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Could you please give me posting permissions for the library?

My inquiry is a few days old now, and for some reason further replies seem to be caught by the spam-filter for no reason at all. Would somebody please give me the permissions for posting to the library? I would like to provide some additional texts to it.

I translated a critique of marginalist microeconomics, and I'd like to add it to the library. Would you give me the permission to posting it?

Done! Sorry it took a while.

While you're at it, could you approve me too?

What's the substance or perspective of the critique?

If you want, you can email it to libcom.org@Gmail.com for us to review

It's a critique tracing the logical errors that marginalism allows itself in its reasoning, and how its tautologies become increasingly crass in the development from the theories of Menger, Jevons and Walras up to later developments such as indifference curves.

Err you know Cyril Smith was a member of the Workers Revolutionary Party and part of the splinter that kept going even after Healy's exposure as a serial rapist and the parties links to middle eastern dictatorships right?

Therefore, everything he has written must be disregarded. This kind of logic leads nowhere.

Didn't say that at all, but if you can't handle being reminded of the activities of the author then I guess whatever he wrote couldn't be very good.

For real thought the man was a life long member of a vanguardist party that abused its own membership in every way possible to do so and actively informed on middle eastern and north African exile communities for money, and continued to do so even after the people grassed up started being arrested and disappeared. What exactly is valuable to the emancipation of the working class from such a point of view?

Yet you imply it with everything you write here.

If you want to judge the writings of an author, you do it by pointing out errors in their reasoning, and not by moralistic appeals against the person.

He was not.

So what?

You're inferring a "point of view" of him that makes it clear that you have not read any of his books - which makes the use of the word "valuable" particularly revealing. If you did however indeed read his books, then this statement is even more embarrassing: Even if we assumed the counterfactual of him staying faithful to his past, which he outspokenly did not, then this still tells us nothing about the value of his work for communism. This can only be judged by its content, which can be significant for communism even in cases where it does not directly deal with it:

Besides, this kind of assumption about theories corresponding to certain "standpoints" already alludes to a belief in an incommensurability of subjectivity, and hence a doubt about human knowledge that cannot but be called reactionary. Whether a judgement is correct or not can be decided by thinking it through and assessing it from that, not by its supposed intentions or its point of view. A good idea doesn't care for who conceived of it.

With what I wrote here? Implying I didn't say it in what a wrote previously before you made your charge? So you gonna apologise for that then?

????? In a liberal arts class maybe but death of the author doesn't really work in the field of practical politics. Its called contextual analysis. Like for example we have an author advocating a revolution lead by a political party, in which case the behaviour of the party the author belonged to would be rather important.

Err yes he was, he remained in the rump of WRP and the Newsline group until it split to the point the remainder became known as Movement for Socialism. His membership of the WRP outlasted Healy.

Oh, so I'm right in that his position didn't change all that much since Healy got the boot then? If you honestly don't know why this is an issue then you're just proving my point for me that Smith's work doesn't belong here.

You've not even bothered saying what book you really want to add to the library. Is this a joke? You just had a go at me for moralising about assault, rape and murder, but now you're doing it here about reading habits. But you haven't even bothered saying what books your talking about. We can't be talking about the man in totality because that includes his time in the original WRP and you absolutely hate me bringing that up.

You know Marx was a big believer in criticising people for their actions and not just the stuff they wrote in a vacuum right? The Eighteenth Brumaire wasn't a collection of Napoleon III speeches with critical annotations. Also in his many criticisms of classical economists he would take their concepts and then look at the economic reality to see if it matched up, and in his view it usually didn't.

Honestly you couldn't have picked a worse person to make an appeal to authority fallacy on this point. Civil War in France, Class Struggles in France, Revolution and Counter revolution in Germany etc.

This is not a rebuttal or an answer to my question, its just an attempt to moralise and look clever.

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I would like to post some books and pamphlets in Library! (About Communist movement, in Farsi).

hi i'd like to ask a question about a crimethinc piece
also have reading material i could share

Hi, I would like to post an article about rss plan against pandit and muslim community

please let me know when can i get permission ????

Hi, I would like to post a news article about a strike against price hike

you don't need any permissions to ask questions.

What sort of reading material is it you have?

can we have someone information? Like what is "rss", and what is your political perspective?

Thanks for your comment. Could you give us a bit more information, like is there a link to a news story about this already somewhere, or what group of workers was involved?

I'm angry about the garbage piece the LRB published about Grenfell Tower, I'm guessing a blog would be the appropriate place to comment on it? If so, can I have a blog?

Hi, I would like posting rights. So that I can post stories from the Manchester Solfed local. The first post will be about a recent action in Altrincham: http://www.solfed.org.uk/manchester/fortis-student-lettings-neglects-tenants

Please give me posting rights so I can post a news story from Manchester Solfed about a housing dispute.

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Hello, I would like posting rights so that I could post a French translation of this text from endnotes.

granted!