[lbo-talk] Lukashenko & Belarus

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Sun Jun 1 13:13:11 PDT 2003


Thank you ;-)

I only re-started reading MR last yr. The latest w/the Rachel Corrie e- mails and the 30 pg. excerpt of the RIPE Oil/Iraq/US Empire analysis was excellent. Lent it to acquaitances that are active in anti-intervention orgs. but w/o a marxist background...as yet...

Gave the issue w/ex-maoist neo-con, Robert Leiken reply to Bettelheim resignation ltr. to the China-France Friendship Society, from a mid-to late 70's MR issue to Thomas Seay.

On human rights see the Verso collection w/Habermas, Rorty et. al organized by the Belgrade Circle and the Rethinking Marxism interview w/Joe Stork, formerly of MERIP and Reed Brody (or is it Brophy?) , author of, "Contra Terror in Nicaragua, " from South End Press, 1984 or so.

Either marxists incorporate the human rights discourse (marx would have), radicalize it, since as a Trot friend said talking to a filipino BAYAN M- L'ist, liberal NGO's are unaccountable to a mass membership or social movement, and are mostly sinkholes to co-opt radical NRG and channelize mvmnts. into petty-bourgeois reformism or marxism as Justin 'sez will decline even further as a theory to guide practice.

Agnes Heller, debating neo-marxist psychoanalyst, Joel Whitebrook, in Telos, on redemptive, romantic vs. radical democratic models, who ase you know was a student of Lukacs in Hungary, made the commonplace statement that either socialism is democratic or it is just another ideological mystification legitimating the rule of a New Class.

On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 15:52:29 -0400, John Mage <jmage at panix.com> wrote:


> all spookery in prepartion for the 2001 elections.
> earlier, "disappeared" politicians appeared ...in the US.
>
> here's a piece by my friend Valentin that we published in MR setting
> out the basic facts about Belarus and Lukashenko
> <http://www.monthlyreview.org/998masly.htm>
>
> john
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>
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> Michael Pugliese wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/140- 2103.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/1395542.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/audiovideo/programmes/crossing_continents- /europe/1296032.stm
> >
> > On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 14:29:02 -0400, John Mage <jmage at panix.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Michael Pugliese wrote:
> >>
> >>> Lukashenko has had journalists killed.



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