Re: [Marxism] WSWS: Socialism and the defense of public education

2009-12-29 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I have a much longer post dealing with this subject that's been held up for

Re: [Marxism] WSWS: Socialism and the defense of public education

2009-12-29 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Some comments on Sartesian's latest. My comments are preceded by JOAQUIN COMMENT

Re: [Marxism] WSWS: Socialism and the defense of public education

2009-12-29 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == [This piece is somewhat disjointed and repetitive in places, having been written in

[Marxism] Tony Judt suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease

2009-12-29 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Judt is an NYU professor who has written a lot about Marxism, much of it from an

Re: [Marxism] WSWS: Socialism and the defense of public education

2009-12-29 Thread Greg McDonald
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm curious how special education would play out in this schema. There has been a

[Marxism] Manure

2009-12-29 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == If small-scale landownership creates a class of barbarians standing half outside

Re: [Marxism] Manure

2009-12-29 Thread Greg McDonald
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == LP wrote: If small-scale landownership creates a class of barbarians standing

Re: [Marxism] Manure

2009-12-29 Thread Andrew Pollack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == As has probably been mentioned before on the list, this issue is dealt with by John

Re: [Marxism] Manure

2009-12-29 Thread swpmre
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Indeed, these writings are particularly important today as socialists advance a

Re: [Marxism] Manure

2009-12-29 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Marx was speaking with historical specificity-- of small, individual, peasant

Re: [Marxism] Manure

2009-12-29 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == My understanding is that peasant is simply a euro word for farmer, without more

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] Manure

2009-12-29 Thread New Tet
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Tom Cod-2 wrote: [...] Shit, I remember one time, it must have been in the

Re: [Marxism] Manure

2009-12-29 Thread Greg McDonald
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == S. Artesian wrote: Or you could just say-- LP posted, and include the citation to

Re: [Marxism] Manure

2009-12-29 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == No, peasant is not simply a euro word for farmer-- different historical eras,

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] Manure

2009-12-29 Thread New Tet
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Carrol Cox wrote: [...] The technology that makes farming possible has

Re: [Marxism] Manure

2009-12-29 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == No, it's just that it is obvious what Marx had in mind from the historical era in

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] Manure

2009-12-29 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == First, agriculture requires a certain level of social, not technical, development

Re: [Marxism] Manure

2009-12-29 Thread Greg McDonald
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == S. Artesian wrote: Consequently, it wasn't obvious from your response that you

[Marxism] In NYT, columnist Herbert blows a hole in insurance-care

2009-12-29 Thread Fred Feldman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The article referred to here can be found in today's nyt at

Re: [Marxism] Manure

2009-12-29 Thread Greg McDonald
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Tet wrote: Organic farming is interesting but hardly any proof of the existence

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] Manure

2009-12-29 Thread New Tet
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Greg McDonald-2 wrote:

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] Jim Cramer muses on Lenin

2009-12-29 Thread New Tet
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect wrote:

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] Jim Cramer muses on Lenin

2009-12-29 Thread Ernest Leif
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == When anti-revolution and reactionary folks start talking that: It didn't work out,

Re: [Marxism] Manure

2009-12-29 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Huh, I always thought the difference between peasant and farmer was a linguistic

Re: [Marxism] Manure

2009-12-29 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Peasantry in Europe is a remarkably complex idea, particularly if you consider the

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] Jim Cramer muses on Lenin

2009-12-29 Thread Barry Brooks
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == if you fail you just do it again. Yes, but if your efforts to pass were subverted

[Marxism] WSWS: Socialism and the defense of public education

2009-12-29 Thread Harry Feldman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Joaquin, I don't know where you got the impression that I was suggesting you draw