[Marxism-Thaxis] TheGreenBeautiful

2010-01-31 Thread c b
I can't recommend this film enough. I would love to own it, but it's only available in the original French, and I'm not yet programmed to understand that language. The story centers on the people who live telepathically and in tune with nature. It begins with a call for volunteers for a trip

[Marxism-Thaxis] Rev. Jackson joins call for foreclosure moratorium

2010-01-31 Thread c b
Bottoms up ! CB ^^^ http://www.michigancitizen.com/default.asp?sourceid=smenu=1twindow=mad=sdetail=8262wpage=1skeyword=sidate=ccat=ccatm=restate=restatus=reoption=retype=repmin=repmax=rebed=rebath=subname=pform=sc=1070hn=michigancitizenhe=.com Rev. Jackson joins call for foreclosure

[Marxism-Thaxis] NAACP Response to State of the Union address

2010-01-31 Thread c b
Response to State of the Union address: We cannot be silent By Benjamin Todd Jealous NNPA Guest Commentary President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address is a testimony to the power of we: We, who dared to dream breaking the centuries-old color barrier at the White House was possible; we,

[Marxism-Thaxis] involuntary acceleration hysteria

2010-01-31 Thread c b
http://pressroom.toyota.com/pr/tms/toyota/toyota-consumer-safety-advisory-102572.aspx?srchid=K610_p228906387 Frequently Asked Questions For Sticking Accelerator Pedal Recall and Suspension of Sales Which models are affected by the recall/stop sale? Toyota’s accelerator pedal recall and

[Marxism-Thaxis] Nadezhda Krupskaya

2010-02-01 Thread c b
Nadezhda Krupskaya Nadezhda Krupskaya Надежда Константиновна Крупская Born 26 February 1869(1869-02-26) St. Petersburg, Russian Empire Died 27 February 1939 (aged 70) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union Nadezhda Konstantinovna Nadya Krupskaya (Russian: Наде́жда Константи́новна Кру́пская,

[Marxism-Thaxis] March 4 National Day of Action to Defend Education

2010-02-01 Thread c b
Michigan Speaking Tour to Build the March 4 National Day of Action to Defend Education Feb 1 - 5 featuring Larry Hales, national organizer for March 4 and FIST Are you tired of the attacks on education? Sick of budget cuts, tuition hikes, evictions and foreclosures? Sick of billions going to

[Marxism-Thaxis] Who's Afraid of the HPV Vaccine?

2010-02-01 Thread c b
Who's Afraid of the HPV Vaccine? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100113172401.htmp ScienceDaily (Jan. 14, 2010) - A new study concludes that people tend to match their risk perceptions about policy issues with their cultural values, which may explain the intense disagreement about

[Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of Jared Diamond

2010-02-01 Thread c b
Africa, Nature, and the March of the Development Technocrats by Jason Hickel Development, I've discovered, operates as a flagrantly racist discourse in some guises. Scrambling to explain the reasons for Africa's perpetual poverty and apparently incurable misery, laypersons in the West point to

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Dollar's Scary Decline

2010-02-01 Thread c b
The Dollar's Scary Decline by Jeffrey E. Garten The Daily Beast January 30, 2010 The gridlock in Washington is more than just a political problem. Jeffrey E. Garten on the dollar’s coming decline—and the terrible ripple effects ahead. Most analyses of the president's State-of-the-Union speech

[Marxism-Thaxis] Demand declaration of state of emergency

2010-02-01 Thread c b
Demonstrate in Lansing at Governor Granholm's State of State speech Wednesday, February 3, 2010-5:30 pm Demand that Governor Granholm use her powers to DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY and Place a Two-Year Moratorium on Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shutoffs in Michigan. For

[Marxism-Thaxis] Why Washington Cares About Countries Like Haiti and Honduras

2010-02-01 Thread c b
CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH Why Washington Cares About Countries Like Haiti and Honduras By Mark Weisbrot This column was published by The Guardian Unlimited on January 29, 2010. If anyone wants to reprint it, please include a link to the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Learning from Black History

2010-02-01 Thread c b
February is Black History month CB Learning from Black History By Grace Lee Boggs Special to The Michigan Citizen

[Marxism-Thaxis] Reminiscences of Lenin

2010-02-03 Thread c b
N. K. Krupskaya's Reminiscences of Lenin http://www.marxists.org/archive/krupskaya/works/rol/index.htm Written: 1933 First Published: International Publishers, 1970 Translated: Bernard Isaacs Transcribed: Sally

[Marxism-Thaxis] Introduction

2010-02-03 Thread c b
Krupskaya's “Reminiscences of Lenin” Introduction The reminiscences printed in this volume cover the period 1894 to 1917 from the time I first met Vladimir Ilyich up to the October Revolution. I have often been

[Marxism-Thaxis] Card Check

2010-02-03 Thread c b
Charlie Brown kicking at the football , and Lucy pulling it away ? Charlie B Card Check: Labor's Charlie Brown Moment? (part 2) By Robert Fitch Winter 2010 Whole #: 48 Vol:XII-4 http://newpolitics.mayfirst.org/fromthearchives?nid=185 Economic Foundations of Business Unionism The idea that

[Marxism-Thaxis] Contradiction in text

2010-02-03 Thread c b
wikipedia on Krupskaya: Although she was highly regarded within the party, Krupskaya was unable to prevent Joseph Stalin's consolidation of power after Lenin's death[citation needed]. She was then politically isolated by Stalin and his supporters.[citation needed] Krupskaya apparently favored

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Contradiction in text

2010-02-03 Thread c b
consolidation of power if Krupskaya apparently favored Stalin in the great debates between the Left Opposition and the CPSU majority of the 1920s. -- Original Message -- From: c b cb31...@gmail.com To: Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues raised by Karl Marx

[Marxism-Thaxis] James O'Keefe's Race Problem

2010-02-04 Thread c b
James O'Keefe's Race Problem By Max Blumenthal Salon Feb 3, 2010 http://www.salon.com/news/james_okeefe/index.html?story=/news/feature/2010/02/03/james_okeefe_white_nationalists Many of the conservatives who gleefully promoted James O'Keefe's past political stunts are feigning shock at his

[Marxism-Thaxis] Rightwinger David Brooks

2010-02-04 Thread c b
Rightwinger David Brooks makes the anti-white supremacy argument on Avatar. Go figure. (smile) Actually, the Indian meaning of Avatar sort of supports the critics,”a deliberate descent of a deity from heaven to earth” Avatar From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ten avatars of Vishnu

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Rightwinger David Brooks

2010-02-04 Thread c b
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/opinion/08brooks.html On 2/4/10, Ralph Dumain rdum...@autodidactproject.org wrote: I can't discern where this was published. It's miraculous that a little shit like David Brooks would be so perceptive about AVATAR, or maybe AVATAR really is just

[Marxism-Thaxis] HOW CHASE BANK HAS LEFT HOMEOWNERS IN LIMBO

2010-02-04 Thread c b
HOW CHASE BANK HAS LEFT HOMEOWNERS IN LIMBO By Paul Kiel, ProPublica Homeowners who may well be eligible for the mortgage loan modification program are being denied because their troubles were not deemed permanent. http://www.alternet.org/story/145546/how_chase_bank_has_left_homeowners_in_limbo

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Dawn of Civilization: Writing, Urban Life, and Warfare

2010-02-08 Thread c b
The Origin of the male supremacist family, private property (exploiting and exploited classes) and the state (warfare)...monumental architecture, writing ( the ancient antagonism , division of labor, between predominantly mental and predominantly physical labor; and counting i.e. numbers necessary

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Dawn of Civilization: Writing, Urban Life, and Warfare

2010-02-08 Thread c b
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/dec/03-dawn-of-civilization-writing-urban-life-warfare/article_print The Dawn of Civilization: Writing, Urban Life, and Warfare 02.03.2010 An extraordinary ancient Syrian settlement shines a light on one of the most important moments in human history. by Andrew

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Oceans Are Coming

2010-02-08 Thread c b
The Oceans Are Coming - Part Three To: a-l...@lists.econ.utah.edu Remaining Afloat by Keith Farnish and Dmitry Orlov ClubOrlov (January 17 2010) The first two parts of this series drew a surprising amount of vitriol from people who vehemently deny the merits of the case for adapting to rapid

[Marxism-Thaxis] France: New Anti-Capitalist Party defends democratic right to wear hijab

2010-02-08 Thread c b
France: New Anti-Capitalist Party defends democratic right to wear hijab http://links.org.au/node/1498 By Olivier Besancenot February 3, 2010 -- Le Figaro caricatured my words regarding the candidacy of Ilham Moussa?d, who is on our list in the Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur regional elections.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Howard Zinn: The historian who changed the history

2010-02-08 Thread c b
I have to say this man and his accomplishments were over-rated. I think of him as a very good popularizer of history, with a populist-left stance on most issues. That is about all an adumbrated schema like 'People's History' could ever do anyway. One problem wih saying he changed history (in a

[Marxism-Thaxis] Foreign Policy In Focus (February 02 2010)

2010-02-08 Thread c b
by John Feffer Foreign Policy In Focus (February 02 2010) By one estimate {1}, China has been at the top of the global economy for eighteen out of the last twenty centuries. That's an impressive track record, whatever you might think of imperialism, communism, and all the other systems that

[Marxism-Thaxis] What's left in Eastern Europe

2010-02-09 Thread c b
What's left in Eastern Europe Red Pepper http://www.redpepper.org.uk/What-s-left-in-Eastern-Europe While the Left Party in Germany scored 12 per cent in the recent Bundestag elections, in the rest of eastern Europe the left still languishes in the post-Soviet doldrums. Leigh Phillips spoke to

[Marxism-Thaxis] Why Aren't There More Radicals at Work?

2010-02-09 Thread c b
Why Aren't There More Radicals at Work? Radicals at Work February 8, 2010 http://www.radicalsatwork.org/content/why-aren-t-there-more-radicals-work Works sucks and it's been getting worse in the U.S. for decades. So why aren't there more radicals at work? For the first part in a series about

[Marxism-Thaxis] South Carolina AFL-CIO Endorses DC March for Jobs, Peace and Justice!

2010-02-11 Thread c b
South Carolina AFL-CIO Endorses DC March for Jobs, Peace and Justice! WORKERS EMERGENCY RECOVERY CAMPAIGN P.O. Box 40009, San Francisco, CA 94140 Tel. (415) 641-8616; fax: (415) 626-1217 email: wercampa...@gmail.com website: www.wercampaign.org -- [please excuse duplicate postings, and

[Marxism-Thaxis] *The Professional*

2010-02-12 Thread c b
Lincoln mentioned in this Stalinist propaganda CB ^^^ http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100201/foner The Nation February 1, 2010 edition *The Professional* By Eric Foner The first year may not be the best way to judge a president. After one year in office, Abraham Lincoln still insisted

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] *The Professional*

2010-02-12 Thread c b
I admire Lincoln and and Roosevelt On 2/12/10, Carrol Cox cb...@ilstu.edu wrote: The Nation February 1, 2010 edition *The Professional* By Eric Foner The first year may not be the best way to judge a president. After one year in office, Abraham Lincoln still insisted that

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] *The Professional*

2010-02-12 Thread c b
No , I don't admire him more than John Brown , Frederick Douglass or Harriet Tubman or Sojourner Truth. Douglass supported Lincoln On 2/12/10, Carrol Cox cb...@ilstu.edu wrote: c b wrote: I admire Lincoln and and Roosevelt There are indeed admirable aspects to Lincoln. But do you

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] *The Professional*

2010-02-12 Thread c b
Marx , Engels and Wedemeyer supported Lincoln , too. On 2/12/10, c b cb31...@gmail.com wrote: No , I don't admire him more than John Brown , Frederick Douglass or Harriet Tubman or Sojourner Truth. Douglass supported Lincoln On 2/12/10, Carrol Cox cb...@ilstu.edu wrote: c b wrote

[Marxism-Thaxis] In a Message to Democrats, Wall St. Sends Cash to G.O.P.

2010-02-12 Thread c b
In a Message to Democrats, Wall St. Sends Cash to G.O.P. By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK New York Times February 8, 2010 WASHINGTON — If the Democratic Party has a stronghold on Wall Street, it is JPMorgan Chase. Its chief executive, Jamie Dimon, is a friend of President Obama’s from Chicago, a frequent

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Wiki Lenin

2010-02-16 Thread c b
. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant -- Original Message -- From: c b cb31...@gmail.com To: a-l...@lists.econ.utah.edu, Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues raised by Karl Marx and the thinkers he inspired marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu

[Marxism-Thaxis] History of Hip Hop

2010-02-16 Thread c b
http://www.zshare.net/audio/72490279e77414f0/ Listening to Lil_ D interview with John Payne _V.P of Death Row Records_ - 10th Feb 2010 - MP3.mp3 File Name: Lil_ D interview with John Payne _V.P of Death Row Records_ - 10th Feb 2010 - MP3.mp3 delete this file report abuse File Size: 16.72MB

[Marxism-Thaxis] The End of 'Cheap Ecology' and the Crisis of 'Long Keynesianism'

2010-02-16 Thread c b
The End of 'Cheap Ecology' and the Crisis of 'Long Keynesianism' Farshad Araghi Economic Political Weekly (India) VOL 45 No. 04 Jan 23, 2010 http://epw.in/ ABSTRACT: It is the crisis of negative Keynesianism that is at the heart of the current critical point, and which is leaving its

[Marxism-Thaxis] African-American History Month Program

2010-02-16 Thread c b
African-American History Month Program Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010, 5:00-8:00pm 5920 Second Avenue at Antoinette (WSU area) Sponsor: Workers World Party and the Harriet Tubman School Contact: 313.671.3715 or 887.4344 E-mail: p...@africamail.com Dinner: African-American Cuisine Served African American

[Marxism-Thaxis] Bessie Smith sings There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight

2010-02-17 Thread c b
Subject: Bessie Smith sings There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4bXDKticro ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to:

[Marxism-Thaxis] Greek crisis

2010-02-18 Thread c b
Socialism and the Greek debt crisis 18 February 2010 Greece has become a test case for draconian attacks on the living standards of broad sections of the population throughout Europe. The massive holes that the economic crisis and bank rescue packages have ripped in the budgets of the EU member

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right

2010-02-18 Thread c b
New York TIMES / February 16, 2010 Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right By DAVID BARSTOW SANDPOINT, Idaho — Pam Stout has not always lived in fear of her government. She remembers her years working in federal housing programs, watching government lift struggling families with job training

[Marxism-Thaxis] Juan Cole

2010-02-18 Thread c b
From:Juan Cole Date: Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:43 AM The great divide between liberal Jewish Americans and the Israeli Right has lurked as an issue since the Likud Party first challenged Labor dominance in the late 1970s. It is now coming to a boiling point, even as Israel's reputation in the world

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right

2010-02-18 Thread c b
I gotta find some of their interpretations of the Constitution. I'm sure they are gungho on the 2nd Amendment and probably the 10th Amendment. I don't know that they have much truck for Miranda warnings or Warren Court interpretations of the Constitution. They probably think affirmative action

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right

2010-02-18 Thread c b
legislature of your state and have them issue a request for a convention. « Older Comments Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website On 2/18/10, c b cb31...@gmail.com wrote: I gotta find some of their interpretations

[Marxism-Thaxis] A comrade sent me this

2010-02-19 Thread c b
A comrade sent me this: Officials: Pilot leaves note on anti-IRS site A Must Read ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to:

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right

2010-02-19 Thread c b
On 2/19/10, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote: Most people have forgotten who Thaddeus Stevens was (one of the greatest legislators in US history) ^ CB: Wasn't he a Radical Republican and abolitionist ? ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list

[Marxism-Thaxis] Speaking of the disaffected...

2010-02-19 Thread c b
From Pen-l CB Speaking of the disaffected... To: pe...@lists.csuchico.edu Message-ID: 19325.46896.2076.361...@blake.zopyra.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 A man crashed a plane into an IRS office, in a building next to one I worked in a few years ago. Below my sig is his

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tea Party U.S.A.: It’ s Still the Economy, Stupid!

2010-02-19 Thread c b
February 18, 2010 Tea Party U.S.A.: It’s Still the Economy, Stupid! Posted by John Cassidy In the wake of yesterday’s fascinating report in the Times about sixty-something Tea Party activists bracing for a violent counter-revolution, several people have asked me why Americans are so angry. I am

[Marxism-Thaxis] Not everybody is on same page

2010-02-22 Thread c b
http://peoplesworld.org/not-everybody-is-on-same-page/ Not everybody is on same page by: Sam Webb February 18 2010 tags: communists, strategy and tactics Let me begin with the obvious: the left (organized and unorganized) has seldom been of one mind. Differences over aims, strategy, tactics,

[Marxism-Thaxis] ECOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE: DO HUMANS HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO SURVIVE?

2010-02-22 Thread c b
ECOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE: DO HUMANS HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO SURVIVE? By Daniel Goleman, Broadway Business Society has lost touch with what may be the singular sensibility crucial to our survival as a species.

[Marxism-Thaxis] VIDEO GAME COMMEMORATES AUSTIN SUICIDE PILOT

2010-02-22 Thread c b
VIDEO GAME COMMEMORATES AUSTIN SUICIDE PILOT By Stephen Webster, Raw Story The game is just the tip of the iceberg in what's increasingly becoming an idolization of Stack's ideology across the Internet. http://www.alternet.org/story/145750/video_game_commemorates_austin_suicide_pilot__

[Marxism-Thaxis] More Boston Tea Party of a New Type

2010-02-24 Thread c b
Message: 11 Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:57:47 -0800 (PST) From: ken hanly norths...@yahoo.com Subject: [Pen-l] Left on this, Right on that. To: lbo talk lbo-t...@lbo-talk.org, pen-l pe...@lists.csuchico.edu Message-ID: 459617.19739...@web111513.mail.gq1.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain;

[Marxism-Thaxis] General Motors roaring out of bankruptcy (?)

2010-02-24 Thread c b
General Motors roaring out of bankruptcy http://detnews.com/article/20100224/AUTO01/2240333/General-Motors-roaring-out-of-bankruptcy Since July, automaker has recalled workers, invested in facilities Robert Snell / The Detroit News General Motors Co. has invested $1.4 billion in more than a

[Marxism-Thaxis] New site

2010-02-24 Thread c b
http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant ___ 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] One day without immigrants, in France

2010-02-25 Thread c b
http://www.la-journee-sans-immigres.org/pages/Manifest_Day_without_immigrants-2549727.html Manifest Day without immigrants Manifest : English translation We, women and men, of all beliefs, of all political

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Ironies of Imperialism: Haiti vs. India

2010-02-25 Thread c b
The Ironies of Imperialism: Haiti vs. India michael perelman Previous message: [lbo-talk] I first criticized the Green Revolution in Perelman, Michael. 1971. Second Thoughts on the Green Revolution. The New

[Marxism-Thaxis] Class struggle

2010-02-26 Thread c b
Feb. 25, 2010 In a memo to workers at its about-to-be shuttered Evansville, Ind., plant, Whirlpool Corp. warned that joining tomorrow's rally and march to save 1,100 jobs could hurt their chances for future employment. Click here to support the workers: http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/Z7ad1M11GQAy/.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Beck; Rand

2010-02-26 Thread c b
GLENN BECK FINALLY ADMITTED HIS GREAT DESIRE: TO 'ERADICATE' PROGRESSIVES By David Sirota, AlterNet We owe Beck gratitude for using hiskeynote address to CPAC to so frankly outline what the conservative movement has become -- and why it repulses so many Americans.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Speaking of the disaffected...

2010-03-01 Thread c b
waistli...@aol.com Perhaps, I was to harsh on this fellow. I did read his letter of protest and it was fairly obvious be was being crushed by big capital. Before returning to Detroit I did live in Texas for a while between Austin and Houston. It was Austin this fellow relocated to discover rates

[Marxism-Thaxis] Socialists get newfound attention as 'red-baiting' draws interest from youth

2010-03-01 Thread c b
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100223/FEATURES/2230310/1010/Socialists+get+newfound+attention+as+%E2%80%98red-baiting++draws+interest+from+youth Socialists get newfound attention as 'red-baiting' draws interest from youth By Chris Kenning • ckenn...@courier-journal.com • February 23,

[Marxism-Thaxis] In the last instance

2010-03-01 Thread c b
Mike Dealing with the three Althusserian bugbears: (clip) he mainly wanted to say that society was not fully determined by the economy (except 'in the last instance', whatever that means). ^ CB: Here's a proposal on what it means. In the last instance is a time of fundamental or

[Marxism-Thaxis] Detroit , Michigan

2010-03-02 Thread c b
Does Detroit have a future? by: Sam Webb March 1 2010 tags: economy, African Americans, jobs, racism, Michigan I'm a still Detroiter in spirit. I lived there in the '70s and '80s and return regularly now. My years there left a distinctive mark on me. Last month I visited Detroit and once again

[Marxism-Thaxis] Toyota and the consequences of the drive to be the world's No. 1 automaker

2010-03-02 Thread c b
http://www.japanfocus.org/-David-McNeill/3311 Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Toyota and the consequences of the drive to be the world’s No.1 David McNeill in Toyota City An unexpected note of poignancy greets visitors to the museum of the world’s largest car company. In the cavernous lobby, a lone

[Marxism-Thaxis] Stories

2010-03-03 Thread c b
RIGHT-WING RAGE: HATE GROUPS, VIGILANTES AND CONSPIRACISTS ON THE VERGE OF VIOLENCE By Mark Potok, Southern Poverty Law Center The radical right has caught fire, as broad-based anger over the past year has ignited an explosion of new extremist groups and activism across the nation.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Techdown speculation

2010-03-04 Thread c b
by Dmitry Orlov Club Orlov (February 24 2010) Announcement: For a limited time, you can get a numbered, autographed copy of a limited edition collection of Dmitry's essays by making a donation to this blog: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/02/hold-your-applause.html We are going to need

[Marxism-Thaxis] Speaking of the disaffected...

2010-03-04 Thread c b
Waistline2 Reply CB I try not to be a hater. There is another aspect of the CPUSA equation which I have spoken about in the past. That is the location of their cadre in heavy industry and the inability of any group to shift their forces to a new front of struggle. Let me be clear. When the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Bring It Back, Take It Forward: fifty years of activism

2010-03-04 Thread c b
http://bringitbacktakeitforward.org/ ___ 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] Lehman’s Desperate Housewives

2010-03-04 Thread c b
Excerpt Lehman’s Desperate Housewives Lehman Brothers C.E.O. Dick Fuld expected his top executives to get married, and stay married. For their wives, the firm was both fishbowl andshark tank, with unwritten rules about the clothes they wore, the charities they supported, and the hikes they took at

[Marxism-Thaxis] Greek Mess, Global Mess

2010-03-04 Thread c b
From, Greek Mess, Global Mess, Immanuel Wallerstein, 03/01/2010, NYT]: This is because governments wish to survive. To do this, they need to spend enough money to prevent a “maelstrom” and civil uprisings. And if they don’t take in enough taxes to do this (both because they don’t want to raise

[Marxism-Thaxis] Exposing the Great American Bubble Barons: Join Us in the Investigation

2010-03-04 Thread c b
AlterNet / By Kevin Connor Exposing the Great American Bubble Barons: Join Us in the Investigation http://www.alternet.org/investigations/145735/exposing_the_great_american_bubble_barons%3A_join_us_in_the_investigation?page=entire Join AlterNet's collective investigative project into the bubble

[Marxism-Thaxis] The movement needs to kick it up a notch - part 1

2010-03-04 Thread c b
The movement needs to kick it up a notch - part 1 by: John Rummel March 3 2010 tags: communists, strategy and tactics Part 1 of a two-part dialogue. For part 2, see here. I am not one who thinks a deteriorating political climate will open more opportunities to advance a left agenda. If that had

[Marxism-Thaxis] The movement needs to kick it up a notch - part 2Print

2010-03-04 Thread c b
The movement needs to kick it up a notch - part 2Print Email to a Friend by: John Case March 3 2010 tags: communists, strategy and tactics Part 2 of a two-part dialogue. For part 1, see here. I think John Rummel has touched on what could usefully be on every political/community/workplace agenda -

[Marxism-Thaxis] Michael Moore: There's going to be a second economic crash

2010-03-05 Thread c b
MICHAEL MOORE: THERE'S GOING TO BE A SECOND ECONOMIC CRASH (AND GLENN BECK CAN 'F--K OFF') By Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks Michael Moore lets loose on Beck, the Democrats, and the state of our economy as he unrolls his DVD release of capitalism.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Science is laws

2010-03-05 Thread c b
is as follows - Hide quoted text - On 3/1/10, c b cb31...@gmail.com wrote: Chris Doss Law is a science? CB: Interesting question Chris ,to me anyway. Seems to me that parts of it are or maybe science takes parts of the law as a model. Cases are decided based on none other than evidence

[Marxism-Thaxis] Iceland renigs on debt

2010-03-07 Thread c b
Joanna http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iTTt4q_nCPGeeZVnPsWYFG8jSUPwD9E9EPMG4 ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change

[Marxism-Thaxis] Wallstreet dictating to Detroit

2010-03-07 Thread c b
BYE, BYE DETROIT -- 3/7/2010 Bing downsizing means neighborhood relocation By Diane Bukowski Michigan Citizen DETROIT — Mayor Dave Bing told WJR radio’s conservative commentator Frank Beckmann Feb. 24 that he plans to shrink the city, a modern-day “trail of tears” for Detroiters. Many living in

[Marxism-Thaxis] REWIND - A Week of Quotes Cartoons

2010-03-07 Thread c b
REWIND - A Week of Quotes Cartoons SUNDAY Quote of the Day February 28, 2010 'Using these instruments in a way that intentionally destabilizes a company or a country is - is counterproductive, and I'm sure the S.E.C. will be looking into that. 'That's what Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Toyota workers raised safety concerns with bosses in 2006

2010-03-08 Thread c b
CB: From Comrade Jim: Toyota workers raised safety concerns with bosses in 2006 memo - latimes.com_ (http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fi-toyota-canaries8-2010mar08,0,7087345,print.story) another example of the toyota way in solidarity jim ___

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Merab Mamardashvili: Bibliography Web Links

2010-03-08 Thread c b
On 3/8/10, Ralph Dumain --the American South being the first fascist state-- ^ CB: This is something of a parenthetical point in ur current topic , but I agree with it. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Merab Mamardashvili: Bibliography Web Links

2010-03-08 Thread c b
On 3/8/10, Ralph Dumain A Western Marxist, however untouched by or liberated from the deadening influence of Soviet Marxism, can barely apprehend the weight of the strangulating atmosphere of Soviet mental life as Mamardashvili characterizes it. CB; Depends on how much the Western

[Marxism-Thaxis] Dog bites man

2010-03-10 Thread c b
BILLIONAIRES AND MEGA-CORPORATIONS BEHIND IMMENSE LAND GRAB IN AFRICA By John Vidal, Mail Guardian 20+ African countries are selling or leasing land for intensive agriculture on a shocking scale in what may be the greatest change of ownership since the colonial era.

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Tea Party's Retreaded Ideas

2010-03-10 Thread c b
The Tea Party's Retreaded Ideas This item is cross-posted from Progressive Fix. Posted by Ed Kilgore on March 5, 2010 02:09 PM http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/03/the_tea_partys_retreaded_ideas.php For all the talk about the Tea Party Movement and its demands that

[Marxism-Thaxis] The movement needs to kick it up a notch

2010-03-10 Thread c b
The movement needs to kick it up a notch by: John Rummel March 3 2010 Part 1 of a two-part dialogue. I am not one who thinks a deteriorating political climate will open more opportunities to advance a left agenda. If that had been the case, the ascension of the far right to positions of power

[Marxism-Thaxis] Will College Become a Luxury for the Few?

2010-03-10 Thread c b
Will College Become a Luxury for the Few? By Katynka MartÃ-nez March 9, 2010, CNN http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/03/08/martinez.immigrants.education/?hpt=Sbin San Francisco, California - Before the protests of tuition hikes last week, a colleague posted the following: Need suggestions for

[Marxism-Thaxis] LESSONS FROM A REVOLUTIONARY'S LIFETIME CRUSADE FOR JUSTICE

2010-03-10 Thread c b
LESSONS FROM A REVOLUTIONARY'S LIFETIME CRUSADE FOR JUSTICE By Maria Armoudian, AlterNet Albie Sachs lost an arm and half his eyesight and lived in exile for years, but he never lost his vision for a just and equitable society in South Africa.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Engels on Human Rights and the Abolition of Classes

2010-03-10 Thread c b
Engels on Human Rights and the Abolition of Classes http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/view/9321/1/387/?PrintableVersion=enabled By Thomas Riggins In his book Anti-Dühring, Frederick Engels criticizes the social theories of the German philosopher and economist Eugen Dühring. In this

[Marxism-Thaxis] How About Two-and-a-Half? Thoughts on the Return of Social Democracy

2010-03-10 Thread c b
How About Two-and-a-Half? Thoughts on the Return of Social Democracy, part 1 http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/view/9300/1/387/?PrintableVersion=enabled By C.J. Atkins Editor's note: This article is in three parts. Find part two here and part three here. “The pendulum between state

[Marxism-Thaxis] MEDIA CREATES A TEA PARTY

2010-03-10 Thread c b
Sunday, March 7, 2010 MEDIA CREATES A TEA PARTY http://heartlandradical.blogspot.com/ Harry Targ Friday morning I was listening to my pseudo “fair and balanced” National Public Radio station, sipping my fair-trade coffee, and crunching on my organic granola while listening to two reports on

[Marxism-Thaxis] Keynes on Marx

2010-03-10 Thread c b
from: pe...@lists.csuchico.edu [Gromyko] asked: ‘What, then, is your view of Marx’s arguments about the inevitability of economic crisis in capitalist society?’ [Keynes] answer was curious for the time: ‘I recognise that Marx’s argument had good grounds. But capitalist society has now

[Marxism-Thaxis] An Okinawan Angle on the 50th Anniversary of the US-Japan Security Treaty

2010-03-11 Thread c b
From: Yoshie Furuhashi critical.monta...@gmail.com Subject: [A-List] The Travails of a Client State: An Okinawan Angle on the 50th Anniversary of the US-Japan Security Treaty To: A-List a-l...@lists.econ.utah.edu,Rad-Green rad-gr...@lists.econ.utah.edu Message-ID:

[Marxism-Thaxis] Time for a US Revolution - Fifteen Reasons

2010-03-11 Thread c b
Time for a US Revolution - Fifteen Reasons by Bill Quigley Countercurrents.org (March 07 2010) It is time for a revolution. Government does not work for regular people. It appears to work quite well for big corporations, banks, insurance companies, military contractors, lobbyists, and for

[Marxism-Thaxis] Book Review: A Country Called Amreeka

2010-03-12 Thread c b
Book Review: A Country Called Amreeka By Joel Wendland A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories by Alia Malek New York: Free Press, 2009 Few, if any, books published in the past 10 years or so which deal with the histories and lives of people of Arab descent actually deal with

[Marxism-Thaxis] SHOULD COMMUNISTS EAT ANIMALS?

2010-03-12 Thread c b
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 SHOULD COMMUNISTS EAT ANIMALS? Marxism and Vegetarianism http://paeditorsblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/should-communists-eat-animals.html Thomas Riggins Mark Rowlands has an interesting review of Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, EATING ANIMALS, in the TLS of March 5, 2010

[Marxism-Thaxis] An ignorant rifle

2010-03-12 Thread c b
A Lovely Poem An ignorant rifle blast through a window burrowed a bullet straight to his heart laying in blood clutching his notebook words never spoken of an unwritten poem When they opened the door the Bible lay sleeping in the blackness of space of a motel room desk beyond all that we know

[Marxism-Thaxis] Protest banks of America

2010-03-12 Thread c b
This is a very important action - they are taking place all over the country - hope you can make it. - John Check out this event:http://act.aflcio.org/o/4001/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=169 ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list

[Marxism-Thaxis] Dems near health vote without abortion deal

2010-03-12 Thread c b
Dems near health vote without abortion deal House leaders give up on settling issue of coverage House leaders push health vote without foes in party onside Charles Babbington / Associated Press Washington -- House leaders have concluded they cannot change a divisive abortion provision in

[Marxism-Thaxis] ENGELS ON FREEDOM AND NECESSITY

2010-03-12 Thread c b
Sunday, March 7, 2010 ENGELS ON FREEDOM AND NECESSITY Thomas Riggins (Engels and Philosophy VI) http://paeditorsblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/engels-on-freedom-and-necessity.html Engels discusses this topic in Chapter XI, Part I of Anti-Dühring (Morality and Law. Freedom and Necessity). Dühring

[Marxism-Thaxis] Scientific law

2010-03-12 Thread c b
Scientific law A scientific law or scientific principle is a concise verbal or mathematical statement of a relation that expresses a fundamental principle of science, like Newton's law of universal gravitation. A scientific law must always apply under the same conditions, and implies a causal

[Marxism-Thaxis] Black , Brown and Biege

2010-03-12 Thread c b
In this Ellington explicitly expressed Black liberation consciousness. From a jazz history video I saw the other night, I understood there was a Hollywood movie version, but so far I found nothing in a search engine on the movie. CB American Quarterly Volume 56, Number 4, December 2004

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