[Marxism] Rammstein

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks for the many intelligent comments. Yes, I also dislike the fatuous Euro-nati

[Marxism] Rammstein: heartbeat on the left?

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hey, it's not every day I write about heavy metal... Click here: http://www.sa.org.

[Marxism] New book on the Australian Labor Party

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Rick Kuhn and Tom Bramble have just published a book through Cambridge University P

[Marxism] Seond unity leetter from Socialist Alternative to Solidarity (Australia)

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dear Comrades, We were disappointed by your negative response to our letter of 28 S

[Marxism] (Australia) Unity letter from Socialist Alternative to Solidarity

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The folllowing letter was recently sent by Socialist Alternative to Solidarity (the

[Marxism] New Australian Marxist journal

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Socialist Alternative (Australia) is launching a new Marxist journal. http://www.m

Re: [Marxism] Anthony Bourdain on Harvey Pekar

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Bourdain's show about the Plain of Jars was a brilliant indictment of US bombing du

[Marxism] Marxist Interventions 2010 release

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/mi/2/2.htm Marxist Interventions is an on-line Austral

Re: [Marxism] Perry Anderson idiocy on China

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mark wrote: >>My impression is that many who put forward the idea did not think tha

Re: [Marxism] Perry Anderson idiocy on China

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sartesian wrote: >I don't buy [nice choice of words, that] "state capitalism," for

Re: [Marxism] Perry Anderson idiocy on China

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sartesian wrote: >The problem with talking about the "class nature" of China then o

[Marxism] Socialist Alternative's new website

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Socialist Alternative (Australia) has a new website. Go to www.sa.org.au. It will

Re: [Marxism] World's Glaciers Continue to Melt at Historic Rates

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == >>he should ask glacier-free Australians how they get their drinking water Guess wh

Re: [Marxism] Glaciergate

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Monbiot has been sayiing these things for months. I saw him do it on TV. I fiind th

[Marxism] Death of Alistair Hulett - from Socialist Alternative

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Alistair Hulett, revolutionary folk singer and song writer, has died. This will be

Re: [Marxism] Query: Viietnam bombing

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks to everyone who responded. sartesian gets the elephant stamp for finding jus

[Marxism] Query: Viietnam bombing

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It's commonly said that more bombs were dropped on Vietnam during that war than in

Re: [Marxism] Tom Condit

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

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Joaquin wrote: >>I think the dynamics in MASS parties, real parties, is another thi

Re: [Marxism] Another side of the Berlin Wall

== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Adam Richmond wrote:: > The main danger to East German > socialism was not in West

Re: [Marxism] How the heck do you pronounce " "???

I know some languages, but sometimes it's hard to be sure, because people change countries and then change how they say their names. Anyway here are my thoughts Grundrisse (grun-DRISS-uh?). More correct to say GRUNT- rissa. Yes, with a "t". Ladislaus Bortkiewicz (bort-KAY-vich?) Correct. Walra

Re: [Marxism] Video of Herbert Marcuse interview (in German)

Thanks Lou, it took me right back. Fundamentally pessimistic. There can't be a revolution without the working class, and radical fringe groups can at best open up possibilities; but the working class living under affluent late capitalism can't do it. In his favour is the undoubted fact that in t

Re: [Marxism] "WW2": interimperialist war to redivide the world

David worte some time ago, regarding World War II >>Or the Indonesians? WHY did they welcome British and US troops >>then? Was there something WORSE about the Japanese occupation vs the >>historic Dutch or US occupations? I don't know what Lou said in reply, because when I click on it I get an e

Re: [Marxism] Max Lane's critique of Indonesian leftists

Nick, a belated thanks for your reply, which provides some valuable context. Neither of us is in a position to debate these issues in detail, but I'll make the following general comments. 1. I doubt if the PKI's uncritical support for Sukarno was a tactical question. I can understand there cou

Re: [Marxism] Moderator's note

John, you write: >>When people start on that kind of stuff, I just tend to say "Hang on a >>minute; hasn't that guy been dead for ages?" Someone a while ago asked if Nepal was having its 1905 or its 1917 (or some such question). My response was that Nepal was having its 2009 . . .< I can understa

Re: [Marxism] Moderator's note

Re Ian's question about the need to debate the USSR but avoid Stalin-Trotsky flames, and where the boundary is. I've debated much of this here over the years and never been un-subbed or even warned. I suggest the test is whether you are adding something new, which people with other views can

[Marxism] Seeds of disaster: Australia's Whitlam Labor government

Gough Whitlam's famous "It's Time" slogan was more than clever marketing. While many Labor Party supporters , didn't dare believe in victory until the very end, still there seemed to be something virtually inevitable about the 1972 Labor win. Australia had changed immensely since the days of Men