[Marxism] In Belgium, Unions block Fuel Depots in solidarity with French strikers !

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Incredible news ! On Tuesday 26 October, Belgium trade unions started blocking fuel

[Marxism] Monday, October 25th : blockades in my hometown

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[Marxism] The current Class Struggle in France

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[Marxism] Imperative mandates

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Re: [Marxism] Marxism Digest, Vol 84, Issue 2

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[Marxism] cheer

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[Marxism] IWW

Well, to chear you up, Nothing like old IWW posters here YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxi

[Marxism] Obama

Well, I'm feeling unusually happy this evening (remember it's 10 PM European Time, my kids have just gone to bed after a long bedtime story involving Goldilocks and three bears ... I know, they should have gone to bed earlier, probably 9PM, but it's Saturday and therefore I'm a bit more "unders

[Marxism] Who is interested in Mao ?

As to where I picked up all the info on Mao. Well, from THE book, the definitive book on the subject. I am referring of course to Jung Chang's biography of Mao ("Mao : The unknown story"), which he wrote after consulting surviving friends, family members and all the available archives he could

[Marxism] re : Crime

As regards Mao, I (and most non-maoists) don't know where to begin. That he started off in the Kuomintang, rose up the ranks, then switched to the CCP when he could go up no further, then rose up the ranks of the CCP, then had an entire CCP army massacred so that he could blame the generals and

[Marxism] Last post on Polanski

Maybe there is another, obscurer, motive at play for defending Polanski. Namely, the psychological impulse to "protect" someone who has succesfully escaped the law for 32 years. People tend to have positive feelings towards a fugitive that manages to survive being hunted down. It's a case of "3

[Marxism] Yankees

Americans like to think in terms of "first causes". This is due to their historical grounding in the bible (the word of God). Once they have established a principle, they like to follow it to its ultimate conclusion, however grotesque the results. That's why they have guns (because of the right

[Marxism] culture

My favorite American author is ... mmh .. let me see now ... Thoreau ? (Walden, but I find the first part, "Economy", boring), and Steinbeck ? (The Grapes of Wrath, Tortilla flat and Of mice and men), the guy who wrote "Gravity's rainbow" (I'm too drunk to remember his name) and maybe, Philip R

[Marxism] Polanski (bis)

Let's get back to basics 1) Polanski acknowledged the fact that he had sex with a minor (of 13) in 1977. 2) Polanski's wife was murdered by Charles Manson's gang in 1969. 3) In 1977, he voluntarily spent 48 days in a mental hospital, as ordered by a Californian judge, to ascertain his true men

[Marxism] Polanski

Here I go again, the French Council Comunist/Libertarian Marxist, with my very own two cents' worth of social commentary. 1) Polanski is officially a French citizen, which explains why "France" is so upset about his arrest. 2) Polanski is sort of "caught up" in the midst of a major France/Sw