Re: [marxmail] No Trains, No Planes and Huge Protests: Strike Brings Greece to a Halt

From google translate, but hopefully readable: Privatizations: The real culprit of the head-on collision in Tempe

Re: [marxmail] No Trains, No Planes and Huge Protests: Strike Brings Greece to a Halt

Being around since 1974, this is, by the number of its participants, the biggest rally I have ever seen. Rallies have been held in every town of Greece, even in Herakleia, a rock rather than an isle in the middle of the Aegean Sea with some 90 inhabitants. JA Στις 1/3/25 00:27, ο/η Dennis Br

Re: [marxmail] Video essay: A Marxian analysis of the Ukraine war

Στις 11/1/25 06:40, ο/η Michael Karadjis via groups. έγραψε: Now of course one might object that there can be "elements" of proxy war in various cases, and sure, most conflicts are a combination of different factors. So if we are just using "proxy war" to mean that some imperialist or powerful

Re: [marxmail] Do animals need words to think?

Music, with its internal rules, is NOT a language. Language is not just a set of symbols, nor is it only communication. After the structuralist linguistics, we know that language is characterized by a double articulation. Structuralism is generally wrong, but not always or all along. Jay's obj

Re: [marxmail] Do animals need words to think?

://www.routledge.com/A-Materialist-Theory-of-the-Mind/Armstrong/p/book/9781032355412?srsltid=AfmBOopfSRNUwVIADLB6sELpE5zO-xPzXfAugYuH3Xu-GEw7IF6uBM4C JA Στις 20/10/24 18:51, ο/η hari kumar via groups.io έγραψε: Sorry that was unclear. It was a query to Ioannis Aposperites. So Ioannis - if the Sci

Re: [marxmail] Do animals need words to think?

Στις 20/10/24 14:03, ο/η stevencolatrella via groups.io έγραψε: This was always a big problem,  among others,  with postmodernism,  which presupposes ontologically the primacy of language and especially written language,  excluding "experience " as an unmediated category. I do agree about stru

Re: [marxmail] What if Marx had emigrated to Texas?

Since the subject of this thread has already been elaborated on, let's change it. How about "What if Marx had emigrated to Tierra del Fuego?". Or maybe  "What if Marx had emigrated to the Bahamas?" JA Στις 18/10/24 08:35, ο/η ARTHUR ERB via

Re: [marxmail] Multiple considerations

Στις 9/10/24 05:08, ο/η Marv Gandall via groups.io έγραψε: It was also the largest party on the left confronting the parallel rise of the Golden Dawn The largest party on the left confronting Golden Dawn was neither SYRIZA nor KKE (PC). It was the Antarsya coalition, which, along with other e

Re: [marxmail] Syriza: Setting the record straight and (hopefully) moving on

Στις 8/10/24 11:02, ο/η ioannis aposperites via groups.io έγραψε: In fact, no tendency on the Marxist left had the correct strategy and the Greek people re-elected Tsipras despite his having capitulated to the troika in blatant disregard of  their referendum vote. https://www.okde.org/en

Re: [marxmail] Syriza: Setting the record straight and (hopefully) moving on

Στις 8/10/24 09:13, ο/η Marv Gandall via groups.io έγραψε: In fact, no tendency on the Marxist left had the correct strategy and the Greek people re-elected Tsipras despite his having capitulated to the troika in blatant disregard of  their referendum vote. https://www.okde.org/en/announcement

Re: [marxmail] Anti-Immigrant Racism and Islamophobia Running Wild on CounterPunch

what a shameful article from a supposedly leftist site! It echoes hardcore Greek far right chauvinism JA Στις 29/8/24 10:34, ο/η Memet Çagatay via groups.io έγραψε: "Mongol Moslem Turks" "The refugees are primarily Moslems. That alone, and Turkey, make the illegal Moslems a life and death th

Re: [marxmail] The NPA on the French election

Στις 9/7/24 04:58, ο/η Steven L. Robinson via groups.io έγραψε: *The far right has been pushed back by popular mobilization - now we must implement the programme of the New Popular Front* *NPA - Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste/July 8. 2024* An extremely short communique by "NPA-L'anticapitalis

Re: [marxmail] Macedonian Question

Dear Michael Your kind words are an honour for me. I do also thank you for your comments and for the spirit of comradely debate. It is true that the Republic of Macedonia would seem easy meat for Greek capitalism. Economically there was no comparison. Politically, the Republic of Macedonia was

Re: [marxmail] Macedonian Question

Dear Matt For the other minorities in Greece you certainly have a point. What is peculiar with the Macedonian one, is the Prespa agreement and the nationalist containment of the working class it produced. In a matter of fact, as recently as of 2 July 2021,  "Areios Pagos" (the Greek supreme c

Re: [marxmail] Macedonian Question

Dear Louis You reposted the same link to my article! Was there anything dysfunctional with the initial  link I posted? JA (PN) Στις 9/7/21 3:34 μ.μ., ο/η Louis Proyect έγραψε: On 7/9/21 8:28 AM, ioannis aposperites wrote: Dear comrades The Macedonian question is pending since the second half

[marxmail] Macedonian Question

Dear comrades The Macedonian question is pending since the second half of the 19th century to our days. Here is my take on the present situation issued by the Prespa agreement. https://lefteast.org/the-macedonian-question-prespa-in-a-broader-context/

Re: [marxmail] Right sweeps Madrid, left must rethink - International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article7134 Do I smell a Popular Front around? JA -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#8469): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/8469 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/8

Re: [marxmail] French Turn #poll-notice

A wikipedia lemma is not at all enough for the french turn tactics to be  understood . Entryism has a long history and a not always positive record in the international Trotskyist movement. But as insufficient it may be the cited wikipedia lemma, it does describe the preconditions and the goal

Re: [marxmail] 'A Terrible Decision': Progressives Denounce Biden Pick of 'Mr. Monsanto' Tom Vilsack as Ag Secretary | Common Dreams News

Well, judging  from afar, it seems to me, that time has come for the American left to consider adding "Thou shalt not vote for a Democrat"   to it's dekalog. JA -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#4336): https://groups.io/

Re: [marxmail] Greek Turkish confrontation over natural gas mining in Mediterranean sea

Στις 9/9/20 11:51 π.μ., ο mkaradjis . έγραψε: Aside from OKDE, the Cliffite-derived groups always took a strong anti-nationalist stand, I assume that's still the case. Are there any others? Well, we are in a very strange situation. Let me try to describe it. First of all the Antarsya coalition

Re: [marxmail] Greek Turkish confrontation over natural gas mining in Mediterranean sea

Στις 8/9/20 7:12 μ.μ., ο mkaradjis . έγραψε: There is probably some underestimation of Turkey’s own aggressiveness in the OKDE statement, even if there is some “justification” from a “national” point of view as you explain well (and with Erdogan’s current ally Bahceli from the fascist MHP makin

[marxmail] Greek Turkish confrontation over natural gas mining in Mediterranean sea

The current Greek-Turkish crisis in the Mediterranean is not the result of an alleged unilateral aggression and provocation by Turkey. Nor is it, in abstract, the result of the intensification of imperialist rivalries or the rival claims of the bourgeoisies of Greece and Turkey. The specific re

Re: [marxmail] Christopher Helali - Communist Party (PCUSA) for Congress (Vermont)

Στις 12/8/20 5:11 μ.μ., ο Louis Proyect έγραψε: Also, Helali's group appears to be connected to some kind of international movement launched by the Greek Communist Party (KKE). https://atexnos.gr/%CE%BA%CF%81%CE%AF%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%B5%CF%81-%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%AC%CE%BB%CE%B9-%

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