[Marxism] Socialist Wins Seattle City Council Seat

2013-11-14 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2013/11/14/sawant-wins-city-council-seat/

Re: [Marxism] Scalia

2013-10-09 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == No but ironically, he has authored a number of decisions in the Earl Warren mode

[Marxism] Raoul Rizik

2013-10-08 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Raoul, who some of us remember from his days at the University of Maryland in the

[Marxism] de Blasio Attacked for 80s Nicaragua Activism

2013-09-24 Thread Tom Cod
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Re: [Marxism] American Meat; The Revolutionary

2013-04-13 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == huh, are you sure that's an authentic quote? By that logic, flesh eating predators

Re: [Marxism] Since when is the left embracing a nationalist, establishment figure?

2012-12-29 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ah yes, the impetuous Young Hagelians whose star struck romanticim has overcome

Re: [Marxism] Jacobin critique of Lincoln

2012-11-28 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == If he said that really would be shocking. Dunning, for the uninitiated, was a

Re: [Marxism] My Communist Grandfather

2012-11-19 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A surreal episode occurred in 1950 when Max Schactman and Earl Browder debated each

Re: [Marxism] From a Truman speech in 1941

2012-11-13 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A similar quote has been attributed to Churchill as well. Certain neo-fascists

Re: [Marxism] Seek Information on November 4 Coalition

2012-11-11 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == And apparently they retained that name during the subsequent period. Below is a

Re: [Marxism] Seek Information on November 4 Coalition

2012-11-10 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Geez, I was involved in the movement then and never heard of that formation. In

Re: [Marxism] martha's vineyard

2012-10-24 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yeah but, what else is new? the rich have had their playgrounds in New England and

Re: [Marxism] The fall of Dinesh D'Souza

2012-10-24 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What a hypocritical piece of shit. Moreover, what self respecting Indian would

Re: [Marxism] Support the Write-in SEP Campaign for Jerry White and Phyllis Scerrer

2012-10-19 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I wouldn't vote for the SEP, this outfit was formerly known as the Workers League,

[Marxism] Thomas Sleigh's marxist poem in New Yorker

2012-10-06 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Anybody see Thomas Sleigh's marxist poem in this week's New Yorker? I'm not able

[Marxism] Scab Refs Turning NFL into a Joke

2012-09-25 Thread Tom Cod
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Re: [Marxism] Ignorance on parade: Islamophobia, Left and Right

2012-09-20 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A good history of this episode for the general reader is Christopher Hibbert's The

[Marxism] Karachi's Triangle Fire, Only Worse

2012-09-15 Thread Tom Cod
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Re: [Marxism] Rosenfeld Returns on Aoki

2012-09-07 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Again, the Third World Liberation Front was the leading force in the historic San

Re: [Marxism] The Republicans and the gold standard

2012-08-29 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Populist movements supported by plebeian masses in the 18th and 19th centuries

Re: [Marxism] Amnesty Calls on UN to stop the US, Qatar and Turkey funding and arming Syria Rebels

2012-08-28 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Really, like since when have Marxists been concerned about the Russian Church being

Re: [Marxism] Amnesty Calls on UN to stop the US, Qatar and Turkey funding and arming Syria Rebels

2012-08-28 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == By that logic we should line up with the religious right against Robert

Re: [Marxism] Richard Aoki on his SWP experience

2012-08-28 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A common misconception. That historic struggle was actually not Berkeley at all,

Re: [Marxism] For or against the Assad regime ? (Socialist Defeatism)

2012-08-23 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == comes across like a lot of hand wringing wrapped in utopian platitudes. On Thu,

Re: [Marxism] Marx's Racist Put-Down of Lassalle

2012-08-22 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == As quoted in William Otto Henderson (1989). Marx And Engels And The English

[Marxism] Marx's Racist Put-Down of Lassalle

2012-08-21 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This from Wikipedia's article on Ferdinand Lassalle: In the 1850s and '60s, Karl

Re: [Marxism] SA mine massacre: the Stalinists respond

2012-08-20 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Never knew the Black Block to have gotten the support of the majority of workers in

Re: [Marxism] Richard Aoki

2012-08-20 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Jeff meis...@xs4all.nl wrote: I wonder if anyone

[Marxism] Bloodhounds?

2012-08-19 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'd be interested in some comment on the below link because I think it's a little

Re: [Marxism] The Left and the Arab Spring

2012-08-18 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This brings to mind Richard Hofstadter's excellent The Paranoid Style in American

Re: [Marxism] On the murder of South African strikers

2012-08-16 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == brings to mind the 1914 Ludlow massacre in this country where 25 miners and family

Re: [Marxism] The ISO

2012-08-15 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The SWP's Intercontinental Press was similar in that regard. On Wed, Aug 15, 2012

Re: [Marxism] Alexander Cockburn, RIP

2012-08-14 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == his vituperative attacks on George Orwell? On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Louis

Re: [Marxism] Trotskyites (sic) to NeoCons: Kristol and Ko.

2012-08-11 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == or of Woodrow Wilson On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:32 PM, michael perelman

Re: [Marxism] Trotskyites to NeoCons: Kristol and Ko.

2012-08-11 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, Schwartz is nothing if not second-rate. During the SF newspaper strike he

Re: [Marxism] Trotskyites to NeoCons: Kristol and Ko.

2012-08-11 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == right, and he talks about how he was bullied by kids in school in the early 60s for

Re: [Marxism] Religious Sectarianism and Killings in Syria and Turkey

2012-08-06 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == No, but it's ironic that some of the people backing Pham are some of the same ones

Re: [Marxism] Religious Sectarianism and Killings in Syria and Turkey

2012-08-06 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yeah, doesn't it get to you when you're patronizingly talked down to by someone in

[Marxism] Religious Sectarianism and Killings in Syria and Turkey

2012-08-05 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This NYT article is about persecution and harassment of Alawites in Syria and

Re: [Marxism] Religious Sectarianism and Killings in Syria and Turkey

2012-08-05 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Surely you jest, like we have something to fear from anyone in Syria (or you?). If

Re: [Marxism] Religious Sectarianism and Killings in Syria and Turkey

2012-08-05 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == and since when do Marxists support a revolutionary process by advocating

Re: [Marxism] Religious Sectarianism and Killings in Syria and Turkey

2012-08-05 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == the concern I have is when leftists like Pham start talking about NATO air strikes.

Re: [Marxism] John Keegan 1934-2012

2012-08-04 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The New York Times obit, however, describes him as less of the of the enlightened

Re: [Marxism] Gore Vidal 1925-2012

2012-08-01 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The context of his feud with Buckley is interesting and something I appreciated as

Re: [Marxism] Dark Knight as fascist propaganda

2012-07-24 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == That is incredibly naive. Surely one shouldn't use a terms like that too loosely,

Re: [Marxism] Dark Knight as fascist propaganda

2012-07-24 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I always like the 60s TV show from when I was a kid in junior high school. It was

Re: [Marxism] Dark Knight as fascist propaganda

2012-07-24 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I remember watching Men in Tights last year a few weeks after seeing Russell

Re: [Marxism] Dark Knight as fascist propaganda

2012-07-23 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A real good take on this is Alan Moore's Watchmen that was made into a movie.

Re: [Marxism] Dark Knight as fascist propaganda

2012-07-23 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Photos of Pyongyang printed recently remind me of Batman's Gotham

Re: [Marxism] Dark Knight as fascist propaganda

2012-07-23 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == yeah but like homicidal maniac, or gangster, or psycho, or gun thug, it is not

Re: [Marxism] Michael Heinrich: An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital

2012-07-21 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == No, what I meant it is that it seems like all we hear about on lists like this is

Re: [Marxism] Alexander Cockburn, RIP

2012-07-21 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It's really too bad that he lent his name to an attempted cover-up of the bombing

Re: [Marxism] Alexander Cockburn, RIP

2012-07-21 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == link to response by Judi Bari supporters to slander campaign by Anderson, Cockburn

Re: [Marxism] Michael Heinrich: An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital

2012-07-20 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == that's all well and good. Marx died in 1883. How about some analysis of today's

Re: [Marxism] Michael Heinrich: An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital

2012-07-20 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal

Re: [Marxism] Moderator's note

2012-07-18 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == For what it's worth, Ken Morgan is a Vietnam Veteran. On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:22

Re: [Marxism] Racism in Libya

2012-07-18 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There's some truth to that. Fox Butterfield had an article in the New York Times

Re: [Marxism] Mao Did Not Want Half of China to Starve to Death: A Key Document in Dikotter's Book About Mao Published

2012-07-17 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == evidence for this assertion? On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:08 PM, sha...@aol.com

Re: [Marxism] THE ADVENTURE OF FRENCH PHILOSOPHY - ALAIN BADIOU

2012-07-16 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Brings to mind the admonition sometimes placed on certain Wikipedia articles by the

Re: [Marxism] Mao Did Not Want Half of China to Starve to Death: A Key Document in Dikotter's Book About Mao Published

2012-07-16 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == exactly so, and what this reflects is the imputation to Mao of cynical motives for

[Marxism] test

2012-07-15 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == test Send list submissions to:

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

2012-06-01 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'd have to agree with Tom and Michael. While surely this poll's results reflect

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

2012-06-01 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Uh, the Scopes trial? On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com

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

2012-06-01 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yeah, this reminds me of an argument I had back in the 80s with this evangelical

Re: [Marxism] Fascism in Germany: How Hitler Destroyed the World’s Most Powerful Labour Movement

2012-05-31 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == [consistent with this, today this group calls unions themselves, not their leaders,

[Marxism] What Killed Lenin? Wash Post Lifestyle Article Asks

2012-05-06 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == latest exercise in trivialization (he was fussy about people not smoking around

Re: [Marxism] Green nazis

2012-05-05 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == that's only because the technology didn't exist at that time to carry out such

Re: [Marxism] Green nazis

2012-05-05 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Then again there's the elephant in the room which is the whole history of African

Re: [Marxism] Green nazis

2012-05-04 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I assume you mean not waste time probing their ostensible intellectual world view

Re: [Marxism] Green nazis

2012-05-03 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Oh they've got a vulgar thug philosophy in the sense that gangsters do, which is

Re: [Marxism] Green nazis

2012-05-03 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hey don't underestimate some of these guys like Goebbels or Beck who represent more

Re: [Marxism] Nukes? Who needs nukes?

2012-04-30 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yeah, as I recall the Socialist Labor Party had very detailed programme about how

Re: [Marxism] Photos of Russia 1909-1912

2012-04-26 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, my wife had one of those books in her used bookstore which actually contained

Re: [Marxism] Samuel Bowles on his firing from Harvard

2012-04-21 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Kennedy canned him as Undersecretary of State for having opposed the Bay of Pigs

Re: [Marxism] Samuel Bowles on his firing from Harvard

2012-04-21 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't recall Bowles being a candidate, I think he was backing Stevenson's bid for

[Marxism] Lars Lih's Book on Lenin

2012-04-19 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I just finished reading Lars Lih's little 200 plus page book on Lenin and was a

Re: [Marxism] Lars Lih's Book on Lenin

2012-04-19 Thread Tom Cod
clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 4/19/12 9:23 PM, Tom Cod wrote: I just finished reading Lars Lih's little 200 plus page book on Lenin and was a little underwhelmed by it after all the praise I had

Re: [Marxism] Lars Lih's Book on Lenin

2012-04-19 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sorry, in all seriousness, the short version that I gleaned I think is this that

Re: [Marxism] When Mormons were socialists

2012-04-19 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yeah well, in this period a snake oil salesman and con artist named William Big

Re: [Marxism] Samuel Bowles on his firing from Harvard

2012-04-19 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm wondering if he's a son or grandson of Kennedy era liberal Chester Bowles.

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

2012-04-12 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Brings to mind the Trotskyist/New Leftist idea of the Red University that emerged

[Marxism] Earl Scruggs

2012-03-28 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Some of us remember seeing him perform at the monster anti-war demo in DC on

[Marxism] GOP NLBRer Leaks Info to Romney and Anti-Union Groups

2012-03-26 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == this from Michael Moore:

[Marxism] Harvey Pekar

2012-03-24 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Say, I just saw American Splendor via Netflix and it was great, although I thought

Re: [Marxism] Harvey Pekar

2012-03-24 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Cool, but I'm confused as to what Harvey's role was in producing the book since he

Re: [Marxism] Barry Sheppard's Volume 2 on SWP is out

2012-03-21 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Not to pick a fight on an old issue, but there were people on the Left, not just PL

Re: [Marxism] Facebook frustration

2012-03-04 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Unfriend is different from unsubscribe, the latter meaning a person's posts will

Re: [Marxism] Facebook frustration

2012-03-04 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == formerly of the SWP On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Tom Cod tomc...@gmail.com

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: QUERY: How are Loyalists treated in courses? [G Furr]

2012-02-25 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yeah well, left and right were terms that didn't even exist then, being brought

Re: [Marxism] Best political memoirs

2012-02-24 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Nelson Brothers: Finnish American Radicals from the Mendocino Coast

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: QUERY: How are Loyalists treated in courses? [G Furr]

2012-02-24 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Not at all, you're confusing Loyalist with Anti-Fedearalis(, two completely

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: QUERY: How are Loyalists treated in courses? [G Furr]

2012-02-24 Thread Tom Cod
PM, Tom Cod tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Not at all, you're confusing Loyalist with Anti-Fedearalis(, two completely different phenomemena, with the latter being the far left of the revolutionary camp led by the like Send list submissions to: Marxism

[Marxism] It's DSK all over again

2012-02-22 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == To borrow a phrase from Yogi Berra:

[Marxism] Massey Supe Faces Criminal Charges

2012-02-22 Thread Tom Cod
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Re: [Marxism] Why Anthony Brain has posted this article by Socialist Party of England and Wales on that Oxford Student Union passing that anti-Capitalist motion?

2012-02-22 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Why do you constantly refer to yourself in the third person? Do you think you're

[Marxism] Ronald Fraser

2012-02-20 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Author of Blood of Spain and other works:

[Marxism] Midwest Solidarity Caravan Against Lockouts

2012-02-20 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.themilitant.com/index.shtml

Re: [Marxism] Bob Avakian's advice to Tim Tebow

2012-02-03 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I dunno, this seems like demolishing a straw man. Sure in some academic sense, we

Re: [Marxism] Bob Avakian's advice to Tim Tebow

2012-02-03 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == C'mon, Avakian isn't purporting to be doing anything scholarly either. It would be

[Marxism] Le Havre: Movie about Working Class Solidarity in Provincial France

2012-02-02 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I stumbled onto this on Facebook.  For what it's worth, John Barzman, whom some of

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