Victor Grossman defected to East Germany in 1955 (he was an AMerican GI who had joined the Communist Party in the US ....) and has lived there ever since ... I found this very interesting ... --------

thank you so much, Mark ---- members of the group, this article is VERY MUCH WORTH READING closely -- Stephen Jay Gould was a giant both as a scientist and as a human being --

and let's also remember, that the Vietnamese played it very cool --- agreeing to "negotiate" while insisting that Nixon's plan for all "non- South Vietnamese" to leave "South" Vietnam was a non starte

Fred, I tried the link and it wouldn't open ...

Thanks, Paul --- very informative -- -and very convincing to this ignorant person On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 6:54 AM Paul F via groups.io <trusscott.foundation@...> wrote:

I guess I am really getting old and all elements of militancy have been shorn from my soul --- but I can't understand why Comrade Sawant can't do "both/and" --- keep her Council Seat and use it as she

anyone on this list know Elbaum's work. I subscribed to the GUARDIAN in the 1970s and read some stuff about the NEW COMMUNIST MOVEMENT --- but never dived in deeply enough to figure out whether it was

YES, I do agree with Fred that in as many ways as possible, exposing the fact that most reforms are NOT ENOUGH is important -

Based on the revelations by Ellsberg as well, it is clear (to me anyway) that Kennedy DEPARTED from long term American policy (as developed by Eisenhower). I know "counter-factual" history has its pit

This discussion actually illuminates the age old problem of how to work to overthrow an unjust exploitative system that is very powerful and not in danger of being overthrown anytime soon WHILE WORKIN

A short answer to Fred's questions --- 1) I doubt workers know "how much" their are exploited -- and they probably wouldn't use that word --- they might use the word "shafted" 2). They don't organize

I will not attempt a full re-statement of what I understand to be Tom W's analysis and conclusions --- but I will deal with the specific question about Tom's working with price-oriented statistics rat

Fred is of course right ---- but I just recently saw a post somewhere (maybe even here) that calculated the current rate of exploitation of GM workers --- unclear how successful it was --- but people

thank you Alan --- right on the second or third page of the paper, Tom translates Marxian value concepts into price concepts so he can use American data ---- and makes good use of it to explicate Marx

I would argue that it is the obfuscation by intellectuals, particularly the neo-classical "revolution" which transformed the "political economy" of the Classical economists and Marx to the "Economics"

Hi all --- I found this interesting --- https://medium.com/@monetarypolicyinstitute/convergence-on-conflict-inflation-in-the-21st-century-7bccb7b6479 I have always enjoyed the fact that the Cambridge

I am going to try and raise some comments about Fred’s recent intervention about the labor theory of value and particularly its role in revealing what is behind the “relation between things” … FRED: I

Fredrick Harris induces me to reveal how old (and out of date??) I am --- but here are two examples, one from over 30 years ago, the other from over 40 years ago -- Dean Baker, "Trends is Corporate Pr

Come to find out that not only are REagan style tax cuts in KHALDUN, but so is the Marxian theory of labor exploitation --- who knew??

https://convergencemag.com/articles/b4-its-too-late-the-socialist-lefts-role-in-fighting-autocracy/ Bill Fletcher, Jr. explains an extremely interesting article --- I found his "take" convincing ..