[PEN-L:5535] Revolution

1996-08-03 Thread SHAWGI TELL
Speaking generally, Karl Marx wrote that a class will not depart from the scene of history until the mode of production has imparted what is best in it. It cannot be concluded from this general statement that the world will have to wait for a social revolution until such a thing happens.

[PEN-L:5534] Re: Clinton Does Suck-- Will Sign Welfare Bill

1996-08-03 Thread Eugene P. Coyle
Re Clinton's history as anti-corporate in his first term as Arkansas governor: There's a remarkably revealing passage about Clinton in a strange place: David Roe, of the Environmental Defense Fund knew Clinton at Yale and Oxford. He writes about Clinton in his book "Dynamos and Virgins". Roe l

[PEN-L:5533] Re: We MUST be essentialists

1996-08-03 Thread Blair Sandler
Eric raises entirely reasonable questions that deserve an answer. Of course, I can only answer for myself, not for "the world of Wolff/Resnick." I seem to detect (not just from Eric) the sense that people around RETHINKING MARXISM form some monolithic camp reminiscent of the government of the Sovi

[PEN-L:5532] State Terrorism In Indonesia

1996-08-03 Thread SHAWGI TELL
On July 27, more than 2000 police backed by the military attacked the offices of the Indonesia Democratic Party (PDI) headed by Megawati Sukarnoputri and forcibly took it over. The occupants fought courageously to thwart this state terrorist attack against a political organization. Several people

[PEN-L:5531] Hard Statistics On Gender Discrimination

1996-08-03 Thread SHAWGI TELL
The International Labor Organization in a news report just released confirmed yet again the extent to which women are discriminated against in the labor market. Here are some of the major points in the report. 1) In two-thirds of the industrialized countries the jobless rate for women is between

[PEN-L:5530] Organizing The Youth

1996-08-03 Thread SHAWGI TELL
One of the key questions in the development of the human factor/social consciousness is the participation of the youth and students in the changing of society. However, the lowest levels of ignorance are being pushed onto the youth and students by the thoroughgoing restrictions placed on t