6. Are teachers in the working class ? Do teachers create value ? Can
teachers be exploited ( and who will teach the teacher?) ? Same question
about office workers, clerks, secretaries, nurses, garbage pickup workers,
water plant workers, public lighting workers, et al
Reply
WL: No . . .
This development presents todays revolutionaries with a particular
opportunity. As the objective movement against private property and for
everything
from food to housing to health care broadens, it will encompass many different
interpretations and expressions. Today communism is the program
MODE OF PRODUCTION (Marx) : Everything that goes into the production of the
necessities of life, including the productive forces (labor, instruments, and
raw material) and the relations of production (the social structures that
regulate the relation between humans in the production of goods.
WL: I do not understand the concept mode of production to mean a set of
property
relations but rather, the specific shape of the productive forces and the
technological regime as primary, with the property relations within.
^
CB: Well, again this crystalizes our difference. I understand
UN Predicts 9.1 Billion People on Earth by 2050
By Evelyn Leopold
Reuters
Friday 25 February 2005
United Nations - The human race is expected to swell from the current 6.5
billion to 9.1 billion people by 2050, with populations exploding in hungry
developing countries
Mode of production in material life
I follow the Marxism list and was pleasantly surprised to read the replies to
Charles inquiry. One author stated:
Specifically, he (Marx) argues it is the way in which surplus-labour is
extracted and appropriated that is the fulcrum of the social order. But
In a message dated 2/24/2005 12:57:34 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1. Is the working class declining ?
2. What defines membership in the working class ?
3. Does the working class include others besides wagelaborers in material
production ?
4. Do wagelaborers outside of
CB: The Marxist idea is that the working class is the only class that can
overthrow capitalism, and that in the process it abolishes itself as a
class, and all classes.
WL: OK . . . these Marxists should follow their heart and convert their
belief into a strategy or strategic approach to the
Last century, machines proved they could replace human muscle. This century,
technologies are proving they can outperform human left brains - they can
execute sequential, reductive, computational work better, faster, and more
accurately than even those with the highest IQs. (Just ask chess
Something Completely Different, A Story
Snow Angel
I know I couldn't have gotten out of the State Supreme Court building
any faster, but it wasn't fast enough. The elevator couldn't come
quickly enough and I couldn't wait. The stairs weren't close, but I
didn't care and I banged through the
African American History Month: African Americans are the key to democracy
for all
By Nelson Peery
The Supreme Court's appointing George W. Bush as president of the United
States threw the Democratic Party and the independent political organizations
into
an uproar. President Clinton
The Changing Form Of The State
Demands the LRNA Disperse To Connect With Revolutionaries
December 2004 Steering Committee Report
Bush's victory in the 2004 presidential election signals that the pace of the
process of transforming the governmental machinery to accommodate the
national and
CB: Can we say this polarization is an expression of Marx's absolute law of
capitalist accumulation ?
WL: I would think so. What is different is how this law continues to unfold
in a changed backdrop. That is to say the backdrop during Marx life was the
transition from agriculture to industry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The Socialist 'victory' is meaningless, unless
and until the Socialist Party members of parliament
legislates the transfer of the productive forces
and financial institutions from the private possessions
of the capitalist class, to the public possession of
the
Monday, February 21st, 2005
The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His Plans
to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements the 3 'Missing'
Chapters from His Autobiography
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, under enormous political and moral
pressure, made Negro History Week official in the 1940s. It was conceived to
teach
the other Americans about the special contributions African Americans made to
the development of our country.
Special interests soon saw
CORRECTION:
overgrazing by the common people did NOT occur.
sorry.
Comment
Upon first regarding of comments on Global warming: tragedy of the commons
revisited
(s. artesian) I had made the mental correction based on many of your
previous writings and comments which generally and
Entering an Epoch of Social Revolution
Including additional essays Dialectics of the Leap and the Destruction of
Capitalism and... Polarization in U.S. -- Basis for a Workers Party
(c) Copyright April, 1993
Workers Press
P.O. Box 3705
Chicago, IL 60654
full:
Institute Resource Paper #4
The Shape of History: Historical Materialism, Electronics and Value
full: http://www.scienceofsociety.org/inbox/res4.html
Marxism is, first and foremost, the science of society. Through examination
and experimentation, by applying theory through practice and, through
African Americans and the Struggle for a New Society
African American history is the heart of American history. This is true
because the manipulation and the exploitation of African Americans, along with
their ceaseless struggle for freedom and equality, has somehow been at the
center
of
Detroit: Water Held Hostage
By Maureen Taylor
Editor's note: Maureen Taylor, at right, chairperson of the Michigan Welfare
Rights Organization, made the speech below at the Water for People Not for
Profit workshop at the 2004 World Social Forum in Boston. Maureen discusses
Michigan's
The historical significance of the Watts uprising
August 2000
by Nelson Peery
August 11 marks the 35th anniversary of the Watts rebellion. Why did it
happen? Armed, mass uprisings are a specific stage of struggle against an
oppressing state power. In the struggle against violent
African American History Month's true meaning
By Nelson Peery
African American history is the heart of the history of our country.
Understanding the exploitation and political maneuvering of the black
minority of the population is key to understanding American history. Political
control of the
CB: I think the shape of the cell is not the direct cause of the disease.
Rather the shape and the cause are both caused by a third element.
CB: This is LaMarckian
CB: Speak for yourself.
Reply
I do apologize for giving the impression I was speaking for others. I speak
exclusively for myself
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As the saying goes the proof is in the pudding, rather than a theoretical
conception. Any sickle cell sufferer can immediately move towards a healthier
life for less than $100 . . . today . . . in real time. If I was in
My understanding is that those who are homozygous for sickle cell gene have
the disease regardless of diet.
CB
Reply
My point is that the sickle cell is not a disease. The shape of the cell is
not the disease. It is the environment of the cell that produces the disease
state and not the
I read the material on sickle cell anemia. If they were right they would and
could cure the disease. The conception of the disease is wrong. Iron phosphate
concentrates cure the diseased state of the blood, not the shape of the cell
and this has been proven by the authors I quoted. The disease
CB: Sickle cell is not caused by overeating. It is genetically based.
WL: The issue posed was not the shape of the cell (sickle cell), but sickle
cell as an anemia or blood disease. Here is what was stated:
Even sickle cell anemia is an anemia . . . blood disease of over consumption
or lack
African American History Month is once again upon us. There are incredible
historical depiction of the history of the African American paying on all major
television channels and excellent historical events on the cable channels as
well as PBS. The scope and debt of these television specials
In a message dated 2/15/2005 1:00:51 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Healthy life expectancy is currently being redefined. I would like to get
at
least another 30 years of healthy living and die when the electrical charge
of most of my cells fade. Everything we eat is
African American History Month
(The below excerpt is more than a decade old but perhaps the best concise
statement of the African American National Factor)
Waistline
AFRICAN AMERICAN LIBERATION AND REVOLUTION IN THE UNITED STATES
From the field, to the factory, to the street
By Nelson
full: http://www.lrna.org/texts/movingon/movingon.14.html
Benedict, Ruth, Race: Science and Politics, Viking Press, 7th edition, 1968.
[first published in 1940]
Discover, Special issue on the Science of Race, November 1994.
Galeano, Eduardo, Memory of Fire: Genesis, Pantheon Books, 1985.
CB: Is population outrunning the capacity of the earth to sustain us with
bourgeois social relations ? If we don't change the social relations, what
do you predict will happen? Also, do you say Mark Jones' approach did not
include changing social relations ?
Reply: No.
The
C.B.: Malthusian, or neo-neo-Malthusian as Waistline says, gets used
indiscriminately , but not specifically the theory that the population
increases geometrically and the food supply increases arithmetically.
Basically, the definition of Malthusian put forth here is that any
argument that
Me: What the modern students and folks who drift into Malthusianism
present is an equation that examines food production capacity and living
requirements (human needs) as energy conversion and resource use and depletion
and
multiply this by an expanding population. They arrive at the
CB: Again to keep using this phrase becomes willful slander and
misrepresention. Too many is always a relative term. Too many relative
to what ? We may reach a point that there are too many people to keep warm,
make food for relative to the amount of fuel by way of a fossil fuel based
(the following was sent 2-2-2005 to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) )
Tom Franks forgot me.
A humor letter calling for violence, torture, and even death for leading
leftists who dare oppose Bush's war on terror and the slaughter in Iraq smacks
of American fascism.
Those
Restraining the growth of consumption does not
mean going back to living in caves and cooking over
buffalo-chip fires. For decades in the rich nations
increased consumption has not been correlated with
increased satisfaction, and perpetuating Third World
poverty is a luxury that the
Sartesian's refusal to acknowledge that Mark's approach assumes the
absolute necessity of socialist revolution as a premise to avoid ecological
disaster makes his argumentation irrationally contentious in the form of
arguing
with a straw man. It is dishonest. Then to go into all that
In a message dated 1/31/2005 1:01:19 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CB: There are subjective and objective aspects. I'm thinking that petit
bourgeois more accurately describes the objective status of the Negro
entrepreneurs of this time period, as well as the realistic
Quickly note:
CB . . . James Foreman recently passed and much material appeared concerning
his place in history. Herb Boyd did an article on Foreman and one appeared
on the Black Commentator. The bulk of much of his later day political activity
took place in Detroit. For various political
From the standpoint of the October Revolution and its political
affirmation and aftermath this is the period of the Negro Bourgeois
Democratic National Movement. The Negro Bourgeois Democratic National
Movement was
by definition different from the movement of the industrial working class
I forget who wrote the article, and who posted it, but can you or anyone
repost, or send me articles on how the U.S. is fanning flames of Civil War
in Iraq? Please!! Thank you!!! [the more the better]I need it!
Lil Joe
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply
Don't know if this helps but our own Henry
CB: You know you right, and in Hardstuff, Coleman, of course, let Reuther
have it. I don't know if you remember, but when the preliminary copies of
Hardstuff came out many months before its mass publication, the UAW (now this
is the mid 90's , 25 plus years after Reuther was dead, and after
As famous as Coleman Young is in Detroit, very few people know that he was a
CPUSA official. When the House UnAmerican Activities Committee called him
before it, they had the right one, baby. He was a top Red. And he chased them
out
of town and they never came back.
Reply
This part of
Lil Joe: (!)
Work in the Church is disseminating superstition,
and politically reactionary anti-materialist,
counter-revolutionary ideologies and politics,
such as pragmatism, TINA, and 'political middle'
of the roadism as a buffer of ruling class
protection in the working class whereas trade
Waistline's statement that 'Practical
politics are never to be confused with
theoretical Marxism' only shows his own
ignorance and confusion regarding the
Marxian praxis epistemology of materialism,
class war and proletarian social revolution!
Comment
Actually, I believe that I have shown my
In a message dated 1/19/2005 5:05:59 PM Central Standard Time, Waistline2
writes:
Further, Reuther opposed Civil Rights for a very long time and only shifted
his position concerning Civil Rights within the union and outside the union
as the result of immense pressure. He died opposing
(This phase of history of the trade union movement is bound up with the white
chauvinism and wrong orientation of the CPUSA and the SWP - and government
attack and penetration, that allowed for the political vacuum of the time.)
^^
CB: The National Negro Labor Council was the CPUSA.
In a message dated 1/19/2005 1:00:38 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Waistline: All classes of African Americans
were in motion and the white sector of the
industrial proletariat was passive.
Lil Joe: Where does this history come from?
In reality in the 50s and 60s the
Correction: I identified the cartoonist of the old Muhammad Speaks as John 2x
and believe his name was brother Gerald 2X . . . I think. Sorry about any
confusion this might cause.
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In a message dated 1/17/2005 1:01:00 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The League of Black Revolutionaries and Communist
League was led by Nelson Perry into (League of
Revolutionaries [or something like that, that still
put out People's Tribune which appears regularly
on
Part 2
Sorry, but I have little tolerance - as polemic, on whether or not communist
engage the Church. I will merely state that Martin L. King Jr., Malcolm X,
Reverend Shuttleworth and thousands of store front preachers have been on the
front line of what is called the class struggle in the
4. AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH: NEW RACISM BASED ON CLASS, NOT
COLOR
By Nelson Peery
African American History Month, 2002 is celebrated in the midst of
economic, social and political changes that are reshaping our
world. The African Americans, along with the rest of the American
people,
Dialectics and Process: Part II
Society moves in class antagonism. At a certain stage of their development,
the material forces of production in society come into conflict . . . with
the property relations . . . From forms of development of the forces of
production, these (property)
In a message dated 1/26/2002 8:48:37 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think this term is worth unpacking. Marxist literature can use production
in two ways: production of surplus value (in this case a school teacher can
be productive if it is a private school), and
Capitalism over the past ten years or so has produced a technological
revolution in its means of production involving the transformation of
information technology. Over the same period it has succeeded in
recomposing the working class. This has led to deskilling of traditional
trades,
Marx reminds me of a really good suit that never goes out of style and
survives the various trends, the rise and fall of desiger names and the ups
and downs of the marketplace.
After a solid 150 years Marx is still the rage. That suit Engels wore is
still pretty sharp.
Melvin
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