Re: [Marxism] Long posts not allowed??

2009-09-15 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
Carroll: "none of those posts ever bothered even to hint that perhaps we should ask Lenin's question (even if we didn't accept his answers, which fit 1905): WITBD." "The absence of interest in this question; in fact the absence any hint that the question existed, pretty much convinced me that the

[Marxism] Michael Moore may quit documentaries

2009-09-15 Thread Pat Costello
"I've done this for 20 years. I started out by warning people about General Motors, and my whole career has been trying to say the emperor has no clothes here, and we better do something about it," Moore said. "I've been having to sort of knock my head against the wall here for 20 years saying t

Re: [Marxism] Michael Moore, Anti-Union

2009-09-15 Thread Ernest Leif
Many either don't know it or don't believe it. On the cinematic side of things I have to agree with what Godard says about Moore' work: He does not know the difference between text and image. YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a messa

[Marxism] What Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at Bush had to say

2009-09-15 Thread Louis Proyect
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/75438.html What Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at Bush had to say BAGHDAD — Muntadhar al Zaidi, the Iraqi reporter who threw his shoes at former President Bush last year in an act of protest that gained international notoriety, was freed from an Iraqi priso

Re: [Marxism] Those Interested...

2009-09-15 Thread Michael Perelman
I am interested. On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:47:34AM -0400, S. Artesian wrote: > in reading a copy of the OECD's [Angus Maddison's] 2 volume World Economic > History, contact me offlist. > > YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a messa

Re: [Marxism] Obama strengthens Cuba blockade

2009-09-15 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
Obama did not "strengthen" the Cuba blockade. He has merely continued it, and as the article notes, since the Helms-Burton Act, it is no longer within the president's authority to lift this measure, although he can weaken it by having the executive branch issue licenses that legalize otherwise proh

[Marxism] China, green? For solar water heating, yes

2009-09-15 Thread Fred Feldman
In many ways, and on its own distinctive path, China continues to shake the world. Fred Feldman latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-fi-china-solar6-2009sep06,0,7213756.s tory latimes.com China, green? In the case of solar water heating, yes In a nation known more for its belching smokestacks,

Re: [Marxism] English skinheads wave ... Israeli flag!

2009-09-15 Thread Juan Fajardo
Indeed, in San Francisco a number of skins took an active part in the anti-Apartheid and South Africa divestment demos in the late 1980s. At one point they mixed up several pounds of pennies with red paint --i.e. "blood money""-- and we students joined them in throwing handfuls into into a

[Marxism] Free pamphlet: `The Labour Aristocracy: The material basis of opportunism in the labour movement' | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

2009-09-15 Thread glparramatta
This text was first published in the May-June 1982 and subsequent issues of the now-defunct magazine /Line of March/, a journal that came out of the Maoist movement in the United States. It deals with the development of Lenin's theory of labour aristocracy. At the time of writing, *Max Elbaum*

[Marxism] Those Interested...

2009-09-15 Thread S. Artesian
in reading a copy of the OECD's [Angus Maddison's] 2 volume World Economic History, contact me offlist. YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://

[Marxism] Health care realities

2009-09-15 Thread Louis Proyect
(From my home town newspaper) Dead man upset over bills, health problems, cops say By Victor Whitman Times Herald-Record September 15, 2009 2:00 AM TOWN OF NEWBURGH — Town police believe the man who shot and killed his wife and then killed himself Sunday morning had become frustrated by money a

[Marxism] Palestine: the two state solution, out of question forever

2009-09-15 Thread Nestor Gorojovsky
Source: http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3774593,00.html The point of no return Half a million Jews beyond Green Line make West Bank’s evacuation impossible Sever Plocker Half a million people. Half a million Jewish Israelis are living beyo

Re: [Marxism] English skinheads wave ... Israeli flag!

2009-09-15 Thread Nick Fredman
A minor point, but "skinhead" is a stylistic rather than a political position. The cropped head and Doc Marten footed look has historical connections to ska and reggae, the 80s mod revival, and anti-racism and leftist politics, as much as to the fascism for dummies and the particularly stup

[Marxism] Crystal Lee Sutton [Norma Rae] passes -- and Poverty Wars and Seeds of Labor Unionism

2009-09-15 Thread Hunter Gray
Note by Hunter Bear: Sad news. But Crystal Lee Sutton lives on in her good works -- and in the very fine film, Norma Rae. The labor struggle in which she played such a key role, and on which the film is based, involved J.P. Stevens Textile at Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. And Roanoke Rapids i