How the US Government goes about saving its ass

2003-10-30 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
The bureaucratic machine swings in motion. The Senate Intelligence Committee of the US Senate now gives the CIA 48 hours to supply files on intelligence it gathered on Iraq prior to the start of the military campaign. The deadline was communicated by Pat Roberts and John Rockefeller, in a response

Re: Interview with Karl Marx

2003-10-30 Thread soula avramidis
this Karl Marx is tame, domesticated and suitable for a western audience so much so that he could be in few years a candidate for the pentagon cabal. i like the way he demeaned Slavs; there was a definite flirt with the third Reich there. that democratic centralism and Hegel are simple anomalies

Re: Teaching in Large Classrooms

2003-10-30 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/29/03 07:59PM San Diego Union Tribune October 27, 2003 New SDSU classroom can seat 520 students By Lisa Petrillo UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER snip This single room will enable roughly a dozen SDSU faculty members, in just one semester, to teach nearly 7,000 students. The

Re: Interview with Karl Marx

2003-10-30 Thread Kenneth Campbell
soula avramidis writes: this Karl Marx is tame, domesticated and suitable for a western audience Karl _was_ tame, polite and reasonable in interview and personal interaction. He spoke to the other side in a conversation -- didn't sit there delivering monologues. Quite human. Sorry about that,

The casualisation of labour in the United States

2003-10-30 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
What is the growth area in the United States labour market ? Answer: casual labour. 122,000 seasonally adjusted jobs in temporary help employment were added since April. This sector tends to be a sensitive indicator for overall employment movements. Global Insight estimates that more than 93% of

Re: Interview with Karl Marx

2003-10-30 Thread andie nachgeborenen
--- soula avramidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this Karl Marx is tame, domesticated and suitable for a western audience so much so that he could be in few years a candidate for the pentagon cabal. Don't be silly. Just because he's not your sort of PC firebrand doesn't make someone a sellout.

Re: Teaching in Large Classrooms

2003-10-30 Thread k hanly
Connecting students through teleconferencing etc. is surely a common practice. It is used extensively by IUN interuniversities north in Manitoba a co-operative programme of three Manitoba universities. This is thought of as a cost effective way of teaching courses in remote northern reserves and

Re: Interview with Karl Marx

2003-10-30 Thread Carrol Cox
Kenneth Campbell wrote: Karl _was_ tame, polite and reasonable in interview and personal interaction. He spoke to the other side in a conversation -- didn't sit there delivering monologues. Quite human. Not true, or wholly true, from various accounts I have read. It would be true,

Re: Interview with Karl Marx

2003-10-30 Thread Devine, James
Soula writes: that democratic centralism and Hegel are simple anomalies unrelated to his thought is rather strange. JKS writes:Although I think the anti-Hegelian view is wrong it has a respectable pedigree. Althusser madea career out of arguing that MArx was no Hegelian. methinks that the

Re: Interview with Karl Marx

2003-10-30 Thread Kenneth Campbell
Carrol Cox writes: [Some general gossip] We all have our moments, good and bad. That's the very definition of quite human. Do you have a different one? Ken. -- Gossip is charming! But scandal is merely gossip made tedious by morality. -- Oscar Wilde

militias

2003-10-30 Thread Devine, James
from MS SLATE'S news summary today: The New York Times leads with President Bush's apparent order to get more Iraqi police trained pronto. During what appeared to be an Iraq (re)assessment meeting with aides yesterday, Bush made it clear that [training] is not happening fast enough, one unnamed

Engels's use of the term Marxist

2003-10-30 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
In his foreword to his essay Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy (1886), dated February 21, 1888, Frederick Engels does use the term Marxist, namely, he claimed confidently, In the meantime, the Marxist world outlook has found representatives far beyond the boundaries of

Re: Interview with Karl Marx

2003-10-30 Thread soula avramidis
a young man ran towards the old marx all joy and zeal wanting to join the cause; marx simply told him to bugger off. he was nice but not naive. he was not a racist. the only way forward is the rule iron rule of the working class, capitalism was born with blood and fire and it will go down that

Engels's use of the term Marxist -- and Ours

2003-10-30 Thread andie nachgeborenen
Thanks, I'd missed that. But one really has to look for it, right? Calling scientific socialism Marxism isn't something either of them did muchj, Marx, never; in a couple of letters, Engels reports that Marx rejected the label in particular contexts. I don't have the references to hand, but some

Re: Interview with Karl Marx

2003-10-30 Thread Kenneth Campbell
Hey! soula avramidis! a young man ran towards the old marx all joy and zeal wanting to join the cause; marx simply told him to bugger off. he was nice but not naive. That sounds heartbreaking. I'm sorry to hear it. If you, personally, have to believe that Karl Marx was about the iron rule of

Learning from Lawrence?

2003-10-30 Thread Louis Proyect
Associated Press, October 30, 2003 BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Saboteurs brought a trainload of U.S. Army supplies to a fiery halt west of Baghdad on Thursday, as a Ramadan campaign of terror bombs and escalating attacks spurred a new Iraq pullout by international aid groups. full:

Nailing Krugman

2003-10-30 Thread Louis Proyect
Counterpunch, October 30, 2003 CounterPunch Diary Paul Krugman: Part of the Problem By ALEXANDER COCKBURN Enter the world of Paul Krugman, a world either dark (the eras of Bush One and Bush Two), or bathed in light (when Bill was king). What do you think of the French revolution? someone is

Re: Interview with Karl Marx

2003-10-30 Thread Doug Henwood
soula avramidis wrote: a young man ran towards the old marx all joy and zeal wanting to join the cause; marx simply told him to bugger off. he was nice but not naive. he was not a racist. the only way forward is the rule iron rule of the working class, capitalism was born with blood and fire and

Re: Engels's use of the term Marxist -- and Ours

2003-10-30 Thread Grant Lee
From: andie nachgeborenen Calling scientific socialism Marxism isn't something either of them did much According to Hal Draper, Marx never referred to scientific socialism either, although the term was already around, invented by Karl GrĂ¼n. Engels obviously _did_ use it. I believe it was

Re: militias

2003-10-30 Thread Paul
The full article is curious when read closely. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/30/politics/30PREX.html It seems to me like the continuing saga of the Generals\State\CIA vs the Radicals over the need to 'backpedal' faster. The article does indeed start with a description of an effort to take

iraq joke

2003-10-30 Thread joanna bujes
Mildly funny. J. Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: Iraq perspective Up in Heaven, Alexander the Great, Frederick the Great and Napoleon are looking down on events in Iraq. Alexander says, Wow, if I had just one of Bush's armored divisions, I would definitely have conquered

back to the 'strong dollar' mantra

2003-10-30 Thread Eubulides
[New York Times] October 30, 2003 Treasury Chief Says China Isn't Manipulating Its Currency By KENNETH N. GILPIN Seeking to avoid the onset of what could turn into a trade war with China, Treasury Secretary John W. Snow told senators today that Beijing was not manipulating its currency exchange

Death of contract people..

2003-10-30 Thread k hanly
Someone was asking about contract workers being killed in Iraq. Here is a sample, also some in Gaza. The article points out that many military functions are contracted out and resulting deaths are not in body counts; also, the costs of war are hidden. Cheers, Ken Hanly

In defence of Krugman and against Alexander Cockburn: choice of targets

2003-10-30 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Alexander Cockburn, whom I traditionally respect and admire, now writes: Krugman is a press agent, a busker, for Clintonomics. For him as for so many others on the liberal side, the world only went bad in January, 2001. If a Democrat, pretty much any Democrat conventional enough to win Wall

Re: Engels's use of the term Marxist - reply to Justin

2003-10-30 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Hi Justin, Thanks, I'd missed that. But one really has to look for it, right? Yes, although when I studied Engels's writings (published and unpublished) in the early 1980s, I found several loci. It is just that I do not have the literature handy here anymore, and I am too preoccupied to go to

Re: Interview with Karl Marx

2003-10-30 Thread soula avramidis
Why would I disagree with that,... what I disagree with is the notion that he is simply bigger than bentham, spencer or jevons. it is not a question of magnitude he simply does not fit with the rest of them and should be treated like that out of respect for the man. the minute we become selective