Re: [Marxism] Kentucky governor rebuilds Noah's Ark (no kidding!)

2010-12-03 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mark Lause writes: > Thanks. Always good to have a reminder that our neighbors ar

Re: [Marxism] Crisis in Ireland - video of John McAnulty

2010-11-25 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == David Walsh writes: http://blip.tv/file/4416663/ -- In Solidarity, Billy O'Conno

Re: [Marxism] The new Nixon

2010-11-20 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jim Farmelant writes: > http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2009/10/22/and

Re: [Marxism] Ausgezeichnet !

2010-10-29 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jay Moore writes: > David Harvey also has a new book out on "Reading Capital," a s

Re: [Marxism] Ausgezeichnet !

2010-10-28 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dan writes: > Pardon me, Hans, but this is "kick ass" (US, slang) stuff ! A detail

Re: [Marxism] Who is CONAIE?

2010-10-04 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect writes: > On 10/4/2010 4:23 PM, S. Artesian wrote: >> Bordigaism is

Re: [Marxism] self-indulgence

2010-08-13 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Gary MacLennan writes: > It's my birthday today -68- and I can believe it! so I t

Re: [Marxism] test

2010-08-02 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Les Schaffer writes: > ===

Re: [Marxism] Schwarzenegger mobilizes National Guard to border

2010-07-18 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Michael Perelman writes: > How will California pay for this? Shooting medicare pa

Re: [Marxism] Black bloc tactics play into the state's hands

2010-06-28 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect writes: > glparramatta wrote: >> Toronto is burning! Or is it? Blac

Re: [Marxism] The FBI knocked on my door

2010-06-12 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Bhaskar Sunkara writes: >

Re: [Marxism] The FBI knocked on my door

2010-06-12 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect writes: > ==

Re: [Marxism] Whistleblower Claims That BP Was Aware Of Cheating On Blowout Preventer Tests

2010-05-12 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mark Lause writes: > =

Re: [Marxism] unsubbed?

2010-03-19 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == "S. Artesian" writes: > Did you check your subscription page and make sure you sel

Re: [Marxism] unsubbed?

2010-03-19 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Bill Stephens writes: > i can't see my posts - no loss i'm sure but a little disco

[Marxism] Minimal philosophy reading list?

2010-02-03 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect writes: > In general, I urge younger comrades to pay less attention

Re: [Marxism] Obama is not a Wimp

2010-01-27 Thread Bill O'Connor
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Re: [Marxism] Communist Party backs Senate health care "reform" bill

2009-12-26 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dogan Gocmen writes: > I do not expect any more intelligent answer than this. > Un

Re: [Marxism] Communist Party backs Senate health care "reform" bill

2009-12-26 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jim Farmelant writes: > On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:32:01 -0500 Louis Proyect writes:

[Marxism] [Links] United States: Healthcare bill -- a nightmare before Christmas

2009-12-25 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == By Billy Wharton December 25, 2009 -- Call it the nightmare before Christmas or

Re: [Marxism] Don't trust the Democrats, especially the "progressive" ones

2009-12-25 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Greg McDonald writes: > Louis Proyect wrote: > > > > WTF? This is about the only

Re: [Marxism] Nepal: Maoists seize Kathmandu, announce parallel government

2009-12-25 Thread Bill O'Connor
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Re: [Marxism] Decline of labor militancy in the U.S.

2009-12-25 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect writes: > http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/wolff231209.html I've

Re: [Marxism] Capital Class

2009-12-25 Thread Bill O'Connor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ralph Johansen writes: > It's unfortunate that arrangements haven't been made to v

Re: [Marxism] Mercedes Sosa- We are still singing

2009-10-05 Thread Bill O'Connor
Mina Khanlarzadeh writes: > Thanks, Bill. Do you know the name of the song in Spanish? "Todavía Cantamos" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaWkEZHzukE -- In Solidarity, Billy O'Connor YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.

Re: [Marxism] Mercedes Sosa- We are still singing

2009-10-05 Thread Bill O'Connor
Mina Khanlarzadeh writes: > I was killed a thousand times. I disappeared a thousand times, and here I > am, risen from the dead. “We’re Still Singing" http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/mercedes-sosa-dead-at-74/ -- In Solidarity, Billy O'Connor _

Re: [Marxism] last night's town hall meeting

2009-09-10 Thread Bill O'Connor
Andrew Pollack writes: > OK, it wasn't a town hall meeting, but given the disruptions by > Republicans at Obama's healthcare speech it might as well have been. > See the Post's account: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/09/AR2009090902298.html?hpid=topnews > This beha

Re: [Marxism] American CP leader still solidly behind Obama

2009-09-09 Thread Bill O'Connor
Louis Proyect writes: > http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/8960/ I believe it was Cde. Smith who called the CPUSA the Democratic Pet Sematary. Revolutionaries to there to be be buried and re-animated as DNC phone bankers. -- In Solidarity, Billy O'Connor

Re: [Marxism] What to do?

2009-09-08 Thread Bill O'Connor
martin writes: > On Sep 7, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Mark Lause wrote: > >> The $64,000 question, of course, is how to go about building the >> organization you're advocating. > > Does this thread ever resolve the question? Too early to tell. ;) -- In Solidarity, Billy O'Connor _

Re: [Marxism] For those Interested, and in the NYC area

2009-09-08 Thread Bill O'Connor
Les Schaffer writes: > Bill O'Connor wrote: >> I can't recommend it enough. I just finished a close reading of >> Captial with Goldner and Seligman over the summer and I'll sign up for >> this fall/spring group as well. > > what's the format? le

Re: [Marxism] Google Groups searching?!?

2009-09-03 Thread Bill O'Connor
Louis Proyect writes: > I went to: > > http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.socialism.trotsky/topics > > and did a search on "Stalin". Only one link turned up. That can't be > right. Anybody have any ideas what is up? A search for the word "the" returned a whopping 186 links, so one link

Re: [Marxism] Another reason not to buy Microsoft products

2009-08-26 Thread Bill O'Connor
Louis Proyect writes: > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/26/microsofts-ad-in-poland-p_n_269366.htm Rude. I dropped micros~1 when they dropped OS/2. I used to love their C compiler and Programmer's Work Bench. Never did like any version of Windows, though. -- In Solidarity, Billy O'Conn

Re: [Marxism] K2 Study Guide Re: to read?

2009-08-24 Thread Bill O'Connor
Steve Palmer writes: > Also, John Fox's "Understanding Capital Volume II", Progress Books, > Toronto, 1985 is very helpful, particularly when confronting some of > the more demanding passages on one's own. This is in the queue to > appear at the MIA, but don't hold your breath ... Why the holdup

Re: [Marxism] to read?

2009-08-24 Thread Bill O'Connor
guava tree writes: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:15 AM, Ralph Johansen > wrote: > >> I'm now reading >> volume 2 for the first time, using the online MIA study guide which, >> while its authors recommended it for group study, seems useful for >> individual study. They supply the relevant textual

Re: [Marxism] my birthday

2009-08-23 Thread Bill O'Connor
"george snedeker" writes: > Today is my 63rd birthday. In honor of this event, I've written myself > a birthday poem for the occasion. Many happy returns. :) -- In Solidarity, Billy O'Connor YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a

Re: [Marxism] San Quentin and the Future of California Education

2009-08-22 Thread Bill O'Connor
Tom Cod writes: > It'd be nice if the link to the actual article would open as all we have now > is a blank comments box. Just above that is the link to the PDF file. -- In Solidarity, Billy O'Connor YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when repl

Re: [Marxism] Trailor for Michael Moore's new film

2009-08-21 Thread Bill O'Connor
Louis Proyect writes: > sandia wrote: >> CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhydyxRjujU&feature=player_embedded >> > > It'll be interesting to see Moore's take on Obama in this flick. There > is a hint in the trailer that the 2-party system is the enemy. Honestly, > if

Re: [Marxism] Public option and cooperatives

2009-08-17 Thread Bill O'Connor
Louis Proyect writes: > For those who have learned how to read the bourgeois press, there is a > phrase that sticks out like a sore thumb: the public option has “emerged > as a flashpoint for anger and opposition”. Now when you read about > opposition, the first thing that springs to mind is p

Re: [Marxism] Woodstock 40 years ago: Country Joe McDonald's and Jimi Hendrix's antiwar classics | Links

2009-08-14 Thread Bill O'Connor
Bhaskar Sunkara writes: >> Bill O'Connor wrote: >> >> Apropos of nothing, I've seen grizzled old American Legionnaires nod >> approvingly upon hearing Hendrix's "Star-Spangled banner". > > > Along the same line have you seen that Ohi

Re: [Marxism] Woodstock 40 years ago: Country Joe McDonald's and Jimi Hendrix's antiwar classics | Links

2009-08-14 Thread Bill O'Connor
glparramatta writes: > 40 years ago -- from August 15 to August 18, 1969 -- hundreds of > thousands of young people gathered for three days of ``peace, love and > music''. In the midst of the mass movement against the Vietnam War and > the youth radicalisation it unleashed, oppostion to the US

Re: [Marxism] Labor's last stand

2009-08-08 Thread Bill O'Connor
Louis Proyect writes: > Sheldon Adelson, the hotel magnate and funder of right-wing causes, > calls EFCA “one of the two fundamental threats to society,” the other > being radical Islam. I'm flattered, really, but I don't see "radical" Islam as posing any threat to capitalism at all. > “For

Re: [Marxism] Freedom of speech and white privilege

2009-08-07 Thread Bill O'Connor
Nestor Gorojovsky writes: > Fred Feldman escribió: > >> There's a famous Norman Rockwell painting titled "Freedom of Speech," >> depicting an idealized American town meeting. The painting, part of a series >> illustrating F.D.R.'s "Four Freedoms," shows an ordinary citizen expressing >> an unpopu

Re: [Marxism] Proletarian Defense II

2009-08-06 Thread Bill O'Connor
sobuadha...@hushmail.com writes: > The Republican Party is not fascist but there are fascists in it even > though they are so muddled and incoherent in their thinking they could > not even define the term much less recognize themselves. One lady > told me how much she despised aged congressman ex

Re: [Marxism] The political consequences of social change in Iran

2009-08-04 Thread Bill O'Connor
Shawn Redden writes: > At 9:38 AM -0400 8/4/09, Louis Proyect wrote: >> >>NY Times, August 4, 2009 >>Qum Journal >>Signs of Dissent Emerge in an Iranian Power Base >>By THE NEW YORK TIMES > > What shit reporting: Judy Miller, but dumber. God I hate the NY Times. > > Down with the NED! And it's

Re: [Marxism] Korea

2009-08-04 Thread Bill O'Connor
"S. Artesian" writes: > Reports are that police have undertaken a full scale assault on Ssangyong > strikers. > > full at: > http://libcom.org/news/ssangyong-occupation-update-august-4-korea-time-2009-04082009 I'll be speaking to Loren Goldner later today, he knows as much about this occupatio

Re: [Marxism] Mob beats Chinese steel factory executive to death

2009-07-29 Thread Bill O'Connor
"Fred Feldman" writes: > http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-china-mob27-2009jul27,0,3235364.story > > They dispersed later only after they were assured by authorities the sale > would not go through. Nice to see that there are still a few Communists left in China. -- In Solidarity, Billy O'