[Marxism] What's new at Links: Rachel Corrie, Fatima Meer, China, Afghanistan, Indonesia, S. Africa, Sri Lanka, Canada, France, Thailand, Israel's apartheid, capitalist collapse?

2010-03-22 Thread glparramatta
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What's new at Links: Rachel Corrie, Fatima Meer, China, Afghanistan, Indonesia, S.

[Marxism] Tea Party shout racist and homophobic abuse at Congresspeople

2010-03-22 Thread Stuart Munckton
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Black congressmen run gauntlet of racist slurs March 22, 2010

[Marxism] Chris Hedges on health care reform

2010-03-22 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Health Care Hindenburg Has Landed

[Marxism] Iranian revolutionaries analyze the conjunture

2010-03-22 Thread Louis Proyect
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Re: [Marxism] [microsound] Why Invade Afghanistan?

2010-03-22 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Admittedly my circles may be narrow, but I don't actually know ANYBODY who

Re: [Marxism] To Socialism! How?

2010-03-22 Thread Gavin Walker
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Once again the CPUSA demonstrates its organizational bankruptcy by constantly

[Marxism] Union and party

2010-03-22 Thread Dan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There must be no separation between workers' union and political party. That was

Re: [Marxism] Union and party

2010-03-22 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Is that you speaking, Dan... or the wine? If separation is the cause of failure,

[Marxism] Venezuela: New moves for workers' control, people's power

2010-03-22 Thread Stuart Munckton
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.greenleft.org.au/2010/831/42766

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Class antagonism as class struggle: the dialectic

2010-03-22 Thread CeJ
Oh boy if there is one thing I hate it's being forced to look at exegesis in a Marxist tradition. If you want to construct a glossary of terms that is accessible, I suggest, among other things: 1. Keep it as short as possible (each entry). 2. Look at concepts and uses of the terms prior to Marx,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Class antagonism as class struggle: the dialectic

2010-03-22 Thread CeJ
I wrote: 3. Look at concepts and uses of the term derived from Marxist traditions but not considered 'Marxist' I should add that I don't mean the traditions I list are derived from Marx but rather they import terms and concepts from Marx and Marxism. Influence is a lot more than the importation

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Class antagonism as class struggle: the dialectic

2010-03-22 Thread CeJ
All of which, I should add, is not to deny the distinctiveness of Italian autonism and Negri's attempts to give an intellectual voice to it. Zizek's observation about how fascism displaces class antagonism (at least temporarily) is NOT ORIGINAL, by the way. This first quote is Zizek writing for a

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Class antagonism as class struggle: the dialectic

2010-03-22 Thread CeJ
I was looking at this new introduction to a re-publication of the Guattari Negri work (pre-Empire, pre-Hardt), Communists Like Us. It's hard to get primary sources for Guattari in English on the internet. When he exists, it is as 'Deleuze-Guattari'. I doubt if most who know of Negri realize how

[Marxism-Thaxis] HISTORY MADE: HEALTH-CARE REFORM BILL PASSED BY CONGRESS

2010-03-22 Thread c b
HISTORY MADE: HEALTH-CARE REFORM BILL PASSED BY CONGRESS By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet Once Rep. Bart Stupak announced he would vote for the Senate version of the health-care reform bill that came before the House, Democrats had their votes.

[Marxism-Thaxis] To Socialism! How?

2010-03-22 Thread c b
To Socialism! How? By Daniel Rubin How do we go from where we are to socialism? Not an easy question and there is more than one contradictory approach on the left and even in and around our Party. There is much in Marxist theory and methodology to help give us a general approach, while the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] To Socialism! How?

2010-03-22 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 3/22/2010 8:13:42 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, _cb31...@gmail.com_ (mailto:cb31...@gmail.com) writes: Strategy deals with the qualitative turns in the balance of forces that it is necessary to seek and the class and social forces and political trends and social movements

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] To Socialism! How?

2010-03-22 Thread Ralph Dumain
I'll offer a few suggestions nevertheless: ABOLITION: wage slavery is a metaphor. Do you really want to include this under this heading? AMERICAN REVOLUTION; Why do you say that the conclusion of the Vietnam War is the end of the epoch of national liberation? POPULISM: Some more relevant