[Marxism] The utopia that moves everything

[A Vasquez]

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Being a review of Ruben Dri's book in Spanish on the same name, on the
relevancy of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit in today's Latin America. An
excerpt:

*Dri characterizes the Phenomenology as a philosophical novel; an
irresistible narrative in which the human mind draws closer and closer to
the absolute, only to realize that its own self-development is the
absolute, simply put. Hegel begins with sensory knowledge, then climbs up
into perception towards the first philosophical inclinations of
consciousness and beyond. As in broader outlines of the Hegelian opus like
the course notes, The Philosophy of History, this intellectual project is
profoundly historical, but not entirely so. One could vulgarly say that
human beings are evolving and becoming wiser by the century as they cast
off inveterate error, but that is not entirely correct either. The real
nexus of Hegelian philosophy is the Subject, that is, the self-movement of
the person in freedom, or, as Marx was to put it, human power as its own
end. Each stage of consciousness sheds off one more layer of the truth as
substance so that it is revealed as Subject. In other words, each
successive stage is closer to realizing that all that exists is us, and we
are all that exists: the unity of subject and object, theory and action, or
as Marx was to put it in the Critique of the Gotha Program, the unity of
physical and mental labor. The fulfillment of this is in the “no-place”, or
the utopia, as it is a never-ending process, since the quest to become a
Subject is never-ending.*
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The rest here*:*
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http://elblogdelpelon.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/the-utopia-that-moves-everything/

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[Marxism] Wisconsin Uprising: Labor Fights Back: Monthly Review Panel at the Left Forum: Video

[Jonathan Flanders]

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http://youtu.be/9mF2OlsucZI


Participants: Steve Early -- Monthly Review, Labor Notes, Jon Flanders
-- IAM 1145, Troy Area Labor Council, AFL-CIO, Railroad Workers United,
Sam Mayfield -- Film Maker, Lee Sustar, ISO, Counterpunch, Michael
Zweig, author of "The Working Class Majority", Frank Emspak -- Workers
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[Marxism] Fwd: Wisconsin Uprising: Labor Fights Back: Monthly Review Panel at the Left Forum 2012: Video

[Louis Proyect]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mF2OlsucZI&list=UU9ysSqPrTUz_TRQXtaQQCzg&index=1&feature=plcp

Participants: Steve Early -- Monthly Review, Labor Notes, Jon Flanders
-- IAM 1145, Troy Area Labor Council, AFL-CIO, Railroad Workers United,
Sam Mayfield -- Film Maker, Lee Sustar, ISO, Counterpunch, Michael
Zweig, author of "The Working Class Majority", Frank Emspak -- Workers
Independent News, Dan LaBotz, Labor Notes





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[Marxism] John Pilger: How money power works Down Under -- the example of Qantas

[Stuart Munckton]

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...Most important, it is the only major international airline in the jet
age never to have lost an aircraft in a fatal accident. Perhaps wary of
holding such a distinction to fortune, Qantas advertising never mentions it.

In recent years, however, the safest airline has had close calls, including
an Airbus A330 that went into a sudden dive in 2008 and injured up to 74
people, a Boeing 747 engine that blew up after leaving San Francisco in
2010 and a new A380 whose engine shattered over Singapore later that year.

These, and a series of less serious incidents, have all happened since the
airline was taken out of public ownership and handed to global banks. The
largest shareholders include J P Morgan, HSBC and Citicorp, which are also
among the top shareholders of Australia's major banks and largest mining
companies.

The national airline, like the Australian economy, is mortgaged: the
product of a bi-partisan political system dominated by rapacious business.

It was an article of faith that the world's only island-continent, flanked
by the two greatest oceans, needed a long-haul airline — until the
asset-strippers took control. What followed is a cautionary, universal tale
...

full article:
http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/50450


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original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made,
through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man
Under Socialism

“The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of
dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker

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Re: [Marxism] Columbia Manhattanville expansion kills worker

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No, I understood fine, Louis. I know that class forces contend in your
neighborhood, mine, Homs, Tripoli, and everywhere. Still, it ain't often
that workers die on the job right across the street from where one
works. My post was an attempt to link you in your place with others in
their various places.

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Louis Proyect  wrote:

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>> Cripes, Louis, you musta thought you were in Homs or Tripoli. Stick to
>> the shadows. Duck and dodge.
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>>
> I guess you didn't understand the point of my posting this. It had nothing
> to do with me. It was about Columbia using a criminal enterprise

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Re: [Marxism] Left Forum Video-Marx's Early Writings

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I wanted to attend, but the schedule seemed to have it occur at a later time.

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Douglas Greene
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> Marx's Early Writings: Once More Unto the Breach: Video 1 of 2
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> Marx's Early Writings: Once More Unto the Breach: Video 2 of 2
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obbt8YcC250
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[Marxism] Left Forum Video - Building the Red-Green Alliance/Theory Takes to the Streets

[Douglas Greene]

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Building the Red-Green Alliance/Theory Takes to the Streets: Video 1 of 2 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWDYQWgSOMw

Building the Red-Green Alliance/Theory Takes to the Streets: Video 2 of 2 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AptOjw9Rjqk&list=UUjdFWdWHeyQVGDYVrja-z3A&index=1&feature=plcp

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[Marxism] Left Forum Video-Marx's Early Writings

[Douglas Greene]

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Marx's Early Writings: Once More Unto the Breach: Video 1 of 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNwATLtzbkI

Marx's Early Writings: Once More Unto the Breach: Video 2 of 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obbt8YcC250

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[Marxism] New Activist Newsletter

[JacDon]

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March 22, 2012, Issue #177
HUDSON VALLEY ACTIVIST NEWSLETTER
jac...@earthlink.net, P.O. Box 662, New Paltz, NY 12561
http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/
‹
 
CONTENTS
http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/
 
1.  WARM ENOUGH YET? GOOD! (Here comes the sun)
2.   THE "EXCEPTIONAL CHARACTER" OF THE U.S. MILITARY
3.   Motives of the Afghan Shooter
4.  MOST AMERICANS BACK AFGHAN PULLOUT NOW
5.  WAR, RACISM AND AFGHANISTAN
6.  ANOTHER ANTI-PEOPLE WEAPON (Heat, this time)
7.   KEY SOCIAL PROGRAMS STAY ON CHOPPING BLOCK (Guess which)
8.   HIATUS (Movement poem)
9.  WOMEN ATTACK LOW PAY AND JOB BIAS (Pay gap, respect, etc.)
10. THE CHANGING STATUS OF U.S. WOMEN (female economic prowess)
11. THE LATEST WASHINGTON RUMORS (Chiropractors & bunker bombs)
12. IS THIS REALLY THE "CHANGE"WE WANT? (Or "believe" in?)
13. HARSH DISCIPLINE FOR MINORITY STUDENTS
14. THE CAUSES OF TEACHER DISSATISFACTION
15. OCEANS OF ACID (Unprecedented acidification)
16. MORE DOMESTIC SPYING EXPOSED
17. ALL RED MEAT IS BAD FOR YOU (Cut down, friends)
18. BO'S OUT ‹ WHAT'S HAPPENING IN CHINA?
19. ARE U.S. SPECIAL FORCES IN SYRIA? (Probably)
20. PLEASE STOP APOLOGIZING (Bill Maher on De Niro's joke)
21. EDITOR'S ENDNOTES
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[Marxism] Video on Russia Today showing sections of Russian Stalinist Bureaucracy supporting Chinese workers' state as alternative to Neo-Liberalism! and debunking 1989 end of History myth!

[MARIAN BRAIN]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2iwzxG9uMs

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[Marxism] Try Staffing a Nuclear Reactor Startup

[Tristan Sloughter]

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http://bostinno.com/2012/03/22/think-hiring-a-ruby-developer-is-hard-try-staffing-a-nuclear-reactor-startup/

I know this is different from most posts here, but I couldn't help but feel
this would both interest many here and cause debate :)

'The company’s product is called the Waste-Annihilating Molten Salt Reactor
(WAMSR) which they claim is not only safer than traditional nuclear
reactors, but generates power using the radioactive waste of existing
nuclear plants."

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[Marxism] Recorded Breeze Construction violations

[Louis Proyect]

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http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/ECBQueryByNumberServlet?requestid=2&ecbin=34940632J

http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/ECBQueryByNumberServlet?requestid=2&ecbin=34940628R





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[Marxism] Moderator's note

[Louis Proyect]

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Let's drop the discussion of the SWP, especially since it is 
taking the same tack as what is discussed on 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/swp_usa/.



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[Marxism] NY Daily News: Breeze Construction was "mob-related"

[Louis Proyect]

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(Hardest-hitting article so far. It mentions that one of the 
fatalities was a 69 year old man. Sounds like one of the folks 
that Michael Yates blogged about.)


http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/harlem-building-collapse-triggers-frantic-rescue-effort-article-1.1048799

Harlem building collapse kills construction worker at demolition site

2 other injured hardhats pulled from Columbia University expansion 
plan rubble


By Sharyn Jackson, Ben Lesser AND Corky Siemaszko / NEW YORK

A veteran hardhat working for a demolition company with mob ties 
was killed Thursday and two others were badly hurt after part of a 
Harlem building suddenly crashed down on them, authorities said.


The trio was pinned by tons of reinforced concrete and steel, 
sparking a desperate rescue by fellow hardhats who used their bare 
hands to free them.


They quickly dug out two of the trapped workers, one of whom later 
died, officials said. But it took 45 minutes to reach the third 
hardhat, 60-year-old King Range, who was dragged bleeding with a 
head wound from the wreckage.


“He was really banged up, but he talked all the way to the 
ambulance,” said a firefighter at the scene.


All three were transported to St. Luke’s Hospital, where one — a 
69-year-old Bronx man — was pronounced dead on arrival. His name 
was not released.


The other injured construction workers were in serious condition, 
officials said.


“My father, he’s my rock,” said Range’s son, King Range Jr., 25, 
of the Bronx. “As a child I would never imagine that I would talk 
to anyone about my father being injured. He’s like my Superman. 
This is very tough right now.”


He said his dad — an observant Muslim who makes stained glass 
windows — has a ruptured shoulder blade in addition to head injuries.


“I’m just extremely thankful to God he’s alive,” said the son, who 
suffers from cerebral palsy and needs a wheelchair to get around. 
“Honestly, I don’t know what I would have done without him.”


Relatives identified the other injured worker as 30-year-old Sakim 
Kirby of the Bronx.


“I’m still numb,” said Kirby’s dad, Curtis, who said his son 
suffered a concussion and multiple spine and pelvic injuries. “He 
worked so many years for them and never had an accident.”


The three men work for Breeze National, which records show is 
owned by reputed Luchese crime family associate Toby Romano.


Romano was convicted in 1988 of bribing inspectors to overlook 
health violations on asbestos-removal jobs.


A call to Romano’s company was not returned.

Romano’s workers began demolishing the former two-story paint 
warehouse at 604-606 W. 131st St. last month, records show.


Two-thirds of the nearly century-old building at 604-606 W. 131st 
St. had been razed when it caved in about 7:50 a.m., a Fire 
Department spokesman said.


Neighbors said at first they thought a bomb had gone off.

While the cause of the collapse was still under investigation, 
officials at the scene said a worker had just finished cutting a 
support beam when the floor above him fell and took two supporting 
walls down as well.


The project was part of Columbia University’s expansion plan, a 
member of Community Board 9 said at the scene.


The accident was not the first time city inspectors found problems 
at the job site, records show.


In November, the Department of Buildings issued a stop-work order 
because the scaffolding was a floor higher than approved. The 
order was rescinded a week later.


On March 5, the DOB issued a partial stop-work order on because 
hardhats on the site were using improper safety harnesses. Two 
days later, work was allowed to resume, records show.


Breeze National was also hit with violations for failing to notify 
the DOB that it was starting demolition and for failing to 
properly safeguard all the people and property affected by the 
demolition, records show.


Two years ago, a 51-year-old Breeze National worker named Jozef 
Wilk fell to his death while demolishing another Columbia-owned 
building at 3229 Broadway.


Wilk tumbled from third-floor scaffolding on the outside of the 
building and down an open elevator shaft to his death.


A Polish immigrant, Wilk was a married father of two who lived in 
Jackson Heights, Queens.


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Re: [Marxism] Barry Sheppard's Volume 2 on SWP is out

[Tom Cod]

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I dunno, when I look at struggles like the Freedom Riders who refused
to back down even after they had been firebombed (and among whose
ranks was Fred Halstead), I wonder about the level of political
resolve embodied by the SWP leadership, with its overemphasis on not
alienating the lowest common denominator, who would display timidity
towards, walk away from, and politically trash struggles that they
felt had become too unruly, whether draft card burners, the Chicago
Convention protests in 68, SDS, the Black Panthers and so forth, and
of course we see this now with Occupy today.   That is why many
activists then felt that the squeaky clean Mormon-like SWP needed to
be dislodged from its hegemonic role, to the extent it had one, within
the mass movement, something that was accomplished beginning in 1981
to the movement's benefit.   NAACP could do what it wants, that the
SWP followed suit in the was it did is entirely another matter.  In
1961 CORE and the radicals rejected that advice as did King, to say
nothing of Malcolm.

I and others had been planning on attending that march and were
flabbergasted by this outcome and the attitude of the SWPers, who
maybe were following discipline, but in essence tried to cavalierly
shout down those of us who disagreed with this as "ultralefts."  We in
turn viewed this as in the worst traditions of social democratic sell
outs which further cemented our view of the "Menshevik SWP".  How
could this not be possible to have a demo when PL in this period could
1000 people out?  I don't like PL but I admired they courage and
determination.   When I last saw Fred Halstead in 1986 in Seattle he
indicated his view that a further mobilization would have been
possible.Surely Cannon and Dunne would have felt the same way.
They didn't back down after workers  got killed at Deputies Run in
1934.  It is in this context that we initially welcomed the turn in
1981 away from "trotskyism" and towards an ostensibly more militant,
partisan political attitude.



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> DIRECTLY to help with the fight against racism and in defense of school
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[Marxism] Columbia Wiki on Robert Kasdin

[Louis Proyect]

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I would surmise that this is not an official Columbia web page by 
any stretch of the imagination:


http://www.wikicu.com/Robert_Kasdin

Robert Kasdin is the Senior Executive Vice President of Columbia 
University. This is one of several new Executive Vice Presidents 
created by PrezBo [Lee Bollinger!] for doing something Columbia 
should have already been taking care of. Kasdin, along with Susan 
Feagin, was brought to CU in 2002 from UMich by PrezBo. At Umich, 
Kasdin was the "executive vice president and chief financial 
officer." At Columbia, as one senior faculty member put it, his 
job is to be the "money man who runs the university" hidden in a 
bunker. In short, he is Bollinger's Dick Cheney. Other 
administrators fear him, and everyone lower than administration is 
too distracted by PrezBo and Sachs to pay attention to him.


His official job description is to "[lead] operating departments, 
financial management, and innovation enterprises at Columbia 
University"


Few students and faculty have seen him, let alone interacted with 
him. These interactions are rumored to be unpleasant. Some 
undergraduate students colloquially refer to him as "Bobby K". 
Apparently he hates this, which in turn continues the use of said 
moniker.


Mr. Kasdin earned his AB from Princeton and his JD from Harvard 
Law School.



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Re: [Marxism] More on Manhattanville building collapse

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truly scandalous, however predictable
let us know if you get any shit from them, Louis

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> I should add that I just came from a meeting on the 4th floor of my
> building where employees could hear from Robert Kasdin, who is basically
> Lee Bollinger's second-in-command. He urged us not to "gossip". I spoke
> first and raised the question of Breeze Construction's dirty hands. He
> defended Columbia's decision to use them. I am sure this is not the last we
> will hear about this.
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[Marxism] More on Manhattanville building collapse

[Louis Proyect]

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http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/construction-worker-killed-in-building-collapse-in-manhattan/

I should add that I just came from a meeting on the 4th floor of 
my building where employees could hear from Robert Kasdin, who is 
basically Lee Bollinger's second-in-command. He urged us not to 
"gossip". I spoke first and raised the question of Breeze 
Construction's dirty hands. He defended Columbia's decision to use 
them. I am sure this is not the last we will hear about this.



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Re: [Marxism] more re some addled holloway

[Louis Proyect]

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Here, btw, is my review of Holloway's "How to change the world 
without taking power":


http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/modernism/holloway.htm


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[Marxism] my review of holloway's book in HM

[michael a. lebowitz]

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Andy asked for the link. Happily I found one online and so didn't have 
to be insubordinate re the copyright holders at Brill/m


http://dajialai.org/ziliao1/Marxism/Historical%20Materialism/Holloway%27s%20Scream.pdf

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Re: [Marxism] The SWP

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Jay, the only reason the SWP list on Yahoo exists is because talk of the
SWP *in the current period*, that is the last 30 years, is irrelevant to
the class struggle generally. The uptick in discussion on the yahoo list
when a book like Barry's comes out is because there is virtually nothing
else to talk about regarding a party many of us spent our early lives
getting our political feet wet.

Like yourself, I had a great time engaging in socialist politics in the SWP
and like some others, I regret very little of it. Your praise for the SWP
in years past is fleshed out in minute detail in Vol. 1 of Barry's book and
in a no small part in Vol. 2 as well. So your meaningless barbs are
Sheppard for "presonal recollections" is just that, meaningless. Memoirs
are important part of political historiography. That most of what Barry
mentions vis-a-vis all the political issues, good and bad, is only
partially footnoted takes nothing from the book itself or the first hand
accounts. It's not a legal brief, it's a memoir, Jay.

Take the issue of Boston and the busing struggle there in the mid-1970s.
Tom Bias' memory is keen on this, but they are recollections. Is he a liar?
Of course not. Tom is an experienced ex-SWPer and his contributions to this
political discussion are interesting. You don't have to believe him. He
could be wrong. But he's not gossiping or lying. You wouldn't accuse him of
this, nor would I. So why are you basically saying Barry Sheppard's book is
no more than "gossip"? It is exactly along the lines of Tom's contributions
here.

In fact, Barry's recollections, footnoted as well, is a fascinating
recounting of the Boston Busing struggle I urge everyone here to read
about. He provides a lot of insight to what went down. It is praiseworthy
of the SWP (that is, the cadre who were involved in it and doesn't focus on
Barnes at all).

Jay's defensiveness around the SWP seems to be misplaced.

David

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Re: [Marxism] The SWP

[Mark Lause]

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Jay excused the SWP's implosion in the 1980s, though others were out
gathering in water by the bucket from the rainfall.  And when I point this
out, he dismisses it because I am an academic.

The issue here isn't so much Marx as Darwin.

ML

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[Marxism] Fascinating article on African-American comedian who used to perform in Washington Square Park

[Louis Proyect]

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http://splitsider.com/2012/03/timing-is-everything-the-story-of-charlie-barnett


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Re: [Marxism] The Unions, the Millionaires Tax, and the Road to Success

[Glenn Kissack]

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On Mar 21, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Adam Richmond wrote:
> The Unions, the Millionaires Tax, and the Road to Success
> By Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer

Adam, thanks for posting this. Do you have a URL for the article?

Glenn



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