Re: [Marxism] Slow news day

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2011-01-23, at 11:55 AM, Einde O'Callaghan wrote: >> http://uk.reuters.com/art

[Marxism] Slow news day

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

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2011-01-23, at 6:45 AM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > The reality is that unionisation

Re: [Marxism] [LBO] Surowecki on unions

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == (The link to this New Yorker article was posted to the lists moderated by Julio Hua

Re: [Marxism] What makes Arizona's killer just a loner, not a terrorist?

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2011-01-13, at 1:58 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > Loughner was *not* a terrorist.

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

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2011-01-12, at 9:55 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: ...if someone stabbed a > stranger

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

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2011-01-12, at 6:51 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > > ...I describe him as schizophr

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

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == While there is no clear indication that Loughner was directly influenced by right-w

Re: [Marxism] Thoughts on Arizona

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2011-01-10, at 6:47 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: >> In fact, how can a young white

Re: [Marxism] Thoughts on Arizona

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2011-01-10, at 5:50 PM, Mark Lause wrote: > I think it's hard to take the issue

[Marxism] The end of the imperialist epoch

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Without describing it in these blunt terms, Financial Times economic columnist Mart

[Marxism] Commentaries on Israeli society

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == 1. A biting satire on the ubiquitous charge of "anti-semitism": http://www.youtube.

Re: [Marxism] Andrew Cuomo bares his fangs

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2011-01-06, at 12:52 PM, James Holstun wrote: > > As the Fiscal Policy Institut

Re: [Marxism] John Mearsheimer: Obama continues imperial policies

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2011-01-04, at 4:24 AM, r...@riseup.net wrote: > ==

[Marxism] More on global capital's Chinese turn

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Wall Street Warms to China Story By GREGORY ZUCKERMAN Wall Street Journal January 2

[Marxism] Joint ventures go global on Chinese terms

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == China Squeezes Foreigners for Share of Global Riches By SHAI OSTER, NORIHIKO SHIROUZ

[Marxism] Is this as bad as the Great Depression?

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == (Long article with many links) Underneath the Happy Talk, Is This As Bad as the Gre

[Marxism] Jabbar Collins' gargantuan battle against the US criminal justice system

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A Solitary Jailhouse Lawyer Argues His Way Out of Prison By SEAN GARDINER Wall Stree

[Marxism] Contradictory US working class consciousness in the Great Depression

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Polling showed large majorities in favor of the Roosevelt administration, federal p

[Marxism] The beginning of the end of dollar hegemony

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Beginning of the End of Dollar Hegemony By RANDALL W. FORSYTH Barron's December

[Marxism] Secret GOP plan: Push states to declare bankruptcy and smash unions

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == (Pethokoukis is the Money & Politics columnist for Reuters Breakingviews news servi

Re: [Marxism] A letter from a spurned lover

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-12-07, at 11:00 PM, S. Artesian wrote: > > The long period of expansion an

Re: [Marxism] A letter from a spurned lover

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-12-07, at 7:00 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: >

Re: [Marxism] A letter from a spurned lover

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-12-07, at 8:58 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: > > Obama: On the way to a failed

Re: [Marxism] Pressure mounts for European fiscal union

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > On Dec 6, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: >> >> But so fa

Re: [Marxism] Pressure mounts for European fiscal union

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-12-06, at 1:14 PM, S. Artesian wrote: > > This is essentially the EU versi

Re: [Marxism] Brazil would recognize a Palestinian UDI,

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-12-05, at 3:12 PM, DW wrote: > The term "Client State" is a bit in-exact. I

Re: [Marxism] Fed Explains...

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-12-05, at 11:31 AM, S. Artesian wrote: > As for China. China was unaff

[Marxism] Brazil would recognize a Palestinian UDI

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == (The PA is using the threat of a unilateral declaration of independence next year a

Re: [Marxism] Fed Explains...

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-12-03, at 8:17 PM, S. Artesian wrote: > > The Fed has released the details

Re: [Marxism] A new spectre haunts the WSJ

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-11-16, at 12:45 PM, Intense Red wrote: > > One can find many aspects of

[Marxism] A new spectre haunts the WSJ

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == China's 'State Capitalism' Sparks a Global Backlash By JASON DEAN, ANDREW BROWNE And

Re: [Marxism] Krugman exposes scam of deficit commission-

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-11-12, at 7:48 AM, Fred Feldman quoted Paul Krugman: > It's no mystery wha

Re: [Marxism] China's accelerating retreat from the dollar

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-11-07, at 10:56 AM, S. Artesian wrote: > "The financial crisis of 2008 enc

[Marxism] China's accelerating retreat from the dollar

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Chinese leadership has been desperately trying to diversify away from the dolla

Re: [Marxism] Role of the Army

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here's one Marine Corps Major General I'd be prepared to posthumously absolve: "I s

Re: [Marxism] The system that protects capitalism

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-11-02, at 9:50 PM, sobuadha...@hushmail.com wrote: > > The anguished liber

[Marxism] test

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[Marxism] Obama cancels trip because Americans c an’t tell Sikhs from Muslims

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/10/21/obama-cancels-trip-because-americans

Re: [Marxism] Diana Johnstone on the French protests

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-10-21, at 10:57 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Of course, the most "powerful

[Marxism] "Foreclosure Fraud For Dummies"

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Lucid five part series, with links... http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/for

[Marxism] A China-financed US New Deal

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == An interesting if politically unrealizable proposal to avert a trade war from Micha

Re: [Marxism] Fidel to Ahmadinejad: 'Stop Slandering the Jews'

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-09-07, at 4:50 PM, Eli Stephens wrote: > Actually much more interesting th

Re: [Marxism] From Jurriaan B. on Judis's article (depression, not a recession)

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > On 2010-09-07, at 9:00 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > >> Louis, >> >> […] >> >> The

[Marxism] Common patterns in recurrent capitalist crises

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart, co-authors of numerous studies on the aftermath

Re: [Marxism] Part 2 of article on Israel and apartheid

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-08-30, at 4:02 PM, Andrew Pollack wrote: > > Pathetic. > After a very prec

[Marxism] Renewed speculation on the character of the Chinese economy

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == World Bank data shows investment by state-run companies accounted for a bigger shar

[Marxism] Thorium

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yet another "magic bullet we have always been hoping for", this time from the inter

Re: [Marxism] WikiLeaks Founder Accused of Rape in Sweden, Calls it Dirty Trick

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-08-21, at 11:50 AM, Michael Perelman wrote: > > > The accusations have be

[Marxism] Sounds like a good candidate for a chat group :)

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Angry flight attendant swears at passenger, quits, and leaves plane by emergency ch

[Marxism] Quantitative easing as an alternative to fiscal stimulus

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Fed appears poised to resume quantitative easing both because legitimate fears

Re: [Marxism] Bernanke Says Rising Wages Will Lift Spending

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-08-04, at 12:01 AM, michael perelman wrote: > > The New York Times Headli

Re: [Marxism] test

replying to a message. > == > > > On 8/2/10 3:56 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: >> Thank Hans, Les. I'll revert to my previous email acct in order to get >> copies... > > > according to google: > > """When you send a

[Marxism] Chinese curbs on rare earth metal exports

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Below, standard boilerplate from the Tory economic columnist Ambrose Evans-Pritchar

Re: [Marxism] The working class is growing poorer, statistics prove it

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-07-26, at 10:26 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > So? ==

Re: [Marxism] blog post: from Boulder North and West to Portland, part 1

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-07-25, at 7:19 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > Full at > http://blog.cheapmote

Re: [Marxism] Political Crisis in the US [was: In and Out of Crisis]

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-03-16, at 9:12 AM, Mark Lause wrote: > Lajany Otum is reading far too much

[Marxism] Inside the Tea Party Convention

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == At the Tea Party By Jonathan Raban New York Review of Books March 25, 2010 People w

[Marxism] Hurt Locker

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == My wife and I saw the Hurt Locker on cable last night. I must have missed Louis P's

Re: [Marxism] Calling all rebels

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-03-09, at 6:16 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: >> On 2010-03-09, at 4:21 PM, Loui

Re: [Marxism] Perry Anderson idiocy on China

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-03-05, at 3:30 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > I can this now that the phrase

Re: [Marxism] The Palestinian UDI as bargaining chip

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-03-04, at 5:50 PM, Gary MacLennan wrote: > I thought the reference to Isra

[Marxism] Fwd: Taiwan Gains Mainland Market Entry

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[Marxism] Taiwan Gains Mainland Market Entry

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Re: [Marxism] Obama's Wall Street ass lick: cause and effect

: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > Marv Gandall wrote: >> The effect: >> >> Obama Doesn’t ‘Begru

[Marxism] Obama's Wall Street ass lick: cause and effect

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The effect: Obama Doesn’t ‘Begrudge’ Bonuses for Blankfein, Dimon By Julianna Gold

Re: [Marxism] The winter of America's discontent

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2010-02-06, at 12:48 PM, Greg McDonald wrote: > ===

[Marxism] Zinn's Marxism

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == (Posted by Mike Ballard on the LBO list) The following is reprinted from The Zinn R

[Marxism] US still magnet for foreign scientists and engineers

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == U.S. Keeps Foreign Ph.D.s Despite Fears of a Post-9/11 Drop, Most Science, Engineeri

Re: [Marxism] I.F Stone on fighting

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis wrote: > The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you are going to l

Re: [Marxism] Obama is not a Wimp

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis wrote: > ...an open letter signed by some high-profile Obama > supporters in

Re: [Marxism] Here it comes, Here comes the night

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ralph Johansen writes: > "S. Artesian" wrote > > From the FRB Beige Book: > > Ov

[Marxism] Re: Economists Seek to Fix a Defec t in Data That Overstates the Nation’s Vigor (NYT)

Matt Russo posted: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/business/economy/09econ.html?ref=business A widening gap between data and reality is distorting the government’s picture of the country’s economic health, overstating growth and productivity in ways that could affect the political debate on is

Re: [Marxism] A few words In Defense of the Black Panther Party

Thomas Bias writes: > The Fourth International was launched to combat Stalinism and social > democracy in the working class, with the belief that without doing so > socialist revolution was not possible. It's a little more complicated than that. The Trotskyists

Re: [Marxism] New Book on Fred Hampton Assasination

Tom Cod writes: > I note the CP, for all its faults, had a different approach and was in the > thick of solidarity with them and made political gains in that milieu... === The CP was uniformally opposed to the Panthers' program and tactics in much the sa

[Marxism] Rise of the dark pools

>From a speech to the Senate by Delaware Senator Ted Kaufman, published in yesterday's Huffington Post: (High frequency or flash trading refers to the growing practice of investment houses like Goldman Sachs to locate and program servers next to exchanges, giving them split second advance access t

Re: [Marxism] The dollar carry trade (Was: How to Tell When the Market is Topping)

Artesian writes: > From the Financial Times of 19 October: > > Russian plans to raise $18bn with international bond > > Russia is to launch its first international bond in a decade to bolster > its > public finances and take advantage of the surge in demand for emerging > market debt. > __

Re: [Marxism] Thankless Bastards

Bhaskar writes: > That .pdf that I linked to is still recommended... = Yes, well worth reading. "...the concept of instrumentalism that is so closely associated with Ralph Miliband’s theory of the state is not merely an oversimplication and caricature of Miliban

Re: [Marxism] self determination for oppressors

Artesian writes: >I no more deny that apartheid was broken than I would deny that segregation > by race has been dismantled in the South. > > My last word on the subject but as you know I say that often, usually > after I have already given assurances of my last word on the subject. ==

Re: [Marxism] self determination for oppressors

Artesian writes: [...] > No, I don't consider the end of apartheid a joke-- never said any such > thing-- but the sort of Mandela-de Klerk deal does not bring democracy, or > secularism, or socialism. Thanks for clarifying. > Does anyone think the Afrikaners made this deal out of the goodness o

Re: [Marxism] self determination for oppressors

Artesian writes: [...] > If, however, you're referring to the the type of deal struck by de Klerk, > Botha with Mandela, then preserving "cultural identity" of the minority is > a > non-issue at best, a joke at worst, as the economic and social power of > the > minority has been preserved. =

Re: [Marxism] self determination for oppressors

- From: "Louis Proyect" To: "Marv Gandall" Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 10:08 AM Subject: Re: [Marxism] self determination for oppressors > Marv Gandall wrote: >> It's not possible to conceive of a socialist revolution in >> Palestine/Israel >&

Re: [Marxism] self determination for oppressors

Artesian writes: > Dennis is quite write to point out that there is no such thing as > self-determination for the Afrikaners in South Africa, for the Israelis in > the Middle East, just as the French in Algeria were not entitled to, nor > struggling for self-determination. =

Re: [Marxism] self determination for oppressors

- From: "Louis Proyect" To: "Marv Gandall" Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 10:08 AM Subject: Re: [Marxism] self determination for oppressors > Marv Gandall wrote: >> It's not possible to conceive of a socialist revolution in >> Palestine/Israel >&

Re: [Marxism] self determination for oppressors

Dennis Brasky writes: If the Israeli Jews are offered self determination after the coming socialist revolution, what form will that take? Won't it be a Jewish state in Palestine - where the Palestinians would want their state? But the Jews already have such a state, so why do they need a revolutio

Re: [Marxism] Overproduction - underconsumption

Artesian writes: ...so I wouldn't > rush out and buy shares in Baosteel based on the WSA article, know what I > mean? == Jeez, Artesian, anyone following your investment advice would have been short China and long the US market since 2000, and we know where they'd

Re: [Marxism] China's nationalized sector has key role in current gains

Luko writes "one might say, that China is saving world wide capitalism from deeper crises, but I prefer China growing than starving so that the working masses in the imperialist countries fall into misery. I have never been a follower of the "the worse the better" strategy." ===

Re: [Marxism] China's nationalized sector has key rol incurrentgains

ltaneously overproduction of commodities and overproduction of capital (overaccumulation)." -Ernest Mandel, "Marx's Theory of Crisis" http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article289 - Original Message ----- From: "S. Artesian" To: "Marv Gandall"

[Marxism] The capitalist state as (un)"contested terrain"

(Rich is another principled liberal whose plaintive appeals to Obama - see his last paragraph - increasingly lack conviction) October 4, 2009 Op-Ed Columnist The Rabbit Ragu Democrats By FRANK RICH New York Times IN the annals of American excess, there often arrives a moment when those with too m

[Marxism] They shoot horses - er, researchers - don't they?

("The emerging prize economy, according to some labor market analysts, does carry the danger of being a further shift in the balance of power toward the buyers — corporations — and away from most workers.") *** September 22, 2009 A $1 Million Research Bargain for Netflix, and Maybe a Mode

[Marxism] "To a surprising degree..." (sic)

Finance Overhaul Falters as '08 Shock Fades By DAVID ENRICH and DAMIAN PALETTA Wall Street Journal September 9 2009 Nearly one year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers sent shock waves across the globe, the world is a different place. The investment bank's messy death intensified the deepest re

[Marxism] The panic of 2008

Lehman's collapse almost brought down the money-market industry By Sam Mamudi, MarketWatch September 9 2009 NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- As the threat of a Lehman Brothers bankruptcy grew last September, many money-market fund managers were wary but not worried. Their industry had quietly grown over

Re: [Marxism] Interesting China article

Louis posted: > http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/22515 == Along the same lines, but from a right-wing source: "China is running away with the green technology prize. It has conquered a third of the world market for solar cells and is on a breakneck course to build

Re: [Marxism] China's high speed rail plans

Artesian writes: > As for your "spark a run on the dollar would lead to a grave international > economic and political crisis whose outcome would more likely than not be > catastrophic rather than positive for both the Chinese and American > working > classes," that is simply absurd... It's th

Re: [Marxism] China's high speed rail plans

Artesian writes: > Exactly how do you know that there is no opposition to FDI, to the > government trade and currency policies? [...] > There is ongoing debate outside the party, in the universities, and > institutions for special studies, about the course being followed. =

Re: [Marxism] China's high speed rail plans

Louis writes: > Marv Gandall wrote: >> The truly revolutionary changes such a government would introduce - the >> ones >> he has called for - would be to abruptly expel foreign capital and to >> stop >> financing the US trade deficit. >> >> These acti

Re: [Marxism] Lindorff's mea culpa

Dennis Brasky writes: > So it's a which comes first - the chicken or the egg. We desperately need > a > new party that is willing to stand up to corporate rule, but until that > party emerges - and with instant mass support! - Blacks, immigrants, etc > will look to the Democrats and what do w

Re: [Marxism] Guess What? He's a Terrible President

Dennis Brasky writes: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Marv Gandall > wrote: > >> >> At present, as between the two parties, a split within the Republicans >> seems >> more likely, with the rich patrician wing which formerly controlled the >> party now

Re: [Marxism] Lindorff's mea culpa

Dennis Brasky writes: > > Of course, "the proof is in the eating". If it's Obama vs a real "greater > evil" - Palin or Huckerbee in 2012, we'll see if the Lindorffs and > Greenwalds continue to "hold their noses" and vote lesser evil "to stop > impending fascism". = Maybe s

Re: [Marxism] Guess What? He's a Terrible President

ontext, they are not as "incomprehensible" as they have appeared to many outraged liberals and even radicals. - Original Message - From: "Louis Proyect" To: "Marv Gandall" Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 8:07 PM Subject: Re: [Marxism] Guess What

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