Re: [Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] The Fall and Rise of Economic Histo ry

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BTW Schumpeter's book History of Economic Analysis is available for free as a 
PDF file at:
 http://digamo.free.fr/schumphea.pdf

It is interesting to note that the book was unfinished when Schumpeter died. 
Following his death, his widow engaged their good friend, Paul Sweezy, to 
assist her in preparing the unfinished manuscript for publication.


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The history of economic thought is another field of study that's fallen on hard 
times. A generation or two ago, courses in the history of economic thought were 
typically required for both undergraduate and graduate students in economics. 
But no more. It used to be the case that eminent economists like Joseph 
Schumpeter or Lionel Robbins wrote textbooks on the history of economic thought 
but that sort of thing has become passe.

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[Marxism] Why we're changing nothing

2014-12-02 Thread Red arnie via Marxism
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An October 23, 2014 review of Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything in the 
London Review of Books:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n20/paul-kingsnorth/the-four-degrees

Spoiler - Concluding sentences:

Kahneman won a Nobel Prize for his work on the psychology of human 
decision-making, which may be why he’s so gloomy. ‘This is not what you might 
want to hear,’ he says, but ‘no amount of psychological awareness will overcome 
people’s reluctance to lower their standard of living. So that’s my bottom 
line: there is not much hope. I’m thoroughly pessimistic. I’m sorry.’

In other words, the truth doesn't set us free.

Apologies if link doesn't open or if this was already posted. Let me know if 
you need the article.

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[Marxism] Fwd: inequality in the skies | orgtheory.net

2014-12-02 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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I’m on a plane right now, flying from Sacramento back to Albany. And 
sitting here I’m reminded of how air travel itself reflects the growing 
inequality of society in a trivial, but suggestive, way.


Planes have always had first-class and passenger cabins, at least as far 
as I know. If the Titanic had this distinction, I’m guessing it was in 
place from the beginning of commercial aviation.


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[Marxism] Fwd: After Brazilian election, Dilma taps “Chicago Boy” as finance minister - World Socialist Web Site

2014-12-02 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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These people are idiots but this is worth reading.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/12/02/braz-d02.html
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[Marxism] Fwd: The German Greens: Or how they learned to stop worrying and game the ‘poverty migrants’ | LeftEast

2014-12-02 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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How much are our lives worth?

€1 billion, according to Germany’s Green Party. So high a pledge is 
reminiscent of a racket, in which a potentially dangerous situation is 
artificially created so as the mafioso can pretend that s/he is able to 
protect the victims under threat. The story that follows is that of a 
racket. It is a story of how the Greens, through their use of the 
stereotype of the thieving EU migrant (or ‘social benefit tourist’), 
have aimed to pacify the emerging radical refugee movement in Germany. 
In effect, they have played these two social actors (the ‘legitimate’ 
asylum seeker, and the ‘illegitimate’ EU migrant) against each other. In 
doing so, the Greens have confirmed what we already knew: they are a 
bunch of bandits ready to sell out labor for small change. Their actions 
point to a ruse, one that many of us already suspected, in which the 
so-called ‘poverty migrants’ of the EU periphery and asylum seekers are 
played against one another in a zero sum game. In this game, the only 
winner will be capital. Let me explain why.


On Friday, the second chamber of the German parliament passed a deal 
that would provide the municipalities in the country with an additional 
€1 billion over the next two years. The move is widely presented as a 
necessary step to providing municipal governments with much needed 
financial support in order for them to meet the growing welfare needs of 
asylum-seekers in the country. But welfare always comes with a hidden 
condition. The sacrificial offering this time around were the 
widely-despised economic migrants from within the EU, the so-called 
‘social benefit tourists.’ And the one to execute the sacrifice was the 
Greens. Three things came together on November 28.


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Re: [Marxism] Why we're changing nothing

2014-12-02 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
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On 12/2/14 7:14 AM, Red arnie via Marxism wrote:
 Kahneman won a Nobel Prize for his work on the psychology of human
 decision-making, which may be why he’s so gloomy. ‘This is not what
 you might want to hear,’ he says, but ‘no amount of psychological
 awareness will overcome people’s reluctance to lower their standard
 of living. So that’s my bottom line: there is not much hope. I’m
 thoroughly pessimistic. I’m sorry.’

The average American watches television 5 hours a day. The average
hour-long TV show is 36 percent commercials. Each commercial is produced
by a creative team made up of graduates from Ivy League schools who
are well versed in psychology (just watch Mad Men) and designed to
create an unquenchable desire to buy, buy, buy. We are in a Catch-22
situation. The ruling class creates the conditions for commodity
fetishism that is undermining capitalism's ability to create commodities
in the long run. The Communist Manifesto alluded to such contradictions:

The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to
further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property; on the
contrary, they have become too powerful for these conditions, by which
they are fettered, and so soon as they overcome these fetters, they
bring disorder into the whole of bourgeois society, endanger the
existence of bourgeois property. The conditions of bourgeois society are
too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. And how does the
bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the one hand by enforced
destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other, by the
conquest of new markets, and by the more thorough exploitation of the
old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for more extensive and more
destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are
prevented.

The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the ground
are now turned against the bourgeoisie itself.



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[Marxism] Fwd: Russian state TV shows fake video as proof US parents indoctrinate kids with gay porn - Vox

2014-12-02 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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http://www.vox.com/2014/12/1/7313025/russia-gay-propaganda
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[Marxism] Fwd: Investigation Finds Dirty Coal Projects Being Financed by Climate Funds | Common Dreams | Breaking News Views for the Progressive Community

2014-12-02 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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Close to $1 billion in funds meant to finance global climate-mitigation 
projects is going toward the construction of power plants fired by 
coal—the biggest human source of carbon pollution—according to an 
Associated Press investigation.


The findings underscore the lack of rules designed to steer the United 
Nations' 'climate finance' initiative, through which rich countries 
funnel money to poor countries to help tackle global warming, Karl 
Ritter and Margie Mason wrote for the AP.


The money for coal highlights one of the biggest problems in the UN-led 
effort to fight climate change: A lack of accountability, they pointed 
out. Climate finance is critical to any global climate deal, and rich 
countries have pledged billions of dollars toward it in UN climate 
talks, which resume Monday in Lima, Peru. Yet there is no watchdog 
agency that ensures the money is spent in the most effective way. 
There's not even a common definition on what climate finance is.


full: 
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[Marxism] Fwd: The CIA’s Student-Activism Phase | The Nation

2014-12-02 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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By Tom Hayden:

My personal involvement in this story begins in the late 1950s, when I 
was a student editor at The Michigan Daily, the University of Michigan’s 
student paper. In those fallow years, I was a developing idealist who 
did not know that the CIA had begun recruiting students for its secret 
war against the Soviet Union. In 1960, I hitchhiked to the University of 
California, Berkeley, to write about the new student movement there. In 
the Bay Area, students protesting the House Un-American Activities 
Committee were beaten, hosed and washed down the steps of City Hall. 
They were developing the first campus political party at Berkeley, known 
as SLATE. They were fighting for the right of student governments to 
take stands on “off-campus” issues like racial segregation everywhere 
from San Francisco’s downtown hotels to Mississippi. They were in the 
process of becoming the Free Speech Movement and the Vietnam Day 
Committee of 1964 and 1965.


I spent an exhilarating summer staying in an apartment full of Berkeley 
radicals. One of the many visitors I met was Donald Hoffman, who 
represented the National Student Association, which included members of 
student government and Daily editors that met every summer. He was a bit 
older than me, a friendly liberal fellow who wanted to make sure that 
Berkeley students came to that summer’s national convention. He also was 
a CIA agent, and remained so for many decades.


The editor of the Daily before me, Peter Eckstein, was enlisted by the 
CIA to direct its recruiting operations, which targeted student 
activists in Europe who had been attracted to Soviet-sponsored youth 
festivals. Peter was preceded by another Daily editor, Harry Lunn, who 
became a lifetime CIA operative in many postings around the world.


full: http://www.thenation.com/article/191569/cias-student-activism-phase#
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[Marxism] We're poorer than our parents

2014-12-02 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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Multiple links.

http://www.bookforum.com/blog/#entry14006
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Civility Wars - The New Yorker

2014-12-02 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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Thanks to the Internet, we have become expert parsers of language, 
meaning, and authorial intent. We have grown obsessed with subtext. In 
other words, we live in very discursive times, when language seems to 
matter more than ever. Perhaps the return of civility, as those on the 
right and left have both argued, constitutes a renewal of the culture 
wars, where taste became an object of national debate. But it also seems 
like a natural result of the sheer amount of time we spend engaged in 
the textual worlds of the Internet. There is more to say and share than 
ever before. As we dive headlong into this world made of words, the 
temptation will always be to shout above the din.


This is why the University of Illinois’s treatment of Salaita has gained 
so much attention with the academic world. Despite the careful 
deliberation that went into his hiring, the school rescinded his job 
offer once a series of inflammatory tweets about Israel began 
circulating among powerful donors and trustees. He was charged with 
incivility. Should the informal channels of Twitter be admissible 
evidence of a scholar’s record? Was it the words that were uncivil or 
the ideas they described? Even those who found his tweets vulgar 
believed that he was being held to a disturbingly vague and arbitrary 
standard. The school claimed that its case was self-consciously not an 
abridgement of free speech. In practice, though, it had essentially set 
out a series of cynical guidelines for how to exercise that right. Two 
weeks ago, Salaita filed a lawsuit against the university. Among the 
various charges, many of which involve procedure, Salaita and his 
attorneys allege that the university denied their request to view 
administration e-mails detailing their deliberations—specifically, those 
containing keywords such as “Palestine,” “Jewish,” and “uncivil.”


full: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/civility-wars
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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Re: Fwd: Mystery document alleges Numsa is bent on regime change | News | National | Mail Guardian

2014-12-02 Thread Andrew Pollack via Marxism
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Sorry for the late response as this is a very significant development, but
was tied up last night and only just saw this email.

1. Notice in the list of those targetted our comrades Federico and Patrick.
Of course I consider all those slandered as comrades but I only know those
two personally.

2. Notice Sonny Melencio (misspelled as Mellencio) is in the list. Sonny is
head of the PLM, a Philippines revolutionary group which recently sponsored
the latest Asia Socialism conference:
http://secure-web.cisco.com/1Epmxhau97UJkDgPG4BuDRHRQOe3R1C_444qNpNYpDoBR-6PCwHRTLVvtcxv0xZojwcaLvKwIL1WpxgS2ChTV3XAphb8CwSBHGiL1QLuCPldsHvdLeZ3czzC2XKNs8UqQahJupypORqJu_B1-Aj8Yz0Np4VuYQZ8_B-Ibt2XftPxgmO3Cww6fCED_-X6MbuEv_z6f94rDmjcapOcHlmeoTFJdaYiiEwwgEInLr2xuOYE/http%3A%2F%2Flinks.org.au%2Fnode%2F4177
The conference passed a resolution backing NUMSA, and the parties involved
are part of the same general trend of nonsectarian revolutionary approach
with those slandered in the document. See IV and Links for past articles by
and about the PLM. See also Sonny's book.
3. An earlier article by Claude Gabriel (although the one Louis forwarded
is much more detailed):
http://secure-web.cisco.com/1hFZqqhBbmpknTooWJ4AGPmas5GKknzf7fq25khqbDfi6uZXgIxU_UGp-97HV5pdh-0gkbdA8QxaAlBva1IzwR6aV9Ihr313bKfdRCsldihZ7GVGYg4FDrJ2ftn09mC_BXCxhCwNKzfN04pcMbhTeiIIptWbykgjPujru4H21-4Wkn2kXWNx7TLqvMWzDpdC_p5Stn_sa2EKiVc4lL__8bhdt_7G8jBCdUOZW5pcdMDg/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.europe-solidaire.org%2Fspip.php%3Farticle33674
4. Odds are this is only the start of a long campaign of slanders and as a
result the need for a defense of the unions and others under attack (unions
plural because there are 9 in NUMSA's camp). Be ready!

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote:

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 Is the ANC preparing a crackdown on NUMSA using a bogus document?

 http://secure-web.cisco.com/1iSllN8YzI13Uweed6wBtUeXuraNbvecWsrEbXtuMpAzHxjCBzEDisnsuHv7ddp-0-BWM37FjJUT8LKNJXJ-CAwUCy-Y9Ux2RQ5sClrAJSHbdJdJkYd9jbjXIpbF4voGtkM8qAAIKP0mQutuk2WyU1POGYFpgUVIFqO9x6Ys69hPgRtCf8OtMW8n1eFEpHlSHyJneZ_lgtezuagb0LhtVT1MWcyLvdvzI-7q0weklUTM/http%3A%2F%2Fmg.co.za%2Farticle%2F2014-12-01-mystery-document-
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[Marxism] Marxist theory of social change

2014-12-02 Thread Philip Ferguson via Marxism
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This article has been getting lots of hits on Redline, but it would be good
if people reading it left comments about it.

http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/the-marxist-theory-of-social-change/

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[Marxism] Fwd: The Shirley Clarke Restoration Project | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

2014-12-02 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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Recently I had the good fortune to watch two DVD’s from Milestone that 
are part of an ongoing restoration project for the entire Shirley Clarke 
oeuvre, the legacy of an avant-garde film and video maker from the 1950s 
through the 80s. Generally I am leery of the hyperbole that abounds in 
the arts section of the NY Times but I think that Manohla Dargis was not 
exaggerating when she wrote: “Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical 
filmmaker and pioneer—Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold 
stories of American Independent cinema.”


full: 
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[Marxism] Cliff Conner on Ernie Tate's memoir

2014-12-02 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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Dear friends and comrades,

I want to strongly recommend Ernie Tate’s 2-volume memoir, Revolutionary 
Activism in the 1950s and '60s.


I just posted a review of Volume 2 on Amazon.  Here it is:


A KEY PARTICIPANT’S ACCOUNT OF THE 1960s YOUTH RADICALIZATION IN BRITAIN

I previously reviewed Volume 1 of this set and also gave it 5 stars, but 
there are important differences between the two volumes. I found much of 
personal interest in Vol. 1 but I recognize that readers who don't share 
Ernest Tate's political-activist background might not value it as 
highly. Vol. 2, however, should be of great interest to a much broader 
readership because it provides an insider's view of an extremely 
important historical event—namely, the creation of the powerful 
anti-Vietnam-War movement in Great Britain during the 1960's and early 
70's. An essential contribution to that movement was made by the 
Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation and the International War Crimes 
Tribunal that it gave birth to. Tate and his comrade-in-arms Jess 
MacKenzie were closely involved with all of these developments, and his 
narrative account of their battles and eventual triumphs is fascinating. 
And underlying all of his mass work was Tate's central role in 
bringing a British section of the Fourth International into being. What 
he has to say about his dealings with key figures in the antiwar, labor, 
and socialist movements such as Bertrand Russell, Ralph Shoenman, David 
Horowitz, Isaac and Tamara Deutscher, Ernest Mandel, Vladimir Dedijer, 
Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Laurent Schwartz, Tariq Ali, Ken 
Coates, Pat Jordan, Tony Cliff, Gerry Healy and many more will be of 
immense value to historians trying to understand the great youth 
radicalization as it played out in Britain during those turbulent years. 
If I have not already dropped enough interesting names, I will add that 
the book has photos of mass antiwar demonstrations with such notables as 
Vanessa Redgrave, Stephen Hawking, and Richard Branson [!] front and center.



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[Marxism] Putin Funds Far Right in France. It's No Secret, says Marine Le Pen

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http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/27274-focus-putin-funds-far-right-in-france-qits-no-secretq-says-marine-le-pen
Putin Funds Far Right in France. It's No Secret, says Marine Le Pen

by Steve Weissman, Reader Supported News

December 2, 2014

hile the US and its NATO allies compete with the Kremlin in a
nuclear-tinged and very Orwellian Cold War
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/26884-focus-putting-a-stop-to-the-new-cold-war,
Vladimir Putin is bankrolling Marine Le Pen’s Front National (FN) in France.

The story is still breaking, fed by an escalating string of revelations
from Mediapart
http://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/221114/le-front-national-decroche-les-millions-russes,
one of Europe’s most dependable sites for investigative reporting.
According to its sources in and around the FN, the party stands to receive
some €40 million from Putin to cover campaign expenses for regional and
departmental elections in 2015 and the legislative and presidential
elections in 2017.

Taking campaign funds from a foreign government would break French law, to
be sure. But the money comes in the form of “loans” from the Moscow-based
First Czech Russian Bank, whose head – Roman Yakubovich Popov – is a former
state banker and well-placed member of the Russian political establishment.

“A first installment has been released from a loan of 40 million,” a member
of FN’s political bureau told Mediapart
http://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/261114/le-fn-attend-40-millions-deuros-de-russie.
“The installment of 9 million has arrived, 31 will follow.”

“Mediapart has lost its head,” Marine Le Pen answered on Twitter
https://twitter.com/MLP_officiel/status/537699728054833153, adamantly
denying the larger figure: “The sums they mention are totally fanciful.”

The €9 million she was forced admit. This “is no secret,” she told Le Monde
http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2014/11/23/marine-le-pen-justifie-le-pret-russe-du-fn_4528041_823448.html
with her usual sangfroid. She even instructed FN’s treasurer to report the
“loans” to the party congress this past weekend, where they were celebrated
http://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/291114/au-congres-du-fn-la-camaraderie-russe-est-bruyamment-mise-en-scene
in the company of two Russian dignitaries and fellow-travelers like
Holland’s Geert Wilders and the Italian Matteo Salvini of the League of the
North.

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Re: [Marxism] Cliff Conner on Ernie Tate's memoir

2014-12-02 Thread Charles Faulkner via Marxism
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thanks louis. all of that is of great interest to me and i just bought them. 

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Dear friends and comrades, 

I want to strongly recommend Ernie Tate’s 2-volume memoir, Revolutionary 
Activism in the 1950s and '60s. 

I just posted a review of Volume 2 on Amazon. Here it is: 


A KEY PARTICIPANT’S ACCOUNT OF THE 1960s YOUTH RADICALIZATION IN BRITAIN 

I previously reviewed Volume 1 of this set and also gave it 5 stars, but 
there are important differences between the two volumes. I found much of 
personal interest in Vol. 1 but I recognize that readers who don't share 
Ernest Tate's political-activist background might not value it as 
highly. Vol. 2, however, should be of great interest to a much broader 
readership because it provides an insider's view of an extremely 
important historical event—namely, the creation of the powerful 
anti-Vietnam-War movement in Great Britain during the 1960's and early 
70's. An essential contribution to that movement was made by the 
Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation and the International War Crimes 
Tribunal that it gave birth to. Tate and his comrade-in-arms Jess 
MacKenzie were closely involved with all of these developments, and his 
narrative account of their battles and eventual triumphs is fascinating. 
And underlying all of his mass work was Tate's central role in 
bringing a British section of the Fourth International into being. What 
he has to say about his dealings with key figures in the antiwar, labor, 
and socialist movements such as Bertrand Russell, Ralph Shoenman, David 
Horowitz, Isaac and Tamara Deutscher, Ernest Mandel, Vladimir Dedijer, 
Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Laurent Schwartz, Tariq Ali, Ken 
Coates, Pat Jordan, Tony Cliff, Gerry Healy and many more will be of 
immense value to historians trying to understand the great youth 
radicalization as it played out in Britain during those turbulent years. 
If I have not already dropped enough interesting names, I will add that 
the book has photos of mass antiwar demonstrations with such notables as 
Vanessa Redgrave, Stephen Hawking, and Richard Branson [!] front and center. 


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[Marxism] Insight to new levels of anti-Arab laws in Israel

2014-12-02 Thread Gregory Adler via Marxism
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http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/209860/if-america-had-laws-like-israel/
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Re: [Marxism] Are Humans Going Extinct?

2014-12-02 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism
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It would be very interesting to get informed comments on this from people on 
the list better qualified than me to judge whether this guy is a crackpot or if 
his theories are worth taking seriously at all!

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2 dec 2014 kl. 14:37 skrev Louis Proyect via Marxism 
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 ACD (anthropogenic climate disruption) for nearly 30 years.
 
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