[Marxism-Thaxis] Why Did Engels Write Anti-Dühri ng?

2010-01-04 Thread c b
Why Did Engels Write Anti-Dühring? Thomas Riggins http://paeditorsblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/why-did-engels-write-anti-duhring.html In the 1870s the German professor Eugen Dühring joined the German Social Democratic Party. He made a lot of friends and began interpreting socialism along lines

[Marxism-Thaxis] Howard Fast: Two Memoirs, One Life

2010-01-04 Thread c b
Howard Fast: Two Memoirs, One Life By Gerald Meyer http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/view/9196/1/378/ Political Affairs Magazine Being Red (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1990), Howard Fast’s account of his

[Marxism-Thaxis] Wall Street's 10 Greatest Lies of 2009

2010-01-04 Thread c b
Wall Street's 10 Greatest Lies of 2009 By Nomi Prins, AlterNet. Posted December 28, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/media/144776/wall_street%27s_10_greatest_lies_of_2009?page=entire Lies that justify screwing over Main Street. On December 13, President Obama declared that he was not elected to

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Barack Obama Worked For The CIA - John Pilger

2010-01-04 Thread yves coleman
Living in France, I have some problems with this debate. What does it change for you, once Clinton and Obama are head of the American State and so in a position to give orders to the CIA, to prove that they had previous contacts with the CIA under a direct or undirect form ? What does it prove ?

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Barack Obama Worked For The CIA - John Pilger

2010-01-04 Thread c b
On 1/4/10, yves coleman yvescole...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Living in France, I have some problems with this debate. What does it change for you, once Clinton and Obama are head of the American State and so in a position to give orders to the CIA, to prove that they had previous contacts with the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Barack Obama Worked For The CIA - John Pilger

2010-01-04 Thread Doug Henwood
On Jan 4, 2010, at 4:13 PM, c b wrote: In the US , there is not a significant portion of the population that has the concept ruling class nor thinks in terms of it concerning politics. Not in those words, but people use colloquialisms like city hall (which you can't fight), elites, the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Speaking of Mau Mau's

2010-01-04 Thread c b
Monday, January 4, 2010 Podcast #112: Interview with Gerald Horne about his latest book, Mau Mau in Harlem? http://paeditorsblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/podcast-112-interview-with-gerald-horne.html Political Affairs #112 - The US and Kenya: Interview with Historian Gerald Horne Gerald Horne is

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Barack Obama Worked For The CIA - John Pilger

2010-01-04 Thread CeJ
YC writes: Is there in the United States a significant portion of the population which is naive enough to believe that Clinton and Obama were elected AGAINST the will of the majority of the ruling class, of the ruling circles of the State, of the Secret Services, of the Armed forces, etc. ? So

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Barack Obama Worked For The CIA - John Pilger

2010-01-04 Thread CeJ
A somewhat conspiratorial view of power politics is actually explanatory. For example, most likely Americans think that the whole key to understanding the complexities of French politics would be to keep the left out of the highest offices. The reality is more like infiltrate the left and

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Barack Obama Worked For The CIA - John Pilger

2010-01-04 Thread CeJ
One more reply to this: Is there in the United States a significant portion of the population which is naive enough to believe that Clinton and Obama were elected AGAINST the will of the majority of the ruling class, of the ruling circles of the State, of the Secret Services, of the Armed forces,