[Marxism] Fwd: Coal, Guns, Freedom: Teaching Environmental Ethics to Aspiring Petroleum Engineers - Politics/LettersPolitics/Letters
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[Marxism] Fwd: Did early humans wipe out most large mammals?
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: At a Navajo veterans' event, Trump makes 'Pocahontas' crack - CNNPolitics
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[Marxism] Fwd: CUNY Contract Struggle Could Fundamentally Transform the University
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[Marxism] Fwd: At a Navajo veterans' event, Trump makes 'Pocahontas' crack - CNNPolitics
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[Marxism] Fwd: Kurdish-led SDF will join Syrian army if federal state guaranteed: Rojava official
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[Marxism] Fwd: Alex Pyron, the evolutionary biologist indifferent to extinction | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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[Marxism] Fwd: Great Scott | Articles | Inference: International Review of Science
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[Marxism] Fwd: How slave labor built and financed major U.S. cities - Salon.com
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[Marxism] Fwd: Elitists, crybabies and junky degrees: A debate over higher education funding | The Washington Post
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[Marxism] Heart of Darkness
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * This was a set book for my postgraduate teacher training year. But I had been destroyed as a reader of serious fiction after studying literature at university. So I never read Heart of Darkness until some 50 years later. It struck me that this was a novel about Kurtz the slave who was the master of other slaves, but who was himself betrayed by the true master. I think of the Aussie film Breaker Morant, which is about the Australian assassin Breaker Morant (1864-1902) who was executed for extra judicial killings during the Boer War. He was doing the dirty work of empire and paid a price. The Australian film about him Breaker Morant (1980) is worth a watch. Lyndie England of Abu Ghraib notoriety would be a more contemporary version of the same phenomenon. What strikes me is that these slaves who are masters of other slaves never complain about slavery. They only complain about the lack of gratitude of the master. So one can construct an anti-imperialism from *Heart of Darkness*, but I doubt if that was the book's intention. comradely Gary _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Zimbabwe’s New Leader Stirs Fears That He Resembles the Old One
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Who would have thunk it? Seriously, there is a critical dearth of decent bourgeois thinkers. Most of the commentariat are an amalgam of ideology and idiocy. If I can find time I will do a long piece on some of the cretinism that is being articulated around Australia's "defence options" - America or China? comradely Gary _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com