Re: [Marxism] Egypt yet again

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == He added: 'I am pretty sure that any freely and fairly elected government in Egypt

[Marxism] Why Tunisia's Revolution Is Islamist-Free

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Depends. One could argue that the workers were isolated in the Russian Revolution

Re: [Marxism] Nader is losing it

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Looks like I have to withdraw my Bloomberg scenario - which BTW saw Bloomberg as a

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

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The problem with negative criticism of Obama, is that the alternative is worse In

[Marxism] Keep Them Doogies Rolling..

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == When it comes to the herding of Pwog-Dems, it seems Scary Sarah (who I had the

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

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == True, but what is to be noted is that Obama has been fairly artless in keeping the

Re: [Marxism] Flash: Royal convoy attacked as English students revolt

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The hilarity of Charlie and Camille insisting on their night on the town at the

Re: [Marxism] A letter from a spurned lover

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Once again, should President Obama help elect in 2012 someone who can preside over

Re: [Marxism] Krugman's latest

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The real question is what Mr. Obama and his inner circle are thinking. Do they

Re: [Marxism] Report on French Strike

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From The Eighteenth Brumaire During 1848-51 French society, by an abbreviated

Re: [Marxism] Cuba headed in the same direction as China and Vietnam?

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Interestingly enough, the Poodle Across the Pond (the BBC) takes a somewhat

Re: [Marxism] Disgusting attack on BDS in the Nation

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Interesting timing, just as the movement is meeting with its first real successes.

Re: [Marxism] Pure idiocy from Katrina vanden Heuvel

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On this I have to generally agree with Carrol, even though the Pwogs are not trying

Re: [Marxism] Castro: Swastika has become Israel's banner

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Do you think A. Lieberman is a fascist politician, leading a fascist movement? He

Re: [Marxism] Siezed and detained by Israel, US activist describes experiences

, Matthew Russo wrote: The bottom line: Israel will never be defeated in the Middle East so long as it is not defeated here in the U.S.A. The neocons are the intellectual and ideological core of the American Radical Right. I think the opposite is the case, not just in the Middle East

Re: [Marxism] Sex and the City #2

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == But really -- surprise! -- the film is all about the clothes, the food, and the

Re: [Marxism] 24-hour general strikes just don't work anymore

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It is interesting to compare the situation in Europe with that of the U.S. in this

Re: [Marxism] Bush to Kirchner--the Best Way to Revitalize the Economy is through War

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yeah, I miss ol' Baby Doc Bush already. Better to have the enemy universally hated

Re: [Marxism] The war on science continues

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Joaqu?n Bustelo wrote: I know how much people really REALLY hate Obama but

[Marxism] Krugman on Corp and Repugs

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Krugman's political analysis is likely wrong. Putting aside the fact that ObamaBot

[Marxism] Marx on Russia Today

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == If posted previously, apologies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptb6WSAt2zE

[Marxism] Card Check: Labor's Charlie Brown Moment?

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Robert Fitch has worked as a union organizer; he is the author of *Solidarity for

Re: [Marxism] Zinn: the historian who changed history

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Zinn and the New Left scholars writing in the wake of the civil rights

Re: [Marxism] reset to 5.31.2008

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks Louis and Joaquin for the quotes from the classics on this issue. I

Re: [Marxism] The Barbarism of Slavery by Charles Sumner

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The free soil farmer-settlers (and never forget that these were *settlers* bent

[Marxism] Repubs take Kennedy's seat

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Any comments? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8469359.stm Turnout ranged from

[Marxism] Obama channels Beck

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The uses of listening to right-wing radio: Casually flipped on Glen Beck while

[Marxism] Irony Alert

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, the right-wingers are openly gloating now (from Alternet):

Re: [Marxism] Crisis of Capitalism

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Short version, we are barely past the beginning of this crisis. We have barely

Re: [Marxism] theses on the economic crisis

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == OK, let me take a swing at this. Perhaps I am a bit more optimistic, because the

Re: [Marxism] The Chinese Revolution (90 years ago)

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sigh, I only wish I could somehow parse the real meaning out of WL's intriguing

Re: [Marxism] Zizek on the Berlin Wall

It is really telling to compare the PRC's capitalist development with that of the U.S. from the latter 19th century - early 20th century, a meme often found in the bourgeois press. On the basis of a relativity high wage structure - an early spur to mechanization - U.S manufacturing was primarily

Re: [Marxism] Zizek on the Berlin Wall

[Hope the CR formatting doesn't get too hosed] With his clown suit off. It is an appropriate warning about the political direction taken by disillusion with capitalism and democracy in E. Europe. The excerpt below raises the most interesting questions: This is why today’s China is so unsettling:

[Marxism] China: America's Head Servant?

The NLR makes another connection to the real world. -Matt http://www.newleftreview.org/A2809 Free, should be accessible. Beijing is well aware that further accumulation of foreign reserves is counterproductive, since it would increase the risk associated with the assets China already holds

[Marxism] Economists Seek to Fix a Defect in Dat a That Overstates the Nation’s Vigor (NYT)

Pertains to an earlier discussion of post 2000 productivity growth in the US - Matt: 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

Re: [Marxism] Interesting Article on Dollar Collapse in WSJ

While this scenario may come to pass, such a move would not be risk free by a long shot. Should the USD fall and remain below historic support levels - I think 79 on the JPY - then the so-called reserve currency status of the USD would come under further stress as the world market moves into

Re: [Marxism] Polanski

That it is a class issue does warrant some Marxist attention, but beyond that, yes, let's move on. That Polanski should be tossed in the slammer as a sterling example to all and sundry _precisely_ because he is a member of the ruling liberal intelligentsia is the relevant principle in play here.

Re: [Marxism] 15.1 Million unemployed in US!!,

You raise a good question. The problem is twofold: 1) the U.S. Left is largely petit-bourgeois and divorced from the working class (and its rising unemployment) and therefore gravitates to the Democratic Party as its natural political home, because 2) there is no independent - or even

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

My own view is that the health care reform battle is toast, put a fork in it. Reform here is an even better government organized and subsidized health industry cartel with a lot of prime low risk customers mandated to buy their product., in exchange for some obvious regulatory reforms concerning