M-TH: Re: ORG: Colombia and Ireland

1999-10-27 Thread George Pennefather
John: 1)Their political program and platform is not petty bourgeois. They wantto implement a Soviet Union style command economy (or something morereformist) which certainly isn't in the interests of the Columbianbourgeoisie. George: Yeah! Sinn Fein/IRA said they wanted to implement a

Re: M-TH: Keynes - Marx

1999-10-27 Thread r.i.p
And there is no unity between them? That is undialectical. Marx knew well enough the need under bourgeois democracy to engage in the battle for reforms. Indeed Wages Price and Profit (which goes under a different name in the USA) is an argument reaffirming the importance of the working

M-TH: Re: A new regular feature

1999-10-27 Thread Gerald Levy
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

Re: M-TH: Fw: Australian referendum

1999-10-27 Thread George Pennefather
Kim Who is the ISO Warm regards George Pennefather Be free to check out our Communist Think-Tank web site at http://homepage.tinet.ie/~beprepared/ Yes, the DSP is calling for a yes vote and also encouraging people write on the ballot paper - by direct election. The ISO is calling for a no

Re: M-TH: Re: A new regular feature

1999-10-27 Thread r.i.p
I thought Proyect was being sarcastic. Such higher forms of wit are beyond him. But in any case we're here to discuss Marxism, not the fetid projections of subscribers to other lists. Russell __ Get Your Private, Free Email at

Re: M-TH: Gusmao and East Timor

1999-10-27 Thread THE WORLD SOCIALIST MOVEMENT(via THE SOCIALIST PARTY of Great Britain)
Dear George, -- The fact that Gusamao has apparently asked the remaining Indonesians settlers to stay in East Timor is an indication of the reactionary politics of this man. Again nationalism betrays the cause it is supposed to promote. He is only some days back in East Timor and

M-TH: US elections

1999-10-27 Thread George Pennefather
Given that the political programmes of the main political parties in the United States are increasingly converging on each other personality tends to become the key issue in elections. Image becomes all because there is hardly anything left to distinguish one bourgeois party from another.