Re: [Marxism] • Lawrence & Wishart: independent radical publishers

2014-04-26 Thread jim
arxists do not respect copyright - it is anathema - and only hold to it when we are forced to under pain of massive fines or imprisonment - sometimes not even then! The Eurocommunist heirs who run L&W are scum who need to feel the full ire of the world's working class f

Re: [Marxism] What does state ownership have to do with socialism? | L ouis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

2014-04-19 Thread Jim Farmelant
these issues in the appendix to the article, "The Strange Case of Dr. Hayek and Mr. Hayek., co-authored with Mark Lindley. https://www.academia.edu/3291616/The_Strange_Case_of_Dr._Hayek_and_Mr._Hayek Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Re

Re: [Marxism] can Maduro avoid the trap?

2014-04-12 Thread Jim Farmelant
democratic response has been to give in. ----- Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: Dennis Brask

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

2014-04-10 Thread Jim
(even more left nationalist than they were before) like the Communist Party of Britain and, par excellence, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. -- Jim (j...@redunity.org) on 10/04/2014 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.ut

Re: [Marxism] Academia Under the Influence

2014-03-24 Thread Jim Farmelant
dex.php/pmhb/article/download/43963/43684 Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: Joseph Catron Subject: Re: [Marxism] Academia Under the Influence Date: Mon, 24 Mar

[Marxism] West and Putin up the ante

2014-03-22 Thread Jim
#x27; http://www.cpgb.org.uk/home/weekly-worker/1002/west-and-putin-up-the-ante -- Jim (j...@redunity.org) on 22/03/2014 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Marxism] Short reply to the U.S. Dept of Labor's "List of Books t hat Shaped Work in America"

2014-03-14 Thread Jim Farmelant
Ayn Rand and two by Milton Friedman). No radical left-wing books like Harry Braverman's book, Labor and Monopoly Capital, which actually analyzed how work processes have changed under modern capitalism. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com

[Marxism] Fw: [lbo-talk] Paul Baran/PaulSweezy

2014-03-13 Thread Jim Farmelant
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Re: [Marxism] Fascism?

2014-03-10 Thread Jim Farmelant
k that the ruling class might not want to be able to take preemptive before a left-wing can arise that might be able to frustrate their plans for that country. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Origin

Re: [Marxism] Fascism?

2014-03-10 Thread Jim Farmelant
push comes to shove. At the very least, these fascist bully boys may prove useful in quelling street protests. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: Louis Proyect Subject

Re: [Marxism] Bitcoin firm CEO jumped from 25-story buildisinglying to her death | New York Post

2014-03-06 Thread Jim Farmelant
ivate currencies. http://mises.org/books/denationalisation.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denationalization_of_Money Not surprisingly, the greatest fans of bitcoins seem to be libertarians. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic

[Marxism] Max Weber and Trotsky

2014-02-27 Thread Jim Farmelant
Trotsky as having said at Brest-Litovsk, "Every state is founded on force." I'm interested in tracking down where the quote is from and assuming it to be accurate, what the context was when Trotsky said that. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxy

Re: [Marxism] Fascist threat in Ukraine?

2014-02-25 Thread Jim Moody
uld understand the revolutionary left (e.g. not of the red/brown variety of the CP of the Russian Federation) assuming there is one of any note? -- Jim Moody (j...@wiht.org) on 25/02/2014 NUJ 024828 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.ec

Re: [Marxism] information

2014-02-16 Thread Jim Farmelant
/faculty/130702_ss_Bush.stj Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: "George Snedeker" Cc: Radical Philosophy Association Subject: [Marxism] information Date: Sun, 16 Feb

Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: The political economy of inflation and invest ment strikes | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

2014-02-10 Thread Jim Farmelant
nd the priority of self-interest by the owners. As a result, when capital has gone on strike, the social-democratic response has been to give in." http://monthlyreview.org/2004/05/01/ideology-and-economic-development Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http:/

Re: [Marxism] Rise of Hitler docos

2014-02-03 Thread Jim Farmelant
ler was a socialist, seem to me, to be a slightly vulgarized version of the claim made by Friedrich Hayek, in his book The Road to Serfdom, that National Socialism and Fascism were not reactions to the rise of socialism but rather their culmination. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu

Re: [Marxism] Nietzsche on MLK

2014-01-20 Thread Jim Farmelant
f was influenced by Nietzsche. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: Jeff Rubard To: farmela...@juno.com Subject: [Marxism] Nietzsche on MLK Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 14:03:52

Re: [Marxism] Pacifica network fifth column on board of directors (fro m FB)

2014-01-15 Thread Jim Farmelant
security state, like Julian Assange and Ed Snowden, characterize themselves as libertarians. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: Marv Gandall To: farmela...@juno.com Subject: Re

Re: [Marxism] 'More "Lars Lih Online": six further studies of Bolshevism'

2014-01-02 Thread Jim Moody
ut thought I'd share. The CPGB website was down, but it's now up again. The link mentioned now works. -- Jim Moody (j...@wiht.org) on 02/01/2014 NUJ 024828 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: htt

[Marxism] Have a happy and merry December 25

2013-12-24 Thread Jim Farmelant
t men, whose teachings continue to benefit the entire human race, let us join in toasting the memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and of all the giants on whose shoulders he stood. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic

[Marxism] Whose sarin? - Seymour M. Hersh

2013-12-08 Thread Jim Farmelant
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Re: [Marxism] Mad Maoist Group Involved in London Slavery Case

2013-11-25 Thread Jim Farmelant
es. After, how were these people able to get away with what they had been doing for such a long period of time. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math Do THIS bef

Re: [Marxism] How Teddy Roosevelt saved football

2013-11-07 Thread Jim Farmelant
will eventually impact the NFL. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: Louis Proyect Subject: [Marxism] How Teddy Roosevelt saved football Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 08:50:51 -0500

[Marxism] FWD from Rosa Lichtenstein - Rosa L in The North Star

2013-10-28 Thread Jim Farmelant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi, Jim, I hope you are well. Can you circulate these for me, please?. My

[Marxism] Rosa Lichtenstein in The North Star

2013-10-28 Thread Jim Farmelant
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Re: [Marxism] Norman Geras, RIP

2013-10-18 Thread Jim Farmelant
PDF file from: http://www.mediafire.com/view/ih287ue0843shu6/Geras+-+Marx+and+Human+Nature.pdf Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: Louis Proyect To: farmela...@juno.com Subject

Re: [Marxism] Save the minks

2013-10-18 Thread Jim Moody
less > abundant species than of yore. > Like deer (plural: deer), the plural of mink is mink. NYT needs better proofreaders. -- Jim Moody (j...@wiht.org) on 18/10/2013 NUJ 024828 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.e

[Marxism] Fwd: Ronald Coase

2013-10-08 Thread Jim Farmelant
Bg#v=onepage&q=coase%20%22abba%20lerner%22&f=false Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Andrew Pollack acpollack2 at gmail.com Tue Sep 3 07:26:05 MDT 2013 wrote: Ronald Coase has just

Re: [Marxism] Questions for the list

2013-09-26 Thread Jim Farmelant
ski's Main Currents of Marxism, is probably one of the best works of its kind from an apostate. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math > > > Nat Weinstein

[Marxism] Peter Beinart - "The American Jewish Cocoon" (NY Review of Books)

2013-09-10 Thread Jim Farmelant
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Re: [Marxism] The Karaites

2013-09-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
t were imposed on most Jews. In the 20th century, they were similarly able to convince the Nazis that they were not of Semitic origin, thereby sparing themselves of most of the oppression that the Nazis inflicted on other Jews, Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.f

[Marxism] Latest from Rosa Lichtenstein concerning Wittgenstein

2013-09-03 Thread Jim Farmelant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi, Jim, I'd greatly appreciate it if you'd circulate thi

[Marxism] Revealed: Britain sold nerve gas chemicals to Syria 10 months after wa r began

2013-09-01 Thread Jim Farmelant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What do people here make of the following news story? Jim Farmelant http

Re: [Marxism] The American Dream rewards few, enslaves millions | Bhas kar Sunkara | Comment is free | theguardian.com, Louis Proyect,

2013-08-23 Thread Jim Farmelant
becoming a right-wing intellectual rather than a left-wing one. There is a lot of right-wing foundation money that could be his for the asking. If what he is doing is a con, then it seems to me it must a very subtle con indeed. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http

Re: [Marxism] McCarthyism at Harvard by Robert N. Bellah | The New Yor k Review of Books

2013-08-02 Thread Jim Farmelant
, one of the most progressive in the United States. The only radical economist of note at Harvard is Steve Marglin. But he had still been a mainstream economist at the time that he was granted tenure. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or

Re: [Marxism] Stiglitz, Minsky, and Obama - NYTimes.com

2013-07-26 Thread Jim Farmelant
, Michal Kalecki, the Polish Keynesian-Marxist economist. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/the-smithkleinkalecki-theory-of-austerity/ He may eventually get around to Marx too, even if he has to kick and scream all the way to that destination. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu

Re: [Marxism] Bolivia, Nicaragua and Venezuela all offer Snowden asylu m

2013-07-08 Thread Jim Farmelant
the flight would be treated as an act of war. At this point, I cannot conceive of Russia risking World War Three over Snowden. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: Gulf Mann

Re: [Marxism] Forbes posted this for the Gettysburg anniversary

2013-07-01 Thread Jim Farmelant
s plantation economy which was harmed by tariffs. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: Mark Lause Subject: [Marxism] Forbes posted this for the Gettysburg anniversary Date: Mon, 1

Re: [Marxism] Unitarians Need Communism� - ChallengeNewspaper - The Revolutionary Communist Progressive LaborParty

2013-06-28 Thread Jim Farmelant
Community Church of Boston, for example, hands out a Sacco & Vanzetti Award every year to notable left-leaning activists, (http://www.communitychurchofboston.org/home/). Most UUs, however, are garden-variety liberals, and many seem to be free market libertarians. Jim Farmelant

Re: [Marxism] Unitarians Need Communism� - ChallengeNewspaper - The Revolutionary Communist Progressive LaborParty

2013-06-26 Thread Jim Farmelant
the RCP, to engage the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago, a few years ago. http://sunsara.blogspot.com/2009/11/sunsara-taylor-on-ethical-humanist.html Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message

Re: [Marxism] reviewer wanted

2013-06-14 Thread Jim
unreadable. It's the worst case so far of the new html posting regime, but half of posts so far are less than acceptable, IMHO. -- Jim Moody (j...@wiht.org) on 14/06/2013 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your optio

Re: [Marxism] Huey, Dewey, and Kablooey | Vanity Fair

2013-06-11 Thread Jim Farmelant
-black-panthers-probert/ Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: Louis Proyect Subject: [Marxism] Huey, Dewey, and Kablooey | Vanity Fair Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:33:02 -0400 On

Re: [Marxism] Answers needed in death of Tamerlan Tsarnaev acquaintanc e - The Washington Post

2013-05-31 Thread Jim Farmelant
FBI has a decades long history of notoriety for incompetence and its corruption. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math BlackBerry® 10 Find out more about the new Bla

Re: [Marxism] Winston Churchill and the Jewish Question

2013-05-30 Thread Jim Farmelant
that there was such a thing as Jewish race. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: Paul Flewers Subject: [Marxism] Winston Churchill and the Jewish Question Date: Thu, 30 May 2013

[Marxism] Monthly Review website

2013-05-30 Thread Jim Farmelant
that "This Account Has Been Suspended." Did someone forget to pay their webhosting fee or has the site been hacked? Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math __

[Marxism] Obama and LBJ

2013-05-20 Thread Jim Farmelant
but even goddamned Richard Nixon was more progressive. Nowadays, if a mainstream politician attempted to run on the policies that either man supported he or she would be quickly branded as being a left-wing extremist who couldn't be taken seriously. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academi

Re: [Marxism] The PhD trap

2013-05-13 Thread Jim Farmelant
first book, The End of Ideology, as his doctoral dissertation, whereupon he was awarded his Ph.D. and was able to assume his professorship. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- Fro

[Marxism] Marxism as Anti-Philosophy: An Interview with Dario Cankovic

2013-05-10 Thread Jim Farmelant
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Re: [Marxism] The Battle for Adam Smith - Neil Davidson

2013-05-09 Thread Jim Farmelant
with a number of economists, in our essay, "Looking Back for Insights into a New Paradigm" (http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/lf170811.html). When discussing Smith, we likewise treated him as a figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, placing special emphasis on his relationship to David

Re: [Marxism] Mchael Harrington

2013-05-09 Thread Jim Farmelant
books, including his book on religion, The Politics at God's Funeral, which is discussed among other things in the essay, "Six Prominent American Freethinkers." (http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2008/fl161208.html). Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/Ji

Re: [Marxism] Letter from Italy: While the old is dying, the new canno t be born

2013-05-08 Thread Jim Farmelant
. New Labour in Britain, the Australian Labour Party, the SPD in Germany, and the Democrats in the US, etc.). Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: Gary MacLennan Subject: Re

[Marxism] Sociobiologist banned from Rutgers over threats to another professor

2013-05-03 Thread Jim Farmelant
. Trivers himself was a member of the Black Panther Party. They even once wrote a paper together. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1979/7/6/sociobiology-pioneer-joins-bla ck-panthers-probert/ http://www.roberttrivers.com/Robert_Trivers/Publications_files/T%26Newton 1982article-2.pdf Jim Farmelant http

Re: [Marxism] Chris Burford obituary

2013-05-01 Thread Jim Farmelant
orter of New Labour. He was, I recall, an avid supporter of Al Gore when he ran for POTUS back in 2000. At the same time, he was a strong supporter of Sedero Luminoso in Peru. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math ___

Re: [Marxism] To V.C.

2013-04-29 Thread Jim Farmelant
list but also the fifteenth anniversary of Doug Henwood's LBO-Talk List, which has been another great forum for leftist discussions. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math > > > >

[Marxism] The Strange Case of Dr. Hayek and Mr. Hayek

2013-04-17 Thread Jim Farmelant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.academia.edu/3291616/The_Strange_Case_of_Dr._Hayek_and_Mr._Hayek Jim

[Marxism] Explosions at the Boston Marathon

2013-04-15 Thread Jim Farmelant
deaths reported and many injuries. The explosions are believed to have been from bombs that were planted in the area. http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/15/us/boston-marathon-explosions/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or

Re: [Marxism] Thatcher: there was no alternative

2013-04-09 Thread Jim Farmelant
found in the April issue of Monthly Review. See: http://monthlyreview.org/2013/04/01/marx-kalecki-and-socialist-strategy Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: robert mckee

Re: [Marxism] Chris Gilbert, "Ch�vez's Leninism"

2013-03-19 Thread Jim Farmelant
ro, I am a Christian. I believe in the Social Gospels of Christ. He doesn't. Just doesn't. More than once, Castro told me that Venezuela is not Cuba, and we are not in the 1960s." http://www.thenation.com/article/conversations-chaacutevez-and-castro Jim Farmelant http://independent.acade

Re: [Marxism] Steubenville: Guilty verdicts are only a start

2013-03-18 Thread Jim Farmelant
recent problems that the SWP's own central committee has been having, they may not make the most credible critics right now. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: Dan R Su

Re: [Marxism] Economics professor defends himself against Zionist smea r campaign

2013-03-18 Thread Jim Farmelant
post regularly to this list. Also, Professor Alam's problems are not all that new. Charlie Jacobs and many of the other right-wing Zionists in Greater Boston have been after Professor Alam for a good number of years now. There is plenty about this in this list's archives. Jim

[Marxism] Mark Steel on the SWP UK

2013-03-13 Thread Jim Moody
English football divisions. Bernard Cribbins has been a character actor since the 1960s. Basil Fawlty is the John Cleese character in the much-rerun 1970s tv series 'Fawlty Towers'. -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 13/03/2013 _

[Marxism] Soviet Goon Boy again on the SWP UK

2013-03-11 Thread Jim Moody
://sovietgoonboy.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/order-prevails-in-vauxhall/ -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 11/03/2013 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive

Re: [Marxism] Obituary for Hugo Chavez

2013-03-07 Thread Jim Farmelant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sectarian drivel. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http

Re: [Marxism] Argo f**k yourself, Agee whiz is what we need

2013-02-25 Thread Jim Moody
t he could have ended up suffering 'extreme prejudice' for doing so. As far as memory serves, it was well received on the left at the time - when there was a left of some substance, of course. -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 25/02/2013

[Marxism] Party democracy in Lenin's Comintern - and now

2013-02-21 Thread Jim Moody
27; Party (SWP) raises issues related to the nature of internal democracy in the Communist International (Comintern) during 1919–23, the period of its first four congresses.' -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 21/02/2013 ___

Re: [Marxism] Redfriars - the Public School of the Socialist Workers Party

2013-02-17 Thread Jim Moody
tion did not persist, his effectiveness as a meme must be limited. -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 17/02/2013 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

[Marxism] SWP CC caves

2013-02-09 Thread Jim Moody
that - in practice, not words. ends -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 09/02/2013 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Marxism] New possibilities for a realignment of the left

2013-02-03 Thread Jim Moody
flock into their ranks - quite incredible! So it is the lack of democracy - plus quite possibly also a crap program; that is, if the organisation has one (the SWP UK does not) - that can so obviously produce a weak relationship with the working class. That is the elephant in the room that so many on

Re: [Marxism] Paul Le Blanc on the SWP crisis

2013-02-01 Thread Jim Moody
t such an approach, revolutionary organisations are on a hiding to nothing. And, frankly, they deserve to be. -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 01/02/2013 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Marxism] Ted Honderich: philosophy with attitude

2013-01-30 Thread Jim Farmelant
Strong: Conversations on US State Terrorism, edited by Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, Pluto Press 2012. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/StateNatureBailesInterview.html Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math

Re: [Marxism] Platform-fillers who won't work with SWP as is

2013-01-29 Thread Jim Moody
r. And other names > there are serious left intellectuals and writers. Clearly my attempt at irony did not work. The 'platform-fillers' designation merely aimed to express my perception of the cynical SWP view of such speakers and thinkers. -- Jim Moody (j...

[Marxism] SWP opposition: Seymour in Greece

2013-01-27 Thread Jim Moody
tion-seymour-in-greece -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 27/01/2013 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

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

2013-01-25 Thread Jim Farmelant
his small proprietor mentality which feels threatened when some publication or organization that is not their own starts enjoying a modicum of success. Unfortunately, the right-wing seems to understand this better than we do. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com

Re: [Marxism] Hilary Putnam

2013-01-23 Thread Jim Farmelant
e other hand, some of his students from that period have remained on the radical left. BTW his dad, Sam Putnam, was at one time a significant figure within the CPUSA. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math __

Re: [Marxism] Blog to discuss SWP crisis

2013-01-21 Thread Jim Moody
legitimate: > http://internationalsocialismuk.blogspot.com/ This one was set up by Richard Seymour as a place more appropriate for the current discussions on the SWP than his own Lenin's Tomb. -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 21/01/2013 Send li

[Marxism] SWP's zigzags over women's oppression

2013-01-17 Thread Jim Moody
women's liberation. Former national committee member Dave Isaacson sheds light on the not so excellent truth: http://www.cpgb.org.uk/home/weekly-worker/945/swp-and-women-countless-zigs-and-zags-over-womens-oppression -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 17/01

[Marxism] illegal SWP faction

2013-01-15 Thread Jim Moody
. Now we have the next stage: an illegal (under the bureaucracy's rules) SWP faction has been set up. Its blog appears here: http://swpopposition.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/an-open-letter-to-fellow-member s-of.html More power to their collective elbow! -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on

Re: [Marxism] Richard Seymour on the SWP crisis

2013-01-11 Thread Jim Farmelant
guess this points out one of the main failings of Leninist vanguard groups like the SWP which is that they are unable to retain their most talented members. Unfortunately, we have all seen this movie before. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review

[Marxism] SWP's Tom Walker: Why I am resigning

2013-01-10 Thread Jim Moody
rebel -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 10/01/2013 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Marxism] Sexual predation and a splitting UK SWP

2013-01-09 Thread Jim Moody
O'Callaghan wrote: > == R > ule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > On 08.01.2013 23:36, Jim Moody wrote: > &g

[Marxism] Sexual predation and a splitting UK SWP

2013-01-08 Thread Jim Moody
tions already in evidence. National Secretary, Martin Smith, has been accused of being a sexual predator, with a session at the SWP's recent conference taking a report of a rape allegation. One commentary is here: http://www.2ndcouncilhouse.co.uk/blog/2013/01/06/misogynists-and-the-left/ -- Ji

[Marxism] Stephen Resnick, RIP

2013-01-03 Thread Jim Farmelant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Stephen Resnick, professor of economics at UMass-Amherst, dies at age 74 By Greg

[Marxism] Have a happy and merry December 25

2012-12-24 Thread Jim Farmelant
t men, whose teachings continue to benefit the entire human race, let us join in toasting the memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and of all the giants on whose shoulders he stood. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic

Re: [Marxism] young men trouble again (shooting incident)

2012-12-21 Thread Jim Moody
Afghanistan and drone murders of men, women, and children in Pakistan. -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 21/12/2012 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Marxism] Book inquiry : Mathematics for the masses

2012-12-16 Thread Jim Farmelant
technology has made quantum leaps since the time that Adler wrote that book, the basic underlying principles of computers, discussed in that book, have not changed much at all. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant

Re: [Marxism] Book inquiry : Mathematics for the masses

2012-12-14 Thread Jim Farmelant
tical contexts in which mathematics developed Jim Farmelanthttp://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelanthttp://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: Les Schaffer To: farmela...@juno.com Subject: Re: [Marxism] Book inquiry : Mathematics for the masses

Re: [Marxism] Death surge from privatisation in former Soviet bloc

2012-12-13 Thread Jim Farmelant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Also see: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9508159 Jim Farmelant http

[Marxism] Atheism & Humanism as Bourgeois Ideology

2012-11-18 Thread Jim Farmelant
al shortcomings of the so-called "new atheism" and today's celebrity atheists in the context of the depressing political perspective of our reactionary neoliberal era. I also don't spare the dissidents within the movement from my accusations of intellectual superficiality

Re: [Marxism] the election over there

2012-10-31 Thread Jim Farmelant
a radicalization which would drive much of the politics of the 1960s. So, it will be interesting to see how things play this time around. - Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review

Re: [Marxism] Another Day, Another Claim That Castro Is Really Dead

2012-10-21 Thread Jim Farmelant
will turn out to be correct. But not today. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:01:23 -0400 Louis Proyect writes: > > NY Times October 19, 2012 > Another Day, Another Claim That Castro Is Re

[Marxism] Barry Commoner, Pioneering Environmental Scientist and Activist, Dies at 95

2012-10-01 Thread Jim Farmelant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/barry-commoner-dead_b_1928377.html Barr

[Marxism] Thomas Szasz, R.I.P.

2012-09-12 Thread Jim Farmelant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/health/dr-thomas-szasz-psychiatrist-who-led-movem

Re: [Marxism] Alexander Saxton, R.I.P.

2012-09-02 Thread Jim Farmelant
review that he had written for Science & Society. When that piece finally appeared in that journal earlier this year, I attempted to reestablish contact with him, but he had apparently ridden himself of his email accounts. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant

[Marxism] Alexander Saxton, R.I.P.

2012-09-02 Thread Jim Farmelant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/books/alexander-saxton-novelist-and-historian-die

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

2012-08-17 Thread Jim
imilarities to Ambrose Bierce's 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' Free Fall - whose main character joins the Communist Party briefly The Spire - about the ecclesiastical politics of adding a spire to Salisbury Cathedral in 1320 -- Jim (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 17/08/2012 ___

Re: [Marxism] Opposition has hit list in Syria?--a la Indonesia?

2012-08-14 Thread Jim
anged under Rupert Murdoch and Newscorp. Let's not forget, after all, that today's foul UK tabloid The Sun was once the Trades Union Congress-owned Daily Herald. -- Jim (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 14/08/2012 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

[Marxism] Breaking news from Egypt

2012-08-12 Thread Jim Farmelant
VOKES MILITARY POWERS http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/50239.aspx Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math Better Than A Facelift? Doctor Reveals Lazy Way To Look Up

Re: [Marxism] Cockburn and Vidal: A Dying Breed

2012-08-07 Thread Jim Farmelant
be traced even further back to writers like Thomas Paine and William Cobbett. Cockburn and Vidal seem to have no obvious successors, with one possible exception, a person with the initials, R. S., but I'll say no more about that lest he get a swollen head and become completely insufferable.

Re: [Marxism] Tadeusz Kowalik, R.I.P.

2012-08-02 Thread Jim Farmelant
nge. Professor Kowalik was intrigued by our writing on the socialist calculation debate between Hayek and Otto Neurath, especially concerning those points where Neurath's ideas converged with those of Lange. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or R

[Marxism] Tadeusz Kowalik, R.I.P.

2012-08-02 Thread Jim Farmelant
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