[Marxism] Manmade AIDS: A *Mutable* Feast (also: Lenin and Computation?)

["Jeff Rubard" <jeffrubard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:34:32 -0500
> From: Frank Lusardi <flusardi@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Marxism] RE: The Manmade Origin of AIDS
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>> This article fails to substantiate its allegations of a US government
>> conspiracy to kill African Blacks via starting and spreading AIDS.
>> That
>> is not to say that the US elite has been not fully
>> complicit in allowing the
>> spread of AIDS in Africa, simply by their refusal to take any meaningful
>> measures to stop its spread there.
>
> No, the AIDS blunder is both more mundane and more
> insidious. It is but the froth floating on the sea that is the
> corporate corruption of science itself.
>
> See: http://www.virusmyth.net
>
I personally don't find the etiologies of AIDS which do not involve HIV
compelling, but recent research which suggests the illness was human-borne
in Africa many decades before the global pandemic (in the *1930s*) and
this prompted me to write a fairly short piece (which I do not care to
republish) about the (somewhat far-fetched) possibility that patterns of
behavior prompted by "total adminstration" via *office automation* and
behavioral changes devolving therefrom prompted the disease to become
prevalent in the US early on in the pandemic: i.e., macrosociologically
"substantiantiating" Gabriel Rotello's theory about shifts in the
character of homosexual sexual behavior playing a major role in the spread
of AIDS: the birth of the "circuit party", if you will.

Now, I am no Luddite, but suggestions have been made recently that the
role of "computer-mediated communication" (and the hyphen is perhaps less,
or more, important than generally understood) in individual choice is
perhaps poorly understood: and my (soon-to-be-expanded) work on Lenin
derives rather heavily from such thoughts, to the point where it seems to
me that Lenin's corpus as it has come down to us seems to me to be a
series of variations on computational (rather than "properly semantic")
themes in *a language already understood from the standpoint of binding
maxims of communication* (Russian): *thoroughly compelling rules of
practice* about being informative and consistent which structure Lenin's
presentation not only of his "propagandistic" work but also his thoughts
about Hegel in the *Philosophical Notebooks*.  I would be curious to hear
what students of Russian had to say about such a thought.

Rubard


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