[PEN-L:9909] RE: Re: Re: Re: TINAF Special on Washington Nazi Demo --

1999-08-10 Thread Craven, Jim
The famous quote from Hitler, and I don't have it available for exact quote, but it said that only one thing could have stopped the nazis and that is if the enemies of fascism had early on understood their true nature and intentions and those of the nazi programs)and had resolutely struggled to

[PEN-L:9905] Re: Re: Re: TINAF Special on Washington Nazi Demo --

1999-08-10 Thread Wojtek Sokolowski
At 04:35 PM 8/10/99 -0400, Charles Brown wrote: I believe your conclusion below is that we should do nothing about fascistic racist groups, no ? Is this the line that the best way to respond to such groups is to ignore them ? Charles, they are boogie men not because they are not vicious, but

[PEN-L:9903] Re: Re: TINAF Special on Washington Nazi Demo --

1999-08-10 Thread Charles Brown
I believe your conclusion below is that we should do nothing about fascistic racist groups, no ? Is this the line that the best way to respond to such groups is to ignore them ? Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/10/99 01:54PM Charles wrote: But then if neo-Nazis in the U.S. are so harmless,

[PEN-L:9901] Re: Marx site

1999-08-10 Thread Doug Henwood
Jim Devine wrote: Thanks to Louis for the passage from Marx. BTW, in my web search for the passage, I hit upon the fact that going to http://www.marx.org/ just brings up a blank page. What's going on? Ken Campbell used to maintain that on a server in a closet in the Toronto Star building. He

[PEN-L:9898] Marx site

1999-08-10 Thread Jim Devine
Thanks to Louis for the passage from Marx. BTW, in my web search for the passage, I hit upon the fact that going to http://www.marx.org/ just brings up a blank page. What's going on? Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html

[PEN-L:9897] Re: query

1999-08-10 Thread Louis Proyect
Ch. 7 of 18th Brumaire: The small-holding peasants form an enormous mass whose members live in similar conditions but without entering into manifold relations with each other. Their mode of production isolates them from one another instead of bringing them into mutual intercourse. The isolation

[PEN-L:9895] Pro-War Socialists (Help!)

1999-08-10 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
I spotted the following inquiry on h-labor (an e-list for labor historians). The project described below sounds very interesting. Can anyone help him? Yoshie * Dear H-labor members, I'm doing research on the "political identity" of socialists who supported the war effort in America

[PEN-L:9892] The Iron Giant

1999-08-10 Thread Louis Proyect
It is 1957. Home alone, the 10 year old Hogarth Hughes is eating Twinkies and watching television, while his waitress mother is at work. He is enrapt by a scene in a scary late-night science fiction movie about brains crawling across a laboratory floor. Since reports have been circulating about

[PEN-L:9891] Corporate Welfare and International Investment Rules

1999-08-10 Thread Interhemispheric Resource Center
New at Foreign Policy In Focus Corporate Welfare and U.S. Foreign Policy by Janice Shields U.S. aid for international investors, exporters, and importers exceeds $32 billion annually and benefits such "needy" recipients as General Motors, Citibank, Archer Daniels Midland, and Boeing. The Market

[PEN-L:9889] Re: Re: TINAF Special on Washington Nazi Demo --

1999-08-10 Thread Wojtek Sokolowski
At 10:32 AM 8/10/99 -0400, Max Sawicky wrote: ANTI-FASCIST VICTORY IN WASHINGTON Nazis Lose Another Fuehrer In Wake of Cancelled Demo . . . What a waste of effort. A great fuss was made about this march by the media and the city (the latter spending a million or so

[PEN-L:9888] Re: TINAF Special on Washington Nazi Demo --

1999-08-10 Thread Charles Brown
Yes, their time would have been better spent denouncing that true proto-Hitler in Yugoslavia. But then if neo-Nazis in the U.S. are so harmless, who shot Rickie Byrdsong in Illinois ? The Boogie man ? Took less than four people to blow up the Oklahoma City Federal Building. Charles Brown

[PEN-L:9886] U.S. Bombs Iraq For Second Day

1999-08-10 Thread Frank Durgin
Tuesday August 10 7:16 AM ET U.S. Air Force Bombs Iraq Sites For Second Day BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. planes bombed two Iraqi communication centers near the northern city of

[PEN-L:9911] Good News!!!

1999-08-10 Thread Craven, Jim
I just hit on a scheme to turn the U.S. from being dominated primarily by caucasians to being dominated by Indigenous Peoples. I sent a book to my friend Mike Levine (I urge all to visit his website and download some of his very penetrating stuff)who is doing research on the Inuit and the Thule

[PEN-L:9910] Re: Re: Re: TINAF Special on Washington NaziDemo--

1999-08-10 Thread Charles Brown
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/10/99 05:21PM who is going to do the burying? the US government? is there any reason for the Left to trust that institution? or is it the left that will do the burying? with what shovel? ((( Charles: By this approach, we would not have had the Civil

[PEN-L:9918] Power + Success of the Anti-Abortion Right (was TINAF Special onWashington Nazi Demo)

1999-08-10 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Wojtek wrote: Charles, they are boogie men not because they are not vicious, but because they do not pose any serious threat to the political system inth eus (in the way the nazis did in 1930 germany). Despite their rhetorics - I do not think that neo-nazi, religious right and other lunatic

[PEN-L:9908] Re: Re: Re: TINAF Special on Washington Nazi Demo--

1999-08-10 Thread Charles Brown
Wojtek Sokolowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/10/99 05:00PM At 04:35 PM 8/10/99 -0400, Charles Brown wrote: I believe your conclusion below is that we should do nothing about fascistic racist groups, no ? Is this the line that the best way to respond to such groups is to ignore them ? Charles,

[PEN-L:9906] Re: Re: Re: TINAF Special on Washington Nazi Demo--

1999-08-10 Thread Jim Devine
Charles writes: I believe your conclusion below is that we should do nothing about fascistic racist groups, no? Is this the line that the best way to respond to such groups is to ignore them ? as Bill Lear notes, that's not what I said at all. Originally, Charles wrote: But then if neo-Nazis

[PEN-L:9904] Re: Re: TINAF Special on Washington Nazi Demo --

1999-08-10 Thread William S. Lear
On Tuesday, August 10, 1999 at 16:35:18 (-0400) Charles Brown writes: I believe your conclusion below is that we should do nothing about fascistic racist groups, no? Is this the line that the best way to respond to such groups is to ignore them ? Charles, Jim clearly believes we should do

[PEN-L:9902] Feedback from Socialist Register mailing-list on Coca-Cola andcoaine

1999-08-10 Thread Louis Proyect
As an aside to LP's excellent articles on Columbia, the 3rd of which mentioned the inclusion of cocaine in Coca-Cola earlier this century. A few thoughts about Coca-Cola and the invisible hand. It is well known that after cocaine was removed from the formula for Coca-Cola the company continued

[PEN-L:9900] Political Economy Principles Supplement

1999-08-10 Thread Geoff Schneider
Hey folks, Charles Sackrey, Janet Knoedler and I have recently completed a manuscript entitled "Essays in Political Economy." The manuscript is intended to be used as a supplement to a principles of economics course. The supplement includes chapters on Marx, Veblen, Keynes, and Sweden (the

[PEN-L:9899] Dee-fense

1999-08-10 Thread Max Sawicky
It's finally happened. Republican proposed defense spending is below both Clinton's and the Congressional Democrats. Put that together with the last eight years of military activities and the Dems are now the party of a strong defense (sic), while the GOP edges back to it's pre-1940's alignment.

[PEN-L:9896] query

1999-08-10 Thread Jim Devine
can someone tell me where Marx's analysis of the (lack of) political potential of the French peasants (amplifying the Manifesto's comment on the idiocy of rural life) is? thanks ahead of time. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html

[PEN-L:9894] Re: Re: TINAF Special on Washington Nazi Demo --

1999-08-10 Thread Jim Devine
Charles wrote: But then if neo-Nazis in the U.S. are so harmless, who shot Rickie Byrdsong in Illinois ? The Boogie man ? Took less than four people to blow up the Oklahoma City Federal Building. But people like those killers can't be opposed by yelling and screaming at them, since they work

[PEN-L:9893] BLS Daily Report

1999-08-10 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1999 __Private businesses expanded their payrolls by a hefty 310,000 in July, producing the picture of an economy that has yet to cool its expansion, according to data released by BLS. As payrolls grew, employers also reported a 3.8 percent rise in average

[PEN-L:9890] Y2K HOAX

1999-08-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Y2K HOAX About some misinformation An e-mail message being circulated re: Windows software and Y2K about changing the short format date in Windows is a hoax. Read on to see what one of the contributing writers/editors at Windows magazine (Fred Langa) has to say about it and other Y2K