[Marxism] Blue Crosstic Gospels shed new light on Health Care Debate

2009-10-02 Thread Greg McDonald
http://www.theassassinatedpress.com/hag.htm Christ Denied Healing to Those Who Couldn�t Pay. Archaeologists Discover Scrolls at Ancient Dead Sea Company Headquarters. Blue Crosstic Gospels Shed New Light on Health Care Debate. Ledger With Matthew as Comptroller Records Each Miracle and Amount Cha

[Marxism] Neoliberalism as Water Balloon

2009-10-02 Thread Greg McDonald
http://vimeo.com/6803752 Neoliberalism as water balloon. Aside from the obvious weakness in terms of underconsumption as an explanatory factor, still a straightforward and hilarious account. Someone should figure out how to incorporate overproduction into this model. Greg McD __

Re: [Marxism] Obamacare Cost-Cutting

2009-10-02 Thread Greg McDonald
Jon H. wrote: Left out from the Counterpunch article is how much extra the private insurers cost the federal government. My parents received several robo-calls spreading fear about Medicare Advantage being cut. I'd bet they were paid for by the insurance companies that will miss this profit at the

[Marxism] Weekly Worker 787

2009-10-02 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
Weekly Worker 787 - Thursday October 1 2009 The latest edition of the Weekly Worker is now available on the CPGB website at www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/787 In this week’s issue: ANTI-BNP CLASS-COLLABORATION The left’s spluttering response to Nick Griffin’s invitation to appear on Question time reveal

Re: [Marxism] 15.1 Million unemployed in US!!,

2009-10-02 Thread Louis Proyect
Carrol Cox wrote: > It is good times, relatively at least _real_ good times, in which > capitalism is most vulnerable. Lenin: In a letter to Marx, dated October 7, 1858, Engels wrote: “...The English proletariat is actually becoming more and more bourgeois, so that this most bourgeois of all n

Re: [Marxism] Thoughts for Polanski apologists, by another woman raped at 13.

2009-10-02 Thread Louis Proyect
Jeff wrote: > Thanks for posting this Pat. Because you have finally identified the reason > that any such debate has been occurring on this list. Namely insensitivity > to rape (and latent sexist ideologies that feed that insensitivity). This is unmitigated bullshit. We discussed the OJ trial on t

Re: [Marxism] 15.1 Million unemployed in US!!,

2009-10-02 Thread brad bauerly
I agree with all of the above reasons as to the lack of coherent left movement as 15.1 million US citizens are unemployed and 40 million lack health care (these two issues alone as a campaign platform to build a movement has very large potential IMO). I would also posit a theory that understands o

[Marxism] Funded graduate work in Anarchist Studies

2009-10-02 Thread Mark Lause
- Original Message - From: "Seth Wigderson" < wigde...@cc.umanitoba.ca> To: Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 5:16 PM Subject: PhD Studentship in Anarchist Studies From: Dave Berry PLEASE CIRCULATE The Department of Politics, History & International Relations at Loughborough University (UK

[Marxism] A qualitative step forward for the organized struggle in Honduras

2009-10-02 Thread Greg McDonald
A qualitative step forward for the organized struggle in Honduras Posted: 01 Oct 2009 10:05 PM PDT A new challenge: taking over highways, ports and customs offices to bring the country to a halt and overthrow the dictatorship Delfina Bermúdez - Rebelión “…Because a people disorganized becomes a

Re: [Marxism] Thoughts for Polanski apologists, by another woman raped at 13.

2009-10-02 Thread Louis Proyect
Pat Costello wrote: > Do you ever wonder why there are virtually no women on this list? or why it > is known as Marxmale? I would have thought that indignation over the rape of a child would not be debatable. Racist attacks, rape, police brutalitythese are merely academic discussion for many

[Marxism] agree- insensitivity to sexual assault

2009-10-02 Thread kmccook
I agree. I hope RP's statement to Martin Amis was not true. Kathleen de la Peña McCook http://librarian.lishost.org/ > from jeff: > > I still think that insensitivity to sexual assault is pervasive and is a > factor in many of the reactions on this list. On 2 Oct 2009 at 17:54, Pat Cos

Re: [Marxism] Thoughts for Polanski apologists, by another woman raped at 13.

2009-10-02 Thread shacht
Wasn't the issue in the Los Angeles Court that the district attorney had arranged a plea agreement with Polanski's attorneys and that the judge then said he would not be bound by and and not follow the recommendation? In the face of this, Polanski fled. That's how I remember it, but could be

[Marxism] dialectical contradiction

2009-10-02 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
Richard, I had been confused by your footnote against the set theoretic concept of contradiction in Biology Under the Influence; what you say here makes the point well and compellingly. I am wondering whether you have read Andreas Wagner's Paradoxical Life; it seems that ideas that you stated i

Re: [Marxism] Thoughts for Polanski apologists, by another woman raped at 13.

2009-10-02 Thread Fred Feldman
Believe it or not, I have been working over a commentary on the Polanski business for a couple days. Buy now that the issues in dispute have been narrowed down to for or against raping children or for or against being indignant about the rape of children, it makes no sense to contribute my thought

[Marxism] alleged child=rape enthusiasts

2009-10-02 Thread kmccook
I guess if you want to miss the point, you will. This isn't mildly clever. On 2 Oct 2009 at 23:17, Fred Feldman wrote: > Believe it or not, I have been working over a commentary on the Polanski > business for a couple days. > > Buy now that the issues in dispute have been narrowed down to for

[Marxism] Polanski

2009-10-02 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
Haven't read this exchange, but I wonder whether anyone has commented on the social construction of childhood (Marx Wartofsky once wrote about this from a historical materialist point of view). The 19th century bourgeoisie were quite interested in reducing the period of childhood to facilitate

Re: [Marxism] Thoughts for Polanski apologists, by another woman raped at 13.

2009-10-02 Thread Mark Lause
In any event, except for the people we've actually met on this list--very few in most of our cases--none of us really know anything about their genders, nationality, former political connections, etc. I suspect that Pat's correct, though I suspect a higher proportion of female subscribers are here