Re: [Marxism] Trotsky lives -- Paul Le Blanc reviewsRobertService's biography.

2010-01-02 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Not trying to be a pit bulll, so since you apparently have a short-term memory

Re: [Marxism] Another Happy Year To You !

2009-12-31 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Are you sure you wanted to post this to the list? - Original Message -

Re: [Marxism] [1211] Re: Another Happy Year To You !

2009-12-31 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I have no intention of sending you anywhere Lara, just thought you might have

Re: [Marxism] US Farming [was cowflop]

2009-12-31 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == State, debt, application of machinery- why that's the history of US capitalism,

Re: [Marxism] Was this about spending? [was: WSWS: Socialism and thedefense of public education

2009-12-31 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == My arguments do not bear the slightest resemblance to what Joaquin says they do.

Re: [Marxism] Manure

2009-12-30 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == True, and a Marxist analysis would point out how the individual small farmer would

Re: [Marxism] Manure

2009-12-29 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Marx was speaking with historical specificity-- of small, individual, peasant

Re: [Marxism] Manure

2009-12-29 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == No, peasant is not simply a euro word for farmer-- different historical eras,

Re: [Marxism] Manure

2009-12-29 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == No, it's just that it is obvious what Marx had in mind from the historical era in

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] Manure

2009-12-29 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == First, agriculture requires a certain level of social, not technical, development

Re: [Marxism] The Danger of Overcapacity

2009-12-28 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Overproduction is always the overproduction of capital... at least so said Marx in

Re: [Marxism] WSWS: Socialism and the defense of public education

2009-12-27 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == So... are we supposed to be against public education? W aren't against secular,

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Dismiss the liberal Dogan from MarxMail list

2009-12-27 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dogan, A little bit more concrete understanding of the US would serve you well in

Re: [Marxism] WSWS: Socialism and the defense of public education

2009-12-27 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == And I can telly without any question, the best thing I did for my daughters [the

Re: [Marxism] Productivity and real income

2009-12-26 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Productivity is anything but a bogus measure from Marx's point of view. His

Re: [Marxism] Communist Party backs Senate health care reform bill

2009-12-26 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here's all we need to know about the objective position of the CPUSA: Quote from

Re: [Marxism] Communist Party backs Senate health care reform bill

2009-12-26 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Right, daily politics are different than strategic thinking. Sure they are. Sure

Re: [Marxism] The CP is Still Ga-Ga

2009-12-25 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Nothing could interest me less than becoming philosophical. Marx is no

Re: [Marxism] Productivity and real income

2009-12-25 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What scarcity of resources? And this: Someday after chaos and scarcity reduce

[Marxism] Not a Very Good Durable Goods Report

2009-12-24 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == New Orders New orders for manufactured durable goods in November increased $0.3

[Marxism] First Berlusconi, Now the Pope

2009-12-24 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Pope knocked down by woman at Christmas Mass ARIEL DAVID From Associated Press

Re: [Marxism] Mini, Maxi, and Transitional

2009-12-22 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks. Good questions. Let me think on this while I make the pasta. Later.

Re: [Marxism] Mini, Maxi, and Transitional

2009-12-22 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I think Mark nails it properly when he focuses on the issue of power-- the

Re: [Marxism] The CP is still ga-ga

2009-12-21 Thread S. Artesian
. == There were some five replies to my last posts. Let me reply to them collectively by replying to S. Artisan. My replies are in red below: 2009/12/19 S. Artesian sartes...@earthlink.net Talk about superficial analysis this by Dogan

Re: [Marxism] Leninism: Its not what you think

2009-12-21 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sobuadhaigh provides an interpretation of history that glosses over the single

Re: [Marxism] They certainly keep good records, part II

2009-12-21 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I had my fingerprints chemically altered years ago. - Original Message -

Re: [Marxism] Leninism: Its not what you think

2009-12-21 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == How could I ever forget-- especially when the guy who doesn't know what the fuck

Re: [Marxism] Leninism: Its not what you think

2009-12-21 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In answer to Waistline's question. There are several reform movements I can think

Re: [Marxism] Leninism: Its not what you think

2009-12-21 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == 1. Perhaps I should have stated that the inquiry was not limited to the summation

Re: [Marxism] Leninism: Its not what you think

2009-12-21 Thread S. Artesian
collaboration. Made another mistake earlier-- I was thinking not of John L. Lewis and the UMWA, but rather his predecessor Frank Haynes and his tenure of the UMWA. - Original Message - From: S. Artesian sartes...@earthlink.net Send list

Re: [Marxism] Nepal: Maoists seize Kathmandu, announce parallel government

2009-12-20 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I wonder if this qualifies as ultra-left adventurism? Are there actual class

Re: [Marxism] FROP again

2009-12-18 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks for the warning. I'll keep it mind. Let me return the favor, at least in

Re: [Marxism] The CP is still ga-ga

2009-12-18 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Talk about superficial analysis this by Dogan takes some kind of cake: If the

Re: [Marxism] The CPUSA is still ga-ga

2009-12-18 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == That's pretty clever, good use of exaggeration to make your point. Just in case

Re: [Marxism] Leninism: It's not what you think

2009-12-17 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Now that's the Joaquin we know and love. Welcome back! - Original Message

Re: [Marxism] FROP again (about use-value)

2009-12-17 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == 1. Part of your argument is not an argument-- I stated earlier that we need to

Re: [Marxism] FROP again (about use-value)

2009-12-17 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Like I said, you are only repeating yourself. I know what happened to the

Re: [Marxism] Capital Class

2009-12-17 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, let me talk to Loren and see if he can get something set-up. I'll forward

Re: [Marxism] Fw: Dr. Kevorkian

2009-12-16 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I think I provided a link to a study that demonstrated the areas of actual

Re: [Marxism] The CPUSA is still ga-ga

2009-12-16 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == OK, what's that supposed to indicate? A critical Marxist, class analysis of the

Re: [Marxism] Fw: Dr. Kevorkian

2009-12-16 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I forgot to add perhaps the most important point: The system in use in the

Re: [Marxism] The CPUSA is still ga-ga

2009-12-16 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Tom, If you read the original reply to the posting of the excerpt by Sam Webb, I

[Marxism] Comparative Advantage

2009-12-16 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From the US BLS website: Real average hourly earnings fell 0.5 percent from

Re: [Marxism] Fw: Dr. Kevorkian

2009-12-15 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == After discussions with my personal image manager, Dr. Flip N. Spin, (electronic

Re: [Marxism] Fw: Dr. Kevorkian

2009-12-15 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well that's helpful-- you say it's so, so it must be so. Got it. The infinitely

Re: [Marxism] The CPUSA is still ga-ga

2009-12-15 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Are you kidding me? Do you think that what you posted by Sam Webb betrays even the

[Marxism] Double Dips

2009-12-14 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Euro area and EU27 employment down by 0.5%

Re: [Marxism] What if this time the Sun does not rise?

2009-12-14 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, not to rain on anybody's parade and discount the power of the anti-war

Re: [Marxism] Fw: Dr. Kevorkian

2009-12-14 Thread S. Artesian
: [Marxism] Fw: Dr. Kevorkian == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == At 09:28 14/12/09 -0500, S. Artesian wrote: Noble

Re: [Marxism] Fw: Dr. Kevorkian

2009-12-13 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == 1). It, the original comment, was meant humorously, since nothing Dr. Kevorkian

Re: [Marxism] Fw: Dr. Kevorkian

2009-12-13 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I've got over-the-horizon radar when it comes to detecting libertarians. Hey, if

Re: [Marxism] FROP again

2009-12-11 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Non-capitalist societies, organized around different forms of private property

Re: [Marxism] FROP again

2009-12-10 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A little parsing music again, Maestro. - Original Message - From:

Re: [Marxism] Paul Krugman: Taxing the Speculators ( - aka'TobinTax')

2009-12-10 Thread S. Artesian
lux nick From: S. Artesian sartes...@earthlink.net Well, you didn't answer any of my previous questions, but that's OK, I've got plenty more. You are advocating that the government actively take positions in the market with these tax generated funds, something the US government has

Re: [Marxism] FROP again

2009-12-10 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Of course there was the possibility of the emancipation of labor in Russia, once

Re: [Marxism] FROP again

2009-12-09 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Can you summarize the issues as you present them in the book? I think we need to

Re: [Marxism] Global Warming again

2009-12-08 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Plant growth? Full disclosure-- I've never studied this. However, if we accept

Re: [Marxism] FROP again

2009-12-06 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == First take: Wow. This why I love fighting with comrade Darryl. He'll pull

Re: [Marxism] Afghanistan

2009-12-06 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Laughable? Here's what's laughable: You have yet to provided a source for your

Re: [Marxism] Afghanistan

2009-12-05 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Perhaps? Perhaps? Let's see. The US funds this nightmare, through the Saudis

Re: [Marxism] Afghanistan

2009-12-05 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == 1. Offlist, I told you you don't know what you're talking about. Same thing I

Re: [Marxism] Afghanistan

2009-12-05 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I think that my speculations are just as valid and useless as yours which is why I

Re: [Marxism] The Significance of Chavez' Call for a Fifth SocialistInternational

2009-12-04 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == While the statement issued by the conference certainly endorses socialism, the

Re: [Marxism] FROP again

2009-12-04 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == First, comrade Darryl, the new generation of vehicles will most definitely not

Re: [Marxism] The Significance of Chavez' Call for a FifthSocialistInternational

2009-12-04 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The position of the PT definitely is no surprise. Back in 1992 (I think that was

Re: [Marxism] FROP again

2009-12-03 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Is this what you had in mind? While operating income did recover, something else

Re: [Marxism] Spiegel nails Obama's falseness

2009-12-02 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == 22 times? That's almost one for every member of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. -

Re: [Marxism] ISO and CA budget cuts

2009-12-01 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == PS-- I'll forward your comments to the author of the original remarks in

Re: [Marxism] Eight theses on the economic crisis

2009-11-29 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, I was just about to say, What do you mean people carrying on as if nothing

Re: [Marxism] theses on the economic crisis

2009-11-29 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I was just about to ask the same thing since Trotsky drew up the Zimmerwald

Re: [Marxism] (no subject) value, social revolution and revolution at the front

2009-11-29 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == You write that you understand my statement to mean: 3). A new technology does not

Re: [Marxism] Eight theses on the Economic crisis

2009-11-29 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In all fairness to Brad, I don't think he stated, meant, or implied that the

Re: [Marxism] Honduras: Unequivocal signs of coming repression,,

2009-11-28 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == That was my point. I don't believe there is an example of a functional

Re: [Marxism] theses on the economic crisis

2009-11-28 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, do we expect the bourgeois ideologists, professional flacks, recuperators,

Re: [Marxism] Honduras: Unequivocal signs of coming repression,,

2009-11-27 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Comrade, You need to have a look... at the history of the Russian Revolution.

Re: [Marxism] (no subject)

2009-11-27 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, time to wind things up for today, so since I've been thinking about Comrade

Re: [Marxism] Honduras: Unequivocal signs of coming repression,

2009-11-26 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I wouldn't want anyone to think I had nothing else to say in response to all the

Re: [Marxism] [Spanish, sorry] My cde. Battistoni answers to some rrrrrrevolutionaries

2009-11-26 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == That's not a problem for me, Nestor. I'm sure it's a problem for you and your

Re: [Marxism] Bank bailout list

2009-11-25 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Do you mean just the FRB/Treasury programs and the FDIC's Temporary Loan Guarantee

Re: [Marxism] Come back Karl

2009-11-24 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, that is correct-- I used that as a lead in to explore the real sources of the

Re: [Marxism] (no subject)

2009-11-24 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == And I had all these great things to say about antagonism and its non-use by Marx

Re: [Marxism] (no subject)

2009-11-22 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == 1. antagonism is qualitatively distinct from contradiction, is in fact a quality

Re: [Marxism] (no subject)

2009-11-21 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A pretty well thought out and well argued presentation, one that I admire even as

[Marxism] Venezuela

2009-11-19 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yesterday, Sandia asked for comments on the WSJ on the contraction in the

Re: [Marxism] The Chinese Revolution (90 years ago)

2009-11-18 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A social revolution is not an inanimate process, confined to and by a

Re: [Marxism] The Chinese Revolution (90 years ago)

2009-11-18 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What came first, in actuality, was the inability of capitalism in China to develop

Re: [Marxism] Rethinking Marxism: Temporal Value Theory in a Moment of Crisis; Roundtable on the Economic Crisis

2009-11-18 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == That's very goood. Thank you for posting this. - Original Message -

[Marxism] Cross Border Flows

2009-11-18 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Interesting paper published by the Fed on the finacial crisis and cross-border

Re: [Marxism] The Chinese Revolution (90 years ago) - theory

2009-11-18 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Just one quick comment while I try to absorb all this, which is a truly rich text

Re: [Marxism] The Socialist Revolution Started 90 Years Ago in China

2009-11-16 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == That's hardly pressing comrade, since you skip over 20-25 years of history. You

Re: [Marxism] The Socialist Revolution Started 90 Years Ago in China

2009-11-16 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Have you ever bothered to read anything about the actual course of revolutionary

Re: [Marxism] The Socialist Revolution Started 90 Years Ago in China

2009-11-16 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What's schematic about the real class relations, the real economics, at the core

Re: [Marxism] list rule reminder

2009-11-15 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Looks okay. Should I clip the text that says I must clip text? - Original

Re: [Marxism] list rule reminder

2009-11-15 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == OK. Send list submissions to:

Re: [Marxism] Energy and El Niño, Venezuela and Co lombia

2009-11-12 Thread S. Artesian
So Venezuela is losing an excessive amount of transmitted energy, and is running up against capacity limitations? Yes? No? - Original Message - From: Les Schaffer schaf...@optonline.net To: David Schanoes sartes...@earthlink.net Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 1:23 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [Marxism] Zizek on the Berlin Wall

2009-11-11 Thread S. Artesian
Yes, I agree-- it's all historical, but the reference Zizek makes is specifically to China. I agree also that China is not a successor state to the US in the configuration of advanced capitalism. It, China's new model capitalism, is based on the rather old cheap labor model, more

Re: [Marxism] Greek Orthodox al Qaeda operative?

2009-11-11 Thread S. Artesian
What a s**tbag country this is, and Florida being one of the biggest bags. - Original Message - From: Louis Proyect l...@panix.com To: David Schanoes sartes...@earthlink.net Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 6:25 PM Subject: [Marxism] Greek Orthodox al Qaeda operative? (

Re: [Marxism] Energy and El Niño, Venezuela and Co lombia

2009-11-11 Thread S. Artesian
Look, we need to get some numbers here-- in terms of increased power consumption in Venezuela. Remember about soviets and electricity? Well social revolution, social development takes a lot of juice, literally. So the improved social welfare of more, rather than fewer people in Venezuela

Re: [Marxism] Energy and El Niño, Venezuela and Co lombia

2009-11-11 Thread S. Artesian
So here's what the IEA says for 2006: Vz: total electricity generation app 110,000 Gwh Hydro-electric portion 70% (Colombia about 75%, Brazil 85%) Consumption 80,773 GWh Loss in distribution 24, 028 [perhaps David or Anthony can explain that number-- is it really Gwh lost in transmission and

Re: [Marxism] Economists Seek to Fix a Defect in Dat a That Overstates the Nation’s Vigor (NYT)

2009-11-10 Thread S. Artesian
Can we get off this merry-go-round? Every time the spot price of oil doubles, the same old same old record gets played-- peak oil, shortages just around the corner, the US is applying pressure to the IEA according to unnamed sources. You think this might have anything to do with the fact that

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