Re: [Marxism] Gayatri Spivak on Vivek Chibber
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Spivak on Chibber?...pox on both their houses...which reminds me of Eagleton's masterful dissection of Spivak...even 15 years later it is worth reminding people of it: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n10/terry-eagleton/in-the-gaudy-supermarket Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Thai capitalism contradicts the Brenner thesis
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It only contradicts the Brenner thesis if you believe the origin of capitalism in Siam/Thailand was "national"...which pretty much contradicts all serious historical work on the subject (I assume that reference [13] in the quote will point to the work of Japanese academic Akira Suehiro, who shows that capitalist development in Thailand could not be understood as a national phenomenon). Ungpakorn's work needs to be located in particular debates in Thailand which he is engaged with on the legacies of the CPT's armed struggle ideology. Ungpakorn's particular foil is for dependency theory and the Maoist third worldism dominant in leftist thinking in the 1960s-80s in Thailand, which denied the possibility of capitalist development in Thailand and the emergence of a dominant working class (as against an eternal peasant class). Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Movement in Paraguay
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It's about electricity privatisation (which seems to have been stopped). Greg McDonald wrote: >Anyone else following this story? Sector eléctrico paraguayo se declara en estado de huelga http://www.telesurtv.net/articulos/2013/06/21/sector-electrico-paraguayo-se-declara-en-estado-de-huelga-2245.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] question re Vandana Shiva
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Apologist for Hindu nationalism, aligned with the BJP, anti-communist, supported India's nuke tests...her politics are grounded in a reactionary third worldism. Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Barbara and German DDR films
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks for posting about Barbara, but there are earlier films about the DDR which are not formulaic, IMHO. Volker Schlöndorff's Die Stille nach dem Schuß (released in the US/UK as "The Legend of Rita") and Ken Loach's Fatherland both deal with the DDR in nuanced ways. Loach's Fatherland is especially noteworthy as a form of comparison between actually (then!) existing socialism and actually existing capitalism. Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Robert Hughes will be missed
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == An elitist snob, paleoconservative rather than radical. Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Swedish Labor history question
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In English: Perry Anderson wrote an article about Sweden and the Soc Dems in New Left Review in 1961...You can also check out the archive on Marxists.org: http://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/sweden/index.htm And sections of Donald Sasson's 100 Years of Socialism focus on Sweden. Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The Tower of David
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In the early '90s Caracas dreamed of a shimmering downtown financial centre—now it's the tallest squat in the world http://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/the-tower-of-david/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Icelanders Reject Deal to Repay U.K., Netherlands
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == hat tip to the Icelanders. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704641604576254661016938274.html?mod=googlenews_wsj For the second time, Icelanders voted down a deal to repay Britain and the Netherlands billions of euros lost in the island nation's 2008 financial collapse—at once a bold popular rejection of the notion that taxpayers must bear the burden for bankers' woes and a risky outcome that will complicate Iceland's efforts to rejoin global markets. Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] After unscripted Arab drama, the west sneaks back on set
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == FWIW, the author of this piece is the daughter of Rashid Al-Ghannushi, the leader of Tunisia's main Islamist party. Basically, a religious reformist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_Al-Ghannushi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Party > http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/31/arab-revolution-economics-politics > After unscripted Arab drama, the west sneaks back on set > People were not rebelling solely against dictators but the economic model. > Yet foreign interests may again be calling the shots > by Soumaya Ghannoushi Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Last combat WWI vet hates war, says son
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/last-combat-wwi-vet-hates-war-says-son-20110303-1bfl5.html March 3, 2011 A 110-year-old West Australian man believed to be the world's last surviving WWI combat veteran hated war and only marched in Anzac Day parades when he was ordered to, says his son. Claude Choules is celebrating his 110th birthday with family and friends in Perth on Thursday. He's the last known male survivor of more than 70 million military personnel during WWI, after American veteran Frank Buckles passed away on Sunday also aged 110. Born in England in 1901, Mr Choules served with Britain's Royal Navy onboard the HMS Impregnable in 1916 at the age of 15. The only other surviving WWI veteran is believed to be Britain's Florence Green, who served with the Royal Air Force in a non-combat role and is now aged 110. He joined the battleship HMS Revenge in 1917 and witnessed the surrender of the German Fleet near Firth of Forth in Scotland in 1918. Mr Choules moved to Fremantle where he was seconded to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1926. He was a commissioning crew member of the HMAS Canberra and served with her until 1931 when he discharged from the RAN before rejoining as a torpedo and anti-submarine instructor in 1932. As the acting torpedo officer at Fremantle in WWII, Mr Choules disposed of the first German mine to wash up on Australian soil during WWII, near Esperance, on WA's south coast. He was also tasked with destroying harbour and oil storage tanks at the Fremantle port in case of a Japanese invasion. Mr Choules remained in the RAN after WWII, spending his final working years at the Naval Dockyard Police and joining the crayfishing industry, at Safety Bay, south of Perth. Mr Choules released his autobiography in 2009 titled The Last of the Last, depicting his childhood and move to Australia, as well as his times at war. Mr Choules, who is now blind and almost completely deaf, now lives in a nursing home. He and his wife, who passed away at the age of 98, had two daughters and a son. Mr Choules also has 13 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. His son, Adrian Choules, told AAP Mr Choules was not excited about the milestone birthday or the attention he was receiving as the last surviving war combat veteran. "He couldn't care less about his birthday. He's a celebrity now but that's only because everyone else has died," he said. "He served in two wars but he hated war. He just saw it as a job. "He never marched in an Anzac parade he wasn't ordered to." Mr Choules said although his father was "special" to the family, he did not understand all the "celebrity" attention he was getting from the media. "Someone's got to be the last man standing ... he's just an ordinary man," he said. Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] (no subject)
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == sandia wrote: > Can anyone point me toward reading material that surveys the causes > of the fall of the USSR? Would recommend "Eternal Russia" By Jonathon Steele, excellent journalistic account. It's been more than 10 years since i read it, but it really stuck in my mind as giving very detailed analysis of the Yeltsin-Gorbachev conflict and how this played out in the collapse (and by extension the role of the bureaucracy in bringing down the system). Most available on google books: http://books.google.com/books?id=HCZi--UtYdEC Ken Jowitt's "New World Disorder: The Leninist Extinction" is, although not a Marxist text, very good on the internal political breakdown (as opposed to the mechanistic "command economy doesn't work so system breaks down" NYT analysis). Google books: http://books.google.com/books?id=Qip-UTnpvh8C Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
