Re: [Marxism] Iran and "anti-imperialism"

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == And as a matter of fact ANSWER actually had solidarity protests *for the *Islamic Re

Re: [Marxism] Super profits

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Capital Vol. 3, I'll pull the quote after the game for you. On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 a

Re: [Marxism] Iran and "anti-imperialism"

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The choice doesn't lie between B2 bombers and the Islamic Republic. It's precisely

Re: [Marxism] The FBI knocked on my door

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This. On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:02 PM, S. Artesian wrote: > Got tell you, I thin

Re: [Marxism] The FBI knocked on my door

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't see how that's possible since it's not his video, worked perfectly fine on m

Re: [Marxism] Is Imperialism a different mode of production?

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I have to go back and read through this discussion, but I have to add to this point.

Re: [Marxism] IDF faked photos

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The photographic evidence is of course absurd, but they aren't fake (though I chose

Re: [Marxism] Lenin's Tomb on the British vote

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, here is the question that divides a lot of the British far-left: how do you "u

Re: [Marxism] New Labour

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'd like to hear Brad's (and I guess, Milliband and Panitch's) version of reality...

Re: [Marxism] Lenin's Tomb on the British vote

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The standpoint that Richard is writing from seems to be 1) what option would cause t

Re: [Marxism] Lenin's Tomb on the British vote

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make

Re: [Marxism] My pick for best movie of 2010 and I have not even seen it!

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == And so the timeless battle between the ironic and the literal mind rages on... On T

Re: [Marxism] On the British election - anything?

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == They are encouraging votes, along with the rest of the British left, for Labour cand

Re: [Marxism] Christopher Hitchens -- An 'Expert' on George Orwell

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I remember asking a teacher whether Old Major was Lenin or Marx in the 8th grade i

[Marxism] The Anatomy of Teabagging

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://theactivist.org/blog/the-anatomy-of-teabagging

Re: [Marxism] An interesting development

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Given that this is an era when even the "real" labor parties of the world Labour

Re: [Marxism] Has John Rees's crew

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == If by the "purity of our ideals" you mean socialism and if by "our actual impotence"

Re: [Marxism] Has John Rees's crew been reading the Unrepentant Marxist?

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == My real bone of contention with the SWP isn't the substance of its politics, but rat

Re: [Marxism] Has John Rees's crew been reading the Unrepentant Marxist?

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Not your most original contribution, but it fits quite well with their "hide behind

[Marxism] my review of Robert Fitch's Solidarity for Sale

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://platypus1917.org/2010/04/08/book-review-robert-fitch-solidarity-for-sale-how-

Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: Key socialist leader resigns

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Largely agreed on both accounts. Morales and Chavez are left-nationalists and are s

Re: [Marxism] interview with ISO member in haiti

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == And in their view the Cuban system is a bastardization of the word "socialism" and t

Re: [Marxism] The awful truth about Social Democracy

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Social democrats simply can't operate like they were able to during the 'golden age'

Re: [Marxism] A Fake Fight Over Fake Health Care Reform

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A young British socialist's take on this very question: http://theactivist.org/blog/

Re: [Marxism] How US "far left" went off rails on health care

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Some thoughts on a way out of the current impasse (got reprinted by a few liberal pu

Re: [Marxism] I miss Peter Camejo

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What's the deal with is autobiography? I thought he had most of the manuscript for

[Marxism] on the French Regional Elections

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://theactivist.org/blog/on-the-french-regional-elections ___

Re: [Marxism] Results for French regional elections

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Some things are slightly off, the FG polled around 5.8 percent, while the NPA got al

Re: [Marxism] Has Hezbollah shifted left?

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From* Mehdi Kia, cut and paste excuse the formatting:* There is no doubt that on th

Re: [Marxism] Perry Anderson idiocy on China

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, it's the piece in question. Anderson's being described with Gramsci's couplet

Re: [Marxism] Perry Anderson idiocy on China

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Instrumentalists? Engels? On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:58 PM, brad bauerly wrote: >

Re: [Marxism] Perry Anderson idiocy on China

10 at 4:14 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ========== > > > Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > > > I'

Re: [Marxism] Perry Anderson idiocy on China

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm actually just re-reading Considerations on Western Marxism now. I think Perry's

Re: [Marxism] Tuesday FILM--Strawberry and Chocolate (Fresa y Chocolate)

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It's a great film, but I can tell from that blurb you didn't entirely "get it." On

[Marxism] Unconventional Wisdom: An Interview With Doug Henwood

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Re: [Marxism] Facebook

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There's high levels of narcissism and voyeurism involved with Facebook, but as far a

[Marxism] [The Activist] ‘Undercover Boss ’: Humanizing Galt

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[Marxism] Weekly Worker 804 (11/02/2010) now available at www.cpgb.org.uk

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Weekly Worker 804 - Thursday February 11 2010 The latest edition of the Weekly Work

[Marxism] Immanuel Kant: An Erotic Life

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://theactivist.org/blog/immanuel-kant-an-erotic-life I'll admit there's nothing

Re: [Marxism] A hiccup from the Cruise Missile left

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Can someone explain to me when these left-neoliberals became "the Left"? On Thu, No

Re: [Marxism] Come back Karl

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Not that I'm unhappy to not get interminable debates about Trotsky and Stalin's lega

Re: [Marxism] Come back Karl

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The system collapsed, because of Western bankers and economically it couldn't have c

Re: [Marxism] Long Live the 5th International!

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The words that constantly come out of Chavez's mouth are reflective of a hollow anti

Re: [Marxism] Long Live the 5th International!

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I never knew of his correspondence and support for Carlos "The Jackal", who has turn

Re: [Marxism] Zizek in the Socialist Review (SWP-UK)

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == "Fight Club (another masterpiece of the Hollywood left)". Really... "Fight Club" a

Re: [Marxism] Zizek on the Berlin Wall

Zizek is entertaining and defends in his own way the idea of revolution and the continued existence of History in a way that makes him attractive. His politics are muddled, but when he's in town I go to listen to him speak for the anecdotes-- if not all the ideas. I think upper-middle class grad

Re: [Marxism] Gore Vidal in the Atlantic

I think I posted this a while back. It shows what a vile, revolting prick he's become (?) in his old age. On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:13 AM, David Thorstad wrote: > http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200910u/gore-vidal > YOU MUST clip all extraneous t

Re: [Marxism] review of two exhibits on John Brown

The reviewer is quoting text from the Richmond exhibit. It's not explicitly clear that his is endorsing those views, just showing the contrast between how the two exhibits dealt with Brown. On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Andrew Pollack wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/arts/design/28

Re: [Marxism] John Molyneux on party democracy

Louis, I haven't read your article so I'm not sure if you mentioned the context that Molyneux's article is being written in. Molyneux is a strong voice in the SWP attacking the (in my opinion, wrongheaded) no-platform policy BNP policy. The few months before the SWP conference (now) are apparentl

[Marxism] Foofooraw: The Dialectic of Impotence (an inauguration day story)

http://theactivist.org/blog/life-on-the-fringe-an-inauguration-day-story a bit disjointed and rushed, but the story is completely true. YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.e

[Marxism] Foofooraw: The Dialectic of Impotence (An Inauguration Day Story)

*[i published this, but probably need to give it a more through proof-reading--- excuse any typos] * * * *http://theactivist.org/blog/life-on-the-fringe-an-inauguration-day-story * * * *2:45 pm: the day before Obama’s inauguration.* The temperature is well below zero. I’m more than slightly intoxi

Re: [Marxism] self determination for oppressors

I would be wary of such a "solution" though Louis. France in 1940 is a good example of how fast a terribly oppressive people can transformed into an oppressed group in a flash. Demographically it's also a different game than in Algeria and South Africa and I think it does matter--- in terms of ho

Re: [Marxism] Shlomo Sand reinvents "the Jewish people"

"The project to found Israel as a settler state was and still is “a crime”, said comrade Conrad. But that crime has resulted in the coming into being of an Israeli Jewish, or Hebrew, nation and a working class solution must recognise this reality. While comrade Conrad could envisage the necessity o

Re: [Marxism] Statement against Government of India ’s planned military offensive in adivasi-popula ted regions

At the end of the day, Louis, Americans feeling the pain at the pump don't complain much about cable news cliches. Not to get emotionally charged or anything. Pull back the curtain. On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: > Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > > At the

Re: [Marxism] Anti-Roma racism fuels growth of neofascist party in Hungary

Far too often is it forgotten that more than a quarter million Roma died out of a population of 1 million during the Holocaust. On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: > > latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-hungary-right11-2009oct11,0,1698369.story > > In Hungary, far right i

[Marxism] Weekly Worker 788 (08/10/2009)

Weekly Worker 788 - Thursday October 8 2009 The latest edition of the Weekly Worker is now available on the CPGB website at www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/788 In this week's issue: VICTORY TO THE POSTAL WORKERS! An overwhelming vote for action is expected. Jim Moody gives the background LETTERS Militar

Re: [Marxism] John Holloway speaking in London this month.

I freed janitor's closet in the hallway outside my dormroom as an autonomous space. I also broke dress code at work **twice** last week. Consider the dictatorship of capital over comrades. YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a messag

[Marxism] [The Activist] N.W.A.’s Se cond Album, Track Two

http://theactivist.org/blog/n-w-a-s-second-album-track-two YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/ar

[Marxism] Weekly Worker 787

Weekly Worker 787 - Thursday October 1 2009 The latest edition of the Weekly Worker is now available on the CPGB website at www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/787 In this week’s issue: ANTI-BNP CLASS-COLLABORATION The left’s spluttering response to Nick Griffin’s invitation to appear on Question time reveal

Re: [Marxism] VIDEO: G20 protester snatched by men in military fatiques

I call bullshit, but I reserve the right to be wrong. On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Pat Costello wrote: > like something out of a Matt Damon movie. they throw him in an unmarked car > and roar off. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8CNa_viKg0&feature=player_embedded > > > > > >

[Marxism] Weekly Worker 786 – Thursday Septemb er 24 2009

*Weekly Worker 786 – Thursday September 24 2009* The latest edition of the Weekly Worker is now available on the CPGB website at www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/786 In this week’s issue: SEX AND THE HUMAN REVOLUTION Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group looks at the transition from ape to human

[Marxism] A few anecdotes about class society

There is this ridiculous car alarm keeping me up, so I figured I would spend the last 30 minutes showing some of my friends and the other assorted 60-70 people a day that read my blog that class society does exist. I think only like 2-3 leftists read my blog, so this is my audience. I'm not sure

Re: [Marxism] Germany's Die Linke shows the way for the left

What about the Antikapitalistische Linke and the other opposition groups. I may be wrong, but I heard they form a fairly sizeable minority within the party. YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marx

Re: [Marxism] Germany's Die Linke shows the way for the left

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/783/oskarlafontaine.php Oskar Lafontaine: ‘We want to govern’ The results for the German left party Die Linke in the August 30 regional elections are impressive, particularly the 21.3% achieved in the federal state of Saarland. But is this the beginning of the end for

Re: [Marxism] Germany's Die Linke shows the way for the left

Not only was the content of Richard's post dripping with sarcasm he even put asterisks for extra emphasis. On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Mark Lause wrote: > The point is the absurdity of the notion that the German working class has > repudiated bourgeois politics > > ML >

Re: [Marxism] Germany's Die Linke shows the way for the left

There is a militant minority in Die Linke that wants to build an oppositional movement and not be mere left-social democrats. YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your

[Marxism] Weekly Worker 785 (17/09/09) now available at cpgb.org.uk

Weekly Worker 785 - Thursday September 17 2009 The latest edition of the Weekly Worker is now available on the CPGB website at www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/785 In this week's issue: THE FOUR WAGERS OF LENIN IN 1917 The Bolshevik decision to make revolution was based on four key predictions, or ‘wagers

Re: [Marxism] Good books on 'transition from fordism to postfordism' debate?

*·* *Moishe Postone, "History and Helplessness: Mass Mobilization and Contemporary Forms of Anticapitalism"* * (2006) * http://platypus1917.home.comcast.net/~platypus1917/postonemoishe_historyhelplessness.p

Re: [Marxism] India: An Update from Lalgarh

Anyone who has been to West Bengal or anywhere in the Red Corridor would know that there is little support for the Maoists among the Indian working class. I can't testify to the level of support that they have with peasants and among groups suffering from the fractious and uneven growth that t

Re: [Marxism] Query regarding suspicious activity on my blog

On my way out sorry for the brevity, but it might be simply a bot. Send me an email with the IP and I'll give it a lookup for you. Politicus E. wrote: > Dear comrades: > > I have a question that hopefully those comrades who are more internet > savvy than I might answer. > > I recently posted a b

Re: [Marxism] articles from old left journal New Masses online

This is excellent. I always enjoy reading Gold, though by the mixed quality of his articles you'd be surprised that he was the talent behind /Jews Without Money/. Ron J wrote: > http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/nm/newmassesarts.html > > >

[Marxism] The End of Healthcare History? Let ’s Hope Not

http://theactivist.org/blog/the-end-of-healthcare-history-lets-hope-not *Jeff Muckensturm is Web Coordinator and grant writer for Healthcare-NOW!, an organization fighting for a national, single-payer healthcare system* Y

[Marxism] Lars Lih on Lenin, Kautsky, and 1914

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/784/leninkautsky.php also recommended is his first article from last week: http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/783/index.php YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@list

Re: [Marxism] marxist biographies

Isaac Deutscher, Maurice Isserman On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: > Cliff Conner is a Trotskyist who has specialized in writing biographies: > > 1. Jean Paul Marat: Scientist and Revolutionary > > 2. Colonel Despard: The Life And Times Of An Anglo-irish Rebel > > 3. Arthur

Re: [Marxism] American CP leader still solidly behind Obama

It's not like the Democrats have benefited much from their advocacy. They have some convoluted theory that justifies their support for this President, which has included the claim that Obama is "perhaps the most pro-labor President in U.S. history", in some manifestos that Webb has penned. J

[Marxism] Worker in a Worker's State by Miklos Haraszti

Anyone read it? Thoughts? YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Marxism] What to do?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_a_New_Workers'_Party where that project was at in 2004/2005 Mark Lause wrote: > What is "the embryo of a campaign"? > > Is there a Bullshit Brain Trust somewhere making up these new terms? > Because, if there is, I think I'd like to work there. I ca

Re: [Marxism] Marx/Hegel

I don't see how I could misrepresent since I didn't read, much less reply to your post. But since I befuddled you isn't /materialisme aleatoire/ a fundamental rejection of dialectical materialism? Wasn't a common theme of Althusser's works the attempt to rid Marxism of the idealism that cr

Re: [Marxism] What to do?

Of course not. But I don't think I got any objections to the broad ideas I laid out (regurgitating the ideas of others of course). How to get those building micro-sects or pallin' around with BHO to get together and agree to a common program? Sounds almost impossible. At the very least we n

Re: [Marxism] Marx/Hegel

Many Marxist thinkers don't deal with dialectics, namely Gramsci with his philosophy of Praxis and Althusser's writings on contradictions in *For Marx *. YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@

Re: [Marxism] What to do? [Early morn "Labor Day" thoughts]

The same could be said of the Greens, except that primary campaign would be irrelevant. But what is the Democratic Party? Certainly it's largely neoliberal, bourgeois to say the least-- perhaps the world's second most enthusiastic major capitalist party. But is there not open primaries? Can a pa

Re: [Marxism] Good critique of Walter Benn Michaels's NLR article

I was referring to the LRB article. I stand corrected. I still think there are a few coherent points in Michael's work, but it probably would be better for someone more nuanced and who has less open contempt for contemporary minority and feminist movement to say it. On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:57

Re: [Marxism] What to do? [Early morn "Labor Day" thoughts]

I honestly don't think that our energies should be put toward electoral efforts by third parties. But there is no doubt that in the long-term a "party of the working class" is an absolutely necessity. Now I'm largely paraphrasing Larhs Lih and Mike Macnair, but such a party would need to be both a

Re: [Marxism] Good critique of Walter Benn Michaels's NLR article

This is probably a very valid point. There should no question that the immigrant rights movements and organizing among other marginalized groups should be a primary focus for Marxists right now. I despise when people dismiss the White working class as hopelessly reactionary, but there is no doubt

Re: [Marxism] Good critique of Walter Benn Michaels's NLR article

> > Well, what he sloppily insinuates about income inequality and New Left > movements being the cause of it, is easily refutable. > > No where is this insinuated. I can't understand how anyone could take that reading from his article. What is stated is the truth that much of the apparent "progres

Re: [Marxism] The Boston Globe on radical films

DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975) 1 Fist Not a radical movie? That’s the point. When Al Pacino’s bank robber gets the crowds on his side by shouting “Attica! Attica!’’ he’s proving both how everything was political by the mid-1970s and how genuine radicalism had become co-opted by radical chic. In its bac

Re: [Marxism] U.S. Suspends $30 Million To Honduras

Actually I'm sorry I linked to yesterday's article. Here is today's news http://www.cepr.net/index.php/press-releases/press-releases/imf-may-withold-aid-honduras/ On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > Reports right now make it seem likely that the IMF is

Re: [Marxism] U.S. Suspends $30 Million To Honduras

Reports right now make it seem likely that the IMF is going to withhold those funds in the wake of Clinton's announcement. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/sep/03/imf-honduras-aid-zelaya On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Intense Red wrote: > > And on the third hand, Democ

[Marxism] U.S. Suspends $30 Million To Honduras

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/world/americas/04honduras.html?em Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced Thursday that the United States would formally suspend nearly $30 million in aid to the coup-installed government in Honduras. She also suggested for the first time that the Unit

Re: [Marxism] Latest BookForum

Bookforum is great. They linked to one of my articles a few months ago and virtually single-handedly doubled our traffic. Admitedly the double of 150 isn't very much :) On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: > I already posted a couple of articles from this outstanding magazine

[Marxism] nostalgia for a gentler politics

My article contains references to hookers, an ad hominem against a Baltimore Sun writer and various other degrees of awesomeness that made it unsuitable for publication anywhere else. http://theactivist.org/blog/nostalgia-for-a-gentler-politics ~ Bhaskar ___

Re: [Marxism] Teddy

A member of DSA's Boston local wrote a good piece: http://theactivist.org/blog/kennedys-sins-against-labor Socialist Worker also ran a good article about RFK around a month ago. And this one about Ted http://socialistworker.org/2009/08/28/myth-of-the-liberal-lion On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Da

Re: [Marxism] Sour -- but grounded -- thoughts on the Kennedys

ML wrote: That complete idiot, Chris Matthews was saying the other day that the Kennedy brothers "made the civil rights movement." Of course, lots of these elitist pundits, idolators of officeholders, etc. think that, but only a prize-winning first class goof to say something so absolutely stupid a

Re: [Marxism] to read?

Because the bourgeosie has granted the masses Google. http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=David+Harvey+capital&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 http://davidharvey.org/ On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jeffrey Thomas Piercy wrote: > Ralph Johansen wrote: > > David Harvey, who conduct

Re: [Marxism] to read?

I haven't read more Hegel than any other undergraduate, but I think the Grundrisse is more valuable than vol 2 and 3. That being said I only read excerpts from the latter. Lenin should be read critically, but his material is an easier read than Marx and there is a lot less of it. "What is to be don

Re: [Marxism] Words (Cuban economy)

If Cuba pursued an industrial development plan it would have ended up looking more like Albania than Japan. Socialism in one country is impossible, I don't see anything wrong with Cuba's general economic policy. (and actually I'm a fan of the term "bureaucratic collectivist") On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 a

Re: [Marxism] Words (Cuban economy)

When has autarkic state capitalism ever been a formula to *solve*underdevelopment? On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 3:50 PM, wrote: > Tom Cod wrote: > > >Hey, how much heavy industry is there in Cuba. Don't they still > >rely on their traditional natural resource: sugar? > > > The answer is yes, to Cuba

Re: [Marxism] Leon Trotsky

My recommendation on how best to honor LT's legacy http://theactivist.org/blog/celebrate-a-legend-the-right-way One of the ingredients is something you old men probably have lining your refrigerators. On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > I'm pretty sure no one e

[Marxism] Leon Trotsky

I'm pretty sure no one else did, so I just wanted to acknowledge that today is the old man's death anniversary. YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at:

Re: [Marxism] District 9

The Bourne Supremacy drove me insane with it, but it didn't too bother me during District 9. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > gregoryabut...@aol.com wrote: > > > > Apparently, I saw a different "District 9" than Prarie Miller and Armond > White did! > > After seeing Simon

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