Re: [Marxism] Counterpunch joins the pro-Assad brigades

2011-08-04 Thread anas abdelrahim
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == being anti-imperialist doesn't mean condoning atrocities in one place because the e

[Marxism] The Syrians' Fear Factor about being assaulted by Israel and the US is a big component of the rebellion against Assad for many

2011-08-04 Thread pinchy way
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This discussion about whether US socialist activists should dump more on the Assad r

Re: [Marxism] Counterpunch joins the pro-Assad brigades

2011-08-04 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This strikes me as, essentially, a strange kind of lesser-evilism that blinds itself

Re: [Marxism] Counterpunch joins the pro-Assad brigades

2011-08-04 Thread Gary MacLennan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Eli wrote: Joining in imperialism's campaign against Syria only MISLEADS them into

Re: [Marxism] Counterpunch joins the pro-Assad brigades

2011-08-04 Thread Rajesh Roy
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == True, it is the height of immaturity, class-unconsciousness and academic snobbery t

Re: [Marxism] Counterpunch joins the pro-Assad brigades

2011-08-04 Thread Eli Stephens
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == As an example of what I was talking about, the banner headline on Huffington Post ri

Re: [Marxism] Counterpunch joins the pro-Assad brigades

2011-08-04 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 8/4/11 10:05 PM, Eli Stephens wrote: For citizens of NATO countries who consid

Re: [Marxism] Counterpunch joins the pro-Assad brigades

2011-08-04 Thread Eli Stephens
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == For citizens of NATO countries who consider themselves revolutionaries, THESE are th

Re: [Marxism] Counterpunch joins the pro-Assad brigades

2011-08-04 Thread Michael Smith
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:35:10 -0400 Louis Proyect quoted: > > informing the world

Re: [Marxism] Three skips between paragraphs formatting by AOL

2011-08-04 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 8/4/11 8:50 PM, pinchy way wrote: AOL mail formats the posts AUTOMATICALLY to

[Marxism] Three skips between paragraphs formatting by AOL

2011-08-04 Thread pinchy way
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == AOL mail formats the posts AUTOMATICALLY to your list this way with 3 spaces between

Re: [Marxism] Counterpunch joins the pro-Assad brigades

2011-08-04 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 8/4/11 8:31 PM, pinchy way wrote: After reading this most exchange between Mr.

Re: [Marxism] Counterpunch joins the pro-Assad brigades

2011-08-04 Thread pinchy way
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == After reading this most exchange between Mr. Proyect and Eli Stephens, I can't get o

Re: [Marxism] Counterpunch joins the pro-Assad brigades

2011-08-04 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 8/4/11 5:44 PM, Eli Stephens wrote: The bourgeois press and the governments the

Re: [Marxism] Counterpunch joins the pro-Assad brigades

2011-08-04 Thread Eli Stephens
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis wants to know: "Is it permissible to write articles deploring tanks killing pe

Re: [Marxism] Counterpunch joins the pro-Assad brigades

2011-08-04 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 8/4/11 5:15 PM, Eli Stephens wrote: Congratulations on your efforts at promotin

Re: [Marxism] Counterpunch joins the pro-Assad brigades

2011-08-04 Thread Eli Stephens
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jeff: "Tomorrow in fact there is a demo planned in The Hague (and all around Europe)

[Marxism] That trucker driver you flipped off? Let me tell you his story

2011-08-04 Thread Dan DiMaggio
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.startribune.com/opinion/otherviews/126619568.html ___

Re: [Marxism] The two Americas

2011-08-04 Thread Paul Flewers
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Lou P cited a report: 'Nordstrom has a waiting list for a Chanel sequined tweed coat

Re: [Marxism] Counterpunch joins the pro-Assad brigades

2011-08-04 Thread Jeff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == At 09:14 04/08/11 -0700, Eli Stephens wrote: > >There's also little doubt that the "

Re: [Marxism] Is Islam Compatible with Capitalism?

2011-08-04 Thread Tristan Sloughter
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'd argue Islam is "less" compatible. Christianity for a while was incompatible with

Re: [Marxism] Is Islam Compatible with Capitalism?

2011-08-04 Thread Einde O'Callaghan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 04.08.2011 18:42, michael perelman wrote: =

Re: [Marxism] Is Islam Compatible with Capitalism?

2011-08-04 Thread michael perelman
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Picking through the Bible, you could make a case that Christianity is incompatible w

Re: [Marxism] Counterpunch joins the pro-Assad brigades

2011-08-04 Thread Tristan Sloughter
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Interesting. That is good. And for anyone as young as I and unfamiliar with much of

Re: [Marxism] Counterpunch joins the pro-Assad brigades

2011-08-04 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 8/4/2011 10:32 AM, Tristan Sloughter wrote: Counterpunch has always confused me

Re: [Marxism] Counterpunch joins the pro-Assad brigades

2011-08-04 Thread Tristan Sloughter
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == So the argument is that the Western media is supporting an Islamic revolution throug

[Marxism] Counterpunch joins the pro-Assad brigades

2011-08-04 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.counterpunch.org/piccinin08042011.html

[Marxism] Obama's debt ceiling deal within the framework of the international capitalist economy

2011-08-04 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == (An excellent analysis.) Counterpunch August 4, 2011 Why Obama Played the Tea Part

[Marxism] The two Americas

2011-08-04 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NY Times August 3, 2011 Death of Homeless Man After Beating by Police Stirs Outrage

[Marxism] Kucinich says Obama got the deal he wanted

2011-08-04 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/kucinich_says_obama_got_the_deal_he_wanted_2011

[Marxism] Is Islam Compatible with Capitalism?

2011-08-04 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == (This article appears in a neoconservative magazine. It is an answer to the new bo

[Marxism] Review of Lars Lih Lenin biography

2011-08-04 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.cpgb.org.uk/article.php?article_id=1004500

[Marxism] Nader, the pleader to the Democratic Party, begs Obama to plead to the big corporations!

2011-08-04 Thread pinchy way
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == 'So, since he is not a leader, maybe he (Obama) can become a pleader.' When Fanatics

Re: [Marxism] Ralph Nader, What Will this Chronically Disillusioned, Delusional Democrat do in 2012?

2011-08-04 Thread Pinchy Way
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mark, you have now gone to asserting that I am supposedly not a materialist to opi