Re: [MLL] domination of the speculator: Micheal Hudson Interview

2008-07-04 Thread Nikogda Nichevo
... As I've said before, the Internet provides opportunities to waste time in the most unproductive discussions. Charles F. Moreira LOL! I certainly take your point, Charles, but I'm in a state of enforced recovery and have precious little else to do for the next few weeks. True, Waistline

Re: [MLL] domination of the speculator: Micheal Hudson Interview

2008-07-04 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 7/4/2008 3:03:49 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LOL! I certainly take your point, Charles, but I'm in a state of enforced recovery and have precious little else to do for the next few weeks. True, Waistline is such easy pickings: his fantastic

Re: [MLL] domination of the speculator: Micheal Hudson Interview

2008-07-03 Thread Waistline2
In a few words, the world we live in today is not the world ruled by the financial-industrial sector of capital described by Lenin. Does this mean imperialism has disappeared and no longer exists? Of course not. Imperialism existed long before Lenin was born, or Marx for that matter.

Re: [MLL] domination of the speculator: Micheal Hudson Interview

2008-07-03 Thread George G
] To: marxist-leninist-list@lists.econ.utah.edu Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 6:38 AM Subject: Re: [MLL] domination of the speculator: Micheal Hudson Interview In a few words, the world we live in today is not the world ruled by the financial-industrial sector of capital described

Re: [MLL] domination of the speculator: Micheal Hudson Interview

2008-07-03 Thread Nikogda Nichevo
Let me thank Waistline again for saving me the time and effort of detailed refutation of his revisionist garbage and upchucking of bourgeois-economics commentary as some kind of Marxist advance in analysis of the current conjuncture. I could start with his howler about imperialism existing

Re: [MLL] domination of the speculator: Micheal Hudson Interview

2008-07-03 Thread Waistline2
Dear comrades and friends, I usually don't have time to read Waistline's long and numerous posts, and tend not to reply because one gets bombarded with 5 replies to one statement. I presume that this is because Waistline is retired from work, but unfortunately seems to also be retired from

Re: [MLL] domination of the speculator: Micheal Hudson Interview

2008-07-03 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 7/3/2008 5:52:04 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I took a quick look at this post and noted Waistline's totally non-Leninist (and thus non-scientific) statement about imperialism. What does it mean to say: Imperialism existed long before Lenin was

Re: [MLL] domination of the speculator: Micheal Hudson Interview

2008-07-03 Thread Waistline2
The essence of Marxism, as f580 nicely reminded everyone here just the other day, is the proletariat and its role in actual development to the next stage of human society, after bourgeois rule, without retaining bourgeois rule. The essence of Waistline's stuff, on the other hand, is

Re: [MLL] domination of the speculator: Micheal Hudson Interview

2008-07-03 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 7/3/2008 4:18:20 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Waistline's running the 7-minute mile through the M-L classics and delivering some real gems, like this one: Imperialism as a curve of history is not simply Empire but generally the export of a more