[Marxism] Tariq Ali on Syria

2012-07-15 Thread Tom Quinn
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI1SLqXJI7Mfeature=g-all-u

Re: [Marxism] Grover Furr in the NY Times Book Review

2012-07-15 Thread Tom Quinn
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Just to show you how tone deaf this guy is with his shout down, that I'm surprised

Re: [Marxism] Coexistence of Socialism and Capitalism before revolution?

2012-07-15 Thread Tom Quinn
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, that's an age old question for sure. Co-ops and communes and stuff have

Re: [Marxism] Communiqué on the meeting of the Central Committee of the Syrian Communist Party

2012-07-11 Thread Tom Quinn
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is a year old, being from June '11. Is the CP still backing Assad? On Wed,

Re: [Marxism] North Star shows the way to imperialist intervention

2012-07-11 Thread Tom Quinn
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yeah but, should we become cheerleaders for imperialist intervention on this basis?

Re: [Marxism] North Star shows the way to imperialist intervention

2012-07-11 Thread Tom Quinn
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == That's fine, but who gives a shit about what Paul's motives are? So if the

Re: [Marxism] Dresden Bombing

2012-07-11 Thread Tom Quinn
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Really, and there was also an excellent movie of it. On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:58

Re: [Marxism] North Star shows the way to imperialist intervention

2012-07-11 Thread Tom Quinn
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == right, and who advocated supporting foreign imperialist intervention there? Not the

Re: [Marxism] North Star shows the way to imperialist intervention

2012-07-11 Thread Tom Quinn
in a pure manichean fashion between polar moral opposites in practice. It sure didn't in Russia during its revolution and civil during 1917-21. On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Shane Mage shm...@pipeline.com wrote: If Tom Quinn is looking for a moral imperative like that for imperialist intervention

Re: [Marxism] North Star shows the way to imperialist intervention

2012-07-11 Thread Tom Quinn
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes and one of them was the worthy David Dellinger who went to prison. And yes,

Re: [Marxism] North Star shows the way to Imperialist Intervention

2012-07-11 Thread Tom Quinn
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Actually there was also the context of the fall of France and the Nazi Conquest of

Re: [Marxism] CPUSA leader on Slavoj Zizek

2012-07-10 Thread Tom Quinn
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == this witch's brew of petty bourgeois pseudo-revolutionary clap-trap summarizes

Re: [Marxism] North Star shows the way to imperialist intervention

2012-07-10 Thread Tom Quinn
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sure, if you think the US should be the world's cop. Here's what Phil Ochs had to

Re: [Marxism] The Renegade Kautsky and his Disciple Lenin

2012-07-10 Thread Tom Quinn
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here's a link to a video of a talk by Lars Lih on this topic:

Re: [Marxism] North Star shows the way to imperialist intervention

2012-07-09 Thread Tom Quinn
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It's one thing to say that the oppressed in a country have a right to ask for help

Re: [Marxism] Prostitution and socialism

2012-07-02 Thread Tom Quinn
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What a condescending Victorian liberal attitude worth of Gladstone! the risk of

Re: [Marxism] Bukharin clears it all up

2012-06-26 Thread Tom Quinn
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == While there has always been a significant section of the capitalist class and their