comrades might be interested in this --- I personally trust people from Amnesty ...and Carolyn (Rusti) Eisenberg is a fine radical historian! ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Carolyn Eisen

I found it -- I think the references to "Mike" are to Michael Albert who is a main contributor to "Z" ... http://bactra.org/chomsky-on-postmodernism.html (warning -- it's somewhat long and at times "s

AGREED, John All of that amounts to a hell of a lot of work. Last, we all owe a debt to Comrade Les Shaffer for refusing to let this listserv die with the death of Louis.

Noam Chomsky had an interesting take-down of postmodernism years ago --- he kept saying, "Maybe i'm missing something, but ...." and then would descrive the scientific method which post-modernism comp

Thanks to Kevin and Cathy for posting this. I have to confess that though I know of Marty's work I did not realize he did a blog -- it has really good details and to my mind is VERY CONVINCING --- The

I think John and Farans are on the right track -- and I actually think some of this was foreshadowed way back in 1974 when Robert Heilbroner wrote a book called AN INQUIRY INTO THE HUMAN PROSPECT in w

The key to a "mass response" is to ask (demand? cajole? plead with??) the labor movement --- especially more class conscious unions like the flight attendants, Nurses United (see a gender element ther

Remember also that the American Revolution was definitely an example of what David Kotz called in a different context "Revolution from ABove" --- In that respect the "theorists" of the Revolution were

A little "inside baseball" story. I had the pleasure of meeting and visiting with Maurice Dobb when I was an undergraduate at Cambridge University in 1964-66. Dobb told me that when he arrived at Camb

Ever since he wrote THE WORLD IS FLAT, I have had Tom Friedman on my radar -- he is qn incredible intellectual LIGHTWEIGHT who thinks he;s profound -- this recent one is so incredibly stupid, I wouldn

Dear Comrades -- we usually do not need to waste time explaining why bourgeois economics is bullshit but this piece is so beautifully pithy and it has a killer sentence at the end --- very much worth

I don't know if the Hemingway usage captures the spirit of the times but I think the language in Huck Finn "works" --- racism is a terrible thing --- and Twain exposes it brilliantly in Huck Finn (the

I first met Dean Baker on line at the dawn of the internet age --- it was on the old PEN-L just beginning under the moderator-ship of the late Michael Perelman -- I have always enjoyed Dean's analysis

YES --- and if McConnell had shepherded through an impeachment, Mike might have been right --- but McConnell thought he could "defend" Trump while getting rid of him --- which was a BIG MISTAKE ...

Dear Comrades --- when I was a "wet behind the ears" undergraduate at Cambridge University trying to shake off the anti-Marxism of my "traditional" undergraduate economics education in the US (it wasn

I think Mark's last sentence is exactly right --- it's the role that the WOmen's March and the spontaneous demonstrations at Airports against the first iteration of the Muslim ban played during the fi

My Two cents on Steven's point -- The Trump movement is disorganized with lots of individuals joining it without any discipline or even ideology --- I guess that is a HELLUVA lot different from the or

What about the analogy to the periods between dynasties in Chinese history when the country degenerated into "warlordism" ...

Dear Les --- I think the best way to moderate the list is to (gently if possible) remind people if they exceed the 5 posts per day limit AND if they forget (as I have in the past!) to clip all extrane

I have mentioned and recommended Omar El-Akkad's book AMERICAN WAR -- a fictionalization of a dystopian future after the US actually has a true civil war, with the government trying to force recalcitr