[Marxism] Greg Palast on JD Salinger

2010-02-03 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/23810 Kvetcher in the Rye February

Re: [Marxism] fwd from Rosa Lichtenstein

2010-02-03 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Obviously they agree on the MAIN thing-- which is not only that Marx is no

[Marxism] Zionists Heckle Holocaust Survivor Dr Hajo Meyer

2010-02-03 Thread Paul Flewers
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I was forwarded this report by Yael Kahn via Moshé Machover; the Zionists'

[Marxism] Obama’s war: killing spree on both sides of AfPak border

2010-02-03 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CIA drone missile attacks claimed the lives of 123 civilians last month alone in

[Marxism] Imperialism in Colombia, and a belated short reply

2010-02-03 Thread Nestor Gorojovsky
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == 1) Imperialism is still out there and thus, the national question remains

Re: [Marxism] fwd from Rosa Lichtenstein

2010-02-03 Thread Rosa Lichtenstein
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I do not know where comrade Artesian got these odd ideas, but I suspect sour grapes

Re: [Marxism] fwd from Rosa Lichtenstein

2010-02-03 Thread Einde O'Callaghan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Erik Toren wrote: Where are the mods? She's only been here for less than an

Re: [Marxism] Philosophizing/moderating

2010-02-03 Thread Erik Toren
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: At first I

Re: [Marxism] fwd from Rosa Lichtenstein

2010-02-03 Thread Erik Toren
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Oh. That's way too long. ;) OK. Back to lurkingErik On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at

[Marxism] Minimal philosophy reading list?

2010-02-03 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect l...@panix.com writes: In general, I urge younger comrades to pay

[Marxism] US Intelligence Report Classifies Venezu ela as Anti-US Leader

2010-02-03 Thread Darrel Furlotte
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == US Intelligence Report Classifies Venezuela as Anti-US Leader By Eva Golinger 3

Re: [Marxism] Minimal philosophy reading list?

2010-02-03 Thread Rosa Lichtenstein
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == These authors make all the usual mistakes, exposed at my site:

Re: [Marxism] Minimal philosophy reading list?

2010-02-03 Thread Andrew Pollack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks for these suggestions, Louis. re Novack: Louis is right of course about the

Re: [Marxism] Minimal philosophy reading list?

2010-02-03 Thread Rosa Lichtenstein
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Except, comrades will find not one dialectical concept in such an account of the

Re: [Marxism] fwd from Rosa Lichtenstein

2010-02-03 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Les Schaffer wrote: the debates between Rosa and others in the past have not

Re: [Marxism] Minimal philosophy reading list?

2010-02-03 Thread Einde O'Callaghan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Rosa Lichtenstein wrote:

[Marxism] Videocracy

2010-02-03 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Opening at the IFC Center in New York on February 12th, Erik Gandini’s documentary

Re: [Marxism] Minimal philosophy reading list?

2010-02-03 Thread Rosa Lichtenstein
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks for that Einde, but a supporter of my site sent a letter to *Socialist

[Marxism] Marx and Marxism

2010-02-03 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == farmela...@juno.com wrote: But I have to add that Guy (who I am glad to hear is

[Marxism] mariela castro on lgbt rights in cuba

2010-02-03 Thread adga...@yahoo.com
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == dear friends, here is an interesting and inspiring interview with fidel castro's

Re: [Marxism] Minimal philosophy reading list?

2010-02-03 Thread Andrew Pollack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Oh really? And this is based on reading which biologist's account? If need be I'll

Re: [Marxism] Is Rosa real?

2010-02-03 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == sobuadha...@hushmail.com wrote: I thought 'Rosa' was an artificial intelligence

[Marxism] glaciergate

2010-02-03 Thread Paula
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Anyone following this and other related 'climategate' scandals should take a look

Re: [Marxism] Glaciergate

2010-02-03 Thread Tom O'Lincoln
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Monbiot has been sayiing these things for months. I saw him do it on TV. I fiind

Re: [Marxism] Is Rosa real?

2010-02-03 Thread Rosa Lichtenstein
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This was a story put about by 'Socialist Steve', a comrade so loopy he thinks that

Re: [Marxism] Minimal philosophy reading list?

2010-02-03 Thread Ambrose Andrews
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 4 February 2010 08:05, Einde O'Callaghan eind...@freenet.de wrote: Actually

Re: [Marxism] Is Rosa real?

2010-02-03 Thread Waistline2
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In a message dated 2/3/2010 6:42:24 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,

Re: [Marxism] Is Rosa real?

2010-02-03 Thread Rosa Lichtenstein
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Since I fully accept Historical Materialism, there is no need for me to provide

Re: [Marxism] glaciergate

2010-02-03 Thread Darrel Furlotte
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Paula, Do you even bother to read the articles you reference? Are you counting on

[Marxism] InvAID: The Militarisation of Aid to Haiti

2010-02-03 Thread Darrel Furlotte
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == InvAID: The Militarisation of Aid to Haiti This list of 100+ links-in

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Robotic Nation by Marshall Brain

2010-02-03 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 2/2/2010 9:31:43 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, jann...@gmail.com writes: Lastly, what strikes me about WL's posts is that they repeat the same error that I'm going out on a limb in calling a type of 'psychologism'. As if somehow this insight about financialization and

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Robotic Nation by Marshall Brain

2010-02-03 Thread CeJ
The quality of McDonald's food was not the subject of Robotic Nation. My read of this article was that displacement of labor driven by falling profit margins and more efficient form of laboring increases the demand for implementing more advanced robotics in the production process. Who said

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Robotic Nation by Marshall Brain

2010-02-03 Thread CeJ
I probably said more about profits at McD's than either you or the office did. Sorry, I find as I get older when there is a distraction I make these 'phonetic' mistakes. I meant 'author' there , not office. But the cats in the office are making such a racket I am finding it hard to concentrate.

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Robotic Nation by Marshall Brain

2010-02-03 Thread CeJ
I'm old enough to remember a cafeteria that operated like this. Where was it? A federal facility in Williamsburg, VA, perhaps? http://www.theautomat.com/inside/welcome/welcom.html ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Robotic Nation by Marshall Brain

2010-02-03 Thread CeJ
Hey we had a financial bubble at about the same time too. http://www.theautomat.com/inside/welcome/welcom.html When the first Automat opened in 1902, the United States had begun, in earnest, its ascent to becoming one of the most powerful countries in the world. It had done this the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Robotic Nation by Marshall Brain

2010-02-03 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 2/3/2010 2:22:21 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, jann...@gmail.com writes: Have you ever worked at a fastfood restaurant? I did, 1980-1983. From what I can see about the process and work place now when I visit a fastfood restaurant is very little has changed. Have you ever

[Marxism-Thaxis] Reminiscences of Lenin

2010-02-03 Thread c b
N. K. Krupskaya's Reminiscences of Lenin http://www.marxists.org/archive/krupskaya/works/rol/index.htm Written: 1933 First Published: International Publishers, 1970 Translated: Bernard Isaacs Transcribed: Sally

[Marxism-Thaxis] Introduction

2010-02-03 Thread c b
Krupskaya's “Reminiscences of Lenin” Introduction The reminiscences printed in this volume cover the period 1894 to 1917 from the time I first met Vladimir Ilyich up to the October Revolution. I have often been

[Marxism-Thaxis] Card Check

2010-02-03 Thread c b
Charlie Brown kicking at the football , and Lucy pulling it away ? Charlie B Card Check: Labor's Charlie Brown Moment? (part 2) By Robert Fitch Winter 2010 Whole #: 48 Vol:XII-4 http://newpolitics.mayfirst.org/fromthearchives?nid=185 Economic Foundations of Business Unionism The idea that

[Marxism-Thaxis] Contradiction in text

2010-02-03 Thread c b
wikipedia on Krupskaya: Although she was highly regarded within the party, Krupskaya was unable to prevent Joseph Stalin's consolidation of power after Lenin's death[citation needed]. She was then politically isolated by Stalin and his supporters.[citation needed] Krupskaya apparently favored

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Contradiction in text

2010-02-03 Thread farmela...@juno.com
Of course lots of people who were politically aligned with Stalin in the 1920s eventually found themselves in a labor camp or looking at the wrong end of a gun later on. Just ask Bukharin. Jim F. http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant -- Original Message -- From: c b

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Contradiction in text

2010-02-03 Thread Shane Mage
On Feb 3, 2010, at 1:16 PM, farmela...@juno.com wrote: Of course lots of people who were politically aligned with Stalin in the 1920s eventually found themselves in a labor camp or looking at the wrong end of a gun later on. Just ask Bukharin... ...Krupskaya apparently favored Stalin

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Contradiction in text

2010-02-03 Thread c b
On 2/3/10, farmela...@juno.com farmela...@juno.com wrote: Of course lots of people who were politically aligned with Stalin in the 1920s eventually found themselves in a labor camp or looking at the wrong end of a gun later on. Just ask Bukharin. Jim F.

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Contradiction in text

2010-02-03 Thread Shane Mage
On Feb 3, 2010, at 3:58 PM, c b wrote: On 2/3/10, farmela...@juno.com farmela...@juno.com wrote: Of course lots of people who were politically aligned with Stalin in the 1920s eventually found themselves in a labor camp or looking at the wrong end of a gun later on. Just ask Bukharin.

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Setting the record straight

2010-02-03 Thread Phil Walden
CJ, forgive me for saying so but you seem to have something (below) that looks like a conspiracy theory. I would make two points: (1) the emergence of the transnational-capitalist-corporations-economy cannot be reduced to what is happening in the USA, but is a world structure that has

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Robotic Nation by Marshall Brain

2010-02-03 Thread CeJ
The information on the automat was pretty fascinating stuff. In the late 1970s, early 1980s we replaced much of our automat food service in the plant for hot cooked meals during contract negotiations. These mechanized food dispensaries were a source of headaches with workers losing much money

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Robotic Nation by Marshall Brain

2010-02-03 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 2/3/2010 6:19:02 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, jann...@gmail.com writes: The materials facts of this world as we now live it include realities like Haitians piling up pieces of rubble to build their new houses. Or that over a billion people (at least) suffer from

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Setting the record straight

2010-02-03 Thread CeJ
CJ, forgive me for saying so but you seem to have something (below) that looks like a conspiracy theory. Conspiracies take place all the time--it's called realworld politics. Consider, for example, the conspiracy of Bush and Blair to attack and occupy Iraq. Consider the conspiracy of certain

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Robotic Nation by Marshall Brain

2010-02-03 Thread CeJ
Where do we focus our energy is political proposition based on where how one views the key kinks in a chain of events. Just where can we focus our political energy? National security states like the one the US uses to dominate the world are by and large insulated from democracy in the polling