Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Imus isn't the real bad guy

2007-04-25 Thread Waistline2
I feel the basic line thrust of the summation. Question: is the modern - "average," street level illegal drug peddler, hustler or more accurately - sales person, to be classified as a lumpen proletariat and are we to classify the sell of "illegal products" "lumpen activity" on the basis

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2007-04-25 Thread Waistline2
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[Marxism-Thaxis] A CCP member given a subsidy of 800 RMB

2007-04-25 Thread lixiang
Given implication from the Chinese Communist Party ,some enterprises in the mainland China give their employees who are CCP members a subsidy ,a fifth of their salary. How absurd and crazy are the Chinese Communist Party! -- ___ Get your free email

[Marxism-Thaxis] 可 笑 消 息 , 党 员 每月800块补贴。

2007-04-25 Thread lixiang
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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Re: Imus isn't the real bad guy

2007-04-25 Thread Ralph Dumain
A Bronx Tale was an offensive piece of shit. Imagine a Mafioso being more liberal on racial matters and affairs of the heart than a jazz loving bus driver. I know De Niro digs black women, but he should have found a better vehicle to showcase his preoccupation. I never cared for the Godfathe

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: Imus isn't the real bad guy

2007-04-25 Thread Shane Mage
CeJ wrote: ...I never much cared for the Godfather opus... But G 3 at least nailed the Mafia/Curia conspiracy that elevated Wojtyla to the papacy through the murder of Luciani. Give them credit for that. Shane Mage "Mortals immortals, immortals mortals, living their deaths, dying their li

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: Imus isn't the real bad guy

2007-04-25 Thread CeJ
A bit more about film, which has such an obvious influence on the way people think about organized crime. I'm not sure exactly why or how I can condemn Goodfellas, since it clearly is of that genre that is supposed to deromanticize --and de-Italianize--the mafia in film. But it just somehow seemed

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: Imus isn't the real bad guy

2007-04-25 Thread CeJ
Coming late to the debate, but a couple things: 1. I notice how Imus did not really get in trouble with the media execs--who can typically ignore people like Sharpton when they want to, simply by cutting off his airtime on their networks and shows--until Imus stopped being a Bush supporter. Imus

[Marxism-Thaxis] History of capitalists as gangsters

2007-04-25 Thread Charles Brown
[Marxism] General Motors collaboration with Adolph Hitler http://hnn.us/articles/37935.html _ ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: ht

[Marxism-Thaxis] Imus isn't the real bad guy

2007-04-25 Thread Charles Brown
Waistline2 I absolutely agree that gangster rap expresses bourgeois ideology, not all "gangster rap." Gangster Rap as with the term "New Jack swing" was coined, to describe something. Rap means . . . "Rap music" and into simply lyrics or words but a structure of sound . . . musi

[Marxism-Thaxis] Rockefella was a gangsta

2007-04-25 Thread Charles Brown
He assumes this individuality is significantly irrational. He claims the "main motive force of the economic machine" in capitalism iinvolves "an intense appeal to the money=making and money-loving instincts of individuals." This constitutes it as "a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Imus isn't the real bad guy

2007-04-25 Thread Waistline2
CB: I'm thinking gangsta rap expresses big bourgeoisie, capitalist ideology. Rockefalla was a gangsta. Ford was a gangsta. Also, the lumpen proletariat is known to do dirty work for the bourgeoisie. There is a unity of the lumpens and the capitalists. So, gangsta rap is a representation of