Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-09-21 Thread Johannes Schneider
Since the question of language classes for immigrants in Germany has been discussed here recently, I post an article from the Frankfurter Rundschau (left of center, usually pro red-Green) http://www.fr-aktuell.de/english/401/t401004.htm The article is quite representative for the Red-Green 'juste

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-09-03 Thread Tabe Kooistra
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 07:51:53PM +0200, A.Wosni wrote: > Sorry folks, > I posted this wrongly to the LI-list. It was for Johannes privately. > A.H. Thanx For quating the whole thing again her A.H. "I know it is cheap" Tabe ___ Leninist-Internationa

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-09-03 Thread A.Wosni
Sorry folks, I posted this wrongly to the LI-list. It was for Johannes privately. A.H. A.Wosni schrieb: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > > Lieber Johannes, > > > ich schreibe Dir privat, weil ich keine Lust mehr habe, diese Diskussion > > > auf der > > > LI-Liste fortzuführen. > > > > Lieber L

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-09-02 Thread LROBERTS46
On why folks are alingual. When we kidnapped folks from Africa, they brought west African grammar. The verb to be is not conjugated. This lead to Black English phrases like "He be going." Now, if you are familiar with it, you can still understand it. What is unfortunate, is that some peopl

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-09-02 Thread LROBERTS46
I agree that a ghetto has not come to mean a physical enclave like in old Poland. I live in what is called the ghetto in Sacramento. We have a mix of Latino, Southeast Asian, poor whites, and Black folks. But, our state senator lives here. We have different ethnicities scattered throughou

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-09-02 Thread A.Wosni
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > Lieber Johannes, > > ich schreibe Dir privat, weil ich keine Lust mehr habe, diese Diskussion > > auf der > > LI-Liste fortzuführen. > > Lieber Lothar, > ich verstehe Deinen beleidigten Unterton eigentlich nicht. [Ich bin verwundert. Ich habe mich nicht beleidigt

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-09-02 Thread John Catalinotto
--- "A.Wosni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lieber Johannes, > ich schreibe Dir privat, weil ich keine Lust mehr > habe, diese Diskussion auf der > LI-Liste fortzuführen. I think it's interesting that as we are holding this discussion a book has just been published in Germany consisting of stor

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-09-02 Thread Johannes . Schneider
Sorry comrades, shame on me, but my previous posting was not intended to be sent anywhere. Just for my excuse I am not working from my own box today and sometimes these nasty machines do things they are not supposed to do. I promise to stay away from any keyboard for the rest of the weekend. Jo

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-09-02 Thread Johannes . Schneider
> Lieber Johannes, > ich schreibe Dir privat, weil ich keine Lust mehr habe, diese Diskussion > auf der > LI-Liste fortzuführen. Lieber Lothar, ich verstehe Deinen beleidigten Unterton eigentlich nicht. Gerade öffentliche Diskussionen leben gerade von kontroversen Standpunkten. Wo Polemiken in

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-09-01 Thread A.Wosni
Lieber Johannes, ich schreibe Dir privat, weil ich keine Lust mehr habe, diese Diskussion auf der LI-Liste fortzuführen. Nur soviel. Ich stimme Dir hier (wie ja auch sonst meistens) im allgemeinen zu. Allerdings ist es nicht nur im Interesse der Bourgeoisie, daß die Immigranten die Mehrheitsspr

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-08-31 Thread Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky
En relación a Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?, el 31 Aug 00, a las 18:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: > I fear comrades > outside Germany got a wrong impression about reality in Germany. > > Actually there are very few immigrants who do not know enough German > to communicate.

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-08-31 Thread Johannes . Schneider
Nestor wrote: > But the basic question is "why does not the German > formation work in order to have these migrants learn German?". In > Argentina, European migrants were very proud that they did not speak > the same language that the unworthy locals, but the Argentine > formation took the pa

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-08-30 Thread A.Wosni
Mr. Proyect: Saying that trying to speak (or at least understand) the language of the country you live in is a part of progressive consciousness does not mean that everybody who speaks the language is a 'progressive' or even revolutionary person [all Africans have black hear but not all people

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-08-30 Thread A.Wosni
Tony, where do you get your information from about whom I know and what I do? Let me tell you that for many years I was particularily engaged in 'solidarity work' with the Kurdish movement and that I regularily met with immigrant workers from Kurdistan, Turkey, Iraq. Most of them tried to learn

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-08-30 Thread A.Wosni
Come on, you can't mean this question seriously. I never said that the immigrants shouldn't know their original language (infact even the German bourgeoisie makes them learn Turkish at school if they wish so. The idea of course is, that they should learn it so as that they can be sent back one

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-08-30 Thread A.Wosni
Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky schrieb: > En relación a Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?, > el 29 Aug 00, a las 12:51, Tony Abdo dijo: > > > Anton, you are attributing narrow mindedness and being reactionary to > > immigrants that haven't mastered learning German.

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-08-29 Thread Olson
> > within the working class, and if people live in a foreign country for > decades and don't hardly speak a single sentence in that country's > language (Johannes: please don't deny that there are people like that!) > this is nothing to defend. It's simply narr

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-08-29 Thread Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky
En relación a Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?, el 29 Aug 00, a las 12:51, Tony Abdo dijo: > Anton, you are attributing narrow mindedness and being reactionary to > immigrants that haven't mastered learning German. Has it not > occurred to you why these immigrants might no

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-08-29 Thread Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky
En relación a [L-I] Speaking the same language?, el 29 Aug 00, a las 13:26, Anton Holberg dijo: > there > is no need to defend every sort of narrowmindedness within the > working class, and if people live in a foreign country for decades > and don't hardly speak a single

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-08-29 Thread Tony Abdo
Anton, you are attributing narrow mindedness and being reactionary to immigrants that haven't mastered learning German. Has it not occurred to you why these immigrants might not have learned your language? It is from fear, and nothing else. Immigrants fear being ridiculed as they try to

[L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-08-29 Thread Louis Proyect
Mr. Holberg: >And something else: Marxists don't need to adore the working class (no matter >what nationality) for what it is (as a class in itself it is mainly material for >exploitation).Marxists look to the working class as it can be and as it must be >if it wants the liberate itself and by