[Marxism] Swine flu query

2009-08-12 Thread Louis Proyect
Please, does anyone in this list know where I could find materials about political and economical aspects of swine flu? It seems that pork business, pig farms and pharmaceutical companies, as well as governments are to blame. It seems that mass farming of pigs and reduction of sanitation costs

Re: [Marxism] Swine flu query

2009-08-12 Thread info
while not about H1N1s origins, a few weeks ago i did write a blog post about the virus and the possibilities and limits of disaster politics: http://sketchythoughts.blogspot.com/2009/07/h1n1-and-us.html -Original Message- From: Louis Proyect [mailto:l...@panix.com] Sent: Wednesday,

[Marxism] FW: Open Letter from Iranians for Peace + Statement by GilbertAchcar, Tariq Ali, Mohssen Massarrat, Muhammad Sahimi, et al.

2009-08-12 Thread Richard Fidler
Posted by Yoshie Furuhashi on the A-List: A couple of statements by Iranians for reconciliation in Iran, the latter also signed by a few notable non-Iranian Marxists such as Gilbert Achcar and Tariq Ali. Worthy of support and circulation. -- Yoshie

Re: [Marxism] Fore!

2009-08-12 Thread Tom Cod
Hey, I resemble that commentary-as Curly would say-having just taken up the sport last year. For what its worth my golfing buddy is a working class guy who lays carpets and we play on 9 hole courses that charge 14-20 bucks. It's about the only exercise I get anymore walking the course. What

Re: [Marxism] Fore!

2009-08-12 Thread Dennis Brasky
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Tom Cod t...@hotmail.com wrote: Hey, I resemble that commentary-as Curly would say-having just taken up the sport last year. For what its worth my golfing buddy is a working class guy who lays carpets and we play on 9 hole courses that charge 14-20 bucks.

Re: [Marxism] Fore!

2009-08-12 Thread Dennis Brasky
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Tom Cod t...@hotmail.com wrote: Yeah but where we go the fairways turn brown in the summer. Wouldn't it then be easier to find the white ball? YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send

[Marxism] Re : A critique of G.A. Cohen

2009-08-12 Thread tarrit8
Actually I agree with your point that many analytical philosophers were progressive, and it would be more precise to claim that their image, rather than what they are, is .conservative A frther point is that the analytical philosophers genereally deny dialectics, which is a core element in

[Marxism-Thaxis] Another obit for Jerry Cohen, The Independent

2009-08-12 Thread farmela...@juno.com
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-jerry-cohen-maverick-philosopher-who-subjected-marxism-to-the-rigours-of-analytical-philosophy-1770667.html The strong, silent type. Click here for great looking bamboo

[Marxism-Thaxis] Wooo !

2009-08-12 Thread c b
Over the Top and Beneath Contempt By: Roger Simon Politico.com - August 11, 2009 04:44 AM EST http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/25991.html Today, we live in the age of rabid response. Not rapid response. Rapid response was yesterday. Rapid response was the political tactic of

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Nature and Paradoxes of Freedom

2009-08-12 Thread c b
farmelantj at juno.com farmelantj at juno.com Concerning the concepts of negative freedom that were embraced by both Hayek and Isaiah Berlin, Dogan is quite correct that for both men, the embracing of negative liberty (and the rejection of positive liberty) was very much motivated

[Marxism-Thaxis] Detroit

2009-08-12 Thread c b
Waistline2 In respect to AIG, I have not done the investigation into the rates charged to Detroit to determine if insurance of Detroit bonds required a higher premium rate. ^ CB: This switcheru was voted on in a public session, so, I'm sure of what I'm saying. AIG was insuring some of

[Marxism-Thaxis] Michigan event launches drive to abolish nuclear weapons

2009-08-12 Thread c b
Michigan event launches drive to abolish nuclear weapons Author: John Rummel People's Weekly World Newspaper, 08/11/09 16:01 BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — Imagine if the threat of nuclear weapons and the billions that go to building and maintaining them instead went to provide health care, education and

[Marxism-Thaxis] Socialist Feminist Revival

2009-08-12 Thread c b
Socialist Feminist Revival If not now, when? August 09, 2009 By Reihana Mohideen Reihana Mohideen's ZSpace Page Join ZSpace [Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] There is a revival of socialist feminism in Latin America, spearheaded by the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Encyclopédie

2009-08-12 Thread c b
Encyclopédie Title page of the Encyclopédie.Main article: Encyclopédie André Le Breton, a bookseller and printer, approached Diderot with a project for the publication of a translation of Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences into French, first undertaken by

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Detroit

2009-08-12 Thread Waistline2
AIG was insuring some of Detroit's bonds. When AIG went bankrupt, the bond agency lowered Detroit's bond rating , because its insurance was no good. Detroit had to enter into a draconian revision ( higher priority for the Wall Street bhe ond company to a casino revenue stream to the City)