Arn wrote:
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.
It's too bad that Greg was so fixated on
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/world/asia/24military.html
August 24, 2009
U.S. Military Says Its Force in Afghanistan Is Insufficient
By HELENE COOPER
BAGRAM, Afghanistan - American military commanders with the NATO mission in
Afghanistan told President Obama's chief envoy to the region this
On 8/23/09, Jewbonic wordpr...@maxajl.com wrote:
Jewbonics has posted a new item, 'Alex Cockburn RIP? Naa'
I come back from vacation, and what’s the latest? Apparently, Counterpunch
editor Alexander Cockburn is dead. According to mailing lists, leftist
bloggers,
and various writers within
(This was submitted by Michael Karadjis to the US-based Green Left list.)
As anyone who has studied a little about this case knows well, not only
was Al-Megrahi framed, but Libya as a whole was framed for this horiffic
act, which it had nothing to do with. The entire evidence (something
about
SOCIALIST VOICE
Marxist Perspectives for the 21st Century
http://www.socialistvoice.ca
August 24, 2009
BOOK REVIEW: TWO ACCOUNTS OF ENGELS’ REVOLUTIONARY LIFE
After decades in which there was no life of Engels in print in
English, suddenly there are two, with different strengths. Neither is
An absolute must read on this subject:
Settlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat; by J. Sakai. [also
available online at
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/10/28/17790131.php]
Also:
False Nationalism False Internationalism, Class Contradictions in the
Armed Struggle, by E. Tani and
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Lüko Willmslueko.wil...@t-online.de wrote:
Andy Chambers (achambers.h...@googlemail.com) wrote on 2009-08-23 at
23:57:19 in about [Marxism] Union fires official for demanding equal pay for
women:
councils from having to cut their budgets.
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On Aug 24, 2009, at 1:15 AM, Horse Badorties wrote:
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
Dennis Brasky wrote:
On 8/23/09, Jewbonic wordpr...@maxajl.com wrote:
Jewbonics has posted a new item, 'Alex Cockburn RIP? Naa'
I come back from vacation, and what’s the latest? Apparently, Counterpunch
editor Alexander Cockburn is dead. According to mailing lists, leftist
bloggers,
and
latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-gordon20-2009aug20,0,1126906.story
Opinion
Boycott Israel
An Israeli comes to the painful conclusion that it's the only way to
save his country.
By Neve Gordon
August 20, 2009
Israeli newspapers this summer are filled with angry articles about the
(Go to url below for embedded links.)
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/6363
Kosovo, East Timor, R2P, and Ian Williams
Noam Chomsky | August 17, 2009
Editor: John Feffer
In a discussion of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in Foreign Policy In
Focus, Ian Williams vehemently denies my
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/black-cats/
August 17, 2009, 8:48 pm
Black cats
I really had no intention of writing more about Niall Ferguson. Regular
readers may recall that he wrote an article in the Financial Times that
began,
President Barack Obama reminds me of Felix the
http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/08/ferguson_obama_and_felix_the_c.php
Ferguson, Obama, Felix the Cat -- and Pluto
17 Aug 2009 11:28 pm
Let me tell this one in order:
On August 11, last Tuesday, Niall Ferguson wrote an op-ed in the
Financial Times whose theme was that Barack
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/22419
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In a message dated 8/24/2009 11:35:29 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
meis...@xs4all.nl writes:
I simply mentioned that I disagreed with you,
as many/most others probably would if they had had the patience to read
your lengthy post (23 August 14:38 EDT).
Reply
Sorry.
WL.
Fred Feldman (ffeld...@bellatlantic.net) wrote on 2009-08-24 at 06:20:23 in
about [Marxism] Statement of defamed man known as Lockerbie bomber:
Even more, perhaos he is even seen as
something of a martyr, for being persuaded by his government to attend
the Star Chamber in the first
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/big-bands-on-youtube-swing/
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An intense media race is underway to see who will be the Bob Woodward of
the Obama White House
Glenn Greenwald
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/23/alter/index.html
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Two new stories on this topic.
In this corner, a report on The Urban Farmers of Havana:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8213617.stm
(found at kclabor.org/news.htm)
And in this corner, a column by a professor who owns an urban farming
corporation and thinks the phenomenon can be spread by the
guava tree theguavat...@gmail.com writes:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:15 AM, Ralph Johansen
mdriscol...@charter.netwrote:
I'm now reading
volume 2 for the first time, using the online MIA study guide which,
while its authors recommended it for group study, seems useful for
individual
seriously, I mean, for example, what are securitized mortgages? how does your
mortgage get bundled and sold and traded en masse with others? For years we
heard about derivatives without ever hearing-as with hedge funds any
explanation of what they exactly were-aside from glib comments of
Well, Lt. Calley apologized for the MyLai massacre, nothing yet from the US
government about the war in general. As to MyLai where 500 unarmed men women
and children were gunned down, at least one story has it that the order came
from Abrams to liquidate Son My 4 as MyLai was also known.
Also, John Fox's Understanding Capital Volume II, Progress Books, Toronto,
1985 is very helpful, particularly when confronting some of the more demanding
passages on one's own. This is in the queue to appear at the MIA, but don't
hold your breath ...
Steve
thanks for all the comments--I'm
Steve Palmer spalmer...@yahoo.com writes:
Also, John Fox's Understanding Capital Volume II, Progress Books,
Toronto, 1985 is very helpful, particularly when confronting some of
the more demanding passages on one's own. This is in the queue to
appear at the MIA, but don't hold your breath ...
Aug. 24, 2009 Issue #149
HUDSON VALLEY ACTIVIST NEWSLETTER
jac...@earthlink.net
ALL ARTICLES: http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/
CONTENTS
1. OUR NEW GROUP ORGANIZES PROTESTS We gotta blow our own horn once in a
while, so we take note of the fact that our new
Grossman offered a profound disequilibrium interpretation of volume II,
as Steve Palmer knows quite well (and please accept my profound thanks
for your mighty contributions to the archive). By the way, J.R. Hicks
came to a similar understanding of the special liabilities suffered by
the
Doesn't Harvey attempt to locate Marx's crisis theory in
interdepartmental disproportionalities rather than in insufficient
production of a flow of surplus value? But perhaps we don't have to
choose. Mattick Sr for example wrote (think here of that example where
demand goes from 100 ships to
The idea of creating better humans presuppose qualifying what is better
and according to the founder of the eugenics movement, better is a class
and social construct based on economic status and productive worth for
capital. Productive worth for capital is called survival of the fittest. Those
In a message dated 8/24/2009 1:46:13 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
cb31...@gmail.com writes:
CB: On the other hand, there is some truth to the old saying that the
rich get richer and the poor get children under capitalism. That is,
those who are poor because they have trouble selling their
Jim F. Shane is a racist operating under the cloak of anti-Stalinism to
prevent an unraveling of
materialist concept of history and society. Racist are racist precisely
because they embrace a concept of races amongst humanity.
Correction
Jim F. FALLS INTO THE TRAP.
Shane is a
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