Re: Fwd: Columbia

2000-07-26 Thread George Pennefather
I dont see how the author of the article can be so sure that Washington is going to get involved in Colombia by deploying its own troops there on a considerable and very visible scale. Comradely regards George Be free to check out our Communist Think-Tank web site at http://homepage.eircom.net/~

Re: Re: Re: Re: Sudan

2000-07-10 Thread George Pennefather
Mine: George, stigmatization of jews and arabs was just an example _among_ others. It applies to whoever it applies; the irish, kurdish, gypsies, african americans, etc... there is no indication in my rhetoric that I ignore the injustices done to Irish people by the british ruling class. In fact,

Communist Programme

2000-07-10 Thread George Pennefather
The relationship between the minimum and the maximum programmes is an important one. Many trotskyists are of the view that the two programmes are bridged by the transitional programme. Their view is the minimum and maximum demands are bridged by transitional demands. The system of transitional de

Re: Re: Re: Re: Sudan

2000-07-09 Thread George Pennefather
Mine: George, stigmatization of jews and arabs was just an example _among_ others. It applies to whoever it applies; the irish, kurdish, gypsies, african americans, etc... there is no indication in my rhetoric that I ignore the injustices done to Irish people by the british ruling class. In fact

Middle East settlement

2000-07-08 Thread George Pennefather
It is clear that since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War the middle east is currently of no strategic interest to Washington and its imperialist subalterns. Consequently Washington is seeking to get the Middle East as a security problem out of the way by cobbling up a de

Re: Re: Sudan

2000-07-08 Thread George Pennefather
George: I enjoyed reading your posting. Mine: This sort of "equating" arabization with islamization reminds me of the anti-semite use of "international jew conspiracy" in the 1930s, which associated Jew people with "international finance capital and helped to perpetuate the image of Jew people as

Re: Re: Sudan

2000-07-08 Thread George Pennefather
Michael: A cursory read of the recent obituaries for Hafez al-Assad would have indicated the plurality of perspectives that exist within Islam and the contrastingly secular nature of pan-arabism. The latter has been particularly important for those, such as Assad, to protect themselves against rat

Iran and reform

2000-07-07 Thread George Pennefather
There are interesting lessons to be drawn from recent developments in Iran. An overtly reactionary Muslin theocracy has been in power in Iran . There presently exists a growing reform movement that seeks to transform Iran in a secular direction. At the same time the theocratic authorities have be

Sudan

2000-07-05 Thread George Pennefather
The civil war in Sudan is a product of the reactionary nature of the Islam regime that has dominated this country since the fifties in one form or another. The regime has been pursuing a programme of Arabisation since around its inception. This includes, among other things, the imposition of Shari

Neo-conservatism and workers

2000-07-03 Thread George Pennefather
The Canadian Alliance is a right wing party that is growing in popularity apparently because its programme includes tax cutting policies by way of reducing the state budget deficit. Clearly cutting taxes by reducing the budget deficit can only mean cuts in state social spending which reduces t

Re: Making Dogma New (was Definition of Political Economy (fwd))

2000-06-26 Thread George Pennefather
People can believe in god and yet be active supporters of social revolution. There is no necessary contradiction between the two. Comradely regards George Be free to check out our Communist Think-Tank web site at http://homepage.eircom.net/~beprepared/ Doug wrote: >Ok, when I criticize Christi

Re: Re: Re: Matt Rabin

2000-06-20 Thread George Pennefather
Hi Doug, I bought a copy of your book on Wall Street in a Dublin book shop some weeks ago. I must say, although it is priced cheaply, the book has good attractive cover and good quality paper. I have not started to read it ye. George - Original Message - From: "Doug Henwood" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Lukacs versus Frankfurt School (fwd)

2000-05-26 Thread George Pennefather
Mine: I did not doubt about it. Adorno's _Aesthetic Theory_ offers morepossibilities to conceive art as a "praxis making" human enterprise,whereas _Dialectic Of Enlightenment_ ,seems to me, a more pessimistic textreflecting the circumstanes of declining liberal democracy and rise oforganized

Re: Vietnam teach-in

2000-05-01 Thread George Pennefather
I read with interest Louis' account of the teach in as described by him. But how is Indonesia and 1965 squared with the defeat of Vietnam --as Chomsky suggests. The Vietnam war had not ended by them. Warm regards George Pennefather Be free to check out our Communist Think-Tank web site at

Putative about Putin

2000-04-17 Thread George Pennefather
Mr Putin's UK visit may putatively form part of a strategy to, among other things, drive a wedge between Europe and the US in western relationships with the CIS. Warm regards George Pennefather Be free to check out our Communist Think-Tank web site at http://homepage.eircom.net/~bepre

Marx and Kapital

2000-03-17 Thread George Pennefather
l in the form of the commodity. This mistaken premise renders the validity of making the commodity a starting point questionable on that basis. Warm regards George Pennefather Be free to check out our Communist Think-Tank web site at http://homepage.eircom.net/~beprepared/

Re: Capital is wrong

2000-03-10 Thread George Pennefather
that are not commodity forms. The plain fact is that Marx in his opening statement was plain wrong. Warm regards George Pennefather Be free to check out our Communist Think-Tank web site at http://homepage.eircom.net/~beprepared/ Be free to subscribe to our Communist Think-Tank mailing community b

Capital is wrong

2000-03-09 Thread George Pennefather
l in the form of the commodity. This mistaken premise renders the validity of making the commodity a starting point questionable on that basis. Warm regards George Pennefather Be free to check out our Communist Think-Tank web site at http://homepage.eircom.net/~beprepared/ Be free to subscribe to

Ethical foreign policy

2000-02-25 Thread George Pennefather
ilises public opinion to suit its interests. The masses are viewed as a passive blob to be preserved in a state of inertia and that can be shaped this way or that by the institutions of the imperialist bourgeoisie. Again imperialism must conceal its real intentions under a web of deceit and lies.

The IRA and Fintan O Toole

2000-02-21 Thread George Pennefather
the IRA army council, the line of apostolic succession passed to an ever more secretive elite. And throughout its vicious campaign in Northern Ireland, the IRA, in its own mind, continued to draw its legitimacy from this weird delusion.” George Pennefather: The actions of Sinn Fein/IRA must be

Re: Re: Drazen's new book?

2000-02-11 Thread George Pennefather
What do you mean by political economy was rescued from the left by James Buchanan and the Virginia School.   Warm regardsGeorge Pennefather   Be free to check out our Communist Think-Tank web site athttp://homepage.eircom.net/~beprepared/   Be free to subscribe to our Communist Think-Tank maili