[Marxism] In and Out of Crisis: Authors Meet Critics Video

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[Marxism] Senate to take tough stance on finance by baning movie and onion derivatives.

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Financial Times http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7ac169d8-4b3c-11df-a7ff-00144feab49a.html

Re: [Marxism] Obama improves image of US Empire

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yeah that's the article. Sorry I am just reading my mail again now after a long day

Re: [Marxism] The Anatomy of Teabagging

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mark wrote: Actually, in saying this, brad is himself climbing on board with the

Re: [Marxism] The Anatomy of Teabagging

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Greg- I can not begin to unravel what that guy was posting on FB. The only thing I

Re: [Marxism] The Anatomy of Teabagging

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mark wrote: Gee, brad, didn't you already know the material basis of their anger.

Re: [Marxism] Code Pink extends olive branch to fascist Tea

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mark writes: Again, people are arbitrarily smudging people who say in the polls,

[Marxism] Tea Party Poll

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[Marxism] US Manufacturing sector expansion

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The US manufacturing sector expanded in March at its fastest rate for six years, a

Re: [Marxism] A Fake Fight Over Fake Health Care Reform

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis wrote: The inability of the ruling class in the USA to act on its *long term*

[Marxism] Obama appoints Becker to NLRB

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Re: [Marxism] Repo 105

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, this is also where I think we part ways because I think every crisis is

Re: [Marxism] In and Out of Crisis

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Gary, I fail to see your point. Are you saying that if Obama looses to a

Re: [Marxism] In and Out of Crisis

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Wasn't it 2007 that Sam and Leo were saying there was no crisis?

Re: [Marxism] Repo 105

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == But all this talk of criminal behaviour is only the means to glaze over the real

[Marxism] In and Out of Crisis

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == ~~ T h e B u l l e t ~~ A Socialist Project

[Marxism] Historical Materialism Toronto May 13-16

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Re: [Marxism] Calling all rebels

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Someone needs to explain to me how if we don't reach out to workers who are

Re: [Marxism] Calling all rebels

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I disagree. The teabaggers are not even a movement but a scattering of people who

[Marxism] Perry Anderson: Two Revolutions (Russia-China) in

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here is the entire issue: http://rapidshare.com/files/347251655/NLR_JanFeb2010.zip

Re: [Marxism] Greek 'bailout' off ...

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Is it too soon to say that as was the case in the 1930s the big capitalist powers

Re: [Marxism] DAILY SHOW on socialist medicine....

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Just so you know, those links to TV shows don't work outside the US.

Re: [Marxism] DAILY SHOW on socialist medicine....

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == really what do you see when you click on the link? Les

Re: [Marxism] Americans unhappy with both parties

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The most interesting part of this poll report is the potential split in the

[Marxism] Doubling down

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[Marxism] Trees grow at fastest rate in 200 years

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Global warming makes trees grow at fastest rate for 200 years By Steve Connor,

Re: [Marxism] Bourgeois worries over debt

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It only amounts to attempts to justify the skewed austerity policies being

Re: [Marxism] What next ?

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A) I would be careful not to take the exceptional period of the 'post-war boom' as

Re: [Marxism] reset to 5.31.2008

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mathew Russo wrote: 1) The Democrats, like the Republicans are not simply

[Marxism] Friedman blows more hot air into the China balloon

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Re: [Marxism] Avatar, Art and Revolution

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == WaistLine Wrote: The Matrix movie generated much discussion as a fun movie, but

Re: [Marxism] Manure

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Re: [Marxism] Manure

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Greg wrote: This is a tangential point, but speaking of the direct hand of the

Re: [Marxism] Manure

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == True enough. However, I am not so sure that employing outside labour puts them at

[Marxism] State Revs down 16%

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Re: [Marxism] Towards a Union of the Unemployed ?

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Re: [Marxism] Towars a Union of the Unemployed?

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Again from Wiki on Australian Labour history- The trade union response to

[Marxism] CIW, Verite announce partnership to implement, monitor Fair Food agreements!

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Re: [Marxism] Eight theses on the economic crisis

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Re: [Marxism] Eight Theses on the Economic Crisis

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Now if by capital-ISM there is meant a reference to ideology, then especially

Re: [Marxism] Eight Theses on the Economic Crisis

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What would make it a crisis of capitalism? Was the Great Depression a crisis

Re: [Marxism] IMF style austerity in the works for the USA? (S. Artesian)

Part two of Leo Panitch interview on the dollar. http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=31Itemid=74jumival=4342 In it he confirms my statement that a decline in the dollar will bring about at least somewhat of a decrease in unemployment but he agrees with S.Artesian that

Re: [Marxism] IMF style austerity in the works for the USA?

This is related to and answers some of the issues I posed. Panitch on the current state of the dollar. http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=31Itemid=74jumival=4340 Brad YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to

Re: [Marxism] IMF style austerity in the works for the USA?

This article has a lot of flaws but at least it does not fall for the inter-imperialist rivalry within the G-20 and over the US dollar nonsense. It properly shows the shared interest (even if it seems to imply a level of coordination and conspiracy) of capitalists across nations. If only the left

[Marxism] NYT- American Apparel forced to fire undocumented

This article highlights the Obama admin's new undocumented immigrant enforcement plan, which is going to focus on putting pressure on employers to fire all employees that it cannot prove are documented US Citizens or have valid visa's. What I found interesting is that it occurred at American

Re: [Marxism] Germany's Die Linke shows the way for the left

I don't think it really is as simple as either Luko or Einde (sp?) make it out to be. Some places where Die Linke have entered coalitions with the SPD do show both the limits to electoral politics and the necessity to meet the people were they are at to squeeze out even the slightest of gains for

[Marxism] Marx in the Toronto Star

http://www.thestar.com/default Marx and his ideas rise from the dustbin of history TheStar.com - Opinion - Marx and his ideas rise from the dustbin of history Profound understanding of capitalist dynamics has come to the fore during the current crisis September 07, 2009 *Leo Panitch *Research

Re: [Marxism] What to do?

To activists in the US it should be painfully obvious to them that there is no hope for coalition building. It is either the Democrats or something outside of power. I don't understand all the talk about die Linke etc. It is kind of a waste of time. There will never be a coalition govenment

Re: [Marxism] Good critique of Walter Benn Michaels's NLR article

I am sorry but that is not a good critique of Benn Michaels. Like yours Louis it too is filled with strawperson arguments based on things that he never said. I am not going to get into specifics of his arguments, which I personally think he does not present very well, because it is clear that

[Marxism] Econ Rebounding?

I think the boost in the US, looking at the new orders in transportation, is probably a one-off event based on the 'cash for clunkers' deals. S.Artesian can you please elaborate on this. Why do you still feel that there is no recovery? How do you incorporate the increased productivity and

[Marxism] Recovery of corp profits?

From the BEA http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2009/gdp109f.htm Corporate Profits Profits from current production (corporate profits with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments) increased $48.1 billion in the first quarter, in contrast to a decrease of $250.3

Re: [Marxism] cheap food

Hold on a minute. If we are all going to agree that cheap food is a good thing for the working class I would, from a marxist position, first question what cheap food actually means: Are we talking about exchange value as being cheap and what about the relationship of cheap food to value? To talk

Re: [Marxism] On Food...

Nada wrote- in cereal production, it makes almost no difference whatsoever if wheat, barely or other grains are produced in very large tracts or smaller more intensely farmed ones. What is your source for this position? What exactly are you talking about as making no difference, no difference