Re: [Marxism] Australian Socialist Alliance edges into the Putinite camp

2014-05-05 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Obviously Louis is correct - people who don't know jack shit about the Ukraine are

Re: [Marxism] LW: a mercenary London publisher empowering imperialist privilege

2014-04-27 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I have no interest in defending LW, but as far as I'm aware it's only an English

Re: [Marxism] Towards a Socialist Australia: latest draft

2014-03-06 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == For my money, it's a much better document than the previous draft. I was

Re: [Marxism] Gina Rinehart compares herself to Nelson Mandela

2013-12-14 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Satire, of course. Unlike Tony Abbott comparing himself to Aung San Suu Kyi, which

Re: [Marxism] Professor predicts human time travel this century

2013-11-26 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == My totally and really truly scientific theory is that it isn't possible to travel

Re: [Marxism] Interesting factoid

2013-11-24 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Gary MacLenna They mystery for me is, I repeat, why the Socialist Alliance,

Re: [Marxism] Australian amoebaism

2013-11-19 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is in part a Socialist Alliance polemic against Socialist Alternative, mixed

Re: [Marxism] Unity and organisation on the Australian left

2013-11-19 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 11/19/13 8:36 PM, En Passant with John Passant wrote: We are for unity around a

Re: [Marxism] Australian amoebaism

2013-11-16 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Something obviously completely unrelated and not a polemic at all: Mass protests

Re: [Marxism] Australian amoebaism

2013-11-15 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What happened between Socialist Alliance and Socialist Alternative in Australia.

Re: [Marxism] Australian amoebaism

2013-11-12 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == While I'm a big fan of the idea of not being tourists, living in the working

Re: [Marxism] Down with amoebaism

2013-11-10 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Louis Proyect We are far more interested in unity and have keen interest in

Re: [Marxism] Down with amoebaism

2013-11-10 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Gary MacLennan Those still built on party building are in a hole and they

Re: [Marxism] False flag operation?

2013-08-26 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From:Rajesh Roy Maybe my memory is erroneous..

Re: [Marxism] False flag operation?

2013-08-26 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: m...@smithbowen.net I've just been reading Alex C's wonderful posthumous

Re: [Marxism] Linux Beach: Syria: 10 Things Worse Than Eating a Dead Man’s Heart

2013-07-03 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On a not entirely unrelated note, here is a quote from an article that should be

Re: [Marxism] The international Jewish Communist conspiracy department

2013-06-29 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Michael Smith The race hatred directed against more recent generations of

[Marxism] Socialist Alliance resolution on left unity

2013-06-17 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == An update on moves towards unity between the two biggest left groups in Australia.

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Re: The Lash

2013-06-15 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Mark Lause And another attempt to discuss the practical problems trying to

Re: [Marxism] ECO-SOCIALIST UTOPIANISM

2013-06-04 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I gather the article that I am responding to was mainly aimed at members of

Re: [Marxism] The Merchants of Shame » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

2013-06-01 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Louis Proyect I wonder why people like Andrew and Dennis Brasky have so

Re: [Marxism] Socialist election campaign: 2795 views in a little over 12 hours - help us take it further

2013-05-07 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: DW Alan B simply assumes we WTF he's babling about and then inundates us

Re: [Marxism] Social Democracy and Public Housing in Vienna

2013-04-17 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Red Arnie About 60% of the Viennese population lives in municipally built,

Re: [Marxism] why isn't there a British Syriza?

2013-03-12 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Gary MacLennan . Part of the reason why we do not have a British SYRIZA is

Re: [Marxism] why isn't there a British Syriza?

2013-03-12 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: james pitman This is kinda funny, and I thought I'd share as one of the

Re: [Marxism] Day of the People: Gracchus Babeuf and the Communist Idea

2013-02-23 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Mark Lause Yes, but I didn't think that I had denied the possibilities of

Re: [Marxism] Day of the People: Gracchus Babeuf and the Communist Idea

2013-02-22 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Mark Lause Far be it from me to challenge someone's faith in their claim to

Re: [Marxism] Day of the People: Gracchus Babeuf and the Communist Idea

2013-02-21 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Daniel Koechlin Babeuf was only one among the many Utopian Communists of

Re: [Marxism] Day of the People: Gracchus Babeuf and the Communist Idea

2013-02-21 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Engels has some interesting comments on the issue of continuity between the

Re: [Marxism] Redfriars - the Public School of the Socialist Workers Party

2013-02-17 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Louis Proyect I think the thing that works against this meme is the

Re: [Marxism] SWP CC caves

2013-02-09 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Jim Moody Caving in to SWP members' pressure, the CC has now called a

[Marxism] [UCE] Re: Paul Le Blanc on the SWP crisis

2013-02-03 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Nick Fredman Well they are in discussion with Socialist Alliance. I.e:

[Marxism] [UCE] Re: Paul Le Blanc on the SWP crisis

2013-02-02 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Louis Proyect Of course, it would be great if some Leninist sect ever got

Re: [Marxism] Schoolmarm grammar

2012-12-31 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Wythe Holt jr. What is the difference, in pronunciation or meaning, between

Re: [Marxism] What kind of party do we need?

2012-12-29 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Shane Hopkinson The Greens have about 1 members (up from 1500 a decade

Re: [Marxism] on the Lincoln debate - my two cents worth

2012-12-02 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Louis Proyect For example, I found George Comninel's arguments that the

Re: [Marxism] on the Lincoln debate - my two cents worth

2012-12-02 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Graham Milner 'Storming of the Fifty Thousand Bastilles', 1789. Peasants

Re: [Marxism] Syrian Rebels meet in Qatar under US auspices

2012-11-04 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Louis Proyect when the media reports that the tanks they were using in this

Re: [Marxism] Ottoman nostalgia

2012-10-31 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NY Times October 29, 2012 As if the Ottoman Period Never Ended By DAN BILEFSKY

Re: [Marxism] For A People's Democracy Vol.1 No. 1

2012-09-30 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: John Obrien 1) The several times unfortunate usage of the word Jap Agree.

Re: [Marxism] Why I am joining Socialist Alternative in Australia

2012-09-12 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == John Passant wrote: I think Jorge's action in joining Socialist Alternative (of

Re: [Marxism] Dark Knight as fascist propaganda

2012-07-23 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: John Obrien And most of the male superheroes had young side kicks until

Re: [Marxism] North Star shows the way to imperialist intervention

2012-07-11 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Tom Quinn some huge moral imperative of the kind that existed in World War

Re: [Marxism] Trotskyist attitude to Florian Wilde and wider left polictical recomposition!

2012-04-26 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Anthony Brain What is Wilde's overall politics, does she have any ism

Re: [Marxism] Whither the Greens?

2012-04-16 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: En Passant with John Passant Is this party building all about what Alan

Re: [Marxism] Whither the Greens?

2012-04-16 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I wrote: And sects are reactionary, and should all be liquidated. and So why

Re: [Marxism] W(h)ither the Greens?

2012-04-15 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Gary MacLennan I have been a little surprised by what I take to be Alan's

Re: [Marxism] Whither the Greens?

2012-04-15 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Gary MacLennan On a related matter I think Alan needs to take into account

Re: [Marxism] Wither the Greens? and Broad Marxism Conference

2012-04-15 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: En Passant with John Passant As to the suggestion by someone else to turn

Re: [Marxism] Whither the Greens?

2012-04-15 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I wrote: It's particularly noticeable here in Toowoomba in the case of the

Re: [Marxism] Wither the Greens? and Broad Marxism Conference

2012-04-15 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Nick Fredman If SAlt are interested in building a mass socialist party

Re: [Marxism] Wither the Greens? and Broad Marxism Conference

2012-04-15 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Gary MacLennan I agree totally with Lou and that is why I would say to

[Marxism] Queensland Election Debacle - was Re: Callinicos on Galloway victory

2012-04-13 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Gary MacLennan I had been contemplating writing to you to seek your opinion

Re: [Marxism] Glenn Beck Fascinated with Revolutionary Marxism Course at PSU

2012-04-12 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Mark Lause Btw, I'm offering a seminar in the fall on Marx and the Marxist

Re: [Marxism] Tuareg rebels declare independent state

2012-04-06 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: DW And what Imperialists oppose this? The EU and France? From

Re: [Marxism] Tuareg rebels declare independent state

2012-04-06 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == More imperialist opposition to Tuareg rebels: From

Re: [Marxism] Renato P. on soccer

2012-02-14 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What is unique to soccer is the absolute preponderance of the foot. On another

Re: [Marxism] The Revolutionist - Atlantic Mobile

2012-02-11 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Red Arnie Let us be frank that the idea of the withering away of the state

Re: [Marxism] Jodi Dean to Speak at the James Connolly Forum in Troy

2011-12-14 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Politicus E. It's all about specific social relations. Many Facebook friends

Re: [Marxism] Rick Perry's part-time Congress Idea

2011-12-08 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Mark Lause The experience of trying to govern with part-time, officials with

Re: [Marxism] Bloomberg's ridiculous statement on the raid

2011-11-15 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == With sincere apologies to Rosa Luxemburg: “Sanitation prevails in New York!” You

Re: [Marxism] Qantas and left media (was Re: Occupy Brisbane)

2011-11-06 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is why Gary and I keep getting into fights, despite our best intentions...

Re: [Marxism] Qantas and left media (was Re: Occupy Brisbane)

2011-11-06 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On the topic of GLW: a lot of material that would once have gone in GLW now goes

Re: [Marxism] Yiddishkeit

2011-11-06 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Erik Toren Maybe then Will Eisner? Eisner is a good guess. Apparently his

Re: [Marxism] Qantas and left media (was Re: Occupy Brisbane)

2011-11-05 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Nick Fredman You make me sad, Alan. Just the other day my boss called me a

Re: [Marxism] Occupy Brisbane

2011-10-31 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I haven't had the opportunity to visit Occupy Brisbane - I haven't even been to

Re: [Marxism] Occupy Brisbane

2011-10-31 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Gary MacLennan I sincerely don't want to get into any kind of spat with

Re: [Marxism] The Australian: OWS spreads to Australia

2011-10-13 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Andren Sath I suspect that the 'people's microphone' thing is a deliberate

Re: [Marxism] WA Socialist Alliance leaders continue to target dissident member

2011-10-11 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Shane Hopkinson My point Graham as you are well aware is that the SA/DSP

[Marxism] Attempt to criminalise BDS campaign in Australia

2011-08-07 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Israeli boycotts: ACCC called in * EXCLUSIVE: John Ferguson * From: The

Re: [Marxism] Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

2011-07-13 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The main impression this stuff gives me is that Jones regards the working class as

Re: [Marxism] Gil Scott heron, RIP

2011-05-28 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.

Re: [Marxism] Bob Gould dead

2011-05-25 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Another obit, for those on Facebook:

Re: [Marxism] Trapped

2011-04-27 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Gary MacLennan Sitting where I cannot avoid coverage of the Royal Wedding.

Re: [Marxism] Dialectics

2011-04-19 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Thomas Bias When I explain dialectics I use two examples that I think are

Re: [Marxism] Dialectics

2011-04-19 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: S. Artesian Hat's off to anyone who thinks the Science of Logic is easy. I

Re: [Marxism] Is this as good as it gets?

2011-03-20 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Mark Lause An underlying issue here seems to be an unspoken assumption that

Re: [Marxism] Is this as good as it gets?

2011-03-20 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Mark Lause An underlying issue here seems to be an unspoken assumption that

Re: [Marxism] Libya: a tale of two headlines 8th March 2011

2011-03-08 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: MARGARET WYLES I don't know which is sillier. The text or the video.

Re: [Marxism] Libya: a tale of two headlines 8th March 2011

2011-03-08 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: MARGARET WYLES And the Brit embedded with the rebels? That's normal