At 16:57 20/11/99 +0100, Hugh wrote:
Gome good historical stuff!
Marx writes about Primitive Capitalist Accumulation in Capital I -- it's
what happens when simple commodity production is straining at the leash.
Dave B leaves the existence of simple commodity producing societies as an
open
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ROMANIANS LIKED LIFE BETTER UNDER COMMUNISM
Reuters
November 21, 1999
BUCHAREST, Romania -- Ten years after communism's fall, 4 in 5
Romanians
are unhappy with the way they live, with 61 percent saying they were
better off under the late
Bobs bullits..
Dave writes..
Burford's analysis of Chechyna starts from the proposition that both
OSCE (the European end of the Atlantic alliance) and Russia are
imperialist. George is closer to the truth when he recognises that
Russia is making a concession to imperialism. This is not
G'day Thaxists,
I don't think it matters whether trying to hang on to the prizes of past
expansionism constitutes an act of imperialism today or not, really. I
reckon we might be missing the point of all this!
I don't reckon Russia can win this war, and I don't reckon it could ever
have
At 18:08 22/11/99 +1100, you wrote:
G'day Bob,
Doug's probably fast asleep just now, so here's an interesting piece he
posted on his list the other day. I'd be interested in Thaxist views on
this meself.
Cheers,
Rob.
[From the bear's den at http://www.LeMetropoleCafe.com]
Frank Veneroso -
I am surprised to read Rob's arguments that Russia is not going to win.
This war is well-supplied logistically and they are already digging in and
are prepared to surround Grozny and shell it throughout a long winter. They
persist in ruling out negotiations.
The one thing that can be said for
What I am saying is that the value of something is the amount of labour
that goes into it. To replace an arbitrary price based on chance and the
market with an arbitrary price based on a commissar's rule of thumb does
not suspend this rule.
Yes but you are looking through the wrong
G'day Chris,
I am glad you reposted this. In view of the volume of correspondence on
LBO-talk I think there is often a role for the issues to be discussed on a
specifically marxism list. And unlike Louis Proyect, you and Bill do not
censor the debate.
But at this stage just a question please.
I am surprised to read Rob's arguments that Russia is not going to win.
This war is well-supplied logistically and they are already digging in and
are prepared to surround Grozny and shell it throughout a long winter. They
persist in ruling out negotiations.
Well, they might call it a win in
