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Marx and Wittgenstein (11)
"In addition to the general problems of the behaviorist program, there are some special difficulties involved in applying this doctrine to the social sciences. Most importantly, it would require that social science meet the goal often proclaimed by positivism: the elimination......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-03 10:01:32 | Rating:

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The Socialist Economy (1)
"Socialism, as a political doctrine and a social movement, has never set itself purely economic aims. From the beginning its ideal was the creation of a new type of society, or, as Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) expressed it, 'a new civilization'. Some critics indeed have argued......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-03 12:51:49 | Rating:

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Marx and Wittgenstein (12)
"Objectivists have often confined inquiry to statistical data as a means of avoiding the problem of interpretation. On the face of it, statistics on crime, marriage, employment, religious affiliation, voting patterns, and so forth have a brute-data appearance, and it would seem that......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-04 11:40:15 | Rating:

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Marx and Mead (1)
"The insight that has inspired the development of sociologies of knowledge, namely, the idea that thought and social context are integrally related, has become quite commonplace. It is present, if only implicitly in most of sociology, in the disciplines of psychology and linguistics......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-04 12:18:03 | Rating:

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Dialectical Phenomenology (1)
"In Dialectical Phenomenology: Marx's Method , I analyze Marx's theorizing. I do so by concentrating on his method. I formulate this method as dialectical phenomenology. The body of this book spells out this method and illustrates it with a reading of the Grundrisse: Foundations of......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-05 11:28:05 | Rating:

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Thoughts
Democracy is not about individuals, or a community, telling individuals how to live their individual lives. Democracy is not about one individual -- an absolute monarch, for example -- telling every other individual how they are to live their own lives. Democracy is not about......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-05 13:08:25 | Rating:

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Dialectical Phenomenology (2)
" Dialectical Phenomenology: Marx’s Method analyzes Karl Marx's method of theorizing. It focuses on the Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy , a work considered by many to be the most important of Marx's texts. The complete text has been......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-10 12:33:33 | Rating:

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Dialogue and Thought Police
Stochastic dialogue -- dialogue grounded in random discussions of variable thoughts and ideas, and situated in casual deliberations on various observations and opinions -- can be a stormy process, to be sure; but, we proceed, perhaps, by our philosophical generosity......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-10 21:25:35 | Rating:

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There are libertarian capitalists and there are libertarian socialists. As a professed libertarian socialist, I regard libertarianism as identical with anarchism. I regard libertarian socialism as equivalent to anarchist communism. But, there are left-wing libertarians who will agree......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-10 21:31:32 | Rating:

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There are libertarian socialists. If a society can be libertarian, then there can be a libertarian socialism. There can be a state-socialism, which is statist, rather than socialist, just as there can be an anarcho-communism which is not an authoritarian communism. The way so......Read More