Re: [Marxism] Race in Cuba

2013-02-12 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The race  issue provided the "justification" for Cuba's "military internationalism"

Re: [Marxism] Did Cuba end up 'towing the moscow line'?

2013-02-12 Thread John Wesley
David, I too found the sneer of Mike Gonzalez ['John Wesley'] >> offensive--- as, indeed, would any non-pig who had the experience in >> Cuba of being shown wounds received in Angola. So much for his >> international socialism. > Just a point of clarification: Th

Re: [Marxism] Toeing the line

2013-02-10 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, two other good examples of this "toeing" the Moscow axis's line. His endorsemen

Re: [Marxism] Did Cuba end up 'towing the moscow line'?

2013-02-10 Thread John Wesley
: [Marxism] Did Cuba end up 'towing the moscow line'? == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2/9/2013 10:05 P

Re: [Marxism] Did Cuba end up 'towing the moscow line'?

2013-02-10 Thread John Wesley
extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2/9/2013 10:05 PM, John Wesley wrote: > Why do all these accounts overlook the fact that the Soviets, tired of all > the Guevarist revolutionary romanticism, by 1968 gave Fid

Re: [Marxism] Empty Cuba blather

2013-02-09 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Why do all these accounts overlook the fact that the Soviets, tired of all the Guev

Re: [Marxism] Empty Cuba blather

2013-02-08 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Allegedly, there were Cuban military  advisors present in Syria (and South Yemen) d

Re: [Marxism] SWP faction declared

2013-02-08 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ever heard of "microfactionalism" ?  Ever heard of anibal Escalante? He was expelle

Re: [Marxism] Why not nuke Canada?

2012-12-21 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, maybe Canada taking over Detroit back then might not have been sich a bad ide

[Marxism] Internationale

2012-12-12 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There is a site on-line which has versions of the "Internationale" in most of the w

Re: [Marxism] martha's vineyard

2012-10-23 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Not surprising that the place is one of Bill Clinton's and Carly Simon's favourite

Re: [Marxism] Spain Recoils as Its Hungry Forage Trash Bins for a Next Meal

2012-09-25 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is exactly what ocurred in Spain during the early years of the Franco period.

Re: [Marxism] Washington Post ombudsman: "What about Israel's nuclear weapons?"

2012-09-01 Thread John Wesley
mado jamas sera aplastado! ________ From: John Wesley To: Mr. Goodman Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2012 1:29 PM Subject: Re: [Marxism] Washington Post ombudsman: "What about Israel's nuclear weapons?" == Rule #1: YOU MUS

Re: [Marxism] Washington Post ombudsman: "What about Israel's nuclear weapons?"

2012-09-01 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It's all so reminiscent of the USS Liberty fiasco. Must be Israeli exceptionalism (t

Re: [Marxism] “What’s disgusting? Union Busting!" - Its Bitter With the King

2012-08-21 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sorry to learn that the long arm of BurgerKing has reached New Zealand now! Mike G.

Re: [Marxism] 2010 article on US-Sweden talks about extraditing Assange to the US

2012-08-19 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Does anyone have the link to the live streaming from in front of the Embassy? Thanks

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

2012-08-17 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == "History will absolve me" by Fidel Castro Ruz El pueblo armado jamas sera aplastad

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

2012-08-16 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, it's considered "politically incorrtect" to read Huck Fin,n because of its su

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

2012-08-16 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == "Animal Farm" is relatively easy to  read for that age group.   Mike G. El pueblo a

Re: [Marxism] PL: U.S. Collaboration With Syrian Terrorist Groups Confirmed

2012-08-03 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, Spain and Mexico provided for many years Cuba's sole air and trade links to th

Re: [Marxism] PL: U.S. Collaboration With Syrian Terrorist Groups Confirmed

2012-08-03 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The same was also true with Argentina, where both Cuba and the USSR maintained full

Re: [Marxism] Olympic uproar as Welsh and Scots refuse to sing 'God Save the Queen'

2012-07-31 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Looks like a repeat of what happened at the  '68 games, when the US national anthem

Re: [Marxism] CIA has little presence in Syria

2012-07-25 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Anywhere that the US has an Embassy (or Consulate for that matter), it can be assum

Re: [Marxism] CIA has little presence in Syria

2012-07-25 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Let's hope that this isn't going to be a pretext  for Obama et al.to now "unleash"

Re: [Marxism] New Cuban Left Position on Syria

2012-07-16 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 3:18 PM, John Wesley wrote: > > Then why was David Salvador (non-PCC leader of the CTC) removed from his

Re: [Marxism] New Cuban Left Position on Syria

2012-07-15 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Then why was David Salvador (non-PCC leader of the CTC) removed from his post and i

Re: [Marxism] What are Cubans thinking?

2012-07-15 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == How does one define "New Cuban Left" ? Thanks, Mike G. El pueblo armado jamas sera

Re: [Marxism] Fiedel Castro's Childhood

2012-07-15 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Legendary, Yes. Admirable, Hardly. (except for his amazing survivability).   Mike G.

Re: [Marxism] Fidel Castro’s Childhood

2012-07-14 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == That's interesting, because Franscisco Franco was also believed to have had Jewish

Re: [Marxism] Labor values: see you at the Coles picket line then Julia Gillard?

2012-07-12 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Don't hold your breath!   Mike G. El pueblo armado jamas sera aplastado! ___

Re: [Marxism] Dresden Bombing

2012-07-12 Thread John Wesley
clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Jul 11, 2012, at 4:02 PM, John Wesley wrote: >  Churchill...wasn't the divinity that the American and British ruling classes >always painted him to be.

Re: [Marxism] Dresden Bombing

2012-07-11 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == That's right -- Schlachthof 5!   Yes, Churchill had a few faults.  Needless to say,

Re: [Marxism] Dresden Bombing

2012-07-11 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Supposedly, Dresden was hit as Churchill's revenge for Coventry ?  He was quite awa

Re: [Marxism] Sam Farber and Cuba

2012-07-08 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks, Louis. I did take a look at the Wikiperdia article you cited.  I was thinki

Re: [Marxism] Sam Farber and Cuba

2012-07-08 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The US blockade was not imposed until early 1962.   I'm afraid that the "chicken or

Re: [Marxism] Sam Farber and Cuba/post-Prague shift in polkicy

2012-07-08 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == >From my not all-inclusive knowledge on the subject, the USSR, by the >mid-Sxties,

Re: [Marxism] Sam Farber and Cuba

2012-07-08 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Actually, the Cuban revolution was launched in 1953 - on Julky 26.   Krushchev did t

Re: [Marxism] Sam Farber and Cuba

2012-07-04 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The tendency is to blame every shortcoming of the Revolution on a "blockade" which

Re: [Marxism] Francis Scott Key on trial

2012-07-04 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It's perhaps not all that surprising.   Remember that MD was a border (non-seceding)

Re: [Marxism] Sam Farber and Cuba

2012-07-04 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Very few Cubans are permitted Internet access.  In any case, communicating on-line

Re: [Marxism] Occupy ConEd!

2012-07-03 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The very same could be said of virtually every "corporate" racket in North America,

Re: [Marxism] Farber replies to Links review of his Cuba book

2012-07-03 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Gays were also frequently sent to the UMAP forced labour units. during the Sixties

Re: [Marxism] Farber replies to Links review of his Cuba book

2012-07-02 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In the early years of AIDS, persons with that condition were confined in such insti

Re: [Marxism] Barry Sheppard on Wisconsin recall defeat

2012-06-18 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Certainly the militancy and enthusiasm manifested last year in Madison were success

Re: [Marxism] Barry Sheppard on Wisconsin recall defeat

2012-06-18 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I doubt it also, with the possible exception of the IWW.  Unfortunately, many Wobbl

Re: [Marxism] Barry Sheppard on Wisconsin recall defeat

2012-06-18 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, that's right, and this fact (together with a rising   postwar economy up to ar

Re: [Marxism] Barry Sheppard on Wisconsin recall defeat

2012-06-17 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Of course, the ability of the labour unions to become very active politically, outs

Re: [Marxism] Can someone help me find instances of conference members staying on campuses rather then expensive hotels?

2012-06-17 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In Minneapolis I've done that, staying in dorms at Augsberg College and Concordia U

Re: [Marxism] Fidel Castro on Erich Honecker

2012-06-15 Thread John Wesley
ssage. == John Wesley said: I was referring to the fact of how one man (and probably his brother as well) chose to link an entire nation so closely and inextricably to the destiny of a country 8000 miles away. El pueblo armado jamas

Re: [Marxism] Fidel Castro on Erich Honecker

2012-06-15 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I was referring to the fact of how one man (and probably his brother as well) chose

Re: [Marxism] Fidel Castro on Erich Honecker

2012-06-14 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Is Fidel referring to himself when he speaks of the "man who sold himself to the de

Re: [Marxism] Why are Democrats behind in Wisconsin?

2012-06-05 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Also, the bitter personal rivalries between the various candidates in the Democrati

Re: [Marxism] Capitalism: A ghost story

2012-06-04 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == She floats on her popularity, looks, and voice.   If you listen closely to any of he

Re: [Marxism] WTF

2012-05-29 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == If only we could aim a few to Chappaqua NY ! El pueblo armado jamas sera aplastado

Re: [Marxism] Leaving Facebookistan

2012-05-28 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It's about time someone spoke out about the Facebook leviathan.   I continue to be a

Re: [Marxism] A Memorial Day reminiscence

2012-05-27 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Perhaps if others in those days had had a similar oportunity to travel so extensive

Re: [Marxism] There are real contradictions between management and labor in Cuba, resolved by thousands of grievance hearings on the shop floor. Here is where local and national needs confront each ot

2012-05-25 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sounds like state capitalism ! El pueblo armado jamas sera aplastado! _

Re: [Marxism] The role of unions in revolutionary Cuba

2012-05-25 Thread John Wesley
armado jamas sera aplastado! From: John Wesley To: Mr. Goodman Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 5:01 PM Subject: Re: [Marxism] The role of unions in revolutionary Cuba == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all

Re: [Marxism] The role of unions in revolutionary Cuba

2012-05-25 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Does the article say anything about the present fate of David Salvador, the leftist

Re: [Marxism] How Cuba dealt with the AIDS epidemic

2012-05-08 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Another minor point: The Cuban state had the authority to  indefinitely quarantin

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

2012-04-24 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == One reason why may have to do with the not insignificant number of "millionaire M

Re: [Marxism] Syria and the Palestinians: 'Almost no other Arab state has as much Palestinian blood on its hands' | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

2012-03-07 Thread John Wesley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ==   El pueblo armado jamas sera aplastado! From: