Re: [Marxism] Leonard Cohen: Democracy is Coming

2011-12-25 Thread Greg McDonald
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Good point. Totally skipped my mind. Gotta say though, I won't be giving away any

[Marxism] Wolff and Resnick analysis of the current economic crisis

2011-12-25 Thread Louis Proyect
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Re: [Marxism] 'Diversity,’ imprisonment: 2 sides of same coin

2011-12-25 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There are those who see class as a complex identity, mediated by all sorts of

[Marxism] Fwd: [E of S] CORRECT ADDRESS to help 1968 Olympian Lee Evans

2011-12-25 Thread Ron Jacobs
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 9:26 AM, edgeofsports edgeofspo...@gmail.comwrote: Folks:

Re: [Marxism] Have a happy and merry December 25

2011-12-25 Thread Tristan Sloughter
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Good to know I'm not the only one here who celebrates Gravmas :)

Re: [Marxism] Have a happy and merry December 25

2011-12-25 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqiiCOFR0Y8

[Marxism] David Harvey's Deutscher Prize Lecture

2011-12-25 Thread jay rothermel
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbOUCLYZVBUfeature=player_embedded#!

[Marxism] Plenary Talk Abstracts of the Conference Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society (Uppsala, 2-4 May 2012)

2011-12-25 Thread Christian Fuchs
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society Towards

Re: [Marxism] Wolff and Resnick analysis of the current economic crisis

2011-12-25 Thread Shane Mage
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Dec 25, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Louis Proyect wrote:

Re: [Marxism] Have a happy and merry December 25

2011-12-25 Thread Rastko Pocesta
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Newton was born on 4 January of the Gregorian calendar. The teachings of Jesus have

Re: [Marxism] Have a happy and merry December 25

2011-12-25 Thread Daniel Lindvall
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == When someone asks me why as an atheist I celebrate Christmas (a festivity for

[Marxism] The German Debate on the Monetary Theory of Value

2011-12-25 Thread Angelus Novus
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A good brief sumamry in the form of a book review, from Science and Society 72,

[Marxism] Wolff and Resnick analysis of the current economic crisis

2011-12-25 Thread ehrbar
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == To me, Wolff and Resnick's calculations seem entirely in accord with Marx. If you

[Marxism] Starbucks Occupation in Bogazici University

2011-12-25 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://starbuckssenligi.blogspot.com/2011/12/starbucks-occupation-in-bogazici.html

[Marxism] Anonymous hits Stratfor

2011-12-25 Thread Juan Fajardo
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Re: [Marxism] Wolff and Resnick analysis of the current economic crisis

2011-12-25 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 12/25/11 3:04 PM, ehr...@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu wrote: If anything,

Re: [Marxism] Wolff and Resnick analysis of the current economic crisis

2011-12-25 Thread Shane Mage
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Dec 25, 2011, at 3:04 PM, ehr...@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu wrote: To me,

[Marxism] Christine Ahn of Korea Policy Institute on North Korea

2011-12-25 Thread stansfield smith
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ==   http://www.democracynow.org/2011/12/20/the_death_of_kim_jong_il starts just

Re: [Marxism] Anonymous hits Stratfor

2011-12-25 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Juan Fajardo fajar...@ix.netcom.comwrote:

Re: [Marxism] Have a happy and merry December 25

2011-12-25 Thread Rastko Pocesta
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == As comrade George Thompson noted, There are two Christs, one of the rulers, and one

Re: [Marxism] Have a happy and merry December 25

2011-12-25 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Of course, the original toiled and never ruled. The Romans who killed him also

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Have a happy and merry December 25

2011-12-25 Thread CeJ
Yes, once again we celebrate the life of our favorite religionist (heretical), biblical scholar, occultist, prophet of the apocalypse, and all around weird guy. Can we find anyone else born on 25 December? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_newton#Religious_views According to most scholars,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Have a happy and merry December 25

2011-12-25 Thread CeJ
I nominate Rod Serling for our celebrated life. Certainly more socially interesting than most of what I see on lists like LBO Squawk or Marxmal or the A (sshole)-List. CJ On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:02 PM, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, once again we celebrate the life of our favorite

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Why too- big -to- fail creditors should not be able to charge interest

2011-12-25 Thread CeJ
Because the rationale for charging interest is that the creditor faces risk of loss , risk of non-performance by the debtor. I don't think this applies to loans. They charge interest on loans in order to make a profit. Where else are bank profits going to come from? Another way of creating debt

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ron Paul Supporter Openly Calls For Assassination Of President Obama On Facebook Page ?

2011-12-25 Thread CeJ
Wow, the warpigs in the WH must really be afraid over Ron Paul's anti-war stance and his surge in polls in Iowa. I checked out the so-called 'Ron Paul supporter' and he is no one official with the campaign. He also doesn't actually seem to be someone closely associated with the so-called Tea

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ron Paul Supporter Openly Calls For Assassination Of President Obama On Facebook Page ?

2011-12-25 Thread c b
More concerned that he had a KKK type newsletter a few years back. Ron Paul and his Senator son, have a George Wallace position on the Civil Rights Act. On 12/25/11, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, the warpigs in the WH must really be afraid over Ron Paul's anti-war stance and his surge in

[Marxism-Thaxis] Plenary Talk Abstracts of the Conference Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society (Uppsala, 2-4 May 2012)

2011-12-25 Thread Christian Fuchs
Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society Towards Critical Theories of Social Media The Fourth ICTs and Society-Conference Uppsala University, May 2nd-4th, 2012. The collected abstracts of the plenary talks are now available:

[Marxism-Thaxis] tripleC: Table of Contents Vol. 9 (2011)

2011-12-25 Thread Christian Fuchs
tripleC: Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society Edited by Christian Fuchs tripleC is a peer-review open access journal that focuses on information society studies and studies of media, digital media, information and communication in society with a special interest in

[Marxism-Thaxis] Why too- big -to- fail creditors should not be able to charge interest

2011-12-25 Thread c b
Yes, you can see below that the standard rationale for charging interest includes charging for the risk that the loan might not be paid back. There are other reasons discussed. I would just like to get some discussion of this in the context of the Occupation Wall Street movement, as part of

[Marxism-Thaxis] I AM THE 99%

2011-12-25 Thread c b
Teri Deister Okay Here I go.. I also want to thank all of the OCCUPIERS and I commend you for your efforts.. and your demands... I know that you are out there every day and every night.. trying to speak out for those of us WITHOUT A VOICE.. or too chicken shit .. to SPEAK THEIR VOICE.. But I AM

[Marxism-Thaxis] Origin of boycott

2011-12-25 Thread c b
Go even further back to the origins of the word boycott and you'll find the story of Irish tenant farmers who got tired of being taken advantage of by rich landowners. Charles C. Boycott, an English estate manager in Ireland, found himself in the middle of a game-changing protest. Despite a poor

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Why too- big -to- fail creditors should not be able to charge interest

2011-12-25 Thread CeJ
What you are getting at here, I believe, is the very damaging and possibly criminal nature of forcing people into high-interest loans that increase their chance of defaulting. The system basically says, you are a bad credit risk, so the the only loan we will extend you is so high in interest, that