[Marxism] Ultima Ratio Regum
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Ultima Ratio Regum by Stephen Spender The guns spell money's ultimate reason In letters of lead on the spring hillside. But the boy lying dead under the olive trees Was too young and too silly To have been notable to their important eye. He was a better target for a kiss. When he lived, tall factory hooters never summoned him. Nor did restaurant plate-glass doors revolve to wave him in. His name never appeared in the papers. The world maintained its traditional wall Round the dead with their gold sunk deep as a well, Whilst his life, intangible as a Stock Exchange rumour, drifted outside. O too lightly he threw down his cap One day when the breeze threw petals from the trees. The unflowering wall sprouted with guns, Machine-gun anger quickly scythed the grasses; Flags and leaves fell from hands and branches; The tweed cap rotted in the nettles. Consider his life which was valueless In terms of employment, hotel ledgers, news files. Consider. One bullet in ten thousand kills a man. Ask. Was so much expenditure justified On the death of one so young and so silly Lying under the olive tree, O world, O death? _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Has the World Lost Faith in Capitalism? - WSJ
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods, has long worried about the sustainability of the free enterprise system if large numbers of voters come to think of businesses as “basically a bunch of psychopaths running around trying to line their own pockets.” If the public doesn’t think business is fundamentally good, he has argued, then business is inviting destructive regulation. If, by contrast, business shows responsibility to all its stakeholders—customers, employees, investors, suppliers and the wider community—“the impulse to regulate and control would be lessened.” http://www.wsj.com/articles/has-the-world-lost-faith-in-capitalism-1446833869 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: News Of The Revolution In Syria: Stop the War Coalition lie about being lied about
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[Marxism] Fwd: The war on terror and its new supporters | Leila's blog
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Of course ‘terrorism’ is a blanket term which the Syrian regime employs against any dissent. And the main targets of Russia’s imperialist adventures have not been the Daesh (ISIS) fascists. Instead Russia’s military might is directed at Syria’s resistance militias and civilians living in liberated zones which have become death camps under the state’s scorched earth tactics and crippling blockades. It’s the working class suburbs and rural districts of Hama and Idlib, those that raged so fiercely against the regime, that are today being pounded by Russian airstrikes. The people attacked in Homs are those who defeated Daesh a year ago. More than 234 civilians including at least 83 children have perished under Russian airstrikes.[1] Hospitals have been targeted as well as bread distribution depots, civilian councils, and archaeological and historical sites. Tens of thousands have been driven from their homes, many the victims of previous displacements, now sheltering under trees or in caves as winter threatens. full: https://leilashami.wordpress.com/2015/11/07/the-war-on-terror-and-its-new-supporters/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Spotlight
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * A back of the envelope review of "Spotlight", a film about the Boston Globe investigative reporting on the Catholic priest sex abuse scandal. It is a well-constructed narrative with good performances but I kept thinking the son of "All the President's Men" since it is almost a paint-by-numbers copy of the original. With Ben Bradlee Jr. (played by John Slattery of "Mad Men") in a pivotal role just as his father was in the Watergate film, you can hardly avoid the similarities. The problem is that none of the characters have any intrinsic interest. They only function as sleuths. Instead of "Deep Throat", they rely on a Catholic priest who broke ranks and became a psychotherapist dealing in sex abuse cases. It was very earnest and very timely. What it lacked was human drama, probably a function of the sex abuse victims playing only a secondary role in the film. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Ultima Ratio Regum
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Given the police murder of a six-year old boy in a car with his father in New Orleans this past week, I found this line in Spencer's poem heartbreaking: "He was a better target for a kiss." _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Mutiny within Iran’s Revolutionary Guard after it incurs heavy losses in Syria: source
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[Marxism] Fwd: Saudi Arabia's 'intensified' support to Syrian rebels is reportedly slowing regime advances - Business Insider
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[Marxism] Samuel Knafo and Benno Teschke: "The Rules of Reproduction of Capitalism: A Historicist Critique"
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Another sign of the decline of Political Marxism. Bruno Teschke breaks ranks. http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2315-samuel-knafo-and-benno-teschke-the-rules-of-reproduction-of-capitalism-a-historicist-critique _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] A partial foray into tax
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * A bit of tax, poetry and fun, starting with a terrible pun in the heading (sort of like a dad's joke for Australian tax people) A partial foray into tax He thrives I exist That is the cyst Their system of untax To read the whole poem click here. http://enpassant.com.au/2015/11/08/a-partial-foray-into-tax/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
