Hello all,
I'm afraid I have reconnected to a computer now, so to skip back a
week or so, Chris wrote:
> An awareness of class and national oppression is absorbed in childhood.
> A child notices whether their mother or father is treated with respect
> and by whom ... Much of this is subcons
On 23rd December John wrote:
>My problem is that part of this enforced celebration means that I no
>longer have access to a computer over this period, so I will just
>have to save up all my posts until everything reopens. I look forward
>to reading everyone else when I return.
>
On 21/12/
Chris replied:
> I agree there are reservations about boxing. It is dangerous.
I don't actually remember mentioning its danger to the health of
boxers as a reason to oppose it (perhaps CB did). If people want to
beat each other to a pulp then IM(liberal)O they are in most
circumstances perfectl
Chris B writes:
>Like Hugh, (who essentially agrees with me apart from having to take a
>customary swipe at reformism) I also remember the black power salute at the
>Olympics. That took courage.
I don't essentially agree with Chris. I essentially disagree with him
precisely because of the reform
Charles Brown and John Walker made some interesting criticisms of my post a
few days ago about Ali winning the BBC sportsperson of the century award.
I agree there are reservations about boxing. It is dangerous. Fortunately
there has been no suggestion that Ali's Parkinson's disease comes from th
With due respect to Chris, I think John Walker makes some very valid points below.
Interjections:
>>> "J.WALKER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/15/99 07:17AM >>>
Good morning Chris,
What I objected to and what completely mystifies me is (other than a
sort of chaos theory of everything inevitable link
Good morning Chris,
I would love to spell out my criticism of Gramski in great detail but
the truth is that not coming from the eurocommunist wing I know
almost nothing about him or his brand of communism, except your
remark.
What I objected to and what completely mystifies me is (other than
At 09:09 13/12/99 GMT, John Walker wrote:
>Chris actually wrote that:
>> One of the problems of a Gramscian concept of revolutionary change in a
>> developed capitalist society it what individual changes are significant,
>> however small.
>
>If Mohammad Ali was voted Sports personality of the ce
Well, mebbe you're not as old as I am, John, but ten years ago the term
'great white hope' was still freely and widely used to describe anyone with
a remote chance of reclaiming the title for whitedom. And twenty-five
years ago, Ali rarely missing an opportunity to talk into all those mikes
about
Chris actually wrote that:
> One of the problems of a Gramscian concept of revolutionary change in a
> developed capitalist society it what individual changes are significant,
> however small.
If Mohammad Ali was voted Sports personality of the century is really
such a revolutionary change odd
One of the problems of a Gramscian concept of revolutionary change in a
developed capitalist society it what individual changes are significant,
however small.
Last night felt like one of them.
The BBC had its votes for outstanding sports people of the year and the
century. Mohammed Ali won the
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