[Marxism] Re: Marxism Digest, Vol 8, Issue 16

["DHE" <cuibono@xxxxxxxx>]

"The law of value is totally misunderstand": I don't want to jump to 
conclusions, maybe the content of Melvin P.'s post was profound & valuable. But 
I'm a busy fella these days; whenever I see somebody conclude with a sentence 
that is ungrammatical to the pt of incoherence, I don't bother to read farther. 

I don't mean to "be negative", but maybe a little more attention to grammar & 
usage would pay off via more reader attention to the content? 

Or is there something here I don't -- as a list "newbie" -- quite understand? 
Some in-group joke or jargon? I've noticed stuff like this before a few times; 
seems a little mysterious. ??

While I've got an email open, let me provide a quick update on the 
demonstration in SF Saturday. There was a sizable contingent of 
counterdemonstrators, about 250/300 I'd guess, waving a forest of State of 
Israel flags. Gay rights was a prominent theme of many of their signs. 
"Terrorism vs Democracy" was probably the most prominent theme, in various 
guises.

The turnout for the "real" demo was about 8,000. The police put it at  5K. 

At one pt, there was a lot of interaction going on between the two groups of 
demonstrators, fairly civil at first but after an hour or so things began to 
get tense. A handful of black-clads with "cattle-rustler" black scarves hiding 
their faces showed up on our side & pushed to the front.  But at that pt San 
Francisco's Finest formed a line separating the two groups and calm was 
restored. 

The march went off smoothly. People were happy to be going downhill toward the 
Bay instead of uphill toward the Civic Ctr, also with the shortened route. The 
one jarring note, as always, was the inability of the bands & drummers to grasp 
the concept of why armies feature bands & drum corps: to play a beat at a tempo 
that matches the natural pace at which people walk , so as to take the work out 
of marching, make it fun, like dancing. What these musicians seem to have in 
mind an Ohio State football halftime show. 

IMHO there was little fresh in any of the speeches, so I mostly concentrate on 
the drum "circle" (actually a line, a "second line" behind the line confronting 
the "Zionazis"). The drumming also was pretty bad (except for yrs trly of 
course:).

Brighter spots in the afternoon: I kept running into Elias, three chance 
encounters in the crowd; and I bumped into some kids giving away the PLP paper, 
Challenge/DeSafio -- which gave me a start & a nostalgia hit: I spent some time 
selling that very product myself, almost exactly forty years ago!

Interesting to hear of Milt Rosen, Fred Jerome Jr, Jake Rosen -- names I hadn't 
heard in decades. John Ross of course passed through the Bay Area last year, 
sponsored by ISM!

Okay, break's over -- back to work!

Dan E.
Sactomato:)


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