[Marxism] Cuba approves first lung cancer therapeutic vaccine

2009-08-25 Thread Stuart Munckton
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-06-26-cuba-approves-first-therapeutic-vaccine-for-lung-cancer http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-06-26-cuba-approves-first-therapeutic-vaccine-for-lung-cancer Cuba approves first therapeutic vaccine for lung cancer ** Jun 26 2008 07:46 Cuba has approved what is

[Marxism] The myth of the Obama movement

2009-08-25 Thread Louis Proyect
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/08/hbc-90005592 The Myth of the Obama Movement By Ken Silverstein “Grass-Roots Battle Tests The Obama Movement,” ran a headline in the Washington Post yesterday atop an article that looked at why health care reform has bogged down. The story examined the

[Marxism] Hugo Chavez and the private media

2009-08-25 Thread Louis Proyect
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/22427 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at:

[Marxism] [Spa] The poor also cry

2009-08-25 Thread Nestor Gorojovsky
[I don´t have the time for a translation. But those who want to know what does primitive accumulation mean will find an example in the lines below.] Mensaje original Asunto: [alai-amlatina] Los pobres también lloran Fecha: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:36:52 -0500 De: ALAI-AmLatina

Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide

2009-08-25 Thread Tom Cod
Reminds me of the cover of Fortune a few years back showing a raging storm and wave poised to hit shore with the article's theme being how capitalism always fluctuates and is inherently unstable with the fortunes of any particular company never being secure or predictable. I don't know that

[Marxism] Lockerbie issue moves Obama to extradite Posada to Venezuela

2009-08-25 Thread Pat Costello
Well, shut my mouth and burn my britches! Lockerbie outrage moves Obama to extradite long-wanted CIA-terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela... Anti-War (Thomas Harrington): In a dramatic announcement made yesterday shortly after the President's arrival on Martha's Vineyard, the

Re: [Marxism] Reasons to Read the Grundrisse (was to read)

2009-08-25 Thread Shane Mage
On Aug 25, 2009, at 11:50 AM, turb...@aol.com wrote: Shane Mage wrote: The Grundrisse, as the last word in its title--Rohentwurf-- declares, is not meant to be read at all. It is just the rough draft of Das Kapital... ...Any text that expresses a significant part of a thinker's thought

Re: [Marxism] Lockerbie issue moves Obama to extradite Posada to Venezuela

2009-08-25 Thread Louis Proyect
Pat Costello wrote: Well, shut my mouth and burn my britches! Lockerbie outrage moves Obama to extradite long-wanted CIA-terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela... Did Carl Davidson get invited up to Martha's Vineyard? Hmmm. YOU

[Marxism] Any joke about Zardari is an offence in Pakistan

2009-08-25 Thread Nasir Khan
This following letter is now illegal in Pakistan From Tanveer Ansari | London Review of Books, Vol. 31, No. 15, August 6, 2009 Tariq Ali’s Diary notwithstanding, Asif Ali Zardari’s misdemeanours can no longer be satirised (LRB, 23 July). Helpless citizens who have been exchanging anti-Zardari

[Marxism] James Petras strikes again :-(

2009-08-25 Thread Jeff
At 21:00 24/08/09 +0200, Nasir Khan wrote: [see [Marxism] The US War against Iraq: The Destruction of a Civilization] [full text: http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/08/the-us-war-against-iraq/] by James Petras, Dissident Voice, August 21, 2009 The US seven-year war and occupation of Iraq is driven

Re: [Marxism] James Petras strikes again :-(

2009-08-25 Thread Louis Proyect
Jeff wrote: At 21:00 24/08/09 +0200, Nasir Khan wrote: [see [Marxism] The US War against Iraq: The Destruction of a Civilization] [full text: http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/08/the-us-war-against-iraq/] by James Petras, Dissident Voice, August 21, 2009 The US seven-year war and occupation

Re: [Marxism] Reasons to Read the Grundrisse (was to read)

2009-08-25 Thread S. Artesian
Oh come on, Shane. You sound like a cranky alter-cocker. We read the Grundrisse for the same reason we read the economic-philosophic manuscripts, the Theories of Surplus Value, the German Ideology, the 18th Brumaire, etc.-- for the same reason we read Beethoven's sketchbooks; because it gives

Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide

2009-08-25 Thread Tom Cod
meaning? how does this differ from financial and cost accounting? Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:51:28 -0400 From: theguavat...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide To: t...@hotmail.com On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:41 PM, S. Artesian sartes...@earthlink.netwrote: In fact

Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide

2009-08-25 Thread Tom Cod
Ya know, this whole discussion to me is yet another reflection of the ossified in-group Talmudic view of certain Marxists who conceit themselves with the notion that nobody but them knows anything about economics and therefore the sine quo non is studying the works of a grand old man of the

Re: [Marxism] G.Zyuganov: Stop distorting the prewar history of the USSR!

2009-08-25 Thread Shane Mage
On Aug 25, 2009, at 2:52 PM, lara crete wrote: ...the subject of the Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty... Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty?? Everyone knows that the Hitler-Stalin pact, which Ribbentrop and Molotov had no more to do with than did the pens with which their hands were teleguided to sign

Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide

2009-08-25 Thread Shane Mage
On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:28 PM, guava tree wrote: and in this chapter of volume 2 you can find this paragraph: The productive capital invested in this industry imparts value to the transported products, partly by transferring value from the means of transportation, partly by adding value

Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide

2009-08-25 Thread Michael Perelman
David knows this better than I do. The railroad promoters got rich; the investors got burned. Railroads were bankrupt with regularity. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide

2009-08-25 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 8/25/2009 12:42:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, sartes...@earthlink.net writes: Equilibrium is accidental, not necessary, and as such is not an essential characteristic, either in its presence or absence, to the success or failure of capitalism. We can look at Rakesh

Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide

2009-08-25 Thread Tom Cod
Railroads in their inception and throughout their consolidation give us an early object lesson in the uses of fictitious capital.-sartesianAn entertaining take on this history, worthy of HBO's Deadwood are some recent biographies of Jay Gould and The Commodore Vanderbilt. Below is a review I

Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide

2009-08-25 Thread Michael Perelman
I might take the opportunity to plug my book, Railroading Economics (Monthly Review). Also, a cheap price. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[Marxism] K2 study guide

2009-08-25 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
Yet, sartesian, ships are not discarded simply to maintain the value proportions between the departments (they may of course be discarded due to moral or value depreciation as a result of competitive technological change, but that is another point). As viable technical means of production or

Re: [Marxism] to read?

2009-08-25 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
Because the bourgeosie has granted the masses Google. http://www.google.com/search?client=operarls=enq=David+Harvey+capitalsourceid=operaie=utf-8oe=utf-8 http://davidharvey.org/ On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jeffrey Thomas Piercy mqd...@mqduck.netwrote: Ralph Johansen wrote: David Harvey,

Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide

2009-08-25 Thread S. Artesian
I guess that means I better read the book. OK, give me a few days. - Original Message - From: Michael Perelman mich...@ecst.csuchico.edu To: David Schanoes sartes...@earthlink.net Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 9:09 PM Subject: Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at

Re: [Marxism] Israel organ theft story gets legs

2009-08-25 Thread Mike Krebs
On Monday August 24 Pat Costello wrote: (In order to condemn it, they must at least aknowledge it. Since every insult to Isreal gets the same hysterical accusation of anti-semitism people must certainly become inured. Let's hope so, anyway.) Here's a different take on the ramifications of

[Marxism] Food imports by Mexico

2009-08-25 Thread Terry Burke
I don't really know if this book has what you need S., I read it a few years ago... but the author might be someone who would know. The book is called Corn and Capitalism, by Arturo Warman, translated by Nancy L. Westrate, published by University of North Carolina Press in 2003 saludos, t