Re: [Marxism] Moderator's note

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 22.04.10 00:35, Dan wrote: snip In Sate and Revolution, Lenin is engaged in

Re: [Marxism] Anybody's Son Will Do

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Many thanks Ray, for that URL. I have watched the film this morning - and cannot

Re: [Marxism] Huge march for Venezuelan independence day

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dear Stuart M., I understand your addendum. And I am sympathetic to the feelings

[Marxism] Lenin's Tomb on the British elections

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[Marxism] Street and DiMaggio on the Tea Party movement

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Re: [Marxism] The Party's Role

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Look, you're the one who's posited single general scenario here. I'm just pointing

Re: [Marxism] Huge march for Venezuelan independence day

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dear Fred, first things first. I have learnt as much from many people on this list

Re: [Marxism] Anybody's Son Will Do

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == You should remember how often young officers (and those grew up as petot=bourgeois,

[Marxism] US food still tainted with old chemicals

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thirty-eight years after DDT was banned, Americans still consume trace amounts of

[Marxism] Shattered Dreams - Cesar Chavez and La Causa

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == By Jeffrey W. Rubin The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in

[Marxism] US - If the tapes DESTROYED then torture did not occur

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1983613,00.html?hpt=T2

Re: [Marxism] US - If the tapes DESTROYED then torture did not occur

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Actually, under centuries of legal precedent the destruction of the tapes proves

Re: [Marxism] The Party's Role

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I've already answered this question, didn't I? We agree that the political

[Marxism] Mark Twain: a Marxist view

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/apr2010/twai-a22.shtml Twain wrote *The

Re: [Marxism] Mark Twain: a Marxist view

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Folks might also find entertaining the essay Archimedes, advocating Henry George's

Re: [Marxism] Spiked online says that the death of a tribal language is okay

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It interesting to note what features of modernity Spike will approve of. They

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Goldman Sachs Charged with [CIVIL] fraud (fraudulent securities marketing)

Predictably enough GS is now setting up a 'lone rogue trader' defense (used to be called the scapegoat or patsy defense): http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-20/goldman-sachs-says-sec-case-hinges-on-actions-of-one-employee.html excerpt: ‘He Said-She said’ The SEC complaint “clearly

[Marxism-Thaxis] Goldman Sachs was shorting sub-prime since 2007 (was Re: Goldman Sachs Charged with [CIVIL] fraud)

When people think of the financialization of the wider economic crisis (e.g., why so many 'sub-prime' mortgages were not getting paid, even higher than the expectations of the predatory lenders), they think of Lehmann Bros. going under. Or do they remember the earlier spectacular failure of Bear

[Marxism-Thaxis] JUNKBOND CAPITALISM DEJA VU

The financial crises and scandals of the 1980s offer more than simple parallels--they offer explanatory continuity. In this case, Salomon Brothers are like the Bear Stearns, and Drexel-Burnham-Lambert become, at least for a while, the Goldman Sachs. We even have the lowly 'Italian types' running

[Marxism-Thaxis] Regarding Timothy Geithner

This guy is notable because he qualifies as a Democrat who served as an appointment under Bush, a Republican (Chairman of the FR Bank of NY). The wiki entry on him hasn't caught up to his blazing trail because his 'early career' pretty much sums up his entire career. He is the same age as Obama