Re: [Pen-l] Syrian refugees, Hungary and the "axis of resistance"

2015-09-15 Thread Carrol Cox
Joseph Catron: For those who aren't familiar with Lou, he's a man who cares very little about facts. You can make of it what you will, but disseminating accurate information is not one of his top priorities (nor low ones). To be frank, he seems to make most of it up as he goes, perhaps assuming

Re: [Pen-l] Syrian refugees, Hungary and the "axis of resistance"

2015-09-15 Thread Carrol Cox
Louis Proyect writes: The Italian fascists were on the side of the Donetsk-Luhansk separatists in 2014. So basically I was 100 percent right and you were 100 percent wrong. == And the relevant political considerations are not changed by _either_ set of facts. That is why I objected so

Re: [Pen-l] Syrian refugees, Hungary and the "axis of resistance"

2015-09-15 Thread Louis Proyect
On 9/15/15 2:00 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Since Charlie has been responding on the subject line, > perhaps he could give us a brief note on that mysterious label. > > Carrol How about this instead: It seems that a week does not go by without some incident in Eastern Europe involving the inhumane

Re: [Pen-l] Syrian refugees, Hungary and the “axis of resistance”

2015-09-15 Thread Charlie
LP: "I was not talking about how the Red Army was deployed across Europe to defeat the Nazis. I was talking about how it was used to strangle the Hungarian Revolution, the Czech revolution in 1968, etc." First, words mean what they say, not what LP re-interprets his words to mean later. "The

Re: [Pen-l] Syrian refugees, Hungary and the “axis of resistance”

2015-09-15 Thread Perelman, Michael
Please, let's drop the personal invective. Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail mperel...@csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com -Original Message- From: pen-l-boun...@lists.csuchico.edu

Re: [Pen-l] Syrian refugees, Hungary and the “axis of resistance”

2015-09-15 Thread Louis Proyect
Yeah, it's about time to put Charley in a spam filter. On 9/15/15 12:25 PM, Perelman, Michael wrote: > Please, let's drop the personal invective. ___ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l

Re: [Pen-l] Syrian refugees, Hungary and the “axis of resistance”

2015-09-15 Thread Louis Proyect
On 9/15/15 11:38 AM, Charlie wrote:> > Third, Stalin died in 1953, and immediate changes began in the CPSU. > Khrushchev's lying speech about Stalin in 1956 came a few months before > Hungary. So weird to see Khrushchev's revelations described as a lie but then again Charley has referred people

Re: [Pen-l] Syrian refugees, Hungary and the "axis of resistance"

2015-09-15 Thread Carrol Cox
I haven't followed any arguments not made _on the list_ -- and hence never click naked URLS. Since Charlie has been responding on the subject line, perhaps he could give us a brief note on that mysterious label. Carrol -Original Message- From: pen-l-boun...@lists.csuchico.edu

Re: [Pen-l] What the Corbyn and Sanders campaigns represent

2015-09-15 Thread Marv Gandall
Thanks. It’s encouraging to see this dissent in the party, but when Sanders endorses Clinton, as he has promised, it’s more likely most of his supporters will fall away and a few will join the PDA rather than continue to organize as you suggest after the election. The steam will go out of the

Re: [Pen-l] What the Corbyn and Sanders campaigns represent

2015-09-15 Thread Robert Naiman
Well, I don't support the third party project in the United States; I don't think it is at all likely to succeed in helping to accomplish anything tangible and useful in any future that we can see; indeed, I hope that the third party project in the U.S. will continue to be at least as irrelevant

Re: [Pen-l] What the Corbyn and Sanders campaigns represent

2015-09-15 Thread Louis Proyect
On 9/15/15 4:15 PM, Robert Naiman wrote: > I certainly don't equate mobilization with seceding from mainstream > political engagement; quite the contrary, seceding from mainstream > political engagement is a form of demobilization. > Maybe you don't see the need for radical solutions to America's

Re: [Pen-l] Syrian refugees, Hungary and the "axis of resistance"

2015-09-15 Thread Joseph Catron
For those who aren't familiar with Lou, he's a man who cares very little about facts. You can make of it what you will, but disseminating accurate information is not one of his top priorities (nor low ones). To be frank, he seems to make most of it up as he goes, perhaps assuming his decent talent

Re: [Pen-l] What the Corbyn and Sanders campaigns represent

2015-09-15 Thread Robert Naiman
A key point is that the US is fundamentally unlike the UK and unlike Europe with respect to the matter - the word "party" has a completely different meaning. In the European context, capturing party institutions through internal party elections can actually mean something fairly decisive. In the

Re: [Pen-l] What the Corbyn and Sanders campaigns represent

2015-09-15 Thread Louis Proyect
On 9/15/15 4:36 PM, Robert Naiman wrote: > If Clinton is so awful - and I agree that she is - why not help Sanders > defeat her, instead of assuming that he will lose to her? According to > recent polls, Sanders is leading her in Iowa and New Hampshire, with > more than 50% in New Hampshire. How

Re: [Pen-l] Syrian refugees, Hungary and the "axis of resistance"

2015-09-15 Thread Louis Proyect
> But Forza Nuova finally came around to seeing the merit of Great Russian > chauvinism as reported in an Italian newspaper on March 23, 2015 (excuse > the Google translation, please): > This is a more useful account: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MARCH 22, 2015 European Far-Right Politicians in Russia

Re: [Pen-l] Syrian refugees, Hungary and the "axis of resistance"

2015-09-15 Thread Louis Proyect
On 9/15/15 4:24 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > For those who aren't familiar with Lou, he's a man who cares very little > about facts. You can make of it what you will, but > disseminating accurate information is not one of his top priorities (nor > low ones). To be frank, he seems to make most of it

Re: [Pen-l] What the Corbyn and Sanders campaigns represent

2015-09-15 Thread Robert Naiman
If Clinton is so awful - and I agree that she is - why not help Sanders defeat her, instead of assuming that he will lose to her? According to recent polls, Sanders is leading her in Iowa and New Hampshire, with more than 50% in New Hampshire. Isn't it odd that 50% of Democrats in New Hampshire

Re: [Pen-l] Syrian refugees, Hungary and the "axis of resistance"

2015-09-15 Thread Louis Proyect
On 9/15/15 4:24 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > For those who aren't familiar with Lou, he's a man who cares very little > about facts. You can make of it what you will, but > disseminating accurate information is not one of his top priorities (nor > low ones). To be frank, he seems to make most of it

Re: [Pen-l] What the Corbyn and Sanders campaigns represent

2015-09-15 Thread Marv Gandall
You may be misunderstanding me. I’m skeptical you can ever have a viable third party movement in the US or elsewhere without an exodus of deeply disaffected supporters from the major left-centre party, perhaps preceded by an unsuccessful internal struggle to change its leadership and

Re: [Pen-l] What the Corbyn and Sanders campaigns represent

2015-09-15 Thread Robert Naiman
The same time that you used to trash Sanders for your expectation that he will endorse Hillary if he loses you could have used to praise Sanders for being the main obstacle right now to her coronation. If your words matter one way, they matter the other way. By the way, I'm just curious, what is

Re: [Pen-l] What the Corbyn and Sanders campaigns represent

2015-09-15 Thread Robert Naiman
It's worth noting, though, that Sanders is mobilizing a lot of people to do more than be mere "supporters." There is an attempt to turn volunteers into real organizers - people who organize events on their own; people who talk to people they don't know on their own and try to have "organizing

[Pen-l] What the Corbyn and Sanders campaigns represent

2015-09-15 Thread Marv Gandall
I’ve often argued that any serious mass protest against declining living standards would express itself both inside and outside the established left-centre parties - with the initial impulse registering more strongly on the inside than on the outside. Accordingly, I’ve supported equally those

Re: [Pen-l] Syrian refugees, Hungary and the “axis of resistance”

2015-09-15 Thread Louis Proyect
On 9/15/15 7:16 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > > I thought this thread was about the origins of the Cold War. At issue > is whether “the encroachment of NATO at the doorstep of Russia is a > direct outcome of the encroachment of the Red Army on nations > throughout Eastern Europe.” > > Fact is that the