Re: [Marxism] Unionization rate drops to 6.9% in private sector

2011-01-23 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mark L. wrote: We're dealing with something very, very different where

Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: The imperialist threat - PSUV Red Book

2011-01-22 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The day I call a government which makes a priority of paying the Paris club

Re: [Marxism] Apologies to the OPE-L list

2011-01-06 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In a post on November 1st last year, in one of my typical obnoxious ramblings, I

[Marxism] Knowing capital today, Using Capital critically

2010-12-31 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I’m (very slowly) translating a book (‘Knowing capital today, Using Capital

[Marxism] The oppressed have no idea, Argentina

2010-12-09 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yesterday both the Federal and Metropolitan police (the first one dependent on the

[Marxism] So Much for Left Wing “Solidarity” in South America

2010-12-06 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Vamos Kosloff todavía! :)

Re: [Marxism] Marxism Digest, Vol 86, Issue 15

2010-12-06 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm not related to Nikolas, I don't think...Kosloff, Kozlov, Koslov, etc. is

[Marxism] Now is not the time to be a marxist, on Kirchner

2010-11-16 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Just found this video (of April this year) of the Minister of Labor, Carlos

[Marxism] Kirchner and prospects in Argentina

2010-11-14 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I just translated this note by a friend (below). However, if you can read Spanish

[Marxism] CO2 rising – the science of global w arming

2010-11-14 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == You realize this makes the case for a social revolution in Argentina, Uruguay AND

[Marxism] CO2 rising - the science of global warming

2010-11-14 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I actually kind of agree with you there Carrol. The left tends to make take the

[Marxism] Good take-down of John Holloway's latest book

2010-11-13 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm actually in the process of translating an article from some friends who are

[Marxism] Good take-down of John Holloway's latest book

2010-11-13 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == @Carrol, By saying that the critique of political economy is a political work, I'm

[Marxism] Murder of PO Activists

2010-11-01 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Anthony, I appreciate your comment highly, as high as the sky. However, Les has

[Marxism] Now is not the time to be a marxist, on Kirchner

2010-10-31 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I recently participated in a thread, with friends whose names is not necessary to

[Marxism] (no subject)

2010-10-31 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis wrote: And I’m not saying this out of an ultra-leftist desire to

[Marxism] Now is not the time to be a marxist, on Kirchner

2010-10-31 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == And now the UOCRA hooligans, convoked by the secretary general of the CGT of Rio

[Marxism] Now is not the time to be a marxist, on Kirchner

2010-10-31 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == OK, last one for tonight, because it's just too good. Here's CFK wearing the hat

[Marxism] MRZine, Che Guevara and Iran

2010-10-30 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == And, of course, el Che would have supported Peronism. Except, he didn't.

[Marxism] MRZine, Che Guevara and Iran

2010-10-30 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What I think is more complex is your image of me as an ultra-leftist left

[Marxism] Argentine Trotskyist of the PO murdered by Peronists on Weds.

2010-10-26 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == If Louis wants to say that Petroni is a liar he will have to tell me what he’s

[Marxism] Mobilization for Mariano Ferreyra

2010-10-24 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here’s a video of the mobilization in Plaza de Mayo to repudiate the murder of

[Marxism] Argentine Trotskyist of the PO murdered by Peronists on Weds.

2010-10-24 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis wrote:“Just what the world has been waiting for. News about internecine

[Marxism] Left communist News from Argentina (was: I have turned Danny K into a news star)

2010-10-21 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Greg asks:Good article, from a French anarchist to a Argentine communist.

[Marxism] Analytical Biography Updated

2010-10-11 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Prof. Perelman, Thanks for your helpful comments on ground rent, hopefully I

[Marxism] Analytical Biography Updated

2010-10-11 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I should have clarified that I'm still quite ignorant about the whole process

Re: [Marxism] Marxism Digest, Vol 84, Issue 30

2010-10-11 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Michael Perelman wrote First of all, I don't think we use titles here. LK: My

[Marxism] Analytical Biography Updated

2010-10-11 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sorry, I bungled the subject header of my message as Marxism Digest

Re: [Marxism] [More] Interesting details on Ecuador

2010-10-06 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There was a certain degree of obnoxiousness in my last post, I’m not sure if I

[Marxism] Arg main unions central against the coup in Ecuador(Spanish)

2010-10-02 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == S.Artesian: But of course the point is that Marxists should act to oppose the

[Marxism] Marx on ground rent (was: Thanks)

2010-10-02 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == S.Artesian mentioned some interesting points on Marx’s treatment of rent. I can’t

[Marxism] The struggle of food workers in Argentina

2010-08-14 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == and the work of socialist parties on it.

[Marxism] The struggle of food workers in Argentina

2010-08-14 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis wrote: Wow. The revolution is nigh. That's not the point of the article

[Marxism] The fantasy of imports substitution industrialization

2010-08-12 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
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[Marxism] Out of whack (was: Abstract labor)

2010-07-18 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I agree with Hans’ objections to Angelus Novus characterization of abstract labor.

[Marxism] Out of whack (was: Abstract labor)

2010-07-18 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == ML wrote: Get a grip, Leonardo. As has often been pointed out, this is an email

[Marxism] Out of whack

2010-07-18 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Angelus Novus: I am glad that Hans and Charles take these issues seriously and

[Marxism] Lenin's Imperialism, was: Question on the Far Right

2010-05-16 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Speaking of electronics and the law of value, here is an article by Guido

[Marxism] International Competition and Foreign Debt, Argentina's case

2010-05-08 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here's a more readable version:

[Marxism] Sweet Dreams (wikileaks)

2010-04-28 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == US soldier in WikiLeaks massacre video: “I relive this every day” Iraq war veteran

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

2010-04-07 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == So, thinking about science and Marx’s work, (you know how it is when you’re

[Marxism] Immigration demo in D.C. this Sunday

2010-03-19 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks for the info.

[Marxism] Immigration demo in D.C. this Sunday

2010-03-18 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This Sunday, as some of you may already know of course, there will be a

[Marxism] Use Value

2010-03-16 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dan wrote: We are being told that the old capitalistic GDP is no good

[Marxism] Perry Anderson idiocy on China

2010-03-11 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don’t have much time to elaborate but I wanted to make a reference to Paresh

[Marxism] quiz

2010-03-09 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Who said this? -Karl Marx -Karl Heinrich Marx -Carlos Marx The

[Marxism] Argentine debt update

2010-03-04 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On another, lighter, note, the revolutionary Argentine government has now very

[Marxism] Trail of Dreams, was: Video of KKK Rally 2010 South Georgia

2010-03-02 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks for the video Greg. One of the motivations for the rally was the reception

[Marxism] 'West of the Tracks' documentary (was: Perry Anderson: Two Revolutions (Russia-China))

2010-02-28 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The documentary mentioned in Anderson's piece is in youtube

[Marxism] An under accumulation of capital?

2010-02-21 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis writes: Although I am not that interested in the kind of Talmudic

[Marxism] An under accumulation of capital?

2010-02-21 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == @Gary, can you tell me where these discussions are, or will I have to “water my

[Marxism] To have it all backwards (was: A democratic bourgeois nationalist answers to the Leftists)

2010-02-07 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, since you are asking so nicely Gorojovsky, I think this Jorge Giles really

[Marxism] To have it all backwards

2010-02-07 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There’s a video of a talk Norman Finkelstein is giving at some elite university,

[Marxism] The Iñigo Carreras

2010-02-07 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I see, let's forget about real evidence,...cuz who cares? as long as we can

[Marxism] To have it all backwards

2010-02-07 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Gorojovsky: “However, my only answer to this moralistic crap of a petty bourgeois

[Marxism] A policy against pelotudos (was: Industrial capacity)

2010-02-04 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Waistline wrote: Yet you have nothing to say about the working class movement

[Marxism] Obama is Asked: Why Haven't You Condemned Israel?

2010-01-28 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZVO_LmsV3Ifeature=player_embedded#

Re: [Marxism] Marxism Digest, Vol 75, Issue 62

2010-01-25 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Gorojovsky: “But they have never been gorilla leftists. Which is a point of honor

[Marxism] A reasonable Marxist position on the Arg Central Bank / Foreign Debt issue

2010-01-25 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Gorojovsky: “But they have never been gorilla leftists. Which is a point of honor

[Marxism] Argentina's debt as tragedy and farce

2010-01-24 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == a rough translation... The debt is not the problem By Juan Kornblihtt The

[Marxism] OK, you win Master Sch. / and a BTW

2010-01-17 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Nestor wrote:“I am, just like all of my comrades and as you have very well put,

[Marxism] A note to moderators (was: A vial of poison ++)

2010-01-17 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, yes, I know this was supposed to be over. But I had to note something just

[Marxism] Monopoly Capital versus Marxist economics

2010-01-01 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Andy Pollack wrote: “It's shockingly explicit rejection of Marxist economics, both

[Marxism] Chuck Grimes comments on Cockburn (from LBO-Talk)

2009-12-27 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Les, I was wondering if you've heard of Piers Corbyn and his group in

[Marxism] Daniel Guerin

2009-10-07 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
Anyone heard of an Anarchism vs. Marxism debate (or something along those lines) between Guerin and Mandel? I once saw this in a bibliography and tried to find it but couldn't, I'm not sure if it's only in French...

[Marxism] Rosa replies to SA, SM, and LK

2009-10-06 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
Rosa wrote: “What of this question, though? “Where does logic come from Rosa?” Don't you know? As far as we can tell, from that ruling-class theorist, Aristotle. But so what?” And Aristotle and the whole mode of thinking of Greek society, obviously, fell from the sky. So Rosa, the

[Marxism] Rosa L. replies to RL and LK

2009-10-05 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
Thanks for the heads up Jim, I started to write a response but it was getting kind of drawn out, so I’ll keep it to a single simple CLEAR question, and we’ll see if we can do more later, like I said, I’m not in the position to comment on this at any length and that’s why I refer to the

[Marxism] Rosa L. replies to RL and LK

2009-10-05 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
Shane Mage wrote: “ ...where does Rosa account for the social origins of formal logics, whatever kind, she makes such an unwarranted fuzz of? Did logic fall from the sky?... It is the most obvious of mistakes to ask for the social origins of valid scientific concepts, whose

[Marxism] Rosa L. replies to RL and LK

2009-10-05 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
S. Artesian wrote: But in the end, I think she knows actually very little about Marx, the development, method, and content of his work. No doubt, but not only that. This whole anal retentiveness with contradiction in the end, as I see it, leads to a direct inversion, hidden as it is in 'no

[Marxism] Rosa Lichtenstein versus JB on dialectical contradictions

2009-10-03 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
I don’t have much time to comment on this, but I just wanted to make a point. It’s understandable that after the asinine vulgarities of dialectical materialism, some people, like Rosa here, should feel aversion for anything dialectical. But for all intents and purposes, Rosa, the

[Marxism] Hmmm…yeah…about that national - re al life politics - front

2009-09-28 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
The workers of Kraft (largest food and beverage company headquartered in the United States and the second largest in the world… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraft_Foods)-Terrabusi, (something beginning with imp…imper…impes…it’ll come back to me) company which is supported by COPAL, owned by

[Marxism] Guardian video report on the Gaza massacre

2009-09-19 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLZgNy46aTQ This may have already been posted, apparently it was done around March. They show an interview to three kids who were taken hostage by the IDF to be used as 'human shields', alongside other niceties...

[Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China's high speed rail plans

2009-09-07 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
Louis Proyect wrote: My main disagreement with Nestor is his tendency to apply such examples to Iran, China or other countries with nominally anti-imperialist governments but at least he errs on the side of living reality rather than quote-mongering from Marx. Well, Louis, as always, I

[Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China's high speed rail plans

2009-09-07 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
True enough. The way I started was stupidly insensitive, careless, perhaps I’m rubbing the crap from other lists, environments, etc., perhaps Louis, putting it in nationalists terms now, or at least those of my barrio, Saavedra, this is an all too common, but bad, habit for us Argentines, or

[Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China'shigh speed rail plans

2009-09-05 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
Nestor: I agree with all that Lueko has answered you Re: what is all that that he ‘has answered’?, he asked me a question, if I have anything to add to the little detail that the Chinese bureaucracy personifies the interests of capital, I assume he then acknowledges that that’s in fact the

[Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China'shigh speed rail plans

2009-09-05 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAWQkY8Rlbg _ With Windows Live, you can organize, edit, and share your photos. http://www.windowslive.com/Desktop/PhotoGallery YOU MUST clip all

[Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina

2009-09-05 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
First, I’d like to apologize to everyone for the stupid video I sent. It’s a song: “who do you think you are?” by the spice girls, I was just trying to poke some little fun at the question Nestor asked me “who do you think you are?”, but I’ll promise I’ll be more serious from now on, I mean,

Re: [Marxism] China's high speed rail plans

2009-09-01 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
Ah, but Mage, you forget that in Néstor's dictionary it isn't social being, i.e. the social relation borne by the capital form, which determines consciousness, but the abstract consciousness (perdy, no other than that of the CCP bureaucracy) of commodity producers which determines the former,