Re: [Marxism] Snipers fire on Zelaya; Colombian paramilitaries infiltrate Honduras

2009-10-13 Thread Brett Murphy
I'm glad that the UN has been attacked. There should be more attacks on the UN. 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://lists.econ.utah.edu/m

Re: [Marxism] En privado

2009-10-13 Thread S. Artesian
Sure it was. You stopped the debate on China because you have no understanding of Marx's analysis of capitalism. - Original Message - From: "Néstor Gorojovsky" To: "David Schanoes" Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:11 AM Subject: Re: [Marxism] En privado > Sorry, this was meant to be

Re: [Marxism] The real issue in the Polanski arrest

2009-10-13 Thread S. Artesian
My invention? Here's what you wrote-- "One should remember also that both Iran and Venezuela were among the five founding members of OPEC [Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries] in 1960, the cartel of "Third World" countries trying to break the control of the "Seven Sisters", i.e. the oi

Re: [Marxism] Statement against Government of India ’s planned military offensive in adivasi-popula ted regions

2009-10-13 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
At the end of the day, Louis, Americans feeling the pain at the pump don't complain much about cable news cliches. Not to get emotionally charged or anything. Pull back the curtain. On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: > Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > > At the end of the day > > A

Re: [Marxism] REMINDER

2009-10-13 Thread S. Artesian
Tough to when one guy accuses me of dishonesty, and the other accuses me of Friedmanism, based, of course, on their own ignorance of the subject under discussion-- overproduction and the reproduction of value. - Original Message - From: "Les Schaffer" . perhaps that would be a good > t

Re: [Marxism] Imperialist control of world petroleum and imperialism assuch (was: The real issue in the Polanski arrest)

2009-10-13 Thread S. Artesian
Well, since no one has jumped in to the argument about the role of OPEC and imperialism, permit me my usual sarcastic reply to Luko's nonsense: Right, right. "Break the control of the imperialist countries over the world petroleum market." HUGE DIFFERENCE! But you know what? You still don't

[Marxism] UN

2009-10-13 Thread jmcanulty
Anyone got a good Marxist analysis of the general role of the UN (rather than role in particular crises? John MCa Forget the rest, get the best - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/music YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Sen

Re: [Marxism] Overproduction - underconsumption

2009-10-13 Thread Nestor Gorojovsky
However, under the title "China, a locomotive", there is a short piece of news in Pa'gina 12 of Buenos Aires today, where you can read (fast translation) that "the global steel industry began its recuperation of the crisis sooner than expected. This is due to the strong increase of the sectoria

Re: [Marxism] Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution

2009-10-13 Thread new wave
In my view, Trotsky's 'History of the Russian Revolution' presents the best account of the course of Russian Revolution. So far as question of bias is concerned, the preafce deals with it. The beauty is that apart form its literary excellence, this is one of the rare history accounts written by the

Re: [Marxism] UN

2009-10-13 Thread Louis Proyect
jmcanulty wrote: > Anyone got a good Marxist analysis of the general role of the UN > (rather than role in particular crises? > > John MCa > > http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/fascism_and_war/unitednations.htm YOU MUST clip all extraneous t

Re: [Marxism] The National Equality March: A New Generation of Protesters

2009-10-13 Thread John Obrien
Having been on the National Steering Committees of the 1979 and 1987 National Lesbian and Gay Rights Marches on Washington DC - here is my feedback: This Oct 11, 2009 event (so called March) was poorly attended - and much smaller compared to the previous real national marches. The major r

Re: [Marxism] The National Equality March: A New Generation of Protesters

2009-10-13 Thread aaron amaral
This post is so full of outright misinformation and vapid polemic that it is hardly even worthy of a response. But to point out one egregious fallacy, that the march was 'poorly attended': there were easily over 150,000 people there. Park police estimated the turnout at 150,000. March organizers s

Re: [Marxism] The National Equality March: A New Generation of Protesters

2009-10-13 Thread Les Schaffer
aaron amaral wrote: > This post is so full of outright misinformation and vapid polemic that it is > hardly even worthy of a response. say what you want, but clip the quoted text. Les YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.

Re: [Marxism] Overproduction - underconsumption

2009-10-13 Thread Les Schaffer
Nestor Gorojovsky wrote: > However clip the quoted text. Les 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://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marx

[Marxism] David Mamet takes the Susan Sontag Memorial Thruway

2009-10-13 Thread jayroth6
"despite Mamet's biting irony, the Orthodox and lovers of Israel who might fear this book should breathe a deep sigh of relief." http://www.jewishchronicle.org/article.php?article_id=11764 Mamet takes on 'unaligned' Jews By Susan Ellman Special to The Chronicle "The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism

Re: [Marxism] David Mamet takes the Susan Sontag Memorial Thruway

2009-10-13 Thread Michael Smith
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:24:20 -0400 "jayroth6" wrote: > "despite Mamet's biting irony, the Orthodox and lovers of Israel who > might fear this book should breathe a deep sigh of relief." > http://www.jewishchronicle.org/article.php?article_id=11764 Amazing. Somebody else has actually read t

[Marxism] LatinRadical: More breaking news from Honduras

2009-10-13 Thread Ratbag Media
LatinRadical -- audio -- podcast and radio show http://vensol.blogspot.com/ *Honduras - more breaking news from Ricardo Salgado Ricardo Salgado reports from Honduras on the withdrawal of Resistance Front Representative from the 'dialogue' between President Zelaya and the coup regime. A positive o

Re: [Marxism] The National Equality March: A New Generation of Protesters

2009-10-13 Thread John Obrien
Fact: The last National March in 1993 had almost one million people Thus comparing - it failed to even come close to something that was built without the benefit of the internet - and look at the depth of endorsers, to show how small this so called national march f

[Marxism] Obama to avoid the rabble on S.F. visit

2009-10-13 Thread Charlie
Obama to avoid the rabble on S.F. visit By Phil Matier and Andrew Ross SF Chronicle, October 14, 2009 The White House's fear of protests from Code Pink and other left-wingers has put the brakes on President Obama making any public appearances during his visit to San Francisco this week. Obama