M-TH: Imperialist appeasement of Russian sub-imperialism

1999-11-25 Thread Chris Burford
Thursday, 25 November, 1999, BBC: No 'Cold War' over Chechnya The United States has signalled that it does not want to link international aid to Russia with the war in Chechnya. * That would be embarrassing. For its own

M-TH: A fish in water

1999-11-25 Thread Hugh Rodwell
Bob M writes from the far north (actually just the middle if you look at the map, he lives near Umeå) of Sweden: Buy the way the school principle yesterday announced at a mass gathering of students that Bob will be employed another year at school. This only after being confronted with all the

M-TH: Red Ken or plain old Labour

1999-11-25 Thread J.WALKER
Dear all, I was wondering what others here thought of the issue of Ken Livingstone standing for Mayor of London. He has made it quite clear that he would want to work with the City of London Stock Market and although he has made some concessions to his old Left allies on the Underground

Re: M-TH: Red Ken or plain old Labour

1999-11-25 Thread Hugh Rodwell
Dear all, I was wondering what others here thought of the issue of Ken Livingstone standing for Mayor of London. He has made it quite clear that he would want to work with the City of London Stock Market and although he has made some concessions to his old Left allies on the Underground (with

Re: M-TH: A fish in water

1999-11-25 Thread Doug Henwood
Hugh Rodwell wrote: stifling passivizing crap a la Henwood Observatory Aw thanks, Hugh - it's been so long that I'd thought you'd forgotten me. But now I'm all cheered up keep going for another few weeks. And it's so inspiring to hear of the revolutionary mobilization in Umeå - the first

M-TH: Re: Meszaros article: Communism Is No Utopia

1999-11-25 Thread Rob Schaap
I enjoyed and appreciated the Meszaros article very much (as I seem to whenever he puts pen to paper). Thanks to Jim for the post. Writes John: It was not political control that was at the heart of Communism but the control of the means of poduction, short and simple. Communism is effectively

Re: M-TH: Mother

1999-11-25 Thread Charles Brown
Who needs Hollywood? (( Charles: Truth is more interesting than fiction. CB Hugh Rodwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/24/99 06:21AM How's this for a great piece of journalism? Mother Knows Best Once convinced that they should expend their precious parental energy,

M-TH: Re: China and law of value.

1999-11-25 Thread Charles Brown
Hugh Rodwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/23/99 04:20AM What the history of the 20th century has shown us is the paramount importance of politics, social will, in this. -clip- Why, finally, should the political sphere dominate today when basic Marxism contends that the economic sphere is primary?

Re: M-TH: No Hugh Rasputin!

1999-11-25 Thread Ian Hunt
Here is Bob "Well the problem is that people have not learned from history and that is why we are in the position we find ourselves today." "Wailing about changing the human brain just won't do it.." What is "learning from history" if it is not "changing the human brain" Bob? But perhaps you