Gregory A. Butler wrote:
One of the great tragedies of our movement - and the great historic tragedy
of Trotskyism - is that Trotsky's life was entrusted to the SWP (and alleged
NKVD double agent George Hansen - who later allegedly became an FBI
informant - was probably responsible for the NKVD
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(Silone does not come across as a very admirable character here,
especially serving as a fascist snitch, but Bread and Wine is one of
the finest leftwing novels I have ever read.)
NY Times Book Review, August 23, 2009
Bread, Wine, Politics
By GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT
BITTER SPRING
A Life of Ignazio
NY Times Book Review, August 23, 2009
Crossroads
Theory and Morality in the New Economy
By DAVID LEONHARDT
The indispensable economist of the moment is clearly John Maynard
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waistli...@aol.com wrote:
Actually, Max Schactm
Who the hell are you quoting?
Carrol
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But of course it contained the gem below. I bet the reviewer is a
liberal; there's not a liberal who wouldn't have written the same
racist filth against Palestinians. Imagine the uproar if someone
complained about how Jewish accounts of the Holocaust elide the
responsibility of Jewish
On Aug 23, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Louis Proyect wrote:
(Silone does not come across as a very admirable character here,
especially serving as a fascist snitch...
Why this slander? Wheatcroft wrote It does seem that Silone had at
least some contact with the police, who had arrested his one
[By the end of the year, Obama will have almost 150,000 troops and
mercenaries in Afghanistan, compared to 250,000, and counting, now in
Iraq. It's another almost fool-proof way to continue to privatize
government functions, ronin under the guise of security contractors
and non-combatant
Hold on a minute. If we are all going to agree that cheap food is a good
thing for the working class I would, from a marxist position, first question
what cheap food actually means: Are we talking about exchange value as being
cheap and what about the relationship of cheap food to value? To talk
Shane Mage wrote:
Why this slander? Wheatcroft wrote It does seem that Silone had at
least some contact with the police, who had arrested his one
surviving brother, Romolo (who would die in prison at the hands of his
captors), but it’s hard to see evidence of any great betrayal.
New
'Nobody publishes a word that is not the cowardly robot ravings of a depraved
mentality
The day of the publication of the true literature of the American body will be
day of Revolution.' -'Death to Van Gogh's Ear!'
'I was always a communist...' -'The Velocity of Money'
The case for the efficiency of factory farming usually depends on
assuming that the consequences are measured in terms of a simple,
easily-measured output. When I was working on my book, Farming for
Profit in a Hungry World (1977), I became more sensitive to the need to
understand agriculture
Shane Mage wrote:
On Aug 23, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Louis Proyect wrote:
(Silone does not come across as a very admirable character here,
especially serving as a fascist snitch...
Why this slander? Wheatcroft wrote It does seem that Silone had at
least some contact with the police, who had
nada wrote:
It is pretty easy to get into a centrifugal discussion about food.
Before Greg was thrown off the list this morning (I would of *warned*
him about this, he's simply bouncing silly rumors he picked up from the
wsws.org, before throwing him off) he did post a comment I think that
I do apologize for one little error - in my haste to make a post last night, I
relied on my memory rather than double checking the original source.
I attacked a George Hansen of the Socialist Workers Party as being an
[alleged] NKVD and FBI asset.
I actually meant JAMES Hansen of the Socialist
gregoryabut...@aol.com wrote:
I do apologize for one little error - in my haste to make a post last night,
I relied on my memory rather than double checking the original source.
I attacked a George Hansen of the Socialist Workers Party as being an
[alleged] NKVD and FBI asset.
I
Most of the human intricacies of this discussion are beyond my personal purview
-- I came of radical age in early 1955. I am aware of a little of this from
a purely historical perspective. But on one point: I am surprised that
anyone, regardless of his or her Left perspective, would take
Actually that's Joseph Hansen whose 1962 screed Cuba: The Acid Test in
defense of the Cuban Revolution against sectarian critics is what got them
going against him with these wild fabrications worthy of Stalin and the Moscow
Trials.
Today's New York Times has a review of a bio of this guy, whom I had never
heard of, which compares the posthumous snitch controversy over him to the
Dreyfus affair given the polarization over this issue that has arisen in
Italian society. The reviewer's conclusion is that while he was an
Yes, and the Sparts published back in the mid-eighties the Healyism Implodes
pamphlet:
http://www.marx.org/history/etol/document/icl-spartacists/1986/implodes.html
--- On Sun, 8/23/09, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote:
From: Louis Proyect l...@panix.com
Subject: Re: [Marxism] the truth
Nada wrote- in cereal production, it makes almost no difference whatsoever
if wheat, barely or other grains are produced in very large tracts or
smaller more intensely farmed ones.
What is your source for this position? What exactly are you talking about
as making no difference, no difference
In a message dated 8/23/2009 1:19:45 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
t...@hotmail.com writes:
Actually that's Joseph Hansen whose 1962 screed Cuba: The Acid Test
in defense of the Cuban Revolution against sectarian critics is what got
them going against him with these wild fabrications worthy
So, since the threat of banning me from this list won't work - and the facts
cannot be refuted - some folks resort to ridicule and/or really stupid childish
arguments.
But the facts are quite clear here - about the NKVD's infiltration of the SWP,
about the role of James Hansen and other
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Thank you! we don't need to have this become another apst.
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:48:53 -0400
From: l...@panix.com
Subject: [Marxism] Moderator's note
To: t...@hotmail.com
Greg Butler has been unsubbed.
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In a message dated 8/23/2009 2:48:50 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
t...@hotmail.com writes:
I'm not sure what your lengthy pontification has to do with this issue
which you apparently know little about.
Comment
Actually, I know much about the subject and most certainly the details of
Whatsa apst, please?
- Bill
Tom Cod wrote:
Thank you! we don't need to have this become another apst.
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:48:53 -0400
From: l...@panix.com
Subject: [Marxism] Moderator's note
To: t...@hotmail.com
Greg Butler has been unsubbed.
Bill Quimby wrote:
Whatsa apst, please?
alt.politics.socialism.trotsky, a newsgroup for the criminally insane
that David Walters and Einde O'Callaghan still inexplicably post to. It
has daily doses of anti-Semitism, conspiracy mongering, xenophobia, etc.
It is like drinking out of a
Look, you still don't get it, these Healyite provacateurs SUED the SWP in the
US courts in the 1980s around these trumped up allegations causing that party
to spend tens of thousands of dollars in court and attorneys fees fighting it.
Maybe if you knew about this you'd realize that an
It's the G-20 meeting. See the G-20 page at
http://www.g20.org/
From the site...
Since 1999, the G-20 has contributed to strengthen the international financial
architecture and to foster sustainable economic growth and development. The
G-20
now has a crucial role in driving forward work
On Aug 23, 2009, at 2:38 PM, waistli...@aol.com wrote:
During and after a successful insurrection a section of the political
police and intelligence are recruited to the cause of the victor...
But only to infiltrate, undermine, and destroy the proletarian cause.
...In the mean time agencies
In a message dated 8/23/2009 3:05:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
_t...@hotmail.com_ (mailto:t...@hotmail.com) writes:
Look, you still don't get it, these Healyite provacateurs SUED the SWP
in the US courts in the 1980s around these trumped up allegations causing
that party to spend tens
Lou wrote:
alt.politics.socialism.trotsky, a newsgroup for the criminally insane
I'd been on that usenet group for a few years -as Jasper- before more
recently joining MarxmailI very much agree with this description of it,
despite some incredibly useful stuff that do mix with its sense of
Baba Aye wrote:
This I suggest with the view of assuaging any latent view of the
implementation of these being an arbitrary dictatorship of the moderator.
This is an excellent idea. I am finally getting ready to build a new
website for Marxmail and will incorporate this.
This is pretty embarrassing.
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2526939.0.union_fires_official_for_taking_side_of_lowpaid_women.php
Can anyone point to any additional details regarding this case? I
drew a blank on google.
A VETERAN trade union negotiator has been sacked
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At 14:38 23/08/09 EDT, waistli...@aol.com wrote:
Modern
surveillance allows the state to track anyone by cell phone or the magnetic
strip on ones driver license, credit card, computer or GPS system in ones
vehicle.
Whenever I hear inaccurate and paranoia-generating remarks such as this,
Look we do need to move on and I don't have time for along winded and
condescending lecture from you about the bona fides of Workers World and PSL
which I accept. No, this was not a trivial or petty squabble thing to those
of us involved with it and was deadly serious and protracted fight.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/808/41576
British firefighters call for boycott of Israel
Chris Latham
22 August 2009
*The British Fire Brigades Union (FBU), which represents 85% of firefighters
and support staff in Britain, plans to move motions at the Trade Union
Congress’s (TUC) annual
do people think reading volumes 23 of Capital is more valuable than reading
the Grundrisse? Or-- is one's time better spent reading Lenin, or even Hegel
than moving into books Marx didn't have the time to put his finishing
touches on?
My guess is that people here will not be big on reading
In a message dated 8/23/2009 8:04:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
meis...@xs4all.nl writes:
By the way, I think the thesis of Waistline, that we cannot and thus should
not try to prevent infiltration and spying is completely off the mark!
Comment
Interesting comment after an inordinate
Today is my 63rd birthday. In honor of this event, I've written myself a
birthday poem for the
occasion.
ODE TO KEATS's ODE TO MELANCHOLIA!
Today,
when I got up to pee,
I thought about
being sixty three!
What bothers me
most of all
is the time
I wasted
learning to crawl!
i did not find the publication online that Fred recommends for Gregory
A. Butler to consult in his search for the cold hard facts.
but i'm sure Gregory will be willing to spend $10 to purchase the
document so that he can study both sides of the argument. it is
available from Pathfinder Press or
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:51 PM, guava tree theguavat...@gmail.com wrote:
do people think reading volumes 23 of Capital is more valuable than
reading the Grundrisse?
The Grundrisse is like the I Ching. It's not meant to be read from beginning to
end;
it's meant to be opened at random and
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