Re: [Marxism] Role of the Army

2010-11-04 Thread David Picón Álvarez
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == For goodness' sake. What's so bloody hard about this? Capitalist employers are

Re: [Marxism] Why is an economy benefited by exporting?

2010-10-17 Thread David Picón Álvarez
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 17/10/2010 18:09, Barry Brooks wrote: Why is an economy benefited by exporting

Re: [Marxism] CGT-E

2010-10-02 Thread David Picón Álvarez
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It's inevitable that little is said about the smaller unions. The difference is

Re: [Marxism] European Social Democracy and Unions

2010-09-30 Thread David Picón Álvarez
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 30/09/2010 16:11, waistli...@aol.com wrote: Unions are equality organizations,

[Marxism] Social activism.

2010-09-28 Thread David Picón Álvarez
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This article on the New Yorker points out some of the misgivings I have about

Re: [Marxism] Socialist movement or socialist maffia?????

2010-09-24 Thread David Picón Álvarez
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 23/09/2010 20:19, Nestor Gorojovsky wrote: Dear David (BTW, do you have any

Re: [Marxism] Climategate Researchers Largely Cleared

2010-04-11 Thread David Picón Álvarez
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Mark Lause markala...@gmail.com Have we nothing more concrete in front of

Re: [Marxism] 9/11 truther burp

2010-02-27 Thread David Picón Álvarez
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This discussion is absolutely ridiculous. Let's concede all the claims, for the

Re: [Marxism] Suicide Bomber

2010-02-18 Thread David Picón Álvarez
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == At the risk of overextending historical analogies and talking about a country I

Re: [Marxism] Leninism: It's not what you think

2009-12-18 Thread David Picón Álvarez
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: sobuadha...@hushmail.com Was the CP any closer to seizing power before the

Re: [Marxism] Comparative Advantage

2009-12-17 Thread David Picón Álvarez
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: S. Artesian sartes...@earthlink.net At the same time, what is remarkable on

Re: [Marxism] Leninism: It's not what you think |LinksInternationalJournal of Socialist Renewal

2009-12-17 Thread David Picón Álvarez
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Joaquin Bustelo jbust...@bellsouth.net Certainly not true of the CPUSA --

Re: [Marxism] Leninism: It's not what you think | LinksInternational Journal of Socialist Renewal

2009-12-16 Thread David Picón Álvarez
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == As a curious point, if, perhaps, it may sound trollish, I think it's interesting

Re: [Marxism] Comparative Advantage

2009-12-16 Thread David Picón Álvarez
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == So if I'm reading this right, US enterprises have been able to push wages down or

Re: [Marxism] Marx on ancient families

2009-12-06 Thread David Picón Álvarez
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't have a lot of info on this, but I would say the exceptional factor in the

Re: [Marxism] I support the wolves

2009-11-21 Thread David Picón Álvarez
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Incidentally a similar contoversy is taking place in Spain. A court has decided

Re: [Marxism] HELP!

2009-11-11 Thread David Picón Álvarez
I am almost certain I have read something like this, I'm now trying to find the source. What I remember went something like this: That the revolution must create its own enemy, and its enemy, by its reaction, increases somehow the readiness or the capability of the revolutionaries to carry the

Re: [Marxism] HELP!

2009-11-11 Thread David Picón Álvarez
This is the quote I was thinking of, which does not exactly say the same thing, but is I believe close enough. It's from the preface to the Class Struggles in France: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/class-struggles-france/index.htm In a word: The revolution made progress,

Re: [Marxism] Animal Liberation and Socialism

2009-10-28 Thread David Picón Álvarez
What makes it clear for me that animal liberation is un-marxist is how the approaches these people take to the question are completely moralistic and not based on materialism. So for instance I'm sympathetic to arguments about how conditions of life for farm animals lead to actual dangers for

Re: [Marxism] Post

2009-10-23 Thread David Picón Álvarez
From: Ryan Neighbors rnei...@uark.edu I'm new to the study of Marxist theory, so I was hoping some of you could help me. I need to know (for a paper) a few Marxist theorists who deal extensively with the ideas of war, pacifism, and/or revolution. I'm primarily interested in the idea of

Re: [Marxism] Materialism and the will. (Was: (no subject))

2009-10-21 Thread David Picón Álvarez
From: Michael Smith m...@smithbowen.net Really? Perl and LISP seem pretty different to me. Fully determined is a mighty strong claim. Constrained, perhaps. A programming language that you can't implement in silicon would be pretty useless as long as we have to depend on silicon, but then --

Re: [Marxism] Materialism and the will. (Was: (no subject))

2009-10-20 Thread David Picón Álvarez
From: Les Schaffer schaf...@optonline.net even a hard-bitten reductionist like moi finds this last sentence incomprehensible. now if you substituted molecular biology and biochemistry for physics you might be able to salvage the thought, but biologists don't talk about laws of matter in

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Materialism and the will. (Was: (no subject))

2009-10-20 Thread David Picón Álvarez
In spite of having read a good deal of Rosa's essay and links, I'm not sure I understand the relevant to the particular questions of materialism and the will. My fault, not hers, I lack the time to go over it in detail. --David. YOU MUST clip

Re: [Marxism] Yankees

2009-09-30 Thread David Picón Álvarez
From: Daniel Koechlin d.koech...@wanadoo.fr The Americans are decidedly anti-dialectic. And that statement isn't? A European here, and I'm not convinced the distinction is quite as you put it. Though maybe a useful way to think about it is the distinction between procedural and distributive

[Marxism] Collection of soviet songs.

2009-09-17 Thread David Picón Álvarez
This is a collection of Soviet songs. Not much more to say than that, except I found the introduction to the site an interesting read. URL: http://www.sovmusic.ru/english/ --David. YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.

Re: [Marxism] technical...seeking space for website

2009-09-08 Thread David Picón Álvarez
Any suggestions here for free web space friendly to iconoclastic politics? You could do worse than http://otaku.freeshell.org/index.cgi?join The ARPA membership level requires a one-time donation but it really is worth it imo. --David. YOU