- even how it differs.....
» 17/10/2010 12:19:58 PM Poirot: Yabby isn't really interested in the truth -- he's interested in making anti-comm.....
» 16/10/2010 3:06:35 PM They're only ad hominem when they're irrelevant to the argument at hand; so as I've said p.....
» 16/10/2010 12:58:42 PM Loudmouth: How can we make you understand that you don't understand a damned thing -- exc.....
» 15/10/2010 4:08:40 PM See Squeers? It's impossible to discuss marxism or dialectics w/o obtuse people going roun.....
» 15/10/2010 12:27:38 PM You know, I thought Loudmouth was a bit different than the other lot -- but more discussio.....
» 15/10/2010 5:53:11 AM >Thank you, grok, but there WAS the Red Terror, then the famine, which between them ki.....
» 14/10/2010 12:26:45 PM > Lenin's butchery was much like other butcheries There was no "butchery" un.....
» 14/10/2010 4:29:32 AM >If something didn't work the first two hundred times, something which required the ri.....
» 13/10/2010 9:11:49 AM > If Marx had suggested that the dialectic tension between the bourgeoisie and the pro.....
» 13/10/2010 5:42:03 AM > Ah, Poirot, Grok has been talking about the EARLY Marx - you and Fromm are talking a.....
» 12/10/2010 4:24:47 PM Squeers: >Dear GH, so far you've said nothing to indicate you have the faintest idea .....
» 12/10/2010 4:07:56 PM >the beauty of wilful ignorance is that its meditations are so self-sufficient. It mus.....
» 11/10/2010 11:07:35 AM >Hi Squeers, >Marx himself either did not know or ascribed little significance to .....
» 11/10/2010 10:54:46 AM >I think that while things do have a tendency to find positive balance between the opp.....
» 11/10/2010 10:40:41 AM >the common 19th century and ANTI- Enlightenment yearning for closure may have impelle.....
» 11/10/2010 10:08:59 AM >My crude understanding of Marx's reference to the dialectic is that dynamically >.....
» 8/10/2010 1:27:10 PM Loudmouth: As I've covered a few times here already: 'stalinism !== socialism'. So "g.....
» 8/10/2010 11:01:09 AM Since we are straying far afield from hegelian vs. marxist dialectics, let me introduce on.....
» 6/10/2010 12:57:28 PM > What we have under capitalism is analogous to what Aristotle > called "chrema.....
» 6/10/2010 7:53:21 AM > People who talk about different possible “economic systems” are merely > displayin.....
» 6/10/2010 5:25:42 AM > It is true that fuel and carbon prices will encourage us to localize. > Unfortunat.....
» 6/10/2010 5:06:48 AM > I was referring to those who make apologies for the crimes > of Lenin and the othe.....
» 5/10/2010 12:34:20 PM > I traded with India in the 70s. At the end of it all I walked > away, shaking my h.....
» 5/10/2010 5:27:34 AM > I am an advocate of vigorous social reform. In this I am fighting > to prevent soc.....
» 5/10/2010 4:57:08 AM > What I'm saying...Sienna, is that people like you always excuse > western exploita.....
» 5/10/2010 4:52:32 AM > You seem to be advocating what Karl Popper called piecemeal social > engineering. .....
» 3/10/2010 12:51:22 PM > I certainly have and I've seen it regrow. I've also > seen recycled toilet paper. .....
» 3/10/2010 11:09:10 AM > you are one of the beneficiaries of the huge amount > of innovation going on all a.....
» 3/10/2010 7:50:27 AM > Besides the general statement that we should be heading toward > communism, this s.....
» 3/10/2010 1:42:42 AM > What a sad day it would be if the likes of Squeers, Grok or Grim > ran the show po.....
» 2/10/2010 12:42:56 PM > As I said I am not going to argue economics. The Scandinavian > countries are grea.....
» 2/10/2010 10:39:22 AM > I find it hard to understand how we can spend so much time debating > instead of d.....
» 2/10/2010 5:47:30 AM > The one point I infer from your position that I'm sceptical of, is > that a dialec.....
» 1/10/2010 3:02:04 PM Peter Hume: [Deleted for abuse.]I mean, how many ways are there to back out of a losing a.....
» 1/10/2010 11:19:51 AM I passed by a lot of crap and even some real questions, simply because life is too short.......
» 1/10/2010 6:36:13 AM > In this way, with decreasing oscillations between too many and not > enough rabbit.....
» 1/10/2010 5:28:12 AM > Is that the best you can do - assuming what is in issue, appeal > to absent author.....
» 30/09/2010 1:10:19 PM Predictably, this supposed discussion on how Hegel was hijacked by Marx has degenerated in.....
» 29/09/2010 7:01:14 PM > So yes, if you can sea a way to make capitalism viable, equitable, > conscionable .....
» 29/09/2010 6:36:45 PM Loudmouth: Stalinism !== socialism. Period. That's the short answer. It's also standard b.....
» 29/09/2010 6:17:11 PM The previous post by the bolshevik's nephew was garbage from end to end AFAIC: but of the .....
» 29/09/2010 5:51:31 AM Squeers said: > While you're at it, PH, let's deconstruct this precious trope > &quo.....
» 28/09/2010 4:45:40 PM > I'm sorry, grok, but I'm going to have to take issue here with your > fanboyish ad.....
» 28/09/2010 4:18:02 PM It's amusing to see how a partisan of an earlier stab at a dialectical understanding of Re.....
» 28/09/2010 3:54:36 PM > About 48 years ago while working at the Johnson Foundation of the > University of .....
» 28/09/2010 3:24:44 AM > The problem with dialectic and its Marxian offshoots is that it is > unfalsifiable.....
» 27/09/2010 2:54:49 PM > • The thesis is an intellectual proposition. > • The antithesis is simply the nega.....
» 27/09/2010 2:32:41 PM > Mr. Karl Marx was born in a family of middle class standing > and went to schools .....
» 27/09/2010 12:40:43 PM Ah, yes... yet another attempt to 'save' Hegel from his marxist captors. And (as with most.....

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