[L-I] Defend Iranian Women against medieval punishments (fwd)

2001-04-24 Thread A.Wosni
Etehadchap schrieb: > Defend Iranian Women against medieval punishments > > In the province of Khorassan , over 20 prostitutes ( > 12 in Mashad and at least another 10 in Bojnourd and > Shahroud )are the latest victims of ‘serial‘ murders > in Iran. The method and brutality of their death, as >

[L-I] Epilogue To A Decade - A Serious Israeli Analysis (fwd)

2001-04-14 Thread A.Wosni
MER schrieb: >___ __ > / |/ / /___/ / /_ //M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S > / /|_/ / /_/_ / /\\ Making Sense of the Middle East > /_/ /_/ /___/ /_/ \\©http://www.MiddleEast.Org > > News, Info

[L-I] Peasants, agriculture and the rural in China today (fwd)

2001-04-12 Thread A.Wosni
October Review schrieb: > Dear friends, > > > Please find below an article in the latest issue of October Review. > Please feel free to distribute or reprint it (with a reference to October > Review). > > > If you have problem receiving the article or do not wish to receive it in > the future, ple

[L-I] Abdullah - King of Jordan, Agent of the Anglo-Americans (fwd)

2001-04-11 Thread A.Wosni
MER schrieb: >___ __ > / |/ / /___/ / /_ //M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S > / /|_/ / /_/_ / /\\ Making Sense of the Middle East > /_/ /_/ /___/ /_/ \\©http://www.MiddleEast.Org > > News, Info

Re: [L-I] The Mixed Motives behind NATO's War against Yugoslavia- Diana Johnstone

2001-03-27 Thread A.Wosni
comrades, while the true meaning of imperialisms' designs and use of the self determination slogan is all too obvious it should not be forgotton that this doesn't mean that the people concerned could be denied the right to decide their own lot by any proletarian revolutionary. As to the Albania

[L-I] AMAL-E KARGARI (Workers' Action) No. 11 (fwd)

2001-03-22 Thread A.Wosni
IRSL schrieb: > > AMAL-E KARGARI (Workers' Action) No. 11 - Wednesday 21 March 2001. > > Amal-e Kargari is a fortnightly electronic bulletin from Iranian Revolutionary > Socialists' League (IRSL). > > The next issue of Amal-e Kargari will be out on Wednesday 4 April 2001. > > =

[L-I] Argentina

2001-03-22 Thread A.Wosni
> Gustavo Gamboa schrieb: > > Abajo De la Rúa-Cavallo > > > > De la Rúa decidió conmemorar el 25º aniversario del golpe de una manera muy > > especial: formando un > > gabinete con funcionarios de la dictadura militar. > > > > ¿Pero, por qué sorprenderse si el gobierno de la Alianza defiende

Re: [L-I] The joy of moderation.

2001-03-06 Thread A.Wosni
In total agreement with James Paris A.Holberg James Paris schrieb: > Dear comrades; > > Whoever this person is, he certainly has no business calling himself a > Leninist of any type, and should find himself on the other side of this list > immediately. Leninist seek to build the revolutionary pa

Re: [L-I] German soldiers and Trotskyist newspapers

2001-03-06 Thread A.Wosni
I largely agree with the rest of what Jerome writes, but I want to point to a certain danger in overstressing the difference between 'patriotism' and 'chauvinism'. First of all it seems that it doesn't distinguish between an oppressed and and oppressor nation. A second aspect is that in both ca

[L-I] Fwd: Solidarity with the Daewoo Motor Workers! (fwd)

2001-03-01 Thread A.Wosni
> Following we publish the call issued by the Power of the Working Class > (Preparatory Group) of Korea on the current struggles in their countries. We, > the Anti-imperialist Camp, express our full solidarity with the courageous > struggle of the Korean workers and invite all serious anti-imp

[L-I] Challenge # 66 and editorial (fwd)

2001-03-01 Thread A.Wosni
Ben Efrat/Langfur schrieb: > Challenge/ POB 41199, Jaffa 61411/ TEL: 03-7394174 > www.odaction.org/challenge/ > For Arabic readers: www.odaction.org/alsabar/ >   > > We are pleased to send you a description of the contents in CHALLENGE > #66, as well as the editorial. > > CHALLENGE is a bimonthly

[L-I] kein Betreff

2001-02-27 Thread A.Wosni
Comrades, I haven't received anything from the LI-list since abiut a month but I heard that I'm still on the list of subscribers. What's going on? Can you do anything about it? sincerely A.Holberg ___ Leninist-International mailing list

Re: [L-I] Re: Whither the List?

2001-02-06 Thread A.Wosni
Only today (due to PC-problems) I find an opportunity to take a stand on what follows concerning the CPRF (here I don't want to comment on the 'case' of Johannes). I find that M.J's position is entirely defeatist: If I get him right he says, 1. we must not blame a party which carries the name o

Re: [L-I] kein Betreff

2001-02-06 Thread A.Wosni
theories of the seizure of power- and > holding > it- and building a new society. Sound vague? It's obviously the question of > the > day. > > Macdonald Stainsby, > co-moderator, > Leninist-International. > > - Original Message - > From: A.Wosni

[L-I] kein Betreff

2001-01-30 Thread A.Wosni
Dear comrades, it's now a couple of days that I haven't received any of your messages, which is very unusual. I wonder if you have faded away due to the internal crisis (Whither LI?) or if you have decided to dumnp me to remain among likeminded folks undesturbed by people like me (I read that y

[L-I] Re: Urgent request for solidarity - North Salta Argentina (fwd)

2001-01-10 Thread A.Wosni
ta Argen, > el 9 Jan 01, a las 23:35, A.Wosni dijo: > > > Dear comrade Nestor, > > can you make any comment on the following message? Are the facts correct, > and is > > there any movement in this respect in Argentine? Who are the authors of the > > motion? Best r

Re: Moderators Note Re: [L-I] Re Owen Jones

2001-01-06 Thread A.Wosni
comrade, I don't think that I was being unpolite. The comrade in question could either have answered "What you say about Stalin is wrong" or "Stalin had to do so in order to save communism" or "I'm not proud". I the first two cases we might have started a historical discussion. So what's so ba

[L-I] SPD-KPD-NSDAP

2001-01-06 Thread A.Wosni
Comrades, in an argument with me 'Red Rebel' has sent the following article on SPD-KPD-Nazis obviously thinking that I belong to the same camp as Paul Foot. I have added a few remarks in [], but let me first tell you that I can't really criticize Paul Foot here because I don't know his article

Re: [L-I] Shock Report: Trots Say "Hitler Better Than Stalin!" (Was:Re Owen Jones)

2001-01-06 Thread A.Wosni
While I don't expect you to learn anything from any Marxist argument I will still take the pains to answer your diatribes hoping that someone less religiously minded than you will benifit. My answers in []: red-rebel schrieb: > - Original Message - > From: "A.Wosni&qu

[L-I] Challenge # 65 and Editorial (fwd)

2001-01-06 Thread A.Wosni
Ben Efrat/Langfur schrieb: > Challenge/ POB 41199, Jaffa 61411/ TEL: 03-7394174 > > We are pleased to send you a description of the contents in CHALLENGE > #65, as well as the editorial. > > CHALLENGE is a bimonthly journal which offers investigative reporting > and in-depth analysis of the Israel

Re: [L-I] Re Owen Jones

2001-01-03 Thread A.Wosni
While Martin obviously has a interpretation different from the Trotzkyist one of what Stalinist means, you say that you are proud to be a Stalinist. May I ask you if this implies that you are proud to belong to a current which has murdered probably more communists (many of them devoted Stalinis

Re: [L-I] Re: DHKC London Information Bureau - Open Letter to European Left

2001-01-03 Thread A.Wosni
le the 3rd pewriod was ultraleftist sectarianism, the populat front was right wing opportunism making the working clkass a tool of the allegedly progressive wing of the bourgeoisie. regards A. Holberg]. > regards, > James. > > - Original Message - > From: "A.Wosn

Re: [L-I] Re: DHKC London Information Bureau - Open Letter to European Left

2000-12-19 Thread A.Wosni
While it is understandable that you are carried away by your emotions, Cde. Tait, this is not a sufficient basis for an intervention in a debate on (Marxist or other) theory. You ought not criticize cde. Owen for what he does not mention unless it distorts the point he's trying to make.

Re: [L-I] FW: WW article

2000-12-15 Thread A.Wosni
Dear comrade, while this may not really add to your arguments I would like to seize the opportunity to congratulate you on this good piece of yours. There is only one sentence somwhere inside which I think could have been clearer (though the point is that it doesn't contrbuze much to your main

[L-I] Special on Hungary (fwd)

2000-12-15 Thread A.Wosni
fyi.A.Holberg Socialist Appeal schrieb: > What's new at In Defence of Marxism > http://www.marxist.com > > Thursday, December 14, 2000 > > > Special on Hungary > > We are publishing three historical articles on the 1956 Hungarian > workers' uprising. One of them is an open letter to the r

Re: [L-I] Re Czechenia

2000-12-15 Thread A.Wosni
Martin, I think that you haven't really understood the problem. Of course the leadership of any nationalist (not 'national'!) movement (and the Chechen movement is basically a nationalist one cloaked in a religious disguise) is an enemy to the historical aims of the international working class

[L-I] US-Russian collab. against 'troublemakers'

2000-12-13 Thread A.Wosni
Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from c002.snv.cp.net ([209.228.32.165]) by mailin04.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 143kBV-06yXvkC; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 20:24:57 +0100 Received: (cpmta 17574 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2000 11:24:51 -0800 Received: from 1Cust18.tnt4.washington.dc.d

Re: [L-I] Fwd: Steve Myers' mentioning my name

2000-12-13 Thread A.Wosni
It's not my job to defend steve Meyer here whom I don't know, but let me make a general remark: while it is possible that some western imperialist forces support the nationalist in Chechnya it is far far from being proved that imperialism as a whole dioes so. On the contrary there are serious h

Re: [L-I] Re: Russia's Population To Decline

2000-12-12 Thread A.Wosni
If what A.B. writes is true the whole Bolshevic politics was a crime sinnce it caused starvation and bloodshed without any prospect of victory. In fact A.B's position isanti-Marxist because it is mechanical materialist and it is defeatist since he says that no matter what policies would have be

[L-I] Antizionism in Israel

2000-12-11 Thread A.Wosni
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Re: [L-I] Russia's Population To Decline

2000-12-09 Thread A.Wosni
True, after the collaps of the USSR Russia has gone from bad to worse. But what is so unusual about a system getting into a crisis without necessarily changing it's fundamental characteristics? There are lots of other countries in the world, which I'm sure you wouldn't have any problems of rega

[L-I] AMAL-E KARGARI (Workers Action) No. 4 (fwd)

2000-11-30 Thread A.Wosni
IRSL schrieb: > > AMAL-E KARGARI (Workers Action) No. 4 - Wednesday 29 November 2000. > > Amal-e Kargari is a fortnightly electronic bulletin from Iranian Revolutionary > Socialists’ League (IRSL). > > The next issue of Amal-e Kargari will be out on Wednesday 13 December. > > > **

Re: [L-I] Re: Serbia a "typical postcommunist state"

2000-11-23 Thread A.Wosni
I'm very much astonished to read such thing from you, comrade Mine. Owen may be wrong or not on the question of stateownership in Croatia/Serbia, but at least he is no defeatist running after one or another bourgeois regime because he can't think about real power of the workers. This is the di

[L-I] [MESN] Getting Away With Murder: The US Admits Its Involvement inLatin America - The Guardian of London (fwd)

2000-11-22 Thread A.Wosni
Khashayar Hooshiar schrieb: > The Guardian of London November 21, > 2000 > > Getting Away With Murder: The US Has Admitted Its Involvement in Latin > America > > by Isabel Hilton > > It has been a curious few days for followers of US foreig

Re: [L-I] Serbia a "typical postcommunist state"

2000-11-22 Thread A.Wosni
It seems to me that Macdonald's point is important, but he overstates it. Imperialist pressures and money could only do their work the way they did because there was a large interior basis for it in Serbia. Think about the difference of what happened in Serbia after the imperialist had for some

[L-I] [nation-arabe] Fwd: Palestine Destroyed Villages (1948) (fwd)

2000-11-20 Thread A.Wosni
eric tron schrieb: > > > > >From: "Kurt Andreassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Åge Hjalmarsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Eric Tron de Bouchony" > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Marvin Rabinowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Palestine Destroyed Villages (1948) > >Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:21:18 +0100 > > >

[L-I] Intifada from the Bottom up (fwd)

2000-11-13 Thread A.Wosni
Ben Efrat/Langfur schrieb: > Challenge/ POB 41199, Jaffa 61411/ TEL: 03-7394174 > > > > We are pleased to send you an article from Challenge # 64: "Intifada from the > Bottom Up". > > You are welcome to re-print or distribute. > > > > CHALLENGE is a bimonthly journal which offers investigative r

[L-I] US SWP report on Serbia (fwd)

2000-11-10 Thread A.Wosni
fyi.A.Holberg > > > > The Militant Vol.64/No.43 November 13, 2000 > > Workers in Yugoslavia press for their rights > New regime seeks to demobilize workers, aims to pursue > integration into world market system (lead article) > > [Photo - see caption below] Workers at Yugoslavia's l

Re: [L-I] Re: FARC and Colombian "interests" was: WW \ Plan Colombia

2000-11-09 Thread A.Wosni
Macdonald, let me please add some hard facts to my last message: I quote from an article published in 'Proletarian Revolution' (New York, Summer 2000). There it says: "The pro-liberal bourgeois position of the FARC has always been clear." [don't forget that the PCC, which is behind FARC has alw

Re: [L-I] Re: FARC and Colombian "interests" was: WW \ Plan Colombia

2000-11-08 Thread A.Wosni
Macdonald Stainsby schrieb: > > > I support the fight of the FARC and the ELN against US-imperialism > and the most > > reactionary wing of the local bourgeoisie, but I wonder what makes > you think > > that they genuinely reflect the interests of the Columbian masses. > 1. there is > > no proof a

[L-I] Why Is Arafat Going to Washington Again? (fwd)

2000-11-08 Thread A.Wosni
MER schrieb: >___ __ > / |/ / /___/ / /_ //M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S > / /|_/ / /_/_ / /\\ Making Sense of the Middle East > /_/ /_/ /___/ /_/ \\ http://www.MiddleEast.Org > > News, Inform

Re: [L-I] [WW] Plan Colombia: 'Declaration of war'

2000-11-08 Thread A.Wosni
I support the fight of the FARC and the ELN against US-imperialism and the most reactionary wing of the local bourgeoisie, but I wonder what makes you think that they genuinely reflect the interests of the Columbian masses. 1. there is no proof at all that the majority of the population at this

Re: [L-I] Amal-e Kargari 2 (fwd)

2000-11-06 Thread A.Wosni
That's exactly what I wanted to know. Could you please name the groups (or some of them) who according to your informations have relevant activities inside Iran? A.Holberg Macdonald Stainsby schrieb: > > - Original Message ----- > From: A.Wosni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

[L-I] Arafat Faces Ultimatum - "Or Else" (fwd)

2000-11-02 Thread A.Wosni
MER schrieb: >___ __ > / |/ / /___/ / /_ //M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S > / /|_/ / /_/_ / /\\ Making Sense of the Middle East > /_/ /_/ /___/ /_/ \\ http://www.MiddleEast.Org > > News, Inform

Re: [L-I] Amal-e Kargari 2 (fwd)

2000-11-02 Thread A.Wosni
Yes, Macdonald, happily enough we can once agree on something, though not on everything even here. Maybe we did evenb agree on the Palestine issue, didn't we? But back to Iran: If I don't get you wrong you want to imply that not to defend politically (different from 'tactical/military support)

[L-I] Amal-e Kargari 2 (fwd)

2000-11-02 Thread A.Wosni
IRSL schrieb: > Amal-e Kargari (Workers Action) No. 2 > AN ELECTRONIC BULLETIN FROM IRSL > > A bourgeois or a proletarian revolution? by M. Razi. > What is the class character of the next Iranian revolution? What is the > role > of workers? > Click on > http://www.kargar.org/ak2/Revolution.htm

[L-I] Re: Oleg Sheyin on Chechnya (fwd)

2000-10-31 Thread A.Wosni
A.Wosni schrieb: > Comrades, > a shortwhile ago I forewarded you a joint statement from the 'Revolutionary > Workers Organization' of Ukraineand the 'Leaguefor the REvolutionary Party' > of > the USA on a Oleg Sheyins position on Chechniya. Here is an En

[L-I] Re: Oleg Sheyin on Chechnya

2000-10-30 Thread A.Wosni
Comrades, a shortwhile ago I forewarded you a joint statement from the 'Revolutionary Workers Organization' of Ukraineand the 'Leaguefor the REvolutionary Party' of the USA on a Oleg Sheyins position on Chechniya. Here is an English translation of Sheyin's original statement. A.Holberg

[L-I] Iran-website

2000-10-26 Thread A.Wosni
IRSL schrieb: > Amal-e Kargari no. 1 > AN ELECTRONIC BULLETIN FROM IRSL > > As the struggles in Iran become more frequent and bold IRSL launches an > appeal for international solidarity with the Iranian workers. > Click on > > http://www.kargar.org/amal1/Solidarity.htm > > for more details. (Tra

[L-I] Israel - Submarine (fwd)

2000-10-26 Thread A.Wosni
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Stratfor.com's Global Intelligence Update - 26 October 2000 > _ > > What in the world is going on? > > Also on Stratfor.com > > Peru's political crisis intensifies with the unexpected return of > former spy chief Vladimir

[L-I] Nietzsche

2000-10-26 Thread A.Wosni
comrades: here is the third parz of an interesting article on Nietzsche (here on N. and the socialist movement) from the ICFI-website A.Holberg LANGUAGES German French Spanish Serbo-Croatian Russian Tamil Sinhala- Indonesian One hundred years since the death of Friedrich Nietzsche: a review

[L-I] Fwd: Workers¹ tragedy in Vietnam (fwd)

2000-10-25 Thread A.Wosni
> Original message > Subject: Workers9 tragedy in Vietnam > Date: Tue, 24 Oct 00 18:01:08 +0100 > x-mailer: Claris Emailer 1.1 > From: Socialist Appeal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "What's New at \"In Defence of Marxism\"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: [L-I] U.S. gives Barak GREEN LIGHT TO SLAUGHTER

2000-10-24 Thread A.Wosni
I agree with you Aaron except - maybe - on one point: You call for the liquidation of Arafat. While I don't object to this in principle I think that it will not help very much, since Arafat is basically only the representative of the leading layer of the Palestinian bourgeoisie. Also the decis

[L-I] joint statement on sheyin (fwd)

2000-10-24 Thread A.Wosni
> Reply to Oleg Sheyin on Chechnya > > Joint statement of the League for the Revolutionary Party (United States)/ > Communist Organization for the Fourth International (LRP/COFI) and the > Revolutionary Workers Organization (RWO, Ukraine) > > On February 2, 2000, a statement by Oleg Sheyin, co-

[L-I] [MESN] The workers take to the stage! (fwd)

2000-10-23 Thread A.Wosni
Khashayar Hooshiar schrieb: > ---Forwarded Message-- > Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 21:10:52 -0600 > From: IRSL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Iranian Workers Sruggle > > > Iranian Revolutionary Socialists League > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.kargar.org - IRS, PO Box 14, EN6 > 1LE, UK.

[L-I] Iranian Revolutiany Socialists Site (fwd)

2000-10-19 Thread A.Wosni
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Visit our site for revolutionary socialists analysis on political situation > of Iran. > IRSL > > http://www.kargar.org > > > > > Commun11.htm

[L-I] China: Market economy induces severe industrial hazards (fwd)

2000-10-19 Thread A.Wosni
October Review schrieb: > Dear friends, > > Please find below an article in the latest issue of > October Review. Please feel free to distribute or > reprint it (with a reference to October Review). > > If you have problem receiving the article or do not > wish to receive it in the future, please

[L-I] Iranian Revolutionary Socialist Site (fwd)

2000-10-19 Thread A.Wosni
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Dear freinds > For up to date socialist analysis of the political events of Iran see the > following site: > > http://www.kargar.org > > > > > Commun10.htm

[L-I] Palestine Solidarity Protests, Slogans and Propaganda (fwd) (2)

2000-10-09 Thread A.Wosni
[from: 'Prolatarian Revolution' No.53 (published by the 'League for the Revolutionary Party (Communist Organization for the Fourth International' (LRP/COFI-USA)[www.lrp-cofi.org] A.Holberg Palestinians Explode "Peace Process" by Jeff Covington > The u

[L-I] Palestine Solidarity Protests, Slogans and Propaganda (fwd)(1)

2000-10-09 Thread A.Wosni
Comrades, what follows are the slogans put foreward by the 'League for the Revolutionary Party' (Communist Organization for the Fourth International) from the US and an analytical article on the Palestinan question published some years ago in their magazine 'Proletarian Revolution', which I thi

Re: an answer (was Re: [L-I] a question)

2000-10-06 Thread A.Wosni
Okay, Nestor, as far as the list is concerned I agree with you. A.Holberg Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky schrieb: > En relación a Re: an answer (was Re: [L-I] a question), > el 3 Oct 00, a las 12:23, A.Wosni dijo: > > > Nestor, I totally agree with you except onone point, which is th

Re: [L-I] Milosevic Addresses Yuogslavia

2000-10-04 Thread A.Wosni
Obviously there is no remedy for you who insist on misinterpreting what people tell you. Sorry for you A.Holberg Macdonald Stainsby schrieb: > == > SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC ADRESSES THE NATION > == > > BELGRADE, October 3, 2000 (

Re: an answer (was Re: [L-I] a question)

2000-10-03 Thread A.Wosni
Nestor, I totally agree with you except onone point, which is that the rest of us have to wait for 'the Palestinians' before we can criticize the results of their misleadership. Of course it is true, that the Palestinians and the otherArabs of the region are the prime victims but since Israel d

[L-I] [MESN] clashes in plaestine (fwd)

2000-10-03 Thread A.Wosni
tony shakar schrieb: > for information about what's going on in palestine, > please visit this site: > > http://www.addameer.org/september2000/index.html > > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! > http://pho

[L-I] sfb: violence in Palestine (fwd)

2000-10-03 Thread A.Wosni
David Camfield schrieb: > >From the Alternative Information Center : > > > 2nd October 2000 > > Communiqué > > At a time where by the final status > negotiations between the Palestinian and > Isra

Re: [L-I] Re: Yugoslav Election

2000-10-02 Thread A.Wosni
Sorry comrade, but I really don't get what exactly you are objecting to. I did not say (and mean) that oppression in Kosova and in Dem.Kampuchea was of the same kind and extent. What I was saying is that there was oppression in both cases and that a lot of people on the left denied it simply b

Re: [L-I] Re:The Yugoslav Election

2000-09-28 Thread A.Wosni
Tony Abdo schrieb: > Anton, I don't want to bore the list with a point by point reply to all > points discussed. For example, I doubt it's worth our time to talk > about the Republic of Texas Rightists. But let me respond to two > items you wrote. > > national selfdetermination of the Al

Re: [L-I] Re:The Yugoslav Election

2000-09-27 Thread A.Wosni
Tony Abdo schrieb: > A. Holberg wrote- > selfdetermination we obviously don't have a problem here. Before I start > to polemicize let me however ask you what you mean by 'orthodoxy' here.> > > No, it is wrong to reject in general principle the right of people to > run their own affairs. But

Re: [L-I] Re: Reply to Stephen E. Philion

2000-09-26 Thread A.Wosni
Just one question:What sense does it make to use a historically based terminology (here 'fascism) if it hasn't any of the basic traits of the historical models (especially Mussolini's 'fascism' which gave toi name to it)? Why not invent something new if it is something basically different? A. Ho

Re: [L-I] The Theory of State Capitalism

2000-09-26 Thread A.Wosni
Comrades, may I add that other critical assessments of Cliff's theory of bureaucratic state capitalism do exist (apart of course from the 'orthodox' Trotzkyist ones which defend the notion of the 'degenerated/deformed workers states). One is: Walter Daum. The Life & Death of Stalinism - A Resur

Re: [L-I] Re: The Yugoslav Election

2000-09-26 Thread A.Wosni
This is an important point. We should not support the right of national selfdetermination because we think that it leads to the founding of states which in a materealist sense could be called progressive. This is excluded within the epoch of capitalist decay (imperialism). However, to quote Len

Re: [L-I] Re: The Yugoslav Election

2000-09-26 Thread A.Wosni
Who says so? Ask the inhabitants of Selma whether they think they are US-Americans or not! I must admit that I haven't been to Selma burt I was in quite a lot of places from Memphis down to New Orleans, and I have seen much more US-flags than even confederated ones at private houses. and I bet

Re: [L-I] The Yugoslav Election

2000-09-26 Thread A.Wosni
I am not speaking about a certain organization to support either 'militarily' or even politically. The UCK certainly serves as a fifth column for imperialism at this point, and therefore can not be supported even tactically. What I was referring to was the right of the Albanian people (in Kosov

Re: [L-I] Re: The Yugoslav Election

2000-09-26 Thread A.Wosni
You are certainly right that the revolutionary left had to support Yugoslavia (or more correctly Serbia) against the imperialist military attack.But this can not be done by supporting the oppression the Serbian regime exerts towards both the Serbian working class and the Albanians in Kosovo (an

Re: [L-I] Re: The Yugoslav Election

2000-09-26 Thread A.Wosni
May I remind you that the Orange Irish came there a a colonialist occupation force while the Albanians in Kosovo have been there before any Serbs came. Also the Orange Irish are part of the oppressors whikle the Albanians are the oppressed. The right of national selfdetermination in the Lenini

Re: [L-I] The Yugoslav Election

2000-09-26 Thread A.Wosni
Okay, if you don't reject the general right of Albanian Kosiovar selfdetermination we obviously don't have a problem here. Before I start to polemicize let me however ask you what you mean by 'orthodoxy' here. If you think that the reason why I support this right (which does not mean that I su

Re: [L-I] The Yugoslav Election

2000-09-26 Thread A.Wosni
Carrol Cox schrieb: > > > "A.Wosni" wrote: > > > When you keep > > on rejecting the right of the Albanians to selfdetermination > > This position, always stated as a sort of given, is logically quite > indefensible. Suppose the white inhabitants of Selm

Re: [L-I] The Yugoslav Election

2000-09-25 Thread A.Wosni
Though as far as I know at 9am central European time on 9.25th the results of the ,Y,yugoslav elections are not yet definite yo are certainly right as far as your conclusions on what to do are concerned except however for one point: the defense of the right to national sdelfedetermination of al

Re: currently on the land Nestor:Re: [L-I] DHKC response to Holberg and Jones

2000-09-11 Thread A.Wosni
Comrade Mine, my answer is in []´.Thank you for the manyvaluable points you made. A.Holberg Mine Aysen Doyran schrieb: > Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky dijo: > > > >En relación a [L-I] DHKC response to Holberg and Jones, > > >el 4 Sep 00, a las 1:01, dhkc dijo: > > > > >In their postings, both A. Holbe

Re: [L-I] Scottish Socialist Party (fwd)

2000-09-11 Thread A.Wosni
r the moment. Again succes in the general > election and indications of new forces aligning with it could change the > picture NN > > > > > >Owen Jones schrieb: > > > Reply to A.Wosni, at [EMAIL PROTECTED], who wrote on the 7/9/2000 8:47: > > > >

Re: [L-I] What's all this??????

2000-09-11 Thread A.Wosni
Dear Nestor, as we have been polemicizing a bit about this subject in the past let me first stress that I think that I can understand your emotions. As one who is no friend of Milosevic and the JUL at all let me ask you whether it has ever come to your mind that any heroization of a particular

Re: [L-I] Scottish Socialist Party

2000-09-10 Thread A.Wosni
Thank you comrade, very informative indeed. A.Holberg Owen Jones schrieb: > Reply to A.Wosni, at [EMAIL PROTECTED], who wrote on the 7/9/2000 8:47: > > > It seems to me that it is on this basis that - as far as I read - they > > [Cliffites] are contemplating to unite whith th

[L-I] sfb: US elections (fwd)

2000-09-07 Thread A.Wosni
I don't know anything about McReynolds but as to Nader it seems to me that for a revolurtionary socialist calling for a vote for him means crossing the class line. Communists might call for a vote for a reformist (and thus in the end counterrevolutiory) workers party - if the workers movement i

Re: [L-I] "Fascism"

2000-09-05 Thread A.Wosni
Thanks, but it is not clear to me whether we are thinking about the same thing when speaking about 'fascism'. I'd like the author of the original message (C. Cox)to answer as well. A.Holberg Yoshie Furuhashi schrieb: > >As you will know from my message I agree with you in substance. This is why

Re: [L-I] "Fascism"

2000-09-05 Thread A.Wosni
As you will know from my message I agree with you in substance. This is why I would like you to explain the 'controversial' point about the special historical period a bit more. Do you think that 'fascism' will never retutmn in its historical clothes or do you think that the bourgeoisie will no

Re: [L-I] who are you, A Wosni?

2000-09-04 Thread A.Wosni
Okay,excuse meno more of this stuff A.H. Macdonald Stainsby schrieb: > > > Why do you ask, do you want to send a hit-squad with an icepickle? > > Let us not go down this road, PLEASE. > > Thank you, > > Macdonald > > > ___ > Leninist-International

Re: [L-I] who are you, A Wosni?

2000-09-04 Thread A.Wosni
lent ideological and military measures you employ against critics. That's all.(apart from the question: Who are you? - not serious!) A.H. Tabe Kooistra schrieb: > Who are you [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A.Wosni)? > > Tabe > > -- > Press Agency Ozgurluk > In Support of the Peopl

Re: [L-I] DHKC response to Holberg and Jones

2000-09-04 Thread A.Wosni
dhkc schrieb: > In their postings, both A. Holberg and Owen Jones make a number of > statements. Since it provides an opportunity to expound DHKP-C views, here > is our response to them. > > Both of them deny that Turkey is fascist. There is the MHP (Nationalist > Movement Party). This party i

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-09-03 Thread A.Wosni
Sorry folks, I posted this wrongly to the LI-list. It was for Johannes privately. A.H. A.Wosni schrieb: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > > Lieber Johannes, > > > ich schreibe Dir privat, weil ich keine Lust mehr habe, diese Diskussion > > > auf der > > >

Re: [L-I] Turkey. DHKC - Jones.

2000-09-03 Thread A.Wosni
Thank you "comrade" for this answer. I think it makes my point perfectly clear for anyone at least familiar with the legacy of Marxism. A.H. Tabe Kooistra schrieb: > Comrades, > > A short response on the remarks of A.Wosni in these > > On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 11:15:

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-09-02 Thread A.Wosni
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > Lieber Johannes, > > ich schreibe Dir privat, weil ich keine Lust mehr habe, diese Diskussion > > auf der > > LI-Liste fortzuführen. > > Lieber Lothar, > ich verstehe Deinen beleidigten Unterton eigentlich nicht. [Ich bin verwundert. Ich habe mich nicht beleidigt

Re: [L-I] Turkey. DHKC - Jones.

2000-09-02 Thread A.Wosni
Comrades, you are deluding yourself if you believe that the Left or even the revolutionaey left in Turkey is anywhere near to challenge the existing order. It has been smashed in the past - specially in 1980 - both by the bourgeoisie and its generals and by its own shortcomings. Those who keep

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-09-01 Thread A.Wosni
Lieber Johannes, ich schreibe Dir privat, weil ich keine Lust mehr habe, diese Diskussion auf der LI-Liste fortzuführen. Nur soviel. Ich stimme Dir hier (wie ja auch sonst meistens) im allgemeinen zu. Allerdings ist es nicht nur im Interesse der Bourgeoisie, daß die Immigranten die Mehrheitsspr

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-08-30 Thread A.Wosni
Mr. Proyect: Saying that trying to speak (or at least understand) the language of the country you live in is a part of progressive consciousness does not mean that everybody who speaks the language is a 'progressive' or even revolutionary person [all Africans have black hear but not all people

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-08-30 Thread A.Wosni
Tony, where do you get your information from about whom I know and what I do? Let me tell you that for many years I was particularily engaged in 'solidarity work' with the Kurdish movement and that I regularily met with immigrant workers from Kurdistan, Turkey, Iraq. Most of them tried to learn

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-08-30 Thread A.Wosni
Come on, you can't mean this question seriously. I never said that the immigrants shouldn't know their original language (infact even the German bourgeoisie makes them learn Turkish at school if they wish so. The idea of course is, that they should learn it so as that they can be sent back one

Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?

2000-08-30 Thread A.Wosni
Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky schrieb: > En relación a Re: [L-I] Speaking the same language?, > el 29 Aug 00, a las 12:51, Tony Abdo dijo: > > > Anton, you are attributing narrow mindedness and being reactionary to > > immigrants that haven't mastered learning German. Has it not > > occurred to yo

Re: [L-I] Cuba

2000-08-29 Thread A.Wosni
John Catalinotto schrieb: > > Ownen Jones wrote > - > People who have gone to Cuba who have talked to Cubans > > - and this is very hard since it is illegal for a > Cuban to talk to a foreigner - > will pledge their support for the Revolution and even > list its various achievements, b

Re: [L-I] Cuba

2000-08-29 Thread A.Wosni
rieb: > En relación a [L-I] Cuba, > el 28 Aug 00, a las 10:30, A.Wosni dijo: > > > on Cuba: > > > > 1. while it is important to know how much popular backing the > > Castro-regime still has, this in itself does not prove any > > 'socislist

[L-I] Cuba

2000-08-28 Thread A.Wosni
on Cuba: 1. while it is important to know how much popular backing the Castro-regime still has, this in itself does not prove any 'socislist'and/or 'workers state' character of the regime, of course. That nobody gets me wrong: I don't equate Hitler to Castro, but for many years eventual touris

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