Re: Fwd: Waiting for Godot

2003-06-10 Thread Devine, James
3 12:52 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Fwd: Waiting for Godot > "Marxists" are, unfortunately, currently very depressing. They are likea braukellar gang crying in their beer about the old days. That's right, which is why there is no point in callin

Re: Fwd: Waiting for Godot

2003-06-09 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: "Eugene Coyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sabri, don't worry about reading all those books in the library. Ian > has read them all and will tell us about them. > > Gene > == I'm on a futile quest to catch up with Michael P. but there's not enough t

Re: Fwd: Waiting for Godot

2003-06-09 Thread Eugene Coyle
Sabri, don't worry about reading all those books in the library.  Ian has read them all and will tell us about them. Gene Sabri Oncu wrote: Sabri the anarchy-Sufi-Leninist writes: This is why I call myself an Leninist-Leninist with a touch of Yunus Emre, the sufi huma

Re: Fwd: Waiting for Godot

2003-06-09 Thread Sabri Oncu
> Sabri the anarchy-Sufi-Leninist writes: > >>This is why I call myself an Leninist-Leninist with a >>touch of Yunus Emre, the sufi humanist > > That explains where the good humor comes from in your > posts. :) > > We could all use more sufi influence... > > Ken. Thanks! Let me tell you that you d

Re: Fwd: Waiting for Godot

2003-06-09 Thread andie nachgeborenen
> "Marxists" are, unfortunately, currently very depressing. They are likea braukellar gang crying in their beer about the old days. That's right, which is why there is no point in calling oneself that any more. It's sort of sad and sorry.> I can support many things without becoming an "-ist" of i

Re: Fwd: Waiting for Godot

2003-06-09 Thread Kenneth Campbell
Sabri the anarcho-Sufi-Leninist writes: >This is why I call myself an anarcho-Leninist with a >touch of Yunus Emre, the sufi humanist That explains where the good humor comes from in your posts. :) We could all use more sufi influence... Ken. -- Fundamentally, there is no more "morality" in wo

Re: Fwd: Waiting for Godot

2003-06-09 Thread Kenneth Campbell
Hi Aldo -- I enjoyed your post. I like the 3 chaps you happened to mention in the opening, so that part wasn't my fave. Aside from that, I agree, and I like the style. I have often thought of the Godot parallel. That was the thing that attracted me most to Mr. Marx, the early idea of his about be

Re: Fwd: Waiting for Godot

2003-06-08 Thread Sabri Oncu
>From Michael's response I will single out two sentences: > I think that Sabri's note suggests that we don't have > a great difference among us. Yes. This is what I think. In details maybe you differ but, in my opnion, it is not the details but the "totality" what matters. This is why I call myse

Re: Fwd: Waiting for Godot

2003-06-08 Thread michael
I think that Sabri's note suggests that we don't have a great difference among us. I myself have offered policy suggestions to Democratic politicians -- but never with any success. Even so, these politicians could never hope to accomplish anything without some sort of militants acting behind them

Re: Fwd: Waiting for Godot

2003-06-08 Thread Sabri Oncu
Aldo in his first mail: > In a year’s time, a serious Democratic candidate may > be facing down the lonely ranger. We don’t know who > the candidate will be. But he’ll need good economic > programs in a hurry. Someone has to prepare the ammunition, > and keep it dry. FDR had such a team of academi

Re: Fwd: Waiting for Godot

2003-06-08 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L] Fwd: Waiting for Godot >Jim, Ian, and Michael in different ways and words all refer to the mounting tide of revolution as a necessary precondition for success. Till then - it seems - it's waiting for Godot. < I never said anything about "mounting ti