Re: [Marxism] BBC News - The curious survival of the US Communist Party

2014-05-01 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26126325#story_continues_1 > Three Democratic c

Re: [Marxism] Moscow Needs a New Anti-Cosmopolitan Campaign, Russian Historian Says

2014-04-29 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > > One of the darkest pages in Soviet and indeed Russian history was the > anti-c

Re: [Marxism] Ukraine Fascist MPs and Communist MP go at, the future of demcracy in Ukraine.

2014-04-09 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeSE1OQ1WrA What role does the Communist Party of

[Marxism] US and West are trampling on the world

2014-03-28 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I’m not a fan of RT, but this op-ed piece gives a very different perspective from w

[Marxism] Study of Ukrainian oligarchs

2014-03-20 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The 112-page study is entitled “The Oligarchic Democracy: The Influence of Busines

Re: [Marxism] Fascism?

2014-03-10 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I’ve always thought of bourgeois democracy as being the form in which capitalists r

Re: [Marxism] The end of Palestine?

2014-01-11 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Marv, thanks for posting the interview with Finkelstein. I would have missed it oth

Re: [Marxism] British education secretary Michael Gove blasts classic sitcom Blackadder for spreading 'left wing myths' on war

2014-01-05 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2014/01/03/michael-gove-blasts-blackadder-for-sprea

Re: [Marxism] Why the US military should make the AK-47 its standard

2013-12-24 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > Why? Because I'm an A hole who doesn't think even a socialist US deserves > an eff

Re: [Marxism] Why the US military should make the AK-47 its standard

2013-12-23 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > Why the US military should make the AK-47 its standard > >

[Marxism] "Pandora's Promise" on CNN Thursday

2013-11-05 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CNN will air the controversial documentary Thursday evening at 9 PM. http://cnnpres

Re: [Marxism] Petition on "Expressive Activity" at CUNY

2013-10-30 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > I wonder about the semiotics of petitioning. Does > it complement resistance? Or

[Marxism] Petition on "Expressive Activity" at CUNY

2013-10-30 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The City University of New York has decided that student protests against ROTC, the

[Marxism] Wednesday, October 16 Protest Against Petraeus

2013-10-12 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == If anyone would like the flyer for this event, contact me off list. Glenn _

[Marxism] How children of the world united at a Soviet school

2013-10-07 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In 1933 a unique boarding school was set up in Russia to provide a home for the chi

[Marxism] UN Reports Torture By Libyan Militias

2013-10-03 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/world/africa/libya-27-tortured-to-death-in-jails-r

Re: [Marxism] Syria: What Revolution?

2013-10-02 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Eli: Isn't this the same article you posted to the listserv on September 29 at 9:22

Re: [Marxism] Now I'm being accused of secretly being Scott Lucas!

2013-09-25 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > Clay, wouldn't you agree that this amounts to a compliment? Lucas is > brilliant.

Re: [Marxism] Anti-Muslim pastor accidently burns 2000 Bibles

2013-09-13 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Actually, this is a satire website. So the story isn't true, but it sounded pretty

Re: [Marxism] please promote this event on Marxmail and elsewhere

2013-09-04 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > https://www.facebook.com/events/543203132396107/ > > (There may be local rallies

Re: [Marxism] Leading Democrats, de Blasio Has Broad Support as Primary Nears

2013-08-30 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > I look forward to seeing him in City Hall just to have something to write > about

[Marxism] Israel Grants Golan Height Oil License to Cheney-linked Company

2013-08-28 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It appears as though Israel is taking advantage of the Syrian civil war: http://www

Re: [Marxism] The New Nuclear Craze

2013-08-25 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A few days before Bittman's anti-nuke commentary in the NYT appeared, Eduardo Porte

[Marxism] Request for book recommendation

2013-08-22 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Could people recommend a good book to read on the history of the Black Panther Part

Re: [Marxism] Petraeus’s Pay for Part-Time CUNY Job, Criticized at $200,000, Drops to $1

2013-07-15 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I suspect that CUNY officials and Petraeus had gotten wind that faculty and student

Re: [Marxism] Union Square protests

2013-07-14 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > My wife and I were down in Union Square this afternoon to pick up some cheap > wi

Re: [Marxism] "Dirty Wars"

2013-06-24 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > I haven't seen the film but the book is pretty informative. It is true that > the

[Marxism] "Dirty Wars"

2013-06-24 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Can someone point me to a left review of Jeremy Scahill's documentary "Dirty Wars"?

Re: [Marxism] In History Departments, It’s Up With Capitalism

2013-04-07 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > (The article's title is not accurate. What's involved is a focus on the > system,

Re: [Marxism] "The Scourge of the South"

2013-02-24 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > http://consortiumnews.com/2013/02/23/honoring-a-heroic-slavery-fighter/ It would

Re: [Marxism] Zizek blasts "Zero Dark Thirty"

2013-01-28 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > Louis, are you telling me that the Cheka was bound by bourgeois notions of > huma

Re: [Marxism] Why the ideas of Karl Marx are more relevant than ever in the 21st century

2013-01-25 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > The publicity Jacobin is getting/generating for Marxism and socialism is > fantas

[Marxism] Samir Amin on Mali

2013-01-24 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I saw this on another listserv. It's a translation of what is published on a French

[Marxism] Question about Mali

2013-01-15 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I was wondering if Dan or others knew what the reaction of the French left has been

Re: [Marxism] The most important fish in the sea

2012-12-15 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis: What a great review you've written of Franklin's book! Franklin has been a

[Marxism] Jacobin critique of "Lincoln"

2012-11-28 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://jacobinmag.com/2012/11/lincoln-against-the-radicals-2/

[Marxism] Spielberg's 'Lincoln': Passive Black Characters

2012-11-13 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/opinion/in-spielbergs-lincoln-passive-black-charac

Re: [Marxism] Hollywood rightwing insanity

2012-10-16 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > I saw a preview for this tonight: > > Red Dawn (2012) > - Action - 21 Novemb

Re: [Marxism] A Business Man Looks at Communism

2012-09-21 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > After Fred Koch made millions in the USSR in oil he came back founding John > Birc

Re: [Marxism] How to read Zizek

2012-09-14 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > And one of the enduring myths in Australia is the claim that returning > veterans

Re: [Marxism] Amnesty Calls on UN to stop the US, Qatar and Turkey funding and arming Syria Rebels

2012-08-28 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == >> What amazes me about all these apologists for Putin, al-Assad, Qaddafi, >> Mugab

Re: [Marxism] Marx's Racist Put-Down of Lassalle

2012-08-23 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > Of course we should be honest and up-front about any of Marx's failings (his > pe

Re: [Marxism] Marx's Racist Put-Down of Lassalle

2012-08-22 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In his brilliant book Marx at the Margins, author Kevin Anderson writes: "In his of

[Marxism] Even Muravchik's parents can't stand him

2012-08-20 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > Some Freedom House board members: > > Joshua Muravchik >From Wikipedia: Muravch

Re: [Marxism] Another defeat for labor

2012-08-18 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > The deal the workers ratified contained far-reaching concessions, including > the

Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

2012-08-16 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == >> Has anyone read Germinal by Zola? I confess that it was recommended to me >> in

[Marxism] Info on Biden?

2012-07-22 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm a delegate to the AFT convention, where Joe Biden will be speaking next Sunday.

Re: [Marxism] The Dark Knight Rises vs. The 99%

2012-07-22 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > http://exiledonline.com/the-dark-knight-rises-vs-the-99/ A witty and observant re

Re: [Marxism] What a Palestinian Marxist thinks about the "anti-imperialist" Bashar al-Assad

2012-05-22 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks for posting this Louis. I was happy to sign the petition to free Kaileh, who

Re: [Marxism] This shit has to be stopped! Why isn't the US left raising hell over it???

2012-04-24 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm confused by the question of "why isn't the US left raising hell over" the vicio

Re: [Marxism] Groups invited to take part in May 1 Socialist Unity

2012-04-19 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Are there really two separate socialist organizations with the same name? > Freedom

Re: [Marxism] Barbara Foley: From Occupy to Revolution Video

2012-04-13 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > Barbara Foley: From Occupy to Revolution > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfTKT9o_

Re: [Marxism] The Unions, the Millionaires Tax, and the Road to Success

2012-03-22 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Mar 21, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Adam Richmond wrote: > The Unions, the Millionaires Tax

Re: [Marxism] Red Plenty

2012-03-05 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Has anyone on the list read Robert C. Allen, From Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretati

Re: [Marxism] Michael Moore to deliver major address at Left Forum 2012

2012-02-28 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > Well, you know he will. that's where he's going to wind up and he might as > well

[Marxism] Ron Paul profited from racist newsletter

2012-01-29 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ron-paul-signed-off-on-racist-newsletters-sou

Re: [Marxism] 'Hebron exists and the world is silent'

2012-01-09 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > One of the most chilling scenes in the recent SBS mini-series *The > Promise* depi

Re: [Marxism] A disgusting pro-Obama Democratic front operation

2011-12-15 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > Among the speakers that day was a relatively unknown state senator – Barack > Oba

[Marxism] Petition to prevent eviction of Palestinian Arab family

2011-12-11 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is an on-line petition to support the struggle of the Al-Aju family in Ramle t

Re: [Marxism] Andrew Kliman and the failure of capitalist production

2011-12-08 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Dec 8, 2011, at 6:23 PM, Gary MacLennan wrote: > What does interest me is the po

Re: [Marxism] Two takes on Pinker

2011-11-29 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks for posting the two articles. Fry makes an excellent point about Pinker avoi

Re: [Marxism] Bloomberg's ridiculous statement on the raid

2011-11-15 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > “I have become increasingly concerned – as had the park’s owner, Brookfield > Prop

[Marxism] NYRB: Qatar

2011-10-31 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is an interesting article about the hereditary monarchy of Qatar (the sponsor

Re: [Marxism] Michael Mulgrew

2011-10-07 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > I was half-watching Chris Matthews at 5pm interviewing someone by this name > dow

Re: [Marxism] The NYT Oglesby obit

2011-09-18 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > There were no surviving SDSes after the two post-split groups ended. PL's > goal

Re: [Marxism] The NYT Oglesby obit

2011-09-17 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > It was not unusual for SDS officers to get a nasty send-off, as the group > grew

[Marxism] Reich's NYT column

2011-09-04 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Can someone suggest a good rebuttal to Robert Reich's column, "The Limping Middle C

[Marxism] Sting support oil workers in Kazakhstan

2011-07-06 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == JULY 5, 2011, 1:30 PM Sting Cancels Concert in Kazakhstan After Crackdown on Striker

Re: [Marxism] Question

2011-07-01 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > Thank´s for the info. But we have a little problem. The email of Mr. Mattick > at

[Marxism] questions about Libya

2011-06-22 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I had some questions about Libya, and was hoping someone could provide some informa

Re: [Marxism] The madness of Cesar Chavez

2011-06-17 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I cut my teeth politically in 1967 working on the UFW grape boycott out on Long Isl

[Marxism] contradictions

2011-06-13 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > As I see it -- and as I've said before -- the problem here is the inability, > or

Re: [Marxism] Diane Ravitch op-ed piece on education "reform"

2011-06-02 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == >> It seems like Ravitch's big fear is that the emphasis on more and more >> teachi

Re: [Marxism] Diane Ravitch op-ed piece on education "reform"

2011-06-01 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ravitch will always be connected in my mind with Albert Shanker, the anti-communist

Re: [Marxism] Worst Ever Carbon Emissions Leave Climate on the Brink

2011-05-30 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == 50 % chance of reaching a global average temperature increase of 4 C by 2100! that'

Re: [Marxism] Scheduled Downtime

2011-05-20 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > Just to satisfy my curiosity, how many people in the USA (and elsewhere for > that

[Marxism] critique of anti-imperialism

2011-05-08 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On May 8, 2011, at 12:23 PM, S. Artesian wrote: > "Indecisiveness" is not a product

[Marxism] Hong Kong Radiation Exceeds Tokyo Even After Nuclear Crisis

2011-04-02 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hong Kong Radiation Exceeds Tokyo Even After Nuclear Crisis April 01, 2011, 7:41 AM

[Marxism] Madison Firefighters Prez Calls for General Strike

2011-03-10 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Z_TVrBUtw ___

Re: [Marxism] Peter Pukeface

2011-03-09 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Some residents argue that the town should be more businesslike, cutting other cos

[Marxism] Furr

2011-02-22 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis: I'm new to the listserv, and I admire a lot of what you write, especially

Re: [Marxism] Grover Furr on K's "lies"?

2011-02-21 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Does anyone on this list have an opinion on Furr's revisionist history of the Sovi

Re: [Marxism] Imported from Detroit

2011-02-16 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It turns out that the mural was painted by Diego Rivera, a Mexican artist with we

Re: [Marxism] bye bye dictator

2011-02-11 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Feb 11, 2011, at 11:33 PM, Lüko Willms wrote: What is that, a "Marxist party"

Re: [Marxism] bye bye dictator

2011-02-11 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There is no party like the Russian Bolsheviks and no Lenin steeled in years of p

[Marxism] Divisions within the Egyptian ruling class

2011-02-05 Thread Glenn Kissack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/516/why-mubarak-is-out- Paul Amar's essay ana