M-TH: Fwd: Edward Herman on Atrocities Management

1999-03-31 Thread Charles Brown
(from http://www.lbbs.org) ATROCITIES MANAGEMENT Edward S. Herman It is extremely easy to demonize by atrocities management. I became steeped in this subject during the Vietnam War era, and even published a small volume in 1970 entitled Atrocities in Vietnam: Myths and Realities. The marvel of

M-TH: Fwd: Kosovo is a no-brainer

1999-03-31 Thread Charles Brown
Rob, I don't know if Boddhi is still on this list. He certainly has some discussion below. Charles "D. L." [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/31/99 01:08AM To whom.., After reading it all, from Chomsky's delightful clarity to Redmond's bizarre assertion that the E.U. is holding American

M-TH: Fwd: Balkan CPs joint statement-29.3.1999

1999-03-31 Thread Charles Brown
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 22:44:29 +0100 From: Asteras Amaliadas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Left Wing Union [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Balkan CPs joint statement-29.3.1999 STRENGTHEN ANTIIMPERIALIST STRUGGLE FOR PEACE Joint statement of the Communist Parties of the region condemning NATO intervention

M-TH: W.E.B. Dubois

1999-03-31 Thread Charles Brown
[This post was delayed because it was too long. Hans re-formatted it and forwarded it to the list.] The Science of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois By Dr. Anthony Monteiro W.E.B. DuBois was one of the twentieth century's great scientifi minds. His intellect was impressive for its scope, discipline,

M-TH: Our Marxism -From the South African Communist Party

1999-04-01 Thread Charles Brown
Our Marxism 1. Origins The SACP has, historically, described its ideological position as Marxist-Leninist. In describing ourselves in this way we have been: Locating ourselves as a revolutionary party with its historical roots in the Communist International, an international movement

M-TH: Thanks to Hans

1999-04-01 Thread Charles Brown
[This post was delayed because it was too long. Hans re-formatted it and forwarded it to the list.] ( Thanks Hans, Charles --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

M-TH: U.S. Big Brother

1999-04-01 Thread Charles Brown
Title: The Communist Party USA and Radical Organizations, 1953-1960: FBI Reports from the Eisenhower LibraryOrdering Information: Price: $895Medium: 7 reel(s) 35mm microfilmISBN:1-55655-195-9 During the Eisenhower years, the FBI put a number of radical groups under

M-TH: Book on Englishness

1999-04-01 Thread Charles Brown
ENGLISH IMAGINARIES Six Studies in Anglo-British Modernity Kevin Davey What does it mean to be English in the modern world? The answer doesn't usually include Nancy Cunard's assault on Anglo-British whiteness; J.B. Priestley's democratic populism; Who guitarist Pete Townshend's

M-TH: CP of Canada against NATO war

1999-04-01 Thread Charles Brown
March 24, 1999 Stop NATO Agression Now! No "Peacemaking" Troops in Kosovo! GET Canada Out of NATO! Statement of the Central Executive Committtee Communist Party of Canada NATO forces have now launched a horrific and totally unjustified attack on the peoples of Yugoslavia. This blatant act

M-TH: Forward: US out of everywhere

1999-04-06 Thread Charles Brown
Growing numbers in Europe believe enemy is America By David Filipov, Globe Staff, and Toula Vlahou, Globe Correspondent, 04/04/99 MOSCOW - A new menace is stalking Europe, threatening to plunge the entire continent into a devastating war. Its leaders

M-TH: U.S. militarism

1999-04-13 Thread Charles Brown
Military Analysts Critical of Pentagon Spending "Plus-up" Center for Defense Information October 16, 1998 Washington, D.C.

Re: M-TH: The understandable war against civilians

1999-04-15 Thread Charles Brown
Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/14/99 08:16PM And it is genocide, by international definitions. It is a holocaust. Did the holocaust only emerge fully formed at Wannsee in January 1942? ((( The US is committing genocide right now in Iraq. Charles Brown

M-TH: Sign up

1999-04-15 Thread Charles Brown
Hey, all you warriors, here's your chance to leave the keyboard for the front! Americans Volunteer To Join KLA By VERENA DOBNIK Associated Press Writer YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) -- Hundreds of Americans in store-bought camouflage uniforms stood in the parking lot of a suburban New York hotel on

Re: M-TH: definitions of genocide

1999-04-16 Thread Charles Brown
, many times more force than Serbia. The U.S. may not have (yet) set up domestic fascism as the Nazis did. But Serbia and Kosovo are not domestic U.S. The U.S. is the greatest danger of fascism in and crimes against peace, mass murder in this concrete circumstance. Charles Brown Andrew Wayne

M-TH: Fwd: [PEN-L:5343] Pre-Empting War Resisters?

1999-04-19 Thread Charles Brown
A forward. Charles Brown ((( Pen-lers, Here's an interesting analysis from the World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org of what a US declaration of war against Yugoslavia could bring. Comments? WSWS : News Analysis : Europe : The Balkan Crisis What would

M-TH: We now know who won

1999-04-19 Thread Charles Brown
A forward joke. ( Subject:Close call For Immediate Release WASHINGTON, DC Taking steps to fill the void that has plagued the American military- industrial complex since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Secretary of State Madeleine

M-TH: Re: real fascism

1999-04-20 Thread Charles Brown
colony's comprador bourgeoisie "supplying" the imperialist element. But this is a modified form of fascism, with the changing times. Perhaps a new term should be developed. Charles Brown --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

M-TH: Anti-NATO demonstration holds up train with NATO tanks

1999-04-29 Thread Charles Brown
Anti-NATO demonstration holds up train with NATO tanks Story Filed: Thursday, April 29, 1999 4:14 AM EST ATHENS, April 29 (Itar-Tass) - Railway workers and participants in the anti-NATO demonstration held up a train running from Salonika to Macedonia on Wednesday night. The train was carrying

Re: M-TH: Inter-capitalist war

1999-05-04 Thread Charles Brown
Now there's a novel idea. "George Pennefather" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/04/99 01:41PM Hi Folks, The war in Serbia is essentially an inter-capitalist war between an imperialist alliance and a capitalist state. Given this the war is essentially a war over how exploitation of the working class

M-TH: Fwd: Karl Marx

1999-05-05 Thread Charles Brown
A forward for Big Daddy. CB *** ||| | /\ | ||

M-TH: U.S. Admits Sudan Bombing Mistake/NATO fascist too

1999-05-06 Thread Charles Brown
Seems like NATO is a fascist regime too. Why support one fascist over the other ? Charles Brown X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 09:00:18 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Chris Faatz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Lunchtime deaths: 12 children

M-TH: Fwd: [BRC-NEWS] Berkeley Students Defend Ethnic Studies

1999-05-09 Thread Charles Brown
[Full and complete details of the actions at http://www.ethnicstudies.com] English: http://www.mcs.net/~rwor/a/v21/1005-009/1005/ethnic.htm Spanish: http://www.mcs.net/~rwor/a/v21/1005-009/1005/ethnic_s.htm May 9, 1999 Revolutionary Worker #1005 Berkeley Students Defend Ethnic Studies

M-TH: MAI

1999-05-12 Thread Charles Brown
LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE - May 1999 http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/1999/05/13mai.html TRANSATLANTIC WHEELING AND DEALING Watch out for MAI Mark Two Sheltered from the hubbub of war and crisis, Europe, the United States and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are devising

M-TH: Re: Chinese embassy/Speaking of 1914

1999-05-13 Thread Charles Brown
[This post was delayed because it contained the word "subscr*be" in the first 10 lines; it was forwarded to the list by Hans Ehrbar] A forward for Bread and Peace , in the spirit of 1917. Charles Brown ( Labor Alerts: a free service of Campaign for La

Re: SV: SV: M-TH: Impeirialism and Serbia

1999-05-15 Thread Charles Brown
Yea, fundamentally it is about controlling labor power all around there, as labor is the source of all exchange value. "Market" is a euphemism for exploiting laborers. CB "Bob Malecki" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/14/99 02:33PM Bob, A long version below. Charles I would bye a lot of

Re: M-TH: Imperialism and Serbia

1999-05-17 Thread Charles Brown
of the international working class. Charles Brown "Charles Brown" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/17/99 11:23AM Hello Rob, Rob Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/15/99 02:32AM G'day Chas, You write: "Doesn't American imperialism and all imperialism need the INSTITUTION of war ? Some

M-TH: Down to Earth:

1999-05-27 Thread Charles Brown
Down to Earth: Britain's national conference on black communities and sustainable development If it is not inclusive, it is not sustainable. This was one of the main conclusions of Britain's first national conference on sustainable development issues facing black communities held in London

M-TH: Change in Chinese Policy

1999-05-28 Thread Charles Brown
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 22:01:13 -0500 From: Erwin Marquit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Extremely important article in China's Peoples's Daily Erwin Marquit School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota 116 Church Street SE,

M-TH: Fwd: [BRC-NEWS] Life in Prison for Taking Food

1999-06-01 Thread Charles Brown
Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the May 27, 1999 issue of Workers World newspaper LES MIZ IN BELLY OF BEAST: LIFE IN PRISON FOR TAKING FOOD By Vanessa Lewis On April 26, an appeals court upheld a 25-years-to-life

M-TH: Re: Paragraph on Balkans

1999-06-01 Thread Charles Brown
science as a heuristic, in Jim Farmelant's sense, in understanding the socio-historical dialectic. Charles Brown --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: M-TH: Re: Does the labor theory of value hold?

1999-06-07 Thread Charles Brown
value of information may have its origin in the stomach or in fancy. For example, people have been buying the Bible as a source of useful information for many years. Charles Brown Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/07/99 12:27PM Rob Schaap wrote: Now, let's think about the purported engine

Re: M-TH: Marx on GOLD

1999-06-08 Thread Charles Brown
Thanks Hugh. This was clarifying for me. Charles Brown Hugh Rodwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/07/99 05:31PM John W writes: Thanks for all your replies but now I am completely confused. How can money - as the universal measure of value - function if it does not itself have any value? If value

M-TH: Re: No mail from Thaxis?

1999-06-25 Thread Charles Brown
: Leave it to capitalism to rebalkanize the Balkans. Charles Brown --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

M-TH: On denial of racism

1999-07-07 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.zmag.org/Commentaries/mar_13wise.htm ZNet Commentary March 13, 1999 Racism and "Preferential Treatment" by the Numbers By Tim Wise Association for White Anti-Racist Education (AWARE) Anyone who does political analysis, advocacy or organizing knows that folks on all sides of an

M-TH: Capitalism IS wage-labor + racism

1999-07-07 Thread Charles Brown
Y wrote: The Enlightenment philosophy developed their thoughts on freedom with *a double consciousness*: *free labor* and *chattel slavery colonialism*. The idea of freedom born of the Enlightened double consciousness bequeathed us two problems. (1) The freedom of wage labor (that is to say

M-TH: Immigration reso

1999-07-27 Thread Charles Brown
The following resolution was adopted by the Alameda County Central Labor Council on June 21, 1999. It could serve as a model for other unions and councils in raising the issue of immigration at the AFL-CIO convention in Los Angeles in October. Resolution: Defending the Rights of Immigrant

Re: M-TH: dialectical materialism

1999-08-05 Thread Charles Brown
nding things just as they are ('materialism'), in their actual interconnection and movement ('dialectics')." (( Charles: There is Politizer's _Elementary Principles of Philosophy_ too. Charles Brown --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

M-TH: Re: dialectical materialism/activist materialism

1999-08-06 Thread Charles Brown
Rob Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/06/99 10:14AM G'day Thaxists, Look, I know we've been through all this before, but it is my conviction that politics is like a computer. You make an apparently small mistake with what you put in, and you get an absolute disaster coming out. To the diamat

M-TH: Re: dialectical materialism/activist materialism

1999-08-06 Thread Charles Brown
would be calling it "ideology" and "not-objective". Charles Brown . "Charles Brown" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/06/99 From the Theses on Feuerbach, Marx says that the chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism, Feuerbach included, is that it is contemp

Re: M-TH: Re: dialectical materialism/activist materialism

1999-08-09 Thread Charles Brown
understanding of science at a philosophical level to persuade people of its superior understanding of science as applied to human society in particular. It is part of legitimizing Marxism with the masses of workers whom Marxism seeks to get to move and change the world. Charles Brown Harry

Re: M-TH: Re: dialectical materialism/activist materialism

1999-08-10 Thread Charles Brown
From Reason and Revolt: Marxism and Science by Alan Woods and Ted Grant online @ http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~zac/maindex.htm Marxism and Darwinism Darwins Gradualism No Progress? Marxism and Darwinism Darwin and Malthus Social Darwinism "It is sometimes said that the standpoint of

M-TH: CP Economics Commission analysis

1999-08-11 Thread Charles Brown
$$$ boom: bonanza for the rich, but misery for working class The following, an abridged version of a report by the Communist Party Economics Commission, is part of the discussion in preparation for the CPUSA's regional conferences on ideology scheduled for Oct. 23-24: The decade of the

M-TH: White man's burden '99

1999-08-11 Thread Charles Brown
Imperialism's racist 'burden' is to be world enforcer By Arthur Perlo One hundred years ago, the famous English author Rudyard Kipling wrote his poem, "White Man's Burden." The British empire spanned the globe, and the United States had just joined the ranks of global imperialist powers

M-TH: From another list:

1999-08-16 Thread Charles Brown
Noam Chomsky on Socialism: A Critique by Li'l Joe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and Connie White ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (in response to the 08/05/99 BRC-News "Quote of the Day") Noam Chomsky says: "One can debate the meaning of the term 'socialism,' but if it means anything, it means control of

M-TH: Is this for real ?

1999-08-18 Thread Charles Brown
This mechanical postmodern essay generator seems like the Sokal and Bricomont hoax to the tenth power. Charles Brown "Workers World / Chicago" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/17/99 08:45PM The most hilarious link from this page is the "Postmodern Essay Generator" at http://ww

M-TH: Analysis of next neo-liberal moves by Kim Scipes

1999-08-24 Thread Charles Brown
Dear Folks-- I haven't written recently on the US economy, but have something to say, so thought I'd send a general message out. (1) I stumbled across a project of the Democratic Leadership Conference, which is the center-right coalition within the Democratic Party here in the

Re: M-TH: Why No Revolution?

1999-09-03 Thread Charles Brown
he lager against world revolution in the imperialist nations. That's why I say the slogan of Western communists in 1999 should be: Workers of the West, it's our turn. Charles Brown --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

M-TH: Happy Labor Day !

1999-09-03 Thread Charles Brown
INTERVIEW WITH KARL MARX by H. Chicago Tribune, January 5 1879. London, December 18 [1878] -- In a little villa at Haverstock Hill, the northwest portion of London, lives Karl Marx, the cornerstone of modern socialism. He was exiled from his native country -- Germany -- in 1844, for

Re: M-TH: Happy Labor Day !

1999-09-06 Thread Charles Brown
Yes, Rob, There are a couple of other interviews with Marx and Engels on the Colorado Marxist archive. Somehow, it gives a very live feeling that you don't get even from the personal letters I have read. You really feel like you are part of a conversation with them.The terminology is so

Re: M-TH: In thru the back door

1999-09-06 Thread Charles Brown
I always assume the police can access anything I write, including a tattoo underneath my armpit viewing it from a satellite. CB "r.i.p" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/06/99 12:18PM Just received a mail with this link: http://www.cryptonym.com/hottopics/msft-nsa.html As I understand it, this means

M-TH: Another interview

1999-09-06 Thread Charles Brown
INTERVIEW WITH KARL MARX, HEAD OF L'INTERNATIONALE REVOLT OF LABOR AGAINST CAPITAL -- THE TWO FACES OF L'INTERNATIONALE -- TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIETY -- ITS PROGRESS IN THE UNITED STATES by R. Landor New York World, July 18, 1871 reprinted Woodhull Claflin's Weekly, August 12, 1871 London,

Re: M-TH: Fwd: L-I: Ominous advert. I received!

1999-09-09 Thread Charles Brown
A scam on spies ? good. It's like spy vs spy vs spy vs Michael Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/08/99 10:28PM If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, smells like a duck, then it probably is a duck. The email you have sent looks like a scam, reads like a scam, sounds like

M-TH: What are the Workers of the West doing ?

1999-09-13 Thread Charles Brown
Lifetime Jobs a Key in Auto Union Talks By Frank Swoboda Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, September 11, 1999; Page E1 By all accounts, contract negotiations in the auto industry are going well. So well, in fact, that former United Auto Worker president Doug Fraser predicts the

M-TH: Standup for your rights, lefts

1999-09-30 Thread Charles Brown
Posted in Italian list for Cyber Rights http://www.wodip.opole.pl/~laslo/Echelon-links.html STAND UP FOR THE FREEDOM TO EXCHANGE INFORMATION! We the monitored have decided to stand up against the very real, very intrusive, and ultimately oppressive global surveillance system known as

M-TH: Fwd: O Brave New World: Virtual Reality

1999-09-30 Thread Charles Brown
From another list CB ( Is this for real? I was just innocently browsing through a MacMall catalogue in search of printer cartridges (btw, anyone know where you can still get cartridges for a dinosaur Deskwriter 310?), when this software title jumped off the page: Imperialism

M-TH: Big Brother moving into operation

1999-09-30 Thread Charles Brown
Please be aware that the Company's electronic mail (email) system has a built-in content checking system designed to prevent inappropriate email traffic between Robert Fleming and the public mail network. An email issued with the subject RE: Marx on free trade sent by you has been blocked by

M-TH: March for economic rights

1999-09-30 Thread Charles Brown
Tomorrow, the Kensington Welfare Rights Union will begin the "March of the Americas"- a walk from the White House in Washington D.C. to the United Nations Headquarters in New York. They will arrive at the UN on Monday, November 1 and they will hold a rally- information on this is available from

Re: M-TH: moderatorial note

1999-10-01 Thread Charles Brown
In the venacular, we call this a blast from the past. CB Rob Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/01/99 03:21AM Sorry for the once and once-only moderatorial interruption, Thaxists. Do you care to expand on your insinuation? If Doug does, he'd kindly do it off-list. Louis isn't on Thaxis, Jerry.

Re: M-TH: Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 01:42:54 PDT

1999-10-13 Thread Charles Brown
all along, recruited in prison. Charles Brown "Macdonald Stainsby" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/13/99 04:44AM Recently I came across a "Workers World" article that spoke of Elaine Brown, formerly of the Black Panthers. Previously I have heard her called an agent by many former part

M-TH: Armed Class struggle in Russia

1999-10-14 Thread Charles Brown
On the 14th of October at 2 a.m. a group of gunmen assaulted the administration building of Vyborg pulp and paper mill. The mill is well know as the first peoples enterprise in Russia. Three years ago it was sold to a British firm "Nimonor" but the workers not being paid their wages for months

M-TH: Whites have stake in fighting racism

1999-10-15 Thread Charles Brown
Whites have stake in fighting racism By Tim Wheeler Henry Winston, the late national chair of the Communist Party USA, often exhorted Party members to be bolder in fighting racism. Whites, he said, have a special responsibility to take the lead in this struggle. Why? Winston explained

M-TH: How rich is rich ?

1999-10-15 Thread Charles Brown
How rich is rich? By Victor Perlo Forbes magazine recently published a list of the 400 richest Americans, headed, of course, by Bill Gates of Microsoft, with a net worth of $85 billion. The list has several interesting features. The increase in the wealth of the richest Americans, which

M-TH: Fwd: Manager Fired by Company Supports Teamsters on Strike

1999-10-29 Thread Charles Brown
NYTImes October 27, 1999 Manager Fired by Company Supports Teamsters on Strike By STEVEN GREENHOUSE I n an effort to turn up the pressure during its three-day-old strike against Overnite Transportation, the teamsters union deployed an unusual weapon on Tuesday: a former

M-TH: Mode of Destruction/Star Wars Evil Empire

1999-10-29 Thread Charles Brown
Space domination: pyramids to the heavens By Bruce Gagnon It was the Persian Gulf war that convinced the U.S. military that "space dominance and space control" are necessary. And it was the war in Kosovo that they used to show the world that they have achieved their goal. In a June 17

Re: M-TH: Re: Whither the discussion

1999-11-08 Thread Charles Brown
claim ? Charles Brown --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

M-TH: Corporate dictators

1999-11-09 Thread Charles Brown
Corporate dictators plot their next move The Morning Star of London LONDON, England - Leaders of the top 100 transnational corporations in the world gathered in Berlin Oct. 30 to meet with officials from the European Union (EU) and Washington to decide its policies. The group, known as

M-TH: Bulgaria

1999-11-11 Thread Charles Brown
The New York Times, November 11, 1999, Thursday, Late Edition - Final In Bulgaria, 10 Years of Misery By Blagovesta Doncheva; Blagovesta Doncheva is a translator. SOFIA, Bulgaria We here in Bulgaria have had democracy since 1989. What has happened during these last 10 years? The

M-TH: Mime-Version: 1.0

1999-01-17 Thread Charles Brown
Le Monde diplomatique - November 1999 FORMER COMMUNIST COUNTRIES BRACED FOR CHANGE Eastern Europe heads into the unknown

Re: M-TH: Re: Burning hearts

1999-01-17 Thread Charles Brown
n structure as you keep claiming. Your discussion is alright, but it gets to be a bit fatuous to keep declaring yourself the superior democrat and anti-vanguardist. Charles Brown --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: M-TH: Re: Swedish fascism

1999-11-24 Thread Charles Brown
Thanks to Hugh and Stuart for critiquing the LA Times article. I did not intend to endorse the political perspective of the Times writer in general or regarding Sweden in particular, as reflected in the several aspects that Hugh points to. I was more sending it for the sort of minimal factual

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?

M-TH: Re: Oh My Darwin! (Back to May/December)

1999-11-30 Thread Charles Brown
Yoshie, This is an interesting article Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/30/99 04:00AM Like Fodor, Lewontin and Gould argue that the EPists have it wrong: Language, consciousness, and most of our distinctively human mental capacities are side effects of the fact that our brain grew big

M-TH: Seattle

1999-11-30 Thread Charles Brown
A forward. CB ( Hi everybody, Solidarity! They have given up on giving any type of conference today. We have completely blocked the ability for the delegates to reach the Convention Center. The police are starting to gas make arrests, but it's just a manifestation of their

M-TH: Demonstrator in Seattle

1999-12-01 Thread Charles Brown
I will make this notice rather short, as I am exhausted from todays actions. Make no mistake, the cops in Seattle were "fascist" today surely. What happened, that is simply not coming across, is that the activists were involved in a coalition called the "direct action network" (DAN).

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

1999-12-02 Thread Charles Brown
"The World Socialist movement (via The Socialist Party of Great Marx disavowed this 1848 solution a couple of decades later: already he considered the barricade/ dictatorship of the proletariat route to be past its sell by date in europe. ((( Charles: What is your evidence of this

M-TH: China and AFL-CIO

1999-12-02 Thread Charles Brown
A forward. CB (( Subject: WTO - Sweeney - China Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 23:52:50 +0100 Encoding: 38 TEXT With Europe in the bag after its involvement in the Yugoslavia attack, the front of advancing empire has switched to the West. Tomorrow, in the U.S. city of Seattle on the

Re: M-TH: Historical vs Dialectical materialism.

1999-12-06 Thread Charles Brown
Not willing to go along with you and Russ. The dialectical materialist concept originates with Marx. Engels knew him better than you and Russ. CB "The World Socialist movement (via The Socialist Party of Great Britain)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/05/99 05:57PM Dear Russ, This was

Re: M-TH: Show us yer spit...

1999-12-06 Thread Charles Brown
"The molecular theory of modern chemistry first scientifically worked out by Laurent and Gerhardt rests on no other law. " Charles Brown Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/11 5:03 PM Another passage from the famous Volume 1, showing the continuity of Marx's reasoning between the na

Re: M-TH: Spitting fire

1999-12-07 Thread Charles Brown
"russell p" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/07/99 07:37AM CB and CB roast the old chestnut: "Here, as in natural science, is shown the correctness of the law discovered by Hegel (in his "Logic"), that merely quantitative differences beyond a certain point pass into qualitative changes." If that

Re: M-TH: Spitting feathers

1999-12-07 Thread Charles Brown
More spit flying "russell p" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/07/99 12:02PM Charles: The point here in debate is not whether matter obeys dialectical laws, but whether Karl Marx believed that it does. The above is some very good evidence that he did. And there is a lot more that he did . So, instead

Re: M-TH: Historical vs Dialectical materialism.

1999-12-07 Thread Charles Brown
tative differences beyond a certain point pass into qualitative changes." If that doesn't prove our case, I don't know what would. This is Marx (not Engels) using the general term "natural science" (in general) and saying one of the three laws that Andy likes to mock applies to "na

M-TH: Medical Ebonics

1999-12-08 Thread Charles Brown
___Medical Ebonics Benign.What you be after you be eight. Artery..The study of paintings. Bacteria...Back door to cafeteria. Barium.What

M-TH: Regional contradictions

1999-12-08 Thread Charles Brown
Will interimperialist rivalry be restructured to the regional level ? Regional communist parties ? Some regions are colonial regions. CB ((( By The Internet's Most Intelligent Source of International News Analysis http://www.stratfor.com/

M-TH: What is value ?

1999-12-08 Thread Charles Brown
Dear Friends; Here is the latest installment of Facts from the Fringe. Past editions can be viewed at http://www.caw.ca/fringe/index.html. Please note that I have relocated back to Toronto. For further information or comments please call Jim Stanford at (416) 497-4110 or (cell) 416-230-2046.

M-TH: Detroit: I Do Mind Dying

1999-12-08 Thread Charles Brown
H-NET BOOK REVIEW Published by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (October, 1999) Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin. _Detroit: I Do Mind Dying, A Study in Urban Revolution_. Updated Edition. Cambridge: South End Press, 1998. x + 254 pp. Includes annotated bibliography, filmography and index. $18.00 (paper),

Re: M-TH: Historical vs Dialectical materialism.

1999-12-09 Thread Charles Brown
Lew [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/09/99 04:03PM In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], J.WALKER [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Also when Engels wrote (and presumeably while he was writing) Anti-During - as a manifesto of their joint position within the German Socialist Workers Party - we would have to believe he

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

1999-12-10 Thread Charles Brown
But Engels upheld the main thesis. Only some programmatic particulars were out of date, not the main thesis of historical materialism, dictatorship of the proletariat, struggle up to and including barricades and revolutionary war. CB "The World Socialist movement (via The Socialist Party of

Re: M-TH: Historical vs Dialectical materialism.

1999-12-13 Thread Charles Brown
Good one , John, You have found even more examples than we did last time,directly from Marx, directly of Marx expressing the opinion that dialectics has validity not only in human history but in natural history. Maybe Marx was wrong, but those who are arguing the other side should say that

Re: M-TH: Historical vs Dialectical materialism.

1999-12-13 Thread Charles Brown
The following is more demonstration of dialectics as process of natural history : Reason and Revolt: Marxism and Science by Alan Woods and Ted Grant online @ http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~zac/maindex.htm CB ( Rob Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/13/99 09:00AM You've

Re: M-TH: Response to John on the dialectic

1999-12-13 Thread Charles Brown
Rob, _Anti-Duhring_ is very good to read. Rob Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/13/99 12:24PM G'day Thaxists, John has prodded me back to *Anti-Duhring* - and what a good read it is, too (I've always maintained that, whilst Marx could deliver himself of some world-historic passages, Engels was

Re: M-TH: Response to John on the dialectic

1999-12-13 Thread Charles Brown
l activity, a unity of theory and practice still. All Power to the People as a whole. Charles Brown, your new comrade --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

M-TH: Re: Vote for Karl Marx!

1999-12-17 Thread Charles Brown
I'm voting for Harriet Tubman and Lenin. When we say "millenium (a)" we are counting 2000 (1999 because Dennis the Small started the calendar without a zero) years from the approximate birth of Jesus, a man. So, lets dedicate the next two thousand years to women. The Millenia of Women. Women

M-TH: Re: Christmas

1999-12-23 Thread Charles Brown
Hugh Rodwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/23/99 08:03AM One of the nicest Christmas Eve's I ever spent (that's the Nordic/German variant) was in bed with a friend reading The State and Revolution to while away the time until she had to go and catch her train to the north. Otherwise it's what you

Re: M-TH: Festive Greetings

1999-12-26 Thread Charles Brown
Yes, I thought Communism would be a permanent Party. CB Rob Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/24/99 08:25AM Bugger all this asceticism! It doesn't say anywhere a leftie can't enjoy a bit of convivial excess with his or her fellow human beings, does it? As Monty Python almost said, I wasn't

Re: M-TH: Nation

1999-12-27 Thread Charles Brown
In feudalism, there were manors, which were self-sufficient economic units. With the rise of capitalism, nation-states came about, defined by greatly expanded economic linkages, that is a leap in the division of labor and socialization of labor. So, in this sense the "nation" is a bourgeois

M-TH: From another list on nation

2000-01-04 Thread Charles Brown
Ghebremichael: Norm is talking about STALIN's theory of nations, not LENIN's. Lenin probably agreed with Stalin's definition of "nation" in 1913, when Stalin wrote "Marxism and the National Question," but that was before Lenin began seriously to study the dynamics of the colonial world. Lenin

M-TH: Re: From another list on nation

2000-01-04 Thread Charles Brown
Happy New year , to all who like wine and beer. Hugh Rodwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/04/00 01:18PM Sorry Charlie, but this is typical say-nothing bollocks from the "other list". Note that Jim B neither reproduces nor summarizes Stalin's theory or definition, nor Lenin's. CB: I think Lenin

M-TH: What was the origin of AIDS ?

2000-01-13 Thread Charles Brown
The other is bio engineering The leading scientific theory is that the Aids virus somehow crossed over from another species into the human population in the last half century or so. Just think what would have happened if the "jump" had taken place, say, after the last ice age, when

M-TH: latest mergers

2000-01-13 Thread Charles Brown
Subject: Latest company mergers In the wake of the Exxon/Mobil deal and the AOL/Netscape deal, here are the latest mergers we can expect to see: Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Fuller Brush, and W.R. Grace Company merge to

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