Re: [Marxism] From Marxism to Neoliberalism: Ronnie Kasrils on How Mandela & ANC Shifted Economic Views | Democracy Now!
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Re: [Marxism] BRICS-watch: Immanuel Wallerstein's ambivalent
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In haste, I agree with the conclusions, but not quite with the argument. Roughly, without much thinking or significant research My sense is that the BRICS will try to expand. I know, for instance, that Indonesia and Nigeria have made representation for inclusion. Doing so may diffuse power across quite a territorially vast span of countries. We should not under-estimate regional priorities. Anyway, if this dispersion does occur, the BRICS may to lose power, coherence and stability as some kind of hegemon - to the extent that global/historical orders require hegemonic stability. Given the systemic crisis underway at the moment, and my sense is that its full (historical, philosophical and social) impact has not yet run its course (global-systemically), I can't see how the BRICS would a) resuscitate the global capitalism (as a functional totality) b) revitalise the institutions of global capitalism c) keep US militarism in check, and d) generally re-introduce confidence in the system. These are some of the cornerstone projects for global capitalist stability and coherence and/or putative next hegemonic period It is important to note that when China joined the WTO they presented an important message to the world: they opted into the existing structures, and did not want to replace it. My sense is that BRICS countries will, likewise, want to retain global capitalist institutions, organisations and structures and herein lies a potential crisis. So, where am I going... not sure, I guess, what I am saying is that it's too soon to tell (i don't like predictions). If i were to read the piece critically, i would, as a Critical Realist, start with some questions about ontology. One of the first would be to define imperialism/sub-imperialism. Second I would raise the level of analysis away from sub-national/national to global/historical/systemic. Across the long view, the rise and decline of growth within BRICS countries may well be irrelevant - which brings us to Wallerstein's conclusions... A good piece, nonetheless. Thanks, Patrick. Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/ilagardien%40yahoo.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Paper Request
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Howdy Would someone mind retrieving a paper for me, please? It's a short one! Thanks! Of Arms and the Man: A Response to Christopher Coker's "The Unhappy Warrior" Michael Evans From: Historically Speaking Volume 7, Number 4, March/April 2006 pp. 40-42 | 10.1353/hsp.2006.0061 Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] My Last Post
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == apologies for all the typos in the previous post (on accents) i just read it again Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Acquisition on Accents
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Everyone Does anyone know of a good paper or source - I have search online and will continue to do so - that helps explain how we acquire foreign accents during adulthood? Very brief background and an observation that I think people might enjoy. Since all my university education was abroad, in the UK, and because I spent many years in North America, I have a "strange" accent. I want to write a blog post related to this. During the 1980s, when I listened to Radio Moscow, I always found it amusing that most of the radio hosts and newscasters spoke English with a North American accent. Anyway, please let me know if there are any sociological or anthropological explanations for this. I know that one picks up languages earlier in life, but not necessarily accepts. In my case, the first formal English I learned was North American and British... So Thanks Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] New Left Review Article
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Everyone If anyone has access to the NLR, would you care to download and share this article, please. New Left Review 78, November-December 2012 MICHAEL CRAMER ROSSELLINI’S HISTORY LESSONS Roberto rossellini (1906–77) spent the last fourteen years of his career making what he called pedagogical films, principally for television. In his view, these works constituted a major break with existing cinema; they were a new form, neither art nor entertainment, and the director himself now wanted to be considered as an educator, not an artist. [1] They included multi-part series on human historical development—the 5-hour The Iron Age (1964) and 12-hour Man’s Struggle for Survival (1967–69)—as well as portraits of innovators in the fields of politics—Cosimo de Medici, Louis XIV—and ideas: Socrates, Augustine, Descartes, Pascal. Rossellini’s account ofMan’s Struggle for Survival, in a 1972 letter to the historian of American slavery, Peter Wood, gives a sense of the project’s ambitions: http://newleftreview.org/II/78/michael-cramer-rossellin-s-history-lessons#_edn1 Thanks Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] New Yorker Article Received. Ignore request. Thanks!
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[Marxism] Anyone with a New Yorker subscription?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Would anyone care to send me a pdf, or raw text or anything of this story in the New Yorker, please? http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/01/21/130121fa_fact_owen Appreciations in advance Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] An intriguing comment
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Fascinating Could you send me a link to your original piece, please? " My grandfather grew up in the same small town as Jesse..." Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/ilagardien%40yahoo.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The Ideas of Nikolai Bukharin
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Does anyone have an electronic copy of The Ideas of Nikolai Bukharin to share, please Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Tutu: Try Blair and Bush for war crimes
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sorry, should have clipped extraneous text in previous reply :( Don't unsubscribe me, pretty please Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Tutu: Try Blair and Bush for war crimes
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Tutu is misguided. The only Huntington's "Others" and dark-skinned people commit war crimes. Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto - Original Message - From: Stuart Munckton To: Ismail Lagardien Cc: Sent: Tuesday, 4 September 2012, 2:28 Subject: [Marxism] Tutu: Try Blair and Bush for war crimes == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-03/tutu-wants-bush-and-blair-tried-over-iraq/4239060 -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/ilagardien%40yahoo.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Trotsky's Grandson Recalls Murder
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It's 75 years since Trotsky, already expelled from the Soviet Communist Party and exiled, went to start a new life in Mexico. But he was hunted down in Mexico City by Stalinist assassins, as his grandson, who was living with him when he died, recalls. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19356256 Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Arrogance Does Not Begin To Describe This - Oprah!
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == You still eat with your hands? Oprah’s magical mystery tour of India http://www.firstpost.com/bollywood/you-still-eat-with-your-hands-oprahs-magical-mystery-tour-of-india-385494.html Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Query on bourgeois economists beginning to convert to Marxian analysis
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jeffrey Sachs has said that Marx was right, that capitalism was bloody. I used the reference in my doctoral dissertation. Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/ilagardien%40yahoo.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Finland Education Source
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi I clean out my inbox way to often. Does anyone have the original posting of education in Finland? The one about private/public education. Apologies Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] [UCE] Photographs of Workers
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I would like to hear people's views on these technically marvelous photographs. There is a great worker angle here. http://pavelkosenko.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/4x5-kodachromes/ Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fw: Geopolitics with Robert D. Kaplan: Is Greece European?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Kaplan is truly one of the vilest writers on world affairs... He spends so much of his time othering Huntington's others, it's quite shameful. By Robert D. Kaplan | June 6, 2012 Greece is where the West both begins and ends. The West -- as a humanist ideal -- began in ancient Athens where compassion for the individual began to replace the crushing brutality of the nearby civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia. The war that Herodotus chronicles between Greece and Persia in the 5th century B.C. established a contrast between West and East that has persisted for millennia. Greece is Christian, but it is also Eastern Orthodox, as spiritually close to Russia as it is to the West, and geographically equidistant between Brussels and Moscow. Greece may have invented the West with the democratic innovations of the Age of Pericles, but for more than a thousand years it was a child of Byzantine and Turkish despotism. And while Greece was the northwestern bastion of the anciently civilized Near East, ever since history moved north into colder climates following the collapse of Rome, the inhabitants of Peninsular Greece have found themselves at the poor, southeastern extremity of Europe. . Read More » Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] A Brief Note on Method
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Pardon the pretentious subject ... Just thought I should mention the standard Twitter rule :^; Retweeting is not endorsement. I am not now, or never have been a fan of Dan Quayle. Sometimes I read stuff and wonder what everyone else on the two lists think. Dasoll Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Not Sure How I Feel About This: "Dan Quayle was Right"
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Twenty Years Later, It Turns Out Dan Quayle Was Right About Murphy Brown and Unmarried Moms On May 19, 1992, as the presidential campaign season was heating up, Vice President Dan Quayle delivered a family-values speech that came to define him nearly as much as his spelling talents. Speaking at the Commonwealth Club of California, he chided Murphy Brown—the fictional 40-something, divorced news anchor played by Candice Bergen on a CBS sitcom—for her decision to have a child outside of marriage. “Bearing babies irresponsibly is simply wrong,” the vice president said. “Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesn’t help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes today’s intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.” http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2012/05/25-unmarried-mothers-sawhill Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Tweeters, Twitterers and Twats
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == if you tweet, please follow me - mainly so i can follow you @ilagardien Thanks (apologies in advance if it is considered uncool to make requests like this) Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Quote by Trotsky
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Apologies for not sending full details and source of Trotsky quote. Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto From: Andrew Pollack To: Ismail Lagardien Sent: Tuesday, 29 May 2012, 16:29 Subject: Re: [Marxism] Quote by Trotsky Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Quote by Trotsky
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Not sure if anyone has seen this prescient quote by Trotsky: "It is possible to imagine without difficulty what awaits the Jews at the mere outbreak of the future world war. But even without war the next development of world reaction signifies with certainty the physical extermination of the Jews." Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] End of Ideology
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I should explain a bit further. I am especially interested in the Fukuyama/liberal capitalist triumphalism age; Where ANY questioning or criticism of Neo-Classical Orthodoxy or liberal capitalism is dismissed as "ideological". I see this dovetailing with the argument, detailed in Lawson's Economics and Reality, by Neo-Classicists and orthodox economists, "don't think just do" and their fixation with ahistorical and crude empiricist methododologies. I am writing a short piece about how this is becoming quite pervasive (again) in South Africa, and how it is linked to some people's deep (lingering) fascination with "the American model" that has been exported to Africa through the Bank-Fund - notwithstanding the collapse of this model. I can probably string it together myself, but I am always wary of thinking that I have original ideas when I have a very short memory. Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] End of Ideology
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Does anyone have any good references (URLs or actual essays, commentaries) on the "end of ideology" rubbish that stemmed from Fukuyama's "end of history" thesis. I need a good take down of the "end of ideology" rubbish, especially the assertions that ideology, inertia and some other "I" is the cause of all the world's problems. Thanks Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Switching Sides
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Everyone We often hear about almost Damascene conversion of people like David Mamet - and David Horowitz, much, much earlier - from the Left to the Right. Are there any accounts of people moving the other way? I know that Chris Hedges has come out as some kind of leftie in recent years. Maybe he always was. I'm not sure. It also seems to me that Cindy Sheehan has moved to the left; from supporting her son to join the US military to becoming somewhat of an anti-war activist. Any thoughts? Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Breivik Talk - Sound Familiar?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Breivik calls for acquittal in Norway massacre trial Anders Behring Breivik has said that he does not recognise the court. The man accused of killing 77 people in bomb and gun attacks in Norway last July has boasted of his actions in a statement at his trial in Oslo. “Breivik said that he acted to defend Norway against immigration and multi-culturalism” ... and that he was vehement critic of “liberalism and multi-culturalism” Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17737085 Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Paper on Intellectuals Received - Thanks!
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Journal Article on Intellectuals
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Everyone Ehm, would someone help me with the following essay, please. Ron Eyerman, 2011. Intellectuals and cultural trauma. European Journal of Social Theory November 2011 vol. 14 no. 4 453-467 Much obliged Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Article Request
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Could someone send me this article, please. Photography and Memory: Rethinking May '68 MEMOU, ANTIGONI Philosophy of Photography, Volume 2, Number 1, 20 September 2011 , pp. 83-96(14) Much appreciations, as always. Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Journal Article
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Everyone If anyone has electronic access to this article, The Grand Optimists: Hope in the Thought of J.P. Sartre and E.H. Erikson, by Arnold Kruger, would you care to send it to me please. This is the link: http://www.secure.pdcnet.org/philinquiry/content/philinquiry_2003_0025_40545_0145_0159?file_type=pdf Someone (Lou Proyect) kindly offered to scan and send it but (please note), it is not that important. It's for my bed time reading, and not for any serious research. Thanks again for your help! Ismail Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Journal Article Received (within five minutes -Thanks Lou!)
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Journal Article Request (Please)
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Everyone Could someone help to get me a copy of this article, please Sartre and the Collective Neurosis of Our Time Douglas Kirsner Yale French Studies No. 68, Sartre after Sartre (1985), pp. 206-225 Thanks Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Political Economy of Public Procurement
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Everyone Does anyone know of a good Political Economist (from the heterodox/radical tradition) who specialises/has an interest in public procurement? I would like to be in touch with someone who is more radical and knows AND works with the understanding that there is a difference between Neo-Classical or Public Economics text-book theories, and policy-making in a complex and highly stratified society. Any advice would be appreciated, thanks. Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Racial Spectacles: Explorations in Media, Race, and Justice
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jonathan Markovitz. Racial Spectacles: Explorations in Media, Race,and Justice. New York Routledge, 2011. 240 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-88345-0; $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-415-88383-2; ISBN 978-0-203-84321-5. Reviewed by Jonathan Anuik (University of Alberta) Published on H-Memory (March, 2012) Commissioned by Linda Levitt Last summer, I happened upon an advertisement for Calvin Klein underwear in a subway station in downtown Toronto. Notably, the male model was black. The billboard did not come out of a vacuum, emerging as a single ad to capture the attention of consumers with disposable income going home from work. Instead, it is part of a longer history of North American obsession with black male sexuality. The advertisement is a racial spectacle, according to Jonathan Markovitz. He argues that "collective memories ... help to structure contemporary social identities and determine how various constituencies make sense of racial spectacles as they unfold on a national or international stage" (p. 3). Thus, the national and international contours of race relations inevitably affect my response to the ad. Gender and class shape race as spectacles occur in news media, in fictional and nonfictional depictions of race in movies and on television, and in novels. Markovitz sets out to examine "the ways in which state actors and social movements have constructed narratives of the past" through the use of spectacles and "enlisted these narratives in political struggles," locally, nationally, and internationally. People have deployed spectacles, "mobilized around them," and made them matter, and through all of this, spectacles have influenced "racial formation" and racialization in the United States and internationally (p. 3). However, not all spectacles endure, and Markovitz wants to know why. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=35104 Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Journal Article Received - THANKS!
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Journal Article Request
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Everyone Can someone help me get this paper, please. I am not sure whether there is a "part 1" . Any/all help will, as usual, be much appreciated Daly, Chris. "The Historiography of Journalism History: Part 2: 'Toward a New Theory,'" American Journalism, Winter 2009, Vol. 26 Issue 1, pp 148–155 Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] On a Social History of the Restaurant
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Everyone I wrote this piece several months ago and never quite discussed it with anyone. While the piece is light and silly in places, I make some assertions about capitalism towards the end. Let me know what you think, and what "additions" i should make to the post. If you want to leave a comment, please do so. I will gladly add all your comments and suggestions. And please I have nothing to gain from "self-promotion". I keep my personal blog space quite private, and have no desire to "monetise" drive viewers to the site or get more "hits"... So I am not looking for"hits" or "traffic". Maybe someday, but right now I am concentrating on other writing "The Russian Bolsheviks placed an emphasis on the communal kitchen and dining room as an essential of universal equality. At the time, Marxist, more appropriately, Soviet idealism infused true believers “with a delight in communal cooking and state-run cafeterias at the same time that it shamed the private diner”. Restaurants were denounced as “a waste of resources catering to the elite at the expense of the poor” and “the best way to manage equipment, food, fuel, and labour was to cook large amounts at once to serve many people,” Snodgrass explained. http://www.ilagardien.com/?p=2658 I Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Knowledge in the Global Political Economy
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I am writing a short essay for a journal/magazine, on "knowledge" in the global political economy. It's not for peer review, but a fairly respected journal. My basic argument is that we make a big mistake to think of "knowledge in the global economy" as that which is relevant to, useful for or helps shore up liberal capitalist orthodoxy. In other words the only knowledge that is necessary is that which promotes and protects global corporate/capitalist interests. Any ideas? Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Is the Era of White Privilege Nearing an End?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Truthout recently published a piece, "Is the Era of White Privilege Nearing an End?" My immediate thought was that it reminded me of the canard that computers were more intelligent than humans, to which my response has always been: "Maybe someday when a computer can, unprogrammed by human beings, make a human being..." Not terribly scientific, I know. My response to the Truth-out piece would be this: "Maybe when we publish articles like these in a world where 'non-whites' control the means of production, capital, and cultural production - among other." That ain't gonna happen anytime soon. As a Critical Realist I would ask the ontological questions first. What is white? What is black? Are these categories ontologically stable? What is meant by privilege? My thought for the day Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] The Entropy of Capitalism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I would love to read that. I should reciprocate in some way. Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Soviet Scholar on Trotsky
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == "An interpretation for the 21st century," says the blurb. My first reaction was to wonder whether the 21st century needs a new interpretation of Trotsky, or even whether Trotsky needs a new biography. We already have the three-volume classic by Isaac Deutscher, a Russian (former Soviet) perspective from Dmitri Volkogonov, and, just a couple of years ago, a book on his murder by Bertrand Patenaude and Robert Service's biography, a bit mean-spirited, perhaps, but well-researched and twice as large as this new one by Rubenstein. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/17/leon-trotsky-joshua-rubenstein-review?CMP=twt_gu Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] e-Books and (especially) e-Readers
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mark Of course I will be exploring. It just seems like a shame that I can't share "legally"... I could be wrong, though. Still "exploring" Thanks Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] e-Books and (especially) e-Readers
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I have caved in and now own an e-reader. I bought a subscription to a magazine, sent a few books to my Kindle account and now, it appears, I am set to rebuild library of several thousand books i had until last year - well not all the same ones, but you know what i mean... Then it occurred to me that I used to pass on old copies of Harper's magazine to friends - mainly I just kept them - and shared some, not too many, books with friends and students. But now that I accepted what I call the "acquiesced monopoly" that is Apple, I may no longer be able to share books and magazines. Not cool. PS. Full Disclosure: Whatever replies/responses are submitted will be used (anonymously, of course) in a blog post I'm about to write about this. That way I will look clever. Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The Entropy of Capitalism
rm”, but precisely in virtue of that cribs and contains them rather than allowing them scope to develop their full, enormous potential. Because spontaneously evolving complex systems are far more creative than hierarchically controlled ones, “disorganized capitalism” easily defeated central planned actually existing socialism, but in so doing it released forces that may assist in its own demise. Today “capitalism needs to be overthrown not because it is a restriction on central planning but because it is a restriction on networking and grassroots capacity” which, if given free rein, are entirely capable of producing a postcapitalist future where “small local cells of society and economy . create higher-level order, knowledge and innovation through networking and emergence”. Biel argues that the current drive to a non-Eurocentric re-orientation of the capitalist world system, in which the capitalist epicentre moves to Asia, does not present a viable alternative. Any move to a non-Eurocentric world would involve the displacement of capitalism itself, ultimately because of the ecological constraints on capitalism's inexorable drive to growth. Meanwhile, globalization has been accompanied by new and pervasive approaches to organized collective military domination abroad, and repression and social control at home, on the part of the Eurocentric (Antlantocentric) ruling order. This “blocks” the drive to a non-Eurocentric capitalism, while also contributing mightily to the autophagous “hollowing out” of the core. With the growing struggles in the South against its status as a “sink” for the entropy of the North, the real possibility comes into view of a “great reversal” as the banner of emancipatory social change continues to migrate, involving a switch to ecologically sustainable democratically self-organizing local economies and communities, for which there is no real alternative over the longer run, first in the South and then generalizing. The overriding moral of the book is that we need to learn to regard the multicrisis as an opportunity for effecting sustainable emancipatory solutions rather than as a source of great danger. Messiness and “disordered phase transitions will be a part of *any* social development, and are nothing to be afraid of, quite the contrary”. It is the master-classes who fear change, which in reality is an essential aspect of human social being and sooner or later spells an end to any exploitative social system. ENDS Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Critical International Political Economy: Journal Access
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hope I am not pushing my luck, here, but can someone help with this special edition of a journal, please. I have copied and pasted the whole message I received in case people on this list are interested... See link to journal in body of text Thanks in advance. Ismail MESSAGES I RECEIVED STARTS HERE. Dear All, I (Claes Belfrage) and Owen Worth have the pleasure of announcing the publication of a special issue on 'Critical International Political Economy: Renewing Critique and Ontologies' in International Politics: Volume 49, Issue 2 (March 2012). The special issue contains contributions by Owen Worth, Claes Belfrage, Ian Bruff, Jill Steans & Daniela Tepe, Phoebe Moore, Nana Rodaki, Kyle Murray and David M. Berry. It endeavours to renew critique in IPE by engaging with the work of Rosa Luxemburg (Worth) and the notion of aesthetics and Frankfurt School theory (Belfrage). It seeks to highlight the relevance of Nicos Poulantzas for contemporary debates on 'the international' (Bruff), the significance of the global and gendered dimensions of citizenship, community and 'cohesion' (Steans & Tepe), and the relative absence of the study of 'work' in critical IPE (Moore). It attempts to renew the tradition by considering 'the city' (Rodaki), the role of Christian 'renewalism' in the production of global free market hegemony (Murray), and the relevance of understanding code to international political economy (Berry). Link: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ip/journal/v49/n2/index.html We hope you engage with the special issue and that it will serve the purpose of renewing critique and ontologies in Critical IPE in particular and IPE as a whole more generally. All the best, Claes and Owen Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Blog Post on Soviet Union - Found it. Apologies.
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This was what I was searching for: http://gowans.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/we-lived-better-then/ Thanks Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Blog on Soviet Union
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Everyone This is embarrassing... I recently "bookmarked" a blog post on life in the Soviet Union that came through one of my feeds. I can NOT, for the life of me, find the damn link/bookmark. Can anyone recall such a piece, by one of our comrades and friends recently. It explained the enormous benefits of the Soviet/Communist era to ordinary working people and how the current order is failing the poor. I specifically tagged it "to-be-read-later"... I think it was a response to Vaclav Havel's death. Help, please! I need to read this weekend. Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] State Funded Research
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Does anyone have access to data and success stories of state-funded research and innovation, please. The obvious one is, of course, NASA in the USA. Thanks Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Journal Article Received - Thanks
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Everyone I receive the Journal article requested earlier, today. Much appreciations Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Journal Article Request
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Everyone If anyone has access to academic journals, would you care to retrieve this and forward it to me, please (much appreciations, in advance) Vilém Flusser (Translation and Introduction by Nancy Ann Roth) The Gesture of Photographing Journal of Visual Culture December 2011 10 pp 279-293, Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Journal Article Request: Received, thanks!
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks for the quick responses I got the article Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Journal Article Request Number 2
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Everyone This is not urgent... but if any academic has access to J-Store, would you care to retrieve this for me, please. It's published by Sage. `So These Folks are Aggressive': An Orientalist Reading of `Afghan Warlords' Security Dialogue February 2009 40: 73-94, Thanks! Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fear/Scare Mongering Economic Analysis?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I can't make up my mind if this is conspiracy-theory writing, fear/scare mongering, people believing their own powers of prediction or if the analysis should be taken seriously. I mean, the most elementary of Marxist understanding of capitalist economy would insist that there will be another crisis. This just seems terribly opportunistic ‘Aftershock’ Book Predicts Economic Disaster Amid Controversy Robert Wiedemer’s new book, “Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown,” quickly is becoming the survival guide for the 21st century. And Newsmax’s eye-opening Aftershock Survival Summit video, with exclusive interviews and prophetic predictions, already has affected millions around the world — but not without ruffling a few feathers. Read more on Newsmax.com: ‘Aftershock’ Book Predicts Economic Disaster Amid Controversy Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Apple Users - Some Advice, Please.
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Heyta Everyone Apple has made some strides towards making the iPad more useful for textbooks and academic things I have fought against buying Apple products (not that I don't think that they are great, technologically), but I suspect that I may lose this battle. As a one-time photojournalist, I like their graphics and generally like the interface, so I think they are good for photography. I have a blog post on this somewhere which I should publish. Anyway, long story short: How easy is it to get "stuff" for iPads and Apple computers. I should explain: I am not going to state it outright, lest I get into trouble. I have "acquired" software (Photoshop CS4, Dreamweaver, music, film editing stuff etc etc etc) for Windows with relative ease. There are, even, ways to get books for Kindle (I BOUGHT books from them! I support most writers and artists) but given the "lockdown" that Apple insist upon, and the fact that one has to purchase sooo much through itunes, can Apple users on these lists tell me how easy/difficult it ease to swap books or software among friends and acquired elsewhere? Sorry to bug you with things unimportant. Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] On "Non-totalizing Collectivity"
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What views on this, please? Abstract: This article argues that within the cultural field of American event-based art practices during the 1960s, artists were modeling forms of contingent non-hierarchical collectivity. I read West Coast artist Anna Halprin’s experiments in “Mutual Creation” through the anarchist lens of Hakim Bey’s Temporary Autonomous Zone in order to demonstrate that her participatory events reconnected embodied experience to social experience and, in this way, exposed the violent nature of authoritarian collectivism. Access to pdf: http://anarchist-developments.org/index.php/adcs/article/view/58 Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Sons of the Fathers
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == For too many African Americans, prison is a legacy passed from father to son According to Jeffrey Gamble, the luckiest day of his life was when his car hit the kerb at the corner of Jefferson and National in Los Angeles while he was drunk-driving. It flew over a fence, falling 80ft into a creek below, leaving him with a broken neck and paralysed. "If I hadn't had that accident, I would be dead – or in jail for the rest of my life, just like my brothers," says Gamble, 47. Prison, for the Gambles, is as common a destination as university might be for a middle-class family. His two brothers are both in jail. Ricky, who was convicted for burglary and assault with a firearm under the three strikes law, is in for 110 years to life. Mike got life without parole for the murder of a local councillor. His father was in jail for a series of alcohol-related offences. His son, Khalif, has also been in jail for dealing drugs and possession http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/15/jail-reflects-collapse-black-communities-us Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] eBooks: Eric Wolf's book
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi everyone I've downloaded several economics textbooks over the past several months. I actually went in search of a pdf of Economics and Reality; my print copy is somewhere in the Western hemisphere - long story. I found several others and well Question: Does anyone have a scanned or pdf copy of Eric Wolf's Europe and People Without History, please. That one, too, ended up somewhere. If anyone wants a copy of books like Badiou's Communist Hypothesis - I have it as pdf and will gladly send it. It's what we do, in the global south, when books are hard to come by or expensive to buy. Thanks Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Socialism in One Dynasty
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == 'It sounds like a satire worthy of The Onion. But really, you can't make this stuff up. The Workers World Party (WWP) sent condolences to Kim Jong-il's party on the death of its leader. The Party of Socialism and Liberation (PSL) declared that the elevation of Kim's son, Kim Jong-un, represented a "well-developed succession plan." The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO-Fight Back) summed up Kim Jong-il's reign as a case of Korea "standing strong."' http://socialistworker.org/2012/01/12/socialism-in-one-dynasty Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Historical antecedents of Uprising. Was: The Zapatistas triggered it all
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks, Julio, for this Or so claim González Casanova y De Sousa Santos. They may have a point, just a bit overstated perhaps. http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2012/01/03/politica/009n1pol I wrote something similar to this about a year ago, immediately after the Tunisian uprising. Although my piece is not written very well, my initial response to the Tunisian uprising, written largely as a reaction to Stephen Walt's dismissal of the revolt draws similar allusions http://www.ilagardien.com/?p=1985 I should develop it further. If anyone has ideas, please share. Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Academic publishers - suicide bombers against the academy
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Just looked at David X's piece. Will place a link in the comments section of my post. I need some support, this might help There are some dudes who are DEEPLY entrenched in their positions in this country and are seriously opposed to any/all social change and transformation Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Serves me right to bitch and moan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Lou, I have not read David X's post Hmmm This thing has been sitting with me for a couple of years. Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/ilagardien%40yahoo.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Serves me right to bitch and moan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Good grief, this is not EXACTLY on topic, but some dude, ProAcademica, has just ripped me the proverbial new one. See the comment section I write intermittently on this space; the comments sometimes drive me nuts. I try to be provocative sometimes, but can't believe that people can be so malicious. Maybe I am just naive. Feel free to comment. There is something terribly wrong about peer-reviewed scholarship and about academic publishing in general. It resembles an exclusive club of knowledge production where new knowledge is circulated among an elite group of scholars who confirm each other’s prejudices and biases and then pat each other on the back. In some ways, once new knowledge is produced it tends to be withheld from the general public. http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/ismaillagardien/2011/12/30/theres-something-odious-about-academic-publishing/comment-page-1/#comment-245509 Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto From: howard engelskirchen To: 'Continuation of the Spoon Bhaskar List' Sent: Thursday, 29 December 2011, 22:45 Subject: [Critical-Realism] Occupy JSTOR! Friends will send an occasional article, but no doubt they are an unlikely resource for sustained research. Anyway this is still the precariat begging for favors from an institutionally established elite. Proposals for policies folks can mobilize around are required; policies that build solidarity among employed, underemployed, and unemployed thinkers and artists are required. Full access for scholars to scholarly journals is a political issue right now. It is not something to anticipate once we've managed a revolution. It is not something disposed of by TINA because just now profit makes the world go round. howard -Original Message- From: critical-realism-boun...@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu [mailto:critical-realism-boun...@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu] On Behalf Of Ismail Lagardien Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 3:16 PM To: Continuation of the Spoon Bhaskar List Subject: Re: [Critical-Realism] Journal Access I guess one thing we can do is encourage people in places (like South Africa, where I am) who are unemployed/underemployed (like me) and battling to get research and writing down while trying to earn a living doing anything possible (...) to send requests to friends and colleagues who can simply download papers through legal channels - jstor or sage or any other direct source - and send them to us. Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto ___ Critical-Realism mailing list critical-real...@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/critical-realism Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Journal Access
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Excellent discussion underway on my Critical Realism discussion list (yeah, yeah, I'm a Critical Realist), about open access to academic journals. The following article was circulated. In case anyone hasn't come across this article yet, it's worth a read: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Article Received - Thanks
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Everyone I the article I ask for was found, quite quickly, it seems. Thank you. It sucks not being affiliated with a University, and it double-sucks that we have capped and very slow internet access here in Africa's deep south. All the best for the New Year to everyone. Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Journal Access
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I am desperately trying to gain access to scholarly magazines It sucks to be out of the system. If anyone in North America or Europe has access to the following article, would you care to download and send it to me as an attachment, please? Howard S. Becker Categories and Comparisons: How We Find Meaning in Photographs Visual Anthropology Review, Volume 14. Issue 2. September 1998 (Pages 3 - 10) Thanks Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Find Use for them!
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I suppose you have to find work for all those troops that are coming home... If terrorists ever target Fargo, N.D., the local police will be ready. In recent years, they have bought bomb-detection robots, digital communications equipment and Kevlar helmets, like those used by soldiers in foreign wars. For local siege situations requiring real firepower, police there can use a new $256,643 armored truck, complete with a rotating turret. Until that day, however, the menacing truck is mostly used for training runs and appearances at the annual Fargo picnic, where it’s been displayed near a children’s bounce house. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/22-6 Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Link for Post on Conservatism and Racism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi I just accidentally hit "send" ... the post was on the relationship between US Conservatism and Racism. This is the link http://rorotoko.com/interview/20101206_smith_robert_on_conservatism_racism_why_america_they_are_same/ Apologies Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Conservatism in the USA and its Umbilical Relationship with Racism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In this book I systematically demonstrate the inescapable racism inherent in American conservatism. The argument unfolds in layers. First, I show that ideological conservatism is everywhere and always the conscious and reflective defense of established institutions and ways of life. In the United States this has meant a defense of racism and white supremacy. The first conscious conservative movement in America emerged in the South partly as a reaction to the movement to abolish slavery, and the modern conservative movement in America is rooted partly in opposition to the Civil Rights Movement. Second, the substantive ideals of American conservatism—limited government, states’ rights, individualism, property rights, and the prioritizing of liberty over equality—when applied consistently inevitably result in racism. Third, I show that the ascendancy of the conservative movement to national power with the election of Ronald Reagan was partly based on the Republican Party’s “Southern Strategy” of exploiting racist and white supremacist sentiments in the electorate beginning with the election of 1964. I am acutely aware that the argument will strike many Americans—and not just conservatives—as outrageous. Therefore, I approached the analysis and writing with unusual care. I spend the entire first chapter defining the terms of the discourse—conservatism, racism and white supremacy. The remaining chapters are thoroughly referenced and documented. By design, the book combines philosophy, history and political science. Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Hatred
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == "A young Israeli man by the name of Yisrael Yehudai (lit: Israel Judean) has decided to express his hatred for Arabs not by a sticker, and not by actually attacking anyone (to my knowledge), but by carving the words “Death to Arabs” into his own arm" http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lweti0YtAl1qam6r5o1_500.jpg Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Vaclav Have Dead
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This observation, by Havel, resonates really well with the situation in the world, today. “a monstrous, ramshackle, stinking machine” whose worst legacy was not economic failure but a “spoiled moral environment.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/vaclav-havel-dissident-playwright-and-former-czech-president-dies/2010/09/21/gIQATAeD2O_story.html Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] [UCE] The right stuff deployed on the wrong basis?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The brand-new Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in the small northwest Arkansas city of Bentonville is the creation of Alice Walton, the daughter of the late Sam Walton, who founded Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT), the largest retailer in the world. Alice Walton, who is worth about $21 billion, has achieved her dream of building a top-tier museum that unabashedly celebrates American art in the American heartland. Crystal Bridges, in many ways, is an aesthetic success. It’s also a moral tragedy, very much like the corporation that provided Walton with the money to build a billion-dollar art museum during a terrifying recession. The museum is a compelling symbol of the chasm between the richest Americans and everyone else. In 2007, according to the labor economist Sylvia Allegretto, the six Walton family members on the Forbes 400 had a net worth equal to the bottom 30 percent of all Americans. The Waltons are now collectively worth about $93 billion,according to Forbes. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-13/wal-mart-heiress-s-museum-a-moral-blight-commentary-by-jeffrey-goldberg.html Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Discussion & The Matrix, as Philosophical Work
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It's either really tragic, or a sign of the times (or both), that the best "conversations" I am part of on a regular basis, are on the LBO and Marxism lists. Cest la vie Has anyone seen this documentary on the Matrix? It coves the many philosophical concepts that inspired and are presented in the three movies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q1jHx29C70&feature=related Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Old Note from PSN list
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Everyone I found an old message about a paper, "Colonialism and Post-Colonialism: The Global Expansion of Racism," on the PSN list of 1995. The paper is by Joe Feagin. Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the paper, please? I think it is, today, part of a book. I can't seem to find a copy of it online... Thanks Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] recommend books on global financial system
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I agree with the books and suggestions by Angelus Novus. I bought a book a year ago and started reading it last week. This time is different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, written by two VERY mainstream Economists. Reinhart and Rogoff. For my International Political Economy course I often used the book Globalising Finance, by Barry Eichengreen. They are bother very mainstream. Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto From: Angelus Novus To: Ismail Lagardien Sent: Thursday, 6 October 2011, 15:33 Subject: Re: [Marxism] recommend books on global financial system == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Mathematics and Formalism in Economics
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi everyone This is from my secret life as a Critical Realist. I should provide an explanation, but the people on these lists are pretty savvy. Suffice to say, It has to do with the role and place (and actual/perceived necessity) of mathematics and formalism in economics. This was, actually, the philosophical basis of my doctorate. I would love to hear everyone's views. http://ineteconomics.org/video/conference-kings/mathematical-formalism-and-political-economic-content-duncan-foley Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] "In Defence of Aid"
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == An INDIVIDUAL story of the possibilities of aid to the poor http://www.denniswhittle.com/2011/08/in-defense-of-aid.html Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] "the omens look bad for a world that hasn't learned from history"
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What a financial tailspin may mean for you and me By Ann Pettifor "This crisis is already sharpening the divide between left and right in both the EU and the United States. Studying a precedent – the implosion of the 1920s credit bubble in 1929 – we note that four years after that crisis erupted, the political divide sharpened decisively. The United States and Britain moved to the left. Germany chose a different path. After 1930, Germany's Centre party under Chancellor Brüning adopted austerity policies that resulted in cuts in welfare benefits and wages, while credit was tightened. At the same time the German government engaged in wildly excessive borrowing from the liberalised international capital markets. The ground was laid for the rise of fascism." http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/19/financial-tailspin Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Apropos the Gorbachev Discussion
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Somewhere in the exchanges on the topic, I picked up references to the anticipated/imminent collapse of the Soviet Union at some point in the mid-1980s I hope that I am not mis-representing the point. This is, actually, not (specifically) the point I want to discuss. I have been wondering (for a LONG time) how bourgeois economists, especially The Sloth (apologies, that's my personal name for Brad De Long), and Paul Krugman would insist that communism failed based on the Soviet experiment/example, when, it has cost considerable amounts of money, significant measures of coercion and consent (my Gramscian tendencies are showing), and extremely high human costs to keep capitalism, the post-war US liberal international economic order (my training in International Political Economy is showing), going. I have always wanted to write a good paper doing a comparison on the two. The basic proposition, I guess, is that the bourgeois economist won the propaganda war. This does, of course, not explain the collapse and disintegration of the Soviet Union which, I would argue, had more to do with its quasi imperial reach and insufficient effort to extend power and influence to the Soviet (republics), increased militarism and isolationism - none of which have anything uniquely to do with communism. If we "tested" the communist hypothesis, to borrow a phrase, and compared it to the (empirical) crisis in the Soviet Union, then contrasted and compared it with recurrent crises in the capitalist world (my training in comparative political economy is showing), especially the recurrence of financial (banking and currency) and general political economic downturns, recessions, depressions since the 1970s, for which there is A LOT of data, might it not be that the communist system between, say, 1920 - 1985, was more stable and durable? I would like to know, for instance, how much the former Soviet Union spent on its military over seven decades and how much the US spent, and the impact that these expenditures have had. My guess, just a guess, is that the US has probably spent more time and money saving or rescuing the post-war liberal international economic order, than the Soviet Union did on saving communism. Maybe that is a non-sequitur, h Anyway, this is a thought that has been floating around in my head for a number of years... Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Gorbachev: I Should Have Left the Communist Party Earlier
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == "Asked to name the things he most regretted, he replied without hesitation: "The fact that I went on too long in trying to reform the Communist party." He should have resigned in April 1991, he said, and formed a democratic party of reform since the Communists were putting the brakes on all the necessary changes." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/16/gorbachev-guardian-interview?intcmp=122 Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The West's violence problem - War
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi I recently wrote something about the pervasiveness of war in the US. An anthropologist read the piece, http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/ismaillagardien/2011/06/14/war-is-hell-cupcake-and-hell-is-other-people/ and sent me this link of his own: http://www.counterpunch.org/whitehead07012011.html My original headline was "war is hell cupcake and hell is other people" Please let me know what you think. The systemic and structural violence of the European world is one of the areas I am especially interested in. In his long-term study of capitalist economic development Angus Maddison made (a single) reference to the enormous violence and bloodshed that Europeans spread as part of their passage to "greatness". The British Historian, JM Roberts, a rather conservative fellow, European capitalist/empire expansion as Europe's "assault on the world". Once I settle down in a job (without having to worry about the next pay cheque) I may get the book on post-war paralels and continuities with the pre-war European world's violence agains Africans, Asians and indigenous people of the Americas. Thanks I Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The Crisis: Reliable Explanation?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Everyone I have been traveling and need to catch up with some of the more critical (historically moored) analyses of the US debt crisis. I have a general sense and, in the context of my bread and butter scholarly stuff on globalising finance, I have been asked to write a "think piece" for my old newspaper in South Africa. So, can anyone send me some links, please. Apologies if you're exasperated by this stuff, already. Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] What an unbelievably stupid man
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Glenn Beck likens Norwegian dead to Hitler youth http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/26/glenn-beck-norwegian-dead-hitler?CMP=NECNETTXT1349 Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Sting support oil workers in Kazakhstan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Whenever, over the past 10 years or so, people have gushed over Bono, I reminded them of the time that he (Bono) was the single most ill-informed of the performers during the Amnesty and anti-apartheid tours of the 1980s, while Peter Gabriel and Sting were among the more committed. Then again, Phil Collins, a hard-nosed Thatcherite was also one of the committed ones. We had many a good laugh over Bono's idiocy and, at the time, deeply (almost fundamentalist) christian values. He may have changed THAT, since then. Always respected Sting and Gabriel; worked with them on a few projects in sub-Saharan Africa and south America. Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Infographic on Obama's "promises kept"
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.scribd.com/doc/58590230/Infographic-Troop-Levels-in-Afghanistan-and-Iraq Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Libyan Rebels to Recognise Israel?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Libya’s rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) is ready to recognise Israel, according to French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, who says he has passed the message on to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. http://www.english.rfi.fr/africa/20110602-libyan-rebels-will-recognise-israel-bernard-henri-levy-tells-netanyahu Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Sitcoms
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Everyone As some of you may know, I am in-between jobs. For some reason I have been watching a bit of TV between 5-7, while I am cooking or eating dinner. I have been watching the TV sitcom King of Queens. While I am sometimes embarrassed on the part of one of the protagonists, Doug (he is so horrifyingly, stupifyingly "manly") the couple seem to be situated in deep working class conditions. As I write, Doug and his colleagues are in the midst of organised labour bargaining, a line of dialogue of which has been "I'm on the picket line six hours a day"... One other show, Everybody Loves Raymond seems more petite bourgeois (as opposed to the apparently lumpenproletariat King of Queens) and is more uglier, as it were. I'm sorry to waste your time on silly things like this, but does anyone have any views on these? Ismail Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Ethics in International Affairs
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Everyone I will be teaching Ethics in international affairs in August as part of my new position (University of Guyana). The last good texts on the subject were kinda liberal, Terry Nardin and Mervyn Frost. Now that I will design and teach my own course, I would like to take a more Critical approach. This is not self-promotion as I have nothing to gain from your visiting the blog I created. I really created it mainly for my family who are befuddled about why I am moving from the US to one of the poorest countries in the world... http://heytaguyana.wordpress.com/ I am thrilled, they are confused, alas. I am fairly comprehensive in my teaching, and there is a lot of literature produced by liberal internationalists and liberals like the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. However, I would like to find more Critical sources. I am not a post-modernist, and share some solidarities with post-colonial theorists (and as the saying goes, Marx never did write anything on "International Relations" - but Marxists have! - I am open to anything to the left of liberal internationalism. While I have taught IR theory courses and political theory courses - my training is mainly in political economy, especially International Political Economy - this will be the first time, since my first degree that I will read/write or do anything on International Ethics/Ethics in International Affairs. I leave the US on 28 June and would like to get hold of a couple of good books before I leave. Have you any suggestions? Ismail Ismail Lagardien Department of Politics and Public Administration Elon University Elon, NC 27244 Tel: +1(612) 227-5037 (Personal) Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The Soviet Union Versus Socialism - Noam Chomsky
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Apologies if this is "old news" Always interested in what people on the two lists (Marxism & LBO) think about some of the things I am reading. In this article, which was written close to the end of the cold war, Noam Chomsky argues against the association of socialism with Bolshevism. "When the world’s two great propaganda systems agree on some doctrine, it requires some intellectual effort to escape its shackles. One such doctrine is that the society created by Lenin and Trotsky and molded further by Stalin and his successors has some relation to socialism in some meaningful or historically accurate sense of this concept. In fact, if there is a relation, it is the relation of contradiction." Source: http://liberationfrequency.tumblr.com/post/5069389451/the-soviet-union-versus-socialism-noam-chomsky Ismail Lagardien Department of Politics and Public Administration Elon University Elon, NC 27244 Tel: +1(612) 227-5037 (Personal) Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Facebook political purges
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks for the socialist unity link, Lou! Ismail Lagardien Department of Politics and Public Administration Elon University Elon, NC 27244 Tel: +1(612) 227-5037 (Personal) Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Facebook friend requests
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here, somewhat appropriately, I dare say, I wish there was a "like" button. "In fact I translated one of your articles on abstract expressionism in to malayalam. I am from kerala,India." Who would have ever imagined in 1968 or so that we would be operating in such an environment? Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/ilagardien%40yahoo.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] "Natural Capitalism"
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I was invited to a meeting to launch this book, today. Would like to know what people think of this. The invitation came with a copy of a 1999 essay, "Roadmap for Natural Capitalism" published in the Harvard Business Review, if anyone is interested. Not sure if I could/should attach it. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins Natural capital refers to the earth’s natural resources and the ecological systems that provide vital life-support services to society and all living things. These services are of immense economic value; some are literally priceless, since they have no known substitutes. Yet current business practices typically fail to take into account the value of these assets—which is rising with their scarcity. As a result, natural capital is being degraded and liquidated by the very wasteful use of resources such as energy, materials, water, fiber, and topsoil. The next industrial revolution, like the previous ones, will be a response to changing patterns of scarcity. It will create upheaval, but more importantly, it will create opportunities. Natural capitalism is a new business model that enables companies to fully realize these opportunities. The journey to natural capitalism involves four major shifts in business practices, all vitally interlinked: * Radically increase the productivity of natural resources. Through fundamental changes in both production design and technology, farsighted companies are developing ways to make natural resources—energy, minerals, water, forests—stretch 5, 10, even 100 times further than they do today. The resulting savings in operational costs, capital investment, and time can help natural capitalists implement the other three principles. * Shift to biologically inspired production models and materials. Natural capitalism seeks not merely to reduce waste but to eliminate the very concept of waste. In closed-loop production systems, modeled on nature’s designs, every output either is returned harmlessly to the ecosystem as a nutrient, like compost, or becomes an input for another manufacturing process. Industrial processes that emulate the benign chemistry of nature reduce dependence on nonrenewable inputs, make possible often phenomenally more efficient production, and can result in elegantly simple products that rival anything man-made. * Move to a “service-and-flow” business model. The business model of traditional manufacturing rests on the sale of goods. In the new model, value is instead delivered as a continuous flow of services - such as providing illumination rather than selling light bulbs. This aligns the interests of providers and customers in ways that reward them for resource productivity. * Reinvest in natural capital. Capital begets more capital; a company that depletes its own capital is eroding the basis of its future prosperity. Pressures on business to restore, sustain, and expand natural capital are mounting as human needs expand, the costs of deteriorating ecosystems rise, and the environmental awareness of consumers increases. Fortunately, these pressures all create business opportunity. Ismail Lagardien Department of Politics and Public Administration Elon University Elon, NC 27244 Tel: +1(612) 227-5037 (Personal) Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Passage by Marx
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jeff THANKS!! Ismail Lagardien Department of Politics and Public Administration Elon University Elon, NC 27244 Tel: +1(612) 227-5037 (Personal) Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/ilagardien%40yahoo.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Passage by Marx
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Can anyone help with a reference, please. I have searched by can't find it... >From memory I remember, somewhere in his work, Marx saying something like >don't ask anyone about themselves he will always give a biased response. It's not terribly important, but... Ismail Lagardien Department of Politics and Public Administration Elon University Elon, NC 27244 Tel: +1(612) 227-5037 (Personal) Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Communist Parties: Sharing info
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == For sharing... While preparing my lecture on Marxism, today, I did a quick internet search to see how many communist/socialist parties there were in the world. I counted about 188. http://www.broadleft.org/communis.htm Ismail Lagardien Department of Politics and Public Administration Elon University Elon, NC 27244 Tel: +1(612) 227-5037 (Personal) Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The Yakuza Responds to the Japanese Crisis
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The worst of times sometimes brings out the best in people, even in Japan’s “losers” a.k.a. the Japanese mafia, the yakuza. Hours after the first shock waves hit, two of the largest crime groups went into action, opening their offices to those stranded in Tokyo, and shipping food, water, and blankets to the devastated areas in two-ton trucks and whatever vehicles they could get moving. The day after the earthquake the Inagawa-kai(the third largest organized crime group in Japan which was founded in 1948) sent twenty-five four-ton trucks filled with paper diapers, instant ramen, batteries, flashlights, drinks, and the essentials of daily life to the Tohoku region. An executive inSumiyoshi-kai, the second-largest crime group, even offered refuge to members of the foreign community—something unheard of in a still slightly xenophobic nation, especially amongst the right-wing yakuza. The Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest crime group, under the leadership of Tadashi Irie, has also opened its offices across the country to the public and been sending truckloads of supplies, but very quietly and without any fanfare. http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-18/japanese-yakuza-aid-earthquake-relief-efforts/# Ismail Lagardien Department of Politics and Public Administration Elon University Elon, NC 27244 Tel: +1(612) 227-5037 (Personal) Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Eagleton Reviews Hobsbawm
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In 1976, a good many people in the West thought that Marxism had a reasonable case to argue. By 1986, most of them no longer felt that way. What had happened in the meanwhile? Were these people now buried under a pile of toddlers? Had Marxism been unmasked as bogus by some world-shaking new research? Had someone stumbled on a lost manuscript by Marx confessing that it was all a joke? We are speaking, note, about 1986, a few years before the Soviet bloc crumbled. As Eric Hobsbawm points out in this collection of essays, that wasn’t what caused so many erstwhile believers to bin their Guevara posters. Marxism was already in dire straits some years before the Berlin Wall came down http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n05/terry-eagleton/indomitable Ismail Lagardien Department of Politics and Public Administration Elon University Elon, NC 27244 Tel: +1(612) 227-5037 (Personal) Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Michigan Calling
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Appreciations to Nick Woomer-Deters for drawing my attention to this. Apologies if people know about this. Michigan CEO: Soul-Crushing Sprawl Killing Business We’d like to stay in Michigan, but we have a problem. It’s not taxes or regulations. There’s lots of talk about these issues but they have no impact on our business. We spend more on copiers and toner than we do on state taxes. Our problem is access to talent. We have high-paying positions open for patent attorneys in the software and semiconductor space. Even though it is one of the best hiring environments for IP firms in 40 years, we cannot fill these positions. Most qualified candidates live out of state and simply will not move here, even though they are willing to relocate to other cities. Our recruiters are very blunt. They say it is almost impossible to recruit to Michigan without paying big premiums above competitive salaries on the coasts. It’s nearly a certainty that we will have to relocate (or at a minimum expand ) our business out of Michigan if we want to grow. People – particularly affluent and educated people – just don’t want to live here. http://rustwire.com/2011/03/11/michigan-business-owner-soul-crushing-sprawl-driving-us-away/ Ismail Lagardien Department of Politics and Public Administration Elon University Elon, NC 27244 Tel: +1(612) 227-5037 (Personal) Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Audio Clip - Reagan Shooting
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This came through my Tumblr Feed (from some cat in Brooklyn) The U.S. Secret Service has released its audio recording from the moments before John Hinckley Jr. fired his revolver at the president to the frantic arrival of first lady Nancy Reagan at George Washington University Medical Center, where her husband was undergoing emergency surgery. http://nationaljournal.com/whitehouse/secret-service-audio-br-the-moment-reagan-was-shot-20110311?page=1 Ismail Lagardien Department of Politics and Public Administration Elon University Elon, NC 27244 Tel: +1(612) 227-5037 (Personal) Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] A little Aside on Sachs "Praising" Marx
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A little detail. The method chapter (basically setting out the Marxist orientation) of my doctoral thesis, casts the concept of Global Public Goods, the framework submitted by the UNDP for 21st century liberal capitalist global governance, in Marxist perspective ... and "beyond the 'bloody' triumph' of capitalism"... a reference to a Jeffrey Sachs speech at Yale in which he said that Marx was right, capitalism would triumph, and that triumph was "bloody". ...lecture by Jeffrey Sachs, ‘Globalisation and the Rule of Law’ delivered at the Yale Law School, on 16 October 1998. Electronic copy available at: http://www.earth.columbia.edu/about/director/pubs/YaleLawSchool1098.pdf. Accessed on 26 October 2006. Ismail Lagardien Department of Politics and Public Administration Elon University Elon, NC 27244 Tel: +1(612) 227-5037 (Personal) Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
