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From: Chris Doss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wow. A water Chubais. If they did that in Russia, they
would have mass opposition rallies. The very idea of
paying bills is a novelty here. What are water costs
like in South Africa? Water is free here (two things
Russia is not
The majority of cars sold in Russia are Russian-made,
or imports of used cars from the West. Not many people
are going to be able to afford a brand-new Volvo.
--- Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Obviously, someone who is very poor needs
transportation will be unlikely to
purchase a
--- Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
CB: Are you saying that the Soviet people knew they
were really just
trying
to catch up with the West again ,and just used the
Communist
terminology to
cover it up or that they didn't realize what they were
really,
pragmatically doing ( simply trying to
--- Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
CB: If they hadn't been doing something that was
building socialism
some kind of threat to capitalism , they wouldn't have
been in such
imminent
danger of being defeated again. The reason
imperialism was especially
focussed on invading and conquering the
by Waistline2
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We have arrived at the very beginning of this process that abolishes
property . . . and not simply allows for a change in the form of property .
. . based on the revolution in the technological regime.
^^
CB: When you say abolish property instead of abolish private
Do we really know at all what a socialist society would do about transportation safety? I think trying to predict from the hostory of Stalinist societies is a very shaky guide. A socialist society, as most conceive it in this list, would be one where there would be a lot more democratic input into
Where did you get it? It's not like there is a Lada dealership on every corner . . . jksDaniel Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I drove a Lada for five years. It was fourteen years old when I got it andwas still going just fine when I gave it away last month. They were builtoff the plans of old
On Saturday, August 14, 2004 at 07:18:13 (-0700) andie nachgeborenen writes:
Do we really know at all what a socialist society would do about
transportation safety? I think trying to predict from the hostory of
Stalinist societies is a very shaky guide. A socialist society, as
most conceive it in
by andie nachgeborenen
Do we really know at all what a socialist society would do about
transportation safety? I think trying to predict from the hostory of
Stalinist societies is a very shaky guide. A socialist society, as most
conceive it in this list, would be one where there would be a lot
--- Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
CB: It is not quite clear that because there was a
Gulag, show trials
of
Party members and other acts of state repression on
specific occasions,
that
there was no or little democratic process in decisions
on other matters
in
Soviet society during Stalin's
The distinction between Stalinist societies that
appropriated the name
socialist and those based upon real democratic input
is absolutely
spot-on.
Bill
--
What would you call the USSR when it had free
elections in 1990?
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Where did you get it? It's not like there is a Lada
dealership on every corner . . . jks
There is here. :)
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Well, I don't want to get into this distraction on the Russian question, but you could call the system bureaucratic collectivism (Schachtman's term) or the command-administrative system (the perestroichiki's term), or totalitarianism, or lots of things, but the fact is we don't really havea good
In a message dated 8/14/2004 8:18:31 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CB: When you say "abolish property" instead of "abolish private property" are you putting forth a different concept than the one that Marx , Engels and Marxists use ? Or just shorthand for what Marxists
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Well, I don't want to get into this distraction on the Russian question,
but you could call the system bureaucratic collectivism (Schachtman's
term) or the command-administrative system
Title: Palast report
Johnnie Be Good
Greg Palast, July 29,
2004
[Boston] The millionaires are dancing now. The balloons are
falling on John Kerry, John Edwards and their nuclear families.
They're playing Johnnie B. Goode over the
loudspeakers. Democrats are hopping up and down like JFK never
Title: Socialist candidate's view
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/aug2004/kerr-a14.shtml
Kerry and the Democratic
campaign: a descent into farce
By Bill Van Auken, SEP presidential candidate
14 August 2004
The presidential campaign of John Kerry has in the two brief weeks
since the
Michael A. Lebowitz wrote:
[Justin]:
Well, I don't want to get into this distraction on the Russian
question, but you could call the system bureaucratic collectivism
(Schachtman's term) or the command-administrative system (the
perestroichiki's term), or totalitarianism, or lots of things, but
the
Among us commonfolk
A vote for Kerry is a vote for corporatism based on fear of Bush.
A vote for Bush is a vote for corporatism based on fear, period.
A vote for Nader is a fearless vote: against corporatism and based on
a want to better the world.
The first two options provide the voter with
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http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/08/chvez-no-se-va-vota-no.html
--
Yoshie
* Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/
* Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/
* Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
* Calendars of Events in Columbus:
In a message dated 8/14/2004 2:47:45 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The reason that Schachtman was dead wrong was that the Stalinist bureaucracy, which he fantasized as a historically new *ruling class*, had no ability (or desire) to inaugurate a new mode of
(The US says the talks have broken down, and are again threatening an
assault on the Imam Ali mosque. Why the assault has been repeatedly delayed
is outlined below. The Sadrists have used the ceasefire during the past 24
hours to encourage and welcome supporters to Najaf, strengthening their
Marvin Gandall wrote:
A spokesman for Al Sadr meanwhile told Agence France Presse
early today that UN troops should be brought into Iraq to replace US forces,
an unrealizable demand indicating the Mehdi Army is anticipating a fight.
Debate on demands of the anti-war movement has been
Unrealizable in the present circumstances, for sure, Carrol, so long as
the US thinks it stll has a chance of building an effective puppet army to
help it crush the resistance, and knows that an invitation to have the UN
come in would be interpreted worldwide as a serious defeat. But if things
I picked this up off the Economic Principles site.
A conference on damages in the government's suit against Harvard
University and one of its star economists, originally slated for July
19, has been rescheduled for September 9.
US District Court Judge Douglas Woodlock presumably will ask all
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