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

2011-01-23 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Also, the embourgoisement idea doesn't preclude unionism. In many ways, it almost

Re: [Marxism] God !

2011-01-22 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Maybe it's just that I'd put this issue differently It seems to me that the

Re: [Marxism] The MEGA Finally Online!

2011-01-22 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks to New England for the very valuable link. ML

Re: [Marxism] God !

2011-01-22 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Religion--the fight against it, anyway--was much more important to me when I was

Re: [Marxism] Just a Nut Job

2011-01-19 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis, Yes, anyone who blames Palin's crosshairs is being dogmatic...which is a

Re: [Marxism] A government of national unity?

2011-01-18 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Greg wrote, To be sure, but the events in Tucson certainly have been used to

Re: [Marxism] A government of national unity?

2011-01-18 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, Marv, as Louis says, we'll see However, we're in very different

Re: [Marxism] A government of national unity?

2011-01-17 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect unrepentantmarx...@gmail.com wrote: f you read between the lines, you

Re: [Marxism] A government of national unity?

2011-01-17 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == And, for what it's worth, I don't think it's useful to connect the events in

Re: [Marxism] The Tucson witch-hunt

2011-01-15 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == More with the tedious microsurgery on Loughner's social network Let's take a

Re: [Marxism] The Tucson witch-hunt

2011-01-15 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Good. You see what I'm raising as an issue, our difference is on the quantitative

[Marxism] query

2011-01-15 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm getting considerable advice independently from various quarters that I should

Re: [Marxism] Loughner was a truther who hated George W. Bush

2011-01-15 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == To clarify for those not blessed with residency in the American heartland, not

Re: [Marxism] Loughner was a truther who hated George W. Bush

2011-01-15 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sorry, Greg. I don't see what's obviously materialist about blue-skying about the

Re: [Marxism] left

2011-01-14 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == ...or we could just use the term in the sense of where we'd take our seats in the

Re: [Marxism] Loughner's last close friend said that he ignored TV and talk radio

2011-01-13 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't know the extent to which I'd call them particularly tea party

Re: [Marxism] Loughner's last close friend said that he ignored TV and talk radio

2011-01-13 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == You do get the occasional soldier like that, but most are among the most thoughtful

Re: [Marxism] The right to bear arms,

2011-01-13 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There seems to be so much confusion about what the left is or isn't that it almost

Re: [Marxism] Loughner a textbook case paranoid schizophrenic

2011-01-12 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Is there really any kind of debate at all over whether this guy was nuts? If there

Re: [Marxism] Loughner's last close friend said that he ignored TV and talk radio

2011-01-12 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I, for one, have every appreciation for your expertise in these problems. I spent

Re: [Marxism] Loughner's last close friend said that he ignored TV and talk radio

2011-01-12 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't think anybody has actually suggested that Loughner was part of a secret tea

Re: [Marxism] Why Loughner shot Giffords

2011-01-11 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == James Holstun jameshols...@hotmail.com wrote: Agree with Lou. The reasons why

Re: [Marxism] Thoughts on Arizona

2011-01-10 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I think it's hard to take the issue of mental health out of the social context.

Re: [Marxism] Thoughts on Arizona

2011-01-10 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == By definition, the act's unique, but it should surprise nobody that a freelanced

Re: [Marxism] Thoughts on Arizona

2011-01-10 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, everything's going to be used an argument to get us to vote for Obama. Who

Re: [Marxism] Arizona congresswoman assassinated

2011-01-09 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, Jim. Some of the media reported her dead. That's not declaring her dead,

Re: [Marxism] Non-existent lawyer jobs

2011-01-09 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == As with academics, this is actually rather old news...though I am certain that

Re: [Marxism] Non-existent lawyer jobs

2011-01-09 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == With former officeholder's attacking coffee kiosks, the level of violence may well

Re: [Marxism] Arizona congresswoman assassinated

2011-01-08 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The media didn't declare her dead. These were rumors circulating after the

Re: [Marxism] 40-000-crabs-join-slew-of-animal-death-mysteries - is the revolution too late?

2011-01-06 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It's certainly too late for the crabs. Maybe they failed to build a revolutionary

Re: [Marxism] Public Sector Workers: The New Welfare Queens

2011-01-04 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ah, well. If people on the Marxism list wants to shoot teachers, I suppose nothing

Re: [Marxism] Chris Hedges: The Left has nowhere to go

2011-01-03 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Interesting observations. Of course Hedges and others who are relative latecomers

Re: [Marxism] Obama: Droppin' g's for the Unemployed

2011-01-03 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is simply the foundation of the Democratic Party. Nothing new to this with

Re: [Marxism] US Evangelical Fundamentalism

2011-01-01 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This isn't so easy a question as it seems, though my own Nothingarian

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] Once more on democratic centralism

2010-12-31 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == My musings over these things take me back a bit further. Many of these problems

Re: [Marxism] Academic Economists to Consider Ethics Code

2010-12-31 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Stanford no less. Rather like going to the nearest big bordello to get input into

Re: [Marxism] ¡Feliz año nuevo!

2010-12-31 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Happy New Year! Cincinnati sounds like wartime Beruit yet again! ML

Re: [Marxism] True Grit follow-up

2010-12-30 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mark me down as a fan of Deadwood as well...for all the reasons noted. The writing

Re: [Marxism] Reserve army of the Phds

2010-12-29 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This only became a news story when it began to hurt the graduate of the elite

Re: [Marxism] True Grit follow-up

2010-12-29 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, Louis. Fiction is literature, and neither of us had many conversations with

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

2010-12-28 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Realizing that I'm stepping into what looks to me a rather smudged set of

Re: [Marxism] True Grit and Texas Rangers

2010-12-27 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I said that Kirby-Smith was in Virginia, not necessarily in the ANV. He passed the

Re: [Marxism] Moustafa Bayoumi, The Race Is On: Muslims and Arabs in the American Imagination

2010-12-26 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == As a not unimportant aside, the author is entirely mistaken when he compares the

Re: [Marxism] True Grit

2010-12-26 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I would be surprised if some of the marshall's didn't wrack up those kinds of

Re: [Marxism] True Grit? Humbug....a response.

2010-12-25 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == For my part, I just loved it, but I'll restrict myself to just a few comments as

Re: [Marxism] True Grit? Humbug....a response.

2010-12-25 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The question of speech is interesting. What people often forget is that you can

Re: [Marxism] Have a happy and merry December 25

2010-12-24 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, but it was also the birthday of a radical Jewish carpenter who was rather

Re: [Marxism] Primitive accumulation in Mail

2010-12-22 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In response to Néstor's kind remarks on the value of the American Civil War as a

Re: [Marxism] Battleship Potemkin!

2010-12-22 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In case people haven't located the site, you can view this old classic at the Veoh

Re: [Marxism] blog post: The Obtuseness of the Left Establishment

2010-12-16 Thread Mark Lause
to a rally on about an hour's notice. On the other hand, Mark Lause has much better politics, but his name is only big enough to get maybe five people...if you count dogs and cats...and if free cookies are offered... Rattling the left-liberal tree to see if we can shake loose some of these people

Re: [Marxism] blog post: The Obtuseness of the Left Establishment

2010-12-16 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I think we're actually agreed on this. I don't think the people who put this

Re: [Marxism] H.K. Edgerton is one happy House Negro

2010-12-16 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The entire Jackson chapter of the NAACP passed a resolution supporting the efforts

Re: [Marxism] Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize?

2010-12-13 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't know that there's much point arguing about vocabulary, but I'm really not

Re: [Marxism] Hawaii's Legal Case Against the United States

2010-12-13 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, but this is pretty common knowledge, though, isn't it? ML

Re: [Marxism] Obama Isn't Spineless, He's Conservative

2010-12-12 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ralph Johansen mdriscol...@charter.net wrote: Only difference or main

Re: [Marxism] Obama Isn't Spineless, He's Conservative

2010-12-12 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Republican Congress next year won't be able to do anything unless the Obama

Re: [Marxism] Obama Isn't Spineless, He's Conservative

2010-12-12 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Regardless of what anyone says here, what offers no way out are Obama and the

Re: [Marxism] Obama Isn't Spineless, He's Conservative

2010-12-12 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It just makes my bladder go all ticky. ML

Re: [Marxism] Fletcher and Davidson reply

2010-12-12 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Davidson is a raving ass who periodically pukes massive amounts of Democratic vomit

Re: [Marxism] Obama Isn't Spineless, He's Conservative

2010-12-11 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == MARGARET WYLES kaliy...@wildblue.net wrote: I can't look into Obama's heart. I

Re: [Marxism] Nader is losing it

2010-12-11 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This doesn't surprise me, but anything that divides the unbroken ruling class front

Re: [Marxism] sign on letter for academics against the FBI witchhunt

2010-12-11 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I signed it, but neither the signature nor the comments have registered ML

Re: [Marxism] Review of Barnes book on Malcolm X

2010-12-10 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, who or what hasn't Jack Barnes misrepresented to suit his purposes? ML

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

2010-12-10 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Wait a bit, Carrol. At the rate things are going, the government's going to dredge

Re: [Marxism] A letter from a spurned lover

2010-12-09 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Looks to me as if Sister Sarah will be the next president. The media loves her so

Re: [Marxism] How big or important is the Wikileaks?

2010-12-07 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Like all these questions, the actual importance of Wikileaks is a matter of

Re: [Marxism] Wikileaks Wrap-up

2010-12-06 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Swiss bankers? Swiss bankers? The same people who launder money for everybody

[Marxism] Brooks book on Hegel's politics

2010-12-06 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == H-NET BOOK REVIEW Published by h-ger...@h-net.msu.edu (November, 2010) Thom

Re: [Marxism] in the spirit of wikileaks...

2010-12-04 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is an interesting site. I love the piece on Ron Paul's defense of Wikileaks.

Re: [Marxism] in the spirit of wikileaks...

2010-12-04 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Obviously. But it's certainly better to get the right answer for the wrong reason

Re: [Marxism] Attacks on Wikileaks

2010-12-03 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I seriously like the idea of a counteroffensive over this issue. ML

Re: [Marxism] Why Assange will be difficult to prosecute

2010-12-02 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-november-30-2010/the-informant-

Re: [Marxism] Why Assange will be difficult to prosecute

2010-12-02 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, for the media, it's all a matter of getting rid of the competition, isn't it?

Re: [Marxism] Kentucky governor rebuilds Noah's Ark (no kidding!)

2010-12-02 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks. Always good to have a reminder that our neighbors are governed by idiots.

Re: [Marxism] WikiLeaks Site Taken Down

2010-12-01 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I love the comments by would-be Democratic Vice President Joe Lieberman. Let's

Re: [Marxism] ASorry, Frank. I paid for them and I can see them if I want to.

2010-12-01 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jon Stewart did make a very good point of all this the other night. While

Re: [Marxism] Washington considers espionage charges against Assange

2010-11-30 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == They've not rounded up the people on this list yet, either. That doesn't mean

Re: [Marxism] Washington considers espionage charges against Assange

2010-11-30 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I see, people who haven't risked very much at all to say they're on the side of the

Re: [Marxism] The Horrible Swiss

2010-11-28 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == No, you can have stupid decisions come out of any arrangement. ML

[Marxism] Only 31 words

2010-11-27 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A complete idiot I went to high school with just forwarded me one of a series of

Re: [Marxism] The Irish bailout and the necessity for the United Socialist States of Europe

2010-11-24 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What a terribly antique slogan! Not that I don't like it. In fact, it makes me

Re: [Marxism] The Irish bailout and the necessity for the United Socialist States of Europe

2010-11-24 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Or even just A las barricadas! Aux barricades! Auf den Barrikaden! (I'll be

[Marxism] Fw: My July 10 interview in the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop at Chicago

2010-11-22 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The subject is my _Race and Radicalism in the Union Army_

Re: [Marxism] Sweden Issues Arrest Warrant for WikiLeaks' Assange

2010-11-20 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The presumption of innocence seems a reasonable starting point for any accuserd

Re: [Marxism] Sweden Issues Arrest Warrant for WikiLeaks' Assange

2010-11-20 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't know what power the left has to protect Assange in this country. Where's

Re: [Marxism] “This is absolutely a surrender for labor”

2010-11-20 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is the campaign strategy rather than the battle. We've been backing up and

[Marxism] From H-Labor: New Perspectives on Anarchism, Labour Syndicalism

2010-11-20 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == - Original Message - From: Seth Wigderson se...@maine.edu To:

Re: [Marxism] Sweden Issues Arrest Warrant for WikiLeaks' Assange

2010-11-18 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == At this point, it would be the easiest thing in the world for anyone to do that.

Re: [Marxism] UK's spare-the-rich austerity policies

2010-11-17 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Manuel couldn't be more right on this. Seconded. I suggest considering a loose

Re: [Marxism] Note on the Panthers

2010-11-13 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks. Given what I had this morning, it rather explains my mood. :-) ML

Re: [Marxism] If only....

2010-11-12 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Actually, this concern about the fate of treasures that belong to the entire human

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Greens on the ballot for 2012

2010-11-08 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Congratulations. It's a fairly sure thing that the Greens in Ohio are finished as

Re: [Marxism] role of the army

2010-11-08 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Just a comment on the teabaggers, the problems always been defining who is and

Re: [Marxism] Role of the Army

2010-11-07 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Peggy Dobbins pegdobb...@gmail.com wrote: How

Re: [Marxism] Role of the Army

2010-11-07 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I meant the specific plan of turning the army towards nonmilitary, socially useful

Re: [Marxism] Lincoln Elected 150 Years Ago This Day

2010-11-06 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The other day, I was off on an election year rant about the present administration

Re: [Marxism] Lincoln Elected 150 Years Ago This Day

2010-11-06 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Lincoln was the only chief executive the U.S. ever had who presided over a serious

Re: [Marxism] Gene Debs

2010-11-06 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The social democrats of one stripe or another used to hold regular events at the

Re: [Marxism] Lincoln Elected 150 Years Ago This Day

2010-11-06 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sorry. Saying you'd vote for Lincoln and being in a Lincoln cult aren't the same

Re: [Marxism] Gene Debs

2010-11-06 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There are a number of images likely associated with that poster, though I've not

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