"We, for our part, think that this neo-liberal role can be seen in the
régime's policies on oil and trade, and indeed in its whole economic
agenda. This manipulative populist rhetoric covers up the real agenda of
clearing the way for the implementation of the neo-liberal model, to a
greater ext
Thought you'd be interested in this article: http://bit.ly/11R39S
End the inhumane boycott now!
Arn Kawano
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Never heard of this guy before, but look at this life. Worthy of a decent
biography.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llazar_Fundo
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Tell me exactly where "majority rule" and "democracy" figured into the
events in the USSR after 1928, or even before...
Majority of what? Democracy where? The party, in an economy that was
characterized by Lenin as a "petty-producer" economy? In the 3rd
International?
Plus there's more than ma
I'm more optimistic than the article and I agree that if the popular
movement pressures the right-wing of the PSUV to build, genuine structural
changes, that we are looking at something more than caudilloism.I have hope
that this can happen, but the article is important since it reminds us that
the
Prior to April 2002 I probably would have been in general agreement with
what I was able to read of the article (before terminal fatigue set in
because of its sectarian abstraction). The massive, popular resistance to
the coup opened my eyes and mind about LEARNING what was happening in
Venezue
While we are on the topic I would like to highly recommend this article:
http://thecommune.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/the-revolution-delayed-10-years-of-hugo-chavezs-rule/
It's by some anarchist comrades, but that doesn't mean their points can be
lightly dismissed (they're Venezuelan).
~ Bhaskar
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Singularly the most fascinating piece of news from Venezuela I've read
in almost a year. I urge everyone to read the entire article.
David
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Venezuela: Class struggle heats up over battle for workers’ control
Federico Fuentes, Caracas
25 July 2009
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/804/41392
On July 22, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez again declared his
complete support for the proposal by industrial workers for a new
model of producti
>> Well there's a real concrete, historical, materialist analysis. And it
includes the very important, never to be forgotten, "enemy of the people"
label.<<
Comment
In my late teens I was labeled "an enemy of the people" by a couple of gys
in the local Black Panther Party for about six
(posted to PEN-L by Doug Henwood)
I've just been informed (by someone who wants to remain anonymous) that
Barbara Epstein resigned from the board of MR because of the nonsense
that Yoshie has been posting to MRZine about Iran. When she made her
complaints known to the board, they made it clear
http://jontaplin.com/2009/08/01/national-security-state/
If ever we needed evidence of the Cost of Empire, Floyd Norris’s scary chart of
Durable Goods Production from the U.S. Economy is it.
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/07/31/business/20090801_CHARTS_GRAPHIC.html
We have so hollowed
Note in the question that "capitalism" is the default and notably NOT
"totalitarian." These are the sort of things peddled by various
conservative and neo-con education think-tanks.
ML
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Rachel Ambler (ramb...@suddenlink.net) wrote on 2009-07-31 at 23:06:32 in
about [Marxism] post:
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>
> Consider the totalitarian ideologies - Fascism, Nazism, Communism. How
much were they products of driving forces of industrialization, science,
democratization, and Enlightenment thought, and
The word “communism” is scary. It has power (it generates fear and
hatred), inspires lifelong commitment, and arouses intense debate. Americans
have
strong opinions about communism and most consider themselves
anti-Communist.
This anti-communism is puzzling. By definition communism is an
>> Consider the totalitarian ideologies - Fascism, Nazism, Communism. How
much were they products of driving forces of industrialization, science,
democratization, and Enlightenment thought, and how much were they departures
from those forces? <<
All the aboves are actaully ideologies broug
Interesting report from the St. Louis Fed Reserve at:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/iet/20090801/iet.pdf
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from Fred :
"More and more I suspect that the successful coup of sorts is taking
place
not in Honduras (where the putschists are embattled) but in Washington
(where it is meeting no visible resistance, including from one of its
central targets, the current President".
The gruesome truth, Fred. M
There is an insightful Article by Domenico Losurdo, entitled *Toward a
Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism*, in «Historical Materialism»,
no. 12, 2 (2004), pp. 25-55. This may help to leave behind all those
vulgarisms.
--
Dogan Göcmen
(http://dogangocmen.wordpress.com/)
Author of The Ad
Well there's a real concrete, historical, materialist analysis. And it
includes the very important, never to be forgotten, "enemy of the people"
label.
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> Stalinism is not a theory but
This is an interesting idea
George Anthony
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George Anthony:
Stalinism is not a theory but a practice
Coined by the enemies of Socialism to discourage any more of it.
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Yes, completely right. To think this man was so committed to discouraging
socialism he pretended to be a revolutionary for a lifetime to subvert it
from within!
http://ww
Stalinism is not a theory but a practice
Coined by the enemies of Socialism to discourage any more of it
George Anthony
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Thank you to everyone for your help with my topic. It feels better knowing that
it wasn't just me thinking the topic was crazy. I've got a 97 in the class and
I really don't want to blow it with this final! Your insights got the hamsters
back on their wheels. I think I can find a way to pull eve
Follow the money. Who's bankrolling her? Bet it's the Mellons.
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Subject: [Marxism] Queen of the birthers
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-30/queen-of-the-birthers/p/
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http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/02/0081908
The next bubble:
Priming the markets for tomorrow's big crash
By Eric Janszen
A financial bubble is a market aberration manufactured by government,
finance, and industry, a shared speculative hallucination and then a
crash, followed by depression.
Her teacher was referring to *C*ommunism (Stalinism) not a model of
proletarian democracy. The label "totalitarianism" is a staple of bourgeois
blather (used to denounce everything from the French Revolution to food
stamps), but as a denunciation of Stalinism it's perfectly acceptable.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-30/queen-of-the-birthers/p/
Queen of the Birthers
by Max Blumenthal
July 30, 2009 | 10:48pm
BS Top - Blumenthal Orly Taitz A new poll finds 58 percent of
Republicans doubt Obama is American. Orly Taitz, the mastermind behind
the Obama birth
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/31/bruno-israel-terrorist
The non-profit worker from Bethlehem who was branded a terrorist by Bruno
• Christian activist plans to sue Sacha Baron Cohen
• Interview was filmed in hotel, not refugee camp
by Rachel Shabi in Beit Jala
Ayman Abu Aita, who plan
Dear Rachel,
Your difficulty in wrapping your mind around it may itself be a burst of
insight: the category "totalitarian" was Mussolini"s term but adopted
specifically as a cold war weapon to put the three into the same bag. We can
compare ideologies or we can compare practices but they are not
Otto Reich and the Honduran Coup D’Etat: The Provocateur, his Protege, and the
Toppling of a President – Part One
July 30, 2009
The story of Otto Reich’s role in fomenting the June coup d’etat in Honduras is
not a brief one. This report will be posted over two days.
OTTO REICH AND THE HONDUR
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