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

2009-09-07 Thread Louis Proyect
Leonardo Kosloff wrote: * when I say distributionist, I'm referring, daring as I am, to Marx's Critique of the Gotha Programme: Vulgar socialism (and from it in turn a section of the democrats) has taken over from the bourgeois economists the consideration and treatment of distribution

[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

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

2009-09-07 Thread Louis Proyect
Leonardo Kosloff wrote: But I’m starting to notice here, that Néstor and I perhaps started with the left foot, so given the circumstances which I’m starting to feel out, and as I take it, that he is man of struggle, I’ll try to keep the quotes to a minimum, or just plagiarize them. Take a

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

2009-09-07 Thread Nestor Gorojovsky
Yes, perhaps we started on the wrong foot. I have never suggested that the transitional period should be capitalist just because it has to carry to end tasks that the bourgeoisie cannot take to their fulfillment. And, Leonardo, though I am no Peronist, not at all, I am still further from

[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

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

2009-09-06 Thread Louis Proyect
Néstor Gorojovsky wrote: The day you overcome your liberal-progressive worship of those national movements that, in fact, seek to destroy larger national movements that tend to supersede imperialist domination, that day, you will begin to understand something in this terrain. In the

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

2009-09-05 Thread Néstor Gorojovsky
2009/9/5 Lüko Willms lueko.wil...@t-online.de: S. Artesian (sartes...@earthlink.net) wrote on 2009-09-04 at 10:59:55 in about Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China's high speed rail plans,: And what is that issue?  Let's review, according to LW and Nestor,

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

2009-09-05 Thread Néstor Gorojovsky
No, that was NOT my answer. I did not say that imperialism makes it a class question. I say that the national question is always a class question. Which, of course, you will disagree with. In deeper or shallower conversation. What can I do. At least there are a couple of people who disagree

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

2009-09-05 Thread S. Artesian
NG wrote: Really, S. Artesian, neither did I suggest this that you think I suggested Really Nestor, what I stated is based on your statements and LW's. LW said explicitly that both the proletariat and the bourgeoisie were being made stronger in China. The Chinese nation is being made

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

2009-09-05 Thread S. Artesian
Here's what you wrote: A national issue is, by definition, a class issue. The national question is a class question. Imperialism 101, dear Artesian. _ Seems clear to me that since the first 2 lessons are based on your introductory knowledge of imperialism, that imperialism is the

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

2009-09-05 Thread Néstor Gorojovsky
I don{t know who is Olga Korbut. If the intention is derogative, que te recontra por las dudas. And yes, imperialism is the determinant factor, as you put it. 2009/9/5 S. Artesian sartes...@earthlink.net: Here's what you wrote: A national issue is, by definition, a class issue. The national

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

2009-09-05 Thread Shane Mage
On Sep 5, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Néstor Gorojovsky wrote: ...I say that the national question is always a class question... At least there are...people who..agree with me... Marx...among others! As illustrated by Marx's view of the national question among that ethnic garbage, the southern

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

2009-09-05 Thread S. Artesian
Nestor, You felt you were informed enough to agree with LW that China is using its export earnings to provide the stimulus to its economy when there is no evidence that export earnings have been so directed You felt you were informed enough to state that the whole thing [by which I think you

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

2009-09-05 Thread Néstor Gorojovsky
Marx´s Eurocentric mistakes only show him as a man of his times. He was no God, he was an European of the 29th Century. The best of all them, but one of them. Marx´s understanding of the national question, if you are interested in learning from it, can be read in Bloom´s A world of nations, among

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

2009-09-05 Thread Shane Mage
On Sep 5, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Néstor Gorojovsky wrote: We Marxists, by the way, only support national movements that forward the march towards socialism. Not every such movement does it. So. All hail whatever Marxist Pope has decreed infallibly to his elect exactly which proletarian nations

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

2009-09-04 Thread Néstor Gorojovsky
A national issue is, by definition, a class issue. The national question is a class question. Imperialism 101, dear Artesian. Of course there are lots of class analyses to be made on the national question, and related issues. The first and foremost being what bloc of classes will succesfully

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

2009-09-04 Thread Néstor Gorojovsky
Sorry, I was thinking in Argentinean parliamentary terms. Voting with the feet, here, means leaving the Hemicycle so that the numbers fall below the minimum required to vote a law. Voting with the ass means remaining at one´s seat even though one does not favor a law, but at least provides the

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

2009-09-04 Thread Lüko Willms
S. Artesian (sartes...@earthlink.net) wrote on 2009-09-04 at 10:59:55 in about Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China's high speed rail plans,: And what is that issue? Let's review, according to LW and Nestor, the CCP is not bowing down to capitalism, it

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

2009-09-04 Thread Lüko Willms
Leonardo Kosloff (holmof...@hotmail.com) wrote on 2009-09-04 at 13:14:26 in about [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China's high speed rail plans, : @Nestor: Well, then, what makes you think that the Chinese bureaucracy won't betray the interests of workers,

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

2009-09-03 Thread Nestor Gorojovsky
Lüko Willms escribió: Sitting e.g. in the parliament of Argentina, one would be confronted with such questions: should the high-speed line from Buenos Aires to Rosario and Cordoba be built? Should Argentina import used locomotives and wagons from Spain? Should the country enhance the