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Allison Kilkenny
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Obama’s solution is to pay the enemy
During his speech before a joint session of Congress, President Obama
called for the creation of insurance exchanges, a system designed to
Today is the 25th anniversary of the Madrinazo, the day when the people of
the seaside and seaport town of Puerto Madryn, Chubut, took the streets to
prevent a USAmerican group of Atlantic South Force battleships to enter
harbor. The action was succesful, the fleet could not moor at Madryn, and
Néstor Gorojovsky wrote:
One of the means by which the oligarchy has been defending the extensive
agrarian system was to highlight the ecological sense of a system where
agriculture was ancillary to husbandry, thus fertilizing the land
naturally between crops by putting cattle in cropland
Cliff Conner is a Trotskyist who has specialized in writing biographies:
1. Jean Paul Marat: Scientist and Revolutionary
2. Colonel Despard: The Life And Times Of An Anglo-irish Rebel
3. Arthur O'Connor: The Most Important Irish Revolutionary You May Never
Have Heard of
Well, I don´t remember if I established some caveat on my posting: all
what I said is concrete, there is no way to establish socialism in Arg
today.
2009/9/10 Louis Proyect l...@panix.com:
Néstor Gorojovsky wrote:
One of the means by which the oligarchy has been defending the extensive
Isaac Deutscher, Maurice Isserman
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote:
Cliff Conner is a Trotskyist who has specialized in writing biographies:
1. Jean Paul Marat: Scientist and Revolutionary
2. Colonel Despard: The Life And Times Of An Anglo-irish Rebel
Start with Michael Ellman's book on Soviet planning. Also google
Kantorovich, linear programming, Lieberman reforms.
Years ago I stumbled on an entire book about the use of computers in
Soviet economics but will have to dig it up.
My recollection is that the use of computers for planning, coming
Les Schaffer wrote:
David Thorstad becomes the first marxmailer to enter my kill file.
this is pathetic.
Les
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Huh? What is pathetic is the kneejerk support for hate-crimes
legislation, and this critique was cogent. Talk about a closed mind.
David
Certainly would like to know a little bit about those actions to preserve
water resources that were distinct from the conerns with maintaining profit,
crops, herds, economic survival.
And of course, by the 1700s, capitalism is well established in the English
countryside. Much if not most of
Congressman Barney Frank pointed out that Obama's fetish about
bipartisanship is fundamentally anti-democratic. Frank said something
to the effect that, we had an election and the Republicans lost. Now
you have a Democratic government that doesn't want to do anything that
the people who lost the
S. Artesian wrote:
And of course, by the 1700s, capitalism is well established in the English
countryside. Much if not most of Brenner's works up to and including his
Merchants and Revolution is concerned with the period prior to the 18th
Century.
Not if it is defined on the basis of
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
On Barak Obama
By John A. Imani
Member of the Revolutionary Autonomous Communities.
Let's face it, comrades, we have our hands full.
With the system in shatters all around us, capitalism had played
its last card: it has elected ($700,000,000) a young, gifted and
I kind of thought insuring every American was the “end,” and the only way to
do that is with the public option.
I hope this refers to Obama's idea of the end and not the author's. Because
MY idea of the end is universal health CARE, not universal INSURANCE.
Eli Stephens
Left I on the News
http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/784/leninkautsky.php
also recommended is his first article from last week:
http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/783/index.php
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As the Bush administration waned, the Treasury shoveled more than a
quarter of a trillion dollars in tarp funds into the financial
system—without restrictions, accountability, or even common sense. The
authors reveal how much of it ended up in the wrong hands, doing the
opposite of what
Comrades!
What is a solid list of books that you recommend critiquing organized religion
and/or Christianity (Protestanism in general)- both from the past and modern?
I was thinking, Kautsky's Foundations of Christianity as a starter?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote:
Excellent.
Now if we can only get to read the HM Journal articles in their entirety
a year after they were published or something like that.
You can. Do you have an Access card from the New York Public Library? If
you
The responses on this thread have so far centered on iconography. I
wonder what this tells us about the extent to which bits of Marxism
wind up subsumed back into the great man assumptions about history.
ML
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Mark Lause wrote:
The responses on this thread have so far centered on iconography. I
wonder what this tells us about the extent to which bits of Marxism
wind up subsumed back into the great man assumptions about history.
A couple of the Cliff Conner books were about obscure figures.
http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/09/06/van-jones-a-moment-of-truth-for-liberal-institutions-in-the-veal-pen/
The late Brazilian bishop Dom Hélder Câmara said it well: “When I give food
to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food,
they call me a
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From: Michael Honey mho...@u.washington.edu
I went to Oakland University as an undergraduate from 1965-69. At the
time,
*Alexander Cockburn’s light is out at the end of the tunnel!*
BY JEFF MACKLER
[/Jeff Mackler is the National Secretary of Socialist Action and a
national antiwar leader for the past 45 years. For more information,
visit www.socialistaction.org http://www.socialistaction.org/,
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I was wondering if someone would be kind enough to whack me with a
clue-bat. I recall a Karl Marx quote about atheism, which went something
like this: The greatest service that we can render to God is to make
atheism a compulsory religious dogma.
Or something along those lines. Is anyone
I know John Walsh. He is a libertarian, but a very thorough democrat
and a sound radical... He very much favors single payer health care
reform, etc. He's driven me mad with his periodic dogmatism about
socialism, but he's a dedicated radical who has very persistently
organized good demos
On Sep 10, 2009, at 3:37 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/784/leninkautsky.php
But Lih fails to recognize how Lenin's sense of betrayal spun him into
the absurd ultra-leftist calls for civil war and defeatism that
resulted in his sectarian Zimmerwald Left (a
See the link below please for translation of lead article from issue #44
of Khiaban newspaper; a commentary on the latest arrests of reformist
leaders, including top aides to Karroubi and Moussavi, and also the
closing of reformist party/organizations' offices. This latter included
office of
Jeff wrote:
Well I just did some quick statistics that you can chew on.
cool, will check it out later tonite
However please do not call me a forwarding junky as I forward very
little.
sorry, clarification: by forwarding junkie i meant those who like to
*receive* lots of forwards, not
Paul Papadeas wrote:
Comrades!
What is a solid list of books that you recommend critiquing organized
religion and/or Christianity (Protestanism in general)- both from the past
and modern?
I was thinking, Kautsky's Foundations of Christianity as a starter?
Any help would be
Profiting on death
10 September 2009
Investment banks are planning ways to bet on the life and death of
individuals with life insurance policies, as described in an article
published in the /New York Times /on Sunday.
“The bankers plan to buy ‘life settlements,’ life insurance
My own view is that the health care reform battle is toast, put a fork in
it. Reform here is an even better government organized and subsidized
health industry cartel with a lot of prime low risk customers mandated
to buy their product., in exchange for some obvious regulatory reforms
concerning
Hello comrade EPoliticus,
my remark was a criticism of Maoist violence in Bengal, and their opportunistic
alliance with Mamta Banerjee against the CPI(M).. I support the CPI(M).. over
the last five days, about 15 people including CPI(M) cadre have been murdered
by these petty criminals who
The new titles are welcome.
I didn't simply mean that the biographies are of great as opposed to
obscure, but also that the biographies given early are of people
whose politics we tend to like. Iconic in that sense.
What about a Marxist biography of Franklin Roosevelt? Or Susan B.
Anthony? Or
Do people really think about what they're saying? I think even an
attempt at the assassination of President Obama would have exactly the
opposite effect.
I have had cats who think ahead better than that Mad Fifth of the
American people *the roughly 20% I've talked off at times). We're
On 9/9/09, Phil Walden p...@pwalden.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
I have the GM bankruptcy petition in front of me and under an item called
Employee Obligations it details that an amount of $20 billion has been
paid to the unions, although over what period it does not say.
Have officials in the GM
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