By coincidence, on returning from work I found the following card in my letter box. Quickly translated from French (I'm living in Brussels, Belgium), it reads:...
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Len Wallace
lwallace@...
Feb 1, 2000 9:09 am
Hi Jack, Apologies for some snarkiness in my last email. I had written volumes in response to your letters and had some real frustration trying to pin down ...
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robert malone
r.malone@...
Feb 1, 2000 11:11 am
Hi Len, "Methinks though doth protest too much". but I love the passion. yours for socialism, naturally. Bob Malone PS " Guns, Germs and Steel" Jarrod Diamond...
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robert malone
r.malone@...
Feb 1, 2000 11:26 am
Hi Adam, So we can safely assume from your tone, that you will not be ringing Monsieur Kandjoura to see if he gives a cut rate on your horoscope. Just...
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mpath@...
Feb 1, 2000 1:08 pm
"Immediate return of affection whatever the period or nature. Lasting love... ... sexual impotence. Rapid action, discretion assured. 0477 17 08 84". Are you...
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Jack Grassby
jgrassby@...
Feb 1, 2000 10:36 am
Hi a.ford, Welcome to the forum. Your message made a lot of sense. I have been saying something of the same thing myself in the last couple of weeks. If the...
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Jack Grassby
jgrassby@...
Feb 1, 2000 11:27 am
Hi Len, Many thanks for your last comments. I do appreciate you taking the trouble to reply in depth ( and at length - only joking ! ) and you have helped me...
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Jack Grassby
jgrassby@...
Feb 1, 2000 3:16 pm
Dr.Who, Sorry I have not replied directly to your comments. I do not believe we are genetically predetermined to do anything. I think we are predisposed to...
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robert malone
r.malone@...
Feb 1, 2000 10:04 pm
Hello Jack and a.ford, There is not a lot of point in appealing to peoples greed in order to advance the socialist message, because in spite of the constant...
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susan mcdermott
susan_mcdermott@...
Feb 2, 2000 12:20 am
... First of all, what difference does it make to you, Adam, what this person and those like him, believe? You sound as if you could join up with the Catholic...
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David CA Zink
dcaz@...
Feb 2, 2000 3:21 am
Hello from the Kingdom of Rain: Wasn't it Marx who said that the dominant philosophy of any society tends to be that of that society's ruling class? The...
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Stuart Watkins
SWatkins@...
Feb 2, 2000 1:07 pm
Dear all, I'm very annoyed that I've not had a chance to follow all the debates that have been going on recently (bloody wage slavery!). I've given them all a ...
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Jack Grassby
jgrassby@...
Feb 2, 2000 2:16 pm
WITHER SOCIALISM. Stewart, You say the working class has not considered the WSM message and rejected it, it is not prepared to consider it. What is the value...
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Adam.BUICK@...
Feb 2, 2000 3:10 pm
Come off it, Susan, you can't go around accusing people of wanting to kill people whose views they disagree with! Not only is this not in accordance with what...
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Stuart Watkins
SWatkins@...
Feb 2, 2000 4:01 pm
Hi Jack Something doesn't become right just because it was said by a bearded dead dude. I don't just accept what Marx did or did not say because He said it. ...
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mpath@...
Feb 2, 2000 5:10 pm
Election time in America. People are basically consumed at this time by whether Gore is sexier or more attuned to ecological issues than the "independent"...
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The World Socialist M...
spgb@...
Feb 3, 2000 1:57 am
Lo All, ... Indeed, a nice peice of Nettiquette I've heard of is something called Godwin's law - 2In any debate, the first side to draw comparisons between...
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Torgun Bullen
tbullen@...
Feb 2, 2000 8:15 pm
Hi all, Unfortunately I have very limited time to join fully in the discussion, due to a full-time job and childcare in the evening, but I would like to make a...
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The World Socialist M...
spgb@...
Feb 3, 2000 5:20 am
Lo All, ... Same as any wiccans, christians and flat earth society members? Perhaps? As Slavoj Zizek explores so well in his article 'Multiculturalism: The...
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robert malone
r.malone@...
Feb 2, 2000 11:28 pm
Hi Bill, Nil illigitimum carborundum!! I am sure you will agree, that traditional knowledge is not invalid because it is the preferred method of some cultures....
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The World Socialist M...
spgb@...
Feb 3, 2000 7:36 am
Lo Robert, ... You obviously know more latin than me, I couldn't even recall the latinate version of occam's razor.. ;) ... Indeed, but I would insist that...
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susan mcdermott
susan_mcdermott@...
Feb 2, 2000 11:40 pm
... HAHAHAHAA!!!!! Oh, come on, Adam, I was joking. It was just that the tone of your admonition to demolish "mumbo jumbo" whenever it threatened the light of...
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susan mcdermott
susan_mcdermott@...
Feb 3, 2000 12:26 am
... Adam, I agree with you 100% on the above statement, in fact, we're probably very close in our views about socialism and the importance of and pure thrill...
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robert malone
r.malone@...
Feb 3, 2000 1:27 am
Hi Susan, What concerns many socialists about workers who accept religion and other superstitious beliefs is their unquestioning subservience to authority ...
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susan mcdermott
susan_mcdermott@...
Feb 3, 2000 4:23 am
... Hi, Robert, What concerns me is anyone's unquestioning subservience to anything or anyone, whether it is religion or science. Questioning subservience, ...
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K.D.Giles
kdgiles@...
Feb 3, 2000 6:46 am
Hi all, Re. Jacks discussion. Len, I appreciate your comments of a couple of days ago, I keep feeling the need to say something, but am unable to grasp a ...
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robert malone
r.malone@...
Feb 3, 2000 11:01 am
Hi Susan, Like your Dad, I had religion instilled from an early age, I went to one of the oldest schools in Glasgow the Franciscan priests in the parish all...
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Adam.BUICK@...
Feb 3, 2000 4:52 pm
Bonjour Torgun, but what is an "Asian"? I thought Socialists took the view that there is only one race: the human race. Or, more accurately, only one species,...
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susan mcdermott
susan_mcdermott@...
Feb 4, 2000 1:14 am
... Well, Adam, I completely agree that race is not a legitimate scientific term that describes any real difference among humans based on superficial physical...
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Stuart Watkins
SWatkins@...
Feb 4, 2000 10:59 am
Dear all, It's quite uncanny how similar this argument about race, etc, is to one I had on an anarchist forum. Like Adam, I too got accused of wanting to...
