Re: M-TH: Up Against the Wall, Althusser

1999-10-25 Thread Dave Bedggood
The guy was nuts. If you invoke the name of the revolutionary proletariat to go round topping nutters youre not serious. What's happening in your part of the world that's real? dave. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dave Bedggood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Who would hang him Jim? You? In whose

Re: M-TH: UN moves into Sierra Leone

1999-10-25 Thread r.i.p
Chris writes Empiricism is the idealism that comes from restricting oneself to fragmentary empirical data. and then Intervening in Sierra Leone will be extremely difficult but it is not primarily being done for imperialist reasons. Nor was the intervention in East Timor. Chris Burford This

M-TH: Colombia and Ireland

1999-10-25 Thread George Pennefather
In Colombia a civil war exists. It is a civil war that that has nothing to do with the promotion of the class interests of the working class. The FARC and the ELN are the principal guerrilla armies claiming to represent the interests of the masses. But there is little or no difference

Re: M-TH: Up Against the Wall, Althusser

1999-10-25 Thread Chris Burford
At 09:00 25/10/99 +0100, you wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dave Bedggood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Who would hang him Jim? You? In whose name? Why workers' militias of course, in the name of the revolutionary proletariat. Maybe you don't know the evidence. Althusser confesses that he