[Marxism] `Orientalism' and Cuba: How Western media get it wrong | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

2010-09-14 Thread glparramatta
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == By *Tim Anderson* September 14, 2010 -- Misunderstandings over Cuba run very

Re: [Marxism] Irwin Silber remembrances

2010-09-14 Thread Tom Cod
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I agree with Ethan based on my observations of Silber and his colleagues over a

Re: [Marxism] What If? Lenin and Trotsky: When to hold, when to fold.

2010-09-14 Thread Midhurst14
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is all true Trotsky's role was marginal and eventually destructive Apart from

Re: [Marxism] Cuba headed in the same direction as China and Vietnam?

2010-09-14 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NY Times September 13, 2010 Cuba’s Public-Sector Layoffs Signal Major Shift By

Re: [Marxism] Cuba headed in the same direction as China and Vietnam?

2010-09-14 Thread Matthew Russo
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Interestingly enough, the Poodle Across the Pond (the BBC) takes a somewhat

Re: [Marxism] Cuba headed in the same direction as China and Vietnam?

2010-09-14 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Different takes in the bourgeois press on this:

Re: [Marxism] Cuba la nueva maquiladora

2010-09-14 Thread Vladimiro Giacché
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Of course real socialism, and workers self-mangement, was never tried in Cuba.

[Marxism] Cuba si ! Yanquee no !

2010-09-14 Thread dan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Let's face it Cuba was the sugar-producing appendix of the now defunct USSR.

Re: [Marxism] Cuba si ! Yanquee no !

2010-09-14 Thread Adam Richmond
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Excuse me, we are talking about Cuba, not North Korea.

Re: [Marxism] Cuba si ! Yanquee no !

2010-09-14 Thread Nestor Gorojovsky
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == El 14/09/2010 05:25 p.m., dan escribió: Now Fidel has always steered the destiny

Re: [Marxism] Cuba si ! Yanquee no !

2010-09-14 Thread Nestor Gorojovsky
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == El 14/09/2010 05:36 p.m., Adam Richmond escribió:

Re: [Marxism] Cuba si ! Yanquee no !

2010-09-14 Thread Nestor Gorojovsky
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == El 14/09/2010 05:36 p.m., Adam Richmond escribió:

Re: [Marxism] All the workers, all over the world, are waiting for YOUR successful efforts in socialism building...

2010-09-14 Thread dan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == No problem, Dan. A new era is finally starting: All the workers, all over the

Re: [Marxism] Libertad

2010-09-14 Thread Kenneth Morgan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dan, Democracy is a two way street. When you raise a minority position on a

[Marxism] re : Libertad

2010-09-14 Thread dan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Nestor, I must say that I have akways considered you a true comarade.

Re: [Marxism] re : Libertad

2010-09-14 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 9/14/10 6:48 PM, dan wrote: Which boils down to what Marx said : the

[Marxism] Government Report on Drugging of Detainees Is Suppressed

2010-09-14 Thread Dennis Brasky
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == *Government Report on Drugging of Detainees Is

Re: [Marxism] Cuba si ! Yanquee no !

2010-09-14 Thread Eli Stephens
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Aside from your inability to spell Yanqui correctly, which marks you as ignorant

[Marxism] Naomi Klein interview: Building a Real Left

2010-09-14 Thread Dan DiMaggio
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Video interview at: http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/09/14 This is a

[Marxism] Cuba: Exporting revolution, revolutionary models and historical facts | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

2010-09-14 Thread glparramatta
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == By *Nelson P. Valdés* September 13, 2010 -- Is there a Cuban model of socialism?

[Marxism] Kristin Ross on moral rearmament of French imperialism

2010-09-14 Thread Philip Ferguson
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == She also wrote a very interesting book on the rewriting of 1968, called May '68 and

[Marxism] Line of March

2010-09-14 Thread Philip Ferguson
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ethan Young wrote in response to John O'Brien (re Silber): He was at the meeting

Re: [Marxism] re : Libertad

2010-09-14 Thread Nestor Gorojovsky
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == El 14/09/2010 07:48 p.m., dan escribió: Hi Nestor, I must say that I have

Re: [Marxism] Line of March

2010-09-14 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 9/14/10 9:40 PM, Philip Ferguson wrote: The impression I was left with,

Re: [Marxism] re : Libertad

2010-09-14 Thread Manuel Barrera
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm not sure who dan is, but I recognize the insertion of anti-working class

Re: [Marxism] Cuba headed in the same direction as China and Vietnam?

2010-09-14 Thread Shane Mage
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sep 14, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Nathan Weinstein wrote: Source of Trotsky's

Re: [Marxism] Marxism Digest, Vol 83, Issue 29

2010-09-14 Thread oscardelabosca thecatholiccat
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Don't know where you've been lately Dan but I doubt it is Cuba. They haven't been

Re: [Marxism] Marxism Digest, Vol 83, Issue 29

2010-09-14 Thread Joonas Laine
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == oscardelabosca thecatholiccat: Don't know where you've been lately Dan but I doubt

Re: [Marxism] Libertad

2010-09-14 Thread Joonas Laine
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't know any Cuban workers but I have tried to keep up with Cuban

Re: [Marxism] Cuba

2010-09-14 Thread J L
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The so-called Cuba Experts on this list seem to have forgotten the Cuban

Re: [Marxism] Line of March

2010-09-14 Thread Ethan Young
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The story of Line of March's end is complicated; I refer you to the account in Max

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Irwin Silber

2010-09-14 Thread Karl Dallas
Thanks for your obituary of my old friend and comrade, Irwin Silber. I hope to write an obituary for the London socialist daily paper, the Morning Star. I am also writing an open letter to Pete Seeger, challenging his decision to support an ostensibly ecological event which in effect is fostering

[Marxism-Thaxis] Eisenhower/McCarthy era? a Misnomer, was Irwin Silber 1925-2010

2010-09-14 Thread Carrol Cox
c b wrote: Irwin Silber 1925-2010 by Ethan Young submitted to Portside by the author September 12, 2010 Irwin Silber died at the age of 84 on September 8, 2010, after complications from Alzheimer's. Silber's life intersected with the emergence of the radical left out of the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Irwin Silber

2010-09-14 Thread c b
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Karl Dallas karldal...@f2s.com wrote: Thanks for your obituary of my old friend and comrade, Irwin Silber. I hope to write an obituary for the London socialist daily paper, the Morning Star. I am also writing an open letter to Pete Seeger, challenging his

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Eisenhower/McCarthy era? a Misnomer, was Irwin Silber 1925-2010

2010-09-14 Thread c b
, Carrol Cox cb...@ilstu.edu wrote: c b wrote: Irwin Silber 1925-2010 by Ethan Young submitted to Portside by the author September 12, 2010 Irwin Silber died at the age of 84 on September 8, 2010, after complications from Alzheimer's. Silber's life intersected with the emergence of the

[Marxism-Thaxis] House Un-American Activities Committee

2010-09-14 Thread c b
House Un-American Activities Committee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee HUAC hearing The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA) or House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC),[1] 1938–1975) was an investigative committee of the United States House

[Marxism-Thaxis] Smith Act

2010-09-14 Thread c b
Smith Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Act The Alien Registration Act or Smith Act (18 U.S.C. § 2385) of 1940 is a United States federal statute that makes it a federal criminal offense for “ Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints,

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Climate Science Report

2010-09-14 Thread c b
The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Climate Science Report http://www.copenhagendiagnosis.org/ It is more than three years since the drafting of text was completed for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). In the meantime, many hundreds of papers have been

[Marxism-Thaxis] Michigan's Denard Robinson dazzles in win over Notre Dame

2010-09-14 Thread c b
Michigan's Denard Robinson dazzles in win over Notre Dame BY MITCH ALBOM FREE PRESS COLUMNIST * SOUTH BEND, Ind. — One day soon, this is going to bite them. One day soon, a team will figure out Denard Robinson and hang a stinging loss on these incomplete Wolverines. One day soon. But in

[Marxism-Thaxis] Denard Robinson

2010-09-14 Thread c b
Denard Robinson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denard_Robinson Denard Robinson Michigan Wolverines — No. 16 Quarterback Sophomore Major: Kinesiology Date of birth: September 22, 1990 (1990-09-22) (age 19) Height: 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Weight: 193 lb (88 kg; 13 st 11 lb) Career history High

[Marxism-Thaxis] Irwin Silber and the Guardian

2010-09-14 Thread c b
Irwin Silber and the Guardian By Jack A. Smith Sept 13, 2010 Submitted by the author to portside I would like to comment on Ethan Young's Portside article on the death of Irwin Silber. I was on the Guardian staff from 1963 to 1984 as a reporter, managing editor and editor, and worked with Irwin

[Marxism-Thaxis] From margins to mainstream: the rise of Rush, Sarah and gang

2010-09-14 Thread c b
From margins to mainstream: the rise of Rush, Sarah and gang assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage6060-sam.jpg by: Sam Webb September 10 2010 tags: ultra-right, elections, GOP, Republicans, racism, strategy and tactics Let me begin with an obvious point: Right wing extremism is gathering

[Marxism-Thaxis] Nation's First Israel Divestment Campaign as Ballot Initiative

2010-09-14 Thread c b
L.A. Launches Nation's First Israel Divestment Campaign By Linda Milazzo L.A. Progressive September 11, 2010 http://www.laprogressive.com/the-middle-east/israel-divestment-campaign/ On April 1, 2010, in a no-holds-barred interview with the Christian Science Monitor, Israeli peacemaker Jonathan

[Marxism-Thaxis] Review: The Scottsboro Boys @ The Guthrie Theater

2010-09-14 Thread c b
Review: The Scottsboro Boys @ The Guthrie Theater By Tad Simons August 8, 2010 Mpls.St.Paul Magazine http://blogs.mspmag.com/themorningafter/2010/08/review-the-scottsboro-boys-the.html Is The Scottsboro Boys-the final musical from the legendary writing team of John Kander and Fred Ebb (Ebb died

[Marxism-Thaxis] Synthetic Biology: Harbinger of an Uncertain Future?

2010-09-14 Thread c b
By Malcolm Dando Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 16 August 2010 http://thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/malcolm-dando/synthetic-biology-harbinger-of-uncertain-future It is hard to imagine that only three years ago, back in 2007, there was such a lack of awareness of dual-use and related

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Review: The Scottsboro Boys @ The Guthrie Theater

2010-09-14 Thread Ralph Dumain
I hate musicals to begin with. And opera too. I can't stand any of them. OK, I did like the movie CABARET. But otherwise I think Mel Brooks summed it all up in Springtime for Hitler . . . until he turned his movie into a musical (which I saw and admittedly enjoyed, with stubborn

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Review: The Scottsboro Boys @ The Guthrie Theater

2010-09-14 Thread c b
, Ralph Dumain I think though that someone should do a musical about the Tea Party. Camptown crackers have a ball . . . doo dah, doo dah . . . ^^^ CB: That's funny. Second song for Tea Party musical Oh I wish O was in the land of cotton...O away, O away from the white house today

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Review: The Scottsboro Boys @ The Guthrie Theater

2010-09-14 Thread c b
Oops , sorry , here's another musical. They came to Bert's Market place with Bill Meyer, who plays there every Thursday. Charles ^^^ Mysterious murder is not 'Forgotten' http://www.forgottenshow.net/DeGain.htm By Vivian DeGain Special to the Daily Tribune Royal Oak Daily Tribune

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Review: The Scottsboro Boys @ The Guthrie Theater

2010-09-14 Thread Bill White
I rarely comment on this list. But if you ever get a chance to see Stephen Sondheim's musical Assassins, don't miss it. There are few musicals about presidential assassins, and Sondheim is always good for a light tune set to really heavy words. On 2010-09-14, at 11:24 , c b wrote: , Ralph

[Marxism-Thaxis] Detroit Bass Fest @ Bert's Warehouse Theatre

2010-09-14 Thread c b
I forgot to report this. I attended, although it was like an advanced seminar, and I'm not a bass player. Ralph Armstrong was also there. He's a regular at Bert's every Thursday. Then last Friday and Saturday, James Carter was at Bert's. He visits about every two months. Charles Doug Johns @

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Review: The Scottsboro Boys @ The Guthrie Theater

2010-09-14 Thread c b
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Bill White bill.wh...@griggsinst.com wrote: I rarely comment on this list. ^^^ CB: Good to hear from you But if you ever get a chance to see Stephen Sondheim's musical Assassins, don't miss it.  There are few musicals about presidential assassins,