Re: [Marxism] Disenchantment with OWS

2011-11-21 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Spartacist view of OWS from latest Workers Vanguard newspaper; a little sectarian

Re: [Marxism] covering the protests

2011-11-24 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Gary MacLennan gary.maclenn...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Marxism] The rise of cryptofascist Hollywood

2011-11-26 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == For a hilarious example of this see Event Horizon where in the middle of the movie

Re: [Marxism] MRZine on Syria

2011-11-27 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yeah but, if this represents reportage from those there, then a less dismissive

Re: [Marxism] MRZine on Syria

2011-11-27 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sectarian Strife in City Bodes ill for All of SyriaNew York Times, November 20,

[Marxism] 30th Anniversary of El Mozote Massacre of 1000 peasants

2011-12-10 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The real face of the Reagan Revolution

[Marxism] Response to Hitchens on Michael Moore

2011-12-17 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In 2004 Hitchens wrote a scurrilous hit piece about Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911

Re: [Marxism] Star Trek please post

2011-12-17 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Are you kidding? Now, doesn't that take the cake, wonky leftists with the utmost

[Marxism] Marxmail Down?

2011-12-18 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The marxmail latest 100 messages page won't load with my finally being directed to

Re: [Marxism] Marxmail Down?

2011-12-18 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == yeah but is it being posted to the website which is some folks quick view of this?

Re: [Marxism] Marxmail Down?

2011-12-18 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks for the update. On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Louis Proyect

Re: [Marxism] On Hitchens

2011-12-19 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yeah but in plodding through this, the author, like a couple other guys I saw,

Re: [Marxism] Sympathy for the devil: Film justifies Thatcher's crimes

2011-12-30 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == then why are right wing pundits praising it? maybe they haven't viewed it? On Thu,

Re: [Marxism] Progressives and Ron Paul

2012-01-03 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, I certainly wouldn't compare Ron Paul to Hitler, I think that's way off, but

[Marxism] West Coast Longshore Battle Reaching Critical Point

2012-01-05 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The ILWU is in a critical battle in the ag-industrial port of Longview, WA, which

Re: [Marxism] Prognosis negative: the RCP euthanizes Slavoj Zizek

2012-01-10 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == You're kidding? Avakian has an apartment in the Dakota? He must have been

Re: [Marxism] Prognosis negative: the RCP euthanizes Slavoj Zizek

2012-01-10 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == so what are Zizek's political views? Wikipedia's article doesn't address this at

[Marxism] Sam Husseini on Hitchens

2012-01-11 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Below is a link to a former colleague of Hitchens who doesn't apologize for him,

[Marxism] 75th Anniversary of UAW's Battle of Bulls Run

2012-01-11 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This from Michael Moore:

Re: [Marxism] New book: Dialectical Materialism vs. The New Physics by Mike Gimbel

2012-01-16 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == They are as much scientists as the philistine experts of the Inquisition who

Re: [Marxism] Conservative frets over class divide

2012-01-21 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Isn't he one of the guys that wrote the notorious book, The Bell Curve? On Sat,

Re: [Marxism] Conservative frets over class divide

2012-01-21 Thread Tom Cod
:07 PM, Tom Cod tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Isn't he one of the guys that wrote the notorious book, The Bell Curve? On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text

Re: [Marxism] Mangling the Party: Vol. 1 of Tony Cliff’s Lenin By Pham Binh

2012-01-25 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't know that that represents a valuable contribution to assessing the

Re: [Marxism] Mangling the Party: Vol. 1 of Tony Cliff’s Lenin By Pham Binh

2012-01-25 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, I'm with you on that, but aren't you the guy that has repeatedly told us to

Re: [Marxism] Morning Star article on Trotsky

2012-01-25 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Isn't this the British CP paper? interesting.

[Marxism] Kaiser Workers on Strike in California

2012-01-31 Thread Tom Cod
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Re: [Marxism] Kautsky the Renegade

2012-01-31 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I think you are avoiding the primary issue which was Kautsky's denunciation of the

[Marxism] Right Wing Launches Red Baiting Attack on Pham Binh

2012-01-31 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == the following article has been published on a number of right wing sites, the one

[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

Re: [Marxism] What happened before the Big Bang?

2012-02-02 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't want to get sidetracked, but in what way is there no evidence that time

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] 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

[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

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

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] 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] 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

[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

[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] 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

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] 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] 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

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] 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] 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] 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

2012-05-05 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

[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] 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,

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

[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] 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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

[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] 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

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] 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] 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] 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 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

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