Tom Cod t...@hotmail.com writes:
It'd be nice if the link to the actual article would open as all we have now
is a blank comments box.
Just above that is the link to the PDF file.
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In Solidarity,
Billy O'Connor
YOU MUST clip all extraneous
Yeah, I mean, let's use words in their commonly understood meaning,
particularly loaded terms like this one, and not waste time with obscurantist
pedantry that isolates us from the real political struggles that the use of
these terms reflects.
Health Care Reform Drawing More Criticism From Left
By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 22, 2009 12:52 PM
Through most of the summer, opposition to President Obama and his
health-care initiative has come almost entirely from the right. In the
past week, however, the
David Kravets at Wired Threat Level blog reports that Hal Turner, a notorious
shitbag hate blogger in New Jersey who was charged two months ago with
threatening to kill judges and lawmakers, was secretly an FBI agent
provocateur paid tens of thousands of dollars by our government to broadcast
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/showcase-38/
Though legendary in photojournalism circles, the Bang Bang Club never formally
existed. It was really more of a bond among four young photographers — Kevin
Carter, Greg Marinovich, Ken Oosterbroek and Joao Silva — united by their
ideals,
When has autarkic state capitalism ever been a formula to
*solve*underdevelopment?
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 3:50 PM, sobuadha...@hushmail.com wrote:
Tom Cod wrote:
Hey, how much heavy industry is there in Cuba. Don't they still
rely on their traditional natural resource: sugar?
The answer
I think we ought not to get into a debate on the class nature of Cuban
society here on this list. It simply won't work, IMHO.
But...there are all sorts of industrializations and no one thinks that
Havana ought to become the second city of Ford Motor Company or be the
biggest producer of
Japan.
--- On Sat, 8/22/09, Bhaskar Sunkara bhaskar.sunk...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Bhaskar Sunkara bhaskar.sunk...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Marxism] Words (Cuban economy)
To: Steve Palmer spalmer...@yahoo.com
Date: Saturday, August 22, 2009, 12:57 PM
When has autarkic state capitalism
ever
The Kasama site has posted this presentation by
Tariq Ali on Obama (and American Imperialism
in general) from a conference this summer.
The talk is well worth listening to.
http://mikeely.wordpress.com/
As long as you're on that site you may
as well see the Jay-Z Maoist rap video.
If Cuba pursued an industrial development plan it would have ended up
looking more like
Albania than Japan.
Socialism in one country is impossible, I don't see anything wrong with
Cuba's
general economic policy.
(and actually I'm a fan of the term bureaucratic collectivist)
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at
Nada wrote:
I think we ought not to get into a debate
on the class nature of Cuban society
Please note that I said absolutely nothing
abut the class nature of Cuba
... no one thinks that Havana ought to become
the second city of Ford Motor Company or be the
biggest producer of industrial
Pedro Álvarez, the President of Alimport, the company responsible for bringing
food products to market in Cuba declared that despite the fact that the United
States market is a promising one with growth indicators, even while traditional
suppliers remain, purchases from the U.S. have faded, due
When the U.S. Government announced that it would deny Adriana Pérez a visa for
the tenth time in eleven years in order to come from Cuba to the United States
and visit her husband, Gerardo Hernández, incarcerated at the federal prison in
Victorville, California, it carefully chose the date to
NY Times, August 23, 2009
Daschle Has Ear of White House and Health Industry
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
WASHINGTON — Six months have passed since the morning when Tom Daschle,
a former Senate Democratic leader, under fire for not paying certain
taxes, called President Obama in his study off the
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:46:52 -0400 gregoryabut...@aol.com writes:
David,
I'm not familiar with the history of the Eugenics movement in the
Kingdom of Spain - but I am familiar with the history of the
Eugenics movement? here in the United States of America.
Historically, Eugenics
Jim Farmelant wrote:
Perhaps, either you or Lou can do us the favor of explaining
what you mean by scientism. Whenever, I hear people
using that term (without explaining what they mean by it),
I am tempted to reach for my revolver, which is quite
inconvenient for me since I don't own one.
Jim Farmelant wrote:
So once again I will raise the question
as to what role would eugenics,
voluntary or not, have in a communist
society?
The main contribution communist society could make toward eugenics is
making sure that every baby had access to the food, housing, health and
I of course was referring to Deutscher's bio below.
This is the sort of thing I had in mind. Trotsky's remarks on the
Dnieper Dam are cited in Trotsky's bio:
In the south the Dnieper runs its course through the wealthiest
industrial lands; and it is wasting the prodigious weight of its
On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 20:26 -0400, Jim Farmelant wrote:
and probably more than one member
of this list has turned to genetic counseling
when making reproductive decisions,
then it seems to me that, like it or not,
voluntary eugenics is something that
is already going on, right under our
Comrade Butler raised serious issues in his recent email about the
role of racism in the US class struggle.
What works do readers recommend to analyze these issues? I will make
a compendium from the reader's responses for this list.
Arn Kawano
Pat,
This article that you approvingly quote from a corporate media mouthpiece, Time
Magazine, attacks cheap food - and, implicitly, wants to make meat unaffordable
to working class people and the poor.
Giving any aid and comfort to this reactionary anti working class line is just
wrong and
On Aug 22, 2009, at 8:34 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
Jim Farmelant wrote:
Perhaps, either you or Lou can do us the favor of explaining
what you mean by scientism. Whenever, I hear people
using that term (without explaining what they mean by it),
I am tempted to reach for my revolver, which
David,
Actually, Max Schactman WAS one of those out of touch New York intellectuals? I
was referring to!
The fact that the SWP had him in charge of their Negro Question work proves
my point!
The SWP was the source of Trotsky's half baked and incorrect information on the
Negro Question
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