[Marxism] WSJE-Left Party Wins 20%+ in German Regional Elections

2009-08-31 Thread johnaimani
Merkel's CDU loses big in regional elections Results embolden left-leaning parties before national vote BERLIN-German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party suffered heavy losses in regional elections on Sunday, encouraging leftleaning parties ahead of Germany's national elections set

[Marxism] The German Auto Bubble-WSJ

2009-09-02 Thread johnaimani
(JAI: Twice as big as the US 'Cash for Clunkers, programs which compel the destruction of still useful automobiles so as to encourage the purchase of new ones through taxpayer funded subsidy, the German program (as the US') is but modified Keynesianism, itself a re-reading of Marx exposition

[Marxism] On Barak Obama (Tuesday, January 20, 2009)

2009-09-10 Thread johnaimani
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 On Barak Obama By John A. Imani Member of the Revolutionary Autonomous Communities. Let's face it, comrades, we have our hands full. With the system in shatters all around us, capitalism had played its last card: it has elected ($700,000,000) a young, gifted and

Re: [Marxism] John Bellamy Foster interview on the financial crisis

2009-09-17 Thread johnaimani
Just finsihing reading Foster and Magdoff's The Great Financial Crisis. Excellent presentation of MR's stagnation thesis in light of the finacializtion crisis. There is a synopsis at http://www.scribd.com/doc/17483992/Foster-Magdoff-The-Great-Financial-Crisis-2009-Synopsis - Original

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] Stock Capital and the rate of profit

2009-10-12 Thread johnaimani
I think that if stock capital is read as sunk capital then the passage makes all the sense in the world. See how he mentions large productive industries railroads contant capital largest in its relation to variable capital. These are like or may even be monoplies ort near-monoploies (high

Re: [Marxism] A second Great Depression is still possible

2009-10-12 Thread johnaimani
(JAI: This is evidence of a forthcoming double dip. The first wave attacked lower income levels of the working class but now the loss of purchasing power from these 'lower' levels affects upper tiers leading to a cascade of forclosure. Also, next is commercial real estate defaults due to

Re: [Marxism] Marxism Digest, Vol 72, Issue 43

2009-10-18 Thread johnaimani
Hate to appear like a weirdo on this point but there is the phenomenon of quantum back action. Indeed the forming of interference patterns even when electrons are fired one at a time through one of two open slits, an action that ought to produce no such interfence(diffraction), ends up with

[Marxism] Forbes Life-Salute to the Labor Theory of Value

2009-10-25 Thread johnaimani
It's in a room like this that virtually every watch, from the humblest $100 automatic to the costliest limited-edition mechanical marvel, starts its life. The components are made by supersophisticated industrial robots--computer-guided automatic milling machines and spark-erosion fabricators.

[Marxism] WSJ-Increase in Relative Surplus-value in theUS

2009-11-01 Thread johnaimani
a.. OCTOBER 23, 2009 U.S. Manufacturing Productivity Jumps By SARA MURRAY The U.S. enjoyed one of the largest increases in manufacturing productivity among 17 countries last year despite also posting the biggest drop in employment, as companies got more output from fewer workers. The

[Marxism] We're Still Here, We Never Left-2nd Anniversary of RAC's Food Program

2009-11-11 Thread johnaimani
(JAI: RAC was formed as a response to the police riot in MacArthur Park on May Day 2007 that their intimidation will not deter us from working in our neighborhood for the human rights of all.) Music Line up for 2 yr Anniversary

[Marxism] Fw: Anarchism in Science

2009-11-20 Thread johnaimani
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[Marxism] Fw: [DopeXResistance-L.A.] college students' resistance in CAlifornia

2009-12-01 Thread johnaimani
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[Marxism] REgarding the Socialist Calculation Debate (was FROP...)

2009-12-11 Thread johnaimani
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[Marxism] Fw: [anetwork] NYC Anarchist Book Fair Saturday April 17

2009-12-21 Thread johnaimani
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[Marxism] Fw: [LAAMN] Why Nothing is Made in the USA Anymore

2009-12-30 Thread johnaimani
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[Marxism] LA: Free Julio!

2010-04-18 Thread johnaimani
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[Marxism] Fw: Class Struggles in Los Angeles 2010

2010-05-05 Thread johnaimani
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[Marxism] Fw: [copwatchla] Interview for High School Political Science Student

2010-05-10 Thread johnaimani
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[Marxism] Fw: Tenants Attacked and Beaten by Police at City Hall

2010-05-21 Thread johnaimani
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Re: [Marxism] Dalai Lama: I am a Marxist

2010-05-21 Thread johnaimani
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Re: [Marxism] Anthony Bourdain on Harvey Pekar

2010-07-16 Thread johnaimani
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I watch Bourdain often. My girlfriend and I even saw him recently at UCLA where

[Marxism] Anthony Bourdain's Blog

2010-07-19 Thread johnaimani
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == (JAI: At the start of the Cleveland show seen tonight there is a Hwy sign:

Re: [Marxism] Abstract labor (long)

2010-07-20 Thread johnaimani
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Comrade, Let us see if we are talking apples or oranges. I wish to again take

Re: [Marxism] FW: Comment from a Christian

2010-07-25 Thread johnaimani
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Comrades, I honestly feel that this is the most dangerous times in America since

Re: [Marxism] Abstract labor (long)

2010-07-28 Thread johnaimani
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Re: [Marxism] Explusion warning to be taken serious

2010-08-02 Thread johnaimani
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Comrades, I agree w the comrade that this is some new shit and that all of the

Re: [Marxism] Doug Henwood debates rightwing asshole on the crisis

2010-10-20 Thread johnaimani
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 11:59 AM, Louis Proyect wrote:

[Marxism] Economics Paper featuring RAC-LA Published in Theory in Action

2010-10-28 Thread johnaimani
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == (JAI: Note that the members of the RAC-LA Food Program (examined in the paper)

[Marxism] Henryk Grossman’s” Law of the Accu mulation of Capital” and the Internet

2010-12-10 Thread johnaimani
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Henryk Grossman’s ” Law of the Accumulation of

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Paul Cockshott on e-democracy

2009-09-22 Thread johnaimani
At 09:37 PM 5/24/2009, Jim Farmelant wrote: Paul Cockshott on how the Soviet economist and mathematician, Leonid Kantorovich (who was the only Soviet economist to ever win the Nobel Prize in economics), used his work on linear programming to answer the arguments of economists like