Re: M-TH: Marx on GOLD

1999-06-07 Thread Lew
e time ago. Contrary to what the voodoo economists will tell you, private banks cannot create something out of nothing. The idea that banks can create credit "at the stroke of a pen" is a piece of bullshit instigated by Keynes. Treat it with the contempt it deserves. -- Lew --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: SV: M-TH: Marx on GOLD

1999-06-09 Thread Lew
me kind of technical issue they don't need to bother with. -- Lew --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: SV: M-TH: Marx on GOLD

1999-06-10 Thread Lew
plain what their monetary theory is. Perhaps you can oblige and explain the claim, in your earlier post, why Marxists should take seriously Keynes' writings on finance? -- Lew --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: M-TH: Re: Luxemburg v Lenin?

1999-07-17 Thread Lew
y... In a class society, 'the nation' as a homogeneous socio-political entity does not exist. Rather, there exist within each nation, classes with antagonistic interests and 'rights'". (From _The National Question: Selected Writings of Rosa Luxemburg_, ed. by Horace Davis, 1976) -- Lew

Re: M-TH: Re: dialectical materialism/activist materialism

1999-08-08 Thread Lew
whose shoulders we gain a wider perspective recognised it themselves? But why should we, as socialists or Marxists, adopt such a perspective? In what way does it contribute to the struggle for socialism? -- Lew --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: M-TH: Re: Super exploitation and relative monopoly

1999-09-05 Thread Lew
mains: whence came the capitalists originally?" (Ch XXIX). -- Lew --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: M-TH: Ukraine - Keynes - Lenin

1999-10-21 Thread Lew
arx at times had some sympathy with. But the attempt to remedy underconsumption leads inevitably to Keynesianism, the belief that basically the problems of capitalism can be overcome (albeit temporarily) by an injection of purchasing power. Marx showed why this was bound to fail and the history of capitalism

M-TH: The influence of intelligence services on the British left

1999-10-31 Thread Lew
r the CPGB is evident from the revelations concerning the smuggling in of Moscow gold. That alone should have alerted Jacques and others to the true purpose of the CPGB. But of course it didn't. Frankly, I don't know how they sleep at night. -- Lew --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: M-TH: Marx at Seattle

1999-12-03 Thread Lew
complemented by the non-hierarchical nature of the means they used for organising this event - the Internet. -- Lew --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: M-TH: LSA welcomes Livingstone's decision to stand for major

2000-03-08 Thread Lew
plete shit and the politics he dabbles in are shit. Avoid shit! Don't vote for shit! -- Lew --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: M-TH: Re: Capital is wrong (production for sale, or not)

2000-03-26 Thread Lew
ourgeoisie but the resulting *society* would look suspiciously like "market socialism", even if only transitionally. -- Lew --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---