Re: [MLL] The Communist society thesis: Goodbye Stalin

2011-01-21 Thread frankenstein580
COMRADE NIKOGDA, What direction the U.S. working class takes at this moment is so important to the future of the world revolutionary movement because it possesses among its ranks the most advanced experience of modern conditions of capitalist production. But it desperately needs revolutionary

[MLL] Reply to comrade Nikogda Nichevo and quick note to comrade Mark Scott

2011-01-21 Thread George G
Dear comrades and friends, First, I would like to congratule comrade NN on his post on the revolutionary movements in Tunisia and the US. The Tunisian people have certainly shown the revolutionary way forward in overthrowing the 23 year old dictatorship of Ben Ali. It will certainly shake up

Re: [MLL] Reply . . . and quick note to comrade Mark Scott: Trade Unions

2011-01-21 Thread Waistline2
Comment Trade union work is important. On my list of five important things for Marxists, trade union work comes in about 3 or 4. I know something of this arena, reporting from time to time to this list on the specific nature of MY trade union work; the specific problems in getting MY

[MLL] my article in CounterPunch

2011-01-21 Thread CHRISTOPHERR CARRICO
*Cast Away Neoliberal Illusions* Insurgent Anthropologies By CHRISTOPHER CARRICO http://counterpunch.org/carrico01212011.html ___ Marxist-Leninist-List mailing list Marxist-Leninist-List@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe

Re: [MLL] Reply . . . and quick note to comrade Mark Scott: Trade Unions

2011-01-21 Thread frankenstein580
myths and reality WL: When the US economy shifted from small manufacturing plants comprised of mainly skilled craft workers to gigantic factories employing tens of thousands  of workers, that quantitative shift from one boundary to another threw the  material form of the union movement and

Re: [MLL] Reply . . .CORRECTION

2011-01-21 Thread frankenstein580
I'd like to rephrase a thought...no vagabonds allowed.   Vagabonds will be allowed, actually.  We would hope to assist him somehow to find someway that he may contribute any ability that he may have towards the society, we shan't force him to work, but how will he live?  He may choose to

Re: [MLL] my article in CounterPunch

2011-01-21 Thread Mark Scott
Thank you Comrade for that article.  Your closing or conclusion, it is safe to say, that the class struggle remains and only intensifies regardless of what bourgeois politician holds the office of US president and therefore the only history made is the continuation of the class struggle.  

Re: [MLL] Reply . . . and quick note to comrade Mark Scott: Trade Unions rewrite

2011-01-21 Thread Waistline2
Rewrite and editing. None of the substance of the original was changed. WL There is a theory question involved in the question of the trade unions and communist work within the trade unions. Communist work in trade unions today must be imbued with historism and disclosure of the

Re: [MLL] Reply . . . and quick note to comrade Mark Scott: Trade Unions rewrite

2011-01-21 Thread frankenstein580
WL: The industrial-trade union form must change or die. COMMENT: It's changing already. --- On Fri, 1/21/11, waistli...@aol.com waistli...@aol.com wrote: From: waistli...@aol.com waistli...@aol.com Subject: Re: [MLL] Reply . . . and quick note to comrade Mark Scott: Trade Unions rewrite To:

[MLL] New unionization stats bad news for all workers.

2011-01-21 Thread Waistline2
(I understand that a section of society and individual believe it is best to shoot the messenger or charge those delivering news with anti-working class crimes. Here is more of my crimes AND REVISIONISM) WL. New unionization stats bad news for all workers. by Michael Wasser on

Re: [MLL] Reply to comrade Nikogda Nichevo and quick note to comrade Mark Scott

2011-01-21 Thread Mark Scott
Comrade George,   Thank you for your reply and your criticism which is well taken out of respect only for the Comrades on this list.  Please be sure I do not extend any apology whatsoever to the the opportunistic Melvin.  I believe I have made it perfectly clear that there should be no

[MLL] The myth of 'American exceptionalism' implodes

2011-01-21 Thread Waistline2
_http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/102-102/4659-the-my th-of-american-exceptionalism-implod_ (http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/102-102/4659-the-myth-of-american-exceptionalism-implod) The myth of 'American exceptionalism' implodes Until the

[MLL] Roe v. Wade 38th Anniversary

2011-01-21 Thread Waistline2
Roe v. Wade 38th Anniversary: A Time for Celebration - and Commitment by Merle Hoffman On The Issues Magazine A Magazine of Critical, Independent Thinking January 19, 2011 _http://www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/cafe2/article/135_ (http://www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/cafe2/article/135)

[MLL] Get outside more often and mingle

2011-01-21 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 1/21/2011 10:15:17 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, geor...@micronetix.net writes: I would again request that if you polemicize against Melvin, you polemicize against his political and ideological views, not by referring to him as this revisionist piece of shit. This only