Re: [Marxism] [microsound] The awful truth about Social Democracy

2010-03-31 Thread S. Artesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Damn my eyes...? Like that. Hope the rest of me follows. 1. The origin of the

[Marxism] Venezuela: Key socialist leader resigns

2010-03-31 Thread Stuart Munckton
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/5232 Key Venezuelan Socialist Leader Resigns By

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] What is the biggest flaw in the labor

2010-03-31 Thread Vladimiro Giacche'
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In my opinion the LTV it's neither boring nor difficult to explain to common

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] What is the biggest flaw in the labor

2010-03-31 Thread New Tet
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Vladimiro Giacche' wrote: In my opinion the LTV it's neither boring nor

Re: [Marxism] militias

2010-03-31 Thread Jeffrey Thomas Piercy
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 03/30/2010 07:02 PM, Jeff wrote: No, they are good ol' Fascists that the

[Marxism] Socialist Voice: After Copenhagen - How can we save the world?

2010-03-31 Thread Ian Angus
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == SOCIALIST VOICE Marxist Perspectives for the 21st Century

Re: [Marxism] interview with ISO member in haiti

2010-03-31 Thread Andrew Pollack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis's assessment of things in the movement is incomplete. Yes, ANSWER dominated

[Marxism] Dog bites man

2010-03-31 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NY Times March 30, 2010 Obama to Open Offshore Areas to Oil Drilling for First Time

[Marxism] Bill Ayers banned again

2010-03-31 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/03/31/qt#223737 U. of Wyoming Calls Off

[Marxism] FBI investigates Americans who went to Cuba

2010-03-31 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/30/travelers-to-cuba-are-bei_n_519215.html

[Marxism] David Harvey video lectures on V. 1 of Capital

2010-03-31 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://davidharvey.org/2010/02/new-book-a-companion-to-marxs-capital/

[Marxism] Is anti-capitalism enough?

2010-03-31 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/2036 Is Anti-Capitalism Enough? The New

[Marxism] victory for environmental reform!

2010-03-31 Thread Andrew Pollack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Following hard on the heels of his victory in securing health care reform, which

[Marxism] Corporatist Health Reform as an “Att ack on Wealth Inequality

2010-03-31 Thread Louis Proyect
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Re: [Marxism] interview with ISO member in haiti

2010-03-31 Thread Andrew Pollack
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == That's news to me. I wish it were true. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Dan

Re: [Marxism] interview with ISO member in haiti

2010-03-31 Thread Eli Stephens
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mark L. wrote: Most of us will defend ANY TARGET OF IMPERIALISM and Bhaskar

Re: [Marxism] interview with ISO member in haiti

2010-03-31 Thread nada
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I agree with Andy P.'s marshmallow fling at the ISO. *Years* ago I asked here why

Re: [Marxism] interview with ISO member in haiti

2010-03-31 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Eli Stephens wrote: And to Louis, who insists on labeling ANSWER and March 20 as a

[Marxism] Sherry Wolf and ISO on pressuring the Obama administration for equality]

2010-03-31 Thread David Thorstad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The International Socialist Organization (ISO) is obviously hoping to recoup its

Re: [Marxism] interview with ISO member in haiti

2010-03-31 Thread Eli Stephens
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis writes about ANSWER's steering committee. I guess he missed the point of

[Marxism] Media for Freedom?

2010-03-31 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Media For Freedom? By Michael Barker In today’s world the media plays an

[Marxism] Sherry Wolf's response to David Thorstad's defense of pederasty

2010-03-31 Thread Andrew Splane
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Does the left really want to argue that children, who trust adults to care for and

[Marxism] Janpaksh: Stop the Corporate Terror Against the Adivasis of Kalingnagar

2010-03-31 Thread Marxist Front
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == *Please find below statement from **Janpaksh **(People's Side)* on the recent

Re: [Marxism] What is the biggest flaw in the labor theory of value?

2010-03-31 Thread Philip Dunn
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't know whether this is the correct list to ask this question Looks

Re: [Marxism] What is the biggest flaw in the labout theory of value

2010-03-31 Thread Dan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The LTV is an extremely important and fascinating topic. True, the first chapters

[Marxism] Ife 12th=15th century

2010-03-31 Thread Paddy Apling
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The British Museum has on at the moment what looks to be a glorious exhibition of

Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: Key socialist leader resigns

2010-03-31 Thread Dan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I hesitate to give my views on Chavez and Castro. I would prefer to tip-toe round

Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: Key socialist leader resigns

2010-03-31 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dan wrote: As for Chavez, I personally know many Venezuelan Libertarian Marxists

[Marxism] El camino hasta la autogestion

2010-03-31 Thread Dan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == El proletariado, si sigue manipulado por comunistas burocráticos, no cumplirá su

Re: [Marxism] El camino hasta la autogestion

2010-03-31 Thread Louis Proyect
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dan wrote: Para lograr la victoria, necessitamos que todo el poder sea a las

Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: Key socialist leader resigns

2010-03-31 Thread Stuart Munckton
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == As for Chavez, I personally know many Venezuelan Libertarian Marxists who

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] El camino hasta la autogestion

2010-03-31 Thread New Tet
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Daniel Koechlin wrote: El proletariado, si sigue manipulado por comunistas

[Marxism] Gabbing about Cuba (was interview with ISO member in haiti)

2010-03-31 Thread Paul Lefrak
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm not going to enter the fray about anti-war organizational methods in the US.

[Marxism] On Hugo Chavez et al

2010-03-31 Thread Anthony Boynton
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hey Ho! Hugo Chavez, in my not very humble opinion, is a very smart and lucky guy

[Marxism] Reminder: Event tomorrow in NYC on Neoliberalism, Secularism and the Future of the Left in India.

2010-03-31 Thread Vijay Prashad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thurs, April 1: Neo-Liberalism, Secularism, and the Future of the Left in India.

Re: [Marxism] On Hugo Chavez et al

2010-03-31 Thread Stuart Munckton
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I think a great description that indicates Anthony is right to not be humble.

[Marxism] Australia: Freedom fighter Chicka Dixon departs, his activist spirit lives on | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

2010-03-31 Thread glparramatta
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == By *Peter Boyle*, Sydney March 31, 2010 -- Indigenous and trade union activist

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] re-evaluating Lysenko

2010-03-31 Thread CeJ
JF:If you are going to bring up the Manhattan Project, then I think it ought to be compared with the German A-bomb project, which failed to produce a bomb. Why did it fail? My point was more than science is scattershot and sometimes it's a matter of getting lucky. Why did the Germans prove

[Marxism-Thaxis] Arms Control Experts Applaud Announcement of New Nuclear Reductions Treaty with Russia

2010-03-31 Thread CeJ
These arms control experts are people embedded in the very national security state that makes and maintains so many nukes in the first place. The US side of the bargain is simply: they like a world with fewer nukes because they hope they have technological edges that no other force can match

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] A healthcare time line

2010-03-31 Thread CeJ
End most tendentiously. 1. Does it aim or can it achieve? 2. Extending federal plans to 30 million does not come anywhere near close to universal coverage or universal access to insured health care. 3. Directs federal subsidies towards and into the unsustained pricing bubbles centered on cost of

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] A healthcare time line

2010-03-31 Thread CeJ
We can now add a new line to the time line: removed special deals, increased subsidies for previously mentioned duff policies, and got rid of loopholes affecting sick children. We can also add a new line to a different time line: kept university enrollment bubble going. (AP) Finalizing two

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Evolution of Culture

2010-03-31 Thread CeJ
One interesting theory is about what separates our line of development from other homonids--co-evolution with another highly intelligent, highly social animal--dogs. This might lead us down other areas of inquiry, such as , if human language first devloped as gesture, did it develop with canines ,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Lewontin reviews Steven Rose's latest book (was Re-evaluating Lysenko)

2010-03-31 Thread CeJ
I remember--it was actually about the same time Ayn Rand was making her last tour of universities--when Hofstadter visited my provincial podunk university, hawking his book. I recently just sold an autographed copy of the trade paperback (it didn't go for much but perhaps a hardback would be worth

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Lewontin reviews Steven Rose's latest book (was Re-evaluating Lysenko)

2010-03-31 Thread CeJ
For what it is worth, Merleau Ponty appeals to some in cognitive science and in 'ecophenomenogy' (which I didn't know existed until today) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Merleau-Ponty#Anticognitivist_cognitive_science Anticognitivist cognitive science Despite Merleau-Ponty's own

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Riddle of the Self

2010-03-31 Thread c b
Thanks for that CeJ. I went to that first link, and I could see how M-P is complementary to M'ist tradition. Levi-Strauss was associated with M-P , though I never studied their connection much. He sounds left existential, and before Sartre was so left, maybe. I'm wondering if thinking of myself

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Arms Control Experts Applaud Announcement of New Nuclear Reductions Treaty with Russia

2010-03-31 Thread c b
Nope. Nuclear disarmament is still species-being project numero uno. On 3/31/10, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: These arms control experts are people embedded in the very national security state that makes and maintains so many nukes in the first place. The US side of the bargain is simply: they

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] A healthcare time line

2010-03-31 Thread c b
CeJ wrote: End most tendentiously. 1. Does it aim or can it achieve? 2. Extending federal plans to 30 million does not come anywhere near close to universal coverage or universal access to insured health care. 3. Directs federal subsidies towards and into the unsustained pricing bubbles

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Lewontin reviews Steven Rose's latest book (was Re-evaluating Lysenko)

2010-03-31 Thread c b
CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: The pure concentrated thesis that he never got around to stating very clearly in GEB is: we are conscious because we are strange loops. CB: OK Yeah. Self-reference seems to be the culprit in generating insoluable paradoxes in mathematics. The set of all sets that

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Evolution of Culture

2010-03-31 Thread c b
Why did we need dogs to develop gesturing. We could gesture to people. On 3/31/10, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: One interesting theory is about what separates our line of development from other homonids--co-evolution with another highly intelligent, highly social animal--dogs. This might lead

[Marxism-Thaxis] AlterNet

2010-03-31 Thread c b
Top Stories, Video and Blog Posts for AlterNet March 31st, 2010 http://www.alternet.org ___ Exposing the Deep Swamp of Republican Hypocrisy -- How a Party Alienated the Nation By Russell King, Russ' Filtered News I grew up in a profoundly

[Marxism-Thaxis] Alternet

2010-03-31 Thread c b
Top Stories, Video and Blog Posts for AlterNet March 31st, 2010 http://www.alternet.org ___ Exposing the Deep Swamp of Republican Hypocrisy -- How a Party Alienated the Nation By Russell King, Russ' Filtered News I grew up in a profoundly

[Marxism-Thaxis] When a Union Acts Like a Big Corporation

2010-03-31 Thread c b
When a Union Acts Like a Big Corporation by Carl Finamore, 2010-03-29 http://beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=7959 A Report From SEIU’s Civil Trial Against California Union Reformers The quiet decorum of a court room is a far cry from a union hall. But in San Francisco, it is precisely

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party, Coffee Party: Why Not A Black Party?

2010-03-31 Thread c b
Tea Party, Coffee Party: Why Not A Black Party? By Ron Walters NNPA Columnist

[Marxism-Thaxis] Exposing the Deep Swamp of Republican Hypocrisy -- How a Party Alienated the Nation

2010-03-31 Thread c b
AlterNet Exposing the Deep Swamp of Republican Hypocrisy -- How a Party Alienated the Nation By Russell King, Russ' Filtered News Posted on March 31, 2010, Printed on March 31, 2010 http://www.alternet.org/story/146237/ Dear Conservative Americans, The years have not been kind to you. I grew

[Marxism-Thaxis] Brits tune to telly for look at Detroit's 'dytopia'

2010-03-31 Thread c b
http://apps.detnews.com/apps/blogs/detroitcityhallinsider/index.php Category: Life in Detroit Posted by Joel Kurth (The Detroit News) on Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:00 PM Brits tune to telly for look at Detroit's 'dytopia' Call it ruin porn or decay worship, but the Euro fascination with Detroit

[Marxism-Thaxis] Janpaksh: Stop the Corporate Terror Against the Adivasis of Kalingnagar

2010-03-31 Thread Marxist Front
*Please find below statement from **Janpaksh **(People's Side)* on the recent armed action against the inhabitants of Kalingnagar in Orrisa (India). On April 1st at Jantar Mantar a protest rally is being organised at 11 AM to protest against this action. * Fraternally, Damodar

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Evolution of Culture

2010-03-31 Thread CeJ
Why did we need dogs to develop gesturing. We could gesture to people. But drove forward that development? There is a really cute program on TV here in Japan that shows the adventures of a chimpanzee (who is very socialized to humans) who is paired up with a bull dog. The two animals do

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Riddle of the Self

2010-03-31 Thread CeJ
CB: Is this excerpt sort of what's in a name ? A rose by any other name has an ineluctable essence remainder. To put it schematically, in his last work, M-P is moving beyond his re-working of Husserlian phenomenlogy and Sartre's existentialism. I can't help but think he has taken on here

[Marxism-Thaxis] US health care reform: cash for clunkers

2010-03-31 Thread CeJ
http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/21/health-care-vote-business-beltway-congress.html?partner=whiteglove_google Private Insurers America's Health Insurance Plans, an industry group for private insurers, has complained that health care reform leaves 23 million Americans uninsured, imposes drastic cuts