[Marxism] Rise of the HoBos: As Gay Becomes Bourgeois

2010-12-28 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-goldberg-gays-20101228,0,1493653.column

[Marxism] Rise of the HoBos: As Gay Becomes Bourgeois

2010-12-28 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mark Lause wrote: ...it seems that anything that the bourgeois sets out to purge

[Marxism] Getting to Assange through Manning, by Glenn Greenwald

2010-12-16 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Fred Feldman wrote: An ordinary citizen like myself may sometimes get harassed to

[Marxism] Assange's Swedish lawyer: 'As soon as case is heard in Sweden it will be thrown out'

2010-12-12 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NEWS VIDEO: Assange's Swedish lawyer: 'As soon as case is heard in Sweden it will

[Marxism] More Facts (Dirt) on Anna Ardin and how She Destroyed Assange Case Evidence Over And Over Again

2010-12-10 Thread David Thorstad
interest to you, it seems. Instead, you encourage other list members to rise to your bait. David David Thorstad wrote: (3) the accusations made by her and her cohort against Assange point to a vindictive kind of feminism run amok. i don't have time right now

[Marxism] Scandinavian lunacy: A Danish free church parson hangs Santa!

2010-12-08 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/samfund/article1464161.ece A Danish free church

[Marxism] Operation Avenge Assange

2010-12-07 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jay Moore wrote:. http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201049/6520 *Update:*

[Marxism] A proposal on Assange for the Peace Nobel by Diana Johnstone

2010-12-07 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The jailing of Julian Assange today in the UK amounts to perhaps the most

Re: [Marxism] Rethinking Conspiracy: The Political Philosophy of Julian Assange

2010-12-07 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ye gods, what a lot of quasi-academic verbiage delivered with unreadable

[Marxism] Connecting the Dots

2010-12-05 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jay Moore wrote: Assange Accuser Worked with US-Funded, CIA-Tied Anti-Castro Group

[Marxism] Connecting the Dots

2010-12-05 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jay Moore wrote: I agree it's circumstantial. But what kind of leftist would want

[Marxism] Swedish trolls and sex by surprise

2010-12-03 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vaaid=22239 This article provides

[Marxism] A Serbian Film-From a Bosnian Friend

2010-12-01 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ismail Lagardien wrote: fast forwarded through most of serbian film. probably

[Marxism] A comment by Diana Johnstone on A Serbian film, Croats and Muslims, and the left

2010-12-01 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here's a further comment by Diana Johnstone, posted with her permission, in

[Marxism] UN majority votes to accept execution of homosexuals

2010-11-21 Thread David Thorstad
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Re: [Marxism] UN majority votes to accept execution of homosexuals

2010-11-21 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 1:59 PM, Joonas Laine wrote: Cuba is among the supporters of the amendment. The

[Marxism] Great cartoon spoofing gays in the military

2010-11-04 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://harpers.org/archive/2010/10/hbc-90007761

[Marxism] Obama's Finest Hour: Killing Innocent People For Made-Up Crap

2010-10-26 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == An existentialist cri de coeur that, while refreshing, probably falls on deaf ears

[Marxism] Photos of France in revolt

2010-10-24 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Magnificent photos, deplorable and unenlightening comments at the end. Whatever

[Marxism] Why I Got Fired from Teaching American History

2010-10-21 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I showed them that during the American Revolution drunkards, laggards,

[Marxism] Larry Clark censored in Paris

2010-10-17 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Gay socialist mayor of Paris as censor. This is revolting, not only because I am

[Marxism] Serbia Surrenders to the EU by Diana Johnstone

2010-09-18 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Diana's latest article, Serbia Surrenders to the EU, is now on CounterPunch, and

[Marxism] dissemination of false information

2010-09-18 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect wrote: If you google According to article 144 of the Penal Code

[Marxism] Sweden goes off the feminist deep end in harassing Assange

2010-09-15 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.counterpunch.org/shamir09142010.html Here are two excerpts from Israel

[Marxism] Fidel Castro Says He Was Misinterpreted (was: Fidel (acc. to Goldberg): Cuban model doesn't work, anymore)

2010-09-11 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Fidel said (in http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=29161): Further on Goldberg wrote

[Marxism] Fidel Castro Says He Was Misinterpreted (was: Fidel (acc. to Goldberg): Cuban model doesn't work, anymore)

2010-09-11 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 9/11/10 9:30 AM, David Thorstad wrote: I reread this excerpt three times

[Marxism] Fidel (acc. to Goldberg): Cuban model doesn't work anymore

2010-09-10 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jay Moore wrote:

[Marxism] New York Police Department's mobile shredder truck unmasked

2010-09-09 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == So, this is where all (except a tiny handful) of the NYPD's files on me went?

Re: [Marxism] Daniel Estulin and the phony 'Bilderberg conspiracy'

2010-09-03 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sep 2, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: Well, after all, I am

[Marxism] Excellent skewering of Obama's speech

2010-09-01 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This critique hits all the right points about what a lying piece of patriotic

[Marxism] Fidel Castro: I am the one responsible for the persecution of homosexuals that took place in Cuba

2010-08-31 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This interview with Mexico's /La Jornada/ is interesting for the admission by a

[Marxism] Brecht in the West Bank

2010-08-26 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There's something not only ironic, but even obscene, about playing Brecht in

[Marxism] Tehran daily serializes Dobbs classic Teamster Rebellion

2010-08-21 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The daily said: In introducing the series, the paper wrote that Teamster Rebellion

[Marxism] Clicktivism is ruining leftist activism

2010-08-20 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here's another window on the thread Can Technology Bring on a World Wide Social

[Marxism] Clicktivism is ruining leftist activism

2010-08-20 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here's another window on the thread Can Technology Bring on a World Wide Social

[Marxism] The Ultimate Mission to Israel

2010-08-06 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Imagine the outrage if the Nazis had organized a similar tour of their crime

[Marxism] Petras:  Trends to Barbarism and Pro spects for Socialism

2010-08-03 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Petras's analysis is good, I think, and the choice really is socialism or

[Marxism] Gnome Chomsky

2010-08-01 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Re the deep discussion of Chomsky's politics, here's tidbit on the lighter side

Re: [Marxism] Stand By Me...

2010-08-01 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This performance/video is pleasant and feel-goody, and I enjoyed it. Google this

[Marxism] How a mainstream gay group gives backhanded support to antigay politicians

2010-07-31 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect wrote:

[Marxism] Israel, South Africa and the single-state non-solution

2010-07-29 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Angelus Novus wrote: What *is* true is that within the left in Germany, there is a

[Marxism] Israel, South Africa and the single-state non-solution

2010-07-29 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Angelus Novus wrote: What *is* true is that within the left in Germany, there is a

[Marxism] Gay priests double-life in Rome's gay clubs

2010-07-25 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, the priesthood is for many another way of living their homosexuality. It

Re: [Marxism] Gay Republicans' closing argument for repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tel

2010-07-23 Thread David Thorstad
seconds after mine. And it is obscene, or at least ludicrous, to quote Brecht, author of /Mother Courage/, in this context of implicitly supporting militarism. Oy and vey. David David Thorstad wrote: That said, this clamoring over trying to be openly homosexual in the U.S. imperialist

[Marxism] Gay Republicans' closing argument for repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell

2010-07-23 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect wrote: David, your analysis of the US military is moralistic. In the

[Marxism] Joe Bageant on Dead Capitalism

2010-07-22 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == OK, so this is not a true Marxist critique of capitalism, but it resonates

[Marxism] Charlie Sherrod

2010-07-22 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The following is from Doug Ireland. If nothing else, it shows how bankrupt the

[Marxism] Obscenity war: billions more for Iraq Afghanistan wars, penalties for porn

2010-07-12 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This antiporn measure is an obscenity in itself, and it shows how the feminist

Re: [Marxism] Anarchists' perception of Trotsky

2010-07-06 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 1:59 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: In fact it is more likely that space aliens will

[Marxism] Martin Tranmael and John Enestvedt (Was: Comrade Leon Trotsky about his stay in Norway)

2010-07-05 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In the late 1960s, when I was organizer of the Minneapolis-St. Paul branch of the

[Marxism] Progressive academic gender/queer navel gazing

2010-07-01 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I could barely hold my nose long enough to get through this solipsistic,

[Marxism] Circumcisions kill boys in South Africa

2010-06-19 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/africa/10350471.stm

Re: [Marxism] IDF Faked Photos

2010-06-05 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect wrote:

[Marxism] Reflections on the Communist Party Convention

2010-06-04 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == OK, so this report echoes the worst kind of Stalinist breast-beating and

[Marxism] Glenn Greenwald: Equating Sexual Orientation with Sex Life

2010-05-21 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Published on Thursday, May 20, 2010 by Salon.com

[Marxism] Statement in Le Monde by NPA leaders on Greece

2010-05-21 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/356.php *Maybe the NPA has ideas on how to

[Marxism] Alexander Cockburn: stop picking on Rand Paul

2010-05-21 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect wrote: http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn05212010.html

[Marxism] The Great Anishinaabe Fish-Off

2010-05-16 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Last Friday, activists from two northern Minnesota Ojibwe bands, among them

[Marxism] Lenin? Who's he?

2010-05-02 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == One friend, an attorney at a major international law firm, disclosed a private

Re: [Marxism] Evo Morales: eating chicken causes male homosexuality and baldness

2010-04-23 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect wrote: In any case, I would have hoped that a 60s radical like David

[Marxism] The Roots of Stalin in the Tea Party Movement

2010-04-18 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Tea Party movement's dirty little secret is that its chief financial backers

[Marxism] History of the Green Party and Movements in the U.S.

2010-04-12 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I apologize if this article from 2006 has already appeared on the list. DT

[Marxism] Report from Holland on gay bashing and Muslim bashing

2010-04-03 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here's an interesting commentary on Muslims and gay bashing in Holland from a

[Marxism] Sherry Wolf and ISO on pressuring the Obama administration for equality]

2010-03-31 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The International Socialist Organization (ISO) is obviously hoping to recoup its

[Marxism] Death to Obamacare! Kill Bill!

2010-03-15 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff03102010.html

[Marxism] Human Rights in the USA? China's View

2010-03-14 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Xinhua March 12, 2010

[Marxism] Dragging Rosa Luxemburg through the mud: Witchhunting Norman Finkelstein

2010-03-01 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is such an incisive critique of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and the Germand

[Marxism] Review of Sherry Wolf's Sexuality and Socialism

2010-02-24 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == My review of Sherry Wolf's /Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory

[Marxism] How credible is Human Rights Watch on Cuba?

2010-02-15 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == li...@dsp.org.au How credible is Human Rights Watch on Cuba? Human Rights Watch

[Marxism] Gays Against Gays in the Military

2010-02-09 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I have signed this petition, even though the cover note refers to an LGBT

Re: [Marxism] comrade bourgeois

2010-02-07 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == liberal virus wrote: Many communist leaders in West Bengal amass huge fortunes By

[Marxism] A clarification on the head scarf issue in France

2010-02-04 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I think there's a bit of mishmash and confusion on the issue of head scarves in

[Marxism] circ foolishness

2010-01-08 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Oh, ya, so I suppose other problems are being solved by the Marxmail e-mails? It

[Marxism] Nation's Largest Nurses Union Sharply Criticizes Health Bill

2009-12-22 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/22/nations-largest-nurses-or_n_400765.html

[Marxism] Discussion on age of consent in Communist Party of Great Britain

2009-12-22 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here are links to a discussion going on in the online publication of the

Re: [Marxism] Veteran US senator: Afghan war another Vietnam

2009-12-13 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I happened to be visiting veteran Trotskyist labor leader Ray Dunne the day George

[Marxism] Sarah Palin To Speak At A Fundraiser For A Socialist Canadian Hospital

2009-12-12 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Go to the link http://thinkprogress.org/about/ to see what liberal pro-Democrat

[Marxism] Spiegel nails Obama's falseness

2009-12-02 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Although I never saw any magic in Obama's slick smoke-and-mirrors style, Spiegel

[Marxism] A gay witch hunt in Uganda

2009-11-27 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A gay witch hunt in Uganda Why are the English archbishops silent over Uganda's

Re: [Marxism] The making of a turkey

2009-11-26 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There's an error in the map in this video, which shows the allegedly original

[Marxism] Red Nation Humanitarium Award Acceptance Letter from Leonard Peltier

2009-11-24 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Interesting point by Peltier (if true) that no Native American reservation

[Marxism] Where have all the protests gone? US students in limbo - Telegraph

2009-11-16 Thread David Thorstad
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Re: [Marxism] Queer Kids of Queer Parents Against Gay Marriage!

2009-11-09 Thread David Thorstad
Louis: David, these two bloggers are the same people who wrote the Bay Area Reporter article you forwarded to the list last Thursday. If your intention is to demonstrate a significant trend against this demand by millions of gay people by gays themselves, you are doing a shitty job. == Sorry,

[Marxism] Hilarious roundtable of gay strategizing

2009-11-07 Thread David Thorstad
While quite funny in places, this is an excellent critique of how wrongheaded the current gay agenda is. David http://www.bilerico.com/2009/11/why_gay_marriage_is_the_end_of_the_world_or_the_qu.php YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when

Re: [Marxism] Gay Patriotism: Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell

2009-10-16 Thread David Thorstad
Mark is right, of course. But that does not excuse the fact that NO gay or lesbian groups (and few left groups, so far as I have been able to tell) are actually opposing militarism. (A year or so ago, I recall the Freedom Socialist Party actually saying that joining the military would be a

[Marxism] How Islamist gangs use internet to track, torture and kill Iraq's gays

2009-09-13 Thread David Thorstad
Another inhuman by-product of the imperialist invasion: empowering Islamist thugs. David http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/13/iraq-gays-murdered-militias YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions

[Marxism] Protest gay marriage at HRC Twin Citiies dinner

2009-09-12 Thread David Thorstad
I do hope the liberal leftists on the list who support marriage, hate crimes laws, and gays in the imperialist military won't accuse these same-sexer antimarriage protesters of being right-wing, as a few have accused me of being for opposing those things (bizarrely labeled democratic demands).

[Marxism] Protest gay marriage at HRC Twin Cities dinner

2009-09-12 Thread David Thorstad
Thanks for this. I will spread the word. HRC and the gay bourgeois groups who are pushing for marriage, hate crimes laws, and joining the imperialist military machine seem to care only about glbt identity politics, that is, only issues that narrowly address the agenda of assimilation into

Re: [Marxism] The Deification of Matthew Shepard

2009-09-10 Thread David Thorstad
Les Schaffer wrote: David Thorstad becomes the first marxmailer to enter my kill file. this is pathetic. Les = Huh? What is pathetic is the kneejerk support for hate-crimes legislation, and this critique was cogent. Talk about a closed mind. David

[Marxism] SPIEGEL ONLINE - Scandalous Images from Kabul: Guards at US Embassy Organized Humiliating Sex Games

2009-09-04 Thread David Thorstad
The outrage many have expressed over this latest all-American wartime sex scandal is more amusing than outrageous, insofar as it demonstrates the following: 1. Universal homoerotic impulses can emerge in twisted (or, depending on one's point of view, creative) ways under wartime and

[Marxism] Biography and analysis of Guillermo Lora and Bolivian Trotskyism

2009-08-16 Thread David Thorstad
For those who read French, here is a detailed examination of Guillermo Lora and Bolivian Trotskyism. Lora died last May. David http://www.le-militant.org/carnet/lora.htm YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list