Simon makes some points:
>> Workers like these two toiled for a pittance for decades, with
>> the lifetime promise of a communist state's "iron rice bowl."
>> Now, caught between two economic eras, they feel betrayed.
>
>Capitalism tells us all that we will be well off if we work hard. China, as
Ian,
You wrote praised Meszaros' article for
> We can do without worship (or vilification) of
> Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, etc.
Were we reading the same article as mine was littered with
vilifications of Stalin and the Bolshevik revolution. You talk of
some on the left of tur
Holy shit , Bob !
Charles
>>> "Bob Malecki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/28/99 01:26AM >>>
Well, There has been a big to do here this last couple of days. On top of a big strike
and getting my job extended for another year there is the growing problem of new
nazism here in this commune. We have a gr
Simon,
How can we demonstrate the 'state of nature' prior to
the revolution?
How do you negate the capitalist worldview scientifically? Surely to
delete capitalism from the make-up of the world always ends-up
looking like a previous stage in history as that is the only basis of
comparison. T
Simon shows all the signs of evolutionary menshevik thinking.
Because for him the LOV is universal to class society, he can't see
that the revolution in Russia was a qualitative change. Nor that the
deformed revolution that followed in China was also. He cannot see
that the reason that the i
John,
You wrote:
>
>Were we reading the same article as mine was littered with
>vilifications of Stalin and the Bolshevik revolution. You talk of
>some on the left of turning Marxism into a secular religion well the
>charge could be made that others have turned it into a secular
>witch-hunt.
>
>Wh
> Holy shit , Bob !
>
> Charles
Well Maria and I got to go to the teachers conference yesterday. And we scared the
shit out of them. Over and above the discussion on the problems we are facing (showing
music,t-shirts and Nazi symbols we have been seeing of late) with this stuff I took up
t
