Dear Friends. Ond of the things I have not fully grasped concerns the world socialist position on taxation, why it is of no concern to workers and why it is ...
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K.D.Giles
kdgiles@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 2, 1999 2:37 am
Hi Len, The reason for this is that ALL taxes are paid out of profits. This may be done indirectly by taxing the workers but as I hope to illustrate the net ...
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Dr.Who
mpath@xxx.xxxx
Oct 1, 1999 11:24 pm
I won't pretend to recall the official S.P.G.B. position, so consider this more my own view on taxation as a socialist. Taxes are a means for the state to...
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robert malone
r.malone@xxxxx.xxx.xxx
Oct 2, 1999 12:42 pm
Hi Kevin, taxes such as income tax or purchase tax, (Value Added Tax in Britain) are a burden on capital, they do not necessarily come from profit. Many small...
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Paddy Shannon
PShannon@xxxxxxxxxx.x...
Oct 2, 1999 7:15 pm
Len's question about taxation has been answered by other respondents, and it is quite important because many workers believe that dole 'scroungers' are living...
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Stuart Watkins
SWatkins@xxxxxxx.xx.xxx
Oct 4, 1999 8:49 am
I asked a friend to video this, but apparently Chris McCall didn't appear after all. I haven't had a chance to watch it, so I'll let you know. And yes,...
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Paul Bennett
paul@xxx.xxxxx.xx.xxx
Oct 4, 1999 8:36 am
Yesterday's Observer newspaper in the UK carried a brief review of a newly-reissued book containing three novels in the Wizard of Oz series by Frank Baum (The...
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Stephen C. Merritt
scmerritt@xxxxxxxxxx....
Oct 4, 1999 3:39 pm
Hello everyone... I've never been poltically active before, but after conversations with friends at work I've found myself aligned with socialism. I'm reading...
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C F
redhawk6@xxxxxxxxxxx....
Oct 4, 1999 10:02 pm
DEar Paul, There is a lot of speculation about the oz books. What I know about the Author is that he was a supporter of the Populist Party in the United States...
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K.D.Giles
kdgiles@...
Oct 4, 1999 9:32 pm
Chris did manage to get in for a few seconds. As a member of the audience he asked Ann Widdecombe (an opposition cabinet minister) 'how many muggers she knew...
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Dr.Who
mpath@...
Oct 4, 1999 9:07 pm
With regards to your query about books, I bet your bookstore has "The Dispossessed," a science fiction book by Ursula LeGuin. While the author describes the...
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Dr.Who
mpath@...
Oct 4, 1999 8:54 pm
From a website about the Wizard of Oz and Populism: http://wccusdgate.wccusd.k12.ca.us/elcerrito/history/oz.htm Populists received 40 percent of the vote in...
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Len Wallace
lwallace@...
Oct 5, 1999 3:13 am
Re: Becommended Books I always looked to "Karl Marx: Man and Fighter" by Boris Nicolaevsky amd Otto Maenchen-Heflin, which was republished by Penguin Books a...
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Stuart Watkins
SWatkins@...
Oct 5, 1999 8:19 am
Re: recommended books. The Soul of Man under Socialism, by Oscar Wilde. Will appear in Collected Works, if nowhere else. The essay that first introduced me to...
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Michel Bisaillon
brit@...
Oct 5, 1999 2:17 pm
... stephen: try Michael harrington's "Socialism Past and Future". Harrington was a pioneer in American Socialism and also wrote the classic "The other...
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Len Wallace
lwallace@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 5, 1999 7:48 pm
Two More Books: Istvan Meszaros, "Beyond Capital", he is a Hungarian marxist who rejected Leninism and Stalinism with a brilliant and deep analysis of modern ...
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Stephen C. Merritt
scmerritt@xxxxxxxxxx....
Oct 6, 1999 1:25 am
Thanks for all the great book suggestions everyone... I'm sure it'll keep me very busy for quite a while......
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sociologie_@xxxxxxx.xxx
Oct 7, 1999 6:35 pm
Hi, I’m a member of the Socialist Party of Canada and I recently submitted , to our GAC, the idea of creating a Party newsletter (quarterly). As for now,...
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sleconte@xxxxx.xxx
Oct 7, 1999 6:53 pm
[error occurred in sending message to list, I am forwarding this] ... Hi, I’m a member of the Socialist Party of Canada and I recently submitted , to our...
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sociologie_@...
Oct 8, 1999 3:01 am
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spgb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.x...
Oct 8, 1999 5:19 pm
Taxes are levied on capital as a whole, and thus on capitalists, to maintain the capitalist machine. We don't pay tax, in any meaningful sense. What actually...
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spgb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.x...
Oct 8, 1999 6:56 pm
Dear Len, The "workers don't pay tax" issue is one of the party's own clarifications of socialist theory. Basically, once you get away from the individual ...
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Len Wallace
lwallace@...
Oct 8, 1999 6:00 pm
Dear comrades. Thanks for all the replies on taxation. True, once I looked at the system as a whole, suddenly it became all clear. Many thanks! Len Wallace ...
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Craig
C.W.Bloomfield-97@...
Oct 8, 1999 11:09 pm
Hi, I'm at university and I'd like to be "active". Does anyone have any suggestions or experience they could share with me of how to best be active at Uni?...
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Dr.Who
mpath@xxx.xxxx
Oct 9, 1999 12:48 pm
Well done, man! We need more people out and about educating the population about socialism! Here are only a few suggestions. I am sure you'll get many more...
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Thomas Jackson
tjackson@xxx.xxxx
Oct 11, 1999 6:00 pm
Dear Craig--As it happens, we have a member at Bates University, in Maine, and I think you'd find it worthwhile to put your question(s) to him. His name is ...
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Len Wallace
lwallace@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 11, 1999 8:22 pm
Greetings Craig, Glad to hear you want to be active on the student scene. I'm an "old fart" now, but back in 1973-75 when I was in the SPC I did several...
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Paul Bennett
paul@xxx.xxxxx.xx.xxx
Oct 11, 1999 8:26 am
... Another possibility is to attend meetings organised by left-wing student organisations and to put the Socialist case there. Groups like the SWP probably ...
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Adam.BUICK@xx.xxx.xx
Oct 12, 1999 1:05 pm
On a couple of occasions in the past few years our campaigns committee organised something called "university challenge" under which we sent circulars round...
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Dr.Who
mpath@xxx.xxxx
Oct 12, 1999 9:36 pm
Dear comrades: I have just been rereading (the last time was when I was a teenager some 21 years ago) the excellent Marx - Life and Works, from MacMillan ...
