[Marxism] Not a conspiracy theorist, a marxist!

social structure. You might want to read a bit of that. Joaquin again: I've read serious posts to the list by Brad and don't regard him as a troll. What I've not read is any straightforward and honest answers...So they are left with junior high debater'

Re: [Marxism] Clinton the conspiracy theorist...

pposite of what you were claiming before when you said that they do not know how to stop the flow and are doing all they can. The bomb it shut notion, as I have repeatedly stated, is a jumping off point for a political position, not an end-all theory of how to s

Re: [Marxism] Clinton the conspiracy theorist...

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Re: [Marxism] Clinton the conspiracy theorist...

, Carrol, or Lajany can explain to me how I am pursuing a conspiracy theory. And no I will not be discouraged by, or except as an explanation, your attempts to cover over your errors on the matter with cheap insults. Brad Send list submissions to

Re: [Marxism] Only Worse

ow to stop it within specific parameters set by the profit motive. Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Marxism] Only worse

otives all you want. I want to expose them. Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Marxism] Only Worse

sible way. (and the stuff about nukes was put out to stop discussion about other ways of blowing it shut). Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Marxism] Only Worse

vely consume the time and effort of a bunch of leftists. Whether explosives can work or not, the point is that letting BP run the show because they know best how to deal with this is a joke. As is the idea that we can't figure out how to stop it. Yes we can. We just don't want

Re: [Marxism] Marxism] Re Only worse

en and will be what they try to sell us on all environemental problems including climate change). No, if you wanted to radicalize people you would force them to fix it NOW and when they try to be tight with the means to stop it, you call them on their profit headed ways. Brad __

[Marxism] Employment and Recessions Chart

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Re: [Marxism] Of course they were asking for it

always repeating the official line. I posted that to the union list and it shut up the Zionists. It also made me laugh really hard. Humour works to breakdown the normal divide while making the point sharply. Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism

[Marxism] Krugman on Corp and Repugs

doesn't want to call it such) nature of identity politics and the TP. I am getting a little bit annoyed by this liberal notion that the big corporations are to blame and not capitalism though. Brad The Old Enemies By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: May 23, 2010 So here’s how it is: They’re as mad as hell

[Marxism] In and Out of Crisis Book Talk Video

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[Marxism] In and Out of Crisis: Authors Meet Critics Video

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Re: [Marxism] Communist debate group chooses Stalin as next

rticularly its youth, is emerging as a majoritarian social democracy, or in >a majoritarian search for a more cooperativist, green, and more peaceful and >socially just order. clip..full here http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/05/18-3 Then the future is actually not as blea

Re: [Marxism] New Labour

h. Why not just admit it? Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Marxism] New Labour

a bit but not even to the point that Richard claims, or is, here: http://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/article/view/5493 Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman

Re: [Marxism] New Labour

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Re: [Marxism] Productivity and Costs

gets revolution (does the TP lead us to not get the Greece result or the other way round, because we have the strongest capitalist class and weakest labor we get the TP??). Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at

[Marxism] Hey media!! Leftists can be mad, scary and sensational too...

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Re: [Marxism] marxism and capital source

ly enhanced this, as will any legislation that comes from it. Sorry, that is a bit rambling and disjunctured. Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Marxism] Marx in college?

North America, particularly at the graduate level. There are at least ten Marxists in one department and fifty percent of grad students would self identify as such. However, it probably depends on what the student wishes to study in particular. Brad

Re: [Marxism] Question

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Re: [Marxism] Obama improves image of US Empire

g day of Union meetings (Unions under receivership after long strike, love national bureaucrats!). Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%4

[Marxism] Senate to take tough stance on finance by baning movie and onion derivatives.

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Re: [Marxism] The Anatomy of Teabagging

that it is easy, but it is necessary (and hardly liberal). Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Marxism] The Anatomy of Teabagging

eft in the US? That's assbackwards. Jeffery is correct up to a point. We shouldn't attempt to win over TPers, but we should build a left that can offer an alternative to their nonsense to stop further workers moving in the TP direction. Brad

Re: [Marxism] The Anatomy of Teabagging

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Re: [Marxism] The Anatomy of Teabagging

are supposed to offer a little bit of analysis that goes deeper than the ideology. At its best, good class based analyses cuts right through ideology. I also fear the impact on those elements that were becoming disillusioned with the Dems by Obama being pushed back into the Dems arms. Brad _

Re: [Marxism] The Anatomy of Teabagging

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Re: [Marxism] Code Pink extends olive branch to fascist Tea

re not coherent in their politics- cut the budget but keep medicare, social security, defense spending and tax cuts- just your methodology and position of critique. Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: ht

[Marxism] Tea Party Poll

education levels (probably both within margins of error). I highly doubt that this data reveals a disproportion of petty bourgeoisie. Which begs the question as to the material circumstances driving this movement (other than economic hard times for middle and working income folks). Brad

[Marxism] US Manufacturing sector expansion

It comes after China and European nations also saw higher factory output. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8599343.stm I think the crisis is officially over. Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options

Re: [Marxism] A Fake Fight Over Fake Health Care Reform

n is falling into the same type of talk, with his own more materialist approachBut, as the old bearded man said, there is no such thing as a long term crisis. Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at:

[Marxism] Obama appoints Becker to NLRB

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Re: [Marxism] In and Out of Crisis

cal crisis. But this is just a class understanding of capitalism. Brad However the political crisis is operating much more slowly. Nevertheless it is very real. Why for instance do we have the feeling that Obama is looking mor

Re: [Marxism] Repo 105

You really think that it was a crisis of profitability that led to this crisis? How so? Brad -- Forgot to add-- I "kind of" agree-- the real crisis of capitalism is made by the workers-- but

Re: [Marxism] Repo 105

issue. It is an attempt to relegitimize capitalism. This person, that person it makes no difference. Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail

Re: [Marxism] In and Out of Crisis

nly overproduction as long as capital cannot increase the rate of exploitation. There are adjustments that occur but as long as the capitalist class can make the workers pay for these adjustments these really shouldn't be viewed as crises. Brad ___

[Marxism] In and Out of Crisis

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[Marxism] Historical Materialism Toronto May 13-16

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Re: [Marxism] Calling all rebels

g that they might be in; 5) it is the job of Marxist revolutionaries to clear this fog for if we don't then our failure is our own; 6) armchair revolutionary dispersions from afar act only in the interest of self delusion to the above. Brad

Re: [Marxism] Calling all rebels

contradictions that exist. Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Marxism] Perry Anderson idiocy on China

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[Marxism] Perry Anderson: "Two Revolutions" (Russia-China) in

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[Marxism] ZNet regular says he agrees with Brooklyn-based Marxist

enthusiastically debate, issues is very, very healthy. It is only when there is but one 'correct line' that we become a sect. Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailm

Re: [Marxism] DAILY SHOW on socialist medicine....

as Eindie has mentioned. Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Marxism] DAILY SHOW on socialist medicine....

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Re: [Marxism] Greek 'bailout' off ...

powers are adopting an autarchic approach? Oh yes, defiantly, it is way too early. In fact it seems rather that the opposite might be occurring. Brad Send list submissi

Re: [Marxism] Americans unhappy with both parties

don't miss this historic opportunity. Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

[Marxism] Doubling down

x27;double dip'? Will the drowning capitalists pull each other down? Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Marxism] Bourgeois worries over debt

proposed. All the talk about the decline of the dollar is the same. It's the rebooting of neoliberalism. Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%4

[Marxism] Trees grow at fastest rate in 200 years

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Re: [Marxism] What next ?

rtant. As we have seen the past 40+ years, it is not simply a matter of material determination of history but it is fundamentally a political/ideological question. Brad > We all know that the material basis for the existing relations of > production are more important than ideology. >

Re: [Marxism] reset to 5.31.2008

This is also the way the rest of the world uses it. If we do that. Then yes, the Democratic party is probably the most liberal party in the entire world. Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists

Re: [Marxism] Avatar, Art and Revolution

it was a system of surplus extraction that operated without most people knowing it because of the dreamlike state much like consumer society. It is based in part on Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation. And it did inspire social movements, even if they were somewhat autonomou

[Marxism] Friedman blows more hot air into the China balloon

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Re: [Marxism] Manure

the US' success, its hegemony, which comes from acting in a relatively autonomous way for the benefit of global capital in general. Also the vast majority of PL-480 'food aid' is not given away but sold. It is simply a form of dumping cheap subsidised US ag products. Brad __

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Re: [Marxism] Manure

ation is the trinity of US agricultural development over the last 150 years. Brad > > > True, and a Marxist analysis would point out how the individual small > farmer > would be at a disadvantage vs. the farms that employ outside labor. And > how > economically insign

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Dismiss the liberal Dogan from MarxMail

> Surely there must be free public psychotherapy in this wonderful new health care bill if the CP supports it. Brad > > ___ > Marxism mailing list > Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu > http://list

[Marxism] State Revs down 16%

lism's wet dream of going after public employees, the last stronghold of unionized workers in the US, will follow and this crisis will give cover for the attack. Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your op

Re: [Marxism] Towars a Union of the Unemployed?

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Re: [Marxism] Towards a Union of the Unemployed ?

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[Marxism] Towards a Union of the Unemployed ?

crisis? Any thoughts on what this could do politically? Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

[Marxism] CIW, Verite announce partnership to implement, monitor Fair Food agreements!

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Re: [Marxism] Eight theses on the economic crisis

ed to seize the moments that are and will being handed to us by the bourgeoisie's failures/successes. The thing will not negate itself, it creates its own gravediggers but not its own death. That takes socialist/communist agitation and eventually a movement to take hold of the moments that are opened up by crises. Sol, Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Marxism] Eight theses on the economic crisis

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Re: [Marxism] Eight Theses on the Economic Crisis

in its new formations and overt > class battles make their appearance. > This happens automatically? > > Finally, its no accident that the demise of the New Left corresponds to the > outbreak of the generalized capitalist overproduction crisis of the 1970's. > > Wait, I

Re: [Marxism] cutting and pasting staircase

n text, you will still get this problem, for example gmail, which >brad used to send his post. >The only way to fix the text is to reformat the paragraphs, either by >hand, or with something like emailstripper. >Les Is this really a problem that would merit such extra time and work o

Re: [Marxism] Eight Theses on the Economic Crisis

point of the left versus the ruling class was at a much greater disadvantage, or level of development, during this economic crisis than that one. But, when the second wave of the crisis hits, if the left is up to it, there will be further openings that could be grasped. Sol, Brad ___

[Marxism] Bank bailout list

all money spent and programs for the bank bailouts. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Brad Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

[Marxism] Corp Profits data

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[Marxism] Peak oil II

Son of peak oil. Now appearing in a left liberal discourse near you. Brad YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman

Re: [Marxism] IMF style austerity in the works for the USA? (S. Artesian)

ted the last few decades. I am still a bit unsure where he is going at the end with his list of transitional demands. The part about how this could bring fundamental questions to the table seemed a bit more interesting and a place where revolutionaries could take up and expand on

Re: [Marxism] IMF style austerity in the works for the USA?

This is related to and answers some of the issues I posed. Panitch on the current state of the dollar. http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4340 Brad YOU MUST clip all extr

Re: [Marxism] IMF style austerity in the works for the USA?

was so organized and understood the shared interest across nations against capital. Brad YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http

[Marxism] NYT- American Apparel forced to fire undocumented

o “legalize L.A.,” by granting legal status to illegal immigrants, a policy President Obamasupports." Wondering if folks have thought tactically how to deal with this shift in policy or could point me in the direction of people who are. Thanks, Brad http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/us/30fa

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

e issue ('folks just bought homes they can't afford') reveals the real world level of consciousness of workers in the US. How to break out of this and recognize the collective capacity to overcome the problems is the real issue going forward. I

[Marxism] Fwd: Socialist Register

I am writing to tell you that the new Socialist Register website is now fully up and running, featuring SR 2010 on *Morbid Symptoms: Health under capitalism* alongside our amazing archive of all 700+ essays we've published since 1964. We're sure you will want to check it out at http://socialistreg

Re: [Marxism] Germany's Die Linke shows the way for the left

e the pleasure/agony of governing. Brad YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Marxism] What to do?

both party type organizing and the 'patient' strategy, that one of the articles Bhuskar posted puts forward, within one mass movement. Brad YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lis

[Marxism] Marx in the Toronto Star

Marx and his ideas rise from the dustbin of history TheStar.com - Opinion - Marx and his ideas rise from the dustbin of history Profound understanding of capitalist dynamics has come to the fore during the current crisis September 07, 2009 *Leo Panitch *Research c

[Marxism] Whole lota red baiting goin' on...

First Van Jones than this... Kennedy Connection to Chávez and Citgo By Kate Phillips As many wait to see what Joseph P. Kennedy II may decide about running for the Senate se

Re: [Marxism] Good critique of Walter Benn Michaels's NLR article

most are unable to maintain simple reading comprehension whenever someone mentions race and gender. A good critique would take what he actually says and show how some of it is empirically wrong and politically a bad tactic. I have yet to read such a critique and zero interest in writing it. Brad

Re: [Marxism] Econ Rebounding?

s. However, sober analysis also reveals a very real lack of movement towards that end by the working class. How does this fact impact your analysis? Brad YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marx

Re: [Marxism] Long posts not allowed??

will only lead to more fighting and less fruitful discussions. Besides I like seeing what others are reading and finding interesting. Brad YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism

[Marxism] Econ Rebounding?

Sure there is high unemployment but this does not mean a crisis for capitalism, only for workers. Could you please flesh out your argument whenever you get a chance. I would be interested in hearing others opinions on this as well and I think this a very necess

[Marxism] Recovery of corp profits?

>From the BEA http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2009/gdp109f.htm Corporate Profits Profits from current production (corporate profits with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments) increased $48.1 billion in the first quarter, in contrast to a decrease of $250.3 billio

Re: [Marxism] On Food...

Nada wrote- "in cereal production, it makes almost no difference whatsoever if wheat, barely or other grains are produced in very large tracts or smaller more intensely farmed ones. " What is your source for this position? What exactly are you talking about as making no difference, no difference

Re: [Marxism] cheap food

tes. Again, it is not really as simple as either of these approaches makes it seem and only by connecting cheap food to the production of value can we illuminate the problems of these two (non-marxists) approaches. Brad YOU MUST clip all extra

[Marxism] Traders, not supply and demand, behind '08 oil price spike, CFTC.

ioners, said in an interview Monday. The CFTC's new review, due to be released in August, adds fuel to a growing debate over financial investors who bet ... Cut because I am not a subscriber...could someone that is post the rest of the article. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124874574251