Re: [Marxism] Fidel: Haiti puts spirit of cooperation to test

2010-01-23 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == DAVID asks: A generally good editorial by Castro on Haiti. But...did anyone catch

Re: [Marxism] reset to 5.31.2008

2010-01-23 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Kathleen [kmcook] writes about the Democrats: The party needs to get back to

Re: [Marxism] reset to 5.31.2008

2010-01-23 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis writes: Look, Joaquin, you are not the best person to lecture others on the

Re: [Marxism] Fuck 'em

2010-01-19 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I agree with Louis that debates can be a good thing. BUT NOT IN THIS CASE. I

[Marxism] Thoughts on terrorism and decadence [was: The Martyr's wife]

2010-01-10 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There is a lot to reflect on in the anti-US attacks of the post-Bush era.

Re: [Marxism] Lenin had it right

2010-01-02 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thomas F. Barton wrote: But Trotsky, they conveniently forget, also claimed that

[Marxism] Share your smokes or PLUNK! ( was: Obama's spooky past?)

2009-12-31 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ralph Johansen: On the banned list are any questions about Obama's post-Columbia

Re: [Marxism] WSWS: Socialism and the defense of public education

2009-12-29 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I have a much longer post dealing with this subject that's been held up for

Re: [Marxism] WSWS: Socialism and the defense of public education

2009-12-29 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Some comments on Sartesian's latest. My comments are preceded by JOAQUIN COMMENT

Re: [Marxism] WSWS: Socialism and the defense of public education

2009-12-29 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == [This piece is somewhat disjointed and repetitive in places, having been written in

Re: [Marxism] Productivity and real income

2009-12-26 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Barry wrote: Real income can not have a simple relation to productivity. Even if

Re: [Marxism] Productivity and real income

2009-12-26 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Barry Brooks replies to me, Productivity is output/hour. I specified real output;

Re: [Marxism] WSWS: Socialism and the defense of public education

2009-12-26 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jeremy writes: This a vital socialist perspective on the on-going destruction of

Re: [Marxism] WSWS: Socialism and the defense of public education

2009-12-26 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == David quotes from the Communist Manifesto, to criticize my position against control

Re: [Marxism] Leninism: It's not what you think | LinksInternational Journal of Socialist Renewal

2009-12-17 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dan Russell writes: I am not clear what you mean by equating Leninism with

Re: [Marxism] Leninism: It's not what you think|LinksInternationalJournal of Socialist Renewal

2009-12-17 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == David wrote: I was thinking mostly of the situation in Spain and, afaik, other

[Marxism] FW: To Count and be Counted: Latinos and the 2010 Census

2009-10-04 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
From: Mexican American Political Association [mailto:newslet...@mapa-ca.org] Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 3:48 PM To: jbust...@bellsouth.net Subject: To Count and be Counted: Latinos and the 2010 Census October 02, 2009 Greetings! To Count and be Counted:

Re: [Marxism] Chavez was right [was: RE: Cháve z and Holocaust indifference]

2009-09-28 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
Mina Khanlarzadeh: then what is the difference between Hugo Chavez and Fox news? they both ignore atrocities commited by their favorite governments. Another demonstration of how imperialist pressure distorts people's thinking. To put an equal signs between the white genocide against native

Re: [Marxism] Free pamphlet: `The Labour Aristocracy: The material basis of opportunism in the labour movement' | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

2009-09-17 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
JTP: Actually, that's what freeware means. Unfortunately, there's no convenient term in English for GNU-style free software, at least not without borrowing from other languages (libre software/software libre being a good choice). Freeware/free software to me means both free as in freedom and as

Re: [Marxism] Long posts not allowed??

2009-09-16 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
Carroll: none of those posts ever bothered even to hint that perhaps we should ask Lenin's question (even if we didn't accept his answers, which fit 1905): WITBD. The absence of interest in this question; in fact the absence any hint that the question existed, pretty much convinced me that the

Re: [Marxism] Obama strengthens Cuba blockade

2009-09-15 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
Obama did not strengthen the Cuba blockade. He has merely continued it, and as the article notes, since the Helms-Burton Act, it is no longer within the president's authority to lift this measure, although he can weaken it by having the executive branch issue licenses that legalize otherwise

Re: [Marxism] Michael Moore, Anti-Union

2009-09-14 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
If Michael Moore is anti-union, apparently the labor movement doesn't realize it. -- Joaquín FROM the PR Newswire Nurses, AFL-CIO Unions to Host Michael Moore and Special Screening of New Film at AFL-CIO Convention At Monday Forum Supporting Medicare for All PITTSBURGH, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ --

Re: [Marxism] Examples of the use of force by American forces against its citizens.

2009-09-14 Thread Joaquin Bustelo
If you're going to bring up Kent State, you should also include Jackson State. A similar massacre but of African-American students occurred at Jackson State University at roughly the same time as that of Kent State. There is a certain logic in excluding Jackson State, as well as the untold number