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Bob Hopson | 1 Jun 01:00
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China, Japan on collision course over rare-earth metals


Article from The Australian about China's near-monopoloy on rare earth elements used in green technology:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,25550073-5017996,00.html

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Michael Schembri | 1 Jun 01:15
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re Books on history of LGBT rights movement / Marxist analysis

I highly recommend Barry D. Adam's "The rise of a gay and lesbian movement."

For a classic history of the early homosexual movement see John Lauritsen's
and David Thorstad's "The early homosexual rights movement (1864 - 1935)".

For an excellent, brief,  Marxist history and analysis, see Mike McNair's
and Jamie Gough's "Gay liberation in the Eighties."

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Palestine will free!
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Ralph Johansen | 1 Jun 01:18
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Re: Translation history of Das Kapital

Yes, the translation of the Kerr edition (1909) credits both Engels and 
Untermann.

FWIW, the later (1956) Foreign Languages Publishing House edition says 
in the Publishers Note:

"The present English edition follows the German 1893 edition.... 
"Extensive use has been made of the second volume of Capital published 
by Charles H. Kerr and Co.... based on the second edition."

Jim Farmelant wrote:

A friend of mine is working on a bibliography
of books read by Mahatma Gandhi.

Among the works read by Gandhi
was the English translation of
Das Kapital by Samuel Moore
and Edward Aveling. It is my
understanding that Moore & Aveling
only translated volume I, and that
volumes II and III were only
first translated into English later
on by Ernest Untermann
for an American edition that was published
by Charles H. Kerr & Co. of Chicago.
Is that correct, or am I in error on that point?

Thanks in advance.
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Lajany Otum | 1 Jun 01:34
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Re: What do Koreans think


Shane Mage:

>
> If a government devotes huge resources to its military and military- 
> industrial departments while people are starving, it is as responsible  
> for the starvation as it would be were starvation its overt purpose.
> 
> Shane Mage
>

Ok, and if a government of a society which has experienced brutal 
occupation by two imperialist powers, Japan and USA, and arial 
warfare by the latter, fails to take adequate measures to protect 
its people from threats, inluding nuclear, by these two aggressors,
it would be responsible for the consequences of any aggression against it.

I know western humanitarianism finds itself a touching sight, But perhaps
before rushing to condemn the DPRK, the said lachrymose humanitarians 
here could focus a little on the beams in their own countries eyes, most 
recently the barbarism which their countries have imposed on Iraq and 
Afghanistan, and which they would be delighted to impose on the 
DPRK, did the DPRK not have the ability to cut off one of their hands, or 
a few fingers at least, should the imperialists attempt to invade it. 

Besides, for all the faults which Amnesty International, quoted by Bob 
Hopson here, seem inexplicably eager to highlight, DPRK is probably a 
veritable workers' paradise compared to some of the wastelands that 
have been created by western aggression recently.
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Waistline2 | 1 Jun 02:02
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Re: What do Koreans think

>> Refusing food aid even when citizens are starving to death,  suggests
that the régime is oblivious to the well-being of its own citizens.  It
is my belief that socialists should not provide an iota of support  to
this régime. Or in other words, in a conflict between imperialism  and
this "rotten régime", socialists must say: "We have no dog in  this
fight." <<

 
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Well, its always easy to advocate supporting ones own imperial butchers, by 
 pretending to be neutral. 

Communist view the political equation above fundamentally different from  
social-democrats (socialists). The issue of support of any political regime 
is  temporal but the opposition to imperial butchery and plunder is 
unconditional.  The "dog" communist have in the struggle between the American 
imperial state and  the state of North Korea is ourselves and our own working class 
interest.  American imperialism created the modern "Korean problem" and the 
withdrawal of  American imperialism from Korea is the fundamental solution 
for the resolution  of a conflict between "imperialism and this "rotten 
regime."

Support or not support to the "rotten regime" does not enter the political  
equation at all. If the regime was progressive, revolutionary and 
democratic in  the most practical and utopian sense, none of this would enter the 
equation that  is resolution of the "Korean Problem," from the standpoint of 
Americans living  within the multinational state of the United States of 
America.
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Louis Proyect | 1 Jun 02:19
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Swan's Release: June 1, 2009

Swans Commentary http://www.swans.com/ June 1, 2009

***  Thank you Michael DeLang, Charles Pearson, and Walter Trkla for 
your  financial contributions. Please, good readers, support our work 
financially.  Check our Donation page: 
http://www.swans.com/about/donate.html. ***

Note from the Editors:  "We make war that we may live in peace," 
according to  Aristotle. Yet, after millennia of war, when will we 
finally see that peace?  After a fiery, no-win debate amongst Swans 
contributors that began over the  use of pilotless drones, Raju Peddada 
came out fighting in one corner on  behalf of the merits of war as a 
means to peace and as an inherent part of  the natural world, while 
naturalist Martin Murie countered that it is  civilized, proper, and 
timely to oppose wars in the service of empire.  Warriors, we are told, 
are peace-loving individuals, and you always find  people lauding their 
virile courage and even justifying torture in its name.  Michael Doliner 
invokes, with the help of a dark-humorous allegory, the kind  of mindset 
and power structure that it takes to use torture despite its 
ineffectiveness and unintended consequences. Louis Proyect exposes that 
very  mindset and power structure that has brought us slavery and racism 
in his  review of David Roediger's "How Race Survived U.S. History." 
Those versed in  French should read the 1861 Victor Hugo letter 
regarding the destruction and  spoilage of the Chinese Summer Palace by 
the French and the British in the  name of "civilization" and the 
cherished freedom to accumulate.

To counter the war proponents, we find it fitting to republish works by 
Boris  Vian and Tiziano Terzani -- a powerful collection from two 
dissidents that  spans from the 1950s to 2002 and which serves as a good
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Sam B | 1 Jun 02:30
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Re: What do Koreans think

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Lajany Otum <lajany_otum <at> yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I know western humanitarianism finds itself a touching sight, But perhaps
> before rushing to condemn the DPRK, the said lachrymose humanitarians
> here could focus a little on the beams in their own countries eyes, most
> recently the barbarism which their countries have imposed on Iraq and
> Afghanistan

"Their own" countries? Here we see the West-o-centric assumption
again, that all subscribers on this list are necessarily from the
West..

Why should a non-western socialist, whose county has never oppressed
DPRK, nor bombed Iraq or Afghanistan, defend DPRK against imperialism?

And from the point of view of DPRK citizens, who is the worst danger?
Their own government, or imperialism?

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glparramatta | 1 Jun 03:12
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What’s wrong with a 30-hour work week? | Links

By *Don Fitz*

May 30, 2009 -- With millions of jobs lost during the first part of 
2009, who is calling for a shorter work week to spread the work around? 
Not the Republicans. Not even the Democrats. But why is there nary a 
peep from unions?

In the US, the vehicle industry sets the pace for organised labour. The 
only discussion at the top levels of the United Auto Workers Union (UAW) 
is how quickly the gains won during the last 50 years can be given back. 
Does the UAW have no memory of the 1930s and 1940s when a shorter work 
week was at centre of organising demands?

Full article at http://links.org.au/node/1077

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Lajany Otum | 1 Jun 03:15
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Re: What do Koreans think

> 

> "Their own" countries? Here we see the West-o-centric assumption
> again, that all subscribers on this list are necessarily from the
> West..
>

There is no doubt that some of the lachrymose critics of  the DPRK here
are citizens of states that attacked DPRK in the past and, given half the 
chance, would impose even greater depredations of the people of Korea 
today -- including using nuclear weapons. The mission civilisatrice dies hard. 

>
> Why should a non-western socialist, whose county has never oppressed
> DPRK, nor bombed Iraq or Afghanistan, defend DPRK against imperialism?
>

Your question answers itself.

>
> And from the point of view of DPRK citizens, who is the worst danger?
> Their own government, or imperialism?
> 

I can't recall seeing this position stated so brazenly before. On the other hand,
perhaps you are privy to some secret intelligence dossier that DPRK actually 
developed a nuclear stockpile in order to defend itself against the people of the 
Korean peninsula?  Apparently I haven't being paying enough attention to Fox News. 

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Sebastian Pernice | 1 Jun 03:16
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Re: Books on history of LGBT rights movement / Marxist analysis?

Yes, Dan,

3  books on the history of LGBT rights movement/Marxist analysis come to mind:

Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Liberation:  A Movement Whose Time Has Come, NY:  WW Publishers, 1992

Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Warriors:  Making History from Joan of Arc to Rupaul, Beacon Press, 1996

Bob McCubbin, The Roots of Lesbian & Gay Oppression, A Marxist View, NY:  WW Publishsers, 1993

Comradely,

Sebastian

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