Re: M-TH: Re: Whither the discussion

1999-11-08 Thread Dave Bedggood
translated I'll forward it to this list. Dave > Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 00:13:41 + > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Chris Burford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: Whither the discussion > Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: M-TH: Re: Whither the discussion

1999-11-08 Thread Chris Burford
At 23:35 08/11/99 +, you wrote: >There seems to be a lot of lost souls on this list who claim to be >Marxists yet endorsed NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia, or who claim to >be world socialists without having read a word of Marx. >Do they think that this is the groucho marx thaxist theatre? >T

Re: M-TH: Re: Whither the discussion

1999-11-08 Thread Charles Brown
>>> "THE WORLD SOCIALIST MOVEMENT(via THE SOCIALIST PARTY Simon, When I asked you on the other list about the role of the World Socialist Movement as differentiated from the role of a party , you said WSM is an/the agent of the working class. But what is your factual support for such a cla

Re: M-TH: Re: Whither the discussion

1999-11-08 Thread Doug Henwood
Dave Bedggood wrote: >They could save a lot of time and energy by reading the Communist >Manifesto and then whipping themselves. A curious prescription. I understand the reading suggestion, but why the autoflagellation? Some crypto-religious guilt expiation thing? Or some politicized masochist

Re: M-TH: Re: Whither the discussion

1999-11-08 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Thaxists, Simon sez: >> I think that the difference here is that I am not arguing for a >> Marxist revolution, but a socialist one: i.e. that while Marx provided >> one of the first expositions of socialist theory, you don't have to have >> read a word of Marx to be a socialist. Elic

Re: M-TH: Re: Whither the discussion

1999-11-08 Thread Dave Bedggood
nergy by reading the Communist Manifesto and then whipping themselves. > Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 05:14:54 -0500 (EST) > From: Gerald Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: M-TH:

M-TH: Re: Whither the discussion

1999-11-08 Thread Gerald Levy
Simon wrote: > I think that the difference here is that I am not arguing for a > Marxist revolution, but a socialist one: i.e. that while Marx provided > one of the first expositions of socialist theory, you don't have to have > read a word of Marx to be a socialist. Note the inference tha