In a message dated 9/12/02 11:17:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Recently, I was trying to convince my son, who has Asperger's Syndrome
(borderline autism), that nothing can ever be perfect. This goes against his
perfectionism, a common symptom of AS, which encourages him
In a message dated 9/16/02 3:00:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there anyone out (in the U.S.) there who doesn't "speak only for themselves," i.e., has actual organic links to the working class and have been elected as representatives by some sector of that class?
Or
In a message dated 9/18/02 8:14:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm game. Maybe somebody will start
a pool on how long it takes for me to get thrown
out, though that will not be my intention.
mbs
Thrown Out? This is not the era of industrial socialism organized as a
In a message dated 9/22/02 8:15:06 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 22/09/2002 14:53, you wrote:
I expect we'll soon see all conscientious libertarians and consistent social
Darwinists rise up in revulsion against this Bush doctrine.
Why so? 100 hundred years after
In a message dated 9/23/02 5:28:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am not sure what Sabri's reading of the article is. What I read is that
the public universities are underfunded [The Economist approves of this]
and that private universities are becoming more prominent.
In a message dated 9/27/02 6:42:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have not seen any anti-war activity from any of the "leaders" in
government. I just sent a note to my former student -- his wife used to
babysit for us and he helped keep our tractor in repair -- who is now
In a message dated 9/27/02 1:52:51 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think you're right. Many times on pen-l, I've railed against the Mandarin Mentality of academics, who use all sorts of unneeded jargon or math in order to make their ideas seem profound (or to get tenure, or
In a message dated 10/1/02 7:28:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Carrol Cox wrote:
But again, my central point is that incontinent use of the label
"fascist" shows a naive faith in the goodness of simple capitalist
democracy.
If capitalist democracy were such a total
In a message dated 10/1/02 6:07:55 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Carrol Cox wrote,
To call the Bush administration fascist is capitalist apologetics.
It is also bad American history. The Bush administration's ideological
extremism is as "American as cherry pie". Fascism
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From a conversation in the 1970s between rich dad and author Robert T. Kiyosaki:
"Do you remember me telling you about ERISA?" asked rich dad.
"Yes, vaguely," I replied. "You've
"What made up the fascist character of the counter revolution was not simply its brutality or violence, but the fact that the 'revolt of the poor whites' cloaked itself in the mantle of saving the South. The fascist led 'revolt' was the absolute agent of finance capital of the North. The
In a message dated 10/3/02 6:41:44 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But unwittingly, and at the expense of Iraq, what is being forged through
all this jostling is a world government. It may take several decades more,
but the pace is accelerating, and it could be shorter than
He's the man
with the plan
has a counterfeit dollar in his hand.
He's mister know it all.
Must be see
There's no doubt,
He the coolest one with the biggest mouth.
He's Mister know it all.
When you say that he living wrong
He will say that he's living right
and you would be a better man . . . .
In a message dated 10/4/02 8:28:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
New York TIMES/October 4, 2002
My Economic Plan
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Although other news has been drowned out by the barking of the dogs of war, something ominous is happening on the economic front. It's not
In a message dated 10/4/02 9:15:08 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My own view of the business "cycle" is a combination of over-investment theory and Keynes. In some eras, capitalism over-shoots relative to supply constraints (as in the late 1960s) so that there are cost
In a message dated 10/4/02 5:42:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Let us conclude this book by making some observations on three things we
will have to do to achieve a society founded upon the above principles.
First, any new society worthy of the name will have to embrace
In a message dated 10/4/02 4:26:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Tom,
I just want to repeat something I said earlier. Maybe you missed it, it is easy to do that on this prolific list. Fascism is a concept as well as a word with historical-polical meaning. You can take
In a message dated 10/7/02 2:33:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The Baker report highlights massive shortages in world oil supplies which
now leave the US facing 'unprecedented energy price volatility' and has led
to recurring electricity black-outs in areas such as
In a message dated 10/8/02 6:11:09 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As for the assertion that the "bourgeoisie and the working class have
nothing in common", I do not think that is true. There is a contradiction
between the working class and the bourgeoisie. There is both
In a message dated 10/10/02 3:15:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The reason the revolution is blocked is because technology and materialism alone do not drive qualitative changes in social organization. The leap is not entirely objective, we much apply creative
In a message dated 10/13/02 6:51:31 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The entertainer, who like Powell is a black man of Jamaican descent,
criticized the secretary when asked by radio host Ted Leitner whether
he thought Powell had taken a low profile as the Bush administration
In a message dated 10/13/02 9:51:06 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"Devine, James" wrote:
Seeds of Protest Growing on College Campuses
By TAMAR LEWIN
New York TIMES/Oct. 12, 2002
[CLIP]
"We knew that military action was likely soon, and wanted to give
students who
In a message dated 10/21/02 8:33:17 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Shopping for a pair of shoes? Chances are that nimble Chinese hands
sewed them, along with nearly 80% of the footwear purchased in the
United States. That French provincial bedroom set on the showroom floor?
Singer Belafonte Likens Powell to 'House Slave'
Wed Oct 9, 5:06 PM ET
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer Harry Belafonte (news) lashed out at
Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) in a racially
charged radio interview, likening the former general to a plantation
slave
In a message dated 11/5/02 2:10:07 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The short answer is that during WWII the soviet people fought against a
fascism whose explicit aim was their enslavement; in 1989, they were sold
out by Stalinist bureaucrats and black marketeers.
The
In a message dated 11/5/02 2:10:07 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why did Stalin sign on to the Nazi-Soviet Nonagression Pact? It only
bought time for the Nazis - that is why they wanted this pact so
badly!. Why didn't Stalin double cross Hitler as a "true revolutionary"
In a message dated 11/6/02 2:35:11 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
:
"The Chamberlain government ., as a defender of capitalism, refused
. .
. to enter into an alliance with the USSR against Germany. . . .
In the pact of August 23rd, 1939, they (the Soviet government --
In a message dated 11/8/02 10:53:49 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm aware of the ideological importance of the fact and/or illusion of
mobility, but I think leftists need in addition to have a grasp of its
material reality (and/or unreality). And its ideological importance
In a message dated 11/10/02 6:51:02 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jim Devine:
It's quite possible that Pinker is attacking the kind of communism
that's popularly imagined - - the kind of gray homogeneity that
Stalinism tried to impose - - rather than the kind of communism
In a message dated 11/10/02 9:44:44 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Louis Proyect wrote:
Again, Johnson specifically argues against the view that biology
determines some sort of "eternal nature of things." And Chomsky, as I
read him, isn't hostile to revolution _per se _ as
In a message dated 11/10/02 9:51:21 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Perelman:Doyle's post was outstanding. ... I was not sure that we could learn much from Pinker.
I agree. Doyles' contribution was great!
It should be remembered that I was not defending Pinker or
In a message dated 11/10/02 11:09:40 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Louis P. writes: I am not going to take up Jim Devine's misunderstanding of the sociobiology issues posed by Johnson/Pinker since Doyle Saylor has done so with such alacrity. Instead I will focus on the
In a message dated 11/11/02 1:03:56 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 10/11/02 20:30 -0500, Louis Proyect wrote:
Jim Devine:
I was instead thinking in terms of Marx's principle that workers can only
be truly liberated by the working people themselves, not by some
In a message dated 11/11/02 7:19:48 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If this list were reduced to everybody who agreed with me ideologically,
I would be writing e-mails to myself and nobody else. I don't think that
the humor is terribly disruptive; it is not constructive
In a message dated 11/11/02 7:04:21 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ain't a fucking word in this proposition about some goddamn working class. The class consciousness of the working class was vital in a different way during the transition from agrarian relations to industrial
In a message dated 11/14/02 8:44:08 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The fact is that the Russian Revolution failed, leading to the rise of a
powerful new stratum, a self-selecting elite (the CPSU). There were lots
of things that happened that were out of socialists' control
"But the perfecting of machinery is making human labor superfluous. If the introduction and increase of machinery means the displacement of millions of manual by a few machine-workers, improvement in machinery means the displacement of more and more of the machine-workers themselves. It means, in
"But the perfecting of machinery is making human labor superfluous. If the introduction and increase of machinery means the displacement of millions of manual by a few machine-workers, improvement in machinery means the displacement of more and more of the machine-workers themselves. It means, in
In a message dated 11/18/02 3:34:57 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John Gulick wrote:
the "state capitalism" thesis (advanced by both the News and Letters gang
and the Rethinking Marxism crowd, among others) is a sorry artifact of
political convenience and intellectual
In a message dated 11/19/02 8:27:15 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(Sooner or later it had to happen. Peter Singer, an "animal rights
leftist," who also argues that handicapped children should be killed for
their own good, has written a new book promoting globalization in
In a message dated 11/18/02 7:23:29 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Joanna - I'm an anarchist leaning independent socialist myself. (I
would explain why I'm not an anarchist, but I doubt it would be of great
interest to anyone.) I know that Stalin was a butcher, monster,
In a message dated 11/20/02 9:36:10 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In a message dated 11/20/02 3:53:26 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 11/18/02 7:23:29 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In a message dated 11/20/02 3:53:26 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 11/18/02 7:23:29 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Monster, butcher, mass murderer? I have an opinion about monsters in
American history and
In a message dated 11/20/02 6:19:04 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wednesday, November 20, 2002 at 16:17:51 (-0800) Devine, James writes:
...
1) while it makes sense for Stalin to make a deal with Hitler from a
nationalist perspective given the circumstances, does it make
In a message dated 11/21/02 7:17:58 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[was: RE: Re: Rx6: Joanne- re 2WW - I almost forgot]
Michael asks why we should give a sh*t about Stalin. It's simple. One way to figure out how to arrange for socialist success in the future is to try to
In a message dated 11/21/02 5:37:29 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
one can take a "history make all" position and absolve Stalin sort of a al Louis althusser. if there are real objective heavily weighing historical conditions that leave not much room for soviet policy
Part 2 of 3
Let us attack the question from another side. How can one have a transition to communism without a communist class, which is also in transition? Industrial society has industrial classes. Classes emerge on the basis of the productivity infrastructure and its tools - technology. What
Part 3 of 3
If Stalin would have done this, that or the other: if this leader would have done it "my way": if there was more democracy; if Stalin was not a monster; if this or that agreement was not made, etc. Fine, I will not object to this. Stalin was irrational on this and that policy and such
In a message dated 11/20/02 5:11:02 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What is this strange fascination with Stalin?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To a not small degree it is
In a message dated 11/20/02 5:42:14 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"It totally goes against the grain of how I was raised," said Bart
Dellabella, 62, a retired Lucent draftsman who has begun driving a truck
after losing virtually the entire balance of his 401(k) account,
"I have dealt more at length with the "undiminished" proceeds of labor, on the one hand, and with "equal right" and "fair distribution", on the other, in order to show what a crime it is to attempt, on the one hand, to force on our Party again, as dogmas, ideas which in a certain period had some
In a message dated 11/22/02 9:21:11 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is no doubt that automation and, at least for the past 30
years or so, computerization have been on going transformations
in the current mode of production but there had been other
periods in the past in
In a message dated 11/22/02 10:09:06 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I said:
I don't mean to say that we are not experiencing
an evolutionary leap in the mode of production,
because I personally don't have sufficient data
to conclude either way, but maybe we can explain
this
In a message dated 11/22/02 11:54:55 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Not that I disagree with that evolution of speculative capital
contains a life of its own, that is, it is own laws, but I am not
sure if we really can write down what exactly those laws are. Who
knows! Maybe,
In a message dated 11/24/02 3:46:42 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
People do not use Marxist terminology, my impression is that analyzing the
superstructure in relation to changes in the economic base, is so
widespread that most commentators do not notice that this is
I forgot who I was replying to, but the article is worthwhile - to me. (To much fun).
Melvin P.
"Communism no longer exists, American military power has never
been greater, but the U.S. has never been so insecure and its people
more vulnerable. After fifty years of interventions in the
In a message dated 11/28/02 12:59:01 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"He's a very angry guy, a hostile guy. He's much like Nixon. So
they're very, very careful to choreograph every move he makes.
They don't want him anywhere near protestors, because he would
lose his temper."
In a message dated 12/1/02 6:24:52 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The sort of inequalities that the difference principle would endorse was
illustrated in Alec Nove's The Economics of Feasible Socialism. In 1979,
Pravda admitted that the "complexity of the central plan", which
In a message dated 12/5/02 5:19:47 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Then why is Japan so weak and trying to get a grip and stay
competitive in the global economy? That is the making of another
email. I also want to write about finding common ground between your
economic model
In a message dated 12/7/02 1:14:22 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bush is starting to run out of options, because whatever is done with the
currency or taxes, fundamentally there is a finite global mass of exchange
value. It is a zero sum game. The incessant drive of
In a message dated 12/9/02 8:23:37 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Real life proved how senseless the plan was. Kuibyshev had recklessly
predicted that costs would go down, meanwhile they went up: although the
plan allocated 22 billion rubles for industry, transportation and
In a message dated 12/12/02 2:49:33 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Capitalism
in the period of US hegemony, which is the period of Extremist
Imperialism, has entered a twilight period of moribund decay and
self-destruction. This Law, the Law of Social Thermodynamics, is one
In a message dated 12/17/02 6:36:23 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was reminded of the South African coal miners who were forced by
apartheid to live long distances from their job. In the USA you are
beginning to see a kind of economic apartheid.
Go to
In a message dated 12/20/02 6:41:48 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"America was born in the streets," the posters for "Gangs" proclaim. Later,
Amsterdam Vallon, in the aftermath of the draft riots, muses that "our
great city was born in blood and tribulation." Nobody as
In a message dated 12/23/02 12:26:50 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So what has happened for the conservative right that Bush let him [Lott] fall?
When you are about to incinerate dark skinned people in the Middle
East by sending black American soldiers to their deaths, you
In a message dated 12/25/02 5:35:56 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Dan and Melvin,
My two cents related to your thread on Lott:
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/1223-06.htm
Seth Sandronsky
I just read the article above and it was short, sweet and to the point -
In a message dated 12/27/02 12:23:23 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
QUICK SUMMARY OF THE MESSAGES: SCIENTISTS FROM ANOTHER PLANET CREATED ALL
LIFE ON EARTH USING D.N.A.
Traces of this epic masterpiece of creation can be found in all religious
writings. It is to them that
The closest I have seen to scientific enquiry into the birth of the planet is the Manichean (Sabi'a) recent translation of the Kinsa riba. in it seems that the planet was boiling hot for millions of years ago and then it cooled and there was life etc. sounds pretty cool. also in that it seems that
In a message dated 12/26/02 10:44:13 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is quite hopeless to fight against the use of terms such as
"crazy," "nuts," "loony tunes," even "lunacy" and "lunatic," to apply to
intellectual, social, or political characteristics. But your (and my)
In a message dated 12/27/02 4:13:15 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In the language of the Marxist doctrine, this means that man's evolutionary advance - his qualitative emergence to homo-sapien-sapien, did not take place on the basis of the discovery of fire or under the
In a message dated 12/27/02 11:30:52 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I saw it tonight. It's an incredible movie.
...
Some of the comments by reviewers and LP's
friend reflect disapproval for failure to
find the good guy/bad guy fault line in the
movie. But there is no such
In a message dated 12/27/02 4:13:15 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am disappointed by Melvin's contribution - Re: [PEN-L:33437] Re: Rael: "atheist, non-profit, spiritual organisation",
You do raise an interesting question concerning the rise of commodity production and
In a message dated 12/30/02 12:46:43 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a different concept of ideology to that summed up in your description. See the discussion in the encyclopedia of the Marxists Internt Archive
http://www.marxists.org/glossary/frame.htm
"Here
In a message dated 12/31/02 12:59:53 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You are free to suggest in turn that there are some differences of emphasis in what I am saying here and what Engels said in the passage you quoted. We could try joining in the middle and say what a wonderful
In a message dated 1/9/03 1:47:16 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 12:40 PM 01/09/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Flash. I do not want to reignite the debates over Trotsky, but
the Bush administration just appointed his great granddaughter,
Nora Volkow, to head up the national
In a message dated 1/10/03 6:35:39 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
P.S. Who are these French fellows Dumenil and Levy? They seem to be
quite prolific.
http://www.cepremap.ens.fr/~levy/index.htm
--
The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org
Thanks Lou.
I immediately thought
In a message dated 1/16/03 3:28:18 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
as a an ethicist friend of mine says, one of the
strongest (and easiest)
moral cases one can make is by pointing to the
contradiction between moral
theory and actual practice (i.e., hypocrisy),
because there's
In a message dated 1/16/03 7:08:15 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hmm, thanks for the references. I wonder, though, what really counts
as "societal" discrimination and what counts as "governmental"? If
the government spends its resources on the privileged and not on the
poor,
In a message dated 1/19/03 6:42:40 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"Affirmative action" in the modern sense arose from a policy (the "Philadelphia Plan") of Nixon's, announced in 1969, to give blacks some preference in federal hiring. (It's sort of funny that Bush's
Over the past 30 days I have followed the entirety of the debate on Marxline held under the title "Oil and Overproduction." Off and on I have written several fragments - not published, as this discussion heated up and much of these fragments will probably be left to the criticism of the mice, as
My apology, this fragment was sent to wrong list and outside the bounds of Pen-l current discussion. Meant for the A-List.
Melvin P.
There is also an imperial grief. I hope humane people on this list will forgive me, in speculating whether this tragedy might do anything to knock Bush's imperial arrogance. The idea that the whole nation must go into mourning because it is shocking that 7 people trained for struggle might fall
I am not sure that distribution should be at the center. An autoworker with 30 hours of overtime makes a good wage, but probably does not lead a good life. Marx said that all economics comes down to the economics of
time.
The "economics of time" provides an entry point into the logic of the era
At 06/02/03 01:12 +, Alois wrote:
I look at PEN-L and all I see are a bunch of LIBERALS from universities whose economic schemes all seem to involve big government coming in to enact their redistributionist schemes. I see a lot of talk about economics, including the discredited Marx.
reply
Here we see the issue of bodies of armed men, coming together with the
issue of confused notions of justice, coming together with an ideological apparatus that informs and affects the process by which decisions are made. That is catalyzed by the technological brilliance of the internet, which
In a message dated 2/7/03 8:51:08 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BISMARCK, ND-The stage was set for another international
showdown Monday, when chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans
Blix confirmed that the remote, isolationist state of
North Dakota is in possession of a large
The other day you wondered if I could theorize the difference between
antagonistic and non-antagonistic contradictions. At least off hand I
can't. (Incidentally, the idea is not only from Mao. In Capital Marx
will speak of "antagonisms," meaning I think "antagonistic
contradiction" in Mao's
In a message dated 2/9/03 4:02:27 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In On Contradiction (August 1937) he quoted Lenin 'Antagonism and contradiction are not at all one and the same. Under socialism, the first will disappear, the second will remain.'
This is in the section on
In a message dated 2/11/03 12:02:59 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How about...
A series of external issues have challenged the internal unity of NATO
since the fall of the Berlin Wall
Bosnia
Kosova
Aghanistan
now Iraq
soon North Korea
These are the external factors but
In a message dated 2/12/03 10:40:35 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Devine, James wrote:
LP writes: I believe that Lenin characterized the state as the
executive committee of the bourgeoisie.
>From the Communist Manifesto: Section 1
Each step in the development of the
Presentation of the Question: The Aristocracy of Labor and Lenin's "Imperialism and the Split In Socialism," written 1916.
Let us begin with what Lenin wrote and not what someone said Lenin meant.
"The proletariat is the child of capitalism -- of world capitalism, and not only of European
Part 2
"On December 7, 1889, Engels wrote to Sorge: "The most repulsive thing here [in England] is the bourgeois 'respectability', which has grown deep into the bones of the workers Even Tom Mann, whom I regard as the best of the lot, is fond of mentioning that he will be lunching with the
Part 3
Let us return to what Lenin wrote and not a paraphrase or what some said Lenin said.
" . . .Imperialism is monopoly capitalism. Every cartel, trust, syndicate, every giant bank is a monopoly Super profits have not disappeared; they still remain. The exploitation of all other countries
In a message dated 2/12/03 5:15:10 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 12/02/03 13:52 -0500, Melvin wrote:
"The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie."
"Or the state as the executive committee of the
Is there a white wage? Well whites generally make 1/3 more than blacks, but that is not the same as saying there is a white wage. What that says is that the result of racism is that less whites form the core of the working class. More whites are likely to be employed in professions, as managers,
Lenin wrote a lot of material in the year 1916, not just "Imperialism and the Split in Socialism." The passages below are from "A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism."
"Is the actual condition of the workers in the oppressor and in the oppressed nations the same, from the standpoint
In a message dated 2/13/03 1:19:26 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would say it is more than the bureaucracy. I think the state has fuzzy boundaries as we should expect.
I illustrated an application of what I was arguing for in my post of 23 Dec 2002 "Frist's ideological
I just finished watching a special on Michael Jackson and Phil Donahue's interview of Pat Buchanan - three-time runner for President of the USA and a man who calls himself a "Populist Conservative."
Mr. Buchanan spoke passionately on a number of issues including abortion, immigration policy,
In a message dated 2/17/03 7:04:30 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Protests in about 20 cities around state, including cities that rarely - if ever-see demos.
Largest in Sarasota at about 1500, 700 in Miami, 200 in ft. Lauderdale, 300 here in Orlando, 100 in Gainesville, 150
In a message dated 2/18/03 12:53:19 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"The present condition of South Carolina can only be understood by a
consideration of the population and the changes which have taken place
in it since the close of the war. There are now about three hundred
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