many apologies both to Michael and to all comrades on Marxmail --- I meant that as a private communication. Again, sincere apologies from an "aged" participant!

Dear Michael -- just started reading it --- will have to devote more time to REALLY reading it --- It is remarkable --- and wonderful --- and very informative (and I'm only halfway through). Congratul

Subscribers to this list might find this hard to believe, but William A. Williams (a dedicated left wing historian who considered himself an appreciative student of Marx) in his book AMERICA CONFRONTS

One thing modern technology has created ---- Abortion do-it-yourselfr pills that can be stockpiled and shared --- We ought to publicize very widely their availability, what they do, how to use them an

OKAY, I'll bite --- I believe that with the financial crisis of 2008, neo-liberalism proved it's bankruptcy as an effective specific form of Capitalism --- but just as FEUDALISM did not disappear with

Only one problem about agricultural trends ---- the replacement of small farms by latifundia was well under way by 1959 when Higbee wrote FARMS AND FARMERS IN THE URBAN AGE --- most "small family farm

anything in this set of suggestions that fits with the visceral reactions we are all having?? ---------- Forwarded message ---------   As a way of thinking about how to become Concrete and Specific

If this has already been sent to Marxmail, I apologize. I think this analysis is REALLY REALLY GOOD and worth some serious discussions... Mike ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Michael Meer

thank you --- hope it's not redundant to thank the three who are carrying on Louis' tradition and --- I think this does not trash Louis to admit it --- improving on it! Solidarity forever!!

Charlie, that doesn't work --- because labor time is in hours --- we still need a way to turn those hours into a "monetary equivalent" --- if we are using an LTV approach then "labor hours" includes l

My memory is that the "transformation problem" only exists if one wants the LTV to be a MICRO-ECONOMIC analysis of price determination --- but since most prices are determined NOT by "supply and deman

Can one hope that this actually hurts him ... both in the primary and the General???

I really like the whole first part of the discussion by Comrade Cockshott but I am bothered by the simple empirical investigations which purport to prove the scientific bonafides of the LTV -- Where d

DAVID'S QUOTE FROM DUNBAR-ORTIZ remiinds me of a very short passage in David Levering Lewis' second volume of his mammoth biography of W.E.B. DuBois. DuBois was living in Atlanta during the 1908 Atlan

I think that starting with Stalin, the "last four" were pretty much full time revolutionaries --- their class origins obviously did not interfere with their commitments --- and I wonder what relevance

I believe that bringing together people with years of working class organizing experiences was Louis' vision when he started the list. I unfortunately came to the list very late --- Most of you know m

John's point is actually quite significant. Scalia's overturning of years and years of precedent with his DC ruling which turned the "militia" in the wording of the Second Amendment into INDIVIDUAL PE

Dear Comrades: A friend of mine from Swarthmore, Ronald Grigor Suny is a long time scholar of the SOviet Union, Stalin in particular --- He has written a wonderfully complete biography of Stalin's ear

The short piece does not do justice to the fact that Paul Robeson WON his fight for his passport and he ended up having significant concert tours of Europe in the late 1950s and into the 1960s. Accord

Here is a real tough one --- Are multi-national (multi-racial) "states" possible??? Is organizing societies via "national" states in direct contradiction to the rights of various self-defined nations