Re: [Marxism] Racism and The North Star

2013-07-24 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Maybe it's just me, but when somebody makes the accusation of racism towards

Re: [Marxism] Is There Anything Truly Sustainable or Humane About Eating Meat?

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I have, but not for any moral or political reason: animal proteins are rich in the

Re: [Marxism] was that really an antiwar movement?

2013-07-12 Thread Thomas Bias
large antiwar demo since Obama was elected in 2008 - why? On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Thomas Bias tgb...@verizon.net wrote: The reality is way more complex than this, and I for one reject the idea that the antiwar movement was killed. My experience with New Jersey Peace Action

Re: [Marxism] What is a Proxy War? | Darth Nader

2013-06-16 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Read The Independent article attentively, all the way through. If there's anyone

Re: [Marxism] back to plain text, part deux

2013-06-14 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is good. Try collapse_alternatives with HTML; I'll bet it works perfectly.

Re: [Marxism] back to plain text, part deux

2013-06-14 Thread Thomas Bias
, at 5:28 PM, Thomas Bias tgb...@verizon.net wrote: This is good. Try collapse_alternatives with HTML; I'll bet it works perfectly. ~Tom Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http

Re: [Marxism] formatted messages

2013-06-10 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This came through with an empty message area and an HTML file as an attachment.

Re: [Marxism] Statement: Refusing to Accept Sexism

2013-05-31 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == For those not fluent in hypertext markup language, the Greek word is:

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

2013-05-27 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == And Anne Feeney has had her own battle with cancer. The last news I heard was that

Re: [Marxism] Book on history of May 68?

2013-05-18 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Red Flag Black Flag by Patrick Seale and Maureen McConville.

Re: [Marxism] Canada al-Qaeda Iran link 'hilarious' - Telegraph

2013-04-23 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There is an al-Qa'ideh group in Iran, but it's fighting AGAINST the Islamic

Re: [Marxism] Ding Dong, the Witch is dead a song for the picket lines

2013-04-13 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == And the lyrics to Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead were written by the great E.Y. Yip

Re: [Marxism] Marx's crisis theory

2013-04-10 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Actually, if you consider the Portuguese rape of the African continent, it begins

Re: [Marxism] She should rot in hell

2013-04-09 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In her last years Thatcher had vascular dementia. It is a lot like Alzheimer's

[Marxism] American Winter

2013-03-18 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I just saw the documentary American Winter on HBO. See it. If it doesn't break your

Re: [Marxism] Dirty War questions for the new pope

2013-03-13 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Parry's article, shared here by Dennis Brasky (thank you, Dennis!) contains the

Re: [Marxism] Query on Nazism

2013-01-07 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I was a student at Amherst College from 1967 to 1971, and junior year I had a

Re: [Marxism] Schoolmarm grammar

2012-12-31 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Greek word is σχατά (pronounced, skha-TAH). That's where I thought the term

Re: [Marxism] Prairie Miller on Zero Dark Thirty

2012-12-19 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm curious to know if people on this list have been watching the Showtime series

[Marxism] Block the Boat

2012-12-18 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == About 60 people went to Port Elizabeth to confront a ship bringing in clothing from

Re: [Marxism] Russell Banks interview

2012-12-12 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Please send it to me. Banks is my favorite living writer, and I was fortunate to

[Marxism] The Internationale in Arabic

2012-12-12 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == If there are any Arabic-speaking comrades on this mailing list, I need your help.

Re: [Marxism] Eric Foner letter on Lincoln

2012-12-01 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == John Ross? In 1861 John Ross expressed his support for the Confederacy just as

Re: [Marxism] Sawant, Stein, and Post-2012 Left Strategy

2012-11-09 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Additionally, FWIW, Pat Noble, a member of the SP of New Jersey, running as a

Re: [Marxism] How to read Zizek

2012-09-14 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is a scene in Coppola's film Apocalypse Now. Whether it happened or not in

Re: [Marxism] TERRIBLE column slandering Correa

2012-08-20 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I met Josh Muravchik when he was a YPSL leader in 1970; he was on a speaking tour,

Re: [Marxism] Fletcher/Davidson versus Occupy

2012-08-15 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sad to say, that comparison was used in 2004 by Tariq Ali, when he was arguing that

Re: [Marxism] A.N.C., Admitting Failures, Weighs How to Lift South Africans

2012-06-27 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm reading Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine right now (yes, I know I should have

Re: [Marxism] Barry Sheppard on Wisconsin recall defeat

2012-06-17 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == That's mostly true, but I would make an exception for the leadership of the New

Re: [Marxism] Liberation as Death Sentence

2012-06-11 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In the Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma, there was a civil war within the

Re: [Marxism] 46 percent of Americans think that the earth is less than 10, 000 years old

2012-06-02 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == No. It isn't this simple, and if there's anyone who has seen Christian

Re: [Marxism] 46 percent of Americans think that the earth is less than 10, 000 years old

2012-06-01 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == However, keep it in perspective: among the miners in Bloody Harlan, Hazard, Perry,

Re: [Marxism] 46 percent of Americans think that the earth is less than 10, 000 years old

2012-06-01 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Scopes trial in Tennessee was in 1926; to my knowledge there was not a great

Re: [Marxism] Glow in the dark sushi

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I know it's anecdotal, but as I look at the people I know, especially of my

Re: [Marxism] Marxism Digest, Vol 103, Issue 44

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Pittsburgh labor singer-songwriter Anne Feeney is a friend of ours and someone

Re: [Marxism] A Mountain People's Manifestor

2012-02-27 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == IMO, the notion of self-determination for the Appalachian region of the United

Re: [Marxism] Re Get political! Occupy activists urged to engage with writings of Trotsky, Lenin and Luxemburg

2012-02-23 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == That's exactly what we're planning to do in NW New Jersey in our Occupy Newton

Re: [Marxism] An Apology Ceremony That We Need to Publicize

2012-02-18 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In one instance, a plane carrying them back to Mexico crashed in the desert. There

Re: [Marxism] query re housing and class

2012-02-14 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == No, other than the famous quote by William Levitt (no man can be a communist if he

Re: [Marxism] The big lie on Iran continues

2012-02-03 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I will be joining a No War on Iran demonstration in Montclair, NJ, tomorrow

Re: [Marxism] Paul Le Blanc responds to Pham Binh's ....

2012-02-02 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == All of us who were members of the SWP in the 1970s (I joined in 1971) have stories

Re: [Marxism] Anthony Monteiro Speech at MLK Day Labor Rally

2012-01-18 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Is Monteiro still affiliated with the CPUSA? -Original Message- From:

Re: [Marxism] Goldman-Sachs elevator gossip

2012-01-07 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm thinking it's time to revive the guillotine. -Original Message- From:

Re: [Marxism] Progressives and Ron Paul

2012-01-02 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Speaking for myself and not for Michael Smith, I would say that African-Americans,

Re: [Marxism] Progressives and Ron Paul

2012-01-01 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == You'll notice that you don't see African-Americans or Latinos with anything

Re: [Marxism] Christmas Truce of WWI

2011-12-24 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here's NJ singer/songwriter Sharleen Leahey joining me in John McCutcheon's

Re: [Marxism] former Salt Lake mayor Rocky Anderson launches presidential campaign

2011-12-15 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The original suggestion comes from Socialist Viewpoint-which includes Nat and

Re: [Marxism] former Salt Lake mayor Rocky Anderson launches presidential campaign

2011-12-15 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What I'm observing among people who are involved in the Occupy movement or just

Re: [Marxism] former Salt Lake mayor Rocky Anderson launches presidential campaign

2011-12-14 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I would be interested in hearing comrades' opinions as to why a Justice Party/Rocky

[Marxism] A 1930s-style Rent Party

2011-11-24 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I think everyone on this list is familiar with the old 1930s tradition of the rent

Re: [Marxism] Older, Suburban and Struggling, 'Near Poor' Startle the Census

2011-11-19 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This describes my life almost exactly. Tom -Original Message- From:

Re: [Marxism] 20,000 to 30,000 in Oakland General Strike Action

2011-11-03 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is from my Notes from the Scrap Heap blog in relation to It's a Wonderful

Re: [Marxism] Did Quackery Finish Off Steve Jobs?

2011-10-25 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == When I had prostate cancer 10 years ago, there must have been a dozen people who

[Marxism] Rally for Occupy Wall Street in Newton, NJ

2011-10-15 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == About 100-125 people rallied in the Town Square of Newton, NJ (population under

Re: [Marxism] 30, 000 (more or less) join union-called march and rally in solidarity with OWS

2011-10-05 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I was there at today's march, too. It was my second afternoon with the OWS folks in

Re: [Marxism] The Gray Lady finally acknowledges OWS

2011-10-01 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == All hell seems to be breaking loose on the Brooklyn Bridge. The cops have 350

Re: [Marxism] Occupy Wall Street

2011-09-18 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From what I can gather, the crowd grew in the evening. The president of the New

Re: [Marxism] MARX SAYS 'CHILL WITH THIS RELIGIOUS SHIT'from Sabrina

2011-08-19 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Certainly all the groups with which I'm involved, on a local, state, or national

Re: [Marxism] Lucy the Red

2011-08-12 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I heard-and I have no reason to doubt it-that Ball named names to the HUAC, and

Re: [Marxism] NYT still fighting for revolution in Libya. (Was: Arm the resistance - Victory to the Libyan revolution - No to the NATO/UN No Fly Zone)

2011-07-01 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == As I may have mentioned, one of the founders of our local antiwar committee--who is

Re: [Marxism] The Labor Movement in Portland, Oregon, Takes a Step Forward

2011-06-28 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This has also been published on the Emergency Labor Network website,

Re: [Marxism] New Jersey Dems help Republican governor push through attack on public workers

2011-06-24 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Carol Gay, the newly elected president of the New Jersey State Industrial Union

Re: [Marxism] A fire sale in Greece

2011-06-23 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The woman who played the leading role in founding our local peace committee is

Re: [Marxism] Donkey or Elephant

2011-06-22 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Come on, now. Marx himself told us what the animal should be, in The Eighteenth

Re: [Marxism] A new novel from John Sayles

2011-06-12 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sayles's Secret of Roan Inish is a masterpiece; it's not political at all, but a

[Marxism] Notes from the Scrap Heap: Chapter 7

2011-06-11 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A new post in the Notes from the Scrap Heap blog, called Chapter Seven. Click here:

Re: [Marxism] Reflections on the World Socialist Web Site

2011-06-04 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Furthermore, the publication should include accounts of real life in this economic

Re: [Marxism] The worst housing downturn since the Great Depression

2011-05-31 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In every previous economic downturn since World War II, consumption has been

Re: [Marxism] Acts Chap 4 Verses 31-5

2011-05-25 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Actually, the author is the evangelist Luke, but the point of the message is

Re: [Marxism] Scheduled Downtime

2011-05-20 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Most of my relatives in Oklahoma buy into it.--Tom - Paul, I'm not sure how

Re: [Marxism] Dialectics

2011-04-19 Thread Thomas Bias
creates the basis for overcoming mere necessity. Public safety as such is not the object of Marx's analysis; the labor process-- the conflict, contradiction, antagonism of the labor process to the social conditions of its appropriation is that object. - Original Message - From: Thomas Bias

Re: [Marxism] Photos of the New York City Anti-War Rally on April 9

2011-04-09 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here's some more:

Re: [Marxism] Changing the guard?

2011-02-09 Thread Thomas Bias
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I quite agree with Nestor. But the truth is ALWAYS concrete: I would never equate