[Marxism-Thaxis] Bessie Smith : Cakewalking Babies from Home

2010-12-15 Thread c b
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmY1wBKeGeA&feature=artist ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis

[Marxism-Thaxis] Bessie Smith : At The Christmas Ball

2010-12-15 Thread c b
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k7cfzTwNOM http://www.we7.com/#/song/Bessie-Smith/At-The-Christmas-Ball+1 http://www.mp3rocket.com/mp3/-1_00/Bessie-Smith-At-the-Christmas-Ball.htm ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To c

[Marxism-Thaxis] I For Insanity

2010-12-15 Thread c b
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Baby It's Cold Outside

2010-12-15 Thread c b
This is a really nice version. CB http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy70vAgmHcU ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis

[Marxism-Thaxis] Santa Baby

2010-12-15 Thread c b
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[Marxism-Thaxis] "Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice"

2010-12-15 Thread c b
Co-author of "Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice" See: http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/11121.html Check out the Youtube interview regarding Solidarity Divided: http://www.youtube.com/user/afgeonline#p/a/u/1/ek9Sz5R6lgU _

[Marxism-Thaxis] A Christmas Carol: Christmas and Class

2010-12-15 Thread c b
Some class issues in a Christmas classic. CB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol A Christmas Carol[note 1] is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical

[Marxism-Thaxis] What Does The Collapse Of The Soviet Union Really Mean?

2010-12-15 Thread c b
http://theivanovosti.typepad.com/the_ivanov_report/2010/12/geopolitics-for-dummies-what-does-the-collapse-of-the-soviet-union-really-mean-.html December 12, 2010 Geopolitics For Dummies: What Does The Collapse Of The Soviet Union Really Mean? Regardless of how one would characterize the collap

[Marxism-Thaxis] Caution

2010-12-16 Thread c b
Justice Department Prepares for Ominous Expansion of "Anti-Terrorism" Law Targeting Activists by Michael Deutsch Truthout December 11, 2010 http://www.truth-out.org/justice-department-prepares-expansion-laws-targeting-activists In late September, the FBI carried out a series of raids of homes and

[Marxism-Thaxis] Judiciary Full Committee Hearing

2010-12-16 Thread c b
View Live Webcast: http://bit.ly/judiciaryhearingwebcast and you can probably catch on C-Span Subject: ADVISORY: Judiciary Full Committee Hearing on Wikileaks and the Espionage Act To: *[image: banner2010.jpg]* Contact: Nicole Triplett (202) 226-5543 Wednesday, December 15, 2010 * * *WH

[Marxism-Thaxis] Baby it's cold outside (best version I've heard)

2010-12-16 Thread c b
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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] "Working Class Hero"

2010-12-16 Thread c b
It's a nice post, CJ On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:12 PM, CeJ wrote: > Looks like at the archive a couple songs got clipped out--perhaps too > long a post? > > Here is what didn't make it to the archive: > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOTHdjymnW0 > > Atom and Cell > David Sylvian > > Her skin

[Marxism-Thaxis] chernobyl-now-a-tourist-big-bang

2010-12-17 Thread c b
http://www.pata.org/news/chernobyl-now-a-tourist-big-bang ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis

[Marxism-Thaxis] "Everything Must Change " (was The Fate of a Cold War Vestige)

2010-12-17 Thread c b
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNUlENWMjZc Send "Everything Must Change" Ringtones to Cell everything must change nothing stays the same everyone will change no one, no one stays the same the young become the old and mysteries do unfold for that's the way of time no one, and nothing goes unc

[Marxism-Thaxis] nogaspipeline

2010-12-17 Thread c b
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Colorline question of 21st Century

2010-12-17 Thread c b
Rising Hate for Migrants Worldwide Starts with Criminalizing Them by Pramila Jayapal ColorLines December 15 2010 http://colorlines.com/archives/2010/12/rising_hate_for_migrants_worldwide_starts_with_criminalizing_them.html This Saturday marks the 10th anniversary of International Migrants Day

[Marxism-Thaxis] Police arrest 100-plus antiwar demonstrators at White House fence

2010-12-17 Thread c b
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/16/district.of.columbia.protest.arrests/index.html Police arrest 100-plus antiwar demonstrators at White House fence www.cnn.com Police arrested more than a hundred protesters during an antiwar demonstration outside the White House fence Thursday. __

[Marxism-Thaxis] Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong - St. Louis Blues (1929)

2010-12-17 Thread c b
Bessie Smith - St. Louis Blues (1929) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Who6fTHJ34 ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis

[Marxism-Thaxis] Eine kleine Nachtmusik

2010-12-17 Thread c b
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVTXlRxVdEY Eine kleine Nachtmusik From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For the Venom album, see Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (album). The Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, K. 525 was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1787. The wor

[Marxism-Thaxis] Prayer for Grandpa

2010-12-17 Thread c b
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Für Elise/ For Elise - Ludwig v an Beethoven

2010-12-17 Thread c b
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[Marxism-Thaxis] 135 Arrested For Civil Disobedience at White House

2010-12-17 Thread c b
http://www.opednews.com/articles/135-Arrested-For-Civil-Dis-by-Rob-Kall-101216-724.html ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-th

[Marxism-Thaxis] Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute

2010-12-18 Thread c b
Hello MCLI Friends and Supporters, The newest issue of our quarterly newsletter is now online! In this December's *Human Rights Now!* you can read: -- a reflection on the Johannes Mehserle sentencing -- why we must "Ratify CEDAW Now!" -- a look into MCLI's work on the Bay Area's "Toxic Traingle"

[Marxism-Thaxis] Listen Old Grumpy Guys

2010-12-18 Thread c b
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[Marxism-Thaxis] JFP 12/17: WikiLeaks cables show why UN troops should leave Haiti

2010-12-18 Thread c b
*Just Foreign Policy News December 17, 2010 * *Just Foreign Policy News on the Web:* http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/787 [To receive just the Summary and a link to the web version, you can use this

[Marxism-Thaxis] An Expat's Siberian Experience

2010-12-18 Thread c b
An Expat's Siberian Experience by Sandy Krolick Club Orlov (December 07 2010) Another guest post by Sandy. There is something deliciously ironic in this story of a former American corporate efficiency expert transplanting himself to a place where time never goes any place special and patience i

[Marxism-Thaxis] JFP 12/20: Biden: '11 drawdown won't be "token"; out in '14 "hell or high water"

2010-12-21 Thread c b
*Just Foreign Policy News December 20, 2010 * *Just Foreign Policy News on the Web:* http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/788 [To receive just the Summary and a link to the web version, you can use this webf

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Terry Eagleton on "The death of universities"

2010-12-21 Thread c b
I think the ruling class has not ended its counter-reform (Thatcher-Reagan) movement, but continued to develop more attacks, maybe. The attack on public education in the US , especially teachers , is going on now , too. The reform movement of the 1960's was centered especially in colleges and scho

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Terry Eagleton on "The death of universities"

2010-12-21 Thread c b
I certainly didn't mean all teachers or humanties people and artists and philosophers are radical or liberal. Ezra Pound, for example, was a fascist. Classcists have a lot of conservative ideas, not surprisingly. Hell, Platoism is reactionary today, and Plato invented "The Academy" for which aca

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Terry Eagleton on "The death of universities"

2010-12-21 Thread c b
In Detroit, the teachers' union is the most active and radical union there is. On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:41 PM, c b wrote: > I certainly didn't mean all teachers or humanties people and artists > and philosophers are radical or liberal.   Ezra Pound, for example, > was a f

[Marxism-Thaxis] JFP 12/23: Conyers, 30 Reps: Petraeus Must Testify on Afghan Review

2010-12-27 Thread c b
*Just Foreign Policy News December 23, 2010 * *Just Foreign Policy News on the Web:* http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/791 [To receive just the Summary and a link to the web version, you can use this webf

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [Marxism] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

2010-12-30 Thread c b
I am going to lay my cards on the table and say that I don't think there is any room in philosophy for theories and theses. So I get nervous and suspicious when the 'isms' come marching by. One that makes me particularly nervous is "Scientific Realism". The reason for that is that I think that hist

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

2010-12-30 Thread c b
Rosa, "Marxist" philosophy without theses ? Without theory ? CB http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/index.htm Theses On Feuerbach The main defect of all hitherto-existing materialism — that of Feuerbach included — is that the Object [der Gegenstand], actuality, sensuousn

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

2010-12-30 Thread c b
That project was exemplified in Descartes' Meditations, and it laid two demands on any account of knowledge and the means to knowledge, demands that set the standard and defined the adequacy of any account. There had been urgent reasons for making those demands but the reasons were historical rathe

[Marxism-Thaxis] Auto Worker Strikes in China: What Did They Win?

2010-12-30 Thread c b
Auto Worker Strikes in China: What Did They Win? Boy Luethje December 23, 2010 Labor Notes http://labornotes.org/2010/12/auto-worker-strikes-china-what-did-they-win Last summer's auto worker strikes in South China reverberated throughout the country and overseas. As workers in supplier compan

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

2010-12-30 Thread c b
f its > rope, what does? > > Now I'm reminded that I need to take a look at Plekhanov & see if he's > as bad as I'm told he is. ^^^ CB: Well, Plekhanov opposed the 1917 October insurrection. That's pretty stupid sectarian. > > On 12/30/2010 10:10 AM, c

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

2010-12-30 Thread c b
And here we have to say that Newton was a lot clearer about the status of what he called "axioms" and "laws" of motion than were later generations who looked on them as universal, and perhaps providential, truths about the cosmos. It took Henri Poincaré's hard work and careful analysis to bring out

[Marxism-Thaxis] Helen Thomas: Thrown to the Wolves

2011-01-03 Thread c b
Helen Thomas: Thrown to the Wolves At a time of forgiveness, why is Helen Thomas still being ostracized? Danny Schechter 29 Dec 2010 http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2010/12/20101229124751864918.html Helen Thomas, who once occupied a front-row seat in the White House briefi

[Marxism-Thaxis] History of " politically correct"

2011-01-04 Thread c b
# Pace J , I actually feel that a standard of "politically correctness" is a necessary concept to cut through the galaxy sized bs that is created in bourgeois pluralism, and get anything accomplished. However, my meaning of politically c...orrect is not to forbear at all from honest political asser

[Marxism-Thaxis] Existentialism, European LIbertarianism

2011-01-04 Thread c b
I'm now thinking the Existentialism is European Libertarianism (Or Libertarianism is American Existentialism) They share Individualism as their essential quality. They apothesis "The" Individual. They fetishize uniqueness. They emphasize our differences rather than our commonalities and unities. T

[Marxism-Thaxis] Left criticism of Obama tax compromise unwarranted

2011-01-04 Thread c b
parting thought by: Sam Webb December 31 2010 tags: taxes, politics, obama, congress, economy With the end of the year fast approaching, I decided to join the pundits and leave one parting thought. So here goes! The battle over taxes was a teachable moment. But left and progressive people mis

[Marxism-Thaxis] Comments on article Obama Tax cuts compromise

2011-01-04 Thread c b
Comments    *      With no air beneath the wings, aircraft will not fly. The thermo air currents which lifted Santorum out of the Senate, boiled up from a PA senior movement focused on saving Social Security. Alone, that movement would still be fighting the same battle - Santorum would still repre

[Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson on Thomas Kuhn

2011-01-04 Thread c b
Thanks for this, Jim. I'm going to deliberate on it. Statements about statements are not propositions. There's linguistics , of course, which seeking to discover objective characteristics of statements. CB Jim Farmelant On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:40:33 -0500 c b writes: > Rosa,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Existentialism, European LIbertarianism

2011-01-05 Thread c b
pectrum. And there was mainly a Sartre/Camus influence > afterward, which also had a relationship to the civil rights movement. > Here the methodological individualism of Sartre--if one wants to call it > that--was not a major factor, but the notion of individual > responsibility for the socia

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fundamental difference

2011-01-05 Thread c b
“In community, the individual is, crucial as the prior condition for forming a community. … Every individual in the community guarantees the community; the public is a chimera, numerality is everything…” – Søren Kierkegaard, Journals Pace Kierkegaard, of course , for we social determinists ,

[Marxism-Thaxis] Wellness critique

2011-01-05 Thread c b
http://www.bottomlinesecrets.com/store/mags/order_ths_mag_q_nv.html?p=3&l=3&sk=360099&sid=F122110G1F No Drug Comes Close to Cleaning Out Your Arteries Like This This discovery earned a Nobel Prize It could be THE answer to heart disease... ... and you're not being told! They call Hugh Downs "one

[Marxism-Thaxis] Louis J. Ignarro

2011-01-05 Thread c b
Louis Ignarro Louis J. Ignarro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Ignarro BornMay 31, 1941 (1941-05-31) (age 69) Nationality American Fields pharmacology InstitutionsUCLA School of Medicine, King Saud University Known for nitric oxide Notable awards Nobel Prize in Physiology

[Marxism-Thaxis] Wapedia v Wiki: Capital, Volume I (6/6)

2011-01-05 Thread c b
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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Fundamental difference

2011-01-05 Thread c b
suppress the social community >    which has developed inside the process of production. The elite must >    suppress the new social community because this community is today >    ready to control, order, and reduce to human usefulness the mass of >    accumulated wealth and knowledge. This an

[Marxism-Thaxis] Renaissance Fashion: The Birth of Power Dressing

2011-01-06 Thread c b
http://www.historytoday.com/ulinka-rublack/renaissance-fashion-birth-power-dressing Renaissance Fashion: The Birth of Power Dressing Ulinka Rublack, 21 December 2010 History TodayCulturalSocialRenaissanceEuropeVolume: 61 Issue: 1 Printer-friendly versionPrinter-friendly versionSend to friend At

[Marxism-Thaxis] Sublime Frequencies

2011-01-06 Thread c b
Sublime Frequencies http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/ ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis

[Marxism-Thaxis] jean-quan-becomes-first-asian-american-woman-to-lead-major-u-s-city/

2011-01-06 Thread c b
http://www.peoplesworld.org/jean-quan-becomes-first-asian-american-woman-to-lead-major-u-s-city/ ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/m

[Marxism-Thaxis] 'Music from Saharan cellphones, Vol. 1':

2011-01-06 Thread c b
'Music from Saharan cellphones, Vol. 1': http://ghostcapital.blogspot.com/2010/08/va-music-from-saharan-cellphones-vol-1.html ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.ec

[Marxism-Thaxis] Midnight at the Oasis

2011-01-06 Thread c b
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Your changing brain

2011-01-06 Thread c b
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/brain/changing.php ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fundamental difference: Estranged Labour has individual life as its purpose

2011-01-06 Thread c b
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. Karl Marx Estranged Labour http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm In estranging from man (1) nature, and (2) himself, his own active functions, his life activity, estranged labor estranges the species from man. It c

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fundamental difference: Caudwell critique's bourgeois concept of individual liberty

2011-01-07 Thread c b
http://www.marxists.org/archive/caudwell/index.htm Christopher Caudwell 1938 Liberty A study in bourgeois illusion Source: “Studies in a Dying Culture,” first published 1938. Republished 1977 in “The Concept of Freedom,” Lawrence & Wishart, London. Transcribed: by Dominic Tweedie; Proofed and c

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fundamental difference: Estranged Labour has individual life as its purpose; self-interested individual, etc.

2011-01-07 Thread c b
The role of the > existential sensibility in one's overall world view and trajectory is > vital to understand, as well as the appropriation of the > metaphysical/epistemological baggage to support one's projects. > > The modern period, which of course witnesses the scientific revolution, > the Enl

[Marxism-Thaxis] What Would You Do With a Trillion Dollars?

2011-01-07 Thread c b
What Would You Do With a Trillion Dollars? | CommonDreams.org www.commondreams.org PHILADELPHIA - January 6 - The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and National Priorities Project (NPP) are preparing to announce the six lucky winners of If I Had a Trillion Dollars (IHTD), a national vide

[Marxism-Thaxis] Road Runner Caught

2011-01-07 Thread c b
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[Marxism-Thaxis] JFP 1/6: AfPak Peace Jirga; Gates sends more troops

2011-01-07 Thread c b
*Just Foreign Policy News January 6, 2011 * *Just Foreign Policy News on the Web: * http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/798 [To receive just the Summary and a link to the web version, you can use this webfo

[Marxism-Thaxis] Life of the People: Realist Prints and Drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection,

2011-01-07 Thread c b
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/goldstein/goldcap.html Life of the People: Realist Prints and Drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948 HOME - Exhibition Overview - Object List - Bibliography - Credits Exhibition Sections: Art of the People - The Radical Impulse - City Life C

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Not So Great Islamist Menace

2011-01-07 Thread c b
The Not So Great Islamist Menace By Dan Gardner, ...Islamists? They were behind a grand total of one attack. Yes, one. Out of 294 attacks in Europe last year. Ottawa January 5, 2011 http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/great+Islamist+menace/4058778/story.html See More The not so great Islamist m

[Marxism-Thaxis] India

2011-01-07 Thread c b
Book Review - India Calling - By Anand Giridharadas www.nytimes.com An exploration of fundamental changes in family and class relationships, and in the very idea of what it is to be Indian. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.e

[Marxism-Thaxis] Think Again: American Decline

2011-01-10 Thread c b
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/02/think_again_american_decline?page=full ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-th

[Marxism-Thaxis] CPUSA condemns Arizona shootings, incitement

2011-01-10 Thread c b
CPUSA condemns Arizona shootings, incitement http://peoplesworld.org/cpusa-condemns-arizona-shootings-incitement/ by: Special to the World January 9 2011 tags: violence, ultra-right, racism, Arizona Giffords The Communist Party USA issued the following statement Jan. 9 unequivocally condemning

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] On Paul Samuleson as a tragic figure

2011-01-10 Thread c b
At first sight, it seems that Samuelson was simply trying to give Keynes a stronger analytical backbone, turning the art of government intervention, at a time of crisis, into a mathematical science. What could be wrong with that? The answer is: Everything! Keynes' greatest contribution was to al

[Marxism-Thaxis] Mapping every city, every block in US

2011-01-10 Thread c b
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[Marxism-Thaxis] 47.8 Million People Live in Poverty -- Far More Than Previously Thought

2011-01-10 Thread c b
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/424987/47.8_million_people_live_in_poverty_--_far_more_than_previously_thought/ 47.8 Million People Live in Poverty -- Far More Than Previously Thought The Census Bureau has released new estimates that show the US poverty rate is far higher than prev

[Marxism-Thaxis] Arizona Sheriff Dupnik's criticism of political 'vitriol' resonates with public

2011-01-10 Thread c b
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2011/01/sheriff-dupniks-criticism-of-p.html Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik, who is overseeing the investigation of Saturday's mass shooting that critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D), became an overnight sensation with his remarks that the "vit

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cave Drops Hints to Earliest Glass of Red

2011-01-11 Thread c b
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/science/11wine.html?_r=3&src=tptw Cave Drops Hints to Earliest Glass of Red By PAM BELLUCK Published: January 11, 2011 Scientists have reported finding the oldest known winemaking operation, about 6,100 years old, complete with a vat for fermenting, a press, st

[Marxism-Thaxis] Let's put blame where it belongs: right-wing extremism

2011-01-12 Thread c b
Let's put blame where it belongs: right-wing extremism http://peoplesworld.org/let-s-put-blame-where-it-belongs-right-wing-extremism/ assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage6060-sam.jpg by: Sam Webb January 10 2011 tags: violence, ultra-right, Arizona teaparty6 In the wake of the senseless shoot

[Marxism-Thaxis] Two Fighting Women in Berlin

2011-01-12 Thread c b
Two Fighting Women in Berlin Victor Grossman, Berlin Bulletin No. 17 Once again it was the annual big weekend for German leftists of every conceivable persuasion. It was also a weekend with tons of slush, the result of weeks of cold and snow and now ending in thaw weather, but, in the eyes of mos

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Case Against Public Sector Unions

2011-01-12 Thread c b
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/43266 August 1, 2010 policy review » no. 162 » features The Case Against Public Sector Unions by John O. McGinnis and Max Schanzenbach A powerful force for unaffordable benefits State and local governments today are, with few exceptions,

[Marxism-Thaxis] The end of the imperialist epoch

2011-01-12 Thread c b
The end of the imperialist epoch Marv Gandall Sun Jan 9 07:47:34 PST 2011 * Previous message: [lbo-talk] Haaretz - Shooter of Jewish Congresswoman listed 'Mein Kampf' as favorite book * Next message: [lbo-talk] [Pen-l] The end of the imperialist epoch * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ t

[Marxism-Thaxis] State Of The Unions

2011-01-12 Thread c b
The Financial Page State Of The Unions by James Surowiecki January 17, 2011 http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2011/01/17/110117ta_talk_surowiecki In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they’d never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by t

[Marxism-Thaxis] Shooting of Jewish Congresswoman Giffords Is Not Just a "Tragedy"

2011-01-12 Thread c b
Rabbi Michael Lerner Saturday 09 January 2010 http://www.truth-out.org/shooting-jewish-congresswoman-giffords-not-just-a-tragedy66685 It's part of a right-wing assault on government and the liberals and progressives who support it. Liberals and progressives are hated in many Red States because t

[Marxism-Thaxis] San Francisco's 1st Asian-American mayor sworn-in

2011-01-12 Thread c b
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_san_francisco_interim_mayor ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party Group Blames 'Leftist' for Giffords Shooting

2011-01-12 Thread c b
Tea Party Group Blames 'Leftist' for Giffords Shooting by Garance Franke-Ruta The Atlantic January 9, 2011 -- 1:49 PM ET http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/01/tea-party-group-blames-leftist-for-giffords-shooting/69153/ cross-posted on the Cuentame Facebook page http://www.faceboo

[Marxism-Thaxis] UAW's King ups pressure on foreign auto plants in U.S.

2011-01-13 Thread c b
http://detnews.com/article/20110113/AUTO01/101130397/1148/UAW%E2%80%99s-King-ups-pressure-on-foreign-auto-plants-in-U.S. UAW's King ups pressure on foreign auto plants in U.S. David Shepardson and Christine Tierney / The Detroit News United Auto Workers President Bob King on Wednesday stepped u

[Marxism-Thaxis] Nigerian newspaper names Wikileaks founder Man of The Year News - Africa news

2011-01-14 Thread c b
http://www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/nigerian-newspaper-names-wikileaks-founder-man-of-the-year-2011010466215.html http://www.nigerianbestforum.com/blog/?p=69165 ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your opt

[Marxism-Thaxis] Conservatives and Tea Party supporters are worried about the costs of the war in Afghanistan

2011-01-14 Thread c b
Just Foreign Policy News January 13, 2011 1) Survey Results Of Conservatives Afghanistan Study Group, January 13, 2011 http://www.afghanistanstudygroup.org/2011/01/12/afghanistan-study-group-survey-results-of-conservatives/ The following is an analysis of a poll taken of conservative voters nat

[Marxism-Thaxis] American Dream Done: WSJ -- Steep, Lasting Drop in Wages

2011-01-14 Thread c b
the rate of surplus-value is rising To: Pen-l Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 American Dream Done: WSJ -- Steep, Lasting Drop in Wages by Jonathan Tasini http://www.workinglife.org/blogs/view.php?blog_id=1 Tuesday 11 of January, 2011 Posted to Front Page Posts

[Marxism-Thaxis] JFP 1/13: Conservatives, Tea Partiers worried re cost of Afghanistan war

2011-01-14 Thread c b
*Just Foreign Policy News January 13, 2011 * *Just Foreign Policy News on the Web:* http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/804 [To receive just the Summary and a link to the web version, you can use this w

[Marxism-Thaxis] Arizona Shooting, the Limits of "Normal" and Our Future (2 views)

2011-01-14 Thread c b
Arizona Shooting, the Limits of "Normal" and Our Future (2 views) 1. Arizona Shooting Means We Have Reached the Limits of the "Normal" (Roberto Lovato) 2. The Tucson Massacre and Our Future - An Analysis (Lawrence Davidson == Arizona Shooting Means We Have Reached the Limits of th

[Marxism-Thaxis] Stephen Hawking Says Universe Not Created by God

2011-01-14 Thread c b
This is old, but... CB Stephen Hawking Says Universe Not Created by God Physics, not creator, made Big Bang, new book claims Professor had previously referred to 'mind of God' The Guardian September 2, 2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/02/stephen-hawking-big-bang-creator God di

[Marxism-Thaxis] Government overthrown in Tunisia

2011-01-14 Thread c b
Tunisia crisis: as it happened | World news | guardian.co.uk shar.es Thousands of Tunisians have protested in the capital, leading to the ousting of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. Follow developments as they happened http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/blog/2011/jan/14/tunisia-wikileaks

[Marxism-Thaxis] Martin Luther King Jr. and the attack on public workers

2011-01-18 Thread c b
Martin Luther King Jr. and the attack on public workers assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage6060-ScottMarshallBW.jpg by: Scott Marshall January 17 2011 tags: public workers, racism, unions, strikes IAMAMANNationalGuard How ironic. As we celebrate the life and historic contributions of the Rev

[Marxism-Thaxis] civility

2011-01-18 Thread c b
From: Marv Gandall On 2011-01-16, at 3:30 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I try to avoid (not always too successfully) psychoanalyzing other people, > and I reject off hand attempts to read my mind. (Reading minds and > psychoanalyzing or psychological analysis are more or less synonymous > terms.) Repug

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The end of the imperialist epoch

2011-01-18 Thread c b
Hear , hear, Waistline CB ^ > Comment > > Obviously the modern Chinese state is not a SETTLER STATE or seeking  to > secure or maintain a colony established by settlers. Treating > "imperialism" in > this era of political domination of speculative finance as  a general > "imperialism" def

[Marxism-Thaxis] tunisia_uprising_eurasian_ripples

2011-01-18 Thread c b
http://www.rferl.org/content/tunisia_uprising_eurasian_ripples/2278808.html Love the source of this article CB Radio Free Europe (!) At 60 On July 4, 1950, RFE went on the air for the first time with a broadcast to communist Czechoslovakia from a studio in New York City. Sixty years later, RFE

[Marxism-Thaxis] News

2011-01-18 Thread c b
Tunisia crisis: as it happened | World news | guardian.co.uk shar.es Thousands of Tunisians have protested in the capital, leading to the ousting of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. Follow developments as they happened ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list M

[Marxism-Thaxis] Pink Panther

2011-01-18 Thread c b
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[Marxism-Thaxis] JFP 1/17: Tunisia puts focus on West-Arab security ties

2011-01-18 Thread c b
*Just Foreign Policy News January 17, 2011 * *Just Foreign Policy News on the Web:* http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/808 [To receive just the Summary and a link to the web version, you can use this web

[Marxism-Thaxis] sobering bulletin by McNally: Like We Said, It's a Global Slump

2011-01-18 Thread c b
[lbo-talk] sobering bulletin by McNally: Like We Said, It's a Global Slump pandora akkiraz * Previous message: [lbo-talk] Berlet on Democracy Now * Next message: [lbo-talk] sobering bulletin by McNally: Like We Said, It's a Global Slump * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subje

[Marxism-Thaxis] Climate Change

2011-01-18 Thread c b
In Ventura, a retreat in the face of a rising sea Higher ocean levels force Ventura officials to move facilities inland, an action that is expected to recur along the coast as the ocean rises over the next century. By Tony Barboza The Los Angeles Times January 16, 2011 Construction crews are rem

[Marxism-Thaxis] Jared Lee Loughner, the conservative/liberal axis and the mentally ill...

2011-01-18 Thread c b
lbo-talk] Jared Lee Loughner, the conservative/liberal axis and the mentally ill... Mike Ballard swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au Mon Jan 17 19:52:55 PST 2011 * Previous message: [lbo-talk] California begins to retreat before a rising sea * Next message: [lbo-talk] Jared Lee Loughner, the conse

[Marxism-Thaxis] Wall Street: the Algorithmic Casino

2011-01-18 Thread c b
From: lbo-talk Wall Street: the Algorithmic Casino Adam P. ...but then again, most of us were already very aware of the this... This, from Wired Magazine: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_ai_flashtrading/all/1 ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list M

[Marxism-Thaxis] Étienne Balibar

2011-01-18 Thread c b
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Balibar Étienne Balibar From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For Balibar, what this problem implies is that "the emergence of a revolutionary form of subjectivity (or identity)... is never a specific property of nature, a

[Marxism-Thaxis] Third "appearance" of "proletariat in _Capital_ I

2011-01-18 Thread c b
In The German Ideology, Marx conflates these two meanings of labor, and treats labor as, in Balibar’s words, the “veritable site of truth as well as the place from which the world is changed..." In Capital, however, the disparity between these two senses of labor becomes apparent. One manifestation

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