Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] James Petras - The Democratic Party Debacle and the Demis of the Left-Center Left

2010-12-06 Thread c b
Lack of a Soviet Union contributes to this. The SU was more of the Center-Left's backbone than most of the left realized. On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Jim Farmelant farmela...@juno.com wrote: In recent years, I have found a lot of Petras's commentary on various subjects to be rather

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] James Petras - The Democratic Party Debacle and the Demis of the Left-Center Left

2010-12-06 Thread Phil Walden
What is glaringly missing from this piece by Petras is any sense that he is in favour of COMMUNISM. In fact he does not use the word at all and seems to have the view that he prefers capitalism to communism. His analysis of what has defeated the left and centre-left parties and made them

[Marxism-Thaxis] James Petras - The Democratic Party Debacle and the Demis of the Left-Center Left

2010-12-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
In recent years, I have found a lot of Petras's commentary on various subjects to be rather loopy, but not this piece. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math --