Re: [Marxism] Marx and Dialectics

2009-10-07 Thread S. Artesian
I agree and enjoy much of what you say, Daniel-- but not all, not the part where you say Lenin is anti-marxist in the respect that the state should deny the working class any say in the managing its own affairs. First because I don't believe you can find Lenin saying that, or arguing that, and

Re: [Marxism] Daniel Guerin

2009-10-07 Thread Shane Mage
On Oct 7, 2009, at 5:22 PM, Greg McDonald wrote: I had read Guerin's fine book on anarchism many years ago, but had not read Fascism and Big Business until Shane mentioned it a few months ago on this list. Still working my way through it, but I must say it sure is an excellent book. Could

Re: [Marxism] Daniel Guerin

2009-10-07 Thread Louis Proyect
There is a translation of Bourgeois et Bras Nus: La Lutte des Classes sous la Première République into English - however, I think it's an abridged version. It's quite a few years since I read it. It was published by Pluto Press in 1977. The cheapest copy I've found on the Abebooks website

Re: [Marxism] when will the Palestinian people deal with the traitors?

2009-10-07 Thread Néstor Gorojovsky
Certainly the Israeli and USAmerican peoples deal with theirs 2009/10/7 Dennis Brasky dmozart1...@gmail.com: http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/oh-people-of-palestineif-not-bulletspray-tellwhere-are-your-shoes/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/05/fatah-hamas-torture-trial

Re: [Marxism] when will the Palestinian people deal with the traitors?

2009-10-07 Thread Dennis Brasky
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Néstor Gorojovsky nmg...@gmail.com wrote: Certainly the Israeli and USAmerican peoples deal with theirs does anyone know how to translate putz into espanol;? YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a

Re: [Marxism] Daniel Guerin

2009-10-07 Thread Néstor Gorojovsky
2009/10/7 Shane Mage shm...@pipeline.com: On Oct 7, 2009, at 5:22 PM, Greg McDonald wrote: I had read Guerin's fine book on anarchism many years ago, but had not read Fascism and Big Business until Shane mentioned it a few months ago on this list. Still working my way through it, but I must

Re: [Marxism] when will the Palestinian people deal with the traitors?

2009-10-07 Thread Néstor Gorojovsky
No need, Dennis. I know Yiddish, and I understand what you mean. BTW, in Spanish it is spelt potz. And the translation is pelotudo. Now, this for you. Up your ass. Sorry, Mr. Moderator, won´t do it again. 2009/10/7 Dennis Brasky dmozart1...@gmail.com: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Néstor

[Marxism] A mistake Re: when will the Palestinian people deal with the traitors?

2009-10-07 Thread Néstor Gorojovsky
Brotherly exchange of insult aside, now I realize that my irksome mail lacked an essential word. I had wanted to write Certainly BEFORE the Israeli and USAmerican peoples deal with theirs, which implies some positive opinion on future events, and not Certainly the Israeli and USAmerican peoples

Re: [Marxism] A mistake Re: when will the Palestinian people deal with the traitors?

2009-10-07 Thread Juan Fajardo
Néstor Gorojovsky wrote: Ah, and yet another issue with Brasky´s deep linguistics: we in Argentina don´t call español that thing which you USAmericans, quite as idyosincratically as you speak of Hispanos or Hispanic, call Spanish, simply because there are other languages in Spain; we say

Re: [Marxism] Marx and Dialectics

2009-10-07 Thread johnaimani
Totally agree. Especially with the last on Marx' anarcho-communism vis the state. There is a fundamental contradiction of capitalism, And this fundamental manifests itself in many different manners: the growth of organic compositin and the consequent fall in the rate of prfit; the accompanying

Re: [Marxism] crime and history

2009-10-07 Thread sobuadhaigh
David wrote: That he (Mao) started off in the Kuomintang, rose up the ranks, then switched to the CCP when he could go up no further, Have you read anyting on the history of the Chinese revolution (or the history of China for that matter) that was not a polemic? If so I would like to know

[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...

Re: [Marxism] crime and history

2009-10-07 Thread Barry Brooks
Have you read anyting on the history of the Chinese revolution (or the history of China for that matter) that was not a polemic? I suppose the Red Star Over China, by Edgar Snow would fit that category, although it was removed from most libraries. I got a used copy stamped removed from ...

[Marxism] Hardt/Negri's Commonwealth as reviewed in WSJ

2009-10-07 Thread John E. Norem
Astonishingly, given the ruin associated with his name, Karl Marx is back in fashion. The global economic downturn has spurred sales of Das Kapital to an all-time high; Michael Moore with his latest movie rivals the Original Communist in denouncing the evils of capitalism; and for the past

[Marxism] Rare Earths, Common Corruption

2009-10-07 Thread michael perelman
An earlier note discussed the question about the possible impending scarcity of rare earth minerals. http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/a-different-environmental-threat-peak-rare-minerals-china-and-green-technology/ Shortly thereafter, the esteemed representative, Jerry Lewis (I