[Marxism] What's new at Links: left unity, Marta Harnecker, Chicka Dixon, S. Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Easter Rising, Indonesia, climate change, FI on VI

2010-04-05 Thread glparramatta
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What's new at Links: left unity, Marta Harnecker, Chicka Dixon, S. Africa,

[Marxism] The Dhamma Brothers PBS showtimes

2010-04-05 Thread Greg McDonald
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.dhammabrothers.com/TVShowtimes.htm The above listing provides a

[Marxism] U.S. Admits Role in February Killing of Afghan Women

2010-04-05 Thread Greg McDonald
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.huffingtonpost.com/derrick-crowe/us-and-allied-forces-we-k_b_524811.html

[Marxism] Socialist Voice: Venezuela / Haiti / Quebec / Cochabamba

2010-04-05 Thread Ian Angus
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == SOCIALIST VOICE Marxist Perspectives for the 21st Century

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] The next Ngo Dinh Diem?

2010-04-05 Thread New Tet
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect wrote:

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] How Americans are propagandized about Afghanistan

2010-04-05 Thread New Tet
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dennis Brasky-2 wrote: After initially denying involvement or any cover-up

[Marxism] Wikileaks video: US military massacre of over 12 civilians in Iraq, including two Reuters Journalists

2010-04-05 Thread Greg McDonald
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.collateralmurder.com/ Overview 5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has

Re: [Marxism] What is the biggest flaw in the labor theory of value?

2010-04-05 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == [I apologize for the long, redacted, quotation that follows] I would respectfully

Re: [Marxism] Remembering [Political Murders in Dixie]

2010-04-05 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yeah but how did this uneducated simpleton ex-convict wind up in Britain with a

Re: [Marxism] The next Ngo Dinh Diem?

2010-04-05 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't recall Diem ever talking about going over to the VC, but I get your point.

Re: [Marxism] The next Ngo Dinh Diem?

2010-04-05 Thread Gary MacLennan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't recall Diem ever talking about going over to the VC, but I get your

[Marxism] WikiLeaks Video of US attack on Journalists in Iraq

2010-04-05 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/world/middleeast/06baghdad.html?hp

[Marxism] Reuven Kaminer on current events in the Middle East

2010-04-05 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == (This ends with some nice skewering of my pen-pal Avishai Margalit.) From the

[Marxism] The latest from William Blum

2010-04-05 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Anti-Empire Report, April 5, 2010 http://www.killinghope.org/bblum6/aer80.html

[Marxism] Roger Burbach on Bolivia

2010-04-05 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Communitarian Socialism in Bolivia By Roger Burbach When Bolivia’s president, Evo

[Marxism] WikiLeaks Video of US attack on Journalists in Iraq

2010-04-05 Thread nada
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Tom posted the link to the NYT article. You NEED to see this video. It's very

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] Bye-bye to the humanities

2010-04-05 Thread New Tet
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect wrote: [...] I would much prefer to define our current

Re: [Marxism] WikiLeaks Video of US attack on Journalists in Iraq

2010-04-05 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks David, but the link to the video is on the NYT page as well.

Re: [Marxism] Reuven Kaminer on current events in the Middle East

2010-04-05 Thread Shane Mage
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Apr 5, 2010, at 8:55 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: From the desk of Reuven Kaminer

[Marxism-Thaxis] Beware of the new racist counteroffensive

2010-04-05 Thread c b
Beware of the new racist counteroffensive by: Sam Webb March 25 2010 tags: racism, African Americans, labor, Obama, ultra-right Many people say that racism is simply an attitude or a prejudice of one people toward another people. That allowed Republican senators to make the ludicrous claim

[Marxism-Thaxis] Crisis: The Motor of Capitalism

2010-04-05 Thread c b
Crisis: The Motor of Capitalism by: André Orléan, Le Monde Truthout 29 March 2010 http://www.truthout.org/the-crisis-motor-capitalism58234 Capitalism's history coincides with the history of its crises. Over the 1970-2007 period, there were at least 124 banking crises, 208 exchange rate crises

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Evolution of Culture

2010-04-05 Thread c b
CeJ jannuzi Why did we need dogs to develop gesturing. We could gesture to people. But drove forward that development? There is a really cute program on TV here in Japan that shows the adventures of a chimpanzee (who is very socialized to humans) who is paired up with a bull dog. The two animals

[Marxism-Thaxis] Arms Control Experts Applaud Announcement of New Nuclear Reductions Treaty with Russia

2010-04-05 Thread c b
CeJ jannuzi CB:Nope. Nuclear disarmament is still species-being project numero uno. Which is why Israel ought to be disarmed. I think they are the only country that ever threatened to use its nukes

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Great British Tea Heist

2010-04-05 Thread c b
The Great British Tea Heist Botanist Robert Fortune traveled to China and stole trade secrets of the tea industry, discovering a fraud in the process By Sarah Rose Smithsonian.com March 09, 2010 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Great-British-Tea-Heist.html [This is an excerpt

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Evolution of Culture

2010-04-05 Thread c b
Carrol Cox wrote: This was a fascinating post, I learned a lot from it. But it seems to me the understandings of language and change it describes could be expressed in other terms than the metaphor of evolution. Natural selection, applied to human history, including the history of

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Riddle of Antagonism: (still at work)

2010-04-05 Thread c b
Waistline2 Antagonism: Antagonism means the mutual resistance or active opposition of two opposing forces, physical or mental; active opposition to a force. Antagonism is a form of change resolution by

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Evolution of Culture

2010-04-05 Thread CeJ
CB: You're the linguist. But to me, the essence of language is symbolling. Using something to represent something that it is not. The co-operation of dogs and humans was most likely very adaptive for dogs. I bet their population is a lot bigger than that of wolves , now. But the theory about

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Great British Tea Heist

2010-04-05 Thread CeJ
Interesting article, but with a few comments seem in order. Tea is really a type of camellia bush (a broad-leafed evergreen), which grows as part of the undergrowth of southern temperate and sub-tropical broad-leaf evergreen forests across S. Asia. Hence, the great tea cultures of China, SE Asia,