Re: [Marxism] Interesting China article

2009-09-05 Thread Midhurst14
This economy is guided by the idea introduced by Lenin in the 1920's Through this scientific view a Communist led economy will dominate the global economy as any reading of the Financial Times will illustrate And enunciated as follows George Anthony Japanese Communist Party Central Committee

Re: [Marxism] Interesting China article

2009-09-05 Thread Dogan Gocmen
I usually like comrade Fuwa Tetsuzo. But the statement below is one of those which I do not share. Study for example the situation and the role of women in soviet society and compare it with any comparable capitalist society. When I visited some years ago Russia I attended a lecture on the

[Marxism] Colombia Appeal

2009-09-05 Thread Greg McDonald
Colombia Support Network is grateful for the initiative of our Representative Tammy Baldwin in launching the following Dear Colleague letter questioning the increased military aid to Colombia and increase use of by the United States military of Colombian bases. PLEASE contact your respective

[Marxism] The paperback edition of 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis has been published

2009-09-05 Thread brennerl21
9 5 09 Sisters and brothers, The paperback edition of 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis Edited by Lenni Brenner has just been published. There is one change from the hardcover edition, a better translation of Vladimir Jabotinsky’s “The Iron Wall (We and the Arabs).” As his

Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China's high speed rail plans,

2009-09-05 Thread Néstor Gorojovsky
2009/9/5 Lüko Willms lueko.wil...@t-online.de: S. Artesian (sartes...@earthlink.net) wrote on 2009-09-04 at 10:59:55 in about Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China's high speed rail plans,: And what is that issue?  Let's review, according to LW and Nestor,

Re: [Marxism] Interesting China article

2009-09-05 Thread S. Artesian
Apropos of the Soviet economy PRIOR to Perestroika/Glasnost... from The Economic Development of the USSR by Roger Munting [1982]: --Summary [of the late 1970s, to year 1980] The exploitation of the natural resources of Siberia and he far east [with 80 percent of the fuel reserves] is necessary

Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China's high speed rail plans

2009-09-05 Thread Néstor Gorojovsky
No, that was NOT my answer. I did not say that imperialism makes it a class question. I say that the national question is always a class question. Which, of course, you will disagree with. In deeper or shallower conversation. What can I do. At least there are a couple of people who disagree

Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China's high speed rail plans,

2009-09-05 Thread S. Artesian
NG wrote: Really, S. Artesian, neither did I suggest this that you think I suggested Really Nestor, what I stated is based on your statements and LW's. LW said explicitly that both the proletariat and the bourgeoisie were being made stronger in China. The Chinese nation is being made

Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China's high speed rail plans

2009-09-05 Thread S. Artesian
Here's what you wrote: A national issue is, by definition, a class issue. The national question is a class question. Imperialism 101, dear Artesian. _ Seems clear to me that since the first 2 lessons are based on your introductory knowledge of imperialism, that imperialism is the

Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China's high speed rail plans

2009-09-05 Thread Néstor Gorojovsky
I don{t know who is Olga Korbut. If the intention is derogative, que te recontra por las dudas. And yes, imperialism is the determinant factor, as you put it. 2009/9/5 S. Artesian sartes...@earthlink.net: Here's what you wrote: A national issue is, by definition, a class issue. The national

Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China's high speed rail plans

2009-09-05 Thread Shane Mage
On Sep 5, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Néstor Gorojovsky wrote: ...I say that the national question is always a class question... At least there are...people who..agree with me... Marx...among others! As illustrated by Marx's view of the national question among that ethnic garbage, the southern

[Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China'shigh speed rail plans

2009-09-05 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
Nestor: I agree with all that Lueko has answered you Re: what is all that that he ‘has answered’?, he asked me a question, if I have anything to add to the little detail that the Chinese bureaucracy personifies the interests of capital, I assume he then acknowledges that that’s in fact the

Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China's high speed rail plans,

2009-09-05 Thread S. Artesian
Nestor, You felt you were informed enough to agree with LW that China is using its export earnings to provide the stimulus to its economy when there is no evidence that export earnings have been so directed You felt you were informed enough to state that the whole thing [by which I think you

[Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China'shigh speed rail plans

2009-09-05 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAWQkY8Rlbg _ With Windows Live, you can organize, edit, and share your photos. http://www.windowslive.com/Desktop/PhotoGallery YOU MUST clip all

Re: [Marxism] John Brown anniversary

2009-09-05 Thread Tom Cod
I once saw a photo of August Blanqui that eerily reminded me of Brown. John Brown had been in Europe in the wake of the 1848-49 revolutions. And Hinton was always convinced that he had some direct ties to anticapitalist radicals there. ML

[Marxism] Latest Articles from Sanhati

2009-09-05 Thread Politicus E.
A history of the brutal Rajarhat land acquisition, Bengal’s new IT hub August 29, 2008 By Santanu Sengupta, Sanhati. Translated from Rajarhaat - Uponogorir Ontorale Arto Manuher Kanna Rajarhaat, near Kolkata, is Bengal’s new IT hub and a hotspot for real estate investment. Within no time Rajarhat

[Marxism] Israeli organ theft story - The Guardian shows its mettle

2009-09-05 Thread Dennis Brasky
*Preface* This story was first offered to the Guardian’s Comment is Free site. It was received on August 26 by Brian Whitaker, a commissioning editor at CiF and a former Middle East editor of the newspaper, who responded that “we’re minded to use it” but that because the issue was “a hot

[Marxism] Ira Chernus - Holocaust Still a Political Football

2009-09-05 Thread Dennis Brasky
* * Ira Chernus, Truthout: Matthew Rothschild and I both thought of Edward Said when we read about two Hamas members of the Palestinian Legislative Council insisting that Gaza's schools should not teach the history of the Nazi Holocaust. Cleric Yunis al-Astal said this would be 'marketing

[Marxism] Outrageous Behavior: Bogus Bluster From Bigwigs Hides Lockerbie Truth

2009-09-05 Thread Dennis Brasky
Empire Burlesque Written by Chris Floyd Saturday, 05 September 2009 00:07 clip -- If you need more proof that we are living in a masquerade, in a world of sham, show and deceit, in a veritable -- dare we say it? -- empire burlesque, look no further than the recent manufactured

[Marxism] India: Intensify the Struggle against Food Inflation and Hunger

2009-09-05 Thread Politicus E.
The following editorial appears in the September 2009 issue of Liberation, the monthly organ of the CPI(ML) Liberation. I have nominally edited the article to improve readability for the U.S. audience. * India observed her 62rd year of Independence with a solemn Prime Ministerial

[Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina

2009-09-05 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
First, I’d like to apologize to everyone for the stupid video I sent. It’s a song: “who do you think you are?” by the spice girls, I was just trying to poke some little fun at the question Nestor asked me “who do you think you are?”, but I’ll promise I’ll be more serious from now on, I mean,

Re: [Marxism] Obama and GOP support for Afghanistan

2009-09-05 Thread sobuadhaigh
Louis posted an article from the NY Times on Obama quoting Andrew Bacevich, a professor of international relations and history at Boston University according to the Times. What was not mentioned was that he was also an armored cavalry brigade commander in Desert Storm and that his own son

[Marxism] The Boston Globe on radical films

2009-09-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
http://tinyurl.com/mlasou Rad, bad, dangerous to know Films rarely take up radical causes. Thre result can be a mix of Karl and Groucho Marx. By Ty Burr, Mark Feeney, and Wesley Morris, Globe Staff | September 6, 2009 The revolution is once more being screened. Opening Friday is Uli Edel’s

Re: [Marxism] The Boston Globe on radical films

2009-09-05 Thread Louis Proyect
Jim Farmelant wrote: LA CHINOISE and WEEKEND (1967) 4 Fists With these two landmark works of agit-art, Jean-Luc Godard announced that narrative was a bourgeois contrivance and the cinema a weapon of revolution. “Chinoise’’ features actors playing students discussing radical theory;

Re: [Marxism] The Boston Globe on radical films

2009-09-05 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975) 1 Fist Not a radical movie? That’s the point. When Al Pacino’s bank robber gets the crowds on his side by shouting “Attica! Attica!’’ he’s proving both how everything was political by the mid-1970s and how genuine radicalism had become co-opted by radical chic. In its

Re: [Marxism] The Boston Globe on radical films

2009-09-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:13:18 -0400 Louis Proyect l...@panix.com writes: Godard's relation to Marx and to Marxism was never a simple one. In a 1994 interview with Andrew Sarris, he comes across more as a Groucho Marxist. (It is entirely possible that Godard is pulling the

[Marxism] A Different Environmental Threat: Peak Rare Minerals, China, and Green Technology

2009-09-05 Thread michael perelman
One of the keys to Green Technology may be buried in China. It has only recently begun to appear in the media, but for very different reasons. A couple of years ago, the New Scientist published a piece about the risks of the scarcity of rare minerals. Cohen, David. 2007. Earth's Natural

Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China's high speed rail plans

2009-09-05 Thread Néstor Gorojovsky
Marx´s Eurocentric mistakes only show him as a man of his times. He was no God, he was an European of the 29th Century. The best of all them, but one of them. Marx´s understanding of the national question, if you are interested in learning from it, can be read in Bloom´s A world of nations, among

Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China's high speed rail plans

2009-09-05 Thread Shane Mage
On Sep 5, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Néstor Gorojovsky wrote: We Marxists, by the way, only support national movements that forward the march towards socialism. Not every such movement does it. So. All hail whatever Marxist Pope has decreed infallibly to his elect exactly which proletarian nations

[Marxism-Thaxis] Welcome to the library. Say goodbye to the books. (The Boston Globe)

2009-09-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
Welcome to the library. Say goodbye to the books. Cushing Academy embraces a digital future By David Abel, Globe Staff | September 4, 2009 ASHBURNHAM - There are rolling hills and ivy-covered brick buildings. There are small classrooms, high-tech labs, and well-manicured fields. There’s even

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Welcome to the library. Say goodbye to the books. (The Boston Globe)

2009-09-05 Thread DGöçmen
This year, after having amassed a collection of more than 20,000 books, officials at the pristine campus about 90 minutes west of Boston have decided the 144-year-old school no longer needs a traditional library. Jim, is that a decision taken because of real conviciton that tradional

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Welcome to the library. Say goodbye to the books. (The Boston Globe)

2009-09-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:33:58 -0400 =?utf-8?Q?DG=C3=B6=C3=A7men?= dogangoec...@aol.com writes: This year, after having amassed a collection of more than 20,000 books, officials at the pristine campus about 90 minutes west of Boston have decided the 144-year-old school no longer

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Boston Globe on radical films

2009-09-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
http://tinyurl.com/mlasou Rad, bad, dangerous to know Films rarely take up radical causes. Thre result can be a mix of Karl and Groucho Marx. By Ty Burr, Mark Feeney, and Wesley Morris, Globe Staff | September 6, 2009 The revolution is once more being screened. Opening Friday is Uli Edel’s