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

2012-07-17 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 7/17/12 4:16 PM, Eli Stephens wrote: Louis: "the PSL--unlike the ISO--is actua

[Marxism] North Star shows the way to imperialist intervention

2012-07-17 Thread John Obrien
en be the new supreme ruler -and the U. S. government then officially supports that newdictator? > Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:16:00 -0700 > From: elishasteph...@hotmail.com > Subject: Re: [Marxism] North Star shows the way to imperialist intervention > > > Louis: "the PSL-

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

2012-07-17 Thread Eli Stephens
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis: "the PSL--unlike the ISO--is actually pro-Assad" >From a recent article: htt

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

2012-07-17 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 7/17/2012 3:50 PM, Dan R wrote: Funny how Louis doesn't seem to care for the "

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

2012-07-17 Thread Dan R
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Funny how Louis doesn't seem to care for the "that was XX years ago" argument when I

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

2012-07-17 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 7/17/2012 3:33 PM, Eli Stephens wrote: Louis, why do you have so little respect

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

2012-07-17 Thread Eli Stephens
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis: "For newcomers to Marxmail,..." Louis, why do you have so little respect for

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

2012-07-17 Thread Kenneth Morgan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > http://socialistworker.org/2012/07/16/siding-with-the-empire > Above link to "Soci

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

2012-07-17 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 7/17/2012 2:36 PM, Eli Stephens wrote: When justifying imperialist intervention

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

2012-07-11 Thread Alan Bradley
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From: Tom Quinn > some huge moral imperative of the kind that existed in World War

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 W

[Marxism] North Star shows the way to Imperialist Intervention

2012-07-11 Thread Kenneth Morgan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Prior to the Japanese attack on US military bases in Hawaii, the majority of the peo

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, the

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

2012-07-11 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 7/11/2012 3:32 PM, Tom Quinn wrote: Shane is expressing the traditional Trotsk

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. == Shane is expressing the traditional Trotskyist view of World War 2, shared only by t

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

2012-07-11 Thread Manuel Barrera
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jeff Republishes Ken H: "People in Libya and Syria are autonomous. They don't ha

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
== 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 liberals

[Marxism] North Star shows the way to imperialist intervention

2012-07-11 Thread John Obrien
yrian groups that he seeks support for, than Jeff? But I doubt it. I believe Pham's sources are the same corporate media (CNN, etc.), that were cheer leaders for the 2003 Iraq Invasion. > Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:13:02 +0200 > From: meis...@xs4all.nl > Subject: Re: [Marxism] N

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

2012-07-11 Thread Shane Mage
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dresden was a strategic city and accordingly a target of allied bombing. The wa

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

2012-07-11 Thread Jeff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't have time to write much now, nor have I heard any new arguments, but here's

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

2012-07-11 Thread Angelus Novus
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Shane Mage wrote: > I play no numbers game. Then your use of the term exterminatio

[Marxism] North Star shows the way to imperialist intervention

2012-07-11 Thread John Obrien
+0200 > From: meis...@xs4all.nl > Subject: Re: [Marxism] North Star shows the way to imperialist intervention > So let's stop talking > about the "imperialist intervention" that hasn't even happened and probably > won't (at least until Assad is on hi

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

2012-07-11 Thread Shane Mage
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Jul 11, 2012, at 1:14 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: the extermination bombings of

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

2012-07-11 Thread Angelus Novus
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Shane Mage wrote: > the extermination bombings of German cities from Hamburg to

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

2012-07-11 Thread Jeff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == At 08:17 11-07-12 -0700, Tom Quinn wrote: > >Yeah but, should we become cheerleaders

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

2012-07-11 Thread Shane Mage
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Jul 11, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Tom Quinn wrote: Yeah but, should we become cheerl

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

2012-07-11 Thread Jeff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Now wasn't Lou just asking contributors to these discussions to avoid "one-liners"

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

2012-07-10 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] North Star shows the way to imperialist intervention

2012-07-10 Thread Clay Claiborne
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == So you can understand someone being assaulted might call the police, but so long as

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

2012-07-09 Thread Craig Brozefsky
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Tom Quinn writes: > knew what I was talking about. Reading a bunch of articles an

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 f

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

2012-07-09 Thread Jeff
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I think Pham Binh's article really hit the nail on the head in relation to the utter

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

2012-07-09 Thread Louis Thiemann
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Aren't your differences centered on two questions of *observation*, questions which

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

2012-07-08 Thread Clay Claibirne
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 7/8/2012 11:00 PM, Manuel Barrera wrote: The Marxist dialectic doesn't mean the

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

2012-07-08 Thread Clay Claibirne
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 7/8/2012 10:00 PM, John Obrien wrote: Assad should give up power and hold real

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

2012-07-08 Thread Manuel Barrera
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == " Any such static, one size fits all, generalized position that doesn't take in t

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

2012-07-08 Thread Clay Claibirne
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 7/8/2012 8:41 PM, Manuel Barrera wrote: Favoring imperialist intervention for w

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

2012-07-08 Thread Clay Claibirne
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 7/8/2012 6:32 PM, Andrew Pollack wrote: Pham himself calls anti-intervention a

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

2012-07-08 Thread John Obrien
. > From: mtom...@hotmail.com > Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 22:41:43 -0500 > Subject: Re: [Marxism] North Star shows the way to imperialist intervention > > > > . > Louis: "That's fine. Pham Binh will survive SA's condemnation. Quite frankly, > I think he would f

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

2012-07-08 Thread Manuel Barrera
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis: "That's fine. Pham Binh will survive SA's condemnation. Quite frankly, I th

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

2012-07-08 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 7/8/12 10:06 PM, Andrew Pollack wrote: I think Louis's parallels are useful. I

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

2012-07-08 Thread Andrew Pollack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I think Louis's parallels are useful. I disagree with the ISOers characterization of

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

2012-07-08 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 7/8/12 9:32 PM, Andrew Pollack wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, Louis, but you

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

2012-07-08 Thread Andrew Pollack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Correct me if I'm wrong, Louis, but you have forwarded a number of Pham's pieces to

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

2012-07-07 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't think these things are presented so much as though they were seriously raise

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

2012-07-07 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 7/7/12 5:51 PM, Andrew Pollack wrote: All proportions guarded, I had one of th

[Marxism] North Star shows the way to imperialist intervention

2012-07-07 Thread Andrew Pollack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == All proportions guarded, I had one of those Lenin-reading-Vorwarts-in-August moments