OK, Bill. This thread is now going back to Climate Change, yes? Torgun ... From: worldincommon@yahoogroups.com [mailto:worldincommon@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf...
Hi numb skull I need to rephrase one of my questions below - what I should have said was - would not Adolf Hitler's views on the master race have excluded him...
Numb skull, all A Very Happy New Year to you all! I am pleased to see that many of you were busy considering political issues yesterday, rather than enjoying...
I was incorrect to have asked you what YOU meant by capital, the question should have been, if Marx thought that land was capital what was his definition of...
Hi Bill and all, Happy New Year! I am aware of no such moderation, and a cursory look at the records turn up none either. To what are you referring? For...
Hi Torgun You mentioned earlier about metaphysical materialism. Here's a few random references I came across via google. People like Adam over on the WSM...
comments within... ... BG: the point was that in making a sweeping generalization one could find excerpts to support it but those who have read and understand...
Bill, Sometimes post dont go out right on yahoo and sometimes just plain disappear! I find most of the time that the post is on the website of the list when...
There is an old pre-christian heathen idea of wyrd which often gets translated as fate, which may bear on this discussion. However, wyrd is not that hard and...
BG: well obviously I would have had to have read the passage in question in order to quote it but I didn't think I was quoting Marx out of context as I didn't ...
This is the strangest little news story... It appears that someone like Saddam Hussain is capable of empathy on a one-to-one, face-to-face basis - he hugged...
... BG: the point is that the context is in dispute... ... BG: I understand what the idea was we just don't agree on the context of what you claim marx means. ...
Bill and David If you are reviving your Marxist discussions, perhaps you could consider a) Renaming the thread to the name of the topic you will be discussing ...
Perhaps we should have a process whereby if one person writes something such as "Marx thought that land was capital" that there ought to be an appeal to the...
Religion assumes that we have a free will to choose regardless of the environment.Thus in christianity if you believe , you are saved otherwise to hell with...
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Hi Torgun While the scientific consensus is that global warming is a reality and that it is to some extent human caused there are scientists and scientific...
Hi Numbskull ... reason for objection to religious people joining the W.S.P. It has nothing to do with the morality of an individual.As far as I'm concerned...
Hello Trevor I think we have to look at the individual religious believer and what he or she actually believes or is concerned with. I doubt if all that many ...
Goodaye Robin, 1.It goes without saying that anyone wanting to join the party would have to agree with the party's principles. 2.The Wikipedia encyclopedia...
Hi Numbskull ... would have to agree with the party's principles. ... souls) that often inhabit ordinary animals and objects, governing their existence.[1] ......
Are we discussing SPGB's preclusion from membership of anyone who professes to be religious? If we are I have a couple of hypothesis that may explain that ...
Our friend in trying to explain how Marx got it wrong gave as the key to the supposed error that "Marx thought that land was capital. Of course when he is...
[had technical probs sending this previously so trying again - I would like an answer!] Hi there, personally – apols, Torgun – I was sorry this discussion...
To answer Chris' post under unsupported statements, I had already started the new thread "What did Marx 'think' capital was?" I had posted an excerpt from the...
comments within... ... BG: at this point I have only one question and it was (I believe) the original question I posed... ... purely personal, but ... ...
Torgun, I realise that religious people in general do not tackle the question of free will but even though they accept that certain environments may affect...
Trevor Lovatt
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Hi all For an interesting development see this http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spopen/message/4840 cheers Robin...
Hi Dave ... Yes that is the case. According to the mainstream SPGB view )I know not everyone in the SPGB accepts this) you cannot be a socialist and have...