Chris B writes:
1. I am not using the term social fascist in the sense it was used as a
term of abuse against social democrats in Germany before the Nazi seizure
of power. Indeed that sectarianism was the major error that had to be
reversed in the reappraisal by the Comintern 1935 Congress
(I meant to send the following to thaxis ...)
Strictly for comedy read the following.
Someone ought to tell Steven Speilberg that there is a "Jurasic Park" on
the Internet where Stalinist dinosaurs still roam.
Jerry
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:28:39
Columbia University, I presume.
On that topic he should have some familiarity (at least from a
management, i.e. capitalist-agent, perspective).
As for the country, as distinct from the university, why waste your time
asking someone who has a proven track record of viciously and falsely
Chris B wrote:
Louis expletive deleted, JL admitted a few months ago on his marxism
list at panix that he had made the allegation that Bob was a policy spy
without any substatial evidence.
Delete "substantial" in the sentence above. He had _NO_ evidence. I.e. it
was a _complete fabrication_
Doug Henwood wrote:
Oh fuck, here we go again. What, did the malathion energize you, Jerry?
I half-expected such a response from you, Doug.
Do you care to expand on your insinuation?
Jerry
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This was posted on OPE-L and I thought you might find it of interest as
well./ Jerry
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Friday, October 1, 1999
MARX THE MILLENNIUM'S 'GREATEST THINKER'
Karl Marx: Controversial revolutionary ideas
Revolutionary writer Karl Marx has topped a BBC News Online poll
I only quickly skimmed your paper, but certain sections in the review of
the literature seem too sketchy (e.g. the short paragraph on "economistic
approaches"). For early original sources by mainstream (neo-classical)
economists, see A.N. Argawala and S.P. Singh ed. _The Economics of
Development_
I find this article no more objectionable than when a subscriber to a
"marxism" list said that:
a) he wanted to see two women Marxists, then engaged in a debate, fight
each other in mud-wrestling (to which he said he would pay the price of
admission);
b) his love life was a mess and saying
Simon wrote:
I think that the difference here is that I am not arguing for a
Marxist revolution, but a socialist one: i.e. that while Marx provided
one of the first expositions of socialist theory, you don't have to have
read a word of Marx to be a socialist.
Note the inference that
In a startling plot twist, Doug H, it seems, -- has written an article
for _LM_.
Is that correct, Doug? What's the title of the article and the issue # of
the magazine?
Now it seems that Doug has been cast in the role of Julius Caesar.
Doug turns to his former friend and says:
"Et tu Brutae?"
G'day Rob,
A good article called 'In
Love With Disaster', which accuses capitalism of producing poverty alongside
wealth, alienation for all, periodic destructions of productive capital,
I didn't get the sense that this was what the article was about ...
and, of late, some lefties who
Kim:
You ask me to tell you -- in crystal-ball fashion -- how it will end.
Let me look into the crystal ball...
I see something!
A huge room -- maybe even outside. A thousand people or more. Everyone is
standing, many with a piece of paper in their hands.
The paper. It looks like the
George: *You* miss the point when you say that the WTO agreement shows
that "free trade" doesn't exist. *Of course* it doesn't exist. *It never
existed* in the world economy (and only very occasionally in the trading
relationship for firms in different nation-states). It is, like "free
market
Charles wrote:
Engels knew him [Marx, JL] better than you [Simon, JL] and Russ.
And you, apparently, knew Marx better than he knew himself!
Jerry
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Monika:
Having fun at demonstrations (and elsewhere) is something that much of the
"Old Left" doesn't know how to do very well.
Being serious at demonstrations (and elsewhere) is something that much of
the "New Left" doesn't know how to do very well.
I don't really think that one sends a
There was a book published by International Publishers which contained a
collection of her socialist writings and speeches along with a
biographical introduction (possibly by Foner, if my memory is correct). I
imagine it is out-of-print now, but should be available through larger
libraries (I
The WWW archives site for the OPE-L (Outline on Political Economy) mailing
list has been experiencing technical difficulties since September, 1999.
We have, therefore, established a supplementary archives site which
includes the missing posts (although, there is still a gap for part of
Sept-Oct,
Check-out:
http://www.u-paris10.fr/ActuelMarx/economarx/bibmarxe.htm
Jerry
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(snip) Also
sometimes called the modern anti-revisionist movement, it was largely
Maoist in its flavor.)
Peace
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Michael P wrote:
Hope your making an ironic comment, Gerald. And is your suffix, "ite,
"instead of , "ist, " an unconscious echo of the stalinist usage of
trotskyite, rather than trotskyist?
Yes, I was being sarcastic by suggesting some ironies in Odell's message.
You might not recall,
FYI. btw, does anyone know why Bugs Bunny is on the following list of key
words?/Jerry
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 09:49:52 -0600 (CST)
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The
George Pennefather wrote:
Much of the wealth of capitalist society is
in the form of factories. Factories are forms of capital but not
commodities. The factories are a form of fixed capital.
(Constant) fixed capital takes the commodity-form. Do you think it just
drops from the sky?
It
Yes, but it becomes a little bit more complex when we discuss the
distinction between [constant] fixed and "fluid" capital in Vol. 2 of
_Capital_.
For instance, consider the following, from Ch. 8 , on the subject of
labour expended on the repair of fixed capital:
"The fixed capital however
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