Re: [Marxism] China investing heavily in infrastructure: Railway

2009-09-01 Thread Lüko Willms
S. Artesian (sartes...@earthlink.net) wrote on 2009-08-31 at 15:24:56 in about Re: [Marxism] China investing heavily in infrastructure: Railway: I didn't provide any aggregates, I used Lukos. which are not mine, but the statistics of the UIC, provided by the railway companies. And

Re: [Marxism] Long posts not allowed??

2009-09-01 Thread Lüko Willms
Les Schaffer (schaf...@optonline.net) wrote on 2009-08-31 at 16:38:28 in about Re: [Marxism] Long posts not allowed??: but i have my own opinion on this. and that is, in my opinion, the list has become way too much a news-forwarding list and much less so an interesting list for

Re: [Marxism] China investing heavily in infrastructure: Railway

2009-09-01 Thread Lüko Willms
S. Artesian (sartes...@earthlink.net) wrote on 2009-08-31 at 21:33:34 in about Re: [Marxism] China investing heavily in infrastructure: Railway: Does it include passenger operations? Because China's Rail Knowledge magazine reports 77,000 KM of total track in China, not 60,000 for 2006.

[Marxism] Now Out. HM 17.2

2009-09-01 Thread Sebastian Budgen
www.brill.nl/hima Historical Materialism Research in Critical Marxist Theory Volume 17 Issue 2 2009 CONTENTS Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize Lecture Rick Kuhn Economic Crisis, Henryk Grossman and the Responsibility of Socialists Articles David McNally From Financial Crisis to World

[Marxism] Wallerstein: The Firestorm Ahead

2009-09-01 Thread John E. Norem
The Firestorm Ahead There is a firestorm ahead in the Middle East for which neither the U.S. government nor the U.S. public is prepared. They seem scarcely aware how close it is on the horizon or how ferocious it will be. The U.S. government (and therefore almost inevitably the U.S. public)

Re: [Marxism] Long posts not allowed??

2009-09-01 Thread Les Schaffer
Lüko Willms wrote: Talk to a certain L.P. who is forwarding two-thirds of articles or naked URLs and curtailing discussions. so you are agreeing with me that we should have less forwarding and more discussion? except Lou is one of the people who forwards stuff and who actively engages

Re: [Marxism] Long posts not allowed??

2009-09-01 Thread Les Schaffer
Patrick Bond wrote: I'm voting, as usual, for full posting of articles - copyrights be damned. The reason is that I sit at the base of Africa (in Durban) and I think it's fair to say that this entire continent suffers a huge digital divide in getting quick and reliable access to the

Re: [Marxism] Long posts not allowed??

2009-09-01 Thread Les Schaffer
Les Schaffer wrote: 3. Mailman has a Topics feature reading the Topics description again myself, it seems the Mailman behavior would need to be modified so that people could subscribe to news and fwded content particularly while still receiving regular postings. i would not want to require

Re: [Marxism] China investing heavily in infrastructure: Railway

2009-09-01 Thread S. Artesian
Actually, Luko I have a subscription to the IRJ, and I've read all sorts of rah-rah give me a big C articles about China's development. And I read your so-called contributions, responding in detail to the uncritical glowing reports of growth you provide. As for hiding the information about

[Marxism] Apropos of the Miracle of Railway Expansion in China

2009-09-01 Thread S. Artesian
Sorry for the long cut of the article, but I wanted to be fair and include the partially positive passenger service results, with the negative freight service results.

[Marxism] Lord of the flies environment at U.S. embassy in Kabul

2009-09-01 Thread Pat Costello
Our Embassy in Afghanistan Is Guarded by Sexually Confused Frat Boys By John Cook, Wonder what it's like to guard State Department facilities in Kabul? In photos first published by Gawker, security contractors get their kicks peeing on one another, simulating anal sex, doing

Re: [Marxism] China investing heavily in infrastructure: Railway

2009-09-01 Thread Lüko Willms
S. Artesian (sartes...@earthlink.net) wrote on 2009-09-01 at 11:43:26 in about Re: [Marxism] China investing heavily in infrastructure: Railway: Miles of roadway excludes yard tracks and sidings, and does not reflect the fact that a mile of road may include two, three, or more parallel

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

2009-09-01 Thread Lüko Willms
S. Artesian (sartes...@earthlink.net) wrote on 2009-09-01 at 17:16:09 in about Re: [Marxism] China's high speed rail plans: So, no the whole thing is not making use or bowing down, the whole thing is rather what class is being strengthened by the path, the policy, the economic programs

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,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Japan opposition takes on economy after landslide

2009-09-01 Thread c b
Thanks Charles. I kinda thought u would clarify this thusly On 9/1/09, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: The thing to remember is this: the NEW RULING party is simply a set of factions that emerged from the OLD RULING party over 10 years ago. They ran as opposition on MORE FREE MARKETS,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Notes on the Japanese Elections of 2009

2009-09-01 Thread c b
Yoshie Furuhashi Notes on the Japanese Elections of 2009 Decades of increasing poverty, inequality, and insecurity, which created a powerful backlash against the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito, finally put an end to Japan's de facto one-party state. But the