Hi Marik and Alex, I thought I should check in with you since it has been a while since I posted here. I have had a lot of political thoughts in my mind but...
Ben Seattle
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Nov 5, 2007 8:48 am
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hi folks, There is a not a lot of traffic on the pof-200 list right now -- which is fine. But I did notice late last month that one subscriber forgot that ...
Ben Seattle
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Nov 5, 2007 9:10 am
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Hi Ben, good to hear from you. What you said about my latest attempt at a leaflet is very true. I realized that it was a pretty shitty argument a few days...
Hi folks, In September I met a local activist at the corner newsstand and he asked me about political theory. In particular, he had ideas for how a group of...
Ben Seattle
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Nov 11, 2007 11:18 pm
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how the cargo-cult ideology cripples agitation: A comment on the CVO's article on "socialist health care" Recently the Communist Voice Organization (CVO)...
Ben Seattle
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Nov 18, 2007 10:34 pm
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It's true that healthcare, just like food and shelter are human rights, and it's true that having a government that helps people is better than one that...
mr1001nights@...
Nov 19, 2007 2:58 am
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Greetings everyone. I have been apprehensive about calling myself political as modern politics bothers me a great deal. But then I guess that is why I am here....
Hi Graziano, Thanks for your post. Unfortunately, there is little real activity on these lists (ie: pof-200 and pof-300) at this time. I would like to see...
Ben Seattle
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Nov 23, 2007 6:20 pm
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I am very happy to see certain trends on the pof discussions especially the positions and outlooks activists (including ben) have regarding what happened in...
This attack on Lenin is totally unwarranted. What did in the revolution was the war aginst it by the capitalists. It providing the difficulties and excuses...
Unfortunately, I believe the comrade who posted that misrepresented what I said. So I don't completely disagree with you. However, I still believe that the...
The mistake you make is separating the Bolshevik Party from the working class. the fact is that the Boshevik party became the chosen leaders of their class...
The Soviet Union Versus Socialism Noam Chomsky Our Generation, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 1986) pp. 47-52 When the world's two great propaganda systems...
mr1001nights@...
Dec 1, 2007 6:20 pm
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Hello Everyone, It's been a while since I posted and I have a number of things to address. First, concerning the draft letter to 'X7' written by Ben - I am...
hi everyone, Recently, there has been more activity on the pof-200 and (particularly) the pof-300 lists. This is a useful development. I will try to describe...
Ben Seattle
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Dec 3, 2007 7:17 am
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hi everyone, Recently, there has been more activity on the pof-200 and (particularly) the pof-300 lists. This is a useful development. I will try to describe...
Ben Seattle
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Dec 3, 2007 7:17 am
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You say ... It would indeed be superficial if what you said was true, but it isn't. In prior E-mails I had mentioned that the state is potentially more...
mr1001nights@...
Dec 3, 2007 7:24 am
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Hello all, After looking at Ben's draft and attempting to do my own, I found that Ben's words were quite good and there wasn't a whole lot I actually wanted to...
It has often been said that it is people like Tom Hayden who give opportunism a bad name. Here is part of the scoop concerning how the left wing of the ...
Ben Seattle
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Dec 7, 2007 7:06 am
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hi folks, Recently Google announced a project which is intended to be similar to Wikipedia but which also aims to overcome the main weakness of Wikipedia: the...
Ben Seattle
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Dec 15, 2007 6:43 pm
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Here's an article I found yesterday that has striking relevance to the somewhat recent debate between Ben, Frank, and myself. Like any article, it has some...
Hi everyone, Grok has asserted that he has the right to tell the world that _his voice_ represents the collective consciousness and will of our entire...
Ben Seattle
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Dec 20, 2007 3:51 pm
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Hi Alex, Thanks for finding and posting the articles by Max Shachtman (1934) and Hal Draper (1987) regarding the dictatorship of the proletariat from the point...
Ben Seattle
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Dec 26, 2007 5:05 am
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I am going to jump in here with my views. Years ago i came to the conclusion that the main problem with the Bolshevik party leadership after the Oct....
A message from Dennis Cradock: Your Personal Message From Above ... You have been invited to join Yuwie by Dennis Cradock. When you join, you will be instantly...
This is a response to this: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pof-300/message/1816 ... I'm going to have to take a somewhat neutral stance on this. First, let's...
Hi Marik and Alex, Well the news is that Grok has unsubscribed. I had hoped to avoid this. But keeping Grok arouund is not my highest priority. My time is...
Ben Seattle
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Dec 28, 2007 6:53 am
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For those of us not following the discussion on pof-300, let me give you a brief introduction: Last week, a friend of mine suggested to me that we start a...
posted at: http://home.flash.net/~comvoice/Ltr080109.html ... Reply to Ben Seattle on health care, his proposal to replace "socialism" with "proletarism", and...
Ben Seattle
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Jan 13, 2008 4:39 pm
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(two posts from the discussion, on pof-300, of Joseph's reply to Ben) ... From: Ben Seattle Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 11:16 AM To: 'pof-300' Subject:...
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