Okay, everybody. I'm disappearing. Things are going to get straightened out
on marxism-international. God bless you one and all, except for Jerry Levy
and Jim Devine.
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my hands. Jerry seems to have countless hours on his hand to write
these hate messages. And so unpleasant! He comes across like a scorpion
suffering withdrawal symptoms from a Benzedrine addiction. Tch-tch.
So I think it would be good to have public hearing of these issues. I will
make sure to cc
list.
Now on the question of the "Malecki thing". I think he gets paid to start
flame wars. He has been unemployed for a year and a half but who can figure
out where he gets the money for all his email and WWW expenses. I will leave
this to your own imagination.
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ause for concern is if during the next prolonged imperialist
war like Vietnam, people insisted on identifying with leopards or hyenas
rather than Martin Luther King Jr. or Vladimir Lenin.
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st conference organizers to view the
disruptions from the floor as evidence of intolerant behavior on the part
of others rather than their own exclusionary practices.
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st conference organizers to view the
disruptions from the floor as evidence of intolerant behavior on the part
of others rather than their own exclusionary practices.
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ause for concern is if during the next prolonged imperialist
war like Vietnam, people insisted on identifying with leopards or hyenas
rather than Martin Luther King Jr. or Vladimir Lenin.
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g" by Heather Levi. Boy oh boy, I wish I could
see the expression on Stanley Aronowitz and Andrew Ross's face when they
see Heather's article in the next Lingua Franca.
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never get accepted in official
circles. He taught himself lens grinding and spoke truth to power on his
own time. If you can't make a living lens grinding nowadays, there is
always computer programming.
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is due to the collapse of the USSR. It is also
due to the victories that have taken place on the battlefield over the past
ten years in which Cuban troops have played such a key role.
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obutu, our erstwhile puppet. It is not out of the question that Clinton
and his European allies would put together an expeditionary force to
protect "democracy" in Africa. Who would be responsible for this war? The
ruling class or the poor foot soldiers who get drummed into action?
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with varying degrees
of commitment to a full program of social and economic emancipation, in
Angola and Mozambique. The class struggle is sharpening in Africa.
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The New Creationism: Biology Under Attack
By Barbara Ehrenreich and Janet McIntosh
---
When social psychologist Phoebe Ellsworth took the podium at a
recent interdisciplinary seminar on emotions, she was already
feeling rattled. Colle
Title: Big Blue : IBM's use and abuse of power / Richard Thomas
DeLamarter.
Edition:1st ed.
Description:xviii, 393 p. ; 25 cm.
Published: New York : Dodd, Mead, c1986.
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of the Nicaraguan revolution is that removes a
shining example of what a feasible socialism might look like. This example
was not created on the basis of a inspired plan. Instead it issued out of
the struggle of ordinary human beings to make a better life for themselves
against overwhelming odds and with both the tools and society they
inherited. This will be true of any revolution in the future as well.
References:
The home page of cy.Rev is www.eff.org/pub/Publications/E-Journals/CyRev/
The home page of LBO is www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html/
"Towards a New Socialism" (Nottingham, Spokesman, 1993) is available
in an electronic, text-only version on the Communications for a Sustainable
Future Gopher in Colorado under Economics-Authors.
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aseballs that cost 3$ each in the USA, why invest in new
equipment? You can always find somebody to do the same work for $2 a day.
This is not feudalism. It is super-exploitative capitalism.
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cturing
institutions. One bank, one automobile company, one steel company, etc.,
all owned by the people. No advertising, no public relations, no separate
health and savings plans. I have a book at home called "The Waste of
Capitalism" or something like that which details this stuff. I should try
to read it and report on it.
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o monitor resource allocation
worldwide. Banks of RS6000s in a global network could surely be used to
calculate the impact of the substitution of railways for automobiles. Or
the cost of replacing inorganic fertilizers with natural ones, etc.
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Bill Lear:
>
>I suggest those interested in this should take a look at what the Free
>Software Foundation has done. Coincidentally, our shop (Dejanews) is
>almost 100% run on "free" software (Linux operating system, FSF/GNU
>tools, etc.). The amount of sharing of ideas across firms is probably
this, take a look at Steven
Levy's "Hackers". Speaking of EMACS, I apologize for the last accidental
post. I hit a key combination I usually use in EMACS and accidentally
replied in Eudora. God, I need to get away from these fucking computers and
get a job as a landscape gardener or something.
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Ron Baiman:
>Louis,
>
> Yes, Ehrenreich is an Honorary Chair of DSA and quite active -
>recently she spoke at the DSA youth conference in Columbus Ohio.
>
> You can smear DSA's "pretty good name" as much as you'd like too
>- we can take it - isn't that what "democratic" socialism is
e tied to implementing Year 2000
conversions. This problem stems from the inability of American corporations
to plan ahead. Any fool knew 20 years ago that new systems should
accomodate a change in the century. Did this prevent new systems from being
built with yymmdd? Of course not.
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you believe that a transnational capitalism has the ability to trump
revolutionary change on a national level, then you might as well resign
yourself to local initiatives and hope that things get better some day.
Fortunately the teenage fighters of Kabila's army don't want to wait around
for that day to come. They are making history right now.
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es. In
place of the old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we
have intercourse in every direction, universal inter-dependence of
nations.
--------
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he development theories of Walt
Rostow are inappropriate to their society.
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apitalism that one of our most central and urgent and necessary
activities should have been so displaced, in space or in time or in both,
that it can be plausibly associated only with the past or with distant lands.
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ould fit nicely into the Law and Order agenda, wouldn't it?"
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August 25, 1997
Yearlong Effort Key to Success for Teamsters
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Early on a brisk March morning, 150 brown-suited drivers and loaders
huddled outside the United Parcel Service terminal just off Interstate 80
in New Jersey, chanting: "It's our contract. We'll fight for it."
Th
Now Which Way for Teamster Reform?
New Teamsters 2, Old Guard 0
by Henry Phillips
LAST FALL FEATURED one election, at least, that working people had a stake
in. Clinton/Dole? Forget it. But how `bout them Teamsters?
The choice seemed clear enough: Jimmy Hoffa Jr., a mob- connected lawyer
who h
r than the old-time mental hospitals, the ruling class doesn't want
to foot the bill. Psychotics, like disabled children and poor people with
AIDS, are just not important enough. This is the significance of the
balanced budget austerity program of the Democrat-Republican party. Less
money for social services so that people like Bill Gates can afford a $30
million house instead of a $20 million house.
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>I would bet on something like the toilet-plunger case appearing on one or
>the other of the cop shows this fall. But cops and/or prosecutors will end
>up as good guys in that episode, because that is the only way that
>producers think they can sell the shows.
>
>-- Jim Cullen
>
Louis P:
This mu
I will have to listen to Henry's tape. You're probably right.
Lou
At 07:32 PM 9/1/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Friends,
>
>Thanks, louis, for the interesting recounting of your visit to the
catskills.
>If I am not mistaken, the Foner brothers had a band when they were young.
By
>the way is there any
Actually, a copy was sent to Paul who I correspond with on a regular basis.
He thanked me for a "lovely" post. I am interested in expanding on this for
submission to Radical America or some other similar publication. My goal is
to arrive at a synthesis of E.P. Thompson and Hunter Thompson.
Louis
We're in the Money
By Kathleen Melymuka
This year, the skills gap paid off. After years of settling for crumbs
while the guys on top got big pieces of the pie, information systems
professionals across the board are finally in the money. Eleven of 26
positions surveyed in Computerworld's Annual
you
>do is give them money to piss away.
>
This is a bunch of reactionary crap.
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Imus: You were genuinely touched by the death of Princess Diana?
Kinky: I was, and I'm a little surprised that you, you know, that you
didn't seem to identify with it that heavily, and of course maybe you were
still emotionally spent from the Versacci funeral, I don't know, but ah I
personally,
>A married couple who are both friends of mind are also mainframe digit heads.
> One of them is staying put in a job with bennies while the other is making
>unbelievable amounts of money as a 2000 consultant. They figure retirement
>right after that point. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
Of
Radio Havana Cuba, September 11, 1997
FOREIGN MERCENARY ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH
TERRORIST BOMBINGS IN HAVANA; EVIDENCE POINTS TO
CUBAN-AMERICAN NATIONAL FOUNDATION IN MIAMI
Havana, September 11(RHC)-- Cuban authorities announced
late Wednesday the arrest of a Salvadoran citizen
connected to
www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_sf0940.html
is the URL address of an Economist article titled "The Long March to
Capitalism". It contains graphs, so you would do well to access the Web
article.
Louis P.
s like
Gramsci, Mariategui and CLR James. There is not an ounce of economic
determinism or class reductionism in their pages. The Marxist movement
needs to cultivate thinkers like these and I aspire to their example in my
own modest way.
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An Asian pea-souper: KUALA LUMPUR
FROM the observation platform of Kuala Lumpurs telecoms tower, you can see
on a clear day, if not for ever, then at least to the sea. But clear days
are not expected for some weeks. At present, even the nearby twin towers of
the worlds tallest office block emer
the New Deal major social
programs had been implemented, including the CCC. Wellman must have been
appalled by the misery of America's children and made a movie without
illusions. It is too bad that so few films come out of Hollywood that have
the same courage to depict the suffering of our own children today.
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September 12, 1997
In Major Shift, China Will Sell State Industries
By SETH FAISON
BEIJING -- China's leaders have agreed to sell off the bulk of the nation's
big state-owned industries, and will disclose their plans at the opening
on Friday of a Communist Party congress that is expected to se
he congregation that
there are rich people who are trying to poison them. Their profits come at
the expense of the town's children or the beauty of the environment. It is
time to stand up to these greedy businessmen and fight for justice, says
Seagal with a steely glint in his eye.
Highly recommended: Five hammer-and-sickles
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e
Vietnamese or the Chinese revolution were. They were anti-capitalist, just
as the French revolution was anti-feudal despite being led by social layers
not identical with the rising bourgeoisie.
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or pillage other
countries. Instead it donated trucks, printing presses, medicine,
fertilizer, etc. to Cuba and the African National Congress in exile.
Meanwhile, West German banks were bleeding Yugoslavia dry during the 70s.
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I have read the posts and realize it is easy for all of us to jump too
quickly.
If we go back to the Million Man March, I never saw so much white guilt in my
life. I was really happy when Charlene Mitchell was one of the few on the
Left to raise solid questions about why folks weren't asking abou
civilized men and abandoned to perish
silently and cruelly.
The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg, Stephen Bonner ed. (Atlantic Highlands New
Jersey: Humanities Press, 1993) pp. 202-03.
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ts on campus who are
favorably disposed to Foucault and Butler, but hate Marx with a passion.
This leaves these students brain-washed in effect. I have had very little
success in getting a fair hearing for Marx for someone in particular who
attended Barnard and who is now deeply involved with union affairs.
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e fucking review, now that I
stop and think about it. I will post it here and on the Spoons Lists
tomorrow, where it really belongs, not in a vanity left-wing magazine based
on somebody's trust fund income.
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Oumou Sangare performed to a sold-out house at NYC's
Party rather than its inner spirit. Also, the reversals in the class
struggle in the early 1920s--especially in Germany--tended to create a
crisis atmosphere in the Russian party and the Comintern. Under such
conditions, the tendency is to circle the wagons and enforce ideological
uniformity on the basis of the orientation of the current leadership.
Criticism is considered "anti-party" and ultimately an expression of alien
class forces.
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new edition is available since it will be of much
more use to scholars and activists than the old edition. This is email I
received from the author and it is a pretty convincing case for having the
patience to wait for the new edition:
*
Dear Louis Proyect,
Thanks for your query.
one other thing. I am in favor of giving Florida back to the
Seminoles. And that's just a start.
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received in the Court of the Sun King Louis IV, and throughout European
high society.
Louis Proyect:
What is the source for this? This garbled clot of prose conceals much more
than it reveals. Are you stating that the land rights of the Scottish
lairds was "fictitious"? Or are you sayin
st for justice. No Seminole has asked for the state of Florida to
be returned, by the way. What they are asking for is respect for their land
rights. Socialists should defend them today and in the future.
This is from the Seminole Web Page and it should serve as a guideline for
the sort of debt
right-wing ideologues like Rush Limbaugh and their "Marxist"
cousins in Great Britain is intense. I plan to deal with the energy
question at some length in a couple of weeks. It is vital to understanding
the struggle of Native American peoples today.
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ears of unpaid labor. Socialists take just
the opposite stance. We keep such demands in the forefront, since it is in
the interest of working people to fight for social justice across the
board. This is just how a "vanguard" should function, according to Lenin,
by the way.
Louis Proyect
The ideological screen which permits LM's moral appeasement of
capitalism is the notion that industrial capitalism can be absolutised
and depicted as a historically-unprecedented social formation. This goes
to the heart of debates about stages and too of our assessment of the
Marxian project, for
xt couple of days at the big International
Conference on Value Theory at the Crowne Royal hotel in NYC. I heard from
sombody that they finally solved that gosh-darned transformation and have a
news conference scheduled for Monday morning when they will announce the
solution to the world.
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will allow such a revolution in values to take place.
Shiva, Mander and Sale have no concept of such a transition. Mostly what
they propose is utopian retreat from the class struggle.
My thoughts on these questions are still not as clear as I'd like them to
be, but after reading Mander carefully, I suspect they will be.
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another.
Those of us who expect the next radicalization to be a replay of the 1930s
might find themselves disappointed. The rest of us have to roll up our
sleeves and work out new responses to these inevitable crises.
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A considerable portion of [Mészáros'] Beyond Capital is given over to an
assessment of the current state of the capital system. Rich in detail and
scathing in polemic (this coming almost as a kind of comic relief from the
gravity of the main text), Mészáros cuts a swath through apologetics and
mys
One of the reasons that Harvey's book annoys me so
much is that people like O'Connor (who Harvey doesn't have the guts to take
on directly--he is not even listed in the index) and Foster have been
promoting ecosocialism for many years now, while Harvey has no credentials
in the field at all.
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"Ecology and Capitalist Costs of Production: No Exit"
by Immanuel Wallerstein
[Keynote address at PEWS XXI, "The Global Environment and the
World-System," Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, Apr. 3-5. 1997]
Today, virtually everyone agrees that there has been a serious degradation
of the natural
me to read Harvey's book from cover to cover.
All I know is that when I dip into it from time to time, I just wince. The
big problem is that the left needs inspiration and leadership. Mostly what
Harvey is up to seems akin to the sort of fights I used to witness in the
Trotskyist movement, when "true revolutionaries " defended the proletarian
line against the middle-class fakers.
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the Sierra Club for selling out the movement, when mainstream green
groups such as these are so cozy with the Clinton adminstration, which he
supports. The twists and turns of reformist politics are almost impossible
to decipher.
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e American electoral arena despite the mixed
bag of the Nader candidacy.
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hich it tends not to do. Oddly enough, it has been
the "globalization" theorists who have taken this approach, while old-line
Marxists are absorbed with the "final showdown" with their own national
bourgeoisie, which, like a scene out of a Beckett or Ionesco play, never
seems to arrive.
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ce social reality to class distinctions...We therefore
recognize that...ethnic diversity is among the moving forces of the
revolution."
In my next post, I will discuss the ideas of José Carlos Mariátegui, the
Peruvian Marxist who believed that Incan communes (ayllus) could form the
basis for a new society. In the following post, I will discuss the
Guatemalan and Chiapas revolutionary movements, which have been made up of
Mayan and other Indian peoples.
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as a social category and horse races. The
short, single pun on Native Americans simply observed, "The Indian's race
is nearly run." For a variety of reasons, the white worker could
meaningfully speak of being a 'wage slave' but not of being a 'wage
Indian'. He could complain of having to 'work like a nigger' but not of
having to 'work like an Indian'.
>From David Roediger's "The Wages of Whiteness"
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of mobilizing the class power to overthrow it. I will never lose track
>of the deeper beliefs that keep me going and that preceded my involvement
>with Marxism. They are found in the words of Gary Snyder's poem:
>
>FOR ALL
>
>Ah to be alive
>on a mid-September morn
>
system
in diversity
under the sun
With joyful interpenetration for all.
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tructing a new theory of
revolutionary action.
The passage above appears in James Petras' article "The Manifesto's
Strength and Flaws," which is part of a symposium on the relevance of
Marxism on the 150th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto published in
the latest New Politics, Winter 1998. I highly recommend this issue. For
ordering information, check www.wilpaterson.edu/~newpol.
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January 11, 1998
Traffickers' New Cargo: Naive Slavic Women
By MICHAEL SPECTER
RAMLE, Israel -- Irina always assumed that her beauty would somehow rescue
her from the poverty and hopelessness of village life. A few months ago,
after answering a vague ad in a small Ukrainian newspaper, she slipp
ands of people to lobby
their politicians, to get involved in environment groups like the
Wilderness Society, Australian Conservation Foundation and Friends of the
Earth and do whatever they can do.
"If the traditional owners cannot stop the mine in the Federal Court, the
only way to stop it is
---
The text of the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. is Copyright by Oxford
University Press. This web presentation is Copyright by the Trustees of
Columbia University in the City of New York.
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tudies. Take a major in agronomy or engineering, and a minor in
political science and take courses given by Marxists, preferably those who
organized Vietnam antiwar demonstrations..
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ravel to a particular or different destination, we can tailor a trip for
you. Please e-mail Susan Kench with your needs.
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etter ones will
do most of the work that Alan's side wants out of "the truth" perfectly well.
Louis Proyect:
Odd, I thought the debate was over the appropriateness of "sciences" or
"local knowledge" versus universal scientific standards. Meera Nanda's
debunki
1) HISTORIC INJUSTICES ADDRESSED IN CANADA
January 8, 1998
Indigenous Tribes in Canada Receive Formal Apology
By ANTHONY DePALMA
OTTAWA -- For the first time, the Canadian government has formally
apologized to its 1.3 million indigenous people for 150 years of
paternalistic assistance programs
ovements in order to "make the revolution." As it turns
out, the most revolutionary thing that the left could have done was to work
with AIM in its just struggle. Instead the Maoists decided to denounce AIM
as a bunch of romantic primitives who didn't understand the need for
progress. This scandalous debate is the subject of my next post.
Louis Proyect
(The material in the post drawn from Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart At Wounded
Knee" and Peter Mathiessen's "In The Spirit of Crazy Horse")
Lou et al,
This is of course an extremely important thread. Much of it has great
relevance for Australia around the question of Land Rights for Indigenous
Australians.
The Right here have argued that the near extinction of Australia's
Aborigines was primarily the work of germs and viruses and i
and turboculosis became, as Sherburne F. Cook once said,
'totalitarian' diseases: virtually all the Indians were afflicted by them."
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if Vandana Shiva takes a jet plane to
travel four corners of the world to denounce the Narmada Dam and similar
projects. This is besides the point. The poor villagers who will lose
everything need champions for their cause. The choice for these villagers
is not between subsistence farming and a co-op three blocks from Zabars. It
is between subsistence farming and begging on the streets.
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he struggle to re-ratify an 1868 treaty shook
American capitalism
2) Russell Means, Ward Churchill versus Maoist dogmatism
3) American Indians and energy reserves
4) American Indians and ecology
5) A critique of Jerry Mander
6) Mariategui's Marxism
7) A Communist Manifesto for the next millenium
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respect for
fishing rights in various places from Minnesota to Washington State, etc.
that genuine socialist politics is grounded in. Your support of equal
rights, etc. sounds like the sort of cheap campaign pledges made by a
typical bourgeois candidate.
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over his head. I plan to pursue my own goal of
coming up with a synthesis of communalism and communism. I agree with
Michael Perelman. It is useful that LM provoked the discussion. Now it is
up to serious people to finish it.
Louis Proyect
r. We also have
a responsibility to come to terms with how Marxism should regard the
seemingly mutually exclusive claims of precapitalist societies and the need
to "revolutionize the means of production." This is obviously the subject
of these articles. In my next post, I will address the topic of American
Indians and energy reserves. It should be clear that Marxists have a
responsibility to defend the right of American Indians to defend themselves
from the incursions of uranium mining companies. The stakes are quite high,
not only from the viewpoint of American Indian survival but from the
broader perspective of ecology.
Louis Proyect
Heartfield:
>Louis Proyect is right to say that post-modernism and
>indigenism have the same outlook, because both are an expression of the
>anti-enlightenment thinking. From this reactionary standpoint it is
>right to say that Marxism and Capitalism share the same prejudice
>towar
as the Little Rock desegregation battle. These
artistic dichotomies have deep roots in the racial contradictions of
American society. A new music would engage with these contradictions and
move to a higher level, but this can only occur when society itself
provides the inspiration. It will be obvious when that moment is at hand.
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he introduction of television. Jazz is a victim of this,
as well as other erstwhile popular art forms. We are left with nightclubs
that offer jazz as a cerebral experience and little else. I suspect that
the most vital music being peformed today in NY is in the dance clubs of
recent immigrants, wh
t
Lincoln Center 2 or 3 times a year. He has made a full evolution into the
sterile world of classical music and left his roots long behind him in the
juke joints of Texas.
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The flip
>side of the loss of the traditional jazz aesthetic is a situation in which
>sound and music sa
ofitable and anti-human corporation.
In my next post I will discuss American Indian beliefs about ecology, which
are essential to understanding a way out of the madness of a capitalist
system run amok.
Louis Proyect
(sources for this post include Marjane Ambler's book and the Black Mesa Web
Site at
http://indy4.fdl.cc.mn.us/~isk/maps/az/navhopi.html)
January 20, 1998
On the Road to Capitalism, China Hits a Nasty Curve: Joblessness
By ERIK ECKHOLM
HARBIN, China -- The chant of the bean-curd peddler swirled through the
alleys of the derelict Daowai district of Harbin, but on this 5-below-zero
morning there were no takers.
The cold weather i
January 20, 1998
A 'Dead Zone' Grows in the Gulf of Mexico
By CAROL KAESUK YOON
It can stretch for 7,000 square miles off the coast of Louisiana, a vast
expanse of ocean devoid of the region's usual rich bounty of fish and
shrimp, its bottom littered with the remains of crabs and worms unable
Robert Rubin, but it shows that the contradictions in the ruling-class
have opened up some fissures.
Louis Proyect
Posted at 7:40 p.m. EST Wednesday, January 21, 1998 Translation of
Castro's speech
The official translation of Cuban President Fidel Castro's statement of
welcome to Pope John Paul II:
Holy Father,
The land you have just kissed is honored by your presence. You will not
find here the peaceful
astro
perceived a shift then it is incumbent upon the rest of us to pay more
careful attention. Specifically, this means understanding the Cuba trip on
its own terms rather than seeing it as a repeat of the trip to Poland.
Louis Proyect
At 03:48 PM 1/22/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Before you give the
ry little committment to
socialism when the doors were opened to foreign companies.
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ofessor of History at Hobart and William Smith
Colleges.)
Louis Proyect:
I am struck by the analogies between American Indian survival strategies
and what is happening in Cuba today. Communalist societies based on hunting
and gathering, and modern socialist societies, both have to function in an
oce
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