It seems to me that the true spirit of May Day is lost, with little to no mention of the wider class struggle. All there seems to be is shouts for a few...
The death of the martyr for democracy, Peter Law, MP for Blannau Gwent, is being covered by the media in a way that is careful not to invalidate Wome Only...
Came across this May-day address of James Connolly that got me thinking a bit alan johnstone , Edinburgh br . "... that consideration of the means towards the...
alan johnstone
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May 1, 2006 9:11 pm
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Dear all esp mankindms, Mankindms said: "The death of the martyr for democracy, Peter Law, MP for Blannau Gwent, is being covered by the media in a way that is...
'The world is failing children by not ensuring they have enough to eat, says the UN Children's Fund (Unicef). 'It says the number of children under five who...
"on this abstract question of slavery there can, as I think, be but one opinion. Planters, who have money to make by it, - clergymen, who have planters to...
This may be amusing to some . http://www.ericlee.info/2006/05/mozilla_takes_sides_in_100_yea.html alan johnstone , edinburgh br [Non-text portions of this...
alan johnstone
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May 4, 2006 6:52 am
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Hi Dave, thanks for this and your recent posts on Uncle Tom's Cabin, I haven't read the book since my school days in the 1950s. Its seems that the...
Robert Malone
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May 4, 2006 7:50 am
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Hi bob Thanks for that. Karl made repeated comparisons between the conditions of the wage slaves and the other type, the wage slave, in Vol I and III and it...
Hi Dave, Marx actually mentions Uncle Tom's Cabin in a foot note, in Volume one of Capital. Charles H. Kerr 1906 edition, p.802 "When the present Duchess of...
Robert Malone
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May 5, 2006 9:07 am
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Karl Marx defined in a very clear manner, that wages are just the necessary means in order to keep the workers and their family alive, because there is not...
Hi Folks I'm having a bit of running debate with a pro-capitalist on the WicOpenDebate forum (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WiCopendebate/) on the subject of...
When workers retired or live on their pensions they are not capitalists, a capitalist is a person, institutions or economical system that survive from the...
hi bob That was a good find, I can't remember reading that, but I didn't bother reading all the footnotes which was a mistake as there is a lot of good stuff...
Thought i would post this short generalised newspaper article on frued as a follow up to Adam Buicks May article in the Standard . ...
alan johnstone
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May 6, 2006 3:41 am
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Hi Marcos Yes I would go along with what you say here but putting my devil's advocate's hat on, I guess an opponent of socialism might want to argue that while...
... From: "robbo203" <robbo203@...> To: <WSM_Forum@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 10:38 AM Subject: [WSM_Forum] Re: Are pensioners...
Julian Vein
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May 6, 2006 10:06 am
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Hi folks I am writing something on ethical theory and I wondered if there was anyone here who is familiar with the works of Ayn Rand who could help me on one...
Sorry ignore previous post. Pressed wrong button! ... From: "robbo203" <robbo203@...> To: <WSM_Forum@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006...
Julian Vein
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May 6, 2006 10:18 am
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Dave Sorry about this belated reply. You're right the Socialist Standard did, in its obituary of Edgar Hardcastle (August 1995), refer to Cannan (double n in ...
Adam Buick
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May 6, 2006 10:21 am
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... devil's ... looking ... to ... be ... of ... means of ... enslavement of ... Yes I know and fully agree. But the issue is who is the capitalist class and...
... From: "robbo203" <robbo203@...> To: <WSM_Forum@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 12:17 PM Subject: [WSM_Forum] Re: Are pensioners...
Julian Vein
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May 6, 2006 11:57 am
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Hi Robin I think it is better to just simplify the issue in order to understand what is going on. The working class that are working, ie non pensioners, are...
A capitalist is one who has sufficient wealth to be able to excerise control over a captialist enterprise by buying its stock or directly managing it. Having...
I am not familar with the UK pension system but in the USA workers have by law no control over the direction oif their pension funds. At most one can direct...
He is confussed with the concept of capital, money by itself is not capital, it has to go thru a social process of exchange in order to become capital, capital...
... From: "Shak El" <from_alamut@...> To: <WSM_Forum@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 1:06 PM Subject: Re: [WSM_Forum] Re: Are pensioners...
Julian Vein
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May 6, 2006 6:05 pm
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Hi All I know very little on pensions. Up until quite recently as I understand it most workers in the UK and elsewhere relied on the state pension and the...
They would still be capitalists tho in a more socialized form, since they are still getting a share of exploited surplus value of the enterprise. jim Julian...
Question: Was this debate on radio? Thru internet? We get nothing like this on our radio (shock!shock!)....Best we get is Air America, a increasingly...
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