Re: [Marxism] Palestinians tell Gingrich to learn history after 'invented people' claim

2011-12-11 Thread Tristan Sloughter
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well Romney lost his chance for Iowa last night. He called Gingrich's remark a

[Marxism] Juan of the dead

2011-12-11 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NY Times December 10, 2011 Socialism’s Sacred Cows Suffer Zombie Attack in Popular

[Marxism] No, Virginia, Santa won't bring a job and rent money.

2011-12-11 Thread jay rothermel
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Letters to Santa show desires and distress of Greater Cleveland's children

[Marxism] Jairus Banaji receives 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher prize

2011-12-11 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.deutscherprize.org.uk/ The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize Committee

[Marxism] review of Ngo Van Vietnam book

2011-12-11 Thread David Walsh
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://res0nance.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/book-review-ngo-van-in-the-crossfire/

[Marxism] Rothstein on US concentration camps

2011-12-11 Thread Red Arnie
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Rothstein needs to learn history too (not only Gingrich). NY Times: all the news

[Marxism] UK EU- some comment please

2011-12-11 Thread Gary MacLennan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I had a quick look at *Lenin's Tomb* in the hope that Richard would have had

Re: [Marxism] UK EU- some comment please

2011-12-11 Thread Lenin's Tomb
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 11/12/2011 23:09, Gary MacLennan wrote: I had a quick look at *Lenin's Tomb*

[Marxism] Conversation with a Sikh

2011-12-11 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://vimeo.com/33506032 Send

Re: [Marxism] Jairus Banaji receives 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher prize

2011-12-11 Thread jay rothermel
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[Marxism] Petition to prevent eviction of Palestinian Arab family

2011-12-11 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is an on-line petition to support the struggle of the Al-Aju family in Ramle

[Marxism-Thaxis] Nietzsche : American Idol

2011-12-11 Thread c b
http://www.thenation.com/article/164321/american-idol-nietzsche-america?page=full Thanks to Jim F for this article which makes much more understandable to me the popularity of Nietzsche in the US intelligentsia. Basically, N is in sinch with the US petit bourgeois anarchist/libertarian ideology,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Nietzsche : American Idol

2011-12-11 Thread rdumain
I'm in the process of reading this now. I'm no expert on Emerson, but I've never been given to think he was a reactionary as was Nietzsche. The influence of American individualism also had a positive influence on the world, but there is an ambiguity in it, which, because it is anchored in

[Marxism-Thaxis] Obamacare provision for 99% over the 1%

2011-12-11 Thread c b
That would be the provision of the law, called the medical loss ratio, that requires health insurance companies to spend 80% of the consumers’ premium dollars they collect—85% for large group insurers—on actual medical care rather than overhead, marketing expenses and profit. Failure on the part

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] What is would be socialism in the US ?

2011-12-11 Thread Phil Walden
Charles, there would have to be a REAL debate amongst the working class in order to resolve these questions. So the conditions in which that could happen would have to be created. It couldn't be top-down, as you advocate and as is your practice. Phil Walden On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 2:43 PM, c