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mikelepore
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davesearles
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14 Oct 2008 09:04 am Post subject:
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I hadn't known that "Jacob Richter" had been
one psydonyms used by the person who ultimately identified himself as
Lenin.
So then the person on this list and other lists who
calls himself Jacob Richter is hiding his actual identity. Since he is
hiding his actual identity and has called for mass executions of
capitalist resisters (thank you for spotting the sp error) for
psychologial effect, he more than likely is a police agent provocatuer.
Just as I had originally suspected.
Is this your full time job Agent Richter?
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mikelepore
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14 Oct 2008 02:57 pm Post subject:
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For people, resisters spelled with -ers. Resistors
with -ors is Ohm's Law.
Signed: your obsessive-compulsive spell checker
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davesearles
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mikelepore
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14 Oct 2008 10:21 pm Post subject:
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The mistake you always make is to spell
"lose" with two o's. The mistake I always make is to confuse
words that end in -ence and -ance.
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davesearles
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14 Oct 2008 10:51 pm Post subject:
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mikelepore wrote:
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The mistake
you always make is to spell "lose" with two o's. The mistake
I always make is to confuse words that end in -ence and -ance.
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I will try to remember to lose an o.
Crazy fucking language.
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mikelepore
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15 Oct 2008 04:29 am Post subject:
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Would you rather write in ancient Egyptian
hieroglyphics? A word would be spelled like this: beetle hummingbird sun
grasshopper dragonfly moon.
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Jacob Richter
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mikelepore
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15 Oct 2008 05:22 am Post subject:
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You know what I never understood, there's a population
that lives in the Kalihari Desert of Namibia, called the !Kung people,
and they speak the !Kung language. The exclamation point is part of the
name. That freaks me out.
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allhailtuna
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15 Oct 2008 05:34 pm Post subject:
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mikelepore wrote:
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You know what
I never understood, there's a population that lives in the Kalihari
Desert of Namibia, called the !Kung people, and they speak the !Kung
language. The exclamation point is part of the name. That freaks me
out.
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So how do you pronounce !Kung?
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mikelepore
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16 Oct 2008 08:29 am Post subject:
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As for !Kung, I've only seen it in print. I wonder how
it's pronounced.
I also don't understand why some Chinese names and
words which begin the "sh" sound are now being written in
English with the "sh" changed to "hs." "Wu
Hsing" is something related to Chinese acupuncture. "Hsing I"
is a martial art.
Aso what's with the apostrophe? Instead of
"chi" (the cosmic life force), some people write ch'i.
What's with the use of a Q for a "ch"
sound? Some people write qi instead of chi or ch'i.
What's with underlining letters in Indian names? A
group called the The International Society for Krishna Consciousness
(ISKCON) spells the name Krishna like this: K, an underlined r, an
underlined s, an underlined n, and then the final a.
No one explains this stuff to the reader!
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The Greenman
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16 Oct 2008 06:45 pm Post subject:
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allhailtuna wrote
So how do you pronounce !Kung?
I believe the "k" would be sounded
loudly. I am back on line with a new computer. :D
John T.
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The Greenman
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mikelepore
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18 Oct 2008 04:54 pm Post subject:
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In the beginning of the video part 1 of 2, he raises
the question of how does exploitation takes place. However by the end of
video part 2 of 2 he still doesn't answer it. I understand that he wanted
to keep it to 20 minutes (part 1, 10 minutes; part 2, ten minutes) but he
still should only raise a question in the beginning if he's going to
allocate the time to answer it within those two segments.
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The Greenman
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20 Oct 2008 11:44 pm Post subject:
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He has made many other videos which, I believe, are
well done and entertaining. His presentations can keep a person's
attention. I like the idea that he tries to explain what happens under
capitalism through Marx's writings. He does not advocate what people
should do or what political ideology to embrace. I like that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrD7LhG0T_w
http://davidharvey.org/
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mikelepore
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21 Oct 2008 05:17 am Post subject:
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I'm thinking we should have a new forum topic to talk
about techniques for making videos. I learned a lot in the past few
months.
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davesearles
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21 Oct 2008 07:13 am Post subject:
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go for it.
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The Greenman
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mikelepore
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04 Nov 2008 10:44 am Post subject:
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Thanks for those links, John. I didn't know about the
existence of the mwvGhrf7bxA video. I had seen the VqMkoVRneM before.
The "left" should learn a lesson. There
are plenty of topics that one can talk about without filling a speech
with the usual "we demand" stuff.
These videos are educational in the truest sense.
One goes away from them with a new sense of why things happen the way they
happen.
I think that is so, although we have mentioned a
few issues where we think the SLP theory has been imperfect. Still,
someone who views those videos should be able to receive some new
understanding.
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The Greenman
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04 Nov 2008 08:11 pm Post subject:
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I added them on my favorite list over on YouTube. I am
working on a video myself but I am waiting on the WIIU becoming a
reality. It's a simple video in which I used various colors and different
fonts. Basically it says that the WIIU is an organization of labor in
which the collective ownership of the MOP would be owned by workers. How?
Through a Constitutional Amendment. Then I present each section. I want
to conclude with a website and mailing address of the WIIU. The movie
would be about a minute in length. I have taken my time in the creation
and I want to have maximum effect. I used to be a pretty good artist up
till the time my wrist was broken...and then there was the second time.
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The Greenman
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04 Nov 2008 10:41 pm Post subject:
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You know you are right about the "demand
stuff" because I get the periodical Democratic Left and there
is nothing within the pages that suggest workers owning the means of
production. It's always about capitalist politicians they support,
government intervention, the demand over living wages or shorter hours,
etc., or nationalization of ___________fill in the blank. Basically
everything has to exist within the framework of capitalism. But no one
thinks about the framework of the Constitution and how it can be changed
legally. It's amazing how slavery ended under the 13th Amendment. I
wonder why so many socialist sneer at the idea of making legal changes
unless they believe that salvation comes through a political party.
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davesearles
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05 Nov 2008 02:54 am Post subject:
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Mike will probably remember that in Beacon High School
we had a big red American History text book. In the back they had the US
Constitution and Declaration of Independence. I used to pour over that
constitution by the hour. I was facinated by it. I'm now simply amazed
that the SLP for years was lead by Daniel DeLeon who according to the SLP
bio had won a prize for an essay on CONSTITUTIONAL law at Columbia,
really never went into the specific constitutional tools required to
convey collective control of the means of production to the workers.
I've written to Columbia to see if I can get a copy
of that essay.
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mikelepore
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06 Nov 2008 05:22 am Post subject:
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Another reformist platform, this one from the Party
for Socialism and Liberation (PSL)
Notice the general trend. Reformists who pretend to
be socialists all mislead the working class into thinking that the
program to achieve socialism consists of the accumulation of reforms to
the capitalist system.
Copied out of the middle of today's article about
the Obama election,
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr001=zz3mb91t63.app5b&page=NewsArticle&id=10315&news_iv_ctrl=1261
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Beginning of quotation
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What is needed is a clear program focused on what
the new administration should do to meet the needs of the working people;
to fulfill the expectations its campaign has created. The PSL’s La Riva/Puryear Presidential
Campaign put forward such demands, not just as words on paper, but as a
fighting program, starting with the following:
Declare a State of Housing Emergency and an
immediate moratorium on foreclosures, evictions and rent hikes. There are
more than 19 million empty housing units in the U.S. today. No one should
be homeless.
No layoffs—jobs for all. Create and fund a
public works jobs program to provide employment for
millions.
Extend unemployment benefits at full pay for
everyone without a job.
Provide health care to all, regardless of ability
to pay.
Pass the Employee Free Choice Act so that every
worker can have union representation.
Open the books of the banks for public inspection.
A sales tax on stock market transactions (there is
none now).
Criminal prosecution of banking, finance, insurance
and all other executives whose companies have benefited from the
foreclosure crisis.
An end to racist police brutality and mass
imprisonment.
Hurricane, flood and other victims of natural
disasters must have a government guarantee that they will receive all
necessary assistance.
End the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, close down
the 800+ U.S. military bases around the world and use the billions spent
everyday on the Pentagon to fund people’s need.
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davesearles
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06 Nov 2008 06:58 am Post subject:
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Funny I was just looking at them.. They and the SWP
fielded presidential candidates in Vermont.
Collective worker control of the industrail mop and
dist. nowhere in sight - not even to themselves.
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cmiller2005
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06 Nov 2008 02:41 pm Post subject:
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John,
That sounds like a great project you're working on,
I look forward to seeing it. Progress on the WIIU has been slow to
non-existent lately. I haven't heard anything from the Communist League
or RUSS. I was hoping that these two groups would form the core needed to
get things going but I have had no contact from them in some time. I will
e-mail them and see where they stand. Of course, I would like to have you
involved also.
Another thing I was thinking about was starting a
Yahoo group to attract others who might be interested.
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mikelepore
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06 Nov 2008 07:50 pm Post subject:
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Carl,
you may want to post messages on the IWW's discussion list too. I don't
know its current status but it used to be email based (listserv or
majordomo), and I believe their was a members only list and a public
list.
As I said to Dave about his activity, let's have a
press release. I know of several places to send it if I only had one to
send.
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