[Marxism] A hearty welcome to Cuba's Socialist Renewal
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Welcome to the Cuba's Socialist Renewal website and Merce Cameron, the creator and primaey translater. This is a big addition to the sources of information we have on Cuba. The website is attractively designed and eye-catching and the print style and contrast with the background are very kind to my aging eyes. But the thing I like best about CSR is its name and the bold public support to the direction being taken President Raul Castro and others. The clearest explanation and defense of these changes so far was Merce's translation of Raul's December 18 speech, available at the website,OTSKYO to the National Assembly and three segments that did not appear in the official version. My guess is that the great majority of US leftists see these changes, necessary or not, as steps backward toward capitalism and not, as I have come to do, as another piece of socialism of the 21st century. What Cuba should do will not be decided in the United States or any other country but Cuba. But more clarity and information are good things. The Cuba's Socialist Renewal website is already providing more of that. It will have a distinctive and important role to play. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Obama irks Robert Reich
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NY Times January 7, 2011 Obama the Centrist Irks a Liberal Lion By MICHAEL POWELL BERKELEY, Calif. — So how would he grade President Obama’s economic policies, and the new team put in place this week? Though Robert B. Reich, the former labor secretary, endorsed Mr. Obama and has traveled to the White House to provide economic counsel, he offers a smile that looks unmistakably pained. “We have a remarkably anemic recovery; it’s paper-thin,” Mr. Reich says. “In the narrowest, tactical terms, in sheer dollars committed to programs, Obama’s done pretty well, and his favorability ratings are better than those of the Democratic Party.” Then he sweeps his hands far apart in his sun-filled warren of an office at the University of California, Berkeley. “If you widen the lens, the public is being sold a big lie — that our problems owe to unions and the size of government and not to fraud and deregulation and vast concentration of wealth. Obama’s failure is that he won’t challenge this Republican narrative, and give people a story that helps them connect the dots and understand where we’re going.” Mr. Reich, 64, is one of several prominent liberal economists who despair of what they say is this president’s political caution, and his unwillingness to duel with an emboldened Republican Party. Faced with a Republican majority in the House, Mr. Obama this week appointed Gene Sperling, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton, as director of his National Economic Council, and William M. Daley, a centrist politician turned banking executive, as his chief of staff. Mr. Daley was a member of the Third Way, a group that counsels deficit reduction, more tax cuts and perhaps trimming Social Security. Mr. Reich is not pleased by the president’s message of late. “By freezing federal salaries, by talking about deficits, by extending the Bush tax cuts, he’s legitimizing a Republican narrative,” Mr. Reich says. “Why won’t he tell the alternative story? For three decades we’ve cut taxes on the wealthy while real wages stood still.” Mr. Obama’s liberal economics critics include Nobel Prize winners, Paul R. Krugman, the Princeton professor and columnist for The New York Times, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, the Columbia professor who served as chairman of Mr. Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors. Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and a professor at M.I.T., once advised liberals to stop blaming Mr. Obama’s advisers for pushing policies too friendly to Wall Street — the president makes those decisions. Mr. Reich served as labor secretary for President Clinton, and in his latest book “Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future” he applauds Mr. Obama for deft work in preventing the economy from toppling into a Depression. But the president demanded too little of the bankers he saved, Mr. Reich says, and he conflated a rising stock market and soaring corporate profits with an improving economy. The majority of Americans, who derive much of their wealth from their homes rather than the stock market, are falling far behind the top 1 percent, who took in 23 percent of the nation’s income in 2007. That inequality, he says, is at the heart of America’s malaise. “Obama had a chance to reboot the bailout,” he says. “He could have said to the bankers, ‘If you want more, you’ve got to put a cap on salaries, you’ve got to agree to modify X number of mortgages.’ ” Mr. Reich sees a parallel with his former boss, Mr. Clinton, and draws no comfort from the comparison. Confronted with a muscular Republican majority in the House in 1994, Mr. Clinton mastered triangulation, which is to say he sailed into a sea neither Republican nor Democratic. It was a strategic masterstroke, but he threw overboard some liberal founding stones. “I found myself truly impressed by how quickly Clinton moved to the putative center,” says Mr. Reich, a touch archly. Mr. Reich sees President Obama taking a similar tack. This argument drives the president and his advisers to distraction. To survive in a Washington where Republicans and Democrats are on nearly permanent war footing with one another, the president’s advisers say, requires an agility little understood by those on the outside. They point to health care and financial reform, to extended unemployment benefits and to the stimulus bills (which liberal economists criticized as too small) that let city and state governments avoid tens of thousands of layoffs. They will put their accounting up against that of their critics. (Congressional Republicans are split between those who have described Mr. Obama as a liberal, or a dangerous radical, or, more exotically, a Kenyan-style socialist). Mr. Reich says he knows careful compromise is the daily bread
Re: [Marxism] Bee killing
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:37 PM, c b cb31...@gmail.com wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Excellent article. Here's the part that is really upsetting. And of course, no one will be held accountable. The November 2nd memo, leaked to a Colorado beekeeper, indicates that the EPA was well-aware that the pesticide Clothianidin posed some serious risks to honey bees. *There have been concerns about this chemical from as far back as 2003*, and it's already been banned in Germany, France, Italy and Slovenia because of its toxicity. But the EPA chose to sweep all that under the rug to keep the pesticide on the market. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Commentaries on Israeli society
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == 1. A biting satire on the ubiquitous charge of anti-semitism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Sdkps0Quofeature=player_embedded 2. Women's rights under attack An Israeli activist who defied orthodox Jewish custom by leading a group of women in open prayer at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall has been told to expect years in prison for breaching the peace. […] There are now over 100 state bus routes, many of them in Jerusalem, that offer segregated services requiring women to sit in the back. Israel's High Court yesterday ruled that the practice could continue. Many offices in the city also keep the sexes apart while a growing number of clinics require men and women to book appointments on different days. […] As they broke into song at a recent gathering, the men's section grew more restive as resentment started to stir. A bearded man, his black cloak marking him as ultra-orthodox, shook a fist at the women and yelled: Burn in hell, you dogs. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8243726/Female-Israeli-activist-could-be-sent-to-prison-for-praying-at-Wailing-Wall.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Innocent Palestinian murdered in his bed
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NY Times January 7, 2011 Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian, 65, in His Bedroom By ISABEL KERSHNER HEBRON, West Bank — Israeli soldiers shot and killed an unarmed 65-year-old Palestinian man in his bedroom in this tense city early Friday, in what appeared to be a case of mistaken identity. The man’s wife said he was sleeping and she was praying when soldiers burst into the apartment before dawn, entered the bedroom and immediately opened fire. Afterward they asked her for his identity card. She gave her account a few hours later, standing next to the bed, whose mattress, sheets and pillows were soaked in blood. The headboard, an adjacent wardrobe and the ceiling were also spattered with blood and bits of what appeared to be brain matter. The Israeli military expressed regret but offered no explanation beyond saying that it had been carrying out an arrest operation. It said the West Bank division commander had been ordered to carry out a speedy investigation, with conclusions to be presented as early as next week. The soldiers were apparently looking for the dead man’s nephew, a Hamas militant who was one of six released from a Palestinian Authority prison on Thursday. He was staying in an apartment on the floor below the slain man’s and was rearrested by the Israeli military soon after the killing. Four of the other released militants were arrested by the Israelis overnight as well. Friday’s killing was the third death in the West Bank in a week for which the Palestinians blamed the Israelis. Coming after a period of relative calm, the deaths have added to fears of an escalation at a time when Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are stalled. After noon prayers on Friday, the alleyways around the man’s home seethed as hundreds escorted the body from a nearby mosque for burial, chanting, “In blood and spirit, we will redeem you, O martyr!” Initial reports on Israeli radio suggested that the slain man, Omar al-Qawasmeh, may have run at the soldiers, but the blood soaking the bed and dotting the walls seemed to belie that. His wife, Subhiya Awad al-Qawasmeh, said that the soldiers fired at her husband’s head and upper body. She said they thought he was the nephew, Wael Bitar. “They came to kill Wael,” she said. The killing also heightened tensions between the authority, which the West backs, and Hamas, its militant Islamist rival. Hamas accused the Palestinian Authority of collaborating with Israel in the case and bearing joint responsibility for the man’s death. The authority has been reining in Hamas activists and militants in the West Bank since the Islamist group, which won Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006, seized full control of Gaza a year later. There, Hamas has detained loyalists of Fatah, the dominant party of the authority. In this case, the authority had just released Mr. Bitar and five others who had been on a hunger strike. The Israeli military said that Mr. Bitar was the assistant of the man who planned a suicide bombing in the southern Israeli town of Dimona in February 2008, in which an Israeli woman was killed. The military also said that Mr. Bitar planned several other suicide attacks that were thwarted, and that he had been arrested by Palestinian forces in September 2008. Mr. Bitar’s wife, Sanaa, said he had been on a hunger strike for 43 days to protest his continued detention without charge or trial. She said that a Palestinian Authority court had ordered his release a while ago. She, too, blamed the Palestinian Authority for Mr. Qawasmeh’s death. Palestinian officials in the West Bank said such statements only served to remove responsibility from Israel, and suggested that the six had been kept in Palestinian custody for their own safety. Gen. Adnan Damiri, a spokesman for the Palestinian security forces, said that the authority had made it clear before their release that Hamas would have to bear responsibility for protecting them from Israeli forces, according to the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa. The other recent deaths include the case of a Palestinian woman, 36, who died last Saturday after inhaling tear gas on the sidelines of a protest the day before in the West Bank, according to her family and Palestinian medical officials. Initially, Israeli military officials anonymously raised questions about whether those accounts were fabricated; Friday brought the first official comment. The army commander in the West Bank, Brig. Gen. Nitzan Alon, was quoted by Haaretz as saying the woman probably died not from tear gas but from other medical “complications, combined with problems in the medical care she received at the Palestinian hospital.” On Sunday, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man as he approached a checkpoint in the northern
[Marxism] Bob Herbert tells it like it is
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NY Times Op-Ed January 7, 2011 Misery With Plenty of Company By BOB HERBERT Consider the extremes. President Obama is redesigning his administration to make it even friendlier toward big business and the megabanks, which is to say the rich, who flourish no matter what is going on with the economy in this country. (They flourish even when they’re hard at work destroying the economy.) Meanwhile, we hear not a word — not so much as a peep — about the poor, whose ranks are spreading like a wildfire in a drought. The politicians and the media behave as if the poor don’t exist. But with jobs still absurdly scarce and the bottom falling out of the middle class, the poor are becoming an ever more significant and increasingly desperate segment of the population. How do you imagine a family of four would live if its annual income was $11,000 or less? During a conversation I had this week with Peter Edelman, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and a longtime expert on issues related to poverty, he pointed out that the number of people in that tragically dismal category has grown to more than 17 million. These are the folks trying to make it on incomes below half of the official poverty line, which is $22,000 annually for a family of four. No one talks about these families and individuals living in extreme poverty. Certainly not the Republicans who were having a dandy time this week deliberately misreading the Constitution and promising budget cuts and other initiatives that will hurt the poor even more. If you’re still having trouble deciding whose side the Republicans are on, just keep in mind that the House G.O.P. bigwig Darrell Issa sent a letter to 150 businesses, trade groups and think tanks asking them to spell out which federal regulations they dislike the most. These are lifeguards on the side of the sharks. Scared to death of being outdone, President Obama and his sidekicks climbed into their spiffy new G.O.P. costumes and promised in humiliatingly abject tones to shower the business world with whatever government largess they could lay their hands on. The first order of business (pun intended) was the announcement that William Daley, the Chicago wheeler-dealer and former Clinton administration official who landed a fat gig at JPMorgan Chase, would become the president’s chief of staff. Mr. Daley was a loud critic of recent financial regulatory reforms and has been obsessed with getting Democrats to be more subservient to business. The poor, who have been hurt more than anyone else in this recession, don’t stand a heartbeat’s chance in this political environment. The movers and shakers in government don’t even give a thought to being on the side of the angels anymore — they’re on the side of the millionaires and billionaires. Nearly 44 million people were living in poverty in 2009, which was more than 14 percent of the American population and a jump of four million from the previous year. Anyone who thinks things are much better now is delirious. More than 15 million children are poor — one of every five kids in the United States. More than a quarter of all blacks and a similar percentage of Hispanics are poor. Are we doing anything about this? No. Our government officials, from the president on down, are too busy kissing the bejeweled fingers of the megarich. Professor Edelman broke the poor into two categories: the new poor, who have lost jobs and homes and otherwise been clobbered by the recession; and the old poor, who in many cases had previously been working, sometimes sporadically or part time, at jobs that didn’t pay much. Many of those low-paying jobs have since vanished and the old poor have just been crushed. “There is this astonishing number of people all the way down there at the bottom that we just don’t talk about,” Mr. Edelman said, “and they’re in very big trouble.” Welfare, even for the poorest of the poor, is not much help. More than 17 million people may be living in extreme poverty, but welfare, for most of the people who need it, was “reformed” right out of existence. TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), which is what welfare is called now, helps far fewer people than welfare used to, even though the poor have been laid low by the worst economy since the Depression. Hardly anyone cares. Hardly anyone even notices. With the tax cuts for the rich saved and William Daley coming on board, the atmosphere is being readied for Obama Co. to tap the fat cats for the zillions necessary for next year’s re-election run. And that, of course, is the only thing that really matters. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at:
Re: [Marxism] Bob Herbert tells it like it is
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The readers' comments on Herbert's op-ed piece are also excellent. Lots of bitterness directed at Obama for betraying his election rhetoric about change you can believe in and his lack of empathy for anybody besides the big bankers and Wall Street tycoons and trying to figure out what the fuck. So how do we Marxists and other anti-capitalist radicals capitalize? That's the 64 hundred dollar question which we need to be addressing. Jay Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Defend Korean workers
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == So if you are on any listservs, please post. Thanks Urgent Appeal: Eight South Korean Labor Activists Face 4-7 Years in Prison On Dec. 3 of last year, the prosecutor in the Seoul Central District Court demanded prison terms of 5-7 years for Oh sei-chull and other members (Yang Hyo-seok, Yang Joon-seok, Choi Young-ik, Park Joon-seon, Jeong Won-hyung, and Oh Min-gyu) of the Socialist Workers’ Alliance of Korea (SWLK), a revolutionary socialist group. These activists in the Korean working-class movement were indicted under South Korea’s notorious National Security Law (passed in 1948 and theoretically still stipulating the death penalty for “pro-North” activities). The eight militants of the SWLK, who as internationalists advocate working-class revolution in both Koreas, were accused of no specific crime except being socialists, but in reality the indictment resulted from their intervention in several strikes and movements going back to 2007. This is the first instance of such harsh repression under the National Security Law in many years. It occurs in the larger context of the hard-right turn (such as the smashing of the Ssangyong Motor Co. strike of 2009) of South Korean President Lee Myong Bak’s government since he took office in early 2008. (In fact, leaflets of the SWLK distributed during the Ssangyong strike were key evidence in the trial.) Prosecutors have attempted to indict members of the SWLK several times since 2008, and prior to December, the prosecutors’ case was thrown out of court each time. It is not impossible that a barrage of e-mail protests to Judge Hyung Doo Kim of the Seoul Central District Court will help reduce or obviate the pending sentences altogether, when final sentencing will take place on Jan. 27. Let Judge Kim know your feelings in your own words about this crackdown on “thought crime” by writing to s...@jinbo.net The e-mails must be received by 06:00 AM on Monday January 17th 2011 (Seoul time), so that the SWLK’s lawyer can forward them to Judge Kim prior to sentencing. Please distribute this appeal as widely as possible. Messages in languages other than English are welcome. Loren Goldner For further details on this case, contact me at lrgold...@gmail.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Arizona congresswoman assassinated
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_usa_shooting_congresswoman Congresswoman killed, others injured in shooting: report TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) Representative Gabrielle Giffords was fatally shot during a public appearance on Saturday, National Public Radio said. NPR said a gunman ran up to Giffords, 40, a Democrat, and opened fire. The suspect was taken into custody, NPR said. Media reports said about a dozen other people also were shot. (Writing by Bill Trott, editing by Anthony Boadle) Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math Globe Life Insurance $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d28bb1956413ae5d15st06vuc Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Some readers' comments on Bob Herbert's op-ed piece
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == “… Darrell Issa sent a letter to 150 businesses, trade groups and think tanks asking them to spell out which federal regulations they dislike the most. These are lifeguards on the side of the sharks.” No matter which party grasps the power, the working majority remain powerless while the capitalist minority rules the world. It is of no use to blame one party on the misfortune and misery of the people and hope the other party would come to people’s help. No any party will do any good. They are as corrupt as any henchman of the capital can be. Even if the Democrats had taken power of the Capital’s House, nothing would have changed as far as the political corruption, economic monopoly and social regression are concerned. The question is how to convince capital itself that the current mainstream and orthodox political economic policy is not only wrong and detrimental to the working majority but also harmful to the dictatorship of the bourgeois minority. Capital has taken it for granted that even though the economic crisis could be worse than the Great Depression in the 1930s, recovery has never been far away, time is on their side and patience will pay off. Its trusting to luck ideas keep a blear-eye in front of the danger ahead. Ever since China surrendered three decades, the Soviet Union folded two decades ago, and all-out confrontation ceased, capital started its barefaced onslaught on the working people of the world with candid exploitation and oppression as though there would be no tomorrow. Representative Democracy and profit sharing have died. Global discontentment among the working majority is never higher because of unemployment, bankruptcy, foreclosure, poverty and austerity. Capital as a hegemony is about to slip downward from its power peak. Global overproduction relative to working people’s affordable demand has been the real cause of the economic crisis. Overproduction comes about from fierce competitions and cost reduction. Automation has made matter worse than better through reducing work force or underemployment or both. The 21th century Innovation is all cost-saving enterprise, especially on human capital. Global accumulation of capital, on the other hand, reaches it new high and entraps into the mire of over-accumulation that overproduction engendered over the past three decades. The profitable investment outlets other than the speculative financial bubble-prone money ports like housing and stock markets become so much rare that lack of outlets has forced capital to invest overseas en mass leading to deindustrialization on a global scale. A permanent global unemployment calamity has arrived and it has been hardly fleeting at all. For some similar viewpoints, see http://endnotes.org.uk/articles/1 Now as though that were not enough, overseas low-cost investment outlets in China, India, Brazil and elsewhere face either inflation or over-investment and unemployment as well. Capital, which looked as invincible as only yesterday, has been on tenterhooks almost daily by crises. Overseas investments may do down the drain if China’s economy falls. Due to housing overproduction, housing crisis rivals the Great Depression. Housing price in 2010 dropped $1.7 trillion over last year when it shed $1 trillion or at a falling rate of 63% and a total drop of $9 trillion since 2006. “The U.S. housing market is now down around 25 percent from its peak in 2006. (During the Great Depression, home prices fell 25.9 percent in five years.) Housing bubbles are now bursting in China, France, Spain, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Eastern Europe, and many other regions.” (December 29, 2010, “Underneath the Happy Talk, Is This As Bad as the Great Depression?”) http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com... Due to over-accumulation of capital, “Indeed, top economists such as Anna Schwartz, James Galbraith, Nouriel Roubini and others have pointed out that while banks faced a liquidity crisis during the Great Depression, today they are wholly insolvent. Insolvency is much more severe than a shortage of liquidity.” “So many Americans have been jobless for so long that the government is changing how it records long-term unemployment. ‘Citing what it calls an unprecedented rise in long-term unemployment, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), beginning Saturday, will raise from two years to five years the upper limit on how long someone can be listed as having been jobless.’ “The two-year limit has been used for 33 years.” (See the above URL) Darrell Issa, William Daley, Barak Obama and their ilk - the right-wingers - now put on their tax cut hawk facemasks, shift the financial burden of tax cut on social programs and scoop more lucre for their masters and themselves. The strategic plan of their class
[Marxism] Cathie Black and the Demise of Public Education
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Cathie Black and the Demise of Public Education Saturday 08 January 2011 by: Christopher Lawrence, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis clip - http://www.truth-out.org/cathie-black-and-demise-public-education66427 The appointment of Cathie Black - the Hearst magazine executive with zero education experience - as New York City schools chancellor is further evidence of the complete collapse of the 20th century model of liberal public education in the US. The cynical compromise between Mayor Bloomberg and his liberal opponents to appoint an educator as deputy chancellor only serves to highlight the obvious message: education is a business that is too lucrative in these difficult times to leave to teachers and communities. It now seems inevitable that we will move to a dual education system not seen since the days of legal segregation, with minorities and the poor shuttled through a system of for-profit institutions emphasizing standardized testing, uniform lessons and rote learning. It is remarkable how quickly the liberals caved. Maybe this is because of the way pro-business education reformers co-opted the traditional liberal discourse of equality and civil rights. Or maybe it's the money. It is heart-warming to see the captains of industry, hedge fund managers and politicians across the political spectrum lining up to bankroll an attempt to level the playing field for the poor. This equalization is a noble cause, and one that is difficult to criticize. Unfortunately, it is also a scam. Once again, the rich are preying on the hopes of the poor in order to further their monopoly on wealth and power. The education reforms enshrined in the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), like charter schools, increased testing and subcontracted tutoring and provided a huge opening for private education entrepreneurs, even as public school budgets are repeatedly slashed. If anyone had any doubts about the true intentions of these corporate conquistadores, the announced departure of current New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein to Murdoch's News Corp in order to pursue opportunities in the education marketplace makes clear their objectives. School reformers focus on the racial achievement gap as a source of social inequality. This is naive at best and a red herring at worst, distracting us from the real causes and remedies of inequality. Education, in itself, is neither a cause nor a solution to the systemic problems of racism and poverty in the US. The promise to prepare all students for college seems admirable, until one realizes that the colleges where most students are to be sent are for-profit diploma mills where students graduate, if at all, with high debts and few prospects of a well-paying job. As for charter schools, a recent studyhttp://credo.stanford.edu/reports/National_Release.pdfshows that more fail than succeed. Those that do are invariably the beneficiaries of generous private grants that guarantee funding at much higher levels than those of regular public schools. No matter. The attraction of charters continues as poor people, accustomed to the indignity of lining up for lottery tickets, continue to hope for that lucky break. When reformers promise us that every child can succeed, they are trafficking in cheap platitudes. True success would involve a redistribution of wealth, the creation of decent jobs and a commitment to real equality. But to think of these reforms in terms of education misses the point. Their real goals are cutting costs and increasing profits. Education reforms have been marketed by demonizing public school teachers and their unions. As systemic inequality and unemployment grow, teachers have become the scapegoats for an economic system in crisis. Demands are growing for an end to job security and other benefits and the firing of teachers based on poor student test scores, despite the fact that the most relevant variable in test scores is poverty, not teaching. In charter schools, these problems have been addressed through increased productivity (such as longer teacher hours for less pay) and the elimination of job security and benefits. Many charters do not even offer teachers a pension. full -- http://www.truth-out.org/cathie-black-and-demise-public-education66427 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Arizona congresswoman assassinated
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The assassin seems to be a Tea-Party lunatic type. See his farewell YouTube message: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHoaZaLbqB4 Congresswoman Giffords was one of 20 Dem. candidates identified by Sarah Palin during the last election singled out to be defeated. I believe there was election propaganda circulated showing them with gun-sight targets over their heads. Giffords narrowly beat the Tea-Party candidate. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Arizona congresswoman assassinated
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Palin during the last election singled out to be defeated. I believe there was election propaganda circulated showing them with gun-sight targets over their heads. It's the typical thing fascists do; use incendiary words and evocative images, and then claim innocence when some whack job takes the words or images literally as they were intended. It's common in the anti-abortion realm. You can see some of the graphics here: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/08/congresswoman-gabrie.html -- In California in 2004, there were 360 people serving life sentences for shoplifting. -- Journalists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Arizona congresswoman assassinated
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jay wrote: The assassin seems to be a Tea-Party lunatic type. I don't now what this guys connection to right wing politics is but I have noted You tube is lousy with not so veiled threats. For example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ye4QeD_BAc. Tribute to the Patriot Weapon of Choice has a soft rock soundtrack with images of the latest tricked out Armalites. Here are some of the lyrics: “Who stood before me was my enemy He’s come to take my liberties I’d rather die than be a slave to thee Don’t treat me this way I’d rather die than be your slave I will survive can you feel my rage It’s not a question of being brave It didn’t matter who shot first that day… We hit them hard we made them pay that day We hung the traitors from the highest tree No mercy from me…this is the price we pay for Liberty.” The use of the term traitor is common these videos and I wrote to couple of the creators and asked them just who were the traitors. Several of them responded with the names of prominent Democrats - Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid were the most often mentioned. For anyone who cares to wade through the Turner Diaries, the right wing revolt sparked by the bombing of a Federal Building is marked by the public hanging of liberal legislators. This isn't the Weimar Republic, but this is a country in economic decline with an increasingly hostile polarization of politics. Among the legions of wack job tea baggers, there are some moving beyond simply howling at the moon. They are, of course, not the only ones with their weapons of choice. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Arizona congresswoman assassinated
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The assassin seems to be a Tea-Party lunatic type. See his farewell YouTube message: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHoaZaLbqB4 Congresswoman Giffords was one of 20 Dem. candidates identified by Sarah Palin during the last election singled out to be defeated. I believe there was election propaganda circulated showing them with gun-sight targets over their heads. Giffords narrowly beat the Tea-Party candidate. We really don't know about the provenance of this. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Arizona congresswoman assassinated
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Jim Farmelant farmela...@juno.com wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_usa_shooting_congresswoman Congresswoman killed, others injured in shooting: report TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) – Representative Gabrielle Giffords was fatally shot during a public appearance on Saturday, National Public Radio said. NPR said a gunman ran up to Giffords, 40, a Democrat, and opened fire. The suspect was taken into custody, NPR said. Media reports said about a dozen other people also were shot. (Writing by Bill Trott, editing by Anthony Boadle) Funny, I just pulled up the story and it looks like she was only wounded and doctors are optimistic about a recovery. Where did you get the idea she was killed? Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Richard Falk - Israel is gearing up for another major offensive into Gaza
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Israel is gearing up for another major offensive into Gaza, yet the world community still remains bafflingly silent. Richard Falk: Hopes of Gaza Cast in Lead It is mainly through civil society acts of defiance, like the Mavi Marmara and the Freedom Flotilla, that offer the appropriate responses to the injustices occurring in Gaza [EPA] It is dismaying that during this dark anniversary period two years after the launch of the deadly attacks on the people of Gaza - code-named Operation Cast Lead by the Israelis - that there should be warnings of a new massive attack on the beleaguered people of Gaza. The influential Israeli journalist, Ron Ren-Yishai, writes on December 29, 2010, of the likely prospect of a new major IDF attack, quoting senior Israeli military officers as saying It's not a question of if, but rather of when, a view that that is shared, according to Ren-Yishai, by government ministers, Knesset members and municipal heads in the Gaza region. http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/01/2011147844745636.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Translation: The question of the century
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From new Cuba blog Cuba's Socialist Renewal http://cubasocialistrenewal.blogspot.com To sign up as a follower or to receive email updates click on link above [Thanks to Fred Feldman for his kind words of encouragement. I should point out that the translation of Raul's December National Assembly speech that Fred attributes to me is actually an official Cuban translation. I translated some of Raul's additional comments.] The most significant economic reforms to date are taking place in agriculture, the Achilles heel of Cuba's post-capitalist economy. A key initiative of the government led by Raul Castro is the leasing of idle state farmland to individuals, peasant cooperatives and state farms in an effort to boost production, reduce costly food imports (US$1.6 billion in 2011) and lower prices. More than 100,000 people have benefited from these land grants. Damage to crops from the ferocious 2008 hurricanes, the global economic crisis, administrative red tape and delays in the commercialisation of farm supplies and equipment — together with losses in the distribution chain from farm to market — saw an overall decline in agricultural output in 2010, but this year may see a turnaround as new farms become established and teething problems are ironed out. The return to the countryside has spawned a new social movement in which peasants are sharing their knowledge with those who have opted to try their hand at farming. The rural revival is being complemented by the establishment or expansion of green belts around provincial cities and towns, with an emphasis on ecological sustainability and energy efficiency. Cuba's communist youth organisation, the UJC, is encouraging young Cubans to join in this effort. Thousands have responded with enthusiasm. Not everyone agrees that expanding the scope of peasant agriculture and cooperatives — which may hire wage labour to assist with planting, harvests and the like — can make a positive contribution to Cuba's socialist development in the new economic model that is emerging. Here Ricardo Ronquillo Bello, a regular columnist for Juventud Rebelde, takes up the debate in favour of cooperatives. He notes that Vladimir Lenin was an enthusiastic supporter of cooperatives if, as in revolutionary Cuba, state power is in the hands of the working people. Those who are interested may like to read what Lenin had to say here: http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1923/jan/06.htm Link to translation: http://cubasocialistrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/01/translation-question-of-century.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Arizona congresswoman assassinated
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 16:20:42 -0800 MARGARET WYLES kaliy...@wildblue.net writes: On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Jim Farmelant farmela...@juno.com wrote: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_usa_shooting_congresswoman Congresswoman killed, others injured in shooting: report TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) Representative Gabrielle Giffords was fatally shot during a public appearance on Saturday, National Public Radio said. NPR said a gunman ran up to Giffords, 40, a Democrat, and opened fire. The suspect was taken into custody, NPR said. Media reports said about a dozen other people also were shot. (Writing by Bill Trott, editing by Anthony Boadle) Funny, I just pulled up the story and it looks like she was only wounded and doctors are optimistic about a recovery. Where did you get the idea she was killed? I posted from what were the initial reports which at the time were declaring that she had died from the attack. Those reports turn out to have been error, but a Federal judge did die in the attack, and many other people were wounded. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math Globe Life Insurance $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d290a829d0bdaefde9st06vuc Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Black Agenda responds to Ishmael Reed
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://blackagendareport.com/?q=content/ishmael-reed-amiri-baraka-and-black-radical-dilemma My own take: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/black-pundits-rally-around-the-president/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Rep. Gifford not dead, doctor optimistic, Palin sends good wishes
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I kind of assume that this is not a deeply political event, or more correctly, I think that it is political only in a very deep sense. As for Palin, she has been sending her message to people like the killer for quite a while: Don't apologize. Reload! She's not referring to moose, although apologies to them would be appropriate. Fred Feldman Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition after being shot, 9-year-old and Judge dead BY Michael Mcauliff and James Gordon Meek In Washington and Larry Mcshane DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Originally Published:Saturday, January 8th 2011, 1:46 PM Updated: Saturday, January 8th 2011, 7:53 PM APPeople outside the Safeway in Tucson were shocked by the shooting of the Congresswoman. Popat/APJared Loughner is believed to be the shooter who fired on Giffords. Gabrielle Giffords (CLICK TO SEE MORE PHOTOS OF THE SHOOTING.) Take our This was the act of one nut, civility will prevail. Americans have a lot of anger toward politicians, this could happen again. I I don't know. Related NewsRep. Gabrielle Giffords was a target of Sarah Palin, but is a moderate, gun-owning DemocratLupica: Palin shows she lacks real couragePalin: Every state should have immigration law like ArizonaPalin blames Obama for Arizona's anti-illegal immigration lawSarah Palin blasts Arizona boycotters; Austin, Tex., City Council approves ban of their ownSearch is on for 5 suspected illegal immigrants in Arizona deputy shootout Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords miraculously survived a point-blank gunshot to the head as a lone gunman killed six people Saturday during a routine voter meet-and-greet. Giffords and another 11 people were caught in the fatal fusillade after the cold-blooded killer opened fire without warning outside a Tucson grocery store on a sunny weekend morning. A 9-year-old girl was killed, while a federal judge and a Giffords staffer were also reported among the dead in a shooting that shook the nation. This is more than a tragedy for those involved, said President Obama. It is a tragedy for Arizona and a tragedy for our entire country. The shooter - identified as Jared Laughner, 22 - marched up to Giffords around 10 a.m. local time as she spoke to a local couple, aimed his handgun and fired from just a few feet away. Giffords, 40, had a bullet pass completely through her skull before she collapsed before horrified constituents. Witnesses said the shooter squeezed off as many as 20 shots before the carnage ended. She is in critical condition, said Peter Rhee, emergency director of trauma and emergency care surgery at University Medical Center in Tucson, after neurosurgeons worked on the three-term representative. I'm optimistic about her recovery, Rhee said. We cannot tell what kind of recovery, but I'm about as optimistic as you can get in this situation. Hospital officials said five people were in critical condition, while another five remained in surgery hours after the gory attack. Arizona Federal Court Judge John Roll and an unidentified aide to the Congresswoman were killed. Several other aides were apparently wounded as the gunman sprayed bullets across the L-shaped shopping center. Laughner was tackled by one of the attendees at the Congress at Your Corner event. He's in custody, said a federal law enforcement official in Washington. We don't have any motive right now. Giffords had promoted the scheduled public event on her Twitter account shortly before the gunfire started. My 1st Congress on Your Corner starts now, she advised local voters. Please stop by to let me know what is on your mind. The President labeled the attack an unspeakable tragedy, and offered his prayers for Giffords and her family. Gabby Giffords is a friend of mine, the President said, adding he would provide full federal cooperation to get to the bottom of the attack. Obama made a personal call to her astronaut husband. Giffords, a lifelong resident of Arizona, was targeted during her re-election campaign last year by Sarah Palin, the Tea Party and opponents of health care reform. Palin, in identifying 20 vulnerable Democrats, actually created a map illustrating the targets with a gun sight on each district. The front door of Giffords' district office was also smashed last March, apparently over her support of health care. Rep. Steve Israel, D-L.I., made the connection between the shootings and the nation's oft-ugly political divide. This is both a personal tragedy and a tragic reminder that we cannot remain silent when political rhetoric turns violent, Israel said. Palin was among a plethora of politicians condemning the attack and sending condolences to the Giffords. My sincere condolences are offered to the family of Rep. Gabrielle
[Marxism] IRELAND: Building the United Left Alliance:
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Building the United Left Alliance: reflections on the past and proposals for the future http://tomasoflatharta.com/2011/01/07/building-the-ula-reflections-on-the-past-and-proposals-for-the-future/ Brendan Young. People Before Profit and the Campaign for an Independent Left. It is just over a month since the ULA was launched and the paucity of organised resistance to the deepening economic crisis has made the alternative offered by the ULA all the more urgent. So the formation of the ULA is very welcome. Also welcome is the public commitment to the ULA by PBP, the Socialist Party, the Socialist Workers’ Party and the Tipperary Unemployed and Workers’ Action Group. Such co-operation amongst the Irish left is a very big step forward and every effort should be made to ensure that it is a success, up to and after the coming election. At present the ULA is an electoral alliance – based upon a limited program of resistance to the European Union – International Monetary Fund austerity / deflation / mass unemployment program of the Fianna Fáil-Green Party government (which a FG-Labour coalition will also implement). The formation of this electoral alliance is, in itself, very positive. But the success of the ULA launch, the recognition across the Irish Left of the political significance of agreement amongst socialists on an electoral slate / platform, and the desire amongst the many who will not join the SP or SWP but who want to be part of a serious alternative to Labour and SF, mean that discussion on what the ULA could become is also urgent. This paper is a contribution to the discussion on how the ULA can evolve, and looks at three issues: can the ULA be the beginnings of something new; can it evolve into something more than an electoral alliance; and can those who support and campaign for ULA candidates, but who are not in the organisations mentioned above, join the ULA and have a role in its decision-making? Historical opportunity The decline of working class support for FF combined with the explicit pro-capitalist commitments of Labour, in a context of the deepest economic crisis in living memory, present Irish socialists with a historical opportunity. A new political space is opening to the left of Labour. We should however, adopt a comradely attitude to Labour supporters, many of whom will become disillusioned with Labour in coalition with FG. The possibility of six ULA-sponsored TDs (Teachtaí Dála, members of Dáil Éireann, the irish Parliament) being elected, and acting as a pole of attraction for those who oppose the austerity drive, will create the conditions for a new political formation: a new workers party with a small mass base (by this I mean a party with over a thousand active members and the ability to mobilise three to four times that number.) To realise this historic potential, those involved in the ULA and the other socialist / activists interested in a new formation must make a commitment to building it. And we must try to avoid the errors of the past. There is much politically on which the Left agrees. But there have also been hostilities in the past, flowing from a desire to recruit based on points of difference. The ULA is the beginning of a break from that past. If we are to move forward, we must try to work together as much as possible; to seek consensus as much as possible; and to be open to debate and be able to disagree without hostility – while continuing to work together. At this stage an evolving political formation should be based on a program of struggle and resistance – which is what the current electoral platform of the ULA represents. More broadly, a future workers party should take the side of the working class and the oppressed in any conflict with the bosses and the state. The logic of such an approach is a challenge to capitalism, but we cannot simply drop a revolutionary (eco) socialist program onto a new formation: that is a recipe for recruitment to the existing revolutionary socialist groups and little more. Thus a new workers party would accumulate its political program out of real debate and struggles, rather than adopting a ready-made program with little depth of understanding. The role of experienced socialists would be to help develop transitional demands which raise the level of struggle to challenge the foundations of capitalism and bourgeois rule. (The alternative is to accept the logic of capitalism – an acceptance that has brought the Labour Party to its current sorry state). This transitional approach is necessary due to the existing level of consciousness and the dominance of reformist ideas in the social / workers movement: that capitalism / private property is an acceptable socio-economic system – if only we could have a ‘fairer’
Re: [Marxism] Arizona congresswoman assassinated
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I clicked on the link you provided in support of your post. So either you misread the post or they replaced the story with another one. Is that common practice? Is it also common practice in the media to declare someone dead without definitve proof? Seems the height of irresponsibility, especially when it involves a public official. Can we be sure now of the facts that they've subsequently provided or will that be updated without explanation? On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Jim Farmelant farmela...@juno.com wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 16:20:42 -0800 MARGARET WYLES kaliy...@wildblue.net writes: On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Jim Farmelant farmela...@juno.com wrote: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_usa_shooting_congresswoman Congresswoman killed, others injured in shooting: report TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) – Representative Gabrielle Giffords was fatally shot during a public appearance on Saturday, National Public Radio said. NPR said a gunman ran up to Giffords, 40, a Democrat, and opened fire. The suspect was taken into custody, NPR said. Media reports said about a dozen other people also were shot. (Writing by Bill Trott, editing by Anthony Boadle) Funny, I just pulled up the story and it looks like she was only wounded and doctors are optimistic about a recovery. Where did you get the idea she was killed? I posted from what were the initial reports which at the time were declaring that she had died from the attack. Those reports turn out to have been error, but a Federal judge did die in the attack, and many other people were wounded. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math Globe Life Insurance $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d290a829d0bdaefde9st06vuc Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/kaliyuga%40wildblue.net Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Arizona congresswoman assassinated
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The media didn't declare her dead. These were rumors circulating after the shooting and they reported the rumors. What else do they do? ML Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Arizona congresswoman assassinated
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Mark Lause markala...@gmail.com wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The media didn't declare her dead. These were rumors circulating after the shooting and they reported the rumors. What else do they do? Are you saying the media merely reported the rumors? ML Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/kaliyuga%40wildblue.net Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Algerian riots resume over food prices:
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Police deployed around mosques and football matches suspended amid protests over food prices and unemployment http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/07/algeria-riots-food-prices Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Arizona congresswoman assassinated
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 18:21:22 -0800 MARGARET WYLES kaliy...@wildblue.net writes: I clicked on the link you provided in support of your post. So either you misread the post or they replaced the story with another one. What I posted, was the text of the story as it existed on YahooNews at that time. So, yes, they replaced their original story with an update one later on, under the same URL. Is that common practice? Do you really have to ask? The answer, of course, is yes. Is it also common practice in the media to declare someone dead without definitve proof? It's hardly the first time that they have done something like that. I am sure it won't be the last either. Seems the height of irresponsibility, especially when it involves a public official. Can we be sure now of the facts that they've subsequently provided or will that be updated without explanation? I wouldn't at all be surprised if that if that should turn out to be the case. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math Globe Life Insurance $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d2932a8a009faf4d34st06vuc Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Arizona congresswoman assassinated
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 21:54:31 -0500 Mark Lause markala...@gmail.com writes: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The media didn't declare her dead. In fact, some of the media were indeed reporting her dead. These were rumors circulating after the shooting and they reported the rumors. Which some major outlets were indeed reporting them as fact. What else do they do? Well, they have often done much worse. This is really one of their lesser snafus, as compared to their reporting on, say, the Iraq War for instance. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math ML Get Free Email with Video Mail Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism-Thaxis] John O'Neill Thomas Ubel on Otto Neurath
Analyse Kritik 30/2008 ( Lucius Lucius, Stuttgart) p. 379398 John ONeill/Thomas Uebel Logical Empiricism as Critical Theory? The Debate Continues Abstract: Is logical empiricism incompatible with a critical social science? The longstanding assumption that it is incompatible has been prominent in recent debates about welfare economics. Sens development of a critical and descriptively rich welfare economics is taken by writers such as Putnam, Walsh and Sen to involve the excising of the in?uence of logical empiricism on neo-classical economics. However, this view stands in contrast to the descriptively rich contributions to political economy of members of the left Vienna Circle, such as Otto Neurath. This paper considers the compatibility of the meta-theoretical commitments of Neurath and others in the logical empiricist tradition with this ?rst-order critical political economy. http://www.analyse-und-kritik.net/2008-2/AK_ONeill_Uebel_2008.pdf Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math Weight Watchers#174 Official Site. Discover Weight Loss Freedom with Weight Watchers Today. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d284f825c9f1ad823dst06vuc ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
