Swish-e home page Search LBO-Talk Archives


Limit search to: Subject & Body Document Size Subject Author Date
Sort by: Reverse Sort
 Results for heartfield   1636 to 1650 of 2828 results. Run time: 0.022 seconds | Search time: 0.001 seconds    
 Page:1 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 189 Previous 15 Next 15
1636 Yes, anti-Semitic, but unintended, and harmless -- rank: 1000
Max says of the Scottish clergyman. 'Yes anti-semitic. There is no separating the death of Jesus from the ancient accusation of Jewish guilt'. Which is saying that Christianity is anti-Semitic. I suppose it is, but if that is a reason for its suppression, the ensuing religious intolerance would be a greater price to pay than tolerating the implied anti-Semitism in Christianity. The story of Christ's crucifixion is a component of the clergyman's conceptual universe. For him to express his sympath ...
Document Size: 6098
Author: James Heartfield
Date: Sat Apr 6 03:02:56 PST 2002
1637 rights under communism? -- rank: 1000
Greg writes: "This is what I think James Heartfield was referring to, Marx's critique of the temporary nature of these forms of reified human concepts." I agree with everything that Greg says, who puts it much better than me. -- James Heartfield The 'Death of the Subject' Explained is available at GBP11.00, plus GBP1.00 p&p from Publications, audacity.org, 8 College Close, Hackney, London, E9 6ER. Make cheques payable to 'Audacity Ltd'
Document Size: 4848
Author: James Heartfield
Date: Fri Apr 5 09:40:00 PST 2002
1638 law, too, will be transcended -- rank: 1000
The comments by 'dlaw' that 'One need hardly take the trouble to argue against the idea of a dispute-free world' (and I see that you didn't, dlaw), and Justin ('I do not imagined those ciecumstances will ever be realized') really amount to an inability to believe that private property in the means of production can ever be overcome. The argument as to whether communism can do away with law, is really about whether society can do away with capitalism. What is one to make of someone who can imagi ...
Document Size: 6439
Author: James Heartfield
Date: Fri Apr 5 01:20:30 PST 2002
1639 where is the democracy? -- rank: 1000
Shane Mage asks 'where is the democracy?' The answer ought to be that democracy resides in the people, but if the populace does not constitute itself as a people, then the constitution remains a dead letter. Shane continues 'But, of course, my vote counts exactly as little in the corporate as in the "liberal democratic" context.' But it does not seem appropriate to respond to this problem in the manner of a dissatisfied customer. If there is no democratic movement it is not because th ...
Document Size: 5239
Author: James Heartfield
Date: Thu Apr 4 11:26:31 PST 2002
1640 evacuation of historical subjectivity -- rank: 1000
Thomas Seay <entheogens at yahoo.com>: 'James, would you please define "evacuation of historical subjectivity"?' I mean the sociological effects of the defeat of the working class movement. My thesis is that the working class movement made up the most promising expression of historical subjectivity (or agency, will etc.) in recent times. Its effective and subsequent disaggregation leaves humanity without any well-defined subjective factor at work - a unique situation for modern s ...
Document Size: 5802
Author: James Heartfield
Date: Thu Apr 4 03:38:54 PST 2002
1641 Marx contra rights -- rank: 1000
Justin: "That's a contradiction in terms, a Marxist conception of rights. At least Marx would have thought so." Charles: "I think you mean you think Marx would have thought so. How about some support for your claim ?" What about those passages in the Poverty of Philosophy where he heaps scorn on Proudhon for erecting bourgeois property rights into a basis for socialism (so too in the letter to Annenkov on the same subject). So too in Capital where he talks of the realm of rig ...
Document Size: 6101
Author: James Heartfield
Date: Wed Apr 3 01:22:21 PST 2002
1642 Japanese slackers -- rank: 1000
Doug : 'Reading all the press lately about "parasite teens" [in Japan] ... I was wondering: is this some version of the refusal of work so celebrated by autonomists?' Maybe, in the sense that the autonomists were in the vanguard of laziness (cue Paul Lafargue, the Right to be Lazy). The 'Japanese' trend is universal. In the US I think you call them slackers. In the UK they are the foundation of our music, fashion and video games business. We call them students. Doug: 'Is the long slum ...
Document Size: 5478
Author: James Heartfield
Date: Wed Apr 3 01:04:14 PST 2002
1643 no rights under communism -- rank: 1000
It might be a side-issue, but 'dlawbailey' misunderstands Marx's theory of communism when he writes: 'Needs and interests only rise to the level of rights UNDER A CONTRACT. Under communism, natural rights are still SUPERIOR to needs and interests. People cannot be killed, robbed or enslaved to provide "fair" distribution of resources. The communist social contract presumes the same pre-existing rights as the liberal-democratic social contract.' For Marx there are no competing interest ...
Document Size: 6080
Author: James Heartfield
Date: Wed Apr 3 00:45:55 PST 2002
1644 Marx and Lenin against right to food -- rank: 1000
Charles B: "They have a human right to enough food to live. To deprive them of it violates justice." All this talk of justice in the abstract is a little dizzying. Certainly Karl Marx and VI Lenin did not think that there was a right to food; The former anticipated, and the latter did withhold food to those who would not work under the construction of socialism. Marx anticipated that under socialism 'a community of free individuals, carrying on their work with the means of production i ...
Document Size: 6935
Author: James Heartfield
Date: Tue Apr 2 05:05:19 PST 2002
1645 9/11 -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox objects to 'Fitch's repeated use of the term "crime against humanity" to describe 9/11' Perhaps we could call it a crime against bond-trading instead -- James Heartfield Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age is available at GBP19.99, plus GBP5.01 p&p from Publications, audacity.org, 8 College Close, Hackney, London, E9 6ER. Make cheques payable to 'Audacity Ltd'. www.audacity.org
Document Size: 4719
Author: James Heartfield
Date: Tue Apr 2 05:22:12 PST 2002
1646 guilt in politics -- rank: 1000
Joanna Bujes <joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com>: "You know, I don't get this at all. What bloody guilt? How did that guilt suddenly kick in in 67?" It's a good question. There is a growing literature on guilt as a factor in international relations. Elazar Barkan's 'Guilt of Nations' (last year), Ian Buruma's 'Wages of Guilt'. On Israel specifically, Barkan has good chapters and Norman Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry, is very good, as is the book Finkelstein took much of his argum ...
Document Size: 5217
Author: James Heartfield
Date: Mon Apr 1 22:56:35 PST 2002
1647 Why Israel? -- rank: 1000
Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes "I'm not entirely convinced this [the theory that the war against the Palestinians is a ploy to hold down oil prices] is true; oil prices may well be set by markets and are therefore beyond political control." I agree. Doubtless somewhere in the distant past the importance of Israel to the West was to do with its demonstrative role in policing Arab nationalism, but that can explain little today. First, Arab nationalism is a spent force ...
Document Size: 6834
Author: James Heartfield
Date: Mon Apr 1 23:10:22 PST 2002
1648 Brilliant and Nutty -- rank: 1000
In message <F117aFMwr9y4cp51dyZ0000ad4a at hotmail.com>, Randy Steindorf <grsteindorf at hotmail.com> writes quoting workers voice >>>The pusillanimous reformist "left" in this country, particularly >>>typified by the International Socialist Organization (ISO), now >>>points a finger at the American rulers' support to bin Laden and the >>>Afghan Taliban as "freedom fighters" during the Cold War. Left >>>unsaid is the IS ...
Document Size: 5580
Author: James Heartfield
Date: Sat Sep 29 12:38:42 PDT 2001
1649 reminder -- rank: 1000
In message <1168FA628242D511AA7F000103277FC80A1F6C at FAIRPDC>, Seth Ackerman <sackerman at FAIR.org> writes >For those who believe that the Bosnia and Kosovo interventions were waged by >liberal humanitarians and opposed by conservative "national interest" >mavens, it may be useful to keep something in mind. The Bush >administration's most strident superhawk, Paul Wolfowitz, who is now >apparently lobbying for a policy of multiple wars (including "endin ...
Document Size: 5326
Author: James Heartfield
Date: Sat Sep 29 12:34:22 PDT 2001
1650 Sociology and Explanations (Re: Hitchens responds to critics -- rank: 1000
In message <3BB61831.1485D465 at ilstu.edu>, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes >> Yeah, but it's not like you can just choose "finanzkapital." It >> depends on an entire imperial hierarchy, which produces inequalities >> and exclusions. More than that. It produces Al Qaeda and the Taliban. These are not primitive elements from some previous social order. They are wholly contemporary products of, well, 'finanzcapital'. Let's face it Osama bin Laden is ...
Document Size: 5625
Author: James Heartfield
Date: Sat Sep 29 12:30:26 PDT 2001
 Page:1 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 189 Previous 15 Next 15
Powered by Swish-e swish-e.org

Valid HTML 4.01!