Re: [Marxism] Invasion of the (Israeli or Jewish) body snatechers

2009-09-03 Thread Lüko Willms
Eli Stephens (elishasteph...@hotmail.com) wrote on 2009-09-02 at 21:13:35 in about Re: [Marxism] Invasion of the (Israeli or Jewish) body snatechers: Secondly, the claim that Weir claims that Israel is systematically harvesting etc. is just a damn lie. Here is the final paragraph of her

[Marxism] NEW TITLE: THE FOOD WARS BY WALDEN BELLO

2009-09-03 Thread Verso Mail
NEW TITLE: THE FOOD WARS Walden Bello Published 7th September 2009 -- Walden Bello is the world's leading no nonsense revolutionary. - Naomi Klein Walden Bello is the world's best guide to American exploitation of the globe's poor and defenceless. -

Re: [Marxism] Invasion of the (Israeli or Jewish) body snatechers

2009-09-03 Thread Jay Clinton
So then, does this article constitute 'blood libel' against Ukrainians?: Inside a Creepy Global Body Parts Businesshttp://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,645375,00.html Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

[Marxism] Fw: March Forward! veterans oppose Afghanistan escalation

2009-09-03 Thread jc
PEP - Original Message - From: ANSWER Coalition To: jc...@aceweb.com Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 1:44 PM Subject: March Forward! veterans oppose Afghanistan escalation Subscribe Photo: Zoriah

[Marxism] Noam Chomsky on crisis and hope

2009-09-03 Thread Louis Proyect
Boston Review SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2009 Crisis and Hope Theirs and ours by Noam Chomsky Perhaps I may begin with a few words about the title. There is too much nuance and variety to make such sharp distinctions as theirs-and-ours, them-and-us. And neither I nor anyone can presume to speak for

[Marxism] Low-Wage Workers Are Often Cheated, Study Says

2009-09-03 Thread Greg McDonald
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/us/02wage.html?_r=1themc=th The original report in full: http://tinyurl.com/l22cly Low-Wage Workers Are Often Cheated, Study Says By STEVEN GREENHOUSE Published: September 1, 2009 Low-wage workers are routinely denied proper overtime pay and are often paid

Re: [Marxism] China's high speed rail plans

2009-09-03 Thread Lüko Willms
S. Artesian (sartes...@earthlink.net) wrote on 2009-09-02 at 10:24:47 in about Re: [Marxism] China's high speed rail plans: So here we have LW's reasons to be cheerful. The Chinese nation is being strengthened, it is recovering from the Japanese invasion. It is throwing off the legacy

[Marxism] [Fwd: re:Invasion of the (Israeli or Jewish) body snatchers]

2009-09-03 Thread Louis Proyect
Original Message Subject: re:Invasion of the (Israeli or Jewish) body snatchers Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 07:27:13 -0700 (PDT) From: sebastian tarazona sebs...@yahoo.se To: l...@panix.com Here is an interview and a debate from al-jazeera with Donald Boström

[Marxism] Mariategui

2009-09-03 Thread Louis Proyect
In preparing reading material for an Introduction to Marxism mailing list on Yahoo, I scanned in a chapter of Jose Carlos Mariategui’s “Seven Interpretative Essays on Peruvian Reality”. One thing led to another and before long I had scanned in all seven essays which were then added to the

Re: [Marxism] China's high speed rail plans

2009-09-03 Thread S. Artesian
Now you've gone off the track, Marvin. I was never a fan of Maoism to begin with, thought the Cultural Revolution was in fact a pre-emptive counterrevolution, manipulated by Mao to destroy his opponents in and out of the party under the slur of capitalist roaders, a manipulation Mao had

Re: [Marxism] China's high speed rail plans

2009-09-03 Thread Lüko Willms
S. Artesian (sartes...@earthlink.net) wrote on 2009-09-03 at 13:50:21 in about Re: [Marxism] China's high speed rail plans: Anyway, in going off the track you duplicate the error of LW, confusing growth with development, development with capitalist development, the means of production

[Marxism] Voting with feet, not commendable in Argentina Re: China's high speed rail plans

2009-09-03 Thread Nestor Gorojovsky
Lüko Willms escribió: Sitting e.g. in the parliament of Argentina, one would be confronted with such questions: should the high-speed line from Buenos Aires to Rosario and Cordoba be built? Should Argentina import used locomotives and wagons from Spain? Should the country enhance the

Re: [Marxism] China's high speed rail plans

2009-09-03 Thread S. Artesian
No, you're not. Exactly what do you consider significant? Do you expect workers to suddenly leap forward, articulating a full revolutionary analysis of the current and future prospects of China? I think the protests than have developed, whether the precipitating event and/or focus is factory

Re: [Marxism] China's high speed rail plans

2009-09-03 Thread Marv Gandall
Artesian writes: As for your spark a run on the dollar would lead to a grave international economic and political crisis whose outcome would more likely than not be catastrophic rather than positive for both the Chinese and American working classes, that is simply absurd... It's the

[Marxism] US cuts more aid to Honduras coup regime, rejects stacked election

2009-09-03 Thread Fred Feldman
Zelaya's Coup By Tom Hayden September 3, 2009 Email Print Share Buzz up!Buzzflash del.icio.us Digg Facebook Mixx it! Reddit What is this? Take Action Write a Letter Subscribe Now Text Size A A A Reuters Photos Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya. The US announcement of an

Re: [Marxism] Long posts not allowed??

2009-09-03 Thread RicardoStarkey
In a message dated 9/3/2009 9:15:45 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, schaf...@optonline.net writes: i don't want to spend my time picking through marxmail posts looking for interesting discussions. i do want to spend time picking through interesting discussions finding pointers to more

[Marxism-Thaxis] Sahlins on Leslie White

2009-09-03 Thread c b
September 21, 2008 Leslie A. White In the pre-’60s at the University of Michigan, rebellion consisted of listening gleefully to the anthropologist Leslie White going mano a mano with God. White was one of those maverick intellectuals and politicians, like Thorstein Veblen, Charles Beard and Robert

[Marxism-Thaxis] Badiou

2009-09-03 Thread c b
Alain Badiou Alain Badiou French philosophy Contemporary philosophy Full name Alain Badiou Born 17 January 1937 (1937-01-17) (age 72) Rabat, Morocco School/tradition Continental philosophy Main interests Set Theory, Mathematics, Metapolitics, Ontology Notable ideas Event, truths Influenced