Correction
The other interesting thing going on is the trivialization of the campaign, with major statements being made about Kerry's donning of a clean suit at NASA, debunking his mouth-to-mouth resuscitation of a hamster, etc. I strongly suspect that the corporate media will be going gung-ho for BUSH in the next few months. -- The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org
Re: Query: Ford/General Motors - correction
In a message dated 7/23/2004 6:35:11 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A per unit drop of labor input of 40% in 30 years is running at an annual improvement factor of more than 10% and what is built into the union contract is an annual improvement factor of 3% increase in wages. The 3% annual improvement factor (AIF) was actually lost during years of concessionary contracts - 1980-1993, and "re-won" in the mid 1990s. Correction 10% should be one percent. Contract negotiations took place every three years until changed in the late 1990s to a five year contract.
Correction
Sorry. Michael Ignatieff. George was his dad, a Canadian diplomat.
Correction
[See comment at end] http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/01/pageoneplus/corrections.html The New York Times July 1, 2004 Corrections A n article yesterday about Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, the American marine held by kidnappers in Iraq, quoted incompletely from a comment by a cousin of his in Salt Lake City about speculation that the corporal might have deserted. The cousin, Tarek Hassoun, said of a conversation two months ago with Corporal Hassoun: He said a lot of soldiers, they don't want to die, especially when they see someone dying in front of them. When the report from Salt Lake City was added to the Baghdad article, this further comment from Tarek Hassoun was omitted: But I'm sure he didn't run away. snip As Eric Umansky of Todays Papers points out, this correction fails to mention the tiny bit of context that his purported desertion was what that article was about -- the only thing it was about. They should create a new section entitled Retractions. Michael
Re: Correction
Maybe they could save space by having a small section of the paper reprinting the material that did not need to be retracted. On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 12:54:46PM -0400, Michael Pollak wrote: They should create a new section entitled Retractions. Michael -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Re: Correction
From: Michael Pollak [EMAIL PROTECTED] [See comment at end] http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/01/pageoneplus/corrections.html The New York Times July 1, 2004 Corrections ... As Eric Umansky of Todays Papers points out, this correction fails to mention the tiny bit of context that his purported desertion was what that article was about -- the only thing it was about. They should create a new section entitled Retractions. Michael Yes, and the NYT needs another new section called Recalls. E.g., both the paper's Thomas L. Friedman and, it would seem, Judith Miller have been pulled out of production for retooling. Carl _ MSN Movies - Trailers, showtimes, DVD's, and the latest news from Hollywood! http://movies.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200509ave/direct/01/
Re: Chechen relations -- final for today - correction
In a message dated 6/27/2004 4:50:22 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In other words when the genocidal wars of extermination was launched against the Indians and after their brutal conquest there did not exist a petty bourgeoisie, a bourgeoisie or a proletariat as fundamental class - economic units amongst the various Indian nations. Thus the various Indian people are "old nations" or advance national groups or historically evolved people who have not entered the economic development that characterizes modern nations - bourgeois property relations. Lenin is very . . . very clear about this distinction and speak repeatedly of it in his assessment of the national question. Correction In other words when the genocidal wars of extermination was launched against the Indians and after their brutal conquest there did not exist a petty bourgeoisie, a bourgeoisie or a proletariat as fundamental class - economic units amongst the various Indian nations. Actually there were no serfs to run off into the cities under the impact of industrialization and . . . WAS THERE EVEN A PEASANTRY . . . and did not this clan type society resemble much of"Chechnya" - which wasn't really "Chechnya" in 1850? The Indians in the main did not even have a sense and conception of property as a bourgeois relations. Owning land was like trying to own air . . . it made no social or economic sense. Yet these are historically evolved peoples several steps behind the economic phenomena called the modern nation. None of this is stated in a derogatory sense. We are talking about an economic curve of development. Historically evolved people are historically evolved with their unique social and cultural attributes but Lenin mean a specific thing when he says nation. Lenin is describing economics and Pen-L focus is on economics and we need to get with the program. What is the economic logic of the so-called national movement in Chechnya in year 2004? I'm just aksing a question. Thus the various Indian people are "old nations" or advance national groups or historically evolved people whoHAD not entered the economic development that characterizes modern nations - bourgeois property relations. There are groups of people on earth who had not got to the later stages of development of serfdom or feudalism. Lenin is very . . . very clear about this economic distinction and speak repeatedly of it in his assessment of the national question. That is why he basically said "let us be careful and more sensitive." The Stalin period is there for all to study. Was not the question self determination and the economic logic of the national movements and supporting self determination in 2004? Thanks my brother for the correction. Melvin P.
Re: Mark Jones Still Among the living (was titled Wrong) - Correction
In a message dated 6/22/2004 4:41:39 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It gets deeper because Comrade Marx - an unyielding champion against tyrants, advanced a specific proposition concerning what he called the bureaucracy. After over thirty years engaging the industrial bureaucracy in the flesh - as a way of life, I took exception and called the industrial bureaucracy . . . the industrial bureaucracy. Mark J did not define the bureaucracy as the industrial bureaucracy proper and this was my disagreement. Comment The first sentence should read "It gets deeper because Comrade MARK - an unyielding champion against tyrants, advanced a specific proposition concerning what he called the bureaucracy." One concept of democracy has absolutely nothing to do with the Marxist presentation of the origin of "needs" and these needs appear as very real commodities that serve as the basis of reproduction. What exactly is being reproduced that serve as the sphere of activity in which labor power is sold and purchased? In the realm of theoretical Marxism this is called "mediation" - a word I personally hate, because it explains nothing. Everything is wrong in Comrade Mark J presentation of the question of the underlying energy grid of a mode of production. Of course no one can prove we are hitting the thermo dynamic barrier today because it is not provable. On the other hand, anyone can on any given day prove that "something" is going to happen tomorrow. The underlying components of an energy grid that sustains a mode of production is extremely important. How an energy infrastructure is deployed in the production of material wherewithal deserves critical attention. Here is where Mark J ran a foul. Consumption ideology and "theory" runs rampant in the imperial centers and is no more than an effort to protect the way of life of the more prosperous segments of classes in American society. We do not have to trade in cars for bicycles. Is not the question "where are you going in the first place?" Or NEED. If you need a car as individual transportation to go to work to reproduce the infrastructure that produce cars as individual transportation, then this is a property relations. Or what is the same . . . the reproduction of a unique need created as the result of bourgeois property and sitting at the basis of reproduction, as the basis of the bourgeois property relations that proceed the unique need. Well . . . actually the automobile is a produce of techology and human invention. We are not talking about an abstract car in the real world but a commodity who production . . . reproduces its own effect. Yes, this is mediation in the Marxist sense but unless one specifically defines what they are talking about . . . we are not talking about anything. It is not that society should ride bikes but rather . . . where are you going if you are not going to work to produce commodities that reproduce a host of social consequences. We have arrived at a point in the material power of production where a heck of a lot of people do not have to work as we have conceived work. Technology has rendered their labor superfluous and we are still struck in old categories and rotten bourgeois ideology. The configuration of our society and earth itself is subject to radcial change. What we face is more intense than in the days of Marx. It is not that the philosopher's have only conceived the world and our task is to change it. We face another question. In what direction do we change the world? Everyone agree we need change because we are in a brewing revolutionary crisis. The reactionaries know the purpose is to change the world. Finding our place in history is more than a notion. Melvin P.
Correction
Wrong URL, sorry http://thewolfatthedoor.blogspot.com It's the simple things that give us the most trouble
Title correction: Game Theory (Instead of Islam and Democracy: The Lesson from Turkey)
Game Theory should have been the title of my previous post. By the way, that I do not like Game Theory has nothing to do with that I am a Leftist. But it has a lot to do with that I am an Easterner. Best, Sabri
Re: Mark Jones Was Right/correction
In a message dated 4/10/2004 7:23:03 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The world sewage system - even in the most modern countries, is configured on the basis of man existing in a pathological condition (embedded with ancient and modern forms of property expressed in our current form and reality of the sum total of our "needs.") If obesity is the number one cause of death in America - and it most is, then we are talking about the people of America having exceeded a "certain limit," even if our present society is not conscious of what this "certain limit" consists. Gluttony and obesity is not simply wrong diet or more accurately wrong consumption, but embodies the society process called production, consumption and distribution. Each aspect of production, consumption and distibution presupposes each other. In real life this social process is sustained on the basis of an energy infrastructure. The energy infrastructure took shape on the basis of the bourgeois property relations as it creates "needs" including the need that is the energy infrastructure. The only possible cure for gluttony and obesity is to stop eating - consuming that, which is causing the mass deaths. The question presents itself in its appearance form as a lack of exercise, fatty foods and lazy Americans with too many cars.The appearance form are in fact created "needs." Marx "Economic and Philosophic Manuscript of 1844" actually discuss these questions in their theoretical dimensions under the concept of alienation, or the externalization and objectification of social activity - laboring and the evolution of property relations. Marx does not directly speak to eating and obesity because consumptiondid not exits as a social question in this form. The form of the social question - consumption in the general sense, was scarcity, which the bourgeoisie controls, or the control of scarcity (the class impulse of bourgeois production) as opposed to the abolition of scarcity. The question deepens because scarcity is not an abstraction and has for thousands of years been understood on the basis of the "needs" created by a given mode of production. We have entered an era of communist revolution, but not as an abstraction. What faces us in the imperial centers is the contradiction between the mode of production and the social relations that - unbelievably, manifest the control of scarcity as gluttony and "to much of everything" called obesity. From this point of view the barrier to sustainability (a bad concept in the first place) is the property relations and not the laws of thermodynamics, which operates outside the subjective will of man. Sustainability is a bad concept because it embody the property relations that created much of the needs one is to sustain. A projection based on the needs created on the basis of property means one is within bourgeois ideology and consumption theory. Not a refusal to acknowledge the inherently finite dimensions of earth or the computations of the geologists, but rather a more sober positioning of all questions in their property form. The manner in which we think things out embodies the property relations and its various ideological forms, aswell as tradition, cultural specificity and force of habit, which in turn embodies property relations. The issue of the environment is not a question of abstract survival of the species but a property question. The destruction of vast tracts of forest and plant life is not a question of science gone mad, but science under the direction of property - the bourgeoisie as a class. It seems reasonable to charge various environmentalists with Malthus concepts, in as much as they position the question outside the bounds of property. Henry Ford as personified capital and the automobile in the flesh, is to be charged with criminal concept for humanity and an environmental degradation unprecedented in human history. Our entire transportation infrastructure embodies property relations and not abstract road, streets and highways. Comrade Mark Jones mentions the environmental destruction within the Soviet Union and states that no one is immune to the laws of thermodynamics. "Socialism is not the answer to sustainability as it is expressed on the basis of thermodynamics" is the basic assertion. What is needed is a different kind of socialism more conscious of nature or more understanding of the law of unknown result. Absent from Mark Jones assessment is acknowledgment that socialism is a value producing society and a property relations with all its consequences. Further, public property relations in the industrial infrastructure, as it evolves as a transition from agricultural society to industry proper, recreates many of the same needs as an industrial bourgeois society. Industrial society no matter what its property relations is a historically specific mode of production with the property relations within. That is to say what was wrong with
Re: correction
I should have written "might not decades of support for imperialism . . by organized labor..." Michael Yates - Original Message - From: MICHAEL YATES To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Third World Resistance and Western Intellectual Solidarity I think that millions of working people in the US are deeply troubled about the war in Iraq. But they lack any kind of progressive mindset to give this unease meaning and to guide them to action. Might note decades of support for imperialism (and its attendant racism and belief in the superiority and goodness of the US) have a lot to do with this. I wish that Petras as well as those who criticize him would begin the engage workers. Labor education is a good place to start. Michael Yates - Original Message - From: Doug Henwood To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 2:39 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Third World Resistance and Western Intellectual Solidarity Sabri Oncu wrote:Max: This sort of drivel reminds me why the U.S. left is so insulated from political power. mbsAs an outsider who has the chance to observe fromwithin, I don't think this is the reason.The American left doesn't have anything to offer tothe American people, most of whom are working-class.Are you two necessarily contradicting each other? Pieces like Petras'don't resonate at all with the U.S. working class, whether we like itor not. Neither do sermons about overconsumption. But I don't know ifthe leftists who say these sorts of things really care about theirlack of an audience.Doug
Correction:
"since global warming has accompanied, step for step, increases infossil fuel use" should read "has not accompanied... Anyway enough about that-- Interested if anyone else saw Fuse and/or Vodka Lemon at theFilm Center/MOMA new directors film festival? I thought they were both great movies. dms
Title correction
My previous post went to the list with a wrong title, because I just hit the reply button to an old message to save myself from typing the list address. By the way, I hate to fight with people on the net and I apologize for furthering this stupid debate in a public domain. Best, Sabri
Correction
I wrote: But this story has another implication. As I have said previously, the perfect crime is the crime which is not a crime since then it considered a crime, and can be prosecuted legally as such. That should obviously be: But this story has another implication. As I have said previously, the perfect crime is the crime which is not a crime since then it cannot be considered a crime, and cannot be prosecuted legally as such. Jurriaan
Re: Correction
I wrote: But this story has another implication. As I have said previously, the perfect crime is the crime which is not a crime since then it considered a crime, and can be prosecuted legally as such. That should obviously be: But this story has another implication. As I have said previously, the perfect crime is the crime which is not a crime since then it cannot be considered a crime, and cannot be prosecuted legally as such. Jurriaan As an old saying goes: The problem is not that the rich break the law; the problem is that they need not break the law as they are the ones who make, write and judge it. Jim C
Re: Critique of the Brookings Institute - correction
Chris comments: BTW [the author, John Dolan] not Russian; he's a US citizen who taught English in Auckland, NZ, for several years and then relocated to Moscow. His wife is a New Zealander. J.
Correction/addition
I wrote: Total federal employees 1.8 (domestic overseas) Should be: not 1.8 but 1.8 million. Because US capitalist society is a competitive society based on business and government secrets, rivalry and lack of nationwide coordination or planning in most fields (i.e. the closed-off society model where you need homeland security), there is also a proliferation of statistical surveys and data sources using different categories to quantify the same type of phenomena - and not one integrated system, based on nationwide standard classifications, permitting a data warehouse that permits all analyses that anybody might like to do. There is a certain amount of overlap in classifications, between different surveys, but also divergences in the survey instruments used. The advantage of that reality is that you can get different angles on the same subject, such that one survey might correct the limits of another. Say that, for example you want to measure a flow of funds collected by the government, and redistributed by the government to citizens, let's say, some kind of social assistance benefit. First all, a worker might authorise the employer to deduct that money from his wage and pay it, and receives a confirmation that it has been deducted in his paycheck. On his tax form, he will declare what he has paid. The employer pays the money from an account. Then the federal government collects it as income. The government places the money in an account. The government charges administration costs. Then the account managers allocate the money to a specific budget. That budget has again got an account. Then the funds are authorised to be spent. Then the federal government transfers funds to the state government. Then it's federal expenditure and state income. The state government then puts the money into an account, and allocates it to a budget, charging administration costs. The money is then authorised to be spent for the designated purpose. Then it is authorised to be spent on a specific person who is eligible to receive it. Then it is transferred to a private back account. The state records an expenditure, and the bank account records an income. The bank charges an administration cost. Then somebody from a household records that that money as an income. Then th person uplifts the money. Then that income is again declared for tax purposes. Finally, the money is spent again to buy a designated good or service priced by the supplier. The supplier receives the money, and places it in an account. The economist then calls this the market (it doesn't really matter whether we're taling about a corporation or a government, the principle of the thing is the same). Clearly then, as a statistician, you could attempt to survey that financial flow at dozens of different points, using administrative, personal, household, financial, bank and commercial records and accounting statements. In addition, you could also use data on other associated financial flows, to estimate the magnitude of this flow, because you know it must be within a certain range, within certain limits. If you started out with 1,000 dollars, then you cannot end up with a million dollars or 10 dollars in most cases, unless there is some very creative accounting occurring, a bit of magic. Or, you could utilise surveys already collected previously for estimation purposes. This insight is sometimes used in the investigation of frauds and corruption: by tracing a financial flow through and cross-referencing, we can discover whether money suddenly disappears or mysteriously appears out of nowhere. The problem with a system which relies on buying and selling for its morality is that the number of transactions is so great that it is almost impossible to verify all transactions. To secure a money-price morality is impossible, all you can really to is trust in God and hope for the best. It's not that the information is not there, it is rather the quantity of information and the fact that money in circulation can be used in transactions which escape accounting scrutiny. The disadvantage of many different types of information records and statistical surveys on the same phenomenon is, that it is frequently difficult to get believable data, you really have to compare different data sets on the same topic with respect to concepts and methods, in order to assess the accuracy, validity and relevance of statistical descriptions. For that purpose, you need to know a lot about the available information, and cross-check different observations of the same thing. This is not necessarily an argument about data quality, but an argument about the validity and relevance of statistical descriptions. A statistician may conscientiously seek to obtain the best measurements possible, but because of the conceptualisation of his measurement units, he may still miss something. He requires good qualitative knowledge, before he can obtain good quantitative knowledge. Obviously, any
Re: USA: overtime pay redux: correction
Excuse the error, please, 10 million not 20 million. For more check: http://www.epinet.org/newsroom/embargoed/bp-flsa-e.pdf dms
Correction
I wrote: In the meantime, wise men which consult about how to continue the system of exploitation for the long haul. It should be: In the meantime, wise men will consult about how to continue the system of exploitation for the long haul. J.
Correction and the others on unequal exchange.
The following reference in Jurriaan's message on unequal exchange does not exist. The only article Anwar wrote for that book was the one on transformation problem. However, the revised version of the Science and Society articles on international trade and unequal exchange was later published in an edited book by E. Nell, Growth, Profits and Property : Essays in the Revival of Political Economy. Being from the East, I would also recommend Samir Amin's and many Indian Marxists' writings on unequal exchange. Anwar Shaikh, The theory of international exchange, article in Jesse Schwartz, The Subtle Anatomy of Capitalism Ahmet Tonak Jurriaan Bendien wrote: I wrote: In the meantime, wise men which consult about how to continue the system of exploitation for the long haul. It should be: In the meantime, wise men will consult about how to continue the system of exploitation for the long haul. J.
Re: Correction and the others on unequal exchange.
My apologies, it slipped my mind. I cannot remember everything. Yes, I agree Samir Amin's writing are also very important. He is really one of the few people considering unequal exchange theoretically and empirically in recent years. J. - Original Message - From: E. Ahmet Tonak [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 8:33 PM Subject: [PEN-L] Correction and the others on unequal exchange. The following reference in Jurriaan's message on unequal exchange does not exist. The only article Anwar wrote for that book was the one on transformation problem. However, the revised version of the Science and Society articles on international trade and unequal exchange was later published in an edited book by E. Nell, Growth, Profits and Property : Essays in the Revival of Political Economy. Being from the East, I would also recommend Samir Amin's and many Indian Marxists' writings on unequal exchange. Anwar Shaikh, The theory of international exchange, article in Jesse Schwartz, The Subtle Anatomy of Capitalism Ahmet Tonak Jurriaan Bendien wrote: I wrote: In the meantime, wise men which consult about how to continue the system of exploitation for the long haul. It should be: In the meantime, wise men will consult about how to continue the system of exploitation for the long haul. J.
Power Trip correction
Power Trip website: http://www.powertripthemovie.com -- The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org
Correction
I quoted Powell as follows: His On War, written 106 years before I was born, was light a beam of light from the past, still illuminating present-day military quandaries. That should be like a beam of light. I ought to spellcheck the message before I send it I suppose. J.
correction on radio product
Apologies on the mischaracterization of Robert Pollin's topic - it's the 1990s boom and after, not the Bush revolution in foreign policy http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html. Doug
Correction
The Fidel Castro article I referred to was actually by Fernando Morais, in Penthouse, December 1978 issue (a collector's item these days). Tad Szulc wrote mainly on American subversion of foreign governments as I recall, although he later also published a biography of Castro. Oui magazine also featured an interview with Castro in January 1975. Playboy published an interview with Castro by Lee Lockwood (pseud.) in January 1967 and again in August 1985. Here's an excerpt from the 1985 interview: PLAYBOY: Let's end on a note of imagination. Here is something truly wonderful from your point of view: Suppose the U.S. canceled Latin America's foreign debt, as you propose, and offered substantial aid to boot - in other words, offered to treat the hemisphere with the fairness you think it deserves. What would you do then? Reassess your views? CASTRO: If the United States were to spontaneously do what you say - if such an inherently selfish, neocolonialist system were capable of that generosity - a real miracle would have taken place, and I would have to start meditating on that phenomenon. I might even have to consult some theologians and revise some of my opinions in that field. If that were to happen, I might even enter a monastery. :-) Jurriaan
Re: Correction
Castro has a great sense of humor and gives great interviews. In one of the interviews you mention, he is asked whether there could be a socialist revolution in the U.S. He denies the possibility citing the undermining power of advertising on Americans' ability to desire something (for example, social revolution) and pursue unswervingly. How can they? I remember him asking, When they are being told every five minutes that they want something else, and something else... Joanna Jurriaan Bendien wrote: The Fidel Castro article I referred to was actually by Fernando Morais, in Penthouse, December 1978 issue (a collector's item these days). Tad Szulc wrote mainly on American subversion of foreign governments as I recall, although he later also published a biography of Castro. Oui magazine also featured an interview with Castro in January 1975. Playboy published an interview with Castro by Lee Lockwood (pseud.) in January 1967 and again in August 1985. Here's an excerpt from the 1985 interview: PLAYBOY: Let's end on a note of imagination. Here is something truly wonderful from your point of view: Suppose the U.S. canceled Latin America's foreign debt, as you propose, and offered substantial aid to boot - in other words, offered to treat the hemisphere with the fairness you think it deserves. What would you do then? Reassess your views? CASTRO: If the United States were to spontaneously do what you say - if such an inherently selfish, neocolonialist system were capable of that generosity - a real miracle would have taken place, and I would have to start meditating on that phenomenon. I might even have to consult some theologians and revise some of my opinions in that field. If that were to happen, I might even enter a monastery. :-) Jurriaan
Re: Correction
In a message dated 12/14/03 7:25:48 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Fidel Castro article I referred to was actually by Fernando Morais, in Penthouse, December 1978 issue (a collector's item these days). Tad Szulc wrote mainly on American subversion of foreign governments as I recall, although he later also published a biography of Castro. Comment Somewhere in the twisted corners of my mind are several articles by Tad Szulc on oil and the politics of oil from the mid and late 1970s. What every happened to this guy? I think his material ran in Penthouse or perhaps Playboy. Melvin P. Melvin P.
Correction
Typo. A bit blurry I guess. I wrote: Anthropology texts from the early twentieth century detail how among the Ashanti of Ghana, and in Afghanistan, an adulteress was chastised by the serving of her nose, serving should be severing. J.
Correction/addition
I wrote: ...future exploitation is best left to specialists. That should of course be ...future exploitation is best left to specialists, and what the specialists actually do, should be shrouded in ultimate mystery, authority must have its mystique. For example, a war is fought in Iraq. Why is this war being fought then ? Is it about oil ? Is it about the defence of the West ? Is it about an evil dictator ? Is it about something else ? Do we know why the war is being fought ? Is the war worth it ? Great terms of debate, great new detective story. In this regard, you're better of reading the words of Goldstein in Orwell's novel 1984: there must be a war, because it's class society, it's capitalism, it's bourgeois society, it's imperialism, and if you want to live you life in peace, you ought to be an artist or something - until art gets attacked, and soft eggs end up in the Hilton Hotel, and Herman Brood commits suicide by throwing himself out of the top of the Hilton Hotel. If all we are saying is give peace a chance, we are gambling with the future, because while we're being peaceful, we're being attacked. There's the limits of Capital, and then there's human limits. J.
Title correction: Re: Estimating the surplus - Turkey (Cem Somel)
The above should have been the title of my previous post. Sabri
Correction
(K-K')/K should be (K'-K)/K. Typo, I didn't put the dash in correctly (obviously this refers to the rate of accumulation expressed as the growth in the value of the capital stock in real terms, rather than the rate of reinvestment of realised surplus-value, and not the nelimination of the Klux Klux Klan). J.
Re: Rates of profit - correction
I wrote: Your RP is an average value RP pertaining to the sphere of production only, but quantitatively its magnitude depends a lot on the definition of (Uf) (whether it enters in the nominator or denominator, since if it does not enter in the denominator, it enters into the nominator; an increase in Uf depresses ). It should be: an increase in Uf reduces V and increases S, and therefore independently raises the value RP. J.
Re: The Soviet Union and high technology: Correction
Planning as a property relation and socialism is a political form of property, means reproduction outside of the law system that compels private capital to follow a circuit of profitability.Should read:Planning IS NOT a property relation and socialism as a political form of property, means reproduction outside of the law system that compels private capital to follow a circuit of profitability.
Re: The Soviet Union and high technology: Correction
I thing that planning is possible nationally for agriculture, industry and the services, but planning the technological progress is possible only globally. Technology progress means unemployment, and that was not acceptable in the Soviet Union, so the bureaucracy waited for a stability in technological progress to introduce it without unemployment, but the stability never came. All Soviet planning was based on the old paradigm of petroleum, electricity, fordism and taylorism. It could not introduce the new techologies without generating unemployment in the civilian sectors, since technologies were always changing. The abolition of whole employment destroyed the popularity of the Soviet system. Renato Pompeu - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 11:25 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] The Soviet Union and high technology: Correction Should read:Planning IS NOT a property relation and socialism as a political form of property, means reproduction outside of the law system that compels private capital to follow a circuit of profitability.
Correction - Rosa Luxemburg piece
I wrote: If the monetary system were to break down radically, as has happened at various intervals in history, then simple reproduction can still occur through barter and countertrade, all that really happens, is that new terms of exchange are established, and some people are relieved of their property while others, possessing products in high demand, appropriate more property; but there will still be an equal relationship between propertied and propertyless people. That should of course be, an unequal relationship. I also wrote: Rather, the equilibrium problem refers to the conditions for the simple and expanded reproduction of the total capital of society, and it is through this, that the mystery of how a society based on a universal market is resolved. That should be: the mystery of how a society based on a universal market can exist is resolved. I am thinking now I need a proofreader... Jurriaan
Quick overview statistics - correction
In the list of corporations I cited, two spelling errors slipped in: Randstand Detache - 254,000 KNP Telecom -38,000 Randstand should be Randstad, this is a corporation which hires out detache's and temporary workers to other companies. KNP Telecom should be KPN Telecom. The original state-owned Dutch Postal Services (PTT) which operated the Postbank, the telephone network, and postal delivery services were privatised - the bank is now owned by ING Bank, the Telecom services are a separate corporation, and the postal delivery services are owned by TNT. The shares in KPN Telecom were initially very profitable, and I met a young guy once who said he'd made enough money from trading in Telecom shares, using borrowed money, that he never had to work again. As you can see from the list, just the top four corporations employ just under a million workers within Holland. Actually, just a few large corporations account for the bulk of the value of exports as well. J.
Correction
I wrote: His [i.e. Marx's] discussion of the capitalist production process and its social relations on the assumption of unequal exchange, is intended to reveal precisely that which the observable surface appearance of the competitive market hides or inverts, and cannot reveal. Typo, That should be equal exchange, not unequal exchange, i.e. Marx basically assumes a regulating price proportional to labour-time as a simplifying abstraction, while noting that capital can only be understood as a moving totality. J.
Correction
I wrote: But I know what you are talking about, because in 1991 my landlord caught me reading Marx and said to be Yeah, I knew a Marxist once and he was constantly drunk and unhappy. 1991 should be 1981 - typo. J
Correction
I wrote: 6. THE PRIVATE DEBT: FOUR-FIFTHS OF GDP That should be: 6. THE TOTAL FOREIGN DEBT: FOUR FIFTHS OF GDP (I am still working on the foreign private debt issue) J.
Correction to cost/benefit
I wrote: The United States accounts for more than half the total value of arms transfer agreements with the Near East during the 1993-2000 period, somewhere around US$55. That should be: US$55 billion (this is a guesstimate indicating the order of magnitude, not a precise figure, but somewhere around 50 billion dollars anyway). I wrote: 7.2 preschool kids could attend headstart programmes, That should be: That should be: 7.2 million preschool kids. Actually those figures are different now. We are getting much closer to that magic US$72 billion cost figure to the Untyed States for the war. I believe this figure is understated anyhow, because it covers only military costs and not a number of associated government costs. I haven't even talked about British costs and the costs of other governments involved in the war. About that I will try to write some other time. Jurriaan
Correction to correction
Jeez, I'm losing it. I wrote: See for instance her essay Stagnation and Progress of Marxism (1903), first published in 1927 by David Riazanov, the original director of the Marx-Engels Institute founded in 1920 in Moscow. Should be: See for instance her essay Stagnation and Progress of Marxism (1903), first published in English in 1927 by David Riazanov, the original director of the Marx-Engels Institute founded in 1920 in Moscow. J.
Correction - Rosa Luxemburg and bookreading
In a previous mail about the use of books, I wrote: Rosa Luxemburg, Isaac Deutscher and Ernest Mandel all remarked upon the fact, that even among selfstyled Marxists in the 1920s, Marx's magnum opus had mostly not been read beyond the first volume or extracts thereof. In fact, Rosa lived from 1871 to January 15, 1919, when she was murdered by the Freikorps. Therefore she could not have commented on Marxist intellectual activity in the 1920s, and I was wrong there. Nevertheless, she did make a point along these lines. See for instance her essay Stagnation and Progress of Marxism (1903), first published in 1927 by David Riazanov, the original director of the Marx-Engels Institute founded in 1920 in Moscow. Specifically, Rosa says: The third volume of Capital, with its solution of the problem of the rate of profit (the basic problem of Marxist economics), did not appear till 1894. But in Germany, as in all other lands, agitation had been carried on with the aid of the unfinished material contained in the first volume; the Marxist doctrine had been popularised and had found acceptance upon the basis of this first volume alone; the success of the incomplete Marxist theory had been phenomenal; and no one had been aware that there was any gap in the teaching. Furthermore, when the third volume finally saw the light, whilst to begin with it attracted some attention in the restricted circles of the experts, and aroused here a certain amount of comment - as far as the socialist movement as a whole was concerned, the new volume made practically no impression in the wide regions where the ideas expounded in the original book had become dominant. The theoretical conclusions of volume 3 have not hitherto evoked any attempt at popularisation, nor have they secured wide diffusion. On the contrary, even among the social democrats we sometimes hear, nowadays, re-echoes of the disappointment with the third volume of Capital which is so frequently voiced by bourgeois economists - and thus these social democrats merely show how fully they had accepted the incomplete exposition of the theory of value presented in the first volume. How can we account for so remarkable a phenomenon? Shaw, who (to quote his own expression) is fond of sniggering at others, may have good reasons here, for making fun of the whole socialist movement, insofar as it is grounded upon Marx! But if he were to do this, he would be sniggering at a very serious manifestation of our social life. The strange fate of the second and third volumes of Capital is conclusive evidence as to the general destiny of theoretical research in our movement. From the scientific standpoint, the third volume of Capital must, no doubt, be primarily regarded as the completion of Marx's critique of capitalism.Without this third volume, we cannot understand, either the actually dominant law of the rate of profit; or the splitting up of surplus value into profit, interest, and rent; or the working of the law of value within the field of competition. But, and this is the main point, all these problems, however important from the outlook of the pure theory, are comparatively unimportant from the practical outlook of the class war. As far as the class war is concerned, the fundamental theoretical problem is the origin of surplus value, that is, the scientific explanation of exploitation; together with the elucidation of the tendencies toward the socialisation of the process of production, that is, the scientific explanation of the objective groundwork of the socialist revolution. Both these problems are solved in the first volume of Capital, which deduces the expropriation of the expropriators as the inevitable and ultimate result of the production of surplus value and of the progressive concentration of capital. Therewith, as far as theory is concerned, the essential need of the labour movement is satisfied. The workers, being actively engaged in the class war, have no direct interest in the question of how surplus value is distributed among the respective groups of exploiters; or in the question of how, in the course of this distribution, competition brings about rearrangements of production. That is why, for socialists in general, the third volume of Capital remains an unread book. But, in our movement, what applies to Marx's economic doctrines applies to theoretical research in general. It is pure illusion to suppose that the working class, in its upward striving, can of its own accord become immeasurably creative in the theoretical domain. Source: http://www.redflag.org.uk/frontline/one/rosa.html
Terrorism futures markets - correction and addition
I wrote: However, this is a reactive, after-the-fact morality, based on extrapolations which have already occurred That should be: However, this is a reactive, after-the-fact morality, based on extrapolations from events which have already occurred... It could of course be the case, that a model has already been built and tested, allowing previous extrapolations to be fine tuned, in which case the extrapolations have already occurred. The pro argument concludes: We desperately need better ways to forecast political instability, and the Policy Analysis Market had significant promise. Does anybody know of research which suggests the effect of publicized assessments of political instability on the actual level of political instability ? Interestingly, the variables mentioned, mass demonstrations, unemployment levels, arrests, assassination attempts could be integrated quite easily into a more comprehensive, intelligent Marxian explanation, which, unlike empiricist econometrics or psephology, offers a systematic set of theoretical concepts to analyse these phenomena. A good basic indicator of political instability would, presumably, be an increase in expenditure on small arms and military weaponry and equipment, but the question then arises, is this increase in expenditure and its result a cause, or a consequence of, political instability ? This is not a silly question, in view of the post-war arms race between the USA and the Soviet Bloc. This is the basic problem with empiricism, it seeks to infer determinate relationships from observed correlations, without a clear connection to theory specifying causal relationships. Another problem with arguments based on probabilistic correlations is that the variables and their relationships are relatively fixed. This may be no major problem in regard to some price data, price index data and population data, but as regards political event and political process data, cause and effect could be reversed, it would require dialectical theory to understand this. One way this problem was addressed in the past, from memory at MIT, was by tracking a very large number of indicator variables in one model or set of models. The problem with that is, that the number of possible linkages between variables becomes very great, and some theory is then required to interpret the data, but what sort of theory is this ? Reference: Taylor, C. L. and D. A. Jodice. 1982. World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators. New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press. Jurriaan
One more correction - Directors
I referred to non-profit local government work, that is obviously a wrong formulation, since many local government functions are privatised, semi-privatised or contracted out to private enterprise. It is just that where I worked, it was mainly non-profit. Local government agencies often have low social status, but when people no longer get the public services they take for granted (as if they had arrived naturally in the built environment, for people to use, consume and exploit), they start to scream and yell and suddenly rediscover social interdependence. I gather it is a real issue now in New York as well, reflecting the trend to privatise relentlessly, then running into budget problems, and then trying in various ways to recover incomes through various tax hikes. J.
Correction
Actually, my sister didn't work for a Fletcher Challenge company in Christchurch, but rather for a Brierley Investments company, a bookstore called Whitcoulls, originally Whitcombe Tombs. Brierley was an authorative expert in the rationalisation of capital in New Zealand. His method of primitive accumulation from 1961 was relatively straightforward: he would initially buy up sleepy, undervalued companies in New Zealand and then revamp them, or else strip the assets, and then sell again, or sometimes he would continue to operate them, but at a higher profitability. This strategy really worked, he became really adept at stockmarket transactions, he knew the NZ economy like the back of his hand, and his empire grew enormous when the Fourth Labour Government deregulated and privatised the economy in the second half of the 1980s. Brierley International Ltd shifted its primary listing to Singapore in 2000. When I worked as research assistant in sociology in 1985, I spent a long time tracing out all of the different Brierley holdings, there was a whole web of subsidiaries and associated companies in the empire. The number of interlocking directorates became so great, that all the key captains of industry in New Zealand (population three and a half million) could be fitted into one room. Ernest Mandel had done something similar in Belgium, presenting a report on Holdings and economic democracy to the Belgian Trade Union Federation in the 1950s, but obviously the phenomenon of investment companies was not a uniquely Belgian phenomenon. As I have a lot to prepare, and as I am making errors in what I write, I will sign off for now. J.
Havana conference CORRECTION
Apologies, important sections were somehow excluded from the text that was previously forwarded: International Conference The work of Karl Marx and challenges for the XXI Century - Second Call for Papers The Institute of Philosophy of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment of Cuba is organizing the International Conference on “The work of Karl Marx and challenges for the XXI Century “ which will take place in Havana, Cuba, from May 5 to May 8, 2003 at the Conference Rooms of the Cuban Workers’ Labour Union (Central de Trabajadores de Cuba). This important event has the auspices of: Cuban Association to the United Nations The National Association of Economists and Accountants of Cuba, ANEC The Cuban Workers Labour Union/Central de Trabajadores de Cuba Ministry of Economy and Planning The Juan F. Noyal Centre for Economic Studies and Planning The Council for Social Sciences of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment CITMA The Directorate for Marxism and Leninism Ministry of Higher Education Faculty of Philosophy and History University of Havana Higher Institute of Art ISA of the Ministry of Culture Cuban Society for Philosophic Enquiry Economic Society of Friends of the Country Popular University of the Mothers of the Plaza of May, Argentina Objectives of the Event: Next year will mark 120 years since Karl Marx's death. Marx's heritage, as Frederick Engels pointed out, has been an invaluable 'guide to action' for all those who share his goal of a society permitting the full development of human potential, a society that goes beyond capitalism. As we know, though, Marx's work was always rooted in the real movements of society. To be consistent with that work and to be faithful to its goals, we need to understand the experiences of those 120 years both in relation to changes in capitalism and also in the attempts to create a humane alternative to capitalism, a socialist society We think this is an important time to look at Marx's ideas and to see how they can help us not only to understand the world but also to change it. We see the need to develop progressive thought for the beginning of the XXI century and the necessary link to revolutionary practice without which there can be no change. In this way, we want to honour Marx, who dedicated his life (both in his theory and also his practice) to the development of a society of free and fully developed men and women, a socialist society. Since socialism for Cuba has always been internationalist and has always been marked by international solidarity, we invite scholars and activists from around the world who share Marx's commitment to join us at this conference We call for proposals around two main themes: -The limits and contradictions within contemporary capitalism and the new forms of revolutionary struggle. -The limits and contradictions within socialist experience at the end of the 20th Century: elements of improvements within the emmancipatory paradigm. From these two main themes we hope that participants will develop their presentations along the following sub-themes: · Communist Revolution and Human Emancipation: the subject of revolution in the new world order · Workers and the trade union movement in the contemporary world · State and Economy in the current world · Under-development and Capitalism · Globalization and sustainable human development · Latin America: the FTAA and the USA · Property and social development PROPOSALS ARE INVITED Those wishing to participate in the conference should contact the Co-ordinator of the Scientific Committee, Dr. Jesus Pastor Garcia Brigos (see below paper submission guidelines prior to the 31st of January 2003. Our fee schedule is as follows: professional category US$80.00, companions of professionals US$60.00 and students US$50.00. The goal of the organizers during the Dias of the conference is to achieve the closest and richest dialogue and discussions possible, and that resulting from these interchanges we can continue strengthening the necessary formative praxis for human progress. Paper submission guidelines: · : Papers should be sent to the Co-ordinator of the Scientific Committee: Dr. Jesus Pastor Garcia Brigos by e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 3.5 disk · An abstract of the paper, maximum one page in length · Papers may be submitted in English or Spanish · Paper length maximum 30 pages (Windows 95 or later versions, New Times Roman font 12. double spaced, paper size 8-1/2 x 11, side margins 2 centimetres, top and bottom margins 4 centimetres Authors of papers that are selected for presentation will be notified by March 31st 2003. It is expected that all papers that are presented will be circulated in advance via electronic mail among all participants to facilitate their study and thus have a better preparation prior to their debate and
Market correction
The market rebound. Now they are saying that the market was overdue a correction. What rubbish. When they dont know our experts drag out the correction word. A code for we dont know. Karl Carlile Communism Site: http://homepage.eircom.net/~beprepared/
RE: Market correction
h ... correction has a pretty precise meaning in this context, which technical analysis bores like me would agree is overused, but was probably appropriate in this case. The point is that part of the reason for the fall was that there had been short selling. By yesterday, the shorts had committed almost all of their capital to the market (ie; they had maxed out their margins) and thus couldn't add to their positions any more. They thus have the incentive to close out positions, realising some gains, increasing the equity in their account, and thus increasing the amount of margin and the amount of short positions they can take out next time. To call a sharp rally in a downtrend a correction is actually a very bearish thing to say. That's my understanding of the term correction anyway, but there are considerable differences between US and UK jargon and I suspect the looser use of correction meaning any sharp countertrend movement is the one in general usage. dd -Original Message- From: Karl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 July 2002 07:33 To: PEN Subject: [PEN-L:28463] Market correction The market rebound. Now they are saying that the market was overdue a correction. What rubbish. When they dont know our experts drag out the correction word. A code for we dont know. Karl Carlile Communism Site: http://homepage.eircom.net/~beprepared/ ___ Email Disclaimer This communication may contain confidential or privileged information and is for the attention of the named recipient only. It should not be passed on to any other person. Information relating to any company or security, is for information purposes only and should not be interpreted as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any security. The information on which this communication is based has been obtained from sources we believe to be reliable, but we do not guarantee its accuracy or completeness. All expressions of opinion are subject to change without notice. All e-mail messages, and associated attachments, are subject to interception and monitoring for lawful business purposes. (c) 2002 Cazenove Service Company or affiliates. Cazenove Co. Ltd and Cazenove Fund Management Limited provide independent advice and are regulated by the Financial Services Authority and members of the London Stock Exchange. Cazenove Fund Management Jersey is a branch of Cazenove Fund Management Limited and is regulated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission. Cazenove Investment Fund Management Limited, regulated by the Financial Services Authority and a member of IMA, promotes only its own products and services. ___
Re: RE: Market correction
Doesn't the term market correction (rebound) work like the description of the Middle East peace process -- suggesting a hope rather than information? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: RE: Market correction
Michael Perelman wrote: Doesn't the term market correction (rebound) work like the description of the Middle East peace process -- suggesting a hope rather than information? No. As DD pointed out, a correction is a move counter to the larger trend. A correction in a bull market is a downdraft of up to 10%; in a bear market, an updraft of no more than 10%. When the move exceeds 10%, you start thinking about redefining the trend. This is all demotic market-speak; many finance academics view this stuff as little better than astrology. Doug
RE: Re: Re: RE: Market correction
h careful ... the finance academics who believe that technical analysis is literally nonsense, the equivalent of astrology, are very much the old guard, and are clinging to the principle in the face of mounting evidence that there is something to it. Andrew Lo and Craig McKinlay of MIT have even published a book entitled A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street. This sort of phenomenon has now been pushed down into microstructure theory, the idea being that the push and pull of supply and demand, the stuff which tape-reading is made of, can be quarantined as being equivalent to a tatonnement process which does not affect the conclusion that stock market investors in general set prices rationally. dd -Original Message- From: Doug Henwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 July 2002 16:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:28473] Re: Re: RE: Market correction Michael Perelman wrote: Doesn't the term market correction (rebound) work like the description of the Middle East peace process -- suggesting a hope rather than information? No. As DD pointed out, a correction is a move counter to the larger trend. A correction in a bull market is a downdraft of up to 10%; in a bear market, an updraft of no more than 10%. When the move exceeds 10%, you start thinking about redefining the trend. This is all demotic market-speak; many finance academics view this stuff as little better than astrology. Doug ___ Email Disclaimer This communication may contain confidential or privileged information and is for the attention of the named recipient only. It should not be passed on to any other person. Information relating to any company or security, is for information purposes only and should not be interpreted as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any security. The information on which this communication is based has been obtained from sources we believe to be reliable, but we do not guarantee its accuracy or completeness. All expressions of opinion are subject to change without notice. All e-mail messages, and associated attachments, are subject to interception and monitoring for lawful business purposes. (c) 2002 Cazenove Service Company or affiliates. Cazenove Co. Ltd and Cazenove Fund Management Limited provide independent advice and are regulated by the Financial Services Authority and members of the London Stock Exchange. Cazenove Fund Management Jersey is a branch of Cazenove Fund Management Limited and is regulated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission. Cazenove Investment Fund Management Limited, regulated by the Financial Services Authority and a member of IMA, promotes only its own products and services. ___
Re: RE: Re: Re: RE: Market correction
everyday i hear/read pundits (financial analysts, market analysts, MBAs, consultants, commentators, etc) speak forth on the stock market collapse caused by the tech bubble that we (as they say) all fell prey to. but iirc it was they that created the bubble and assured us that it was justified. why is it that we continue to listen to them correcting themselves, all the while maintaining their expert demeanour and certainty of belief? cannot one of you experts do a sokal on these people? --ravi
Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: RE: Market correction
At 12:52 PM 07/25/2002 -0400, you wrote: everyday i hear/read pundits (financial analysts, market analysts, MBAs, consultants, commentators, etc) speak forth on the stock market collapse caused by the tech bubble that we (as they say) all fell prey to. but iirc it was they that created the bubble and assured us that it was justified. why is it that we continue to listen to them correcting themselves, all the while maintaining their expert demeanour and certainty of belief? cannot one of you experts do a sokal on these people? What's a sokal? It is the job of experts to be experts...even, or particularly when, they're wrong. What must continue is the belief that the people who run things know what they're doing (even when they don't) and that we must continue to follow. On the other hand, things might be getting interesting. I should start watching some T.V. Joanna
Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: RE: Market correction
- Original Message - From: ravi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 9:52 AM Subject: [PEN-L:28481] Re: RE: Re: Re: RE: Market correction everyday i hear/read pundits (financial analysts, market analysts, MBAs, consultants, commentators, etc) speak forth on the stock market collapse caused by the tech bubble that we (as they say) all fell prey to. but iirc it was they that created the bubble and assured us that it was justified. why is it that we continue to listen to them correcting themselves, all the while maintaining their expert demeanour and certainty of belief? cannot one of you experts do a sokal on these people? --ravi == Why Sokal them when what needs to be done is hacking the PA system - aka 'the media' - of these lounge singers of casino capitalism. Ian
Re: Market correction
At 07:33 AM 07/25/2002 +0100, you wrote: The market rebound. Now they are saying that the market was overdue a correction. What rubbish. When they dont know our experts drag out the correction word. A code for we dont know. Karl Carlile Communism Site: http://homepage.eircom.net/~beprepared/ Where's the mystery? Bull markets correct down; bear markets correct up. The only question is (for those betting): is it a temporary rally or is it a correction? To me, it looks and behaves exactly as it did during the bubble...except it's going ... ssin the other direction. The patterns seem to be the same. Joanna
woops: correction
To take an example, I think Pete Seeger's songs had much greater influence on working class consciousness...than any utopian novel. I'm spacing...I meant Woodie Guthrie. Joanna
Re: woops: correction
joanna bujes wrote: To take an example, I think Pete Seeger's songs had much greater influence on working class consciousness...than any utopian novel. I'm spacing...I meant Woodie Guthrie. Joanna Nmm, well regardless of what folk music represents today, there was a time lasting until the early sixties when folk music was a genuinely popular music - including Pete Seegar and Joan Baez. And I will note that the songs of those time were not above articulationg a concrete vision: If each little kid could have fresh milk each day If each working person had more time to play If each homeless soul had a good place to stay It could be a wonderful world Pretty concrete detail, no? That is how cold utopian vision make it into popular culture; someone conceives a utopian vision; if it is compelling enough artists and writers pick it up.
Re: Argentine Crisis... Correction
I just re-read the David Felix Foreign Policy in Focus article and realized it was from September 2001, so of course he doesn't mention events in December!! My apologies, Alan At 10:57 AM 12/27/2001 -0400, you wrote: Well, in the case of Argentina, I think it is quite clear when it stopped developing: March 24, 1976. That was the date of the military coup that introduced neoliberalism for good into the country (it is also not a coincidence that this was the bloodiest coup in the country's history, as people on this list are well aware). This isn't just rhetoric either. The absolute lack of government development policies, coupled with indiscriminate opening of goods and capital markets, has resulted in de-industrialization and job loss. Of course, the latest chapter of de-development (which hopefully ended last week) started in April 1991 with the implementation of the convertibility law. David Felix's article is very interesting and generally acurate, but I think he leaves out a key component: Cavallo and de la Rua were overthrown by a massive, spontaneous popular uprising. I am not sure at this point what the US and IMF response will be, but I am quite certain that more such protests are in store if neoliberalism comes back. People on the street have a pretty good understanding of what ajuste (adjustment) means, and there isn't much patience for those policies any more. IT is true that the uprising was not organized, and that most of those who participated do not belong to any political organization. This makes future uprisings hard to predict, since there is no convoking group or coalition. However, my sense from talking to people on the street is that we have had enough, we will not tolerate more. Another cacerolazo (protest where pots and pans are banged) is entirely possible if the preception becomes that changes aren't for real. Alan At 09:26 PM 12/26/2001 -0800, you wrote: - Original Message - From: michael pugliese [EMAIL PROTECTED] It would also increase opposition within the IMF directorate to U.S. dominance of IMF policy toward the developing countries, === Just when do countries stop developing? Didn't Arturo Escobar write something about the uselessness of development discourse? Ian _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Correction -- Oct. 29: Protest the Israeli Assault onPalestinians the American War on Afghanistan!
* For more info, contact the Committee for Justice at the Ohio State University in Palestine at 614-668-6554. Sorry for a mix-up in cutting pasting, but the name of the org should of course have been the Committee for Justice in Palestine at the Ohio State University. Now, I need some sleep -- Yoshie * Calendar of Anti-War Events in Columbus: http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html * Anti-War Activist Resources: http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/activist.html * Anti-War Organizing in Columbus Covered by the Media: http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/media.html
correction to the letter
oops, i just noticed where I wrote 'Non-American', I meant to wrtie 'non-Arab American'. Steve
Re: Lord Layard of Highgate [URL correction]
There was a typo in the URL for the Layard paper. Here is the corrected URL: Welfare-to-Work and the Fight Against Long-term Unemployment, a report to Prime Ministers Blair and D'Alema and the Council of Europe, March 2000 http://cep.lse.ac.uk/welfare.pdf See also http://www.ft.com/fteuro/qbac6.htm) Tom Walker Bowen Island, BC 604 947 2213
Correction
I have no idea what traditional societies means to you. I am talking about how the Blackfoot lived in 18th century Montana. When there was a particularly brutal winter, some people starved. However, there was such NO thing as infectious diseases (I am leaving aside smallpox blankets.) That came with reservation life. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org
Market correction or dynastic decline?
Penners Spare a thought for two elderly philanthropists... Number's up for Murdoch/Packer venture The Guardian - United Kingdom, May 31, 2001 BY PATRICK BARKHAM IN SYDNEY AND DAVID TEATHER The heirs to the Murdoch and Packer media empires suffered a humiliating blow to their reputations yesterday when a hi-tech company they jointly championed fell into administration with huge debts. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and Kerry Packer's Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd stand to lose almost ADollars 1bn (pounds 360m) from the failure of One.Tel which had been the fo cus of a rare alliance between the two dynasties. The company had operated a mobile phone network and internet service provider in Australia as well as a more mundane discount telephone calls business in Britain. Mr Murdoch's eldest son, Lachlan, and Mr Packer's son, James, are said to have dragged their reluctant fathers into investing in the operation. They saw the business in which they held a combined 51% stake as a potential platform to distribute programming and other content from their wider media operations. A joint statement from the two young executives spoke bitterly of their involvement in the company. Like all shareholders we are angry. We have been profoundly misled as to the true financial position of the company. We intend to explore all remedies available to us. The failure of the business is also likely to cement Mr Murdoch Sr's already entrenched cynicism about the potential of the internet. He recently pulled the plug on a pounds 500m internet investment fund called ePartners. One.Tel was placed in administration after Lachlan and James discovered the business was ADollars 180m in debt, far worse than had been believed. The young heirs were poised to guarantee a ADollars 132m rights issue to bail out the business. Lachlan and James are the chairmen of their fathers' Australian operations and both had also sat on One.Tel's board of directors. They were talked into the investment by One.Tel's joint founder, Jodee Rich, an old schoolfriend of James Packer. News Corp and PBL have pumped ADollars 909m into One.Tel over the past two years. Australia's corporate watchdog said it was commencing an investigation into serious allegations about One.Tel's solvency and disclosure after News Corp and PBL complained that its financial position was not as reported to the board on May 17, nor at earlier board meetings. For Kerry Packer, Australia's richest man, the failure of One.Tel is the latest in a series of ill-fated investments in the hi-tech sector since his son took over the day-to-day running of the company. Mr Packer, who underwent a kidney transplant in November, has seen ADollars 2bn sliced from his ADollars 8.2bn fortune in the last 12 months. During the dot.com boom, One.Tel's share price soared to ADollars 2.84, valuing the company at ADollars 5bn. Before trading was suspended on Monday, the shares had slumped to 16 cents. In an example of its hubris, the company had been among the bidders for a next generation mobile licence in Britain last year - which cost the eventual winners up to pounds 5bn. After the internet crash Mr Rich and co-founder Brad Keeling continued to make upbeat assessments of One.Tel's profitability, predicting in April that the business would break even by the end of this month. Mr Rich and Mr Keeling further antagonised their paymasters by awarding themselves multimillion dollar bonuses last year. They were forced off the board as a condition of the planned rights issue. Administrators said it would be business as usual for customers of the company until further notice. Full article at: http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?print=trueid=010531 014033 Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Market correction or dynastic decline?
G'day Michael, Mr Rich and Mr Keeling further antagonised their paymasters by awarding themselves multimillion dollar bonuses last year. Yeah, about $14.5 million. Unfortunate, that - as the word is that this is just about the amount of the accumulated entitlements that the company's workers look like missing out on. In Oz, businesses are allowed to use workers' entitlements, coz our prime minister reckons making bosses keep their hands off their workers' money would be a draconian fetter on business. Administrators said it would be business as usual for customers ofthe company until further notice. Except that the company whose wire One-Tel was leasing have cut off all customers who would not immediately transfer their business to them. So, unless One-Tel's ambitious overseas investments are paying off large (and this brave new world of competition ain't doing most telcos anywhere much good), One-Tel and most of its workers (those not absorbed by the company who's just about done 'em out of a job) are for the high jump. As for messrs Jamie and Lachlan, ain't there an old saying about third generations in such dynasties? Cheers, Rob.
Re: Re: Turkey and Argentina (correction)
Sabri, the people demonstrating in the streets are not really interested in a discussion about the feasibilty of socialism versus capitalism, I would surmise. The single event that seems to have energized the recent PROTESTS was a florist hurling an empty cash register at Ecevit. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org/
correction on anti-Semitism article.
I apologize for mislabeling the source of the article in question. Here is a full and exact citation. Melvin W. Reder, "The Anti-Semitism of Some Eminent Economists," History of Political Economy, Winter 2000, volume 32, no. 4, pp. 833-856. Barkley Rosser
Re: Correction, Re: Re:Anti-globalizationactivists...
Where it reads in my posting, (from 100 billion computing communications now to 10 trillion in 2012) 100 billion ought to be 800 billion.
A correction (was Re: Re: Re: The US buys democracy for Yugoslavia.)
En relación a [PEN-L:2288] Re: Re: Re: The US buys democracy fo, el 25 Sep 00, a las 21:22, Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky dijo: What would they say if, for example, Pinochet lavishly funded a pro- Russian party for the American elections? Or would they, in the end, prefer to vote for "their own" S.O.B.? And, never forget: Pinochet is not worse than Clinton. He is BETTER. Where it says "pro Russian", read "pro Chilean". The original phrase named Putin. Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A correction (was Re: Re: Re: The US buys democracy for Yugoslavia.)
From: "Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 22:27:30 -0300 Subject:[PEN-L:2294] A correction (was Re: Re: Re: The US buys democracy for Yugoslavia.) Priority: normal Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] En relación a [PEN-L:2288] Re: Re: Re: The US buys democracy fo, el 25 Sep 00, a las 21:22, Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky dijo: What would they say if, for example, Pinochet lavishly funded a pro- Russian party for the American elections? Or would they, in the end, prefer to vote for "their own" S.O.B.? And, never forget: Pinochet is not worse than Clinton. He is BETTER. Where it says "pro Russian", read "pro Chilean". The original phrase named Putin. Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky Of course, American law prevents foreign countries from contributing to the campaingns of American Politicians. On the other hand, the Americans command as their imperial right, the right to spend money to contribute to the campaings of parties in foreign countries in which they have a material interest. What hypocracy. Have Americans no shame? no shame at all?? I guess not. Paul Phillips, Economics, University of Manitoba [EMAIL PROTECTED] Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Correction to Re: Re: kargarlitsky on Russian sociology etc.
En relación a [PEN-L:22176] Re: kargarlitsky on Russian sociolo, el 24 Jul 00, a las 21:12, Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky dijo: Where I wrote, ... We should not forget that, historically, emulation with the West emptied Soviet ideology of that basic component of Lenin's (and Stalin's to a certain extent) view: that the USSR was on an equal foot with imperialist countries. it should be modified by ... We should not forget that, historically, emulation with the West emptied Soviet ideology of that basic component of Lenin's (and Stalin's to a certain extent) view: that the USSR was NOT AT ALL on an equal foot with imperialist countries. Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] NUEVA DIRECCIÓN ELECTRÓNICA DESDE EL 10 DE JULIO DE 2000 NEW E-ADDRESS AS OF JULY 10, 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Typo correction, Re: Re: Re: Re: ConcerningWynne Godley
Title: Re: [PEN-L:20674] Typo correction, Re: Re: Re: Re: Concerning Wynne Godley Greetings Economists, I felt the need to restate what C. Gregory asked to M. Perelman. I failed to put a question mark in the sentence where I meant it. See below for correction. Christian Gregory I get that. Doyle In reference to what Michael Perelman was writing about bonds being withdrawn as debt is paid off. C. Gregory continues, Christian Gregory, I don't get why the disappearance of those assets automatically means that the wealth once held in them becomes a liability. Is it assumed that turning treasuries into cash amounts to a debit or consumption/investment? Doyle Money in bonds increases. Money held in the hand is spent? Also like Christian I think Michael hasn't grasped the question as it was put. thanks, Doyle
Re: Re: Typo correction, Re: Re: Re: Re: ConcerningWynne Godley
Doyle, maybe I did not understand the question. The ultimate result of the bonds coming due would be that households would be holding money rather than bonds. They could use the money to buy other assets, but the could not add to their holdings of bonds because the gov't would not be offering any new bonds. Doyle Saylor wrote: Doyle Money in bonds increases. Money held in the hand is spent? Also like Christian I think Michael hasn't grasped the question as it was put. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Correction (fetish imploded)
I wrote, Camouflaged fish that swim blythly into the maw of the predator on the pretext that their camouflage gives them immunity are indeed "something else altogether . . ." A meal. Correction: I should have said a snack. Tom Walker
Correction to Not Automatic
book. One at http://www.marxmail.org/sol_genora.jpg depicts the two authors in 1944, with Roy Snowden to their right. Snowden is actually to the left. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org/
Correction
Attempts in Guatemala under Arbenz, Dominican Republic under Bosch, Nicaragua under the Sandinistas, Chile under Somoza to foster economic growth... --- This obviously was meant to be: Attempts in Guatemala under Arbenz, Dominican Republic under Bosch, Nicaragua under the Sandinistas, Chile under Allende to foster economic growth... Louis Proyect (The Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org)
Re: Kadosh correction
Meanwhile, the rabbi has also instructed MEIR to end his marriage with Rivka. The fact that she has not been able to conceive is regarded as a sin by the close-knit community and it is time for him to live up to his responsibility as a Jew. In their world, men are brought into the world to study the Talmud and women are there to support them. This means first of all procreating and secondly to cook and to keep the house clean. Louis Proyect (The Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org)
[PEN-L:12106] correction to More links
Andre G. Frank's home-page is at http://csf.colorado.edu/archive/agfrank/ Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
[PEN-L:11942] CORRECTION: Provisional reactions to the Brenner thesis
This heading: 1. URBAN OR RURAL ORIGINS OF AGRICULTURE? should obviously have read: 1. URBAN OR RURAL ORIGINS OF CAPITALISM? Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
[PEN-L:10495] FW: UN Dioxin POPs Urgency - E-mail Correction/Changes
James Craven Clark College, 1800 E. McLoughlin Blvd. Vancouver, WA. 98663 (360) 992-2283; Fax: (360) 992-2863 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.home.earthlink.net/~blkfoot5 *My Employer Has No Association With My Private/Protected Opinion* -Original Message- From: LISN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 11:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NativeWeb News; Sovernet-l; sovernspeakout; Warriornet Subject: UN Dioxin POPs Urgency - E-mail Correction/Changes Subject: UN Dioxin POPs Urgency - Changes Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:16:46 -0500 From: Indigenous Environmental Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Correct e-mail and other changes in previous message: RE: UN Dioxin POPs Urgency The correct spelling for Mr. Yeager is: Mr. Brooks Yeager His email address is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] He is on leave this week and will be going directly to Geneva...fax him a copy at: International Hotel, Geneva, Switzerland Fax: 011 41 22 919 38 38 Correct spelling for Mr. Muehling is: Mr. Brian Muehling [EMAIL PROTECTED] The corrected email address for: Mr. Dick White Office of Pesticides, Prevention Toxic Substances e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Plan is still to direct your comments to Ms. Albright. The U.S. team will be meeting today and tomorrow, so your comments are important. Indigenous Environmental Network P.O. Box 485 Bemidji, Minnesota 56619-0485 USA Phone (218) 751-4967 Fax (218) 751-0561 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet Web Site: http://www.alphacdc.com/ien "An alliance of Indigenous Peoples empowering Indigenous communities towards sustainable livelihoods, environmental protection of our lands, water, air and maintaining the sacred Fire of our traditions." -- League of Indigenous Sovereign Nations of the Western Hemisphere "Many Nations, One People" L.I.S.N. is an alliance created to unite all Indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere into one great Confederation to politically empower our Nations as one people. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] LISN Web Site: http://www.lisn.net To subscribe to the mailing list on the new server, please send an email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the content: subscribe league Disclaimer: This material is distributed in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. All copyrights belong to original publisher. LISN has not verified the accuracy of the forwarded message. Forwarding this message does not necessarily imply agreement with the positions stated there-in.
[PEN-L:7501] FW: Leonard's Book: Urgent Correction for Book Orders
-Original Message- From: LISN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 7:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Leonard's Book: Urgent Correction for Book Orders Leonard's Book: Urgent Correction for Book Orders Please Note: We just received the following notice regarding an urgent correction on ordering Leonard Peltier's new book. Subject: leonard's book - a correction is urgently needed Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 06:05:42 PDT From: "Janet Cavallo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just saw the message on leonard's book from the harvey arden who helped leonard pen the book. You can check with the official press coming from the Defense Committee but the book MUST be ordered from the Defense Committee in order for the lpdc and leonard to get any proceeds. Just ordering it from the publisher will not help them. So, the strategy is to get people to order from LPDC directly. They will have a huge supply on hand at all times. Any questions, contact Pat or Gina at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Janet -- League of Indigenous Sovereign Nations of the Western Hemisphere E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LISN Web Site | http://www.lisn.net To subscribe to the League Mailing List, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: This material is distributed in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. All copyrights belong to original publisher. LISN has not verified the accuracy of the forwarded message. Forwarding this message does not necessarily imply agreement with the positions stated there-in.
[PEN-L:4072] Base/superstructure (correction)
When you really get down to it, the base/superstructure model is nearly useless when you are doing sophisticated class analysis of societies past or present. Right now I am taking a close look at the late 17th and early 18th century in order to understand what Leibniz stood for. David Harvey, unfortunately, has little interest in seeing Leibniz in CONTEXT and just holds him up as a expert on "relationism". Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
[PEN-L:2684] A correction from Jon
Greetings from Scotland, and thanks to Lou for his comments and analysis, which seldom fail to be interesting and are usually pertinent, if not always 100% accurate. On accuracy, I'll just mention that the department at Duke that has "imploded" is not the Literature Program (at which I did, and continue to do, my PhD), but the English Department. And while the press may consistently confuse various theoretical and political tendencies--tarring them all with the same brush--it would be unwise to repeat this move if one wants an effective analysis. Thus beware: not all poststructuralisms, postmodernisms or postmarxisms are alike. Specifically, in this case, Stanley Fish (former chair of the English department) is an avowed conservative--if one worth listening to--while Fred Jameson (chair of the Literature Program) is more Marxist--of a Hegelian or Lukacsian variety--than postmarxist. But the fact that the Literature Program (whose program is generally much more recognizeably leftist) remains sturdy while serious problems have been revealed in the (generally more conservative) English Department is less, I think, a result of its political or theoretical orientation than of rather different hiring strategies, relations among the faculty, and the fact that it has always had fewer significant internal divisions. Not such an interesting story, but perhaps a more complicated one concerning academic labor practices and corporate organization. Meanwhile, rather than search for the apocryphal article that might reflect how much I was shaken by the Sokal affair (and rather than take the ironic reference to this affair at face value), perhaps better to look at my article "Peronism and the Secret History of Cultural Studies: Populism and the Substitution of Culture for State," in _Cultural Critique_ 39 (Spring 1998): 189-217. This might also clarify, a little better than can Lou, my position on the role of culture in politics. And education is bad for you whether you are at Duke, Aberdeen, or anywhere else. I know many said this on the old marxism list (Lou first among them), but they sometimes forgot that you don't have to be outside of academia to say it. Indeed, some of us hope that we may be heard saying it within academia. Take care and regards to all, especially to Lou Jon Jon Beasley-Murray Hispanic Studies University of Aberdeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
[PEN-L:2541] Re: Economic's narrow focus correction
I wrote, well as level). IN HER EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, Baran simply stated that "Most of the evidence, however, concludes that adverse employment effects do not persist in the long run." Technically, her statement is correct because most of the studies surveyed were old and ignored the structure of the payroll taxes. Pardon me. I was being too generous. Technically Baran's statement was NOT correct because there was NO CONSENSUS among the earlier empirical studies and Hamermesh had instead decided on the basis of his "robust theoretical model", and not "the evidence", that the adverse employment effects must not persist in the long run. Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/
[PEN-L:1789] Correction
In my last post--I hope it is my last-- there is a "not" missing. I should have said why "wouldn't" Summers have written another memo immediately (when he learned about the other memo). CHeers, Ken Hanly
[PEN-L:1206] Re: the quasi-fixed factor fallacy (correction)
Then the total labour cost with 90 employed workers and 1% unemployed is That should have read 10 unemployed. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/
[PEN-L:1190] Jim Craven's email address/correction
It is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Protests should be directed to: President Tana Hasart: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
[PEN-L:408] Re: Cyber-Sawicky (correction)
I wrote, Most of the increases in assets shown in these tables resulted from the gain in asset prices but between 1995 and 1997 there were also annual net inflows of new retirement money into mutual funds of between 85 and 107 billion dollars. I should clarify that I didn't mean to say the net inflows from 1992 to 1994 were nil or negligible, only that the source gave figures only for 1995 to 1997. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/
[PEN-L:1427] Correction
On Louis Proyect's long missive in which I and others were quoted and my background described, I would like to make one correction so that there is no misrepresentation--due in no way to Louis. I am a member of the Blackfoot Confederacy whose Blackfoot blood-quantum has been acknowledged but I am not BIA enrolled. Prior to 1962, an Indian was anyone with Indian blood, self-acknowledged to be an Indian and living as one and acknowledged by his/her Tribal affiliation to be an Indian; all of this applies to me. After 1962, the BIA formally defined an "Indian" as someone with 25% or more Indian blood--this was despite the fact that many Nations and Tribes accepted less than 25% because of their histories--rape, abduction, adoption, inter-marriage etc-- and the BIA put this rule in, in violation of National Sovereignty (imagine if the U.S. government tells the Polish Government who and what is a true "Pole" etc) in order to break the ties between Indians and their lands and cultures and to de-allot/privatize for sale to non-Indians, their lands and to define out of existence, Indians and the "Indian problem." Today, formal enrollment means the final say rests with the BIA, a process to which I will never submit for the same reason that no Jew should be asked to sumit to a process involving nazis being the final authority as to what and who is a "true Jew." Although my Blackfoot "blood-quantum" is far more than 25% and has been so established, I will never submit to any enrollment process in which the BIA or DIA has any influence or say whatsoever. As a member of the Blackfoot Confederacy, I am fighting for full-national sovereignty and full integration of the "Tribes" of the Blackfoot Nation. I will never carry a DIA or BIA card and I proudly carry--and use at all border crossings-- my ID Card as a recognized member of the Blackfoot Confederacy. Jim Craven James Craven Dept. of Economics,Clark College 1800 E. McLoughlin Blvd. Vancouver, WA. 98663 [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tel: (360) 992-2283 Fax: 992-2863 -- "The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards Indians; their land and property shall never be taken from them without their consent." (Northwest Ordinance, 1787, Ratified by Congress 1789) "Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could not have existed had not labor first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration." (Abraham Lincoln) *My Employer has no association with My Private and Protected Opinion*
[PEN-L:1302] Correction/Addendum:
Correction/Addendum: Actually the harassment against my family continued right up to July 23, 1991 the day my father died--and even after, with notes celebrating my father's death. The night before my father decided he was going to cross the line he and I sat up late to talk about it. My father said to me and I'll never forget it, "You know, I used to tell you to work inside the system and you used to tell me that some systems are so rotten and corrupt that working inside them, even for a good cause, will cause you to become corrupt or weak to the point that the 'good cause' will be lost or not possible; you were correct." He said, "It is like nazi Germany, the ones who remained silent and failed to stand up, were in many ways worse than the ones who did the terrorism because the ones who did the terrorism were diseased organism whereas the ones who knew better but said and did nothing, made Faustian bargains that allowed the diseased organisms to do what they did." He said I have no choice but to cross but the shit will come down on all of us. I told my father to do what had to be done. Later, when all of it came down and we knew who was directing it, I wanted to go after the ones directing it. My father said no, we'll get them with the law and we are not like them. I'm still sorry I didn't get a chance to put a bullet through the head of at least one of them--almost did--when they came to raid the house. (They slashed the tires on my car also; they did it on the inside walls of the tires so the tires would blow at high speed). On 28 Aug 98 at 9:20, James Michael Craven wrote: On the eve of the possible Northwest Airlines Strike tonight, I thought I would re-issue this letter to Dateline sent June 29, 1995. There are some lessons here. I have added some comments [in brackets] to the original letter for clarification based on iquiries I received at the time. I must admit, as I see all the posturing going on [on both sides] it gives some painful flashbacks. --- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: "James Michael Craven" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Clark College, Vancouver WA, USA To:[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 17:06:16 PST8PDT Subject: Sanctioned terrorism at Northwest Airlines Priority: normal Dear Dateline, I commend you for your thorough report on the tragic terror faced by and death of Susan Tosakawiecz(?) at Northwest Airlines. If it turns out that she was murdered by someone at NWA and that her death can be partially blamed on complacency and inaction by NWA management, then her death will not be the first that can be traced partially back to the postures and inaction of NWA management; you can also add the name of my mother Mary Kathleen Craven who committed suicide on February 23, 1985 as a result of a seven-year campaign of terror directed and conducted by some members of ALPA (Airline Pilot's Association) against my father, mother and the whole family. In late 1979, the NWA pilots went out on strike for 112 days. My father, a NWA pilot who retired after 33 years on NWA as a 747 captain, remained out on strike for 102 of the 112 days; he didn't believe in crossing picket lines. There were however, some pilots who crossed the line. At one union meeting at which over 400 pilots were in attendance, the leadership announced that they would go after not only "scabs"--non-striking pilots--but their families as well. They said that they would go after the "weak links" in the families and would even "produce suicides". [along with stress, pilots busting their physicals, social isolation of families, divorces etc] My father, Homer Henry Craven Jr. stood up and protested this saying that pilots have no place conducting terrorism against anyone and especially against women and children. Immediately following that meeting my mother who had just suffered a heart attack began to receive phone calls at 3 O' Clock in the morning calling her a "scab bitch" and saying "how does it feel to fuck a scab?"--eventhough my father had not even crossed the picket line. [My Grandfather on my father's side was a member of the IWW and was a Socialist. All my life up to that point my father had taught me not to cross picket lines. Over the course of the strike, I heard my father over and over urge people not to cross. After the open ALPA meeting when they called for going after wives and children (the weak links) and my father openly protested, the calls came for my mother. My father, enraged, posted a note at ALPA that he would meet anyone anytime (no cops understood and no filing of charges by the loser) and they could go after a real "scab" rather than a sick woman--there were not takers. My fa
[PEN-L:1222] Wah'habism: correction
I made an error in my long post on Wah'habism. The owner of Achnacarry Castle at which the Red Line Agreement of 1928 dividing up the world for the oil majors was owned by the Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, but he was Sir Henri Deterding, not Walter Teagle. Teagle was in attendance as the Chairman of New Jersey Standard (future Exxon). Two further notes: A major question regarding Islamic economics is the extent to which it favors socialism or capitalism. The French Marxist economist, Maxime Rodinson, argued in _Islam and Capitalism_, 1973, New York: Pantheon (originally in French) that it is inherently pro-capitalist given the rules in the Qur'an about property inheritance and the open approval of profit, despite the forbidding of interest. Others have seen a socialist potential in certain passages declaring that only Allah is the owner of things, although as in Iran this has ended up being interpreted as justifying clerical ownership of the means of production. An advocate of Islamic socialism is Mohammed Abdul Mannon, _Islamic Economics: Theory and Practice_, 1970, Lahore: Muhammed Ashraf (a disproportionate number of Islamic economists have been of Pakistani origin, beginning with Sayyid Abdul A'la Mawdudi, _The Economic Problem of Man and Its Islamic Solution_, 1947, Lahore: Islamic Publications, translated to English from Urdu, 1975). These pro-socialist views were predominant in the early stages of the Iranian revolution prior to the removal of Abolhassan Bani-Sadr who was associated with the pro-socialist Ayatollah Taliqani. However in 1982 the Khomeini-dominated Council of Guardians passed rulings that definitely tilted Iran towards a more capitalist position. In the Kingdom of Sa'udi Arabia (KSA) the pro-capitalist interpretation has always held, despite government ownership of the oil, of Petromin, and major government involvement in directing petrodollars to industrial development through SABIC. The views of the ultra-strict Hanbali Sa'udis have also manifested themselves in their extreme opposition to "godless communism," to the point that KSA never has had diplomatic relations with any communist state, unless they have recently switched to recognizing the PRC rather than the ROC when I wasn't paying attention. Barkley Rosser James Madison University -- Rosser Jr, John Barkley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PEN-L:957] Correction Clinton's speech
correction: shouold read NOT free on line 7 para 3 On 18 Aug 98 at 10:14, James Michael Craven wrote: G'day Rob, I agree with what you are saying. And further, I must say that I believe that Monica was--from what I can see and with the caveat I may be wrong and am open to counter-evidence/argument--a calculating opportunist, sycophant and "player" trying to cut corners with networking and who you know rather than what you know; that is my provisional opinion. But even then... First of all, there is the problem--hardly mentioned--that out of 90 Interns in her class, only one got a paying job--guess who. Further, according to some accounts--suspects--her paying job may have begun in November 1995 which is when she allegedly began this "inappropriate" relationship of whatever. So Ms Lewinsky got some job thus depriving someone else of the same job (assuming someone was better qualified in terms of their own criteria and assuming the job was not necessarily created for her specially but rather she was the one chosen for a given slot). Further, by all accounts, she was perceived as a gushing sycophant in the White House (what else is there there--possibly) and was transferred out to the Pentagon where corners were definitely cut to get her the requisite security clearance--given what we know about her background and the commonly accepted standard criteria for Top Secret Clearance required to work in the Pentagon). Then apparently she failed there too, and she was sent off to the private sector with a $450.00-an-hour lawyer, Vernon Jordan taking her around in his limo and giving special references. All of this is with the caveat that if some of the common elements in diverse press accounts are to be believed. So yes we all need friends and promotions and want to live and yes sex is an important part of life. The problem is that more often than not, many of the "relationships"--or at least a significant number--that ensue between people in the workplace occupying positions involving gross disparities in power (particularly where one has the power to hire/fire, promote/not promote or give an "A" or not give an "A") are NOT truly freely contracted or free of unconscionability--and threats need not be explicitly communicated, they may be understood. So in the case that you mentioned in academia, both parties could simply wait until one no longer had the power of the grade or power to promote or power to supervise the other. That is the general standard although some institutions state no relations between teachers and students period--excessive in my opinion. The problem in this case is that the gross disparity in power is so extreme that some form of unconscionability in the relationship might be presumed and/or give a cover and precedent to others practicing sexual harassment in situations nominally similar. The neoclassicals assume that all exchanges "must be" free and voluntary otherwise they would not have occurred. They don't recognize or deal with power, unconscionability, implicit threats etc. On the other hand, in the real world, there are single-mothers who have to feed their children, older workers with no chance of being rehired for anything etc for who their "choices" are anything but "free and voluntary" as suggested in the neoclassical texts; we wind up with the "lesser of evils" handed to us by the "evil of lessers." Just some thoughts. Jim Craven On 19 Aug 98 at 2:45, Rob Schaap wrote: G'day James, You make many telling points, but: b) bosses who use power disparities and implicit/explicit powers to hire/fire, promote/not promote to unconscionably extract sexual "favors" in the workplace now being able to classify sexual harassment and abuse as a "private" matter and "not anybody's business"; We should acknowledge that people can hardly avoid meeting and developing relationships in conditions of social inequality (some might argue a heterosexual meeting is definitively thus). We all need friends and we nearly all want sex, right? And we all live in a hierarchical world, where it is open to one to exploit the systemic tilt at the expense of the other. So we have a systemic problem, the answer to which need, I hope, not be the denial of human intercourse (yes, even simple frock-staining episodes) per se. If Slick Willy pulled the number you attribute to him, we have a public issue and an impeachment before us. It is, however, not inconceivable that Monica exercised some agency in the business (let's try to avoid a priori paternalism too, eh?). I reckon we do effectively have a private matter then. I say 'effectively' because we're getting beyond legislative reach here, lest we do more h
correction
How embarrassing. The announcement of the LBO-talk l*st I sent out the other day had a typo in it, in the TO JOIN section, rendering my advice nearly useless. The corrected portion follows. TO JOIN Write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the command subscribe lbo-talk in the body of the message. Majordomo will respond with an authentication request, to check that it's coming from a real address, and not a hacked version of Newt Gingrich's. Doug
correction!
DM1880.2 bn does not equal = $1106bn but $1044 bn, as the bottom line says. If anyone has a spreadsheet with the exact currency spot rates, I should be interested to see a more refined calculation. But the essential point remains: after 17 years of Thatcherite 'restructuring', UK pc incomes are level with Germany's. The lesson is not that Thatcherism works, but that German social-market welfareism doesn't. That applies to France too. Mark
Correction of: CALL FOR SOLIDARITY ACTION ! (fwd)
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 06:16:20 -0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Correction of: CALL FOR SOLIDARITY ACTION ! GPDI_GERAKAN PENDUKUNG DEMOKRATISASI DI INDONESIA SUPPORTING MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATISATION IN INDONESIA E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web-sitehttp://www.xs4all.nl/~peace__ BOYCOTT THE MARCH 7th -11th 1998 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS SUPPORT THE REFERENDUM FOR MAUBERE PEOPLE IN EAST TIMOR The history of the Indonesian people is the history of the people's struggle well known for its perseverance in opposition to all kinds of efforts of repression and exploitation in upholding peace and humanity. Under the present government, which has been maintaining the political repression, corruption and inflationary policies, protest movements are growing rapidly. These protests are still going on and are becoming widespread and strong. Initiated mainly by the basic sectors of the society such as workers, peasants, and urban poor, they now find a wider resonance among the Indonesian population. The people believe that the struggles of the Indonesian people is the struggle for human rights and for Democracy. Indonesia is under military rule; General Soeharto has been president for more than 30 years, and his family has been identified as being one of the richest in Asia. The military attack on the PDI's headquarters on the 27th and 28th of July 1996 shouwed the blody characteristic of the 'New Orde' regime. The PRD (People's Democratic Party) was accused of formenting the riot taking place soon after the attack. A general crackdown on pro-democracy groups began 124 people were detained on the same day of the event and later PRD chairperson Budiman Sudjatmiko and 7 collegues were arrested. And people should not forget how Soeharto in 1965, with connivance of western Imperialist power, especially the US government seized power through a military coup d'tat leading to the killing and the imprisonment of more than a million of innocent people. Since then, massacres, illegal arrest, tortures, disappearances and other oppresive and undemocratic measures have been common practices of the military regime against any action of popular resistence. The invasion and accupation of East Timor have betryed the spirit and the letter of the Indonesian constitution and once again a crime against humanity was commited by the Soeharto's fascist regime. In spite of repression and terror, the Indonesia people remains committed to the struggle for Democracy and a just society. In the last few years the people's resistence has gained a lot of strength. Another sign of refused to Soeharto's regime is the fact that more people are gathering around the figure of Megawati, chairman of PDI, support her candidacy for the presidency in march 1998. In an atmosphere of economic uncertainty and political crisis, there are fears that old and painful divisions in Indonesian society will be exposed. The Suharto's regime can no longer hide its crimes behind lies, falsification and distortion of the reality of the Indonesian pro-democracy movement and the East Timorese pro-Independence movement. The monetary crisis has destroyed the myth that the Soeharto's regime has build economic miracle transforming backward Indonesia into another 'Asian tiger'. Now the price of staple commodities keep rising. As result, riots accure everywhere, one after the other. The military is obviously unable to handle the riots which are not organized, but a spontaneous act by the people. The power of arms (ABRI) cannot stem the people, many of whom have lost their fear because of the weight of their suffering. ABRI can only turn the issue to become an issue of ethnic conflicts which do not threaten the authorities directly. Smoke from forest fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan in Indonesia created a haze which mixed with air pollution has choked millions of residents in Sumatra, the Malaysia peninsula and Borneo. Many people have died from smoke, thousands have been treated in hospital and millions of others will be badly affected over next few years. Fires have swept through more than 80.000 hectares in Sumatra, Kalimantan, and Irian Jaya with the potential to spread to 300.000 hectares. Finally, at international forums Soeharto is more and more isolated. The international community is increasingly aware of the Suharto Military regime's brutal acts in its colonization of East Timor, oppression of the pro-democratic movement and its contempt for human rights. Meanwhile, the objective conditions of the people's anger has boiled over, witnessing the authoritarian actions which day by day became open tyranny, taking and repressing the basic rights of the people for more than thirty years. The government runs the country based on their autority : the rule of rulers. The parliament (DPR) and the People's Consultative Assembly
Re: correction-Blaut-A.G.Frank
In general I see a tendency to let capitalism's moral crimes and despoilation of the environment obscure the advances it brought in terms of productive capacity. The latter doesn't justify the former, but the former does not negate the latter either. Cheers, MBS OK, yes. But why the fetishization of "productive capacity". Here, the means seem much more important than the ends. Means: capactity; ends: humans, qulaity of life, etc. (sorry for the lapse into moral philosophy). But, one must not assume (you weren't, I suppose) that: - in all places in the colonies/neocolonies such "advances" were actually occuring - or if they were occuring they were doing ANYTHING positive for anyone ouside of the enclaves, or even within the enclave in certain instances - even as they did occur, they weren't bringing with them horrendous externatilities for "the rest", that is those not "advanced" or benefitted; in the hinterlands of the enclaves. Example: when the hinterlands (containing ayllus, etc.) for colonial mines were reorganized to supply the mines, the people often saw a fall in food security. Negate the latter (advances) no; but what the latter were good for in the short or long run is open to question. Tom - Tom Kruse / Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia Tel/Fax: (591-42) 48242 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Thomas Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED] In general I see a tendency to let capitalism's moral crimes and despoilation of the environment obscure the advances it brought in terms of productive capacity. The latter doesn't justify the former, but the former does not negate the latter either. MBS TK: OK, yes. But why the fetishization of "productive capacity". Here, the Well, obviously the distribution of economic well-being--the ends you refer to--is not capitalism's long suit. It's simply a matter of noting the limits but also the extent of accomplishment. means seem much more important than the ends. Means: capactity; ends: humans, qulaity of life, etc. (sorry for the lapse into moral philosophy). Sure. But, one must not assume (you weren't, I suppose) that: - in all places in the colonies/neocolonies such "advances" were actually occuring - or if they were occuring they were doing ANYTHING positive for anyone ouside of the enclaves, or even within the enclave in certain instances - even as they did occur, they weren't bringing with them horrendous externatilities for "the rest", that is those not "advanced" or benefitted; in the hinterlands of the enclaves. Example: when the hinterlands (containing ayllus, etc.) for colonial mines were reorganized to supply the mines, the people often saw a fall in food security. I don't disagree with any of this. Without claiming any expertise, I would venture the suggestion that the diversity of outcomes in all of the terms you raise cut against a theory that capitalism uniformly loots colonial areas to make possible its survival, as per baby Marxism/Leninism. Negate the latter (advances) no; but what the latter were good for in the short or long run is open to question. Nor with this, though I lean to the skeptical on the 'sustainability' critique. Incidentally, I enjoyed your travelogue a great deal. MBS === Max B. SawickyEconomic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1660 L Street, NW 202-775-8810 (voice) Ste. 1200 202-775-0819 (fax)Washington, DC 20036 http://tap.epn.org/sawicky Opinions above do not necessarily reflect the views of anyone associated with the Economic Policy Institute other than this writer. ===
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The more relevant question with concern to the environment and hunter/gatherer societies (including native americans) is whether their way of life is really ecologically stable. In other words, there is the idea that the rise to agriculture is inevitable (but not because of self-organizing complexity) but because human poplulations over the life span of the species have proved to demographically unstable and that agriculture and state structures arise hand in hand as a result of the crisis. What this suggests for the Native Americans is that, given the fact they produced a number of agricultural civilizations, is that they were on the same trajectory as the rest of humanity but, for whatever reason, had a later start at it.
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PJM0930 wrote: The more relevant question with concern to the environment and hunter/gatherer societies (including native americans) is whether their way of life is really ecologically stable. In other words, there is the idea that the rise to agriculture is inevitable (but not because of self-organizing complexity) but because human poplulations over the life span of the species have proved to demographically unstable and that agriculture and state structures arise hand in hand as a result of the crisis. What this suggests for the Native Americans is that, given the fact they produced a number of agricultural civilizations, is that they were on the same trajectory as the rest of humanity but, for whatever reason, had a later start at it. Hi, PJM0930. Do you know my friend QZX1288? This raises an interesting question which the world-systems theorists have grappled with. That is the question of whether the European model of development was something that all societies are destined to follow as long as there is no outside interference. If Europe had not subjugated Latin America, Africa and Asia, would they have become world powers themselves? The Chinese had an enormous fleet of ocean-crossing ships in 1400. The largest ship could contain Columbus's entire fleet. The Chinese sailed to East Africa and had extensive trade in places like Dar Al-Salaam for some decades. Then the Emperor decided to call it quits. How unlike the gold-hungry Europeans! Marx argued that the Asiatic Mode of Production was static, hence capitalism could not develop internally. Frank argues against this, and I will post his second installment today. But what of the hunter-gatherers? What are the internal economic forces that would spur them in the direction of feudalism or capitalism? I am afraid that Engel's "Origins of the Family" has caused us to adopt a very schematic understanding of social development as being something like the 4 years of a college education. Barbarism, Feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism. When you graduate from socialism, you get a BA and are allowed to enter Communism. Louis Proyect
Re: correction-Blaut-A.G.Frank
Date sent: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 13:01:13 -0600 (CST) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "William S. Lear" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: correction On Thu, January 29, 1998 at 07:23:19 (EST) PJM0930 writes: What this suggests for the Native Americans is that, given the fact they produced a number of agricultural civilizations, is that they were on the same trajectory as the rest of humanity but, for whatever reason, had a later start at it. Numerous hunting and gathering societies over the world adopted agriculture beginning about 10,000 years ago. Only a few, however, became civilizations. Much controversy surrounds this issue. Some say 12, 10, 6, or as low as 4 were truly "pristine" civilizations. I think we can include in this list the Olmec (if not the Maya later) and the pre-Inca Mochica civilization (if not the Incas later) although these civilization lacked certain properties associated with this term. Many "secondary" civilizations evolved later, of which only Western Europe became capitalist-industrial. This is a contentious issue which brings me to Blaut and Frank: Jim Blaut's book *The Colonizer's Model of the World* argues that there is "psychic unity" among human cultures, i.e., there are no "races" of "inferior" or "superior" people, and that humans everywhere have more or less the same basic capacities (if I remember him correctly, it's been quite a few years). This entirely reasonable observation is different from claiming the various Indian societies "were on the same trajectory as the rest of humanity". The Colonizer's Model challenges the notion there was something "unique" to the rise of Europe, by arguing that capitalist development was spread around many areas of the world, and that not much else differentiated Europe from the rest. The problem here is with the "much else", and the assumption that capitalism and its rise can be explained in strictly economic-class terms. (I will elaborate upon this point later once I read the summaries of Frank's recent book provided by Proyect). Now consider the dilemma Blaut finds himself: why did Europe came to dominate the rest of the Wrodl? Answer: geographical proximity of Europe to the Americas(!) gave it access to its metals and labor leading to the industrial revolution. Oviously the notion that European capitalism developed as a result of the exploitation of the Third World has been so roundly refuted I need not elaborate this here. Just a handy, if incomplete, stats: At most 2% of Europe's GNP at the end of 18th century took the form of profits derived from commerce with Americas, Asia, Africa! (I think source is K.O'Brien). ricardo Since I think the shared trajectory part is questionable, I also see the conclusion as questionable. I also question the claim that states arose because of some sort of "demographic instability". Furthermore, I question the "natural trajectory" assumption as well. States were not imposed by necessity. They came about by human choice, a choice made differently by different peoples. The "natural trajectory" to ecological destruction chosen by many of today's societies is not inevitable. It is a choice made largely by a handful of powerful people arrayed into still fewer dominant social institutions. Also, please sign your name on your posts. I dislike discussions with mailboxes. Bill
