Re: Re: reform and rev

2002-01-25 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
> > >Put is this way, I don't think it is likely that Pashakunis was >murdered because he had some "good" Marxist theory of jurisprudence, >and Stalin wanted to cover up the "good " theory and put forth a >"bad" theory of Marxist jurisprudence. Does that speak to what you >are getting at ? I

Re: Re: reform and rev

2002-01-25 Thread Michael Perelman
Charles and Rakesh, this dialogue is going nowhere. Can you take it offlist? On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 03:47:39PM -0500, Charles Brown wrote: > Re: reform and rev > by Rakesh Bhandari > 24 January 2002 18:09 UTC > > > > > >>CB: I am not familiar with Pas

Re: reform and rev

2002-01-25 Thread Charles Brown
Re: reform and rev by Rakesh Bhandari 24 January 2002 18:09 UTC > >>CB: I am not familiar with Pashakunis' liquidation specifics, >>although I believe it was after the Bolsheviks were dissolved into >>the CPSU. > >How convenient that you are not familiar with

Re: reform and rev

2002-01-24 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
> reform and rev >by Rakesh Bhandari > > > >>CB: I am not familiar with Pashakunis' liquidation specifics, >>although I believe it was after the Bolsheviks were dissolved into >>the CPSU. > >How convenient that you are not familiar with the history of the >Soviet Union that you have defended on e

Re: reform and rev

2002-01-24 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
> >^ > >CB: Yes, actually, I was going to type in some of Perlo's chapter >"The Rate of Profit". The funny thing is Perlo uses both the famous >"anti-consumptionist" quote from Vol. II that you stand on and the >"ultimate cosuming power of society" quote from Vol. III that shows >your

Re: Re: reform and rev

2002-01-22 Thread Alan Cibils
At 1/21/2002, Rakesh wrote: >The reason why so many Marxists have difficulty in understanding the >progressive thrust of many third world revolutions has been that they only >study Marx, and do not beyond him. Two people who have tried to go beyond >Marx here are Guglielmo Carchedi and Enriq

Re: Re: Re: reform and rev

2002-01-22 Thread miyachi
on 1/22/02 06:44 AM, Michael Perelman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The Paris Commune caused a flurry of interest in Marx -- especially by > mainstream economists. > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:13:37AM -0800, Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >>> >>> >>> CB: The difference between Marx and others is the

Re: reform and rev

2002-01-22 Thread Chris Burford
At 22/01/02 00:11 +, I wrote: >At 21/01/02 12:32 -0500, you wrote: >>Ian M: >>What forms of organizing of the 'managerial >>class', let alone the larger working class of which they >>are a subset, would it take to have them withdraw consent >>to the system? >> >> >> >>CB: That's one of

Re: reform and rev

2002-01-21 Thread Chris Burford
At 21/01/02 12:32 -0500, you wrote: >Ian M: >What forms of organizing of the 'managerial >class', let alone the larger working class of which they >are a subset, would it take to have them withdraw consent >to the system? > > > >CB: That's one of the $ 64 question, innit ? The managerial

Re: Re: reform and rev

2002-01-21 Thread Michael Perelman
The Paris Commune caused a flurry of interest in Marx -- especially by mainstream economists. On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:13:37AM -0800, Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > > > > > >CB: The difference between Marx and others is the Russian, Chinese > >and other socialist revolutions. We are studying Marx

Re: reform and rev

2002-01-21 Thread miyachi
on 1/22/02 02:35 AM, Charles Brown at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ok, but how are his claims any different from the > predictions of other economists-social forecasters? What is > it about his method of inference etc. that renders his > approach to the futurity of indeterminism and uncertainty >

Re: reform and rev

2002-01-21 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
> > >CB: The difference between Marx and others is the Russian, Chinese >and other socialist revolutions. We are studying Marx because of >the Bolsheviks and the Russian Rev. Please Charles speak for yourself. For one thing, I do not think Marx developed a theory of the transfer of value in

Re: RE: Re: RE: reform and rev

2002-01-19 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
> > >The argument that deficits cause high interest rates is also >theoretically and empirically questionable. More often the causation >goes the other way--high interest rates mean higher interest payments on >the public debt which cet par mean larger deficits. Mat, good point indeed. > >The

Re: Re: Re: RE: reform and rev

2002-01-19 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
>Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > >>(2) what happens if in running deficits, the US sucks up global >>capital, raises interest rates, and visits catastrophe on poorer >>nations? is this possible? > >You're assuming that deficits drive up interest rates. There's no >simple relation between deficits and

Re: RE: Re: Re: reform and rev

2002-01-18 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Running Dog >And Carrol, it is Tienamen. I may be off on my spelling but, > I'm closer, I betcha! Cf. "The Tienamen Papers, " edited by Andrew > Nathan. > Michael "Running Dog" Pugliese, Woof, Woof! It was always rendered Tianenman here at the time. I still remember those poor young

RE: Re: Re: reform and rev

2002-01-18 Thread michael pugliese
gt; >--- Message Received --- >From: Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:54:53 -0600 >Subject: [PEN-L:21620] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: reform and rev > >Carrol I like your thinking here but you probably will not like my addition to i

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: reform and rev

2002-01-18 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Christian, > Michael wrote: > > > Also, interest rates are a very, very weak determinant of > investment. > > Are you speaking generally? If so, do you know of any good empirical > stuff that supports this? > Reckon pen-l has hit a very rich vein of late - gratitude to all. Anyway, if

Re: Re: reform and rev

2002-01-18 Thread Greg Schofield
--- Message Received --- From: Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:54:53 -0600 Subject: [PEN-L:21620] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: reform and rev Carrol I like your thinking here but you probably will not like my addition to it. Carrol: "If I h

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: reform and rev

2002-01-18 Thread Carrol Cox
Doug Henwood wrote: > > Carrol Cox wrote: > > >"If you don't hit it, it won't fall." Mao. > > > >I rather suspect that capitalism can be depended on periodically to tear > >itself apart -- but it can also be depended on to put itself back > >together > > Yup. As happened in Mao's own country

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: reform and rev

2002-01-18 Thread Michael Perelman
I have to run, but Robert Chirinko and Robert Eisner have done work on this. bye. On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 12:56:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Michael wrote: > > > Also, interest rates are a very, very weak determinant of investment. > > Are you speaking generally? If so, do you know o

Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: reform and rev

2002-01-18 Thread christian11
Michael wrote: > Also, interest rates are a very, very weak determinant of investment. Are you speaking generally? If so, do you know of any good empirical stuff that supports this? Christian

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2002-01-18 Thread Michael Perelman
I should have added that my book and his are more similar regarding the backdrop of the U.S. economy. In the major parts on international competition, I did not feel the same affinity. "Devine, James" wrote: > Michael Perelman writes:>In my new book, The Pathology of the U.S. Economy > Revisite

Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: reform and rev

2002-01-18 Thread Michael Perelman
Similar to Brenner in many ways, yes. We both worked on the transition to capitalism about the same time. Several people pointed out the similarity between his New Left Review piece and my own work. When I saw it, my first thought was plagiarism. I asked about it and he explained the pathway t

Re: Re: Re: RE: reform and rev

2002-01-18 Thread Michael Perelman
Also, interest rates are a very, very weak determinant of investment. On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 12:02:21PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote: > Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > > >(2) what happens if in running deficits, the US sucks up global > >capital, raises interest rates, and visits catastrophe on poorer

RE: Re: Re: Re: reform and rev

2002-01-18 Thread Devine, James
Michael Perelman writes:>In my new book, The Pathology of the U.S. Economy Revisited, I tried to make the case that this success rested, in part, on prior conditions: a new capital stock coming out of the Great Depression and World War II, the destruction of competing economies, and a very favorab

RE: Re: Re: RE: reform and rev

2002-01-18 Thread Devine, James
> >(2) what happens if in running deficits, the US sucks up global > >capital, raises interest rates, and visits catastrophe on poorer > >nations? is this possible? Doug answers: > You're assuming that deficits drive up interest rates. There's no > simple relation between deficits and interes

Re: Re: RE: reform and rev

2002-01-18 Thread Doug Henwood
Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >(2) what happens if in running deficits, the US sucks up global >capital, raises interest rates, and visits catastrophe on poorer >nations? is this possible? You're assuming that deficits drive up interest rates. There's no simple relation between deficits and interest

Re: Re: Re: reform and rev

2002-01-18 Thread Michael Perelman
In my new book, The Pathology of the U.S. Economy Revisited, I tried to make the case that this success rested, in part, on prior conditions: a new capital stock coming out of the Great Depression and World War II, the destruction of competing economies, and a very favorable debt structure. "Will

RE: Re: RE: reform and rev

2002-01-18 Thread Forstater, Mathew
Rakesh asks: >Mat, >(1) what happens if govt deficits in the pursuit of full employment >have arresting effects on private investments; could this happen? why >or why not? If you are talking about some kind of "crowding out" then, first, I think that many of the arguments for crowding out are

Re: Re: reform and rev

2002-01-18 Thread William S. Lear
On Thursday, January 17, 2002 at 20:30:29 (-0800) Rakesh Bhandari writes: >... >I think govts have in fact already found that running deficits the >size that would be needed to achieve full employment would only yield >retrenchment in private investment; govts thus find that limiting >deficits

Re: Re: Re: Re: reform and rev

2002-01-17 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
michael writes: > > >I believe that the slaughtering of captial values gives capital a lot >more room to maneuver than a Keynesian solution -- which I regard as a >temporary fix -- although I am not convinced that the ultimate problem >is deficit financing. I don't think the ultimate problem i

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: reform and rev

2002-01-17 Thread Michael Perelman
Regarding what Carrol wrote, Russell Jacoby wrote about how the German social democrats embraced crisis theory because it offered the comforting idea that they did not have to do anything -- the economy would fall on its own. On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:43:58PM -0600, Carrol Cox wrote: > > > Mi

Re: Re: Re: reform and rev

2002-01-17 Thread michael perelman
Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > I think govts have in fact already found that running deficits the > size that would be needed to achieve full employment would only yield > retrenchment in private investment; Rakesh, I am not sure how you support the above. Right wingers often say the same. Doe

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: reform and rev

2002-01-17 Thread michael perelman
As Jim D. mentioned, Marx's private predictions were not particularly accurate -- they included a large dollop of hope. Marxists generally study Marx for his method, not for his predictions. Ian Murray wrote: > > Ok, but how are his claims any different from the > predictions of other economis

Re: Re: Re: Re: reform and rev

2002-01-17 Thread Carrol Cox
Michael Perelman wrote: > > Ian, Marx posited that capitalism would work that way for a while, but > that the contradictions would accumulate and then , but then, it has > not yet happened, except in the USSR, China ... > "If you don't hit it, it won't fall." Mao. I rather suspect that c

Re: Re: Re: Re: reform and rev

2002-01-17 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: "Michael Perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 8:07 PM Subject: [PEN-L:21571] Re: Re: Re: reform and rev Ian, Marx posited that capitalism would work that way for a while, but that th

Re: Re: reform and rev

2002-01-17 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
list moderator michael writes: >Rakesh keeps reiterating that deficits represent a serious threat. I don't >agree, even though I believe that Keynesian policy runs in the problems in >the long run. I think govts have in fact already found that running deficits the size that would be needed to

Re: Re: Re: reform and rev

2002-01-17 Thread Michael Perelman
Ian, Marx posited that capitalism would work that way for a while, but that the contradictions would accumulate and then , but then, it has not yet happened, except in the USSR, China ... On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:15:22PM -0800, Ian Murray wrote: > > Hate to be a pain in the neck on this b

Re: Re: reform and rev

2002-01-17 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: "Michael Perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 5:43 PM Subject: [PEN-L:21567] Re: reform and rev Rakesh keeps reiterating that deficits represent a serious threat. I don't agree,

Re: reform and rev

2002-01-17 Thread Michael Perelman
Rakesh keeps reiterating that deficits represent a serious threat. I don't agree, even though I believe that Keynesian policy runs in the problems in the long run. My own preferred version of the contradiction suggests that a different form of fictitious capital presents a serious barrier. I tr

Re: RE: reform and rev

2002-01-17 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
mat wrote: >I support anything that I think will make the lives of working people >and the poor (and the working poor!) better than it is now, including >deficit financed job creation, government spending on various social >programs, living wage, etc. I don't believe that these things can end >t

RE: reform and rev

2002-01-17 Thread Forstater, Mathew
I support anything that I think will make the lives of working people and the poor (and the working poor!) better than it is now, including deficit financed job creation, government spending on various social programs, living wage, etc. I don't believe that these things can end the business cycle

Re: RE: reform and rev

2002-01-17 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
>I would say that keynesian demand management combined >with a good safety net, ample social insurance, and Max I am with you on the fight to preserve and expand such programmes. >and a new >agency that would rapidly resolve business bankruptcies and >redeploy their assets, would solve the und

RE: reform and rev

2002-01-17 Thread Max Sawicky
I would say that keynesian demand management combined with a good safety net, ample social insurance, and a new agency that would rapidly resolve business bankruptcies and redeploy their assets, would solve the underlying problems of the capitalist system, if I only had a brain. The problem here

Re: reform and rev

2002-01-17 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
>Rakesh: >the discussion here is not of social democratic economics but the >root causes of capitalist crises and whether Keynesian demand >management can solve the underlying problems with the capitalist >system. > >^^^ > >CB: So, who on this list or thread has claimed that "Keynesian >deman