Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 75, Issue 21: Setting the record straight

2010-01-25 Thread Phil Walden
Jim is more right than Karl, but both are on the right side of right. I would like to add a bit to the analysis that Jim offers of the British Labour Party. The realities first showed themselves when the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey, went to the IMF for a massive loan in 1976 and

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 75, Issue 21: Setting the record straight

2010-01-25 Thread c b
On 1/24/10, Karl Dallas karldal...@f2s.com wrote: As a former member of the Communist Party of Britain, and a continued activist in struggle on such issues as Palestine, I cannot subscribe to the basic analysis of Sam Webb in Setting the Record Straight. I wrote to the UK Morning Star the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Will Obama Put Muscle Into the White House's New Populist Play?

2010-01-25 Thread c b
http://www.counterpunch.org/hudson01252010.html On the Eve of the State of the Union Will Obama Put Muscle Into the White House's New Populist Play? By MICHAEL HUDSON At stake now is President Obama’s credibility as an agent for change. Voters see his main “change” thus far to have been