On Sep 29, 2009, at 4:36 PM, c b wrote:
What is democracy?
CB: My short definition is popular sovereignty.
And so CB, coming full circle, endorses the slogan of the slaveocracy,
like Douglas in the debate with Lincoln.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always
On Sep 23, 2009, at 5:48 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
Shane Mage wrote:
And that is the best of kings adulated by
Beethoven, the supposed democrat. Which is to be expected from the
composer of a Symphony celebrating Wellington's Victory at the
Battle
of Vittoria. But didn't Beethoven tear
On Sep 23, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Colin West wrote:
On Sep 23, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Shane Mage wrote
As for Don Giovanni, it is perfectly true that it is an anti-
authoritarian masterpiece, but in exactly the opposite sense from
that meant by the liberal critics. To grasp that fact for yourself
-thinker, is the sense of libertine found in the title
of the original Don Juan play--*El Burlador de Sevilla*. Mozart, of
course, as a Mason and friend of Da Ponte and Casanova, was most
certainly a *freidenker*.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always
capitulation to social-imperialism.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures.
Herakleitos of Ephesos
YOU MUST clip all
effort. It most
emphatically does not mean refusing to serve in the armed forces or
carrying out sabotage--suicidal in some countries and
counterproductive everywhere else. I don't see what's complex about
that, beyond the inevitable complexity of every concrete reality.
Shane Mage
bombings of Hamburg, Berlin,
Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, etc., etc., were part of a just
war; any one who claims that the Bengal famine was part of a just
war; is literally, not effectively, denying a holocaust.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always
the receiver off the hook
*This foot* came through the line
(In prosody, a foot is a metric unit)
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures.
Herakleitos of Ephesos
plebian vonless sort) of German nationalist.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures.
Herakleitos of Ephesos
YOU MUST clip
--in the absence of modern
working classes, significant proletarian parties, or meaningful trade
unions, (not to mention soviets)--seize state power by electoral
means.
Who could have imagined how much more *die vernunft* has gotten
*listige* nowadays!
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men
sectarian fit in 1917. Unfortunately, his polemics of 1915-1916 gave
useful ammunition to the Okhranik Stalin and the careerist Zinoviev in
their 1923-26 struggle against Trotskyism.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire
a world-destroying catastrophe! Not to mention the
advanced Christians, Jews, and Muslims who likewise trace their
descent to a single couple--but have transfigured memory into
apocalyptic texts that project the original catastrophe as a future
Day of Judgment.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did
problem you want to escape.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures.
Herakleitos of Ephesos
YOU MUST clip all extraneous
slavs? As well as by your condemnation
of the Tibetan and Uighur national struggles against domination by the
capitalist Chinese empire?
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out
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empire in the world. That, presumably, is what is meant by saying
that the national question is a class question.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures.
Herakleitos
is childishly
easy: just exhume Ghanem's body and see if any organs are missing.
The refusal of the occupation authorities to do this is presumptive
evidence that the story is *not* a blood libel or other slanderous
falsehood.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make
? No
wonder the CPC, obliged by its own statutes to call a congress every
five(!) years, has not permitted one for more than ten years already,
with no sign of one forthcoming in the foreseeable future!
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall
On Aug 25, 2009, at 11:50 AM, turb...@aol.com wrote:
Shane Mage wrote:
The Grundrisse, as the last word in its title--Rohentwurf--
declares, is not meant to be read at all. It is just the rough
draft of Das Kapital...
...Any text that expresses a significant part of a
thinker's thought
it, provided Hitler the complicit
Russian neutrality without which the Wehrmacht High Command could
never have been persuaded to invade Poland and automatically set off
the Anglo-French guarantee.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall
through the labour performed in
transport. This last-named increment of value consists, as it does
in all
capitalist production, of a replacement of wages and of surplus-
value.
Exactly.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting
you have the
final (or nearly so) version? Comparison with the perfected (Marx)
draft of vol.1 and the substantially worked out drafts (Engels) of
vols. 2 and 3 with the Grundrisse is a matter of academic literary
history only.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make
with Guerin's Fascism and Big Business.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures.
Herakleitos of Ephesos
YOU MUST clip all
Stalin and Malinovsky in the Bolshevik leadership.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures.
Herakleitos of Ephesos
YOU MUST
a gramophone Dnieperstroy was essential.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures.
Herakleitos of Ephesos
YOU MUST clip all
On Aug 21, 2009, at 3:42 PM, gregoryabut...@aol.com wrote:
A screed in which he portrays himself as an Antiabortion
Prohibitionist dittohead.
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*means* for conscious direction
of evolution, on a planetary scale, are already, or imminently, at
hand. And our species will adopt them--in the remote possibility that
capitalism has not wiped it out before then.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always
are they to be told--
as they are by Antiabortion Prohibitionists (themselves choice
examples of disgenics)--that they are Hitlerites?
Evil people use good words lyingly, to hide their true purposes. Were
Hitler and Stalin socialists? Were Bush and Clinton democrats?
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none
, the
evolution of our species the object of a *fully* conscious process.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures.
Herakleitos of Ephesos
. So they all said.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures.
Herakleitos of Ephesos
YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when
On Aug 13, 2009, at 12:59 PM, waistli...@aol.com wrote:
Attacking the ultra right is nothing more than a clever way of
demanding
unconditional support of the Obama administration
Exactly.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall
On Aug 9, 2009, at 10:27 PM, Eli Stephens wrote:
...when it comes to MY OWN COUNTRY...
*your* country perhaps.
The workers have no fatherland.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going
Castro's shamefaced endorsement of the
Russian occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968) but expressed some real
ideological agreement.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out
Surrender so adamantly insisted on by all the Big Three.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures.
Herakleitos of Ephesos
YOU
and Brazil could have been envisaged
only as a hypothetical fantasy. A US war against Iran in 2010 can be
envisaged only as a nightmare, or as a fantasy conjured up by oil
speculators. A US military defeat by Iran is a much less likely
fantasy than either.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods
of the species name of the
chimpanzee.
But pan as genus (not species) name for chimpanzees is taken from
the resemblance of chimps and bonobos to the iconography of the Great
God Pan. And there is absolutely nothing childlike about Pan.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make
Hundred years ago the French chose a Corsican as their Emperor
Now the Americans have chosen a Black as their President
Two Hundred years from now the Jews will choose an Arab as Prime
Minister of Israel
You should live so long!
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make
of Obama I
thought his name would be Powell.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures.
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:04 PM, Charles Brown wrote:
Brezhnev was to the left of...Krugman.
How many counterrevolutionary invasions did Krugman launch? How many
political opponents did he send to labor camps? How many did he
imprison in mental hospitals? Was Krugman a Stalinist?
Shane Mage
On Jan 7, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Charles Brown wrote:
Shane Mage
On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:04 PM, Charles Brown wrote:
Brezhnev was to the left of...Krugman.
How many counterrevolutionary invasions did Krugman launch? How many
political opponents did he send to labor camps? How many did he
imprison
many
political opponents did he send to labor camps? How many did he
imprison in mental hospitals? Was Krugman a Stalinist?
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures
hold on
only at public expense, nationalization is not like asking for
unconditional surrender--it only takes the guts to just say no.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out
with historical or technical controversy but would
still give the reader a good sense of what Trotsky
went through and was trying to do
The only possible choice is the magnificent autobiography, My Life.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall
with any potential for a meaningful vote is Nader/Gonzalez.
Shane Mage
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for
what you don't want--and get it.
(Gene Debs)
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made no
personal investigations of that sort he would have been virtually
unique among Western (or Eastern!) travellers.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures.
Herakleitos
, especially
the Thebans and Ephesians.
The most successful Persian naval commander was a Greek, Queen
Artemisia.
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to
be called Zeus.
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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be lucky to escape lynching.
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to
be called Zeus.
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Césaire,
even offering burial in the Pantheon--but Césaire's family, his party,
and the whole Martiniquaise people reject that. He will be buried in
his country, Martinique.
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to
be called Zeus.
Herakleitos of Ephesos
capital has been
leveraged into fictitious capital rather than invested as real capital.
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to
be called Zeus.
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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CeJ wrote:
...I never much cared for the Godfather opus...
But G 3 at least nailed the Mafia/Curia conspiracy that elevated
Wojtyla to the papacy through the murder of Luciani. Give them
credit for that.
Shane Mage
Mortals immortals, immortals mortals,
living their deaths, dying
. In my view, the hallmark of all vulgar economics
(including the huge amount of it masquerading as Marxist) is the
treatment of capital as a mass of things rather than as an amount
of capitalized (ie., accumulated) surplus value.
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine
A. Mani wrote:
...Chernobyl was an accident...Even during the cold war, the soviets
maintained high ecological standards...
I may be dating myself, but I must confess to being old enough to
remember a time when there was an Aral Sea.
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine
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