Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-17 Thread Jim
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == [reply inline / bottom-posted] on Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:38:03 -0500, Carl G.

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-17 Thread Paul Flewers
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I agree with list members who are wary about Orwell's _Animal Farm_ as a suitable

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-17 Thread Einde O'Callaghan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 17.08.2012 02:33, Louis Proyect wrote: snip On 8/16/12 8:29 PM, Nick Fredman

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-17 Thread dajj1950
. The second part of the book deals with the return to Russia after the revolution. A second volume is planned. doug jordan. -- Original Message -- Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:29:04 +1000 From: Nick Fredman nick.fred...@optusnet.com.au Subject: Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds? Reply

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-17 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.marxists.org/subject/art/literature/children/index.htm

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-17 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Not fiction but maybe one for the history teachers, and parents, and maybe for a

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-17 Thread John Wesley
! From: Nick Fredman nick.fred...@optusnet.com.au To: Mr. Goodman godisamethod...@yahoo.com Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 6:33 PM Subject: Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-17 Thread Shane Mage
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The question was novels about communism. Nobody yet has mentioned a novel about

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-17 Thread Todd Wolfson
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I would add Mother by Maxim Gorky, which is beautiful and details the life of a

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-16 Thread dajj1950
but a good read. Also Jack London's The Iron Heel. regards doug jordan. -- Original Message -- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:37:40 +1200 (NZST) From: johnedmund...@paradise.net.nz Subject: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds? Reply-To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition marxism

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-16 Thread Richard Fidler
- From: marxism-bounces+rfidler_8=sympatico...@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu [mailto:marxism-bounces+rfidler_8=sympatico...@greenhouse.economics.ut ah.edu] On Behalf Of johnedmund...@paradise.net.nz Sent: August 16, 2012 12:38 AM To: rfidle...@sympatico.ca Subject: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-16 Thread William Quimby
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == You might (tenderly) suggest Le Guin's The Dispossessed? Not exactly dealing with

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-16 Thread Andrew Pollack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (the

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-16 Thread Carl G. Estabrook
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Excellent suggestions on this thread so far. Two YA novels where the

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-16 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 8/16/12 2:43 PM, John Wesley wrote: Animal Farm is relatively easy to read

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-16 Thread Gary MacLennan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I may be showing my age, but Tom Sawyer, and Huckleberry Finn can't be beat and

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-16 Thread John Wesley
: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds? == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I may be showing my age, but Tom

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-16 Thread DCQ
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == When I tried teaching Animal Farm to my 9th-graders, it just felt clunky. I ended

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-16 Thread johnedmundson
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks to everyone who's contributed ideas so far. Most I hadn't read but I'll pass

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-16 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 17/08/12 3:45 AM, Carl G. Estabrook galli...@illinois.edu wrote: Excellent

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-16 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 8/16/12 8:29 PM, Nick Fredman wrote: Lord of the Flies anti-capitalist? Even

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-16 Thread Andrew Pollack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I would swear we had this debate about Lord of the Flies before, but let me raise

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-16 Thread Nick Fredman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 17/08/12 10:33 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote:

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-16 Thread David P Á
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It doesn't call it communism by name, but I'd suggest Voyage from Yesteryear, by

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-16 Thread David P Á
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 16/08/2012 20:29, Ken Hiebert wrote: Has anyone read Germinal by Zola? I

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-16 Thread David P Á
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 17/08/2012 2:03, johnedmund...@paradise.net.nz wrote: I read Ursula Le Guin's

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-16 Thread Carl G. Estabrook
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From a review by John Carey of Blake Morrison's biography of William Golding:

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-16 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Has anyone read Germinal by Zola? I confess that it was recommended to me in my

[Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-15 Thread johnedmundson
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A teacher's forum I'm on had a request for a novel dealing with communism for kids