Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
No where is this insinuated. I can't understand how anyone could take that
reading from his article.
To repeat myself, WBM is a *very* slippery character. His prose is open
to multiple interpretations, no doubt a function of his exposure to too
many ALA conferences.
The way to think of this is to go back before the Eve and ask how
those lines disappeared. Every time a new human is created, it'll have
the mitochondrial DNA of its mother's mother and that of its father's
mother isn't passed on. Every role of the dice loses 50%. So, over
time, the probability
NY Times, September 7, 2009
South Africa’s Poor Renew a Tradition of Protest
By BARRY BEARAK
SIYATHEMBA, South Africa — This country’s rituals of protest most often
call for the burning of tires, the barricading of streets and the
throwing of rocks. So when the municipal mayor here went to
Shane wrote:
And the contradiction is crucial, because the hypothesis of
constancy for the rate of change in mitochondrial DNA depends on the
assumption of constancy in the environmental conditions determining
that rate of change, and such gradualism would guarantee the survival
of more than
On 9/6/09, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote:
NY Times, September 6, 2009
Back to Business
Wall Street Pursues Profit in Bundles of Life Insurance
By JENNY ANDERSON
This takes an old (and disgusting) but profitable scam, and ruins it
to generate bubble. Industry has made money by taking out
This is probably a very valid point. There should no question that the
immigrant rights movements
and organizing among other marginalized groups should be a primary focus for
Marxists right now.
I despise when people dismiss the White working class as hopelessly
reactionary, but there is no
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No where is this insinuated. I can't understand how anyone could take that
reading from his article.
From his NLR piece entitled 'Against Diversity':
“In 1947 –seven years before Brown v. Board of Education, sixteen years
before The Feminine Mystique –the top fifth of American wage-earners
I honestly don't think that our energies should be put toward electoral
efforts by third parties.
But there is no doubt that in the long-term a party of the working class
is an absolutely necessity.
Now I'm largely paraphrasing Larhs Lih and Mike Macnair, but such a party
would need to be both a
Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
Maybe it's the naivety of youth, but I don't see why such an organization
couldn't openly run candidates in Democratic primaries on an openly
Marxist, oppositional platform for the sake of not a fantasy to transform
or push the Democrats left, but to reach out to
The same could be said of the Greens, except that primary campaign would
be irrelevant.
But what is the Democratic Party? Certainly it's largely neoliberal,
bourgeois to
say the least-- perhaps the world's second most enthusiastic major
capitalist party.
But is there not open primaries? Can a
Shane,
You're just flat out wrong. The mutation that produces sickle cell was not
caused by the environmental pressure of malaria in Africa, despite the fact
that the mutation yields some resistance to the infection.
The mutation once produced was Selected For and survived due to sexual
Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
The same could be said of the Greens, except that primary campaign would
be irrelevant.
The Greens are dead, mostly the result of tail-ending the Democrats.
But what is the Democratic Party? Certainly it's largely neoliberal,
bourgeois to
say the least-- perhaps
I'm not sure that what Shane's responding to as what I wrote is
actually what I wrote. I don't, for example, understand how any of
this has to do with extinction or with speciation.
The mitochondrial DNA has nothing to do with the DNA in the cell's
nucleus that passes on genetic information.
In
What about the ERP? Wikipedia has an article on them that I think includes
links to YouTube stuff on them in Spanish. they were at the heart of a heated
faction fight within the trotskyist movement back in the 70s even though had
summarily split from that at the time. While they were
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
ML wrote:
We ARE all her descendants. But we are also descendants of all her
female contemporaries who were making viable contributions to the gene
pool.
That's essentially a dead certainty.
ML
That is exactly correct. There is a matrilineal line of descent that takes
To activists in the US it should be painfully obvious to them that there is
no hope for coalition building. It is either the Democrats or something
outside of power. I don't understand all the talk about die Linke etc. It is
kind of a waste of time. There will never be a coalition govenment
Good for you, then. My mistake on 2008.
The $64,000 question, of course, is how to go about building the
organization you're advocating.
ML
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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
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
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
September 7, 2009
Tough times likely fuel bank heists
Robberies down this year, but suburbs hit with rash of them
BY CHRISTINA HALL
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
It's been a bad couple of weeks for banks in metro Detroit, authorities say.
And the recent series of holdups, largely at suburban
Yes, they openly and contemptuously repudiated trotskyism in favor of their
version of Guevaraism The view you espouse I think was that of Nahuel Moreno
and his faction of the PRT, a distinction the Wiki article on the PRT missed.
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 16:14:47 -0300
From: nmg...@gmail.com
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
The Most Promising Push Yet for a Maximum Wage
August 23rd, 2009
Across the pond, in the UK, the idea of capping income is suddenly starting to
make a respectable splash.
By Sam Pizzigati
The Great Depression gave us the minimum wage. Might we now see a “maximum
wage,” thanks to the Great
I appreciate Nestor's take on the ERP. First time I read anything he
wrote on this. Santucho...any SWPers here remember if he was the guy who
showed up at the SWP convention in 1973? At least he was NY I think.
Very 'hush hush' and all that.
I agree about the ERP's Trotskyism. It was episodic
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Check your listings. Very good.
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THE DETECTIVE: Gwen Wright
THE PLACE: Scottsboro, Alabama
By *Harry Targ*
On September 4, 1949, an angry crowd surrounded the 20,000 friends of
Paul Robeson who had come to hear him in an open-air concert at
Peekskill, New York. After the event right-wing, anti-communist inspired
mobs attacked supporters who were leaving the event. These attacks
No, my view is not exactly that of Moreno. However, maybe you refer to
the dispute between the PRT and PST of those times on electoral tactics,
etc.
Tom Cod escribió:
Yes, they openly and contemptuously repudiated trotskyism in favor of their
version of Guevaraism The view you espouse I
Posted: Sept. 7, 2009
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