Re: [Marxism] *Re: * Lawrence & Wishart: independent radical publishers
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't know about MR in general, but I chose to publish my last 2 books with them because of their low prices and Michael Yates' editing. I am very happy with the experience. On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 5:00 PM, michael yates wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > Louis Proyect gives Monthly Review a lot of credit. I might add that, as I > said on the petition site, we don't charge copyright fees for our books to > publishers in poor countries, so that they are able to sell our books for > rock bottom prices, even much less than one dollar. We have no objection to > taking payment for publication rights when a Press can obviously afford to > pay us. But our overall goal is to publish in the interest of socialism. > And my own policy has always been to pay for books myself when someone > cannot afford them, or have the Press just donate them, as when prisoners > ask for books.We're not perfect, but we do the best we can in this shitty > world. > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] *Re: * Lawrence & Wishart: independent radical publishers
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is a basic problem with intellectual property in general. Academic journals are a form of inexcusable hostagetaking. Vital medicines made possible through public universities or government research have become unaffordable for most people.at the same time, people like David and the others that MIA do valuable work for nothing. Lawrence & Wishart are doing the world a great favor by their behavior, educating people about the urgent need for socialism. On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > On 4/26/14 5:45 PM, Mark Lause wrote: > >> I raise this point because periodically the idea that institutional >> interest in radicalism generally and Marxism in particular is a sign that >> "our idea are getting a hearing." Rather, I'd suggest that institutions >> like universities exist to establish a kind of hegemony over such >> discussions and define them into rather harmless dead ends. This current >> problem simply represents another aspect of this. >> > > Yeah, it's the same mindset that exists at HM, Socialist Register and > Verso. There's the paywall, print-oriented world for the enlightened > tenured radicals and their dissertation students angling to be the next > generation to take the place of Robert Brenner and Leo Panitch. They are > like Plato's philosopher-kings. > > And then there is us. The sans-culottes, the unwashed, the rabble who rely > on the Internet and don't feel that the disappearance of a journal is a > blow to the working class, especially when it is hardly aware of the > existence of HM or NLR. > > That being said, I give a lot of credit to Monthly Review for making their > articles available on-line in a reasonable amount of time and not charging > $125 for their books. I am no fan of the captain of that ship, one John > Foster Bellamy, but they are keeping the "popular" roots of MR alive. > > > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/ > marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Ukraine, Through the US Looking Glass
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == If you want to stay on the list, please refrain from personal invective. On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Sheldon Ranz wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > Oh, get off your high horse. You don't think Bundists from the Ukraine > have felt the same way - perhaps the joke originated from one of them. > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > > > == > > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > > == > > > > > > On 4/16/14 4:53 PM, Sheldon Ranz wrote: > > > >> It reminds me of this bitter Jewish joke: > >> > >> -What do you call it when you kill every anti-Semite in the Ukraine? > >> -Genocide > >> > > > > Yeah, well, I guess that's what I would expect from Marxmail's only > > self-declared Zionist. Shane Mage's excuse, who knows? > > > > > > > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/ > > marxism/sranz18%40gmail.com > > > ________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Michigan State should end union organizing seminars, say anti-union lawmakers and builders
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == While they are at it, maybe they could cancel courses on business administration. On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:30 AM, wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > I teach organizing in my Anthropology courses. The Michigan state > legislature is clamping down. > > > March 27, 2014 > > Michigan State should end union organizing seminars, say anti-union > lawmakers and builders > > > EAST LANSING - The Associated Builders and Contractors of Michigan is > demanding that Michigan State University cancel its BuildingTrades Academy > program on the grounds that it encourages "organizing innon-union > construction companies," while a state legislative committee has struck > funds from the university's budget for 2014-2015. > "Such activities lack legitimacy when performed by an academic > institution," Chris Fisher, president of Michigan chapter of ABC, said in a > statement. "Would the university support a similar program geared toward > union busting?" > > > But MSU spokesman Kent Cassella said that the program, which began in May > 2013, is not paid for by taxpayer money but by the trade unions. > > > > "Beginning in May 2013, MSU's School of Human Resources and Labor > Relations was contracted by North America's Building Trade Union Department > to administer and provide academic oversight of the Building Trades > Academy," Cassella said in a statement late Wednesday night. > > > > The Senate appropriations subcommittee on higher education approved a > budget Thursday for the state's public universities that docks $500,000 > from MSU's funding because of the university's involvement. > > > full: > http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2014/03/michigan_states_building_trade.html > > Brian McKenna > > ________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Lettuce Picking and Left-Wing Organizing » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
trikes, censorship of > the UFW's official newspaper, and president Cesar Chavez's > counter-productive hostility toward undocumented workers. > > A Shop-Floor Perspective > > Neuburger's volunteer assignments as an inside organizer in UFW > recruitment campaigns, combined with his "shop floor" experience with many > different employers, gave him a perspective on the union that's rare for a > gringo. Where he could, he played a very different role than the many > college-educated activists who acquired UFW "membership" by virtue of their > boycott activity the country or appointed staff positions at union > headquarters in La Paz. (In Chavez, even the formidable contributions of > these non-farm worker organizers and advisers are much slighted, in favor > of an inspiring, but simplistic, "Great Man" view of UFW history.) > > After he left farm work, Neuberger drove a cab in San Francisco. For the > last twenty-five years, he has worked in adult education programs and > community college teaching. Before finishing his memoir, he took a break > from his current life to return the scenes of his old one in the fields. > The sad final chapter of Lettuce Wars, entitled, "The Fields Today," > surveys contemporary conditions in California agriculture and the local > scene in Salinas. With only 5,000 members remaining, the UFW is not much of > a force anymore. As Neuberger observes: > > "In the 1970s, farmworkers faced immigration and police repression, > housing discrimination, social segregation, poor schools, and other > indignities. But, in the new millennium, by many measures, their situation > is worse." > > Early in his current term as governor, the UFW's one-time 1970s friend in > Sacramento, Jerry Brown, vetoed card check legislation that would have made > it easier for the UFW to rebuild its membership in California. In October, > 2012, Brown delivered another slap to the UFW-and the overwhelming majority > of California farm workers who lack the greater health and safety > protection provided by a union contract. The governor vetoed a bill called > the Farmworker Safety Act. Passed by Democratic "super-majorities" in the > state senate and assembly, this legislation would have strengthened the > ability of farm laborers to sue growers who repeatedly violate state rules > limiting worker exposure to extreme heat. > > As Neuburger notes, during the same week as Brown's veto, a lettuce worker > in the Salinas Valley collapsed and died while harvesting lettuce in > temperatures nearing 100 degrees. > > Steve Early worked for 27 years as an organizer for the Communications > Workers of America. He is the author, most recently, of Save Our Unions: > Dispatches from a Movement in Distress, a Monthly Review Press book that > includes interviews with young labor activists engaged in workplace > organizing for various unions. > > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/ > marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Fast track authority: Back to the drawing board?
re worried the trade deals could expose them to what they > say is unfair competition from abroad. Agricultural concerns would likely > only support trade pacts that significantly open export markets, especially > Japan. > > U.S. officials had hoped to finish talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, > which includes Japan and other Asian and Pacific nations but not China, > last year. Sensitivities over basic tariffs and quotas, especially in > agriculture, have held the talks back. > > The latest developments come amid growing skepticism in Japan about the > U.S.'s commitment to free trade. "It's up to the resolve of the U.S. > government," Japan's economy minister, Akira Amari, told reporters in Tokyo > Thursday morning. "If the president comes to the negotiating table with a > strong enough determination to wrap it up by spring, other countries will > follow suit." > > Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been pressing forward with > free-trade deals to keep pressure on domestic industries to do long-overdue > reforms--even as it has drawn criticism from farm groups. > > Mr. Reid, whose state has a heavy union presence, has long opposed trade > deals. He also represents a caucus with several vulnerable Democrats up for > election in November who might have been forced to choose between Mr. Obama > and the unions that help finance campaigns. > > "I think there's a lot of dubiousness in our caucus to fast track, given > that every time we sign a free-trade agreement it seems other countries > violate the rules and we don't," said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.), a > member of the Senate Democratic leadership. > > Unions opposing the trade deals cheered the move. "For those of us who > want to have a progressive trade agenda, it means that we're encouraged," > said Larry Cohen, head of the Communications Workers of America, one of the > most vocal unions criticizing the current trade negotiations. > > Celeste Drake, a trade-policy specialist with the AFL-CIO, a union > confederation, said Mr. Reid's comments offered "a great opportunity to get > off the fast track to bad trade deals and open the policy window to a > better deal for workers." > > Fast-track authority, which would require lawmakers to vote on trade deals > with limited procedural hurdles and no opportunity to make changes, expired > in 2007 and hasn't since been renewed. > > Until now, the top Senate Democrat had avoided publicly disagreeing with > the White House on trade legislation. On Wednesday, he said he made clear > the depth of his opposition to Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D., > Mont.), who recently unveiled the fast-track bill, and Sen. Ron Wyden (D., > Ore.), who is presumed to become chairman of the committee if Mr. Baucus is > confirmed as the next U.S. ambassador to China. > > Mr. Wyden has also expressed concerns about the existing fast-track bill > and thinks it needs to be rewritten, an aide said. An aide to Ways and > Means Chairman Dave Camp said the Michigan Republican, who would be in > charge of such a bill in the House, would like to have bipartisan support > before moving legislation. > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Looming danger of not knowing where the football is.
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == You might check out Hans' web site to see how little he knows about Marx. It is a major achievement. On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 10:48 AM, shaun may wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > Professor Hans Ehrbar, > > Before we start to comment on and understand the football match of > history, we need to know precisely where the actual football is located. If > we think it is in the field when it is actually in the spectator seats and > vice versa then our commentary becomes dislocated and inconsonant with the > football match itself. I do not wish to play an endless, tedious game of > 'spot the ball' > > Do your Marx first and then we may, perhaps, be able to proceed with a > discussion on Marx's Capital and its significance for climate change, etc. > From your most recent posting, it is clear that you do not have a > comprehensive grasp of the old man. > > Shaun May BSc(Hons) (Biochem). BPhil. PGCE. CertTESOL. > Hull > Yorkshire > England > > > http://shaunpmay.wordpress.com > > http://spmay.wordpress.com > > Take it easy (favourite motto of Engels) > > Doubt everything (favourite motto of Marx) > > Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an > institution? > Groucho Marx > > 'Sir, if you were my husband, I would put poison in your coffee.' Nancy > Astor. > 'Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.' Winston Churchill. > > Blenheim Palace, 1912 > > > > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Time sensitive favor to ask.
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I am sorry that I let you down. On Thursday, December 5, 2013, michael perelman wrote: > Can anyone help with this? > > dear perelman, > i was very busy and could not go out of the house for a long time. So i > could not directly contact with my publisher friends.On the other side i > am preparing for a book research visit to Havana on the 15 th December for > a week. > i need a help from you. > > Pls find someone who can accurately edit/translate the below text from > english to spanish, he/she should Pls find Marx’s citations in Marxist > İnternet Archive. Below text includes some spanish translation whic is > inaccurate. > > best regards > cem kizilcec > > > The universal human emancipation is elaborated in *Manuscripts* and > conceived as the result from the solution of the confrontation between > capital and labor, and from the annulment of private property, rather than > the goal which overrides the emancipation of the proletariat. Marx pointed > out expressly that “the emancipation of society from private property, > etc., from servitude, is expressed in the political form of the > emancipation of the worker; not that their emancipation alone is at stake, > but because the emancipation of the workers contains universal human > emancipation—and it contains this because the whole of human servitude is > involved in the relation of the worker to the production, and all relations > of servitude are but modifications and consequences of this relation.” (*Karl > Marx and Frederick Engels: Collected Works*, 1st Chinese Edition, Volume > 42, P. 101) > La emancipación humana universal es elaborada en Manuscritos y concebida > como el resultado de la solución de la confrontación entre capital y > trabajo, y de la anulación de propiedad privada, más bien que como un > objetivo de anular la emancipación del proletariado. Marx indicó > expresamente que "la emancipación de la sociedad de la propiedad privada, > etc., de la servidumbre, es expresada en la forma política de la > emancipación del trabajador; no que su emancipación sola está en juego, > pero porque la emancipación de los trabajadores contiene la emancipación > humana universal - y esto contiene esto porque la toda servidumbre humana > está implicada en la relación del trabajador a la producción, y todas las > relaciones de la servidumbre son sólo modificaciones y consecuencias de > esta relación." (Karl Marx y Frederick Engels: Obras completas, 1ra Edición > china, Tomo 42, P. 101) > However, Marx’s *Manuscripts* features (discusses emphasizedly) not so > much the (this) theme as the philosophical argumentation of the theme. > (Beforehand) Marx had began to approach this theme in the > *Deutsch-Französische > Jahrbücher* <http://www.marxists.org/glossary/periodicals/d/e.htm#dfj>, > and followed and developed it further in *Manuscripts*. But a new factor > appeared in 1844, that is, his turn to the study of political economy and > wide reading of the British and French economists. Marx, who had basically > completed the two transformations then and now he was seeking further > scientific proofs for communism, he was dissatisfied with the classical > economists’ standpoint and method, with their attitude to private property > and the worker as well as with the theories of utopian socialism. But, what > should be used as a weapon to criticize political economy, the capitalist > private property and all kinds of theories of utopian socialism? The > factors of his traditional thought and the factors emerging in 1844 were in > contradiction. On the one hand, Marx resorted to economics and proceeded > from economic facts to unmask the essences of the capitalist private > property and its contradictions; on the other hand, he pondered the > economic facts philosophically with the help of the traditional > philosophical categories. > Sin embargo, Manuscritos presenta no tanto el tema como la argumentación > filosófica del tema. Marx comenzó a acercarse a este tema en el > Alemán-Französische Jahrbücher *Anales franco-alemanes*, < > http://www.marxists.org/glossary/periodicals/d/e.htm#dfj> y seguido y lo > desarrolló adelante en “Manuscritos”. Pero un nuevo factor apareció en > 1844, es decir su vuelta al estudio de economía política y la amplia > lectura de los economistas británicos y franceses. Marx, que había > completado básicamente las dos transformaciones entonces y buscaba pruebas > científicas adicionales para el comunismo, estaba insatisfecho con punto de > vista de los economistas clási
[Marxism] Time sensitive favor to ask.
para desenmascarar las esencias de la propiedad privada capitalista y sus contradicciones; por otra parte, él consideró los hechos económicos filosóficamente con la ayuda de las categorías filosóficas tradicionales. This point is also indicated by Marx in the preface of *Manuscripts*. Although there are different views on its degree, magnitude and time limit of this influence, it is hard to deny that Feuerbach’s influence on Marx was still present when he was writing *Manuscripts* in 1844, despite that Marx had surpassed Feuerbach in many aspects. Marx said that “positive criticism as a whole—and therefore also German positive criticism of political economy—owes its true foundations to the discoveries of *Feuerbach*.” ③ ④ (Ibid., P. 46). In particular, he mentioned Feuerbach’s *Provisional Theses for the Reformation of Philosophy* and *Principles of the Philosophy of the Future*, saying that they were the “writings since Hegel’s *Phänomenologie* and *Logik* to contain a real theoretical revolution” ③. Moreover, Marx also listed the essays by Hess as the “original works of substance” ④. Human essence and its estrangement are an important part whether in Hegel’s *Phenomenology of Spirit*, (or) Feuerbach’s *Provisional Theses for the Reformation of Philosophy* or in Hess’ essays. Este punto también es indicado por Marx en el prefacio de “Manuscritos”. Aunque haya opiniones diferentes sobre el grado, magnitud y el límite de tiempo de esta influencia, es difícil negar que la influencia de Feuerbach en Marx todavía estuviera presente cuando él escribía Manuscritos en 1844, a pesar de los cuales él superó Feuerbach en muchos aspectos. Marx dijo que "crítica positiva en conjunto - y por lo tanto también la crítica positiva alemana de la economía política - debe sus fundaciones verdaderas a los descubrimientos de Feuerbach." ③ ④ (Ibíd., P. 46). En particular, él mencionó las “Tesis Provisionales de Feuerbach para la Reforma de Filosofía”y “Principios del La filosofía del Futuro ”, diciendo que ellas eran las "escrituras desde Fenomenología de Hegel y Lógica para contener una verdadera revolución teórica" ③. Además, Marx también puso los ensayos en una lista por Hess como los "trabajos originales de la sustancia" ④. La esencia humana y su alienación son una parte importante si en Fenomenología de Hegel del Espíritu, Tesis Provisionales de Feuerbach para la Reforma de Filosofía o en los ensayos de Hess. There is no doubt that Marx attaches importance to the analysis of private property—the money system, and the objective which he sets for himself in *Manuscripts* is to “have to grasp the intrinsic connection between private property, greed, the separation of labor, capital and landed property; the connection of exchange and competition, of value and the devaluation of man, of monopoly and competition, etc,--the connection between this whole estrangement and the* money* system” (*Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Collected Works*, 1st Chinese Edition, Volume 42, P. 90). -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] How Teddy Roosevelt saved football
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I though that I posted my piece from my new Matrix book on football/imperialism before. http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2013/08/04/muscular-christianity-eugenics-war-football-and-imperialism/ -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Request on info on USA and democracy.
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Moskowitz, Ron. 1970. "Professor Sees Peril in Education." San Francisco Chronicle (30 October). Governor Reagan's aide Roger Freeman, who later served as President Nixon's educational policy advisor, while he was working at the time for California Governor Ronald Reagan's reelection campaign, commented on Reagan's education policy: "We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective about who we allow to through higher education. If not, we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people." On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Charlie wrote: > ==**==**== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ==**==**== > > > The Powell memo of 1971 (two months before Nixon nominated him for Supreme > Court Justice) raises questions, too. The object of his ire is regulation > of corporations, which he personifies in the evil of Ralph Nader. > Regulations are the most practical target that Powell goes at. He also > charges that professors and the media are disloyal to free enterprise, but > it reads like a cover, much as most anti-communism after World War Two was > a cover for imperialist agression and anti-labor repression. > > The Powell memo has only the mildest, briefest mention of trade unions. > Nothing in it foreshadows the open attacks that came several years later, > notably when Reagan fired every striking air traffic controller, put them > on permanent blacklist, destroyed PATCO, and invited businesses to do the > same whenever a strike was inconvenient to them. > > Charles Andrews > > > h0ost wrote: > Check out the Lewis Powell Memo (written shortly before he became a > Supreme Court judge under Nixon). It spells out thing pretty clearly, > the power bloc's point of view, on what is to be done: > > > __**__ > Send list submissions to: > Marxism@greenhouse.economics.**utah.edu > Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.** > utah.edu/mailman/options/**marxism/michael.perelman3%**40gmail.com<http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com> > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Hollywood history
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Not history, but writing in Sweden, the Julian Assange film might be interesting. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Daniel Lindvall wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > Inspired (if that is a word to use in this context) by the awful new film > "Captain Phillips" I'm working on a piece on the worst/most important > falsifications of history in Hollywood cinema post-2000 for a Swedish > weekly. To make it a bit more representative I'm polling my lefty film > friends and colleagues. I would welcome suggestions from the list! > > Daniel Lindvall > > Website: http://filmint.nu/ > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FilmInt > Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/FilmInt > > > > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] WaPo: "The Cuban Five were fighting terrorism. Why did we put them in jail?"
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I am surprised that the WAPO would publish this. I hope that it has some impact. On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > "Consider for a moment what would happen if American intelligence agents on > the ground in a foreign country uncovered a major terrorist plot, with > enough time to prevent it. And then consider how Americans would react if > authorities in that country, rather than cooperate with us, arrested and > imprisoned the U.S. agents for operating on their soil ..." > > http://wapo.st/19nBQGp > > -- > "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen > lytlað." > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] Beijing Paper: Constant Capital, Accumulation, Sustainability, and Economic Theory
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I hope that the title explains the contents http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2013/10/05/beijing-paper-constant-capital-accumulation-sustainability-and-economic-theory/ -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] How Greedy Workers' Pensions Destroy the Economy, Or Not.
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == How Greedy Workers' Pensions Destroy the Economy, Or Not. Let's begin with one of these greedy workers: Maremont, Mark. 2013. "For McKesson's CEO, A Pension of $159 Million." Wall Street Journal (25 June): p. B 1. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323998604578565491579124154.html "Executive pension plans sometimes grow to a hefty size, amounting to tens of millions of dollars, as extra retirement cushions for long-serving CEOs." "Then there's the record $159 million pension benefit of John Hammergren, the current chairman and CEO of drug distributor McKesson Corp. MCK --0.93% That's how much he would have received in a lump-sum payment had he voluntarily departed on March 31, McKesson disclosed in its annual proxy filing on Friday." "Compensation consultants say it's by far the largest pension on file for a current executive of a public company, and almost certainly the largest ever in corporate America. It's also more than double the value of the 54-year-old Mr. Hammergren's pension six years ago. "Mr. Hammergren has been at McKesson for 17 years, 12 of them as sole CEO, so he is significantly younger and has a shorter tenure than most other executives who have accumulated large pensions." "A giant pension plan was at the heart of a controversy a decade ago over the pay package of Richard Grasso, former chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. An outside investigation found that Mr. Grasso had amassed pension benefits with a lump-sum value of $126 million." My mistake. He was probably one of those who groused about workers' pensions. Or How About the Big Money People who Handle their Pensions? Braun, Martin Z. and Chris Christoff. 2013. "Detroit's Pension Funds Dogged by Bad Deals." Bloomberg Businessweek (28 July): pp. 42-44. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-25/detroits-pension-funds-dogged-by-bad-deals They detail how the Detroit pension plans have lost more than $10 million on each of several deals with shady characters. http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/how-greedy-workers-pensions-destroy-the-economy-or-not/ -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] book for review
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I appreciate the offer, but I am swamped now. Semester is starting. Moving to new office & overcommitted. On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:14 PM, george snedekerg wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > The journal, SOCIALISM AND DEMOCRACY is looking for someone to review > Joseph Vargas's, HELL'S KITCHEN AND THE BATTLE FOR URBAN SPACE IN NYC , > just published by MR Press. This is a historical study of the Progressive > Reform Movement in NYC from 1894-1914 in the Hell's Kitchen area of New > York. The author uses Henri Lefebvre's theory of the production of space > and recent work in urban geography to understand class struggle in a > concrete historical and global context. > > > > If you are interested in writing this review, write to me at > snedek...@verizon.net. For sample reviews we have published go to our > web page: www.sdonline.org under back issues. > > The book is a lively read. > > > > George Snedeker > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Apologies regarding Muscular Christianity, Eugenics, War, Football, and Imperialism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == please tell me more On Tuesday, August 6, 2013, Mark Lause wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > This was also actually discussed as a factor in the U.S. decision to > declare war on Britain in 1812. Essentially, it was the first generaiton > governing the country since that which had led the Revolution, and there > was already a bit of an obsession over whether the sons of the fathers were > up to snuff . . . probably because of the quantity of snuff they were using. > > ML > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] Muscular Christianity, Eugenics, War, Football, and Imperialism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In the late nineteenth century, a fear about the softness of American society raised doubts about the capacity of the United States to carry out its imperial destiny. This problem was associated with the final settlement of the frontier. As important as the development of open space was to the expansion of the territory of the United States, the completion of the continental expansion brought an attendant fear that traditional masculinity was on the wane and would bring about a withering of the individual and the national body. This fear spread to the church as well, where the result was thought to be a moral softening (Miller 2011, p. 38). To make matters worse, waves of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe were flooding American cities with foreign cultures. This concern became so pressing that talk of “race suicide” became common. Here is the complete section: http://michaelperelman.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/foot.pdf comments and critiques are gratefully welcome. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] Muscular Christianity, Eugenics, War, Football, and Imperialism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is an extract from a book that Vincent Portillo and I are writing, The Matrix: An Exploration of the Interactions between the Economy, War, and Economic Theory. Here is how it starts: In the late nineteenth century, a fear about the softness of American society raised doubts about the capacity of the United States to carry out its imperial destiny. This problem was associated with the final settlement of the frontier. As important as the development of open space was to the expansion of the territory of the United States, the completion of the continental expansion brought an attendant fear that traditional masculinity was on the wane and would bring about a withering of the individual and the national body. This fear spread to the church as well, where the result was thought to be a moral softening (Miller 2011, p. 38). To make matters worse, waves of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe were flooding American cities with foreign cultures. This concern became so pressing that talk of "race suicide" became common. Here is the url: http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2013/08/04/muscular-christianity-eugenics-war-football-and-imperialism/ Any comments or criticism would be welcome. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Young woman plays with the big boys in Central Park baseball | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Growing up, my best friend, the girl 2 houses away, was the very best baseball player in our part of town. When she was 16, the League of their Own people tried to get her to run away and play with them. When she first got engaged, the idiot boyfriend, did not know that she could play. He insisted that they go to the driving range where they had a pitching machine. He wanted to show off, so he made her try to hit. Their engagement ended that night. On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > ==**==**== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ==**==**== > > > http://louisproyect.org/2013/**07/20/young-woman-plays-with-** > the-big-boys-in-central-park-**baseball/<http://louisproyect.org/2013/07/20/young-woman-plays-with-the-big-boys-in-central-park-baseball/> > > __**__ > Send list submissions to: > Marxism@greenhouse.economics.**utah.edu > Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.** > utah.edu/mailman/options/**marxism/michael.perelman3%**40gmail.com<http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com> > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Gettysburg
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Isn't it true that printers tended to be very (self) educated? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Zombie Hasbara: 'World War Z' and Hollywood’s Zionist embrace
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Isn't Scientology very pro-zionist? On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 6:38 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: > ==**==**== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ==**==**== > > > I went to the Drive-In in Atlanta Friday night, to celebrate a friend’s > birthday, a beautiful night under an almost full moon. We watched This is > The End and Fast and Furious 6, and two of us stayed for the 2:00 am > screening of World War Z. I’m not a zombie fanatic, so other than watching > the Walking Dead, I had few expectations beyond the trailers that have been > on TV since the Super Bowl. So I was surprised, jarred out of the movie > really, when right in the middle of the narrative, Brad Pitt’s character, > Gerry Lane, travels to Israel and spends more than 10 minutes in a full-on > pro-Israel propaganda piece that was as corny as it was crazy. > > The Times of Israel may be only slightly exaggerating when it calls this > “the greatest piece of cinematic propaganda for Israel since Otto > Preminger’s “Exodus.” Not only is Israel’s fanatical Wall Building proven > to be justified, against the hordes of undead invaders, and not only are > Jewish victimizations paraded to justify the aggrandizement of Israeli > military prowess, but it’s Israel’s supposed humanism, and multicultural > inclusiveness, which in the end weakens the fragile post-apocalyptic state > and allows the zombies to overrun everything. Its pretty heady stuff. > > full: > http://mondoweiss.net/2013/06/**hollywoods-zionist-embrace.**html<http://mondoweiss.net/2013/06/hollywoods-zionist-embrace.html> > > __**__ > Send list submissions to: > Marxism@greenhouse.economics.**utah.edu > Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.** > utah.edu/mailman/options/**marxism/michael.perelman3%**40gmail.com<http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com> > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] 'What to do with the Labor Theory of Value'
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I have a revolutionary proposal. All of us pledge to devote a year to get together to concentrate on the Transformation Problem. Once we come up with our solution, all we need to do is to make a public announcement & declare a socialist society, which nobody could have any grounds to reject. Organizing will occur via email & the capitalists will have no choice but to surrender. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] [JunkMail] ps re Slovenia
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I mentioned in my post that Michael L. would be able to add to me impressions. I was right. To be confused with Michael L. is a great honor. Thank you Dan. On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Dan Weiner wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > My apology, I just noticed you aren't Michael Perelman, my apologie. > > Anyway, the rest of the part of the message isstill valid--big smile > > Dan > > > > -Original Message- > From: marxism-bounces+dcwein=dcwein.cnc@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > [mailto:marxism-bounces+dcwein= > dcwein.cnc@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu] > On Behalf Of michael a. lebowitz > Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 2:09 AM > To: Dan Weiner > Subject: [JunkMail] [Marxism] ps re Slovenia > > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > On additional point about the developments at the Workers & Punks > University > May Day School reported by Michael Perelman: the announcement made at the > conference was the formation of an explicitly socialist initiative. The > young comrades there have been intensely involved in the protest movement > there and have concluded that it is essential now to distinguish their > position from the strains of merely anti-corruption and nationalist > elements > within those demonstrations and to build explicitly on this basis. The > particular significance of this at this time is that 'socialism' [and, > indeed, self-management] have been terms beyond mention as the result of an > intense ideological offense offensive throughout the former Yugoslavia for > the last 20 years and more. There are similar stirrings in Zagreb [where I > was until yesterday] and Belgrade [where I am now] among young people but > they are far behind the comrades in Ljubljana; however, there is no > question > that in those places they are being inspired to go thou and do likewise. > michael > > -- > - > Michael A. Lebowitz > Professor Emeritus > Economics Department > Simon Fraser University > University Drive > Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6 > Home: Phone 604-689-9510 > Cell: 604-789-4803 > > > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/dcwein%40dcwein > .cnc.net > > > ____ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] Fwd: Mayday in Slovenia
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == -- Forwarded message -- From: michael perelman Date: Sat, May 4, 2013 at 7:52 PM Subject: Fwd: Mayday in Slovenia To: Progressive Economics -- Forwarded message -- From: michael perelman Date: Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:13 PM Subject: Mayday in Slovenia To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition < marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu> I just returned from Slovenia, where I had the privilege of giving a plenary lecture, as did Michael Lebowitz and David McNally. The experience went well beyond my wildest dreams. Some 16 years ago some economics students organized the Workers and Punks University. The staying power alone of this organization deserves great credit. I have no idea how well the Workers and Punks University operated in its infancy, but its work today is incredible. During the conference, the organizers held a press conference to announce the beginning of a new political party. In the United States, such an event would have been ignored, except perhaps for a few snide comments. In Slovenia, from what I understand the press corps took the party seriously. Even more surprising, much of the reporting seems to have been relatively positive, according to what I was told. The goal of the party is to create an alliance with each of the states that made up Yugoslavia. The only other regions that were in attendance, as far as I know, where Croatia and Serbia. Unlike the United States where lasting regional resentment about our Civil War continue after a century and a half, I saw no sign of anything similar at the meeting. In the sessions devoted to the strategy for the party people differed with one another, but they did so with respect. Finally, the level of political and intellectual sophistication I saw was absolutely amazing. The young people were intensely interested in ideas, especially those relevant to building a new society. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] Mayday in Slovenia
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I just returned from Slovenia, where I had the privilege of giving a plenary lecture, as did Michael Lebowitz and David McNally. The experience went well beyond my wildest dreams. Some 16 years ago some economics students organized the Workers and Punks University. The staying power alone of this organization deserves great credit. I have no idea how well the Workers and Punks University operated in its infancy, but its work today is incredible. During the conference, the organizers held a press conference to announce the beginning of a new political party. In the United States, such an event would have been ignored, except perhaps for a few snide comments. In Slovenia, from what I understand the press corps took the party seriously. Even more surprising, much of the reporting seems to have been relatively positive, according to what I was told. The goal of the party is to create an alliance with each of the states that made up Yugoslavia. The only other regions that were in attendance, as far as I know, where Croatia and Serbia. Unlike the United States where lasting regional resentment about our Civil War continue after a century and a half, I saw no sign of anything similar at the meeting. In the sessions devoted to the strategy for the party people differed with one another, but they did so with respect. Finally, the level of political and intellectual sophistication I saw was absolutely amazing. The young people were intensely interested in ideas, especially those relevant to building a new society. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Details on the Tsarnaev brothers
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Was there much unrest in the caucuses with the USSR? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Grad student who discovered Reinhart and Rogoff Excel error
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Michael Yates is a bit wrong. Feldstein never admitted that he made a mistake. It was the fault of a student assistant. On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 3:09 PM, michael yates wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > This was a student of my friend and excellent economist, Robert Pollin. > Bob was skeptical at first, but he realized that his student (and the > student's girlfriend) was right. This reminded me of the error made by the > wretched Martin Feldstein, who made his name by arguing that the social > security system lowered the rate of capital formation and hence the rate of > economic growth. Two researchers at the Social Security Administration > asked Feldstein for his data, and when, after a couple of years, he gave it > to them, they couldn't replicate his results. He had made a programming > error. He soon redid his work and claimed that the results were the same. > Unfortunately for him the Social Security staffpersons found the opposite > of what Feldstein claimed to be true. As I understand it, Rogoff and > Reinhart have done the same thing, but are backtracking from their claim, > saying they never said what is attributed to them. > > In Paul Krugman's recent NYT column, he doesn't even have the generosity > to mention the graduate student's name. What a prick. > > Of course, nothing will come of this. Austerity will continue. Just as > capital will resist raising the minimum wage, despite the truth that > raising it will boost both incomes and employment. And just as those with > power will continue to insist, with the support of Obama, that the social > security system is near insolvency despite the falsity of this claim. > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] 'Economics of the Madhouse' - Cambridge School
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Cambridge Controversy was a big deal in the 60s. The traditionalists lost the debate, but Robert Solow said that while the challengers might be right, it was an irrelevant tempest in a tea pot. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Paul Owen wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > At the beginning of Chapter One of his 'Economics of the Madhouse' Chris > Harman refers to ".points.made against marginalist economics.more recently > in a rigorously logical form by dissident academic economists known as the > 'Cambridge school'." > (http://www.marxists.org/archive/harman/1995/madhouse/1-gonemad.htm) > > > > Can anyone point me to the specific papers/books to which he refers or > their > equivalents. > > > > Thank You > > > > Paul > > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] From Sartesian
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Regarding Heinrich, what I read him implying was that Marx became skeptical of a mechanistic, mathematical theory of the falling rate of profit, that the subject required a broader analysis. On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > ==**==**== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ==**==**== > > > Lou, > > AN implies that those of us who don’t take Heinrich’s speculations as the > new anti-gospel are exhibiting religious faith—because, apparently, we > aren’t persuaded by Heinrich’s mathematics. I might accept the accusation > as having some validity if in fact my response, or indeed, the responses of > others were based on the mathematics. They are not. They are based on the > historical record of capitalism. The agreement with the assertion that the > rate of profit tends to fall with the accumulation of the means of > production as capital, with the expulsion of labor-power from production, > is based on the actual movement of capital over a fairly substantial > period of time; in the current moment—that period of time being cited as > evidence goes back some 45 years—and...can explain the twists and turns of > capitalism in the US, and on a global scale, at the critical points in that > 45 years. Now correlation is not causation, we all know that... but after > awhile, you know evidence is evidence. Shane demonstrated the long term > tendency for a substantial period of time prior to 1968. Others have > demonstrated just such a decline in conjunction with increased “capital > investment” for other periods. Just circumstantial? well maybe, but > those are some pretty diverse, and convincing, circumstances, no? > > It may very well be that Marx’s mathematics do not prove the “law,” and > yet the law exists. There is a difference between proof and truth, not to > go all Gödel-like on this. > > It’s one thing to say as Heinrich does, that Marx was dissatisfied with > what he had written regarding capitalist expansion and the limits to that > expansion. It’s another thing to speculate, and that too is what Heinrich > does, that Marx’s dissatisfaction was driving him to reject the tendency of > the rate of profit to fall as inherent in capital accumulation. > > And it’s something else altogether to misapprehend the debates over crisis > theory and claim that in the 20th century that debate has focused on 1) the > law of the falling rate of profit and 2) that the FROP “group” has > represented” Marxist “orthodoxy”—a term usually used to identify followers > of the 2nd International, Kautsky etc. And that Heinrich does also. > > No way—the debates were usually about overproduction vs. underconsumption > . And also the debates centered around “disproportionality” which can be > traced back to Rosa’s Accumulation of Capital, Rosa’s work, I think, is > the “original” disproportionality explanation for problems of capitalist > reproduction. > > One more thing, I don’t know about anybody else, but I’m getting a little > tired of the “Engels as culprit” hymn that gets repeatedly sung by the new > anti-holy family. I mean I disagree with Engels presentation of the law of > value as meta-historical too, not to mention the “dialectic of nature,” > but the implication I keep coming across is that Engels pieced together > parts of Marx’s manuscripts to suit his, Engels’, own agenda. Maybe I’m > being unfair, but I bet I’m not the only one who smells that rat. And > Engels > > Anyway, thanks for the plug on your list, and my best to Angelus in his > translating efforts. > > > __**__ > Send list submissions to: > Marxism@greenhouse.economics.**utah.edu > Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.** > utah.edu/mailman/options/**marxism/michael.perelman3%**40gmail.com<http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com> > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Law school is a sham - Salon.com
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Maybe it is not a sham. I just read an article about unemployed law graduates suing their schools. They might turn a profit on their tuition??? On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > ==**==**== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ==**==**== > > > http://www.salon.com/2013/04/**06/law_school_is_a_sham/<http://www.salon.com/2013/04/06/law_school_is_a_sham/> > > __**__ > Send list submissions to: > Marxism@greenhouse.economics.**utah.edu > Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.** > utah.edu/mailman/options/**marxism/michael.perelman3%**40gmail.com<http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com> > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] New Karl Marx biography
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Gabriel's Love & Capital is great. On Sunday, March 31, 2013, Louis Proyect wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > On 3/31/13 1:08 PM, Andrew Pollack wrote: >> >> Sorry to hear that once again the canard about Marx's "On the Jewish >> Question" has been revived. >> >> > > Yeah, Freedland is a Zionist even if he is a pretty good writer and is about as good a reviewer as we can expect from the shitty NYT book review section. > > > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Bookstores
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == san francisco: city lights; modern times On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Ken Hiebert wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > A family vacation will take me to San Francisco, LA and Phoenix. Any left > bookstores I should know about? Bookstores in general? For the sake of the > list you may wish to reply to me off list. > Thank you. > ken h > > knhieb...@shaw.ca > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] antibiotic-resistant bacteria
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The report could have mentioned that most antibiotics are given to stimulate growth rather than fighting disease. On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Dennis Brasky wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > http://portside.org/2013-02-11/antibiotics-and-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-meat-not-getting-better > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Lord Dunmore's proclamation
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == That is why Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence document criticized King George, charging: "He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us." -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Why not nuke Canada?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == David, I saw the article, but was hoping for another source. On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 6:56 PM, DW wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > Michael, it is quite well documented and if you look at the blog link > it take you to the actual, quite detailed article. However... > > this is not knew, either. Military history buffs have known Plan Red > for decades. Most, including Plan Red, were navy focused and were war > game theories designed to isolate the opponents navy forces. There > were many such hypothetical plans for inter-Imperialist warfare > between the World Wars. > > Plan Orange: To militarily defeat the Japanese Navy and possible > invasion of the Home Islands. (pre-empted and outflanked by the > Japanese after Perl Harbor). > > Plan Gold: To attack and isolate the French navy fleet and take their > possessions in the Caribbean. > > Plan Green: to invade Mexico (this is after the Mexican Revolution). > > Plan Black: to tackle Germany should they be victorious against France in WWI > > Plan Gray: to invade Central America > > and a lot more, most developed in the 1920s and 1930s for every > conceivable war. The British also had one as did Canadathey had, > in event of war, a plant to take Albany and Detroit and force a peace > on the U.S. A huh. > > Some of this is detailed in wiki. All documented. All 'active' until > shelved after WWII. > > David > > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Why not nuke Canada?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Is there any documentation for this? I know that Roosevelt was intent on dismantling all competing imperial systems, especially Britain's. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Prairie Miller on "Zero Dark Thirty"
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I am not sure it is as Islamophobic as was suggested. The "evil doers" are people who have legitimate beefs, having suffered violence themselves and the CIA people are no angels. I appreciate the ambiguity, although it give much more red meat to the rabid right than it should. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Marxist Study Circle
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Good choices. I would add David Harvey's Invitation. On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > > Ananta wrote: > > >> Also please suggest some reading list on Marxism for begginers... > > On Marx's economic writings: > > Michael Heinrich - An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital > > Marxist political and cultural theory: > > C.L.R. James - Modern Politics > > > On Marx's writings on the state: > > Hal Draper - Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, Vol. I: State and Bureaucracy > > On Ideology: > > Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideology State Apparatuses > > Historical studies: > > Eric Hobsbawm - The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, The Age of Empire, > The Age of Extremes > > Studies of revolutionary movements: > > C.L.R. James - The Black Jacobins > > Leo Trotsky - History of the Russian Revolution > > Andy Anderson - Hungary 1956 > > > > > > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] "GOLDEN DAWN, 1980-2012. THE NEONAZIS' ROAD TO PARLIAMENT"
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A well-placed Greek friend tells me that the food distributed by Golden Dawn is supplied by the state. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Hollywood rightwing insanity
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Isn't Red Dawn Jack Abramoff's film? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] Interesting profile of Columbia University business school's sleazy dean
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here is Glen Hubbard singing http://www.byjustinfox.com/2006/05/glenn_hubbard_v.html On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Eugene Coyle wrote: > Yes, interesting and alarming. Don't miss the movie "Inside Job" for > background on this guy. There were outtakes from that film on the internet, > possibly including a bit on Glen Hubbard. > > Gene > > On Oct 14, 2012, at 9:22 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: > >> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/business/glenn-hubbard-is-romneys-go-to-economist.html >> ___ >> pen-l mailing list >> pe...@lists.csuchico.edu >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > ___ > pen-l mailing list > pe...@lists.csuchico.edu > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] history podcasts?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == BBC "in our time". Very often Excellent On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Brandon Frey wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > Any recommendations? I appreciate all the previous recommendations. > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] query
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Gary MacLennan wrote: > > Are comrades aware of anything written on the influence of Nietzsche on > Schumpeter's thinking? It seems to me that the latter's idea of the > 'entrepreneur' has a whiff of the ubermensch about it. > Grateful in advance Here are my notes: von Tunzelmann, G.N. 1995. Technology and Industrial Progress: The Foundations of Economic Growth (Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar). 78: Schumpeter's early idea of the heroic entrepreneur seems to have been influenced by Nietzsche's superman. Santarelli, E. and E. Pesciarelli. 1990. "The Emergence of a Vision: The Development of Schumpeter's Theory of Entrepreneurship." History of Political Economy, 22, pp. 677-96. Reinert, Hugo and Erik S. Reinert. 2006. "Nietzsche, Sombart, Schumpeter, Creative Destruction." In Jurgen G. Backhaus and Wolfgang J. M. Drechsler. 2006. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): Economy and Society (New York: Springer Science): pp. 55-85. 58: The idea of regeneration goes back to the Egyptian Phoenix, but regeneration is less than creative destruction. 59: Johann Gottfried Herder wrote a book, Despotismus des Orients, which criticized Oriental despotism, although he was sympathetic to Indian philosophy. This interesting Indian philosophy filter down to Schopenhauer and then from Schopenhauer to Nietzsche. 65: Nietzsche's Ubermensch is both the creator and a destroyer: "And whoever must be a creator in good and evil, verily, he must first be an annihilator and break values. Thus, the highest evil belongs to the highest goodness: but this is creative." werner sombart coined the term "creative destruction." 72: Sombart, Werner. War and Capitalism: "again, however, from destruction. A new spirit of creation arises; the scarcity of wood and the needs of everyday life . forced the discovery or invention of substitutes for would, force the use of coal for heating, forced the invention of Coke for the production of iron. That these events, however, made possible the enormous development of capitalism in the 19th century, is beyond doubt for any well-informed person. Thus, even here, in this decisive point, the invisible threads of commercial and military interests appear closely intertwined." 72: After World War II, "The German tradition in economics ... came to be represented solely by Marx and Schumpeter, a feature which made these two economists seem much more unique than they in effect are when seen in their own historical concept. As we have already mentioned, the Schumpeter assisted in this process, also by systematically neglecting the philosophical foundations of German economics in his History of Economic Analysis." ## Santarelli, E. and E. Pesciarelli. 1990. "The Emergence of a Vision: The Development of Schumpeter's Theory of Entrepreneurship." History of Political Economy, 22, pp. 677-96. 689: "it is possible to argue that the overall `vision' of Schumpeter's two early works has elements in common with the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche." Both distinguished between the leader and the herd. 691: "the separateness of the static and dynamic worlds on which Schumpeter dwells at such length in [Schumpeter, 1908] springs from the separateness of the two types of human being that the two worlds underlie." ## -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Books on contemporary capitalism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Confiscation of American Prosperity: From Right Wing Extremism and Economic Prosperity to the Next Great Depression, published in 2007, just before the stock market crashed. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] I was a Communist for the FBI
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I led three lives was a television series based on Herbert Philbrick (sp.?) life as a communist, fbi agent, & regular guy. quite popular in the '50s. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] Latest Matrix, New and Improved
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is still an exploration, not yet a finished work, but we think that the progress since the last posting has been significant, especially in terms of organization. http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/matrix-new-and-improved/ -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] John Dee
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == yes On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Doug Harvey wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > Michael, > > Are you referring to John Dee, "Brytanici Imperii Limites"? > > Thanks, > Doug > > ___ > Douglas S. Harvey, Ph.D. > http://www.pickeringchatto.com/monographs/theatre_of_empire_the > "The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric events; > and the things that are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, > is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest > in unvisited tombs." George Eliot > > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Trotskyites to NeoCons: Kristol and Ko.
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == You can see the origins of this with the brilliant mystic John Dee in Queen Elizabeth's court. You can see it in William Petty. However, in England, the emphasis was on sea power. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Trotskyites (sic) to NeoCons: Kristol and Ko.
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Their ideas sound like a rehash of Teddy Roosevelt. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Correction: Did Churchill cause the Bengal famine in 1944?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == see Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Forgotten Indian Famine of World War II -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Indian Blackout
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't see the attachment. On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Marla Vijaya kumar wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > > David, >I could not work on your question of why the blackout occurred for > the simple reason that there was no power for the whole day. I could work > only after the power is restored at 10 pm Indian Time. Here is a clumsy > attempt to answer your question: > File is attached - India - Blackout > Vijaya Kumar Marla > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Alexander Cockburn, RIP
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The one piece that stuck with me was in the Wall Street Journal during the oil embargo with a title something like "Taking the Capitalist Road in my Chrysler Imperial." The title was better than the content. On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Jim Farmelant wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > > On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 06:52:38 -0700 (PDT) Debordagoria > writes: > > >> >> >> I remember as a teen riding my bike every week to the nearest >> newsstand to get Cockburn's Nation column. > > I think he did a lot of his best writing when he was associated with The > Village Voice. > > > Jim Farmelant > http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant > www.foxymath.com > Learn or Review Basic Math > >> >> m >> >> > > Woman is 53 But Looks 25 > Mom reveals 1 simple wrinkle trick that has angered doctors... > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/500ad244c8ba524351e0st53vuc > > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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 Matrix: Revised, Improved, and Substantially Expanded
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here is the new version that embodies some of the suggestions you made. Thanks. http://michaelperelman.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/matrix2.pdf http://michaelperelman.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/matrix.doc -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Rent in passing
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == You might try my book, Steal this Idea. not my idea for that title. On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Craig Brozefsky wrote: > Where might I find some analysis of Intellectual Property from this same > perspective? My gut, underdeveloped perspective on IP is that it serves > several roles, one of which is extracting rent on social/cultural > production. > > > -- > Craig Brozefsky > Premature reification is the root of all evil > > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] How Goldman Sachs screwed the people who built Dragon Technology (the speech recognition software)
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == When I first bought an early version of Dragon, L&H's version had a better reputation for quality. I followed the case as I read about the phony sales to S. Korea. I was under the impression that the sales were "real," except the buyers were a division of L&H. The Bakers got screwed; the product greatly improved and I felt sorry for the actual entrepreneurs, an almost mystical community, often held responsible for capitalism's successes, although, more often than not, they end up with the short end of the stick. Long ago, MR published a piece that claimed that the automobile companies had done no innovations, except the windshield wiper. Someone wrote in saying that he, not the companies, invented it. The letter stuck in my mind although I did not recall any details. Maybe some of you could locate it. Later, a movie was made about the tragedy of the windshield wiper man, whose life was ruined trying to get something from his invention. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
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. == I am astounded by how little economists have learned from the crisis. (Are we allowed to use that word?). During the Great Depression there was more openness. I once served on a Department of Agriculture committee. A friend's father was an undersecretary at the time & he kept challenging his dad, who set up a task force to prove me wrong. The younger people on the task force dismissed my ideas out of hand. The older ones who had been active during the Depression (This was in the 70s) kept saying, I think Perelman is on to something. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Victor Serge memoir
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == KPFA's Letters and Politics had a wonderful interview with the author. On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:04 PM, DW wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > List members should visit the New York Review of Books web site at: > http://www.nybooks.com/search/?q=+Victor+Serge&origin=books&qsort=score+desc > > They are re-translating and re-publishing a lot of Serge's wonderful > writings. It's quite a good project. > > DAvid > > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] Churchill Dresden Bombing
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == He engineered a famine in India as well. Also stirred up ethic hostility there. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] Marx Question
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Where I can find a marxian formulation on the contradiction between finance capital and industria capital in terms of both process of capital circulation and institutionalized power bloc within the bourgeoisie? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] Thorstein Veblen: An American Economic Perspective
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I recently attended an outstanding symposium on Thorstein Veblen in Istanbul, hosted by the Chamber of Engineers, an amazingly radicalized group. Here is the introduction to paper I presented there: Given his insight and his style, Thorstein Veblen has become more relevant than ever, given current conditions. Neoliberalism in both economics and politics is enjoying a stranglehold on society. Its arrogant supporters blithely dismiss any information that might contradict their rigid dogma and treat all who would challenge them with contempt. To make matters worse, the neoliberals also dominate the media and academia, making respectful or even intelligent debate virtually impossible. Comments and Questions always appreciated. http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/thorstein-veblen-an-american-economic-perspective/ http://michaelperelman.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/veblen.pdf -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] Online: The Matrix: The Intersection of War, Economic Theory, and the Economy
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Vincent Portillio and I are hard at work putting together our new book provisionally entitled: The Matrix: The Intersection of War, Economic Theory, and the Economy. We are going to post the ms. on line as we go along. Here is our first installment, which will probably change in light of comments that you might make. Thanks for your interest. http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/the-matrix-the-intersection-of-war-economic-theory-and-the-economy/ -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Ikland
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I recall the Turnbull later admitted that he made up some of his material on the Kung. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] Heartland Labor Forum at KKFI in Kansas City interviewed me on June 14.
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == sorry, I left off the subject header. I come on in the second half, maybe around 35 minutes into the show. http://cas.umkc.edu/labor-ed/documents/HLF-June14-12-RetirementOntheLine_and_InvisibleHandcuffsOfCapitalism.mp3 -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] (no subject)
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I come on in the second half, maybe around 35 minutes into the show. http://cas.umkc.edu/labor-ed/documents/HLF-June14-12-RetirementOntheLine_and_InvisibleHandcuffsOfCapitalism.mp3 -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] Robert McChesney Interviews Me
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Interview by Robert McChesney. Media Matters. WILL Champaign Urbana (17 June 2012). http://audio01.will.illinois.edu/mediamatters120617.mp3 and www.spokenword.org/program/2005179 -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Can someone help me find instances of conference members staying on campuses rather then expensive hotels?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The History of Economics meetings sometimes use campus dorms. On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Mark Lause wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] First Stab at a New Book: The Matrix: The Conjunction of War, Economic Theory, and the Economy
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Vincent Portillo, a colleague, will join me in putting a new book together. We only have 10 paragraphs to show for our effort, but any comments will be very much appreciated. Getting an introduction down is important, not only for communicating with readers, but for sorting out our own ideas. Thanks. This book is an exploration of the complex and fascinating interactions between war, the economy, and economic thinking. Whether you realize it or not, a complex Matrix resulting from the interactions of war, economics, and economic thinking creates a powerful force field that affects almost everything you do. This force field, not unlike gravity, is both pervasive and invisible. However, the effects of the Matrix are unpredictable. In a world vulnerable to the possibility of serious destruction as the result of both military and economic miscalculations, taking account of this Matrix is imperative. The effects of the Matrix are far more complex than those of gravity. Obviously, an engineer designing an airplane must take into account the force of gravity to avoid future calamities. Complete command of the necessary scientific knowledge and care in the building of the plane is insufficient to guarantee future safety. The human interface creates an ever-present risk once pilots, mechanics, and air traffic controllers take over responsibilities for the plane. A far more intricate network of human behaviors interacting with the Matrix leads to pervasive uncertainty, making the challenges of responding to the Matrix are far more daunting than the straightforward responsibilities of those who are responsible for the plane's safety. The Matrix presents another dimension of complications. If a pilot flies into a mountain, the immediacy of the consequences makes interpretation of the event fairly simple. In the case of the Matrix, choices today may set off a chain of events that may have important consequences years or decades in the future. Looking back to identify a single -- or even a small set of events as the cause is very difficult. After all, events occurring in previous millennia still remain the subject of ongoing debates among historians. To make matters even more complex, the Matrix can cause contradictory outcomes. Here again, the human element comes into play. Any attempt at identifying causality comes up again the tendency to understand the sequence of events in light of pre-existing ideas or ideology. Consequently, one must exercise extreme caution in any attempt to manipulate the Matrix. Nonetheless, the risks of doing nothing are even more dangerous, considering the potential dangers or perhaps even likelihood of environmental, economic, or military disaster. Actions to prevent cataclysmic outcomes require great care, backed up with a relatively holistic perspective. Economics occupies a special place in this intricate Matrix with economics serving as a bridge between the other two principals of the Matrix: war and the economy. Almost unintentionally, in the seventeenth century, modern economics developed to a large extent in response to questions raised by the needs and the consequences of warfare. More at http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/first-stab-at-a-new-book-the-matrix-the-conjunction-of-war-economic-theory-and-the-economy/ -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] David Barkin Interviews Me
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The publisher of the Review of Radical Political Economics David Barkin interview me as a lead-in to an autobiographic-analytical article that the journal will publish in December. For those of you who might not know -- he works in Mexico, where he is doing excellent work on the ground with indigenous people as well as on the Mexican economy. I had trouble with the interview in the part where he is pressing me about what course the Union for Radical Political Economy should take. I did not have any good answers. I still don't. http://rrp.sagepub.com/content/suppl/2012/06/06/0486613411434398.DC1/RRPE_44_4.mp3 -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] After 5 years, The Confiscation of American Prosperity is in Paperback
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The young editor is enthusiastic about the sales after such a short period of availability. Here is an Amazon ad, but it may be available locally. http://www.amazon.com/The-Confiscation-American-Prosperity-Right-Wing/dp/1137009373/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338911378&sr=8-1 -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] Questions re Capitalism: a ghost story
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Could someone the more specific about the damage that popular figures, such as Roy, do to the movement? Do not they bring attention to popular abuses in a way that makes other people more willing to listen to arguments from the left? Does their craving for attention outweigh the potential positive effects? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] Is Lack of Worker Skills Responsible for High Unemployment?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == David Wessel had an interesting article about the effect of one area of corporate cutbacks -- human relations. HR departments adjust by relying on electronic services to evaluate applications. The process is so rigid that virtually no applications are suitable. One company drew 25,000 applicants for a standard engineering position only to have the HR department say not one was qualified. One interesting implication is that the corporate types who complain about having trouble finding workers may not all be lying. Some may have been shooting themselves in the foot. Maybe it is not so much a lack of skills as corporate short-sightedness. The article is here: http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/is-lack-of-worker-skills-responsible-for-high-unemployment/ -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] White Slavery: The Irish Slaves That Time Forgot
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Regarding Irish slavery, here is a section from my new book ms. Sex, Lies, and Economics. Earlier, Petty proposed to improve upon his dream by engineering a wholesale dislocation of the Irish people. This measure offered a potential means to wipe out backwardness while providing profit both for affluent people, such as himself, as well as those with whom he sought to ingratiate himself. One such program had already begun before Petty's arrival -- the enslavement of the Irish people sent to be employed in the Americas. This program peaked around 1652-3, just when Petty landed in Ireland (Jordan and Walsh 2008, p. 147). The scale of this program was substantial: ##It is impossible to say how many shiploads of unhappy Irish were dispatched to America by the sole negotiation of the commissioners of precincts. No mention of such shipments would be likely to appear in the State Papers, and no record of them is likely to be discovered elsewhere. They must have been very considerable in number. It is only in those cases of a merchant or captain who petitioned the government for special license to transport such vagrants that any information remains. [Smith 1927, p. 165] Also, on September 18, 1655, Henry Cromwell wrote to Secretary of State, John Thurloe, that 1,500 or 2,000 boys of twelve or fourteen years be sent to the West Indies plantations (Smith 1927, p. 169). The best estimate from the number of Irish transported to Europe and the West Indies runs about 50,000 (Gwynn 1931, p. 301). Charles Hull, Petty scholar and editor of his economic works, was appalled: "Again and again Petty advocates sweeping public measures which take no account whatever of the rights and sensibilities of the citizen. He is quite ready to suggest that the majority of the Irish and Scotch be transplanted to England whether they consent or not" (Hull 1899, p. lxii). No evidence survives indicating that Petty ever advocated transporting the Irish to the colonies. His silence in this regard is not evidence of some humanitarian instinct. Petty's interest was always personal enrichment and advancement rather than any animosity toward the Irish. Despite the fact that the purpose of his survey was to facilitate the relocation of Irish, clearing the land for English occupants conflicted with the English need Irish workers (Gwynn 1931, p. 301). Specifically, moving too many people from Ireland would deny Petty the cheap labor he needed to make the development of his Kerry lands profitable (Roncaglia 1977, p. 5). For the same reason, he opposed an earlier scheme to transport the Irish to the province of Connaught. Again Petty's objection was the damage such a plan would do to his projects. Even so, at one point, Petty went well beyond anything that the government envisioned, proposing a grandiose scheme for remaking an Ireland, almost devoid of the Irish people: "there shall be but 300 Thousand Souls in Ireland, and those all Herdsmen and Dairy-Women (whereas there are now 1300 Thousand of higher Quality)" (Petty 1687b, p. 559). In this way, the country would be reduced to "a Kind of Factory" (Petty 1687b, p. 560). -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] College Graduates on the Brink: A Double Waste
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It makes me sick. Thanks for your note. On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Christopher Hutchinson wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > Michael, > Thank you for writing this. A close friend's husband, a composer with a > phd, joined the military last year and is now in Iraq. Since then two more > friends both with college degrees have enlisted. It amazes me because the > pay is not great. My friend who is now, for lack of a better term, an "army > wife", living on a base in Hawaii says that rent is priced well over > market value and the quarters are shabby. The good news is that she and > other families on the base participated in Occupy on the island and carried > signs saying "end the wars." They were also preparing to lead a fight if > the government shut down and their partners didn't get paid. > > chris hutch > > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:51 AM, michael perelman < > michael.perelm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> == >> Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. >> == >> >> >> In the last week, 3 of my best students told me that they were joining >> the military. One came for a letter of recommendation and another >> whom I knew when he was in high school only told me today when I asked >> about his plans. Another bright young guy from basketball is dropping >> out to join. Again, financial considerations are dominant. I assume >> they are the tip of the iceberg among students with whom I am close. >> They see no decent job prospects in the civilian sector. What is >> going on when our economy creates such a double waste: not providing >> decent opportunities and then drawing them into a killing machine. >> >> -- >> Michael Perelman >> Economics Department >> California State University >> Chico, CA >> 95929 >> >> 530 898 5321 >> fax 530 898 5901 >> http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com >> >> >> Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu >> Set your options at: >> http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/christopher.hutch%40gmail.com >> > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] WTF
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hillary Clinton brags about hacking Al-Qaida's computers in Yeman, while the US is imposing severe intrusions on privacy because evil doers might hack the innocent computers of U.S. business. In the name of peace, US drones are raining death around the world. Now the US is selling these lethal contraptions to Italy, perhaps to help the country impose more austerity or perhaps to aim them at the great financial institutions. Who knows? In any case, we can expect that sooner or later everybody will have these toys with which they can play foreign policy. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] Preannouncement of Paperback Edition of my Book
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == After letting my book languish for almost five years Palgrave let The Confiscation of American Prosperity, they are about to release a paperback edition. In addition, they are featuring me as author of the month and reprinting my new introduction, which I explain why the book was constructed as a crime story. My picture and the introduction are at the bottom. http://view.mail.macmillan.com/?j=fe5816787c6d057f7316&m=feee1c737d6c02&ls=fdd015717762057b7511777465&l=fe5c1575746d01757512&s=fe3010727564037b731171&jb=ffcf14&ju=fe1f1773716d027b721777&r=0 -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] Austerity Economics: Tied Up in Knots?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A core element of neoclassical economics was to emphasize transactions rather than work, workers, or working conditions. The idea was that the justification of the system was the utility enjoyed by consumers. All considerations of work, workers or working conditions were to be swept aside. Production is relevant only insofar as serves to satisfy consumer needs. Macroeconomics was expected to depend upon this neoclassical micro foundation. Nonetheless, macroeconomics centered on demand is rejected by all good austerians. Instead, the current fad is to emphasize supply-side economics. Trading the social safety net encourages hard work. Tax cuts ensure more employment. Over and above the self-destructive consequences of austerity, the recent wave of austerian nonsense has the unintended consequence of contradicting the intellectual foundation of neoliberal economics. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] Enjoyable Interview Regarding Sex, Lies, and Economics
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I have never done an interview over Skype before. Weirdly, I did three this week. Here is the first, which was one of the most enjoyable interviews I have ever done. http://fromalpha2omega.podomatic.com/ -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] Pareto's Law: Understanding Inequality
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Economists, fond of making their work into a science, like to transform their ideas into a "scientific" law. Accordingly, the Fascist Italian senator, Vilfredo Pareto is credited with discovering Pareto's Law, which explains why inequality is a natural outcome. Pareto suggested that 20% of causes create 80% of effects. He argued that this law explains why 20% of the Italian population owned 80% of the wealth. Sadly, the U.S. experience calls Pareto's data into question, but then, those lazy Southern Europeans wallow in socialism. There is a second Pareto Law, which offers a more accurate explanation inequality. In his Manual of Political Economy, he explained: More at: http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/paretos-law-understanding-inequality/ -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Switching Sides
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == John Gurley was my favorite switcher -- a conventional monetary economist at Stanford, who turned to the left. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Samuel Bowles on his firing from Harvard
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't think he was a candidate, but Bart wanted him to run. He probably would have been less disastrous than Kennedy. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Samuel Bowles on his firing from Harvard
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == My mother's first cousin was the largest contributor to the Democratic Party in California. He invited me to spend the summer in Los Angeles to work for him and to take part in the 1960s festivities for the Democratic convention. I ate lunches with Senators and Congressmen, who had to listen to me because they thought I was Bart's son. His favorite candidate for the nomination was Chester Bowles, who my recently met. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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 Demise of Higher Education in the United States
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The United States has experienced two major growth spurts in higher education. In 1862, the Morrill Act changed the face of higher education will by granting each state 30,000 acres of public land for each senator and representative. Sale of the land was intended to create an endowment fund for the support of colleges in each of the states. Prior to the creation of the land-grant colleges, higher education was predominantly intended for wealthy students and those intending to serve as clergy. The land-grant colleges expanded higher education to different regions and a different class of students. This expansion, however, was still incomplete. The second episode was the G.I. Bill, which was not so much intended to promote education, but rather to prevent another Bonus March, in which angry soldiers returning from the First World War demanded early payment of their promised bonuses to help cushion the hardships of the Great Depression. Offering education was expected to channel potential discontent. The G.I. Bill paid a different kind of bonus. The doors of colleges and universities opened to people for whom higher education would have been out of reach. Their skills proved invaluable during the postwar economic boom. A second unintended bonus flowed from the G.I. Bill. To accommodate the massive inflow of students, colleges and universities built infrastructure to expand their capacity to handle so many students. After the wave of veteran enrollments dissipated, colleges and universities had to choose between letting this infrastructure sit idle or enrolling more students. Judging from my experience teaching during the Vietnam War, returning these veterans must have made an important contribution to the teaching environment. Although many soldiers were unable to put their lives together after the trauma of war, some came back, totally focused on making something of themselves. Some of their maturity and dedication rubbed off onto the younger cohort of students. A less dramatic burst of government spending into education came from the National Defense Education Act of 1958, which was a response to the USSR's launch of Sputnik, the previous year. This time, much of the money was narrowly focused on improving the quality of science and language education. http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/the-tragedy-of-higher-education-in-the-united-states/ -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] When Mormons were socialists
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A colleague of mine was a Mormon bishop. Knowing my interest in Marx, we frequently used to discuss Mormon socialism. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Whatever happened to the leisure society?
horized navigators who report that the ship is off course? Yet, what is needed to navigate the difficult waters that lie ahead is something entirely new an equal opportunity social order that allows all people to develop their talentsa society that breaks down the mind numbing confines of class. But, what are the alternatives? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Bretton Woods/Post-war Economy Book Recommendations?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == two more recommendations Louw, P. Eric. 2010. Roots of the Pax Americana: Decolonization, Development, Democratization and Trade (Manchester: Manchester University Press). shows how US policy during and after WWII was directed against the established colonial empires, esp. Britain. Also, Skidelsky's 3rd volume of Keynes' bio regarding Breton Woods. On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:07 PM, William Cerion wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > I was wondering what books people could recommend that covered > understanding the nuances of post WWII global economy, including the > history of the Bretton Woods system, the Marshall Plan, etc. from a > historical materialist position--which isn't to say that it should be > *exclusively* Marxist. > > Look forward to your suggestions. Thanks. > > Yours > William > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] Karl Marx and Citizens United
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Conservatives often fault Marx for making predictions (which he actually never made) that did not prove true. Nonetheless, in writing about the nature of capitalism, he almost inadvertently, he clearly laid out the logic, which made Citizens United inevitable. "In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality." -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Left Forum Video-Marx's Early Writings
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I wanted to attend, but the schedule seemed to have it occur at a later time. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Douglas Greene wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > Marx's Early Writings: Once More Unto the Breach: Video 1 of 2 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNwATLtzbkI > > Marx's Early Writings: Once More Unto the Breach: Video 2 of 2 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obbt8YcC250 > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] Public Safety at Zucotti Park
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I had not realized that we were staying only two blocks away from the Zucatti Park, the scene of the violence last night. It was all blocked off with very few people anywhere near the park. Instead, the whole block was ringed by police cars, perhaps fearing that a lone protester might dare to climb over the metal railings placed to make the park inaccessible. We walked down to Wall Street. Again, an enormous number of police guarding the heart of capitalism. Pictures follow: http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/public-safety-at-zucotti-park/ -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] A Brief History Of The New Republic's Various Stances On War
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == No mention of Jim Ridgeway and Andy Kopkind, who were great! -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Neoliberalism Hits a Speedbump?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jim, I agree with you; however, they seem more tolerant when the plant is foreign owned. > > > I think it's noteworthy that the Chinese government seems to be a bit more > tolerant of labor actions in their country than they have been in the past. > I think that the recent recession has also convinced them that there is less > of a future for them in exporting to the US and EU, so they need to beef up > their domestic markets which can only be done by raising wages in China. > > Jim Farmelant > http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant > http://www.foxymath.com > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] Neoliberalism Hits a Speedbump?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article today, which begins, " More Asian governments are pressing businesses to hike wages as a way to prevent outbreaks of labor unrest, raising the specter of higher manufacturing costs for global companies -- and the products they sell world-wide." The problem is that people in Asia lack the necessary naiveté to make capitalism work efficiently; i.e. to maximize exploitation. "Political leaders say they have little choice but to act, as voters grow savvier about wage gains" elsewhere, which they can research on the Internet. Recent protests by low-income workers in places like Indonesia and Thailand have added to pressure on governments to raise wages." "There is a genuine feeling that the low-wage segments [of Asia's population] haven't made much progress in recent years" as the gap between rich and poor has widened in some areas, said Edward Teather, an economist at UBS in Singapore." What is wrong with Americans that they can be bamboozled to think that the current neoliberal policies are constructive of anything more than more of the same? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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] My Left Forum Panel
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I will be offering a long-term diagnosis of capitalism and the current economic meltdown. I am hoping to meet as many Internet friends as possible. My session will be on Sunday 12:00m Session E Room E308. Please introduce yourself. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] China Already Has 100 Million Electric Vehicles.
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == David will disagree with me here, but the US plan is for fuel cells to be powered by hydrogen created by nukes. The most ecological plan is to house people in more rational (less sprawlish) patterns. > And of course, fuel cells are a more sensible option. you can completely > avoid use of batteries in an EV. I do not know whether I will be able to see > the day when a Hydrogen economy dawns on us. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] China Already Has 100 Million Electric Vehicles (really?)
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I understood David's point. I was just adding that the electric bicycles do much to reduce the gasoline consumption. As far as electric cars are concerned I am not sure how to proceed. Blanche's car was totaled last summer by a student. We are still dithering about buying a new car, relying instead on an old 65 VW bug. In looking at the electric cars, I am unclear if they do less damage than a regular "fuel efficient" internal combustion engine because of the limited lifetime of the batteries and the production of electricity. I am happy to live in an area when I need to get in a car very rarely -- in the last month 2 10 mile drives to the airport -- once to go to Japan and once to pick up a Brazilian who is here to work with me. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] China Already Has 100 Million Electric Vehicles (really?)
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == My impression is that there are tons of electric bicycles. The riders are predominately young and do not seem to be likely automobile customers. Instead, I would assume that they substitute for human powered bicycles. Making convenient bike paths and parking would make bicycles more popular -- also, protection against theft would help. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] C. Wright Mills and Marx
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Regarding emotional labor, which Hans just mentioned: My flight to Japan was on Japan Airlines. We returned on United. We were struck by the difference in flight attendants. On United, they were stressed and overworked. Their emotions were far from positive but from no fault of their own, I suspect. In contrast, Japan Airlines flight attendants always seemed very positive, even though they were expected to keep the toilets clean during the flight. I don't know how much the difference was cultural and how much was due to management-created stress. I wish I knew more. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Missing Passage in English Versions of Capital
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Marx could have also mentioned that the alchemists were laid off at the same time. On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:36 AM, Angelus Novus wrote: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > > > In the German original text, when Marx writes about the historical role of > the Bank of England, there is the following passage: > > "Allmählich wurde sie der unvermeidliche Behälter der Metallschätze des > Landes und das Gravitationszentrum des gesamten Handelskredits. Um > dieselbe Zeit, wo man in England aufhörte, Hexen zu verbrennen, fing man dort > an, Banknotenfälscher zu hängen." > > The first sentence is reproduced both in the Ben Fowkes and Edward Aveling > translations. In the Aveling translation at the MIA, it reads as follows: > > "Gradually it became inevitably > the receptacle of the metallic hoard of the country, and the centre of > gravity of all commercial credit." > > The second sentence is **missing from both English translations**. It means: > "In England, at the same time that the burning of witches ceased, > counterfeiters of bank notes were starting to be hanged." > > So I checked the Spanish edition, translated by Wenceslao Roces, and the > missing sentence is there: "Por los años en que Inglaterra dejaba de quemar > brujas, comenzaba a colgar falsificadores de billetes de banco." > > > Does anybody know what the story is as to why this passage is missing from > **both** English translations? Can you all confirm its absence or presence > in other languages? > > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Murray Dobbin: On the environment Canada is a rogue state
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In the US, the rogue state is always China, which may have a case for relying on coal in the short run. Yes, the air there is horrible, but at least China is working hard on alternatives. Canada has no such excuses. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
Re: [Marxism] Japanese women will glow in the dark
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thanks for the good cheer. Michael from Yokahama. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.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
