Re: [Marxism] Unionization rate drops to 6.9% in private sector

2011-01-23 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Also, the "embourgoisement" idea doesn't preclude unionism. In many ways, it almost

Re: [Marxism] God !

2011-01-22 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Religion--the fight against it, anyway--was much more important to me when I was you

Re: [Marxism] The MEGA Finally Online!

2011-01-22 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks to New England for the very valuable link. ML __

Re: [Marxism] God !

2011-01-22 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Maybe it's just that I'd put this issue differently It seems to me that the roo

Re: [Marxism] Just a Nut Job

2011-01-19 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis, Yes, anyone who blames Palin's crosshairs is being dogmatic...which is a str

Re: [Marxism] A government of national unity?

2011-01-18 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, Marv, as Louis says, we'll see However, we're in very different circumsta

Re: [Marxism] A government of national unity?

2011-01-18 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Greg wrote, "To be sure, but the events in Tucson certainly have been used to isolat

Re: [Marxism] A government of national unity?

2011-01-17 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == And, for what it's worth, I don't think it's useful to connect the events in Arizona

Re: [Marxism] A government of national unity?

2011-01-17 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect wrote: "f you read between the lines, you will have no trouble figuri

Re: [Marxism] Loughner was a "truther" who hated George W. Bush

2011-01-15 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sorry, Greg. I don't see what's obviously materialist about blue-skying about the m

Re: [Marxism] Loughner was a "truther" who hated George W. Bush

2011-01-15 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == To clarify for those not blessed with residency in the American heartland, not likin

[Marxism] query

2011-01-15 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm getting considerable advice independently from various quarters that I should co

Re: [Marxism] The Tucson witch-hunt

2011-01-15 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Good. You see what I'm raising as an issue, our difference is on the quantitative w

Re: [Marxism] The Tucson witch-hunt

2011-01-15 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == More with the tedious microsurgery on Loughner's social network Let's take a de

Re: [Marxism] "left"

2011-01-14 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == ...or we could just use the term in the sense of where we'd take our seats in the ti

Re: [Marxism] The right to bear arms, (on terms).

2011-01-13 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A political scientist at Stanford (the Hoover Institute and all that) came up with t

Re: [Marxism] The right to bear arms, (on terms).

2011-01-13 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The entire question of "gun control" is artificially misplaced into the an assumed c

Re: [Marxism] The right to bear arms,

2011-01-13 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There seems to be so much confusion about what "the left" is or isn't that it almost

Re: [Marxism] Loughner's last close friend said that he ignored TV and talk radio

2011-01-13 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == You do get the occasional soldier like that, but most are among the most thoughtful

Re: [Marxism] Loughner's last close friend said that he ignored TV and talk radio

2011-01-13 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't know the extent to which I'd call them particularly tea party assumptions--t

Re: [Marxism] Loughner's last close friend said that he ignored TV and talk radio

2011-01-12 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't think anybody has actually suggested that Loughner was part of a secret tea

Re: [Marxism] Loughner's last close friend said that he ignored TV and talk radio

2011-01-12 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I, for one, have every appreciation for your expertise in these problems. I spent t

Re: [Marxism] Loughner a "textbook" case paranoid schizophrenic

2011-01-12 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Is there really any kind of debate at all over whether this guy was nuts? If there

Re: [Marxism] Why Loughner shot Giffords

2011-01-11 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == James Holstun wrote: > > Agree with Lou. The reasons why are not immediately ideol

Re: [Marxism] Thoughts on Arizona

2011-01-10 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, everything's going to be used an argument to get us to vote for Obama. Who re

Re: [Marxism] Thoughts on Arizona

2011-01-10 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == By definition, the act's unique, but it should surprise nobody that a freelanced sho

Re: [Marxism] Thoughts on Arizona

2011-01-10 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I think it's hard to take the issue of mental health out of the social context. Ess

Re: [Marxism] Non-existent lawyer jobs

2011-01-09 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == With former officeholder's attacking coffee kiosks, the level of violence may well h

Re: [Marxism] Non-existent lawyer jobs

2011-01-09 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == As with academics, this is actually rather old news...though I am certain that thing

Re: [Marxism] Arizona congresswoman assassinated

2011-01-09 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, Jim. Some of the media "reported her dead." That's not "declaring her dead,"

Re: [Marxism] Arizona congresswoman assassinated

2011-01-08 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The media didn't declare her dead. These were rumors circulating after the shooting

Re: [Marxism] This commie's favorite cowboy movies

2011-01-07 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Don't forget Missouri Breaks somewhere in there Heaven's Gate was wonderful. I

Re: [Marxism] 40-000-crabs-join-slew-of-animal-death-mysteries - is the revolution too late?

2011-01-06 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It's certainly too late for the crabs. Maybe they failed to build a revolutionary m

Re: [Marxism] Public Sector Workers: The New "Welfare Queens"

2011-01-04 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ah, well. If people on the Marxism list wants to shoot teachers, I suppose nothing

Re: [Marxism] Obama: Droppin' g's for the Unemployed

2011-01-03 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is simply the foundation of the Democratic Party. Nothing new to this with Oba

Re: [Marxism] Chris Hedges: The Left has nowhere to go

2011-01-03 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Interesting observations. Of course Hedges and others who are relative latecomers t

Re: [Marxism] US Evangelical Fundamentalism

2011-01-01 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This isn't so easy a question as it seems, though my own Nothingarian predisposition

Re: [Marxism] ¡Feliz año nuevo!

2010-12-31 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Happy New Year! Cincinnati sounds like wartime Beruit yet again! ML __

Re: [Marxism] Academic Economists to Consider Ethics Code

2010-12-31 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Stanford no less. Rather like going to the nearest big bordello to get input into t

Re: [Marxism] [microsound] Once more on democratic centralism

2010-12-31 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == My musings over these things take me back a bit further. Many of these problems are

Re: [Marxism] True Grit follow-up

2010-12-30 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Excellent point. I had almost forgotten that. I clearly need to review the series

Re: [Marxism] True Grit follow-up

2010-12-30 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mark me down as a fan of "Deadwood" as well...for all the reasons noted. The writing

Re: [Marxism] True Grit follow-up

2010-12-29 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, Louis. Fiction is "literature," and neither of us had many conversations with

Re: [Marxism] Reserve army of the Phds

2010-12-29 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This only became a news story when it began to hurt the graduate of the elite univer

Re: [Marxism] Rise of the HoBos: As Gay Becomes Bourgeois

2010-12-28 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Realizing that I'm stepping into what looks to me a rather smudged set of assumption

Re: [Marxism] True Grit and Texas Rangers

2010-12-27 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I said that Kirby-Smith was in Virginia, not necessarily in the ANV. He passed the

Re: [Marxism] True Grit

2010-12-26 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I would be surprised if some of the marshall's didn't wrack up those kinds of number

Re: [Marxism] Moustafa Bayoumi, "The Race Is On: Muslims and Arabs in the American Imagination"

2010-12-26 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == As a not unimportant aside, the author is entirely mistaken when he compares the rac

Re: [Marxism] True Grit? Humbug....a response.

2010-12-25 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The question of speech is interesting. What people often forget is that you can fin

Re: [Marxism] True Grit? Humbug....a response.

2010-12-25 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == For my part, I just loved it, but I'll restrict myself to just a few comments as jus

Re: [Marxism] Have a happy and merry December 25

2010-12-24 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, but it was also the birthday of a radical Jewish carpenter who was rather pessi

Re: [Marxism] Battleship Potemkin!

2010-12-22 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In case people haven't located the site, you can view this old classic at the Veoh s

Re: [Marxism] Primitive accumulation in Mail

2010-12-22 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In response to Néstor's kind remarks on the value of the American Civil War as a poi

Re: [Marxism] Secession: What Was It All About?

2010-12-21 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A good piece, with a couple of caveats The hypocrisy of the slaveocracy over st

Re: [Marxism] H.K. Edgerton is one happy House Negro

2010-12-16 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The entire Jackson chapter of the NAACP passed a resolution supporting the efforts o

Re: [Marxism] blog post: The Obtuseness of the "Left Establishment"

2010-12-16 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I think we're actually agreed on this. I don't think the people who put this togeth

Re: [Marxism] blog post: The Obtuseness of the "Left Establishment"

2010-12-16 Thread Mark Lause
people to a rally on about an hour's notice. On the other hand, Mark Lause has much better politics, but his name is only big enough to get maybe five people...if you count dogs and cats...and if free cookies are offered... Rattling the left-liberal tree to see if we can shake loose some of

Re: [Marxism] Hawaii's Legal Case Against the United States

2010-12-13 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, but this is pretty common knowledge, though, isn't it? ML

Re: [Marxism] Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize?

2010-12-13 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't know that there's much point arguing about vocabulary, but I'm really not su

Re: [Marxism] Fletcher and Davidson reply

2010-12-12 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Davidson is a raving ass who periodically pukes massive amounts of Democratic vomit

Re: [Marxism] Obama Isn't Spineless, He's Conservative

2010-12-12 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It just makes my bladder go all ticky. ML _

Re: [Marxism] Obama Isn't Spineless, He's Conservative

2010-12-12 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Regardless of what anyone says here, what offers no way out are Obama and the Democr

Re: [Marxism] Obama Isn't Spineless, He's Conservative

2010-12-12 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Republican Congress next year won't be able to do anything unless the Obama admi

Re: [Marxism] Obama Isn't Spineless, He's Conservative

2010-12-12 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ralph Johansen wrote: > > Only difference or main difference? What difference? The

Re: [Marxism] sign on letter for academics against the FBI witchhunt

2010-12-11 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I signed it, but neither the signature nor the comments have registered ML

Re: [Marxism] Nader is losing it

2010-12-11 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This doesn't surprise me, but anything that divides the unbroken ruling class front

Re: [Marxism] Obama Isn't Spineless, He's Conservative

2010-12-11 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == MARGARET WYLES wrote: "I can't look into Obama's heart. I didn't even vote for him

Re: [Marxism] More Facts (Dirt) on Anna Ardin and how She Destroyed Assange Case Evidence Over And Over Again

2010-12-10 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Point taken, Carrol. This is also why I think Sister Sarah will wind up the next pr

Re: [Marxism] More Facts (Dirt) on Anna Ardin and how She Destroyed Assange Case Evidence Over And Over Again

2010-12-10 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Actually, it seems to me that the law has essentially paternalistic assumptions...th

Re: [Marxism] More Facts (Dirt) on Anna Ardin and how She Destroyed Assange Case Evidence Over And Over Again

2010-12-10 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Wait a bit, Carrol. At the rate things are going, the government's going to dredge

Re: [Marxism] Review of Barnes book on Malcolm X

2010-12-10 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, who or what hasn't Jack Barnes misrepresented to suit his purposes? ML __

Re: [Marxism] A letter from a spurned lover

2010-12-09 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Looks to me as if Sister Sarah will be the next president. The media loves her so m

Re: [Marxism] CPUSA finds merits in Obama tax deal

2010-12-08 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == They are to the right of the AFL-CIO bureaucracy because they envy what channels to

Re: [Marxism] WSWS blasts Stewart over Assange comments

2010-12-07 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm not sure what he said since I last heard him on the subject...but that was quite

Re: [Marxism] A letter from a spurned lover

2010-12-07 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == For "left wing communism," read any progressive minded person that's not addicted to

Re: [Marxism] How big or important is the Wikileaks?

2010-12-07 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Like all these questions, the actual importance of Wikileaks is a matter of context.

[Marxism] Brooks book on Hegel's politics

2010-12-06 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == H-NET BOOK REVIEW Published by h-ger...@h-net.msu.edu (November, 2010) Thom Brooks.

Re: [Marxism] Wikileaks Wrap-up

2010-12-06 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Swiss bankers? Swiss bankers? The same people who launder money for everybody from

Re: [Marxism] in the spirit of wikileaks...

2010-12-04 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Obviously. But it's certainly better to get the right answer for the wrong reason t

Re: [Marxism] in the spirit of wikileaks...

2010-12-04 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is an interesting site. I love the piece on Ron Paul's defense of Wikileaks.

Re: [Marxism] Attacks on Wikileaks

2010-12-03 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I seriously like the idea of a counteroffensive over this issue. ML ___

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

2010-12-02 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks. Always good to have a reminder that our neighbors are governed by idiots.

Re: [Marxism] Why Assange will be difficult to prosecute

2010-12-02 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, for the media, it's all a matter of getting rid of the competition, isn't it?

Re: [Marxism] Why Assange will be difficult to prosecute

2010-12-02 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-november-30-2010/the-informant- __

Re: [Marxism] ASorry, Frank. I paid for them and I can see them if I want to.

2010-12-01 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jon Stewart did make a very good point of all this the other night. While defending

Re: [Marxism] WikiLeaks Site Taken Down

2010-12-01 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I love the comments by would-be Democratic Vice President Joe Lieberman. Let's hear

Re: [Marxism] Washington considers espionage charges against Assange

2010-11-30 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I see, people who haven't risked very much at all to say they're on the side of the

Re: [Marxism] Washington considers espionage charges against Assange

2010-11-30 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == They've not rounded up the people on this list yet, either. That doesn't mean we're

Re: [Marxism] The Horrible Swiss

2010-11-28 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == No, you can have stupid decisions come out of any arrangement. ML _

[Marxism] "Only 31 words"

2010-11-27 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A complete idiot I went to high school with just forwarded me one of a series of shi

Re: [Marxism] The Irish bailout and the necessity for the United Socialist States of Europe

2010-11-24 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Or even just A las barricadas! Aux barricades! Auf den Barrikaden! (I'll be

Re: [Marxism] The Irish bailout and the necessity for the United Socialist States of Europe

2010-11-24 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What a terribly antique slogan! Not that I don't like it. In fact, it makes me wan

[Marxism] Fw: My July 10 interview in the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop at Chicago

2010-11-22 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The subject is my _Race and Radicalism in the Union Army_ http://www.virtualboo

[Marxism] From H-Labor: New Perspectives on Anarchism, Labour & Syndicalism

2010-11-20 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == - Original Message - From: "Seth Wigderson" To: Sent: Wednesday, November

Re: [Marxism] “This is absolutely a surrender for labor”

2010-11-20 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is the campaign strategy rather than the battle. We've been backing up and los

Re: [Marxism] Sweden Issues Arrest Warrant for WikiLeaks' Assange

2010-11-20 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't know what power "the left" has to protect Assange in this country. Where's t

Re: [Marxism] Sweden Issues Arrest Warrant for WikiLeaks' Assange

2010-11-20 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The presumption of innocence seems a reasonable starting point for any accuserd pers

Re: [Marxism] Sweden Issues Arrest Warrant for WikiLeaks' Assange

2010-11-18 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == At this point, it would be the easiest thing in the world for anyone to do that. It

Re: [Marxism] UK's spare-the-rich austerity policies

2010-11-17 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Manuel couldn't be more right on this. Seconded. I suggest considering a loose net

Re: [Marxism] Stephanie Coontz on "Mad Men" in Wash Post

2010-11-13 Thread Mark Lause
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A group once renown for inaction Faced oppositional factions. But it caused no re

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