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Louis Proyect | 1 Apr 01:05
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Re: Trot-diaper baby biography: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

This guy is the dickhead of the century. After reading this interview, I 
feel moved to pledge money to the SWP fund-drive:

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/03/when_skateboards_will_be_free.html

When Skateboards Will Be Free Author Said Sayrafiezadeh on Growing Up 
Socialist

A month after novelist Zoe Heller’s The Believers sketched a family of 
sniping New York socialists, Said Sayrafiezadeh is coming out with the 
real thing. When Skateboards Will Be Free is the 40-year-old 
playwright’s unsparing memoir of growing up in the shadow of the 
Trotskyite Socialist Workers Party — an Iranian-born father who 
abandoned him and Mom in the name of permanent revolution (and for 
another woman), and an American-Jewish mother who gave decades of her 
life and happiness to the party before finally breaking ties. 
Sayrafiezadeh, who hasn’t heard from his father since first telling all 
in Granta, spoke with Vulture about his father fixation, his battle with 
kleptomania, and his well-earned political apathy.

Q:Do you think your life might have turned out differently if your 
parents hadn’t become Trotskyites?

A: I think it would have been the same. They were just two young, 
incomplete people who didn’t know what they were doing, had their own 
demons, and then were being inflamed by a political philosophy that says 
family is not important, home is not important, the only thing that 
matters in this world is the worker’s revolution.

Q: You father held on to your brother and sister, whom you barely saw
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Adam Richmond | 1 Apr 01:14
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Re: Workers Emergency Recovery Campaign

Actually, it is not David that opines here... He has posted the "call" for the Workers Emergency Recovery
Campaign...without it's title: Here is the link.

http://wercampaign.org/

      
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Darrel Furlotte | 1 Apr 02:40
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Marx & Engels ebooks


For a working torrent for the books listed below go to:
http://www.mininova.org/tor/2435764

This collection contains all books written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in PDF Format.

These eBooks are in the Public Domain, provided by marxists.org

Marx:

Communist Manifesto
Articles from the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher
Articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung
Capital Vol. I
Capital Vol. II
Capital Vol. III
Conflict with Bakunin
Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Critque of the Gotha Programme
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts
Writings on the North American Civil War
Grundrisse
Comment on James Mill
Mathematical Manuscripts 1881
On Freedom of the Press
Poverty of Philosophy
Articles in Rheinische Zeitung
The Civil War in France
Class Struggle in France
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Joaquin Bustelo | 1 Apr 02:42
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Re: Trot-diaper baby biography: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

Some profile of some juvenile turd thrown at us by Louis says:

"Q: So what do you say now when people start ranting about capitalism’s 
dying days?

"A: People have been fucking saying that my whole life. I like my life, 
and I don’t really want to change. I don’t need society to be 
dismantled. I don’t want to feel guilty about the things I have. I have 
a 32-inch high-def flat-screen TV. I fucking love that thing, man."

What a poser! THIRTY-TWO INCHES -- I can get that at Wal-Mart of Best Buy
for $300, on a good week, and for $350 any time I like. As for "high def,"
it's going to be something like 1280X720. But never mind the DEFINITION --
what are you going to watch on it, dude? That someone talks in this kinds of
interview about the pixel resolution of their TV RATHER THAN the
program/movies they will watch tells you this is coming straight from the
soul of a marketing department, rather than from the heart of a TV viewer.

I'm just as much for a faker as the next guy, but please, Louis, if not a
jugular vein, at least leave us a thousand cuts from which to drawn blood.

Joaquin

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S. Artesian | 1 Apr 03:05
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Re: British Government Refuses To Discuss Sovereignty of Malvinas

I must say, in response, to Mr. Cloke that:

1.  I don't need him to tell me that I can do "reasonable" critique.  I
don't think he understand precisely, however, what "reasonable" is, so I
would direct him to read Hegel to find out, just how stupid Mr. Cloke's own
criteria of reasonableness are.

2.  I believe that in dealing with Mr. Cloke we are dealing with the
classic, and is there any other kind?, dilettante-- a dabbler, who views
Marxism like viewers at home, in their living rooms, view a cooking show--
and so instead of class struggle we get "Posh Nosh."

3. I have advised Mr. Cloke repeatedly offlist that I was not the one who
called him a fuckwit, rather I explained why Craig was calling him a
fuckwit-- a subtlety lost it appears on our home shopping network critical
critic.

4.  Now when confronted with specific concrete questions about the country
in which he resides, and apparently resided, and the development of the
class consciousness of the working class in that country,  our posh nosher
equivocates, mumbo jumbos, and tells us:

"'Demonstrating an advance in British class consciousness'
> would have been demonstrated by a conscientization process from a
> progressive alliance of radical political viewpoints that understood how
> the Rousseauesque social contracts between the workers in the sectors you
> mention, mining, industry and railways were just the development of
> subjugated productive sectors under a globalizing capitalist export-or-die
> drive for constant economic growth to the advantage of none of those
> sectors. Instead of which, they got a mish-mash of self-obsessives,
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Louis Proyect | 1 Apr 03:13
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Re: Trot-diaper baby biography: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

People can read a long excerpt from this sniveling punk's memoir here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/swp_usa/message/994

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David Picón Álvarez | 1 Apr 03:29
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Re: Marx & Engels ebooks

Great to see this, personally I think the MIA should publish torrents of 
their whole funds, if not for anything else to make sure that the data are 
disperse should something unspecified happen.

--David.

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nada | 1 Apr 03:35
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Re: Marx & Engels ebooks

David,
 I forwarded this to the MIA volunteers list.

Of course it's just as easy to go in and save the pages you want, 
really. People do it all the time.

David

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David Picón Álvarez | 1 Apr 03:54
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Re: Marx & Engels ebooks

From: "nada" <dwaltersMIA <at> gmail.com>
> Of course it's just as easy to go in and save the pages you want,
> really. People do it all the time.

I know, I do it all the time. There are certain advantages to downloading 
the whole archive though: offline use, easier to move onto other devices at 
need, and then, all sorts of searching. If you have the whole thing you can 
construct your own search queries on it. But imo the biggest advantages are 
offline use and descentralization of the info so it's more widely held. I've 
a copy of the MIA Capital on my hd, but if I wanted to read some random 
marxist work on the archive I may have never heard of, I'd have to be online 
to do it (which is most of the time, but not all of the time). Anyway, I do 
understand that such a course of action might hinder the DVD sales, and the 
MIA is great at what it does and I wouldn't like it to have issues with 
funding its operations. So it's got to be thought out.

--David.

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nada | 1 Apr 04:37
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Re: Marx & Engels ebooks

Hi David,
 actually the reason "whole" copies of works are not available have 
nothing to do with DVD sales (which are pretty much in the dumps these 
days because Broadband is increasingly ubiquitous), it has to do with 
bandwidth, actually, and to a certain degree with server space. About 
95% of the Chinese section of the MIA is PDF and because of this it is 
one our biggest band width hogs. It is quite a pain, actually. We have 
mix and match and lot of PDFs anyway, like Capital, I think. The French 
side of the house does everything in RTF, PDF and HTML. We are all for 
others doing bitorrent, actually, and we love that people use whole 
sections of the MIA or even mirror the whole things. We live for Public 
Domain. Anyway, I did post your point to our list, we'll see if there 
are any comments.

David W.

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