A week ago [6.11.2000] Louis Proyect wrote:
Not only do Hobsbawm, Hill and Thompson fail to live up to the example of
T.A. Jackson, they seem to have forgotten the lessons imparted by A.L.
Morton, the Dean of British Communist historians, who gave the proper
emphasis to Ireland. In the
In many ways SDS was the organizational expression of the 1960s
radicalization, just as the Communist Party was of the 1930s. Given that
fact, it was only a matter of time when a documentary film maker would take
a stab at SDS using the example of a film like "Seeing Red", which was
based on the
I appreciate Nathan Newman's authoritative contributions and him posting
them here. They combine a sure-footed strategic perspective with a strong
grasp of the concrete detail of the case.
They combine theory with practice.
By what is obviously effective cooperative working with a group of
I realise from being able to read a CNN report that it is indeed the
rejected votes that are scrutinised.
However my question (as amended below) is still relevant for the issue of
money, and still more time.
I see "Bob Crawford, who replaced Gov. Jeb Bush as commissioner of
Florida's
Chris,
I am running to a wedding in New Hamphire today, so will have to be quick.
The point of the Palm Beach decision is that what a "fair count" equals is
of course a political decision as long as we use technologies that are known
to be systematically inaccurate and systematically and
So you agree that for you politics is a means of self-expression,
rather than an attempt to make the world a better place?
Brad DeLong
Or that acceptance of the inevitibility of the 'iron cage'
guarantees it, whereas fighting might defeat it.
Brad, I can understand your anger. I feel it
Nathan Newman wrote,
It's an odd contradiction, but we need to see why voting rights challenges
are THE FUNDAMENTAL FIGHT in eletoral politics, far more important than any
third party diversions, because expanded franchise is a pure expansion of
worker power.
First of all I want to acknowledge
Greetings Economist,
Realism in pictures prompted a revolt in thinking very early in the last
century. Picasso started the tilt away from realism in painting, and a
second contemporary of his, Duchamp, added in a "conceptual" element. By
mid century after WWII Modernism (which embodied the
Brad DeLong wrote
Which has nothing to do with whether Nader's intervention in this
election helped make the world a better place. If someone's bleeding
arterially, you get a tourniquet: you don't cut their throat.
Brad,
Focus, Brad! It is now November 12 and there is a very different and
Max:
The wealth tax is a real difference. Enacting the Ackerman/Alstott
scheme might better than anything else now on the horizon. But stake or
no stake, I am still wary of the notion of each individual poor person
as atomized consumer/investor. It may be an accurate reflection of our
social
Have a look at this one and CIRCULATE WIDELY:
http://www.geocities.com/countercoup
Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
Bowen Island, BC
At 10:03 AM 11/11/00 -0800, you wrote:
At 12:42 PM 11/11/2000 -0500, you wrote:
i would like to understand the meme meme!
As I understand it, meme is to society culture as a gene is to an
animal's body. The society and its culture (including technology, I
presume) is seen as simply the sum of
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Hillary Overheard: "I'm the Queen of Hymietown!"
Arrest Yale Law Student with Sack of Absentee Ballots
Socialist Workers Party Assumes Power in Florida County
Noriega Released from Prison, Installed as Florida Governor
Nader to Gore:
I agree that's well taken. But insofar as a great part
of our consumption is individually financed, and ever
more will be so, redistributing wealth in the form of cash
will be an enduring and compelling option in the pursuit
of equality.
mbs
The wealth tax is a real difference. Enacting the
At 01:02 PM 11/12/00 -0500, Max Sawicky wrote:
Have a look at this one and CIRCULATE WIDELY:
http://www.geocities.com/countercoup
Tom Walker
Pretty remarkable, the extent of activity. I've waxed
on this on LBO, so if anyone is interested they can
check the archives. I'll just summarize
Max Sawicky wrote,
I think this is the right protest at the wrong time, and
timing is everything in politics. It is clearly predicated
on Gore's margin of defeat, not on any abiding concern
with democracy.
I agree about the wrong timing but also about the remarkable extent of
activity. With
At 08:39 AM 11/12/2000 -0800, you wrote:
Which has nothing to do with whether Nader's intervention in this election
helped make the world a better place. If someone's bleeding arterially,
you get a tourniquet: you don't cut their throat.
the DLC answer: you have to take responsibility for your
Interesting and not trivial free association about what is going on.
The butterfly effect of the butterfly ballot.
The adversarial two- (or more) party system is meant to be evenly balanced
and meant to give each candidate the opportunity to thwart their opponents.
For a variety of reasons,
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Help
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Said Walker:
it is inevitable that popular protest express itself in
inarticulate and perhaps inappropriate slogans.
Replied Sawicky:
ok. And inappropriate personalities, like Jerry Brown, for instance.
Exactly.
so both sides are full of it. so what?
So the "sidedness" requires that
Thank you.
It is hard to evaluate the argument that to which you responded with the
passage from Hobsbawm, that some of the English marxist historians did not
give the proper emphasis to Ireland.
As far as the criticism of Hill is concerned I cannot see how it fits.
Although not centrally
Chris Burford:
I do not see that one would expect him to put the thesis and be able to
martial the facts that Proyect and Philip Ferguson expect.
But clearly it is not the case that the argument I was postulating was not
opposed to the thesis that despite the existence of fen-clearing in the
There was income tax, mainly. It was low. I think there was a VAT. Look uit
up in David Lane's Economy and Society in the USSR. some title like that.
Lane published a series of books over 20 some years with words like tha in
the title that are worthy, useful, dull, and reliable. --jks
Does
Which has nothing to do with whether Nader's intervention in this election
helped make the world a better place. If someone's bleeding arterially,
you get a tourniquet: you don't cut their throat.
Sorta depends on your attitude towards them, no? If Gore was on fire, I
wouldn't pee on him to
Brad DeLong wrote
Which has nothing to do with whether Nader's intervention in this
election helped make the world a better place. If someone's bleeding
arterially, you get a tourniquet: you don't cut their throat.
Brad,
Focus, Brad! It is now November 12 and there is a very different and more
At 02:20 AM 11/13/2000 +, you wrote:
There was income tax, mainly. It was low. I think there was a VAT. Look
uit up in David Lane's Economy and Society in the USSR. some title like
that. Lane published a series of books over 20 some years with words like
tha in the title that are worthy,
At 20:30 12/11/00 -0500, Proyect wrote:
Chris Burford:
I do not see that one would expect him to put the thesis and be able to
martial the facts that Proyect and Philip Ferguson expect.
But clearly it is not the case that the argument I was postulating was not
opposed to the thesis that
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