[Marxism] Colombia Appeal

[Greg McDonald]

PLEASE circulate this message widely


We are re-sending this urgent request to contact your members of the
House of Representatives to urge them to co-sign the following letter
initiated by our Congresswoman, Tammy Baldwin :

http://colombiasupport.net/2009/Baldwin-on-Bases9-3-09.pdf


 See the Action Center at our site:
http://www.colombiasupport.net/actioncenter.html
   .



AND ALSO Please write to Senator John Kerry (D) Massachusetts,
Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, asking him to hold
a public hearing regarding the military base negotiations between the
Pentagon and the Colombian government.

Senator Kerry can be contacted via emily_bar...@foreign.senate.gov

Write to Representative David Obey (D) Wisconsin, Chairman of the
House Appropriations Committee, urging him to evaluate the decision to
continue financing the war in Colombia.

Representative Obey can be contacted via steve.march...@mail.house.gov

For background information regarding this issue please visit:

http://colombiasupport.net/2009/background-on-military-bases-en.html






Colombia Support Network
P.O. Box 1505
Madison, WI  53701-1505
phone:  (608) 257-8753
fax:  (608) 255-6621
e-mail:  c...@igc.org
http://www.colombiasupport.net


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[Marxism] For those Interested, and in the NYC area

[S. Artesian]

FALL-SPRING STUDY GROUP ON CAPITALIST CRISIS

Following our (just concluded) summer class, Howie Seligman and I will again 
be doing a study group in the New York City area on Marxian theory and the 
current crisis. If you are interested, read on.

All applicants welcome.

TENTATIVE PLAN

Loren Goldner and Howie Seligman will be organizing a  study group, starting 
in October,  for New York City-area people on Marx's Capital (and other 
writings), linking Marx's critique of political economy to the current 
crisis of the world capitalist system.

The group will meet twice a month (day to be determined, based on people's 
availability), through May-June of next year, in a convenient Manhattan 
location (to be determined).

Space will determine the number of participants, but we aim for between 10 
and 25 participants, depending on interest.

If you wish to participate, please contact Loren Goldner asap at

lrgold...@yahoo.com


Participants should be committed to regular attendance and to keeping up 
with 50-100 pages of reading per meeting. Barring a need to change venues, 
the class will be free of charge, except for occasional contributions for 
photocopy expenses, refreshments, etc.

Readings will consist of selections from Marx's Capital, and articles (to be 
decided in consultation with the group) on contemporary developments.

The events of the past two years in particular have re-awakened a serious 
interest in both Marx's critique of political economy and in "current 
 events" in the world economy. Goldner and Seligman will cooperate in 
putting the crisis into a Marxian theoretical perspective (Goldner), as well 
as providing insight into the more technical side of world market meltdown 
(CDO's, hedge funds, Ponzi schemes, etc.) (Seligman). The approach will not 
be merely "economic" (the Marxian CRITIQUE of political economy is not 
another variant of "economics") but will elucidate the impact of the crisis 
on ordinary working people, on developing actions against capitalist 
austerity in the US and around the world, and on the solution: abolition of 
the capitalist mode of production.

If successful, the study group will continue through May-June 2010.

In order to put together a viable group, we would like interested people to 
write something brief (200-300 words) about their background, the level of 
their knowledge of Marx and of the world economy,  where they are coming 
from politically, and anything else they might consider relevant.

We are oriented above all to educating present and future activists, and 
will give such people priority in participation. We also hope to have a 
predominance of young people who are new, or relatively new, to Capital and 
Marxist theory generally, but that will of course be determined by the 
response.

Loren Goldner is a long-term independent writer and political activist. His 
work is available on the Break Their Haughty Power web site at

http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner

He has spent much of the past four years in South Korea, involved in the 
workers' movement there.

Howie Seligman recently taught a course on Taxation and Finance at the NEW 
SPACE in New York City. Here is the course description and a biography.

Taxation and Finance

Howard F. Seligman

The course will begin with a brief tutorial on conventional accounting, 
bookkeeping and financial theory.  This will involve some hands on practical 
training, although the main emphasis will be on the history of the evolution 
of the theory from its original conception to the current methodologies.

This will be followed by an examination of basic economics (price theory) 
and its use and abuse of (accounting/finance) statistics.  Again, the 
history of the theory from its roots in philosophy and the social sciences 
to its current state of being applied mathematical models will be 
scrutinized.

We will then survey the U.S. Income Tax System beginning with its history 
and moving on to its current state (of change) today.  The focus will be on 
the behavioral implications of changes in the tax code and alternate systems 
being used in other countries (and being proposed by Congress today.)

Applying the building blocks of finance and taxation, we will then look at 
the American financial markets and the culture of the corporation. 
Particular attention will be paid to 'Wall Street' and the 'entertainment 
industry' due to their growing influence in our everyday lives via the 
'information society.'

Emphasis will be placed on economic and non-economic forces that drive the 
markets and facilitate manipulation by the use of abstract numerical 
concepts.  Finally, the natural symbiosis of private industry and 
governments will be the subject of specific anecdotes and case studies.

No requirements other than potential enthusiasm/interest.

Howard F. Seligman has been a self employed financial and tax consultant 
since 1984. Howard's practice specializes in the arts and entertainment 
fields, an

[Marxism] Michael Yates book review

[Louis Proyect]

In These Times
Culture » September 7, 2009 » Web Only

In and Out of the Working Class
Radical economist and labor educator Michael Yates moves beyond the 
classroom to examine—with striking honesty—his own life.
By Seth Sandronsky

For decades, Michael Yates has been challenging and critiquing 
capitalism in books, articles and classrooms. But Yates—radical 
political economist, associate editor of The Monthly Review and author 
of Why Unions Matter and Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the 
Global Economy, among other books—has never delved into the politics of 
his own past.

Until, that is, Yates wrote In and Out of the Working Class (Arbeiter 
Ring Publishing), published earlier this year. In this new book, Yates, 
63, writes in the tradition of Douglas Dowd, a radical political 
economist whose Blues for America: a Critique, a Lament, and Some 
Memories, spans most of the 20th century. Yates’ arc is the post-W.W.II 
era: his youth, adolescence and adulthood.

In fiction, non-fiction and “creative non-fiction,” Yates writes of 
laboring people such as himself immersed in everyday life, in 
households, schools and workplaces. Two pieces of fiction book-end the 
volume: A male youth wrestles with the siren call of gambling in the 
opening “The Year of the Strike,” while “A Lucky Man” closes the 
collection with a portrayal of an adult blue-collar worker seeking his 
fortune at the race track.

Together, the two stories poignantly illustrate the risk-taking 
character of working-class life, where the wagering of resources offers 
a measure of relief. But it is always back to work, in all its cold 
realities.

In and Out of the Working Class’ (explicitly) autobiographical essays 
begin in Yates’ working-class community of Ford City, in western 
Pennsylvania, where a plate glass factory offered union employment to 
the Yates family. Class intersects with gender and race during Yates’ 
adolescence in the 1950s, when labor unions were strong enough to 
improve working people’s living standards. He paints realistic and 
sympathetic portraits of his family, foes and friends in these 
coming-of-age pieces.

Yates is strikingly honest about performing in a minstrel show as a 
young teen. Under a teacher’s direction, Yates and his caucasian male 
classmates blacken their faces and mock African-Americans in dress and 
speech. “Racism was such a fact of life that it was taken for granted,” 
he writes. Despite—or perhaps because of—the fact he grew up in a place 
far short of racial justice, Yates becomes a warrior in the fight 
against skin-color and gender prejudice.

A logical growth of Yates’ dissent is his involvement with minority 
Americans enmeshed in the huge U.S. prison-industrial system. His essay 
on teaching in prisons offers illuminating views of his locked-down 
students, who have a strong desire for education. Yates learns with and 
from them.

Though Yates moved beyond his first job as a factory laborer to become a 
professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, he 
never forgets his roots. He moves up and out, but not away, from the 
consciousness of people who labor for a living.

Crucially, In and Out of the Working Class never sugarcoats the working 
class, even as Yates highlights a social and economic system that spawns 
their alienation and exploitation. This is a major theme of his book, a 
recurrent problem that Yates deals with by supporting and forming bonds 
of solidarity with labor unions. As an activist academic, he does just 
that, helping low-wage service workers on campus to form a union.

At one point in the late 1970s, Yates is the United Farm Workers’ lead 
researcher. Oppressed farm workers and their allies forge first-ever 
contracts with growers and packers, but tragically, their gains are 
rolled back over time. Yates unpacks the harsh realities of such lessons 
and brings fresh viewpoints to the farm workers’ movement. Hint: one 
legendary idol has clay feet.

Yates writes movingly of hometown friends back from the jungles of 
southeast Asia as shattered shells of their former selves. This 
gut-punch to his senses deepened Yates’ distaste for the status quo of 
capitalism, racism and sexism. As the black freedom and anti-Vietnam War 
movements grew during the 1960s, he dives into radical economic 
theory—including Karl Marx’s critique of capitalist production—and never 
looks back.

As inequality rages in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s, his 
political economy courses become less popular with his working-class 
students, which alienates him. Eventually, after beginning to write 
books and educate union workers, Yates leaves academe disillusioned.

Does his journey of activism and criticism end? Not a chance. What he 
does next—travel the country with his wife for six years while at times 
taking menial jobs to understand life in America—is further proof that 
Yates is one of the most unusual and uncompromising political observers 
o

[Marxism] technical...seeking space for website

[Mark Lause]

For about 14 years, I've maintained a website at Geocities, which has
since been taken by Yahoo, which has not decided to close it down.

I've migrated to Webring, which advertised a great deal to get people
from geocities to come over.  However, it has less tech support than
the my cable TV company and the site is utterly unhelpful about what I
want to do with it...   I'm not concerned about online communities,
linking to friends, posting pictures of my cat and linking them to
pictures of other cats, etc...

Any suggestions here for free web space friendly to iconoclastic politics?

ML


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Re: [Marxism] A Different Environmental Threat: Peak Rare Minerals, China, and Green Technology

[Andrew Pollack]

Earlier in this thread someone said:
"Another claim I hear a lot is that the war in the Congo is driven by
minerals, which I don't deny..."
... and then refuted a more specific claim about a particular mineral.
As far as I know this is the only time Africa was mentioned in this
thread (I've admittedly only skimmed it). But it's enough of a hook to
ask for others' opinions about a book review in the latest Against the
Current on the war in the Congo:
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/2377
... which argues that claims that the conflict was fueled by Western
imperialist interests in the region's resources are "bunk" and that it
is rather down to intra-African imperialism.
I'm inclined to disbelieve this (I'm more inclined to believe the
latter was fueled by the former), but haven't followed the conflict
closely enough to say.


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Re: [Marxism] For those Interested, and in the NYC area

[Mark Lause]

This looks like an excellent opportunity not only to study something
important but for members of the list in the area to have a chance to
discuss these things face to face.

ML


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[Marxism] Left and right in Argentina, 1960s and 70s Re: Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China'shigh speed rail plans

[Nestor Gorojovsky]

Tom Cod escribió:
> Exactly.  The PRT denounced Moreno as Menshevik, but I think it's
> clear that all issues of armed self defense aside, that the ERP had
> gone over into reckless adventurism that was not only self-defeating
> but played into the hands of the military who used it to justify the
> Dirty War with devastating consequences for the left and society as a
> whole.

All forms of what I now call "armed substitutism" have the same 
consequence. The PRT, at least, were consequent to the end. Which has to 
be said on their behalf. But they, and the "Peronist" groups that 
espoused similar tactics (though this is more complex, since Peronist 
resistence against the 1955 coup and its aftermath had created a 
"resistence" myth of its own), in the end played into the hands not of 
the military (because the Armed Forces were divided on the issue of 
imperialism, and the action of these groups tended to push them back to 
unity under the proimperialist command) but of the 
oligarchic-imperialist establishment.

By the way, and without any intention to be rude again, the last part of 
the last sentence implies, as a point of departure, that not every cat 
is brown in the (all capitalist, granted) ruling classes in Argentina. 
People who in abstract believe that every capitalist ruling class is a 
bourgeoisie (in classical terms) miss these minutiae that can throw a 
country like mine into hell.

Now, this accepted, how can you or anyone suppose these formations were 
"to the Left" of Perón? They certainly were not.

Which does not imply that Perón was a socialist, nor that the relative 
political and moral standing of both ERP or MOntoneros on one hand, and 
the pro-oligarchic military, on the other, allow to equate them as "two 
demons".


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Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China's high speed rail plans

[S. Artesian]

Really?  How important was it?  Correa has been quite forceful, physically, 
in his rejection of the indigenous peoples' protest, led by CONAIE, against 
the mineral and mining law that declares minerals to be a public utility 
[thus giving mining something like eminant domain, and priority claims to 
water and land over communities], but a field for private development.

Canada his excavated an open pit copper mine in Ecuador's Amazon region, 
which has become the target of further protests.  To counter that 
resistance, Correa has invited the Canadians to demonstrate their sterling 
record of respect for indigenous cultures to the Ecuadorean people, stating:

""[Canada] has understood how to respect and benefit its ancestral peoples," 
said Correa during a national radio address. The first people to benefit in 
Canada from mining, he added, "are the ancestral peoples."

I am not making this up.  You can read more and Upside Down World.

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1871/49/

Taking the side of the people against imperialism--  when he is following 
the recommendations of the imperialists to substitue mining for oil 
drilling?

No we shouldn't sneer at victories, nor should we disguise capitulation, 
betrayal  as a victory.

The wages of "nationalism" are nothing but surplus value to line the pockets 
of imperialism.



- Original Message - 
From: "Louis Proyect" 
To: "David Schanoes" 
Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: 
China's high speed rail plans


>
> After I saw "Crude", the movie about the legal case being pursued in
> Ecuador against Chevron, I was struck by how important the election of
> Rafael Correa was to indigenous peoples. Here was a president who was
> willing to take the side of the people against imperialism, despite his
> failure to live up to Lenin's example. In Latin America, such presidents
> are products of the class struggle. When Indians fight for their rights,
> the election of a Morales or a Correa is a victory. We should not sneer
> at these victories.



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Re: [Marxism] technical...seeking space for website

[David Picón Álvarez]

> Any suggestions here for free web space friendly to iconoclastic politics?

You could do worse than http://otaku.freeshell.org/index.cgi?join

The ARPA membership level requires a one-time donation but it really is 
worth it imo.

--David.



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Re: [Marxism] For those Interested, and in the NYC area

[Les Schaffer]

Bill O'Connor wrote:
> I can't recommend it enough. I just finished a close reading of 
> Captial with Goldner and Seligman over the summer and I'll sign up for 
> this fall/spring group as well.

what's the format? lecture, discussion, debate, argument, fist-fight (as 
happens on lists sometimes)?

Les



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[Marxism] Marx/Hegel

[Rakesh Bhandari]

 To be sure, Marx coquettes with Hegel in his analysis of the value form 
as a unity of opposities, but Marx explains himself well enough that 
further study of Hegel's logic would shed no light at all on what he is 
saying. Just read Marx. Carefully.
For example:

http://tiny.cc/GsfFk


Commodities are a unity of use value and exchange value.  A commodity as 
a value unites the two as the exchange value for the owner and use value 
for the purchaser (David Harvey puts it well), but the value form 
externalizes the contradiction immanent in every commodity--it is both a 
use value and exchange value, but it can't be both at the same time--by 
making commodities use values alone and reserving for money a monopoly 
on exchange value or exchangeability (other commodities are no longer 
immediately exchangeable against the array of other commodities as in 
the expanded value form).

Marx is not playing dialectical games here. He is trying to understand 
precisely the position of money in the circulation of commodities (and 
he loosely borrows the Hegelian idea of a unity of opposites in his 
analysis of the value form).

Upon inspection, money turns out not simply to be a device to overcome 
the double coincidence of wants. In virtue of the role it acquires by 
its position as the equivalent, it may make sense to hoard it, that is 
to sell without any immediate intention to buy. Money after all is alone 
the materialization of the social abstract labor time of which all 
commodities exchange as expressions.

The payoff here is the critique of Say's Law and Marx beats Keynes and 
economics to the punch by more than 70 years.

Marx did not feel at home in the positivist world of Comte and the 
atomistic world of JS Mill. So yes he was drawn to Hegel, and he 
announces that, I think, so his audience will not be surprised by his 
speaking of unities of opposities, real contradictions, the creativity 
of negative forces, dialectical inversions, quantitative to qualitative 
changes and of epochal historical differences.

But one only read Marx to understand what he means by these ideas and 
concepts.  Marx cleans them  of Hegelian baggage.

 Marx stands on his own.

Look forward to disagreement.

Rakesh









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Re: [Marxism] For those Interested, and in the NYC area

[Bill O'Connor]

Les Schaffer  writes:

> Bill O'Connor wrote:
>> I can't recommend it enough. I just finished a close reading of 
>> Captial with Goldner and Seligman over the summer and I'll sign up for 
>> this fall/spring group as well.
>
> what's the format? lecture, discussion, debate, argument, fist-fight (as 
> happens on lists sometimes)?

Oh, no fistfights, but I keep a video camera in my bag just in case.  :)

It's a lecture and discussion format, participants read choice excerpts
and summarize sections of the text(Capital) that they agreed to the
previous week.  Seligman discusses some aspect of nuts and bolts finance
relevant to the weeks readings.  

-- 
In Solidarity,
Billy O'Connor


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Re: [Marxism] Marx/Hegel

[Mark Lause]

To be frank, this really sounds like an invitation to a silly
discussion.  The simple fact is that people are different.  And lhow
they approach things may change.

Marx or Hegel or any other writer may connect with different
individuals.  And they will often do so differently lfor different
people...or the same person at different times.

One of the things I wanted to do when I returned to school was to read
Hegel I didn't find it a waste of time, and often found myself
laughing a great deal at the massively long sentences and tortured
formulations...deliberately so.  But these weren't without their
enlightening qualities as well.

If someone finds aspects of Marx's dialectical method hard to follow,
they should try to read some else's presentation of it.  There's no
reason that, for some, Hegel can't make the connections.

ML


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Re: [Marxism] Marx/Hegel

[Rakesh Bhandari]

Mark,
The claim is that one can only understand Marx if one has mastered the 
whole of Hegel's logic, not that a mastery of Hegel's logic may allow a 
few individuals to better appreciate Marx's Capital.  Lenin's claim 
strikes me as  false; so does Dunayevskaya's claims about the Hegelian 
absolute. If I am trying to understand the way in which Marx understands 
the mediations that make up a totality or real contradictions or unities 
of opposites or epochal historical developments, what is it that Hegel 
alone will clarify about what Marx has written? If I am trying to 
understand Marx, my time would be better spent re-reading him than 
commencing a study of the whole of Hegel's logic.
And I don't think Marx's beginning with the commodity is an attempt to 
mirror Hegel's beginning with sense certainty in the Phenomenology.  
Let's not forget that such a claim (Marx's Capital transposes Hegel's 
Phenomenology)  was the central thesis of arch Marx critic Robert Tucker 
whose Marx reader is perhaps still the most widely used.
Rakesh


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Re: [Marxism] Marx/Hegel

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

Many Marxist thinkers don't deal with dialectics, namely Gramsci with his
philosophy of Praxis and Althusser's writings on contradictions in *For Marx
*.

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Re: [Marxism] What to do?

[martin]

On Sep 7, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Mark Lause wrote:

> The $64,000 question, of course, is how to go about building the
> organization you're advocating.

Does this thread ever resolve the question?

martin


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Re: [Marxism] What to do?

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

Of course not.  But I don't think I got any objections to the broad 
ideas I laid out (regurgitating the ideas of others of course).  How to 
get those building micro-sects or pallin' around with BHO to get 
together and agree to a common program?  Sounds almost impossible.  At 
the very least we need the embryo of a campaign for something like 
this.  One day :)

martin wrote:
> On Sep 7, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Mark Lause wrote:
>
>   
>> The $64,000 question, of course, is how to go about building the
>> organization you're advocating.
>> 
>
> Does this thread ever resolve the question?
>
> martin
>
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Re: [Marxism] What to do?

[martin]

On Sep 8, 2009, at 6:33 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:

> Sounds almost impossible.  At
> the very least we need the embryo of a campaign for something like
> this.  One day :)

We need Pogo. (perhaps 'we are the embryo')

martin


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Re: [Marxism] Marx/Hegel

[Mark Lause]

No, you misrepresent what I said (again).

The original statement was that Marx stands alone and that people
shouldn't have to read Hegel to understand Marx.  My argument is that
people may well get a great deal out of reading Hegel...or
Gramsci...or Althusser.

Your have once more befuddled me with your assertion that Marxist
writers don't deal with the dialectical method (particularly the very
nature of praxis...)

ML


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Re: [Marxism] What to do?

[Mark Lause]

What is "the embryo of a campaign"?

Is there a Bullshit Brain Trust somewhere making up these new terms?
Because, if there is, I think I'd like to work there.  I can come up
with some really funny and meaningless words myself..

ML


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Re: [Marxism] Marx/Hegel

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

I don't see how I could misrepresent since I didn't read, much less 
reply to your post.
But since I befuddled you isn't /materialisme aleatoire/ a 
fundamental rejection of dialectical materialism?  Wasn't a common theme 
of Althusser's works the attempt to rid Marxism of the idealism that 
crept in from Hegelian dialectics.

http://radicalebooks.blogspot.com/2009/06/for-marx-by-louis-althusser.html

Now that I read it (for the first time) I don't see what anyone could 
find objectionable.  Calm down and reply to the right person before you 
post.  I'm fairly certain that I haven't ever misrepresented you since I 
can't recall any an particular incident where I bothered to engage with 
what you thought.
//
Mark Lause wrote:
> No, you misrepresent what I said (again).
>
> The original statement was that Marx stands alone and that people
> shouldn't have to read Hegel to understand Marx.  My argument is that
> people may well get a great deal out of reading Hegel...or
> Gramsci...or Althusser.
>
> Your have once more befuddled me with your assertion that Marxist
> writers don't deal with the dialectical method (particularly the very
> nature of praxis...)
>
> ML
>
> 
> mail.com
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Re: [Marxism] What to do?

[Bill O'Connor]

martin  writes:

> On Sep 7, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Mark Lause wrote:
>
>> The $64,000 question, of course, is how to go about building the
>> organization you're advocating.
>
> Does this thread ever resolve the question?

Too early to tell.  ;)

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In Solidarity,
Billy O'Connor


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Re: [Marxism] What to do?

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_a_New_Workers'_Party  
where that project was at in 2004/2005

Mark Lause wrote:
> What is "the embryo of a campaign"?
>
> Is there a Bullshit Brain Trust somewhere making up these new terms?
> Because, if there is, I think I'd like to work there.  I can come up
> with some really funny and meaningless words myself..
>
> ML
>
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