[Marxism] Blog post: Playing To Win

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Full at http://cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2014/05/05/playing-win/ When I was a

[Marxism] Interesting interview with Hungarian intellectual G. M. Tamás

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is a very interesting interview. It perhaps sheds a good deal of light on the

[Marxism] A Syrian novelist driving a cab in Chicago

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A good story. Now if he had been a US native, he'd have been on facebook begging

[Marxism] Angela Davis letter in support of the CUNY Graduate Center for Worker Education

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == by Angela Davis I join with the many students, faculty, labor leaders and

[Marxism] Blog Post: Home Sweet Home

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[Marxism] •Re: • Lawrence Wishart: independent radical publishers

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks for all the useful information on this. Even Bustelo's caustic remarks are

Re: [Marxism] Lawrence Wishart: despicable bourgeois profiteers

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I signed one petition, with this comment: As a publisher, I don't think Lawrence

Re: [Marxism] •Re: • Lawrence Wishart: independent radical publishers

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect gives Monthly Review a lot of credit. I might add that, as I said on

[Marxism] • Lawrence Wishart: independent radical publishers

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Can comrades explain to me what is so outrageous about the publisher's defense of

[Marxism] Why does the mass media ignore mass murder in Syria?

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Probably for the same reasons the media ignored mass murder in Viet Nam,

[Marxism] •Re: Good article by Gregg Shotwell

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Chris Phelps must not have been reading what I have written in Monthly Review!!!

[Marxism] Good article by Gregg Shotwell

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I would be interested to know what people think of Gregg's article.

[Marxism] Please aid an imprisoned Iranian union organizer

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == An Iranian friend sent me this letter. Please consider signing the petition linked

[Marxism] Marxism] Why Russians got involved with high-frequency trading

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Perhaps the system of Soviet planning, with its perverse incentives, had something

[Marxism] New book from Monthly Review Press; PolyluxMarx

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here is a great guide for studying Marx. Translated very nicely by our good

[Marxism] Tea Party’s “absurd” socialism obsession: An actual Marxist sounds off - Salon.com

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ben Kunkel says in this interview: So at least in theory, you could have a market

[Marxism] Lettuce Picking and Left-Wing Organizing » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Bruce Neuburger's book, Lettuce Wars, has much of interest for anyone who would go

[Marxism] Bhagat Singh

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Bernard D'Mello interviews Chaman Lal concerning Chaman's new book, Understanding

Re: [Marxism] progressive academics and bds

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Calling Eric Alterman an academic, progressive or otherwise, is pretty funny. And

[Marxism] Blog Post: Teaching Workers

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[Marxism] The Surrender of America's Liberals | Moyers Company | BillMoyers.com

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I read Adolph Reed's essay in Harpers, which I assume is the basis of this

[Marxism] Exclusive excerpt from John Tully's 'Silvertown: The Lost Story of a Strike that ... Helped Launch the Modern Labor Movement' | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == John Tully, who also authored the seminal book on the rubber industry (The Devil's

[Marxism] Blog Post. Choosing an Occupation: The Science of Economics.

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Full at http://cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2014/01/25/science-economics/ The name,

[Marxism] Historian Gerald Horne on the dismantling of the Graduate Center for Worker Education

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis has posted links to both the NYT's take on this controversy and some

[Marxism] A story of two visits to Viet Nam

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I think that this is a wonderful essay.

[Marxism] Jacobinned: The Story Behind the Story Jacobin Refused to Publish

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here is something on the immigration rights movement by David Bacon, someone who

Re: [Marxism] Bukharin's Philosophical Arabesques at a bargain price

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From Louis' review of the Bukarin book: As a work of Marxist philosophy,

[Marxism] Special Page at Monthly Review: Exchange with M. Heinrich on Crisis Theory,

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Angelus Novus refers us to an exchange between Michael Heinrich and his critics

[Marxism] Blog Post: In Search of the Real America

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Re: [Marxism] A Radical Vision for Victory

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Charlie asks whether our book about the Freedom Budget goes into the

[Marxism] Blog Post: The Treadmill of Life

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Full at http://cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2013/11/10/treadmill-life/ Yesterday,

Re: [Marxism] 'A Prairie Home Companion' is wretched and unlistenable - SBNation.com

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Michael Smith suggests that all comedy is conservative. I guess then that comedy

[Marxism] My latest blog post: Night Thoughts.

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[Marxism] 'A Prairie Home Companion' is wretched and unlistenable - SBNation.com

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I have hated this show from the first time I listened to it, or at least as

[Marxism] Lou Reed

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I saw Lou Reed perform with the Velvet Underground at the Stanley Theater in

[Marxism] To Be Black in Cuba

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It is remarkable that the writer of this essay could have missed the book Race in

[Marxism] A Capital Workbook in Slides

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Monthly Review Press will be publishing the English edition of Polylux Marx next

Re: [Marxism] To Be Black in Cuba

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Annette asks: What essay? Link? It is, as posted by Louis: Chronicle of Higher

[Marxism] Brazil tribe plagued by one of the highest suicide rates in the world | World news | theguardian.com

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is a heartbreaking story. Not many people care that these things are common

[Marxism] Blog Post. The Road Beckons: Excerpt from Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate

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[Marxism] Chipotle Promotes Self, Better Farming Practices With Eerie Video - Truthdig

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == When I wrote the essay on Chipotle Louis posted, I hadn't ever eaten in one of its

[Marxism] Black America and a New Freedom Budget

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Paul Le Blanc and I have an essay up at truthout. Here is the link:

[Marxism] Why a medieval peasant got more vacation time than you | The Great Debate

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Marc Bloch tells us in his masterful Feudal Society that there were significant

Re: [Marxism] Why a medieval peasant got more vacation time than you | The Great Debate

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Carl is correct that the serf is not a slave. I only made the point about the serf

[Marxism] Blog Post: Memorializing Martin Luther King, Jr.

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[Marxism] Syria

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Patrick Cockburn has an essay in counterpunch worth reading:

Re: [Marxism] The American Dream rewards few, enslaves millions | Bhaskar Sunkara | Comment is free | theguardian.com

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis says Sunkara's Guardian piece is refreshingly honest. Well, not long ago he

Re: [Marxism] The American Dream rewards few, enslaves millions | Bhaskar Sunkara | Comment is free | theguardian.com, Louis Proyect,

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis insists on the painful honesty of Sunkara. I'll agree if we accept that the

[Marxism] counterpunch articles on California prisoners' hunger strike

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Counterpunch has published at least two interesting and moving essays on the

Re: [Marxism] Book Event - Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Alan Wieder is speaking at Orca Books in Olympia, Washington. I believe the owner

[Marxism] reviewer wanted

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Hell's Kitchen book that George refers to is a complex and interesting work.

[Marxism] Whites and African-Americans in America by the numbers | Informed Comment

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I have been involved in discussion with some people about the inequality along

Re: [Marxism] Help Defend Jacobin / CounterPunch and the War on Transgender People

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I urge everyone to read the Jacobin essay that is the source of the plea by

Re: [Marxism] Books about Cuba

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In addition to Esteban Morales' Race in Cuba, mentioned by Erik, two other recent

[Marxism] 35% off July Book of the Month: Insurgent Images: The Agitprop Murals of Mike Alewitz by Mike Alewitz Paul Buhle, foreword by Martin Sheen

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks for posting your review of this, Louis. It is a beautiful book, expensive

Re: [Marxism] Glenn Greenwald Regularly Attends Marxist-Leninist Conferences

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jeffrey Masko says, So? Why is this hit piece here? I applaud him for looking to

[Marxism] Blog Post: Karen's Cancer

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Full at http://cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2013/06/13/karens-cancer/ Karen was

[Marxism] Public School Teachers fighting back: June issue of Monthly Review

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The June issue of Monthly Review is about public school teachers fighting back

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

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Let's see now. ISO people bandy about words like filth and disgusting and locker

[Marxism] Statement: Refusing to Accept Sexism

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dan said he tried to unsub. Must not have tried too hard. But, please, unsub away.

Re: [Marxism] Another review of Heinrich

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The review by Matthijs Krul of Michael Heinrich's isn't too bad, and it is nice

Re: [Marxism] Another review of Heinrich

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There may be no necessary difference between what Louis says and what MAK says. I

Re: [Marxism] bluff, bluster, and bullshit at CounterPunch

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I want to second Louis's post on the article by Ruth Fowler in counterpunch (plus

Re: [Marxism] The real working life of a chef

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks, Richard Fidler, for that great post on your work on the trains.

[Marxism] Obama and LBJ

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The most recent volume of Robert Caro's biography of LBJ, The Passage of Power:

[Marxism] Slide Show: Jobs and Freedom

/pb3607/ Here is a slide-show on the civil rights movement, the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and the Freedom Budget that was advanced by A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King and others. It is related to a book by Michael Yates and myself that will be coming out

[Marxism] Niall Ferguson trashes Keynes for homosexuality

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This really is a new low. For a low person to begin with. He is the Laurence A.

[Marxism] Blog Post: Cades Cove: History Is So Much Fun!

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[Marxism] Grad student who discovered Reinhart and Rogoff Excel error

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This was a student of my friend and excellent economist, Robert Pollin. Bob was

Re: [Marxism] A Radical Anthropologist Finds Himself in Academic 'Exile' - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == David Graeber's upset at his inability to find an academic job in the US has been

[Marxism] Lettuce Wars by Bruce Neuburger

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[Marxism] Heinrich on Marx's Crisis Theory

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Michael Heinrich has an essay in the April Monthly Review on Marx's crisis theory,

[Marxism] Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Alan Wieder wrote: Just finished final editing before layout of my book on Ruth

[Marxism] John Foster is not speaking at the British SWP Marxism 2013 Festival in London this July

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == We at Monthly Review have learned that editor John Bellamy Foster is listed as a

[Marxism] Blog Post: Mike and Bruce

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[Marxism] Another response to 'Catastrophism' book

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ian Angus has written a good response to the essay on the environment in the

Re: [Marxism] Advice needed - Book on Gramsci

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A good book on Gramsci is Antonio Gramsci by Antonio A. Santucci, the English

[Marxism] Economics professor defends himself against Zionist smear campaign

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Professor Alam is a talented scholar and good human being. We should support him

[Marxism] What Rules Should Govern US Drone Attacks? by Kenneth Roth | The New York Review of Books

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This fellow no doubt is an asshole. But people like Robert Naiman, who has been

[Marxism] blog post: OWS and the Importance of Political Slogans

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[Marxism] Giroux on Pathologies of Power today - excellent/new book by Giroux from Monthly Review Press

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Monthly Review Press will be publishing in April Henry Giroux's new book,

[Marxism] Empty Cuba blather

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis decries the lack of analytical posts. This is true. People seem to have

[Marxism] Empty Cuba blather,

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I used the word you in my last post. This did not refer to Louis, but was a

[Marxism] Bloomberg Defends College’s Right to Sponsor Israel-Boycott Talk

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Naturally, it is better that the mayor defend the right of a public college to

Re: [Marxism] Bloomberg Defends College’s Right to Sponsor Israel-Boycott Talk

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Andrew Pollack makes the good point that seen from the perspective of those who

Re: [Marxism] Pham Binh: why Leninism persists

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == These comments by Michael Heinrich in his Introduction to the Three Volumes of

[Marxism] blog post: why is our work so meaningless?

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Full at http://cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2013/02/02/lucky-to-have-a-job/

[Marxism] Why the ideas of Karl Marx are more relevant than ever in the 21st century

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dan R writes: The article is obviously not intended for committed

[Marxism] Re Tarantino Flunks American History,

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here is something Michael Smith wrote that I thought was good:

[Marxism] blog post: Oliver Stone, Obama, and the War in Vietnam

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[Marxism] Sol Yurick 1935-2013

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sol Yurick wrote a great article in the Dec. 1970 issue of Monthly Review, one I

[Marxism] Good article about Jerry Tucker and what labor can learn from his life

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[Marxism] William Lorent Katz on Lincoln

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == So I read a bit of this review, got bored, and looked at the bottom of the page

[Marxism] William Lorent Katz on Lincoln,

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == That should be 756 months, not 636. The number of books was so astonishingly high

[Marxism] William Lorent Katz on Lincoln

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis, you have forgotten those other 212 books he edited. These take a lot of

[Marxism] blog post: My Christmas Story (for Tatiana)

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Re: [Marxism] fish as a healthy alternative to red meat

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dennis Brasky says, The path to good health is social and political action, not

[Marxism] Blog Post. Sego Canyon: Rock Art Glory, Mining Town Ruins

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[Marxism] Charles Post catches the Samuel Farber flu

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Whatever faults the Cuban leaders might have, they have been victims of the

[Marxism] Blog Post: Fruita, Orderville . . . Mitt Romney

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