[L-I] RE: [CrashList] Z-Net Flunks Test on Depleted Uranium

2001-02-09 Thread Mark Jones
OK, now I have Jared's response and I'm sorry if I seemed peevish. FWIIW, I much respect Jared's work so this is a comradely talk. >Just read your long > commentary, hjowever, and I think you miss the point - which is, arrest of > Borodin is flagrant act of aggression by the Us and SWISS cohorts.

RE: [L-I] Borodin Falsely Arrested - Washington's Excuse a Lie

2001-02-09 Thread Mark Jones
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 09 February 2001 15:33 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [L-I] Borodin Falsely Arrested - Washington's Excuse a Lie > > > The URL for his article is http://emperors-clothe

RE: [L-I] Why I am on this spamming kick...

2001-02-09 Thread Mark Jones
> what > the heck is > a Leninist program today? Is it reading the Leninist classics? Some, but > not really. > I, unlike Mark Jones, don't see tremendous merits in simply re-tracing > the steps (I'm > bastardising you, Mark- feel free to tear a strip off o

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

2001-02-08 Thread Mark Jones
A.Wosni wrote: >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 of > 'communism' for not being communist but reformist, and 2. that anyway it doesn't > make any difference for the revolutionary process if ther

[L-I] FW: DEBATE: Zim's main neoliberal hits back

2001-02-04 Thread Mark Jones
[this is the kind of concrete analysis we need much more of. Mark] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Patrick Bond Sent: 04 February 2001 23:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DEBATE: Zim's main neoliberal hits back My submission to th

[L-I] request

2001-01-31 Thread Mark Jones
Can anyone email me the following paper: Bunker, Stephen G. and Paul Ciccantell. 1999. "Economic Ascent and the Global Environment: World-Systems Theory and the New Historical Materialism," in Goldfrank, et al., eds., Ecology and the World-System Many thanks

[L-I] sorry

2001-01-31 Thread Mark Jones
Sorry for inadvertently crossposting twice between l-i and crashlist yesterday, it's against the rules and hope didn't inconvenience too many of you masses hungry for knowledge out there. best to all Mark ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAI

RE: [L-I] The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against Democracy

2001-01-31 Thread Mark Jones
Warines is definitely recommended, but Reddaway seems to usefully summarise the reasons why hopeful old-fashioned liberals like him became so jaundicved about the New Russia. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Barry Stoller > Sent: 31

[L-I] The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against Democracy

2001-01-30 Thread Mark Jones
From: Johnson's Russia List From: Peter Pavilionis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: New Book: The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against Democracy The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against Democracy by Peter Reddaway and Dmitri Glinski 768 pp./6 x 9 $29.95 (paper);

RE: [L-I] IMF 'apes Soviets' : more original ideas from Kagarlitsky

2001-01-30 Thread Mark Jones
>I have been receiving information on P. Alegre. Too > much foam, too little beer. Will try to give some report to the list. excellent, we need to see the materials and here more about it. ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

[L-I] Louise Bryant: Smolny during October

2001-01-30 Thread Mark Jones
from Six Red Months in Russia SMOLNY INSTITUTE, headquarters of the Bolsheviki, is on the edge of Petrograd. Years ago it was considered "way out in the country," but the city grew out to meet it, engulfed it and finally claimed it as its own. Smolny is an enormous place; the great main building

RE: [L-I] IMF 'apes Soviets' : more original ideas from Kagarlitsky

2001-01-30 Thread Mark Jones
Nestor: > > I know Mark hates Kagarlitsky to the guts, which I highly deplore I don't hate him at all. I'm trying to get a debate going about the difference between revolutionary reforms and reformist reforms. The trouble is that the likes of you, Boris Kagarlitsky and others may very well succe

[L-I] IMF 'apes Soviets' : more original ideas from Kagarlitsky

2001-01-30 Thread Mark Jones
BBC Monitoring Russian opponents of the IMF hold anti-Davos news conference in Moscow Source: Kommersant, Moscow, in Russian 27 Jan 01 None to vanquish the IMF. In Moscow yesterday, a few Russian antiglobalists held a news conference timed to coincide with the summit in Davos. During it they

RE: [L-I] The legacy...part 1

2001-01-29 Thread Mark Jones
Stephen E Philion: > Mark, > Who was criticising Frantz Fanon? And what is wrong with saying that an > argument that Doug Henwood, even if you do think he is the most evil force > haunting the world today, happens to be similar to or even the same as > FF's on a particular issue? What is Leninist

RE: [L-I] The legacy...part 1

2001-01-29 Thread Mark Jones
Stephen E Philion wrote: > Well, if that is Henwood's argument, it's not that far from Frantz Fanon, > who argued that advanced capitalist countries frequently set conditions > for investment on newly decolonized countries that keep them from being > able to experience development *and* if they

RE: [L-I] The legacy...part 1

2001-01-29 Thread Mark Jones
Louis Proyect wrote: > > I stand corrected. Furthermore, as a rule of thumb whatever Sam says I > agree with in advance. Unless, of course, it is related to the topic of > wild life preservation. > > I'd like to get a wilder life myself. I'm a protected sub-species, too, according to my wife. _

[L-I] FW: DEBATE: (Fwd) Stop the DRC War... (pls circulate)

2001-01-28 Thread Mark Jones
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dominic Tweedie Sent: 28 January 2001 11:00 To: Patrick Bond Cc: Hugh Macmillan; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DEBATE: (Fwd) Stop the DRC War... (pls circulate) > A warm welcome to Dominic Tweedie (well

RE: [L-I] The legacy...part 1

2001-01-28 Thread Mark Jones
I'm glad Mac posted this Panitch artcle (presumably the intro essay to a recent Soc Register, publication detalils WOULD be welome) and I think that L-I has a raison d'etre as a site dedicated to high-level theoretical debate about the state, and how we analyse and conceptualise it within the pro

RE: [L-I] The legacy...part 1

2001-01-28 Thread Mark Jones
this link goes to a different article! Mark > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Macdonald Stainsby > Sent: 28 January 2001 09:53 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [L-I] The legacy...part 1 > > > "reply to article in New Left Re

RE: [L-I] The legacy...part 1

2001-01-28 Thread Mark Jones
Mac, where was this published? Reference, please Mark > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Macdonald Stainsby > Sent: 28 January 2001 07:48 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [L-I] The legacy...part 1 > > > Any comments? - Macdonald

RE: [L-I] Re: Sacher-Masoch in the Age of Shock Therapy

2001-01-28 Thread Mark Jones
> >Masochism seems like an appropriate psychological accompaniment for > >the transition from communism to capitalism in Russia and the > >Ukraine. The citizens are being screwed so best that they like it > >and continue under the whip of the oligarchs, and receive > >shock-treatment by following

RE: [L-I] Sacher-Masoch in the Age of Shock Therapy

2001-01-27 Thread Mark Jones
I was in the USSR when, as a result of Gorbachev's 'glasnost' (openness in the press), the first editions in many decades were published of the main works of Freud (pronounced 'Fried' in Russian). It was a sensation. Perfectly sensible people suddenly ceased to notice the collapse of society, fami

[L-I] more important stuff from kagarlitsky

2001-01-26 Thread Mark Jones
Moscow Times January 26, 2001 Russia Needs A Pokemon to Call Its Own By Boris Kagarlitsky Even children's cartoons can provoke political controversy. As soon as ORT announced plans to broadcast the Japanese cartoon Pokemon, the press was full of critical commentary. Why do we need these "pocket m

[L-I] FT: Davos elite poised to vie with protesters

2001-01-24 Thread Mark Jones
Demonstrators look to steal the show at the leading global talking shop, says Guy de Jonquihres Published: January 23 2001 21:23GMT | Last Updated: January 24 2001 07:59GMT The 2,000 members of the international power elite converging on Davos for the start of the World Economic Forum on Thur

[L-I] FW: DEBATE: (Fwd) Kagarlitsky on Prague

2001-01-23 Thread Mark Jones
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Patrick Bond Sent: 24 January 2001 06:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DEBATE: (Fwd) Kagarlitsky on Prague (Just received...) Boris Kagarlitsky The Lessons of Prague The events of September 2000 in

RE: Teaching: [L-I] Learning (was Re: Congo)

2001-01-23 Thread Mark Jones
>No one on LBO talk could last five postings in a debate with the > Leninists who "dwell" on L-I, and they would never subject their fragile egos to > several posts with us anyways), but rather forwarded something from the "Week". It is true that they tend to avoid debate, but nonetheless there a

FW: [L-I] Re: Socialism, Regionalism, & Pan-Africanism [reformatted]

2001-01-23 Thread Mark Jones
ns. The only mass activism which has any purchase on state power is in the most marginal of peripheries, eg Phillippines, Indonesia etc and even there we are not exactly seeing the second coming of Great October. > > (Flattered for the attention, but you do realise, Yoshie, that I

RE: [L-I] Re: Socialism, Regionalism, & Pan-Africanism (was Learning)

2001-01-23 Thread Mark Jones
Patrick Bond: >>True, the better people writing on this (e.g., Amin and Bello) haven't got to the point of staking out concrete strategic approaches (in the current issue of Socialist Register, two SA comrades and I make some tentative arguments about regionalism from below). In the southern Afri

RE: [L-I] Socialism, Regionalism, & Pan-Africanism (was Learning)

2001-01-23 Thread Mark Jones
> > Mark Jones wrote: > > > > > > Unfortunately the world just is not and will not be like this pleasant > day dream. > > o.k. So? > > Carrol Carrol, that's what we are here discussing. For a long time some of us have been discussing fundamental probl

RE: [L-I] Socialism, Regionalism, & Pan-Africanism (was Learning)

2001-01-22 Thread Mark Jones
> > Ideally, socialism in Africa should coincide with pan-Africanism of > the revolutionary kind, and at the level of short- to medium-term > goals, movements on the left should aspire to a regionalist program > of the kind that Samir Amin, Pat Bond, etc. have advocated. That > would go toward a

RE: [L-I] Re: "Democratising" Africa

2001-01-22 Thread Mark Jones
> An interesting development is that in the USA an economic downturn, > rising energy costs, effects of deregulation, etc. have coincided in > California. Not yet the nation- & region-wide crisis of the kind > that you speak of, but California may be a harbinger of things to > come. Neoliberal c

RE: [L-I] Re: "Democratising" Africa

2001-01-22 Thread Mark Jones
OK, I apologise. I was wrong to be so puerile and frivolous about James Heartfield, Richard Gott etc. I should have known better. Let's draw a line under this right now. Yoshie or any of us have a right to cite anyone she/they want to in support of an argument or position. Lou surely has a right

RE: [L-I] Congo

2001-01-21 Thread Mark Jones
Yoshie Furuhashi: > >Most surreal...Richard > >Gott, who republished Guevara's Congo diaries as a blast against Kabila > >at the same time charges him with having 'alienated foreign investors by > >refusing to make payments on the gigantic foreign debt of $14bn incurred > >by his profligate prede

RE: [L-I] Congo

2001-01-21 Thread Mark Jones
Louis Proyect: > > > Despite their pleasant demeanor on various progressive Internet forums, > people like James Heartfield are Thatcherites who choose to use Marxish > verbiage as the need arises. Heatfield is a runner. let's never forget it. Like those Russki sectaries who can't stand the hea

RE: [L-I] Baiborodova-Bilenkin-Myers-Shein

2001-01-20 Thread Mark Jones
> I wonder why Svetlana is so upset because of Bilenkin's expulsion only > and not about expulsion of Myers. A very interesting question. Ho-hum, I suppose we shall never know, know that Svyeta has *gone*. Mark ___ Leninist-International mailing lis

RE: [L-I] Re: oTWET: To moderators from Russia -to Louis Proyect

2001-01-20 Thread Mark Jones
Carrol Cox wrote: > > Freedom of speech refers only to the use & abuse of > state power. it is irrelevant in the present context. Damn, and here was I hoping to drag Lenin into it somehow. You're right of course. As ever. Mark ___ Leninist-Internati

RE: [L-I] oTWET: [L-I] Re:Svetlana to Moderation team

2001-01-20 Thread Mark Jones
Svetlana Baiborodova wrote: > > I go away, be happy! Svyetichka, this already your 5th or 6th curtain call, are you going or staying? Privyet, Mark ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to

RE: [L-I] Re: oTWET: To moderators from Russia -to Louis Proyect

2001-01-20 Thread Mark Jones
Tony: > Mark is not a list moderator, yet assures us that > certain folk shall not return. I'm not a moderator so can't keep people off the list. Those who have left all seem to be highly active (fissile, in some cases) on other lists, so anyone wanting to debate them still can. >what about th

RE: [L-I] JRL

2001-01-18 Thread Mark Jones
; En relacisn a [L-I] Latynina article on Russian external debt, > el 18 Jan 01, a las 10:20, Mark Jones dijo: > > > [from JRL, which anyone interested in Russia shiould be on] > > Could you post the instructions to sub, Mark? You once gave them to me, but I > could not sub at t

FW: [L-I] To moderators from Russia - Activity of the Workers Trade Union "Defense"

2001-01-18 Thread Mark Jones
[typos corrected! Eyesight not what it was] -Original Message- From: Mark Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 January 2001 23:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [L-I] To moderators from Russia - Activity of the Workers Trade Union "Defense" Svetlana Baiborodova: &

RE: [L-I] To moderators from Russia - Activity of the Workers Trade Union "Defense"

2001-01-18 Thread Mark Jones
e If you would like to know more, please write to me offlist at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Let me say once more, and from the heart, Svetlana Baiborodova, that I am very glad of the participation of revolutionary Russian workers on this elist. Best wishes Mark Jones __

FW: [L-I] Russia, and Rebuilding the Left in Canada

2001-01-18 Thread Mark Jones
-Original Message- From: Mark Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 January 2001 13:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [L-I] Russia, and Rebuilding the Left in Canada Johannes Schneider wrote: > Mine argues for the expulsion of a person who did a tremendous work in >inf

[L-I] Latynina article on Russian external debt

2001-01-18 Thread Mark Jones
[from JRL, which anyone interested in Russia shiould be on] Moscow Times January 17, 2001 Some Debts Are Better Than Others By Yulia Latynina President Vladimir Putin has announced that pensions will be raised. At the same time, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin announced that Russia would not make

RE: [L-I] Re: Russia: CPRF Leader Interviewed - Russia TV

2001-01-18 Thread Mark Jones
> This may be chauvinism. But probably the less "C" of all the CPs in the world > was the Argentine one (and the Uruguayan?). I missed it on Mark's short list, > when in fact it should have been heading it. sorry, Nestor. My mistake. ___ Leninist-In

RE: [L-I] Re: Zyuganov Interview 11 September 2000: Russian CP Leader Supports Kremlin, Drops Old Allies

2001-01-18 Thread Mark Jones
Yoshie wrote: > One one hand: > > * Financial Times (London) > January 5, 2001, Friday London Edition 1 > SECTION: WORLD NEWS - EUROPE; Pg. 6 > HEADLINE: WORLD NEWS - EUROPE: Russia turns its back on western aid: In order to understand anything in Russia, you have to dig beneath the surfac

RE: [L-I] Re: Russia: CPRF Leader Interviewed - Russia TV

2001-01-18 Thread Mark Jones
> > The man's craftier than Zyuganov, I gather. He has his supporters > use the anti-Semitic rhetoric, avoiding it himself. This was not an anti-semitic joke but a joke by a famous *Jewish* comedian. If the context had been transferred to Brooklyn and the person who made the joke was Woodie All

RE: [L-I] Re: Zyuganov Interview 11 September 2000: Russian CP Leader Supports Kremlin, Drops Old Allies

2001-01-17 Thread Mark Jones
Yoshie: > First of all, Russian leftists need to expand the base for support of > Communism beyond "platoons of pensioners"! I don't think they can > expand it while accommodating themselves to Putin, though. It seems > to me that Zyuganov ain't smart or ambitious enough to use Putin for > his s

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

2001-01-17 Thread Mark Jones
Yoshie: > we don't want to lose someone like Johannes > from the list, do we? He's on the side of anti-imperialism. > > >ONE part is revolutionary and > >wishes to overthrow capitalism; the other is accommodationist and has no such > >intention. > > The problem is that the CPRF has & will accomm

RE: [L-I] Re: Russia: CPRF Leader Interviewed - Russia TV

2001-01-17 Thread Mark Jones
Yoshie wrote: > Putin, by co-opting anti-Semitic & anti-liberal rhetoric widespread > in Russia, can coopt the themes of "socialism = the modern form of > Russian patriotism" as well. The CPRF has only itself to blame, > since it's happy with the role of the loyal opposition. On the contrary, Pu

RE: [L-I] To moderators from Russia

2001-01-17 Thread Mark Jones
> My name is Svetlana Baiborodova. I am a chairwomen of Samara branch of > Russian Association of the Workers Trade Union "Defense of Labor", a member > of Coordinating Commitee of the All-Russian Campaign in Defense of Acting > Labor Code, an editor of weekly Left.ru ("Left Russia"): http://left

RE: [L-I] Re: Program, Organization, Conjuncture

2001-01-17 Thread Mark Jones
> Last year I had my e-mail program crash, so I lost the Crashlist URL, > among other things. Can you mail the URL to me or post it here? > > Yoshie I'll sub you if you like. Mark ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change

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

2001-01-17 Thread Mark Jones
I think Yoshie's interventions are helpful and I am obliged to her for them. HOWEVER: to say > The clarity of revolutionary Leninist politics can't be achieved if > one part of the Left remains trapped in the overblown fear of > Red-Brown alliances on the periphery and the other part falls for

RE: [L-I] Zyuganov Interview 11 September 2000: Russian CP Leader Supports Kremlin, Drops Old Allies

2001-01-17 Thread Mark Jones
Yoshie wrote > > Zyuganov Interview 11 September 2000 > > BBC MONITORING > ZYUGANOV INTERVIEW: RUSSIAN COMMUNIST LEADER EXPANDS ON MOVE TO > SUPPORT KREMLIN, DROP OLD ALLIES but if you read what the man says, is it so unreasonable? > Russia today is at a crossroads. Either we following the new

RE: [L-I] Re: Russia: CPRF Leader Interviewed - Russia TV

2001-01-17 Thread Mark Jones
you don't think that the CPRF = Marxism-Leninism, do you? No, no and again no, as Vladimir Ilyich might say. But so what? Is it the use of the name 'communist' which winds people up into such hysterical frenzies? But we have had non-communist communist parties for years and decades and people ha

RE: [L-I] Re: Russia: CPRF Leader Interviewed - Russia TV

2001-01-17 Thread Mark Jones
Yoshie wrote: > > The CPRF's program, such as it is, can never be achieved by the > CPRF's means. This means that it's a normal party no? Operating according to the normal rules of hypocrisy, double-dealing, sanctimoniousness etc of bourgeois parties everywhere. Until just a few years ago, the Br

RE: [L-I] My resignation as moderator from L-I

2001-01-17 Thread Mark Jones
> ((( > > CB: Please give an example of a successful list . > > It would be invidious to make examples, but I suppose that if Bob Malecki really has 312 people listening to him on his egroups list, perhaps we should call that a success, hey? Mark _

RE: [L-I] Whither the List?

2001-01-17 Thread Mark Jones
Tony, I agree with most of your remarks, and I'm glad you're here and also that you are struggling heroically at Solidarity. In particular I agree that "the phobic iSWor/ > Kagarlitsky crowd" is just a front. You're right: they "trumpet within the Left > of the imperialist bloc countries a hyste

RE: [L-I] My resignation as moderator from L-I

2001-01-17 Thread Mark Jones
> > CB: What the fuck is going on , Mark ? Why the hell would you call for > closing down the list like some goddamn the lord giveth and the lord taketh away ? If you've been following the exchanges you'll see that i'm concerned to make the list a success, not close it down. maybe licence for a

RE: [L-I] My resignation as moderator from L-I

2001-01-17 Thread Mark Jones
I just want to point out that it was no less a rooted stalinoid perverted sectarian than I myself who originally invited Nestor G. -- and what's more, Johannes S. -- to comoderate L-I. So I picked up a stone and dropped it on my own foot, in the latter case, as the maoists say. But I have always

RE: [L-I] Re: Owen-the-Kid Panics Old Goats

2001-01-17 Thread Mark Jones
Mac, it's not a question of being pro- or anti-kprf. I don't think, for instance that either Lou or I are pro-kprf (i shouldn't speak for him anyway). The point is that we have to begin from two simultaneous start-points: (a) analysis of the global conjuncture and how Russia sits in that and (b) a

RE: [L-I] My resignation as moderator from L-I

2001-01-16 Thread Mark Jones
iticism* of Yeltsin to say that he is of Jewish origin. Lenin *also* had Jewish antecedents, so what? > 3. After Mark Jones had been subbed to L-I he publicly called for closing > down L-I. Nonsense. Mark ___ Leninist-International mailing list

RE: [L-I] Re: Owen-the-Kid Panics Old Goats

2001-01-16 Thread Mark Jones
> > I am also a member of Solidarity, and contribute commentary on that list > sponsored by that organization, where Owen and Steve's views on > Milosevic and Kagarlitsky reign supreme. It does not make my case > easier to argue against these views there, when a level of intolerance > for d

[L-I] Nikolai Podvoisky on Lenin and October 2of2

2001-01-16 Thread Mark Jones
This was but one of the Red Guard battalions and it was followed by a second and a third. The fourth was awaiting its turn, the men excited and with their nerves on edge. News from the Front was scanty. We knew that Comrade Chudnovsky's advanced troops had been unable to stem the attack and were

[L-I] Nikolai Podvoisky on Lenin and October 1of2

2001-01-16 Thread Mark Jones
llowing extract, taken from my book 'Storming the Heavens' (Pluto, 1987) to counter support shown on this List for the new right-wing orthodoxy associated with Richard Pipes and Orlando Figes. Mark Jones ___ The evening of October 17 has remained

RE: [L-I] Re: Russia: CPRF Leader Interviewed - Russia TV

2001-01-16 Thread Mark Jones
Stever Myers wrote: >This I will detail in an article I am doing research for >currently - and put on this list. I hope the moderators will permit no such thing. Mark ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options

RE: [L-I] Lenin on the role + work of Party media

2001-01-16 Thread Mark Jones
In lapidary prose, full of burning urgency, revolutionary passion, love of the people and devotion to the cause of the Party, Lenin analysed and dealt with intractable issues of freedom of speech and of the press, of the meaning of state power in the hands of the workers, and of the crucial tasks

RE: [L-I] Re: Russia: CPRF Leader Interviewed - Russia TV

2001-01-16 Thread Mark Jones
Johannes wrote: > Unfortunately it will be rather easy > to find more antisemitic quotes from leading CPRF members. > Unfortunately there is seemingly no end to attempts like this to create hysterias about alleged pogroms, mass anti-semitism etc in Russia. Makashov was, of course, roundly condem

[L-I] Lenin on the role + work of Party media

2001-01-16 Thread Mark Jones
1. From WHAT IS TO BE DONE? Burning Questions of Our Movement "We should dream!" I wrote these words and became alarmed. I imagined myself sitting at a "unity conference" and opposite me were the Rabocheye Dyelo` editors and contributors. Comrade Martynov rises and, turning to me, says sternly: "

[L-I] Lenin on the National Question

2001-01-16 Thread Mark Jones
V. I . Lenin Lenin on the National Question THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION AND THE RIGHT OF NATIONS TO SELF-DETERMINATION (THESES) 1. IMPERIALISM, SOCIALISM AND THE LIBERATION OF OPPRESSED NATIONS Imperialism is the highest stage of development of capitalism. Capital in the adva

RE: Interimperialist strife (was Re: [L-I] Chemical/Nuclear Warfare in Bosnia: Eyewitness To Hell)

2001-01-16 Thread Mark Jones
> IMHO, this is an issue we on L-I should be particularly focused on. Indeed it is. > An aside: > > I suppose that this may start a healthier debate on L-I than what we have been > having recently. And -unlike Mark Jones- I would not blame the team of > moderators for this

RE: [L-I] Russia: CPRF Leader Interviewed - Russia TV

2001-01-16 Thread Mark Jones
> > For the system to work properly, it required an opposition that was > > incapable in principle of taking office. Zyuganov's party coped with this > > role to perfection. In this sense it has always been one of the system's > > fundamental political elements. The KPRF has also been assigned an

RE: [L-I] Re: Russia: CPRF Leader Interviewed - Russia TV

2001-01-16 Thread Mark Jones
Owen Jones wrote: > The CPRF are, unfortunately, anything else other than funny and should be > regarded as even more reactionary and dangerous than the regime of Vladimir > Putin. > regardless of the truth or not of what follows, there is no arguing that this is all simply unsupoported, unsubs

[L-I] Notes from Louise Bryant "Six Red Months in Russia" [reformatted]

2001-01-16 Thread Mark Jones
Notes from Louise Bryant "Six Red Months in Russia" [written 1917]. [Bryant was the political co-worker and lover of John Reed. In this little memoir she gives her thumbnail impressions about Lenin, the Bolsheviks and the early days of Soviet Power.] The workingmen demand, above all, frankness

[L-I] Notes from Louise Bryant Six Red Months in Russia

2001-01-16 Thread Mark Jones
Notes from Louise Bryant Six Red Months in Russia [written 1917]. Bryant was the political co-worker and lover of John Reed. In this little memoir she gives her thumbnail impressions about Lenin, the Bolsheviks and the early days of Soviet Power. The workingmen demand, above all, frankness an

FW: [L-I] Program, Organization, Conjuncture

2001-01-13 Thread Mark Jones
-Original Message- From: Mark Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 January 2001 12:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [L-I] Program, Organization, Conjuncture [[typos corrected] > A revolutionary organization with a clear program has yet to come > into being in my cor

RE: [L-I] Program, Organization, Conjuncture

2001-01-13 Thread Mark Jones
> A revolutionary organization with a clear program has yet to come > into being in my corner of the planet. What of yours? In the > absence of a revolutionary party active within a mass movement, into > what should one assimilate? We have to build it, first of all. > > Now, why don't you lay

RE: [L-I] Re: my participation on L-I

2001-01-13 Thread Mark Jones
> > Fire away. > > Yoshie I'm on the following lists: this, Lou's, deep-eco, wsn and the crashlist. For the past couple of weeks I've been scanning the archives of other lists, and I haven't felt the urge to join or participate in them. I may rejoin Rob's list or perhaps he'll be good enough to

RE: [L-I] unsuscribe

2001-01-13 Thread Mark Jones
thanks for being with us, I've put your crashlist sub on hold best wishes Mark venceremos! > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Julio FernandezBaraibar > Sent: 13 January 2001 11:47 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [L-I] unsuscr

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2001-01-13 Thread Mark Jones
Yoshie wrote: >>Lenin's criticism of Economism (socialism conflated with trade-unionism) still stands, and if the criticism of Economism is what Lou means by "centrism," a "swamp," etc., I cannot agree more. I like Lenin's remark on effacing "all distinctions as between workers and intellectuals,

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2001-01-13 Thread Mark Jones
> >from a self-declared and unashamed centrist, but one who desperately wants > >to break out of this morass - > >- Steve Myers. Steve, I think it'll be much better for all concerned if you stay right where you are. Mark ___ Leninist-Inte

RE: [L-I] unsuscribe

2001-01-13 Thread Mark Jones
I hope my goold old cyber-friend Julio Fernandez Baraibar is not really going to be permitted to unsub. Julio, stay at your post! Mark > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Julio FernandezBaraibar > Sent: 13 January 2001 09:39 > To: [EM

[L-I] my participation on L-I

2001-01-13 Thread Mark Jones
whole let less flim-flam, crossposting, idiotic news items of the 'from the frontlines' type, and a whole lot less Talin-Srotsky baggage. I hope that's all clear enough. Mark Jones ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL P

RE: [L-I] Cuba

2000-08-28 Thread Mark Jones
Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky dijo: >> In the end, the result of all this is either deserved and navel- > gazing loneliness for the Left, or tremendous defeats (such as in > Bolivia, 1972) for the masses. > > Anton, I am seriously afraid that you do not have the slightest idea > of what does the word

RE: [L-I] What to do if the KLA and NATO fight

2000-08-25 Thread Mark Jones
Nestor Miguel dijo (apropos Wonsi): > A hug, A fucking bear hug, I hope. Mark ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international

RE: [L-I] (Fwd) [Fwd: Kursk hit by British submarine (part2)]

2000-08-25 Thread Mark Jones
I just had a look at this site: http://www.redstar.ru/kursk5.html This is the online version of Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star), the armed forces newspaper published by the Russian Defence ministry. Today's issue (25/08) also discusses Kursk. The line seems to be that there was an *accidental* collisi

RE: [L-I] Conference: Towards a politics of truth: The retrieval of Lenin

2000-08-23 Thread Mark Jones
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky > > Maybe, but I think Johannes was right in posting the announcement. I agree, and I told him so offlist. Mark ___ Lenini

RE: [L-I] Conference: Towards a politics of truth: The retrieval of Lenin

2000-08-22 Thread Mark Jones
Oh, come on, Johannes. This is just yet-more careerist bullshit by that prize asshole, Salvoj Zilzek. Why the fuck didn't they post it here in the first place? I'll tell you why. Because even Slajov Zilzek doesn't have *that* much balls. There are people here, after all, who do know Lenin, and wh

RE: [L-I] Moderator's note on the Kossovo debate

2000-08-16 Thread Mark Jones
I asked people on the Crashlist to quit talking about Yugo a little while back, because I couldn't find a way to anchor this debate to the Crashlist topic, but if Jared is not welcome on L-I (I'm sure he is, really) he is more than welcome on the Crashlist; and in fact, Yugo matters terribly, and

RE: [L-I] Information about the "Crashlist"

2000-08-01 Thread Mark Jones
I hope the problem's been dealt with now. I expected lots of freeloaders who enjoyed the pure academic housestyle of the old Crashlist, would quit when the new list started, and they have, so good riddance. What's interesting is that plenty of new people have joined. We'll see if the new list can

RE: [L-I] Bosnia- Where Are The Radical Leftists and Liberals Now?

2000-07-31 Thread Mark Jones
t I'm glad you are free to speak here, anyway. Mark Jones PS If you want to know what *I* think about Stalin, check out this: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base/Stalin_WW2.htm for more go too: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base/ > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL

RE: [L-I] Re: On Static notions of class, gender, imperialism, etc.

2000-07-23 Thread Mark Jones
> >Let's not forget that both Turkey and Japan were imperialist nations in > >their heyday -- I'm getting a little tired of "white feminist" bashing > >on the list. > > > >katha > What she means is "white American patriotic feminist" bashing. Doesn't this just illustrate the complete pointlessne

RE: [L-I] Re: Allied bombins durin WWII (was: Re: Land, Bread and Sex!)

2000-07-20 Thread Mark Jones
We are waiting to hear from Prof Perelman, no? Mark > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Johannes Schneider > Sent: 20 July 2000 19:39 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; L-i > Subject: [L-I] Re: Allied bombins durin WWII (was: Re: Land, Bread an

RE: [L-I] Re: Allied bombins durin WWII (was: Re: Land, Bread and Sex!)

2000-07-20 Thread Mark Jones
Johannes, this is helpful. Your remarks have been serious thru out and worthy of debate. In the popular mood of the time, it would have been impossible for the Brit/US govt's to systematically avoid hitting factories in order to favour Brit/US capitalists who happened to own them; it would have b

RE: [L-I] Spivak & Marxism-Feminism (was Re: And another thing)

2000-07-17 Thread Mark Jones
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Third-World nationalism often mobilizes the idea of the nation that > masks class & gender oppressions Isn't this a bit circular? I don't mean to be frivolous. And nationalist discourse that hopes to succeed must sublimate class etc oppressions by means of/via narrati

RE: [L-I] Spivak & Marxism-Feminism (was Re: And another thing)

2000-07-17 Thread Mark Jones
Yoshie wrote: > > I'd say that > Marxism-Feminism (coupled with fight against imperialism, it goes > without saying) is necessary to avoid the problem that Spivak points > out. Are you inviting Doug/Katha to this fight as participants or just participant-observers? Mark __