Re: [Marxism] Is this what Ho Chi Minh died for?

2009-10-24 Thread Fred Feldman
Dennis Brasky goes over the top in accusing Nestor of political cowardice not agreeing with him and others who seem to argue that the emergence of golf courses in Vietnam (related to the emergence of a new rich layer and to the importance of tourism for the Vietnamese economy) represents the

Re: [Marxism] Is this what Ho Chi Minh struggled for?

2009-10-24 Thread Louis Proyect
Fred Feldman wrote: The debate over golf courses is a relatively new issue to come to popular consciousness, as far as I know The first time I have seen that directly fought over has been in Venezuela where Chavez has threatened to nationalize the golf courses because of the land and water

[Marxism] Fight censorship of Gay Imperialism book

2009-10-24 Thread Louis Proyect
http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/aizura231009.html 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] Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Worse than War

2009-10-24 Thread jayroth6
Gird your loins: another scholar demanding anti-genocide action by imperialism He argues as well that political Islam - jihadism - constitutes the most coherent and deadly mass-­murderous ideology since Nazism. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/books/review/Traub-t.html excerpt: Goldhagen's

Re: [Marxism] Is this what Ho Chi Minh died for?

2009-10-24 Thread Dennis Brasky
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Fred Feldman ffeld...@bellatlantic.netwrote: Dennis Brasky goes over the top in accusing Nestor of political cowardice not agreeing with him and others who seem to argue that the emergence of golf courses in Vietnam (related to the emergence of a new rich

Re: [Marxism] Is this what Ho Chi Minh died for?

2009-10-24 Thread S. Artesian
Enough for you? But of course. I doubt anyone is surprised. But before you go, let me point out once again your distortion of fact. There is no double-standard on the list. No article from any source is ever accepted uncritically by those on the list. Critical-ness requires however, a

Re: [Marxism] Fight censorship of Gay Imperialism book

2009-10-24 Thread Louis Proyect
David, can you please post the above to the various lists and individuals that have been circulating these sectarian, politically-motivated lies? I don't have access to them. My version deserves to be heard too. I really need your help to counter this awful malicious vendetta. This

[Marxism] Not Afraid to Scare (review of Where the Wild Things Are)

2009-10-24 Thread Max Clark
http://socialistworker.org/2009/10/23/not-afraid-to-scare Best thing from the SW in a while. Plus, I *used* to know Jim Ramey, back before I was excommunicated from the ISO for my schizophrenia. The very best, St. Max http://clarkmax.blogspot.com

Re: [Marxism] Fight censorship of Gay Imperialism book

2009-10-24 Thread Steve Heeren
i don't like LGBT, either. how about G-BLT? it is much more mouth-watering. YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at:

Re: [Marxism] Martin Heidegger, Nazism and Philosophy (for Turkish readers)

2009-10-24 Thread Dogan Gocmen
Dear Louis, thank you very much for your references. Doğan 2009/10/23 Louis Proyect l...@panix.com Dogan Gocmen wrote: Uzun yıllardan sonra Türkiye felsefecileri (ve genel olarak aydınları) arasındaki sohbet ve tartışmalara yakından kulak misafiri olduğumda, Martin Heidegger isminin hiç

[Marxism] Electronic Intifada review of Shlomo Sand

2009-10-24 Thread Sebastian Budgen
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10848.shtml YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at:

Re: [Marxism] Is this what Ho Chi Minh died for?

2009-10-24 Thread Michael Karadjis
Whatever my (evolving, as VN evolves) views on Vietnam, one thing I can agree with the moderator about (as implied in sending this article) is that golf courses are an outright imperialist scourge which rob farmland from peasants and give it to foreign and local VNese capitalists to play what

Re: [Marxism] Post

2009-10-24 Thread Tom Cod
right and this hyper-correct argument gets twisted even more by sectarians when it is directed at movements of the oppressed or movements objectively in support of them. Thus some, instead of showing solidarity, insolently ranted and raved at Quakers protesting the Christmas bombing of

Re: [Marxism] Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Worse than War

2009-10-24 Thread S. Artesian
Hmmh... let's look at some numbers. The US kills somewhere between 1.5 and 2 million Vietnamese in that war; 500,000 or was it 600,000? with sanctions on Iraq after Gulf War 1. Sounds to me like an anti-genocidal task force should target, first and foremost, the US. - Original Message

Re: [Marxism] Where is Trotsky St.?

2009-10-24 Thread Greg McDonald
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=trotsky%20streetoe=utf-8rls=org.mozilla:en-US:officialclient=firefox-aum=1ie=UTF-8sa=Nhl=entab=wl Haha, That's really too much. Trotsky St. interesects with the Martyrs of Chicago, and is two blocks down from Josef Stalin and three blocks from Emiliano Zapata St.

Re: [Marxism] Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Worse than War

2009-10-24 Thread Dennis Brasky
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 5:50 PM, S. Artesian sartes...@earthlink.netwrote: Hmmh... let's look at some numbers. The US kills somewhere between 1.5 and 2 million Vietnamese in that war; 500,000 or was it 600,000? with sanctions on Iraq after Gulf War 1. Sounds to me like an anti-genocidal task

[Marxism] On Lalgarh

2009-10-24 Thread new wave
Comrades, Here is the link to recent post on Lalgarh http://new-wave-nw.blogspot.com/2009/10/from-singur-via-nandigram-to-lalgarh.html -- New Wave new-wave-nw.blogspot.com YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list