[Marxism] MRzine madness

2010-03-27 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, I know that this amounts to dog bites man but I could not help from drawing

[Marxism] Sunni/secular revival in Iraq?

2010-03-27 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703416204575145952052909276.html WSJ

Re: [Marxism] Another view of the health care legislation

2010-03-27 Thread Les Schaffer
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 3/26/2010 3:26 PM, Andrew Pollack wrote: I don't think the list has an archive.

Re: [Marxism] Another view of the health care legislation

2010-03-27 Thread Dayne Goodwin
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Fred Feldman ffeld...@bellatlantic.net wrote: I

Re: [Marxism] Another view of the health care legislation

2010-03-27 Thread Jon Flanders
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Re: [Marxism] Another view of the health care legislation

2010-03-27 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jon Flanders wrote: This is from the Labor Campaign's latest communication on the

Re: [Marxism] How US far left went off rails on health care

2010-03-27 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Some thoughts on a way out of the current impasse (got reprinted by a few liberal

[Marxism] Test

2010-03-27 Thread Shane Mage
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Re: [Marxism] Unions and WWI

2010-03-27 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Wait a second, didn't French SP leader Jaures oppose the war and get assasinated

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-27 Thread CeJ
JF:The problem was that Lysenko with the baking of the Soviet regime continued to hang on to neo-Lamarckiansm, and more importantly was able to coerce other Soviet scientists into hanging on to it, long after it had been discredited in the West. That caused immeasurable harm to Soviet biology,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-27 Thread CeJ
Borlaug is often called the 'father of the green revolution' and in later life came to be identified with Mendelian genetics and even for his advocacy of GM crops. HOWEVER, the accomplishment that started the 'revolution' was him doing the SAME sort of inter-species hybridizing as Burbank,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Descartes Marxism: Selected Bibliography

2010-03-27 Thread Ralph Dumain
OK, here's my work in progress: Descartes Marxism: Selected Bibliography http://www.autodidactproject.org/bib/descartes-marx.html Passing references to Descartes are legion, but substantive additions are needed and welcome. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-27 Thread CeJ
The Soviet Union was obsessed with one grain in particular: wheat. And on quite a number of occasions Lysenko and his researchers were criticized for not producing a variety that could grow well in the short growing season. And then there was the controversy over winter vs. spring wheat (with the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Prion theory is not little wrinkle either

2010-03-27 Thread CeJ
The dogma of the Mendelians was in thinking of genetic coding as something exclusive that somehow transcended the physical world and interactions and processes in it. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18324611.400 Lamarckism finds new lease of life in a prion * 21 August 2004 by Philip