To the Moderator: Your comment about a "long quote" was editorialized into the following erroneous crystallization: Snip long De Leon quote beginning to assert...
Lo Ray, Computer SNAFU's killed my first couple of attempts at replying to this, so I'll quickly address the important bit, and try coming back later... ... ...
Lo Trevor, ... Well, I'd interpret "*converted* from an instrument of oppression into the agent of emancipation and the overthrow of privilege, aristocratic ...
Lo Again, ... between "delegates" and ... practical purposes other than that ... such as Mike Lewis. I'll disagree on that. A company sends out an agent to...
Ken: You seem to have a one track mind on the subject of the DoP even though this is way off the beaten track of what I had originally proposed. Again my ...
... Yes, those 2, plus the American SLP can be included in that non-statist sector, at the very least. ... By that, you probably mean "centralise all...
Bill M. wrote: "I mean it ['will'] in the perfectly conventional english future tense." OK. You claim that socialism _will_ happen. That must mean you know...
Trevor I am new (2 months) to the wsm forum and true socialism. I have been a long time unionist wasting my time trying to reform capitalism. Not any more. ...
Dear all esp trevor blake, ... As Bill says, he is using it in the normal English sense. As it happens, 'will' future is used in the sense of a prediction,...
Hello Rick: Thank you for responding. Consider me a devil's advocate in challenging some of your claims... Rick Moore wrote: "I am new (2 months) to the wsm...
Lo Bill, You say with regard to the anarchists etc "How can we reconcile the irreconcilable - how do we 'strike together' at election toimes when we call for...
Dear Heart, ... deal ... you - ... between ... and ... I meant in the context of a discussion where you weren't actually putting up an argument, and in the...
ROBIN: I would only add that if you think you have "no further need to deal with me" - a revolutuionary socialist on the same wavelength as you - then how on...
... Hi Rick, Welcome to the fold. I like your honest awareness of the need for a Socialist society/economy and willingness to strive for the conditions ...
Hi Trevor With your patience and understanding I will try to clarify some of my claims. Trevor I'm guessing that your former support for trade unionism would...
Thanks for the welcome Bill. I have been silent just reading the WSM Forum for the last couple of months trying get up to speed on who is who and where they...
Lo Robin, ... I have never claimed tehre is nothing in common between us and Anarchists, my whole method has been to apply the Barnsley example, which implies...
Lo Bill ... The trouble with your argument is that you are confusing two quite different things. If I say - as I have - that advocating the vote and spurning...
Lo Robin, ... The perlocutionary force of 'don't use the vote' is to get people not to vote, it is speech, it is a speech action. Anarchists who *campaign*...
Rick Moore wrote: "Socialism has not occured but new comrades like myself show a growth in the movement towards socialism." I suggest that if you compare the...
Mr.Ellis wrote: "Yes, those 2, plus the American SLP can be included in that non-statist sector, at the very least." A very curious comment, Mr. Ellis. The...
judy tienphosuwan
tienphosuwan@...
Mar 4, 2004 7:59 am
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Trevor Socialism does not support war as in a war in the conventional sense. The principles of socialism refer to a "war of ideas". I do not see you as an...
Interesting piece on the drive to produce as much sportswear as possible in order to cash in on the Olympics: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3531625.stm ...
Paul Bennett
Paul.Bennett@...
Mar 4, 2004 8:51 am
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Does anyone happen to know if Lenin and Trotsky were candidates for the Russian Constituant Assembly in 1918 and, if they were, were they elected? Adam...
Adam.BUICK@...
Mar 4, 2004 12:40 pm
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This should be of interest to most on this forum. Check out "clips from film" under product demonstrations. Rick http://www.thecorporation.tv/ The Corporation...
Adam wrote: "Does anyone happen to know if Lenin and Trotsky were candidates for the Russian Constituant Assembly in 1918 and, if they were, were they...
Trevor, despite not wanting to encourage you, have you heard this one? Question: What were Trotsky's last words? Answer: Why are they picking on me? Adam...
Adam.BUICK@...
Mar 4, 2004 9:56 pm
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Does anyone know anything more about the policy of the Bolshevik party under Lenin as regards Islam. A friend of mine has a document circulated by the S.W.P....
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