From: Pat Costello pt_coste...@yahoo.com
I would have thought that indignation over the rape of a child would not
be debatable. Racist attacks, rape, police brutalitythese are merely
academic discussion for many on this list.
Total and utter bullshit. Just that some (I would hope most,
China's imperialist business partners were pushing for them to junk the
remaining nationalized industry a few years ago. But that prospect is
definitely off for now as the state sector plays a key role in helping China
contain the effects of the world crisis and even make headway.
Fred Feldman
http://theactivist.org/blog/n-w-a-s-second-album-track-two
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Hi Fred
Jeff wrote at [Marxism], it is in the interests of society to increase
enforcement of laws on sexual assault.
It's also in the interests of society to get rid of capitalism and
patriarchy, but I don't see it
I sent this to the list of my group, Al-Awda-NY: Palestine Right to
Return Coalition, thus the emphasis on his antiZionism.
If you google his name you'll turn up lots of more general
biographical detail on him, including his account of the ghetto
uprising.
Andy
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Roman Polanski Has a Lot of Friends
KATHA POLLITT
10/01/2009
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/anotherthing/479379/roman_pola
nski_has_a_lot_of_friends
If a rapist escapes justice for long enough, should the
world hand him a get-out-of-jail-free card? If you're
Roman Polanski,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/02/lockerbie-documents-witness-megrahi
US paid reward to Lockerbie witness, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi papers claim
Scottish detectives discussed secret payments of up to $3m made to
witness and his brother, documents claim
Two key figures in the conviction
I've been reading this list on and off for a while now and have to say
that I can't believe the amount of bandwidth that has been wasted
discussing Roman Polanski. Why aren't you all discussing McKenzie
Phillip's incestuous relationship with her father, too? I personally
could care less what
Ron J wrote:
I've been reading this list on and off for a while now and have to say
that I can't believe the amount of bandwidth that has been wasted
discussing Roman Polanski. Why aren't you all discussing McKenzie
Phillip's incestuous relationship with her father, too? I personally
I should first say, I'm no philosopher. I've read Marx, Feuerbach, Hegel,
Russell, Wittgenstein. Mostly Marx, then Hegel... Hegel brought me to
tears, and not tears of joy.
OK I'm no philosopher. Neither was Marx, although unlike Marx, I never
studied the subject formally.
My take on Rosa's
Think this article posted by Fred is a wee bit late to the party. It, the
article, is an old on the one hand...
But on the other more recent hand, we see tremendous overinvestment in fixed
assets in China, we see tremendous overproduction in aluminum, cement, steel,
The Financial Times and
As part of the fall-out from the financial crisis, business schools are
now seen as training grounds for what FDR once called malefactors of
great wealth–the more prestigious the business school, the worse the
malefaction obviously. Columbia University’s Business School Dean, R.
Glenn Hubbard,
Please note that more of this discussion concerning
Rosa L can be found at:
http://www.revleft.com/vb/dialectics-and-political-t118934/index.html
On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 11:05:10 -0400 S. Artesian sartes...@earthlink.net
writes:
I should first say, I'm no philosopher. I've read Marx, Feuerbach,
I don’t have much time to comment on this, but I just wanted to make a point.
It’s understandable that after the asinine vulgarities of dialectical
materialism, some people, like Rosa here, should feel aversion for anything
dialectical. But for all intents and purposes, Rosa, the
For what its worth, a felony criminal conviction by itself proves up a civil
case based on the same conduct.
From: ffeld...@bellatlantic.net
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 05:57:33 -0400
Subject: [Marxism] Sexual Assault
To: t...@hotmail.com
If the lawyer thinks you have a good case bring a civil
On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 22:30:37 + Tom Cod t...@hotmail.com writes:
For what its worth, a felony criminal conviction by itself proves
up a civil case based on the same conduct.
But I think Fred's point is that very often
rape victims have a better chance prevailing
against their attackers in
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:09:09 +0200
From: d.koech...@wanadoo.fr
Subject: [Marxism] crime
To: t...@hotmail.com
Are you sure that was all that Mao was about? Didn't he and the CCP have some
involvement in the epochal social revolution that occurred in China in the last
century? Just seems
On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 22:57:57 + Tom Cod t...@hotmail.com writes:
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:09:09 +0200
From: d.koech...@wanadoo.fr
Subject: [Marxism] crime
To: t...@hotmail.com
Are you sure that was all that Mao was about? Didn't he and the CCP
have some involvement in the
the idea is that there are broader issues involved with crime that go beyond an
individual victim's wishes. Thus her view should be considered but is not
necessarily dispositive. We see this in domestic violence cases a lot.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:23:35 -0700
From:
That is a very incisive post, Leonardo, and just about condenses and
resolves the entire issue, IMO.
- Original Message -
From: Leonardo Kosloff holmof...@hotmail.com
To: David Schanoes sartes...@earthlink.net
Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 5:12 PM
Subject: [Marxism] Rosa
This appeared on the latest Counterpunch. Greener is a very old friend
of mine from Bard College, a heart transplant recipient, and successful
novelist who blogs at http://papadablogger.blogspot.com/.
From: Richard Greener
Subject: Obama's Ghost Ayers...
(This was prompted by
We have to remember that the funders have increasingly insisted that
standards in higher education mirror more closely those in the private
sector, ie., the corporate world.
For this reason, if no other, the answer to whether an administrator having
been disbarred as a lawyer matters is almost
That it is a class issue does warrant some Marxist attention, but beyond
that, yes, let's move on. That Polanski should be tossed in the slammer as
a sterling example to all and sundry _precisely_ because he is a member of
the ruling liberal intelligentsia is the relevant principle in play here.
Much of this discussion...if you can call it that.. has focused on the specific
individuals in the case.
The difference here is that the victim is discussing the case decades after the
incident. She puts into a perspective no one else can.
The domestic violence victims often are
You raise a good question. The problem is twofold: 1) the U.S. Left is
largely petit-bourgeois and divorced from the working class (and its rising
unemployment) and therefore gravitates to the Democratic Party as its
natural political home, because 2) there is no independent - or even
China Study Group is pleased to announce the launch of its redesigned
site: chinastudygroup.net http://chinastudygroup.net/
China Study Group is a global group of scholars and activists concerned
with carrying on the critical tradition of China-focused analysis best
exemplified by William
Of the members of the Vienna Circle
with Marxist leanings, Otto Neurath
was the best known figure. Another
member of the Circle with Marxist
leanings was the historian and philosopher
of science, Edgar Zilsel, who is probably
best remembered today for what is known
as the Zilsel Thesis, which
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