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Okay, one last go: Padraig, try answering the perfectly reasonable question I have twice asked you (and alluded to a third time) in a perfectly reasonable manner, and I won't go away from here thinking that you're a vacuous twat with a chip on your shoulder.

Padraig, I read your posts very carefully and found them to be full of the rhetorical flourishes (oh Roight!) that you claim to find in borderpolice's posts. Hence my pot/kettle comment. Your sophistry is evident by your constant reversal of your position and your inability to properly respond...

This discussion would go a lot easier if you read what people actually said rather than simply supplying knee-jerk reactions to what you think they might have said if they were being as confrontational as yourself. My point was that it would be preposterous to expect to gain anything from an...

Quite possibly. I'm not alarmed at PA's failure to be scientific; my interest has always been it's impact in the wider sphere. However when some writers and (more importantly) practitioners make specific scientific claims for the discipline, surely the thing to do is take them at their word and...

And that really is the pot calling the kettle black. I have to say that I'm confused about what exactly is being attacked and defended here. Psychoanalysis has been torn apart by factional disagreements almost since it's birth. Given this fact, I for one would be interested in seeing some sort...

And yet at the beginning of Quantum Psychology, RAW himself says that he is often called a materialist in some sectors because of his insistence on the method of scientific doubt! The trouble is, that when one applies this method to RAW's own work, one finds that many of the examples he gives...

Yes but, as far as I can see, only the banal non-controversial bits; unless you can think of examples? Whilst my respect for RAW as a 'great thinker' is pretty limited, I must say that I really like the Illuminatus books (also the Schrodinger's Cat trilogy). I find them a lot less irritating...

A meaningless definition, as the phrase 'big minority within the scene' can mean anything you want it to. Lots of people within the 'rock scene' see The White Stripes as innovators, does that mean they are, or do such people not count because you don't agree with them? I wouldn't say this, but...

What people? Those who don't listen to jazz and go to jazz gigs? The whole idea that any form of music which is is still being written and performed is somehow 'dead' is completely ludicrous.

And that's because you're 30. My older brother was saying exactly the same thing about The Who back in '77. Then I pointed out that they used to cover stuff like Eddie Cochran and The Pirates and so it goes on... But that's exactly the point: Rock has always been like that and always will be...

And people have been saying something similar ever since the late 50's. This whole discussion reeks of people being 'a certain age' and assuming that just because something has been done well once, when a new generation discovers bands doing something similar it is somehow aesthetically...

Not according to Marx it isn't: Money is transformed into capital when it is used in an economic transaction to buy commodities with the intention of selling them to turn them back into a money (preferably, but not necessarily, at a profit). So in the circulation of capital, money is mediated...

Absolutely. I didn't mean to imply that the two points I was making in response to Owen were related.

Surely that's why you can separate them though? If the economies of certain countries are bouyed up by the exploitation of others, then one can point to a difference between the exploiters and the exploited, even if such exploitation is integral to capitalism (which I think you're right about)...

I'm certainly not saying that, but you asked whether there could be coherent ethical defences of capitalism, and I just listed a few which are sustainable. I agree with you that capitalist countries often depend upon the exploitation of developing countries, etc. but this is hardly a problem...

I'm not sure what sort of definition of 'economic organisation' you can be using which would allow you to claim that the majority of these issues were not economic ones. Certainly the first three and the final example are all predicated upon economics. There are loads: capitalism 'works', other...

I'm not at all sure that all socialist conceptions of exploitation do depend upon the LToV, but we'll let that pass. What I would like to know is which conceptions of exploitation you do find meaningful, and what you think can be done about them (if you think anything should be). I'm getting a...

Whilst this is undoubtedly true, it's worth mentioning that your French has to be very good indeed in order to really get to grips with the detail of Derrida's work. His writing is so nuanced that it can be very hard to work out what's really going on. I'm competent enough to read most French...

In the evening. As I said, he doesn't say three stations; he's ambiguous about the number of stations. You can listen to it here. There is also a clip of him on Channel Four News doing the rounds, but it doesn't add anything to his earlier comments.

I think your pyramid doesn't work as well as you think. Basically, most of the people who claim to be in control don't have as much power as they would like you to believe. Half these departments are at ecah other's throats anyway and that's before you include international factors and the power...