[Marxism] Egyptian Socialist Party: Political perspectives for Egyptian socialism | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Below is the political perspectives document of the newly formed *Egyptian Socialist Party* -- one of a number of new pro-democracy parties formed in Egypt since the January 25, 2011, revolution that overthrew the dictator Hosni Mubarak. The party will be officially inaugurated on June 18, in Cairo. * * * By the *Egyptian Socialist Party* May 11, 2011 -- After the Egyptian Revolution broke out on January 25, 2011, and successfully achieved its first goal of ousting the president and continued in its demand of toppling the whole corrupt regime, it was clear there was an urgent need to bring together all those who had the conviction that our country really needed transformation into a socialist society. A transition that would help improve the social and economic conditions of the toiling masses, and reverse the trend of the old regime to subject the country to the dictates of the Imperialist led International Financial Institutions. This meant there was an urgent need to create the Egyptian Socialist Party to bring together all those who had taken part in the revolution on an individual basis so as to unite their efforts, and crystalise their political and social perspective into a coherent strategy that would guide the people in the right direction. Full document at http://links.org.au/node/2333 * Subscribe free to Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal at http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373 You can also follow Links on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LinksSocialism Or join the Links Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10865397643 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] Walter Huston-On the Value of Gold from “The Treasure of the Si...
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, Walter Huston spoke the lines, but I suspect that the sense of them came from the author of the book, B. Traven (or Rhet Marut, as he is sometimes said to have been named), a World War One period anarchist/socialist who emigrated, as near as we call tell to Mexico where he wrote under the name B. Traven, always keeping his real identity or antecedents secret. There was an excellent article on this thirty or more years ago in Ramparts. At any event, his other novels are well worth reading, as well. Start with The Ghost Ship the name coming from the custom of overinsuring an aging unseaworthy ship for one last voyage waiting for it to go under, crew and all. 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] Online Marxian Economics Course from UMass/Amherst
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This summer the UMass Amherst Department of Economics (www.umass.edu/economics) will offer, for the first time, an online course in Marxian Economics (Econ 305). Professor Stephen Resnick developed the online Marxian Economics based on his well-known and popular undergraduate course, which he has taught many years at UMass Amherst. The online version of Marxian Economics offers students an exciting opportunity to engage with other students from around the world in learning about and discussing the original and thought-provoking perspectives on Marxian social theory developed by Stephen Resnick and his colleague Richard Wolff. Read more here: http://rdwolff.com/content/marxian-economics-course -- Ian J. Seda-Irizarry Department of Economics 818 Thompson Hall University of Massachusetts-Amherst Phone: (413)-687-3889 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] Overvaluing Obama
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Kloppenberg’s esteem for Obama leads him to over-value Obama as an intellectual. Here the praise strains credulity. He deems Obama’s books “the most substantial books written by anyone elected president of the United States since Woodrow Wilson.” Obama is credited with being “able to interrogate his own convictions—to place them in a broader cultural and historical context by imaginatively scrutinizing them from a position centuries in the future—without abandoning them, much as William James did.” Of one excerpt from Obama’s prose, Kloppenberg writes that “neither Madison nor Jefferson, neither James nor Dewey … could have said it better.” Kloppenberg routinely presumes Obama to be “immersed” in the current intellectual debates of Harvard Law School, “wrestling with texts such as Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil,” and “probing the arguments in [Walter] Lippmann’s Drift and Mastery.” Isn’t it possible that Obama, like a lot of us who loaded up on humanities courses in college, left a few classic works on his shelves with their spines uncracked? Besides, does undergraduate and graduate reading really make one a full-fledged philosopher? full: http://www.tnr.com/book/review/reading-obama-james-kloppenberg 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] Egyptian Socialist Party: Political perspectives for Egyptian socialism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks for the posts on these developments. Do you know what forces make up the Egyptian Socialist Party? Is it different from the Coalition of Socialist Forces mentioned in the other article you linked to - http://links.org.au/node/2308 - ? Thanks for any info. Dan 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] Rashid Khalidi: How Obama enables Israel's worst impulses
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.salon.com/news/israel/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/05/27/rashid_khalidi_obama_palestine 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] Saif Qaddafi profile
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://nymag.com/news/politics/saif-qaddafi-2011-5/index3.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
[Marxism] Billionaire conservatives buying influence in the academy
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/151066/ayn_rand_u_rich_conservatives_--_not_just_the_kochs_--_buying_up_professors_and_influence_on_campus/ 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] Egyptian Socialist Party: Political perspectives for Egyptian socialism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Dan, The Egyptian Socialist Party is one of the five components of the Coalition of Socialist Forces, but we don't know a lot more than is in the two articles. We will have somebody on Egypt later this year, who will investigate further. All the best, Terry On 27/05/2011 11:19 PM, Dan DiMaggio wrote: Thanks for the posts on these developments. Do you know what forces make up the Egyptian Socialist Party? Is it different from the Coalition of Socialist Forces mentioned in the other article you linked to - http://links.org.au/node/2308 - ? Thanks for any info. Dan 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
