[Marxism] Hmmm…yeah…about that national - re al life politics - front

2009-09-28 Thread Leonardo Kosloff
The workers of Kraft (largest food and beverage company headquartered in the United States and the second largest in the world… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraft_Foods)-Terrabusi, (something beginning with imp…imper…impes…it’ll come back to me) company which is supported by COPAL, owned by Zo

[Marxism] Desperate Honduran regime backs down, restore civil liberties, lets OAS in, asks "for forgiveness"

2009-09-28 Thread Stuart Munckton
The regime is extremely isolated and losing support inside Honduras, including among former supporters int he elite. The ongoing resistance by the Honduran people is the key factor and is truly heroic. Of course "resotring civil liberites" just means rescinding the decree suspending constitutional

Re: [Marxism] Chavez was right [was: RE: Cháve z and Holocaust indifference]

2009-09-28 Thread Mina Khanlarzadeh
No one in Iran calls it a Twitter Revolution except a bunch of English language mainstream media journalists. In fact they started calling it Twitter Revolution because the Iranian government kicked out all the foreign journalists and arrested many Iranian ones, and then the corporate media journal

[Marxism] Calls needed! URGENT! Keep Jeff Bartos Free and All G20 Protestors!!

2009-09-28 Thread Christopher Hutchinson
Open Letter to the Movement from CT Students Against the War Keep Jeff Bartos Free! Support the IVAW! Defend Free Speech! As many have heard, CT Students Against the War member, CT Iraq Veterans Against the War treasurer and former Army Sgt. Jeff Bartos was arrested last week at G20 protests while

[Marxism] (fwd) Re: Character of Assembly Line Work

2009-09-28 Thread Les Schaffer
Hi, Hans - I'd guess that "Kay" has never been inside a factory. I've never seen a factory in which workers sit back, peel grapes and eat bonbons. Even in a mechanized plant in which the physical work has been reduced, there's still a need to be alert every moment - and that's tough when th

[Marxism] Canada Must Act to Ensure President Zela ya¹s Return to Office

2009-09-28 Thread Nchamah Miller
Canada Must Act to Ensure President Zelaya¹s Return to Office Declaration of September 26 Latin American Solidarity Teach-In On Saturday, September 26, a teach-in organized by the Latin American Solidarity Network was held at the University of Toronto with participation from the university commun

Re: [Marxism] Chavez was right [was: RE: Cháve z and Holocaust indifference]

2009-09-28 Thread nada
"What is dismissed as an "alliance" with Ahmedinejad which is not "something to celebrate" is instead the confluence of the national interests of Venezuela and Iran, two countries that are special targets of imperialism." I thought this was an interesting comment by Joaquin. I would say there is

Re: [Marxism] Michael Moore interview with Bill Maher

2009-09-28 Thread Mark Lause
>From Moore's perspective, of course, the movements represented by D.R.U.M. and the reemergence of even the slightest shadow of some kind of blue collar socialism would be nothing about which he might be nostalgic. Simply put, it failed. We failed. For him, that's the substantive difference betw

[Marxism] Book casts new light on Palestine's ethnic cleansing

2009-09-28 Thread Dennis Brasky
> > > > In recent years, a growing number of accounts of the 1948 > war have corrected and exposed the founding myths of > Israel, including claims by its leaders that the > Palestinian people did not exist or were invented. The > latest addition is Rosemarie M. Esber's meticulously > documented hi

Re: [Marxism] Chavez was right [was: RE : Chá vez and Holocaust indifference]

2009-09-28 Thread johnedmundson
Quoting Joaquin Bustelo : > [For those afflicted with English monolingualism, a translation > follows.] Might I just remind Joaquin that the definition of monolingualism is not he inability to speak Spanish. In the USA, that might be the most obvious or meaningful instance of monolingualism but i

Re: [Marxism] Michael Moore interview with Bill Maher

2009-09-28 Thread S. Artesian
Michael Moore is not "instinctively groping" towards anything. First, Moore is not someone unfamiliar with the elements of Marxism and socialism. So his presentation is not instinctive, unformed, "raw." It is studied, crafted, prepared.He's no newcomer to this. Secondly, he is an unrepentant

Re: [Marxism] Michael Moore interview with Bill Maher

2009-09-28 Thread Mark Lause
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Pat Byrne wrote: > Yes, Michael Moore is fuzzy on solutions, but from watching the interview > it > is obvious that he is instinctively groping towards the correct solution - > the democratisation of the economy. What a shame that the vast majority of > the marxis

Re: [Marxism] Bonapartism [Re: Chavez was right [was: RE: Chávez and Holocaust indifference ]]

2009-09-28 Thread S. Artesian
Twisting nothing. Here's what you wrote: "Please realize that the example of Cincinnatus can be counterposed by the example of the Tribunus Plebis (e. g. the Gracchi), which figure to become definitely effective had to turn itself into - Imperator!!! It is seldom forgotten that the power of the I

Re: [Marxism] Michael Moore interview with Bill Maher

2009-09-28 Thread Pat Byrne
Yes, Michael Moore is fuzzy on solutions, but from watching the interview it is obvious that he is instinctively groping towards the correct solution - the democratisation of the economy. What a shame that the vast majority of the marxist movement hasn't grasped this yet... Pat -Original Messa

Re: [Marxism] Chavez was right [was: RE: Cháve z and Holocaust indifference]

2009-09-28 Thread Louis Proyect
Joaquin Bustelo wrote: > And I say "alleged rhetoric" and "supposed repression" because, as we say in > Spanish, "a mi no me consta": I do not know these things for a fact. The record of the Islamic Republic on the treatment of prisoners is quite clear. They do torture political prisoners. Ervand

Re: [Marxism] Chavez was right [was: RE: Cháve z and Holocaust indifference]

2009-09-28 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
Leonardo Kosloff: "The point is Chávez evades the question because he wants to, or rather, sees it as necessary to, build a political-economic (those are different sides of the same coin) alliance with Ahmedinejad. If you think this is something to celebrate, then 'unthinkingly' is perhaps a word w

Re: [Marxism] Chavez was right [was: RE: Cháve z and Holocaust indifference]

2009-09-28 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
Mina Khanlarzadeh: "then what is the difference between Hugo Chavez and Fox news? they both ignore atrocities commited by their favorite governments." Another demonstration of how imperialist pressure distorts people's thinking. To put an equal signs between the white genocide against native peopl

Re: [Marxism] Bonapartism [Re: Chavez was right [was: RE: Chávez and Holocaust indifference]]

2009-09-28 Thread Nestor Gorojovsky
No, S. Artesian. You are twisting my argument. Isn´t it a pity, from a man who can taste a "canard á l´orange" S. Artesian escribió: > Oh, I see, to be effective, to sternly develop the means of production, the > vaguely social Bonaparte has to turn himself/herself into an Imperator, into > a C

[Marxism] Urgent - Honduras regime bloodbath threatened, solidarity needed

2009-09-28 Thread Stuart Munckton
Honduras: Regime prepares bloody crackdown, solidarity needed 28 September 2009 http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/812/41789 *The military dictatorship in Honduras, which overthrew elected President Manuel Zelaya on June 28, is preparing a bloody crackdown on the mass resistance of the Honduran po