[PEN-L] Mahmoud Abbas's Mandate: 28%
Mahmoud Abbas's 'Mandate': 28%: http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/01/mahmoud-abbass-mandate-28.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/ * Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ * OSU-GESO: http://www.osu-geso.org/ * Calendars of Events in Columbus: http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html, http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php, http://www.cpanews.org/ * Student International Forum: http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/ * Committee for Justice in Palestine: http://www.osudivest.org/ * Al-Awda-Ohio: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio * Solidarity: http://www.solidarity-us.org/
[PEN-L] US troops' intimidating drive to get Iraqis to vote
This report came from a friend of mine in Germany, Lueko Willms. Iraqis are not only being threatened by some resistance groups if they vote. They are being threatened by US troops if they don't: From Lueko: A CNN reporter accompanied a US occupation squad -- they were breaking open doors with a heavy ram, pointed with their arms on the people living in the house, and then had an Iraqi military person with them, covered under a hood, distributing leaflets for the elections. Sort of an armed propaganda. washingtonpost.com U.S. Troops' Role in Iraqi Elections Criticized U.N. Official Assails Distribution of Material By Colum Lynch Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, January 27, 2005; Page A14 UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 26 -- The United Nations' top elections official, Carina Perelli, sharply criticized U.S. military forces in Iraq Wednesday for distributing material urging Iraqis to vote in the country's elections Sunday. Perelli and other U.N. officials are concerned that such U.S. military involvement is compromising efforts to convince the Iraqi public that Iraqis are directing the elections. Perelli said she and the top U.N. election official in Iraq, Carlos Valenzuela, have been asking, begging military commanders to stop the distribution of material promoting the elections. Officials from the U.N.-backed Iraqi Electoral Commission have also asked the United States to stop, she said. The U.S. military have been extremely, I would say, overenthusiastic in trying to help out with this election, she told reporters. And we have been basically saying that they should try to minimize their participation, because this is an Iraqi process. Informed by a reporter that U.S. soldiers have distributed voting material in recent weeks, Perelli said: I'm glad that you reported it, because I'm going to be screaming on the phone in two minutes. A significant voter turnout in Iraq's elections would help bolster the Bush administration's case that the political transition there enjoys widespread public support. On Wednesday, President Bush urged Iraqis to defy these terrorists seeking to intimidate voters and go to the polls. He predicted that millions of Iraqi voters will show their bravery, their love of country and their desire to live in freedom by casting votes. Asked to respond to Perelli's comments, Gen. John Abizaid, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, said: We understand that this is an Iraqi election and American soldiers do not have the mission to get the vote out. But a Pentagon spokesman, Lt. Col. Barry Venable, said: It is my understanding that U.S. soldiers and other coalition forces patrolling in various places there have been handing out, if you will, some elections education material produced by the Iraqi Electoral Commission. Perelli's remarks came at a U.N. news briefing on preparations for the elections. From a technical point of view, these elections are as sound as they can be under the circumstances, she said. But it is up to Iraqis to confront their fears and confront their hopes and decide whether the election is important enough, is valid enough, is legitimate enough in order to risk their lives to go and vote, she said. Kieran Prendergast, the U.N. undersecretary general for political affairs, said that the conditions for the elections are far from ideal, but that imperfect elections are the right instrument of policy for a democratic transition in Iraq. Prendergast said that many Iraqis still feel excluded and alienated by the country's political transition, and that others question the impartiality of the Iraqi Electoral Commission. Still, he said that the new government will have fresh opportunities after the elections to co-opt sectors of the population that oppose the political transition. He cited the upcoming drafting of a new Iraqi constitution, the constitutional referendum in October and another general election in December. Sunday's elections shouldn't be seen as the be-all and end-all event, he said. Fortunately, there will be other opportunities in 2005 to achieve greater inclusion.
[PEN-L] Canadian firms fend off global competition with lower wages (correction)
Here is the correct version of the Canadian article I tried to email recently. GK From: The Globe and Mail (Canada) 26jan05 Firms fend off global competition with lower wages: Statscan By OLIVER MOORE New employees are earning less than their counterparts two decades ago, a trend that a new report says may be caused by the surge in temporary positions. But researchers did not find solid evidence to substantiate fears that well-paying jobs have been fleeing the country. Instead, Statistics Canada spokesman René Morisette said that firms seem to be meeting the overseas challenge by lowering wages at the entry level. Men have fared the worst, according to Wednesday's report Are Good Jobs Disappearing in Canada? from Statistics Canada, their inflation-adjusted wages sagging 13 per cent between 1981 and 2004. The trend was seen across all categories, though it was strongest among young men and those without a university education. The report raises the possibility that a boom in temporary jobs has fuelled the entry-level wage decline, noting that the number of new employees taking temp jobs has roughly doubled during that same period. The widespread nature of the decline of wages among new employees ... seems to represent a change in the way firms view wages, Mr. Morisette told globeandmail.com from Ottawa. Firms have sought greater flexibility by offering lower wages to new employees and by changing the nature of the relationship of the workplace, going with more temporary jobs. Although wages across the overall job market have remained largely stable since the early 1980s, the report shows that the wages of almost every category of new employee, defined as a person who has been with a company less than two years, have dropped dramatically during that same time. This decline was offset by moderate gains among more seasoned employees. Falling wages for new employees, rising wages for employees with seniority, Mr. Morisette said. So, overall, little change. The only group of new employees to buck the wage trend of was 25- to 35-year-old women, who registered a 3-per-cent rise in their wages during the past two decades. All other age- and education-categories of both men and women experienced declining wages. The rest of the work force experienced fairly stable wages, measured in 2001 dollars. The portion of people earning less than $10 an hour dropped 1.5 points to 15.7 per cent while the portion earning more than $30 climbed by nearly twice as much, rising 2.9 points to 11.4 per cent. The number of people earning between $10 and $30 an hour remained within a similarly tight range. Along with their diminished earning power, new employees are also about only half as likely to secure a unionized job as their counterparts two decades ago.
[PEN-L] Soviet history
Mike Haynes. Russia: Class and Power, 1917-2000. London and Sydney: Bookmarks, 2002. v + 251 pp. Notes, index. $21.95 (paper), ISBN 1-898876-87-8. Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff. Class Theory and History: Capitalism and Communism in the U.S.S.R. New York and London: Routledge, 2002. xiv + 353 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $95.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-415-93317-X; $26.95 (paper), ISBN 0-415-93318-8. Reviewed by: Henry Reichman, Department of History, California State University, Hayward. Published by: H-Russia (November, 2004) Marxism and Soviet History To many observers the collapse of the Soviet Union marked a collapse as well of the Marxist vision of an ideal society. The disastrous outcome of the events set in motion by the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 seemed to suggest that any attempt to build a society based on the destruction of bourgeois property rights and the replacement of the free market by social planning would be doomed from the start. At the least, the failure of the Soviet experiment poses a major challenge to Marxists and to all those whose vision of a better world was linked to the communist utopia of proletarian revolution and classless society. Could this failure be explained without abandoning the essential elements of the Marxist vision? What lessons might Marxists learn from the Soviet experience? As Mike Haynes pointedly puts it, Standing stark in the middle of any discussion of a possible better world is the history of the USSR (p. 2). The two works under consideration here offer explicitly Marxist analytic surveys of Soviet history. Both conclude that the Soviet Union never succeeded in building a genuinely communist or socialist society. The system that collapsed in the Soviet Union in 1991, they argue, was state capitalist, and its failure cannot therefore be taken as indicative of the failure of Marxist socialism and communism. The potential for a truly communist society and a genuinely Marxist movement remains, they suggest, but those who seek to build such a society and movement must learn the harsh lessons of the Soviet experience. If these books have this much in common, however, they employ quite different methodological approaches and reach significantly different historical conclusions. Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff, both economics professors, approach Soviet history on a highly theoretical level, analyzing the productive relations in Soviet society with sometimes mathematical (or, perhaps, pseudomathematical) precision. Their strikingly original argument, which they acknowledge is not, in the main, a work of empirical history (p. xiii), foregrounds the social organization of surplus (p. xii) and concludes that the USSR represented, across its entire history, chiefly a state form of capitalism (p. x). Their book is aimed toward a more specialized readership of political economists and theoretically inclined historians. It is densely argued, sometimes difficult to read, and, in Goethe's famous formulation, colored in the drab gray of theory. full: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=153541106927452 -- www.marxmail.org
[PEN-L] post-exposure stress disorder
U.S. CHILDREN STILL TRAUMATIZED ONE YEAR AFTER SEEING PARTIALLY EXPOSED BREAST ON TV WASHINGTON, DC -- As the nation approaches the one-year anniversary of the Super Bowl XXXVIII tragedy, an FCC study shows that millions of U.S. children were severely traumatized by the exposure to a partially nude female breast during the Feb. 1, 2004 halftime show. Jackson irrevocably damages millions of American children. No one who lived through that day is likely to forget the horror, said noted child therapist Dr. Eli Wasserbaum. But it was especially hard on the children. The tragic wardrobe malfunction occurred approximately 360 days ago, during Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake's performance of Rock Your Body, when Timberlake tore Jackson's costume, accidentally revealing her right breast. By the time CBS cut to an aerial view of the stadium, the damage was done, said Wasserbaum, who has also worked extensively with orphaned and amputee children in Third World war zones. I've found that children can be amazingly resilient, but this event was too much for many of them to take. The horrible image of that breast is likely to haunt them for the rest of their lives. According to the 500-page report filed by the FCC, more than 90 percent of the children who saw the exposed breast said they were confused and afraid. Mommy has dirty chest bumps, said a 5-year-old boy quoted in one of the thousands of case studies compiled by the FCC. She's like the bad lady on TV. I'm afraid Mommy will take off her shirt and scare everyone. I hate Mommy. Girls were traumatized as well, often expressing apprehensions about sexual development. According to Wasserbaum, one 8-year-old girl told her parents that she didn't want to get evil breasts. Wasserbaum said children of both genders associate their trauma with footballs, presumably because of the context in which they were exposed to the breast. A great number of children who witnessed the tragedy are still plagued by nightmares of sun-shapes that recall Jackson's nipple ring. Of the infants who saw the breast, 76 percent are unwilling to breast feed or use a bottle, forcing their parents to nourish them intravenously. When the tragedy took place, we knew it would cause psychological trauma, but we had no idea how long the effects would last, Wasserbaum said. Our worst fears have been confirmed. It will take years to repair the damage. Cases of deviant sexual development induced by breast-glimpsing are widespread amongst older children. Pathologies range from schoolyard exhibitionism to gender-role confusion and violent shirt-tearing. The FCC imposed the maximum $27,500 penalty on each of the 20 CBS-owned television stations, Wasserbaum said. But the government offered no recompense to the individuals exposed to the breast. And neither Jackson nor Timberlake has ever specifically apologized to the children whose lives they ruined, or donated a penny for the adolescents' psychiatric care. Across America, parental concern over the condition doctors have dubbed Nearly Naked Breast Disorder continues to grow. Drawings by children who saw the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show. How can my son Brandon be expected to make it through something like that unscathed? asked mother of four Shonali Bhomik of the San Francisco-based What About the Children? Foundation, one of many social-awareness groups spearheading the fight for increased NNBD funding in Congress. For approximately 1.5 seconds, he saw a breast. The image was seared into his innocent, tiny retinas. He can't close his eyes without replaying the whole ugly scene over and over in his little head. For the love of God-that breast was almost nude, Bhomik added. Bhomik said she has concerns about her son's development. I shudder to think how this could affect my son once he reaches puberty, Bhomik said. Little Brandon just wanted to watch the fun halftime show with his family. He was only 10 years old. Bhomik is one of millions of people facing every parent's worst nightmare: that their child will see a partially exposed breast. Wasserbaum said there is no way to predict whether the children will recover. One thing is certain, Wasserbaum said. For us as a nation, the horrific consequences of almost-nakedness have only just begun to make themselves apparent. Wasserbaum added that children who saw the televised breast in Europe, Australia, and various other nations throughout the world were somehow unaffected by the sight. [from THE ONION, Jan. 26, 2005] -- Jim Devine, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine/
[PEN-L] Third Columnist Caught with Hand in the Bush Till
Gallagher later wrote in her column that she would have revealed the $21,000 payment to readers had she recalled receiving it. CB: Must be nice to have so much money that $21,000.00 received is not memorable. ^^ Third Columnist Caught with Hand in the Bush Till By Eric Boehlert Salon.com Thursday 27 January 2005 Michael McManus, conservative author of the syndicated column 'Ethics Religion,' received $10,000 to promote a marriage initiative. One day after President Bush ordered his Cabinet secretaries to stop hiring commentators to help promote administration initiatives, and one day after the second high-profile conservative pundit was found to be on the federal payroll, a third embarrassing hire has emerged. Salon has confirmed that Michael McManus, a marriage advocate whose syndicated column, 'Ethics Religion,' appears in 50 newspapers, was hired as a subcontractor by the Department of Health and Human Services to foster a Bush-approved marriage initiative. McManus championed the plan in his columns without disclosing to readers he was being paid to help it succeed. Responding to the latest revelation, Dr. Wade Horn, assistant secretary for children and families at HHS, announced Thursday that HHS would institute a new policy that forbids the agency from hiring any outside expert or consultant who has any working affiliation with the media. 'I needed to draw this bright line,' Horn tells Salon. 'The policy is being implemented and we're moving forward.' Horn's move came on the heels of Wednesday's report in the Washington Post that HHS had paid syndicated columnist and marriage advocate Maggie Gallagher $21,000 to write brochures and essays and to brief government employees on the president's marriage initiative. Gallagher later wrote in her column that she would have revealed the $21,000 payment to readers had she recalled receiving it. The Gallagher revelation came just three weeks after USA Today reported that the Education Department, through a contract with the Ketchum public relations firm, paid $240,000 to Armstrong Williams, a conservative African-American print, radio and television pundit, to help promote Bush's No Child Left Behind program to minority audiences. To date, the Bush administration has paid public relation firms $250 million to help push proposals, according to a report Thursday in USA Today. That's double what the Clinton administration spent on P.R. from 1997 to 2000. Shortly after Williams' contract came to light, the Democrats on the Committee on Government Reform wrote a letter to President Bush demanding that he 'immediately provide to us all past and ongoing efforts to engage in covert propaganda, whether through contracts with commentators, the distribution of video news releases, or other means.' As of Thursday, a staffer on the committee told Salon, there had been no response. Horn says McManus, who could not be reached for comment, was paid approximately $10,000 for his work as a subcontractor to the Lewin Group, a health care consultancy hired by HHS to implement the Community Healthy Marriage Initiative, which encourages communities to combat divorce through education and counseling. McManus provided training during two-day conferences in Chattanooga, Tenn., and also made presentations at HHS-sponsored conferences. His syndicated column has appeared in such papers as the Washington Times, the Dallas Morning News and the Charlotte Observer. Horn, who has known McManus for years, says he first learned about the payment on Thursday. In the wake of the Gallagher story, he asked his staff to review all outside contracts and determine if there were any other columnists being paid by HHS. They informed him about McManus. Horn says the review for similar contracts continues. Horn insists that HHS was not paying Gallagher and McManus to write about Bush administration initiatives but for their expertise as marriage advocates. 'We live in a complicated world and people wear many different hats,' he says. 'People who have expertise might also be writing columns. The line has become increasingly blurred between who's a member of the media and who is not. Thirty years ago if you were a columnist, then you were a full-time employee of a newspaper. Columnists today are different.' The problem springs from the failure of both Gallagher and McManus to disclose their government payments when writing about the Bush proposals. But one HHS critic says another dynamic has led to the controversy, and a blurring of ethical and journalistic lines: Horn and HHS are hiring advocates -- not scholars -- from the pro-marriage movement. 'They're ideological sympathizers who propagandize,' says Tim Casey, attorney for Legal Momentum, a women's rights organization. He describes McManus as being a member of the 'extreme religious right.' Horn denies the charge: 'It's not true that we have just been
[PEN-L] Detroit budget crisis
Detroit budget crisis Feed the cities, not the Pentagon WW photo: Cheryl LaBash http://www.workers.org http://www.workers.org/ http://www.workers.org/ Special to Workers World Detroit Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick launched a major attack on the people of Detroit in his State of the City address on Jan. 12. Citing a looming budget deficit estimated at $214 to $400 million, Kilpatrick announ ced the layoff of 686 city workers effective March 1. He also ordered a 10-percent pay cut for all non-union city workers, along with the elimination of 24- hour bus service and 237 unfilled city positions. Detroit City Council fiscal analyst Irvin Corley Jr. forecast further layoffs of up to 2,300 city workers. The city also plans an attempt to force union workers to accept a 10-percent pay cut and greater co-payments for medical coverage. The effects on the city would be devastating. Earlier budget crises have already resulted in cuts in services. In summer 2004 the School Board laid off over 2,000 employees. Now, another 2,000 school employees may be cut, along with the closing of up to 40 schools. City Council member Joanne Watson denounced the plans to curtail bus service. One third of the workers in this city take the bus to work, she said. Cutting 24-hour service will only cause people to lose their jobs or move out of the city. The Detroit Million Worker March Committee issued a petition to the mayor and City Council to keep 24-hour bus service. The demand ends: Don't put the budget crisis on the backs of those who can least afford it. Big business blames workers For months the mayor and big business have tried to make these cutbacks seem inevitable. At a special symposium at Wayne State University on Jan. 4-5, corporate and banking consultants, along with the mayor and other city officials, blamed the fiscal crisis on the loss of population. Detroit went from a high of over 1.5 million people in 1951 to 900,000 today, with a corresponding 12-percent drop in property tax revenue. Their consensus? Mass layoffs of city workers and cutbacks in services, as well as privatization of some departments. What these spokespeople for big business failed to point out is that their policies accelerated Detroit's population decline. Massive job losses came from outsourcing to non- union areas and other countries, followed by plant closings in Detroit. Large corporations received huge tax abatements from the city over the years. Banks were guilty of red-lining- -refusing to give loans to many African Americans seeking to buy homes--while racist whites fled the city. Giant malls opening in the suburbs led to loss of inner city commercial businesses. Detroit City Council members have demanded the mayor discuss ideas for budget reduction for the past three years with no response. Detroit City Council President Maryann Mahaffey sought information from the Council's analyst about eliminating high-level management and supervisory positions, rather than laying off those who really do the work. Council member Sharon McPhail publicly asked why the mayor had appointed a deputy mayor at $140,000 a year when the city is in such bad financial shape. At a news conference the day after the State of the City address, reporters who tried to question the mayor about excess spending were dragged out of the room by the mayor's security team. Workers protest cuts Less than 24 hours after the mayor announced the cuts, several dozen unionized city workers picketed City Hall. The protest, called by Federal, State, County and Municipal Employees Local 207, got wide media coverage as workers chanted, Stop the layoffs, stop the cutbacks and Lay off the mayor! Speaking to the demonstrators, Auto Workers Local 2334 President David Sole pointed out that there was money to eliminate the deficit and even expand city services. Sole noted that Detroit has accumulated billions in debt to corporate banks. In Iraq, Indonesia, Latin America and Russia, when these countries couldn't repay their debts, the banks negotiated to forgive a portion of that debt. Why can't they do that for Detroit and other cities? Sole asked. He said in the 1930s Detroit's mayor called for a moratorium on payment of interest on the debt. The cost of the Iraq war and the overall Pentagon budget has been heavy on Michigan, and on Detroit in particular. The city paid $1.18 billion in 2004 toward the massive Pentagon $550 billion war machine. According to Employment Research Associates, a worker-oriented think tank, in 2004 Detroit sent $429 million to Washington, its share of the Iraq war's $200 billion appropriation. This is twice as much as the city's projected budget deficit. Cities and states around the U.S. are facing similar budget crises. Service cuts and mass layoffs threaten the livelihood and well-being of tens of million of workers and unemployed. This opens up the possibility that people will confront the fact that only a struggle against the war
[PEN-L] Make Poverty History
http://www.cafod.org.uk/policy_and_analysis/policy_papers/make_poverty_history/mph_briefing christian liberal rubbish? skirmishing between aid voluntary organisations for profile - eg who can get Nelson Mandela to endorse a news story? Or utopian socialism on a world scale? Chris Burford PS I believe they or associates of the campaign are claiming that 30,000 children a day die of preventable causes. That is about 10,000 a day more than I recall about ten years ago, but I do not know how the figures are derived.
[PEN-L] When Cops Are More Unionized Than Almost All Other Workers. . . .
When Cops Are More Unionized Than Almost All Other Workers. . . .: http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/01/when-cops-are-more-unionized-than.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Proud of Britain: http://www.proudofbritain.net/ and http://www.proud-of-britain.org.uk/
Re: [PEN-L] Detroit budget crisis
What these spokespeople for big business failed to point out is that theirpolicies accelerated Detroit's population decline. Massive job losses camefrom outsourcing to non- union areas and other countries, followed by plantclosings in Detroit. Large corporations received huge tax abatements fromthe city over the years. Banks were guilty of red-lining- -refusing to giveloans to many African Americans seeking to buy homes--while racist whitesfled the city. Giant malls opening in the suburbs led to loss of inner citycommercial businesses. Comment Detroit tell the tale of the industrial system . . . its ascendency and decline. I also fled the city and have no intention of ever moving back. I knew the Mayor was a fool when he signed a 30 year agreement with the Casino's lead by the MGM Detroit. The "Hip Hop Mayor" lacks basic trade union negotiating skills. My hear is with you. If I pick up some extra dough, I might can contribute a couple dollars for paper - leaflets, or something. Seems we are about to enter the era of the class struggle. It might make sense to take it easy - all of us, on "the racist whites fled the city." Things a little bit more complicated than that. Waistline
[PEN-L] Today's GAO Reports - January 27, 2005 [GAO on AIDS and US-China Trade.....]
-Original Message- From: Webmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 12:33 PM To: daybook@LISTSERV.GAO.GOV Subject: Today's GAO Reports - January 27, 2005 The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released the following report and correspondence: REPORT Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Selection of Antiretroviral Medications Provided Under U.S. Emergency Plan Is Limited. GAO-05-133, January 11. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-05-133 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d05133high.pdf CORRESPONDENCE U.S.-China Trade: Summary of 2003 World Trade Organization Transitional Review Mechanism for China. GAO-05-209R, January 25. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-05-209R These and other GAO products are available from the Reports and Testimony section of GAO's Internet site, http://www.gao.gov. Subscribe to this or other E-mail updates about GAO products at the Subscribe to Updates section of http://www.gao.gov. Remove yourself from this mailing list by sending an E-mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: unsubscribe daybook in the message body. Order printed copies of any of these items from GAO: 202-512-6000 (voice) 202-512-2537 (TDD) 202-512-6061 (fax). Members of the press may request copies from the Office of Public Affairs, 202-512-4800. === This list is produced by the Government Accountability Office to provide daily information about GAO Reports and Testimony. Access GAO on the web at http://www.gao.gov
Re: [PEN-L] Soviet history
Aki ORR replies to Louis Proyect Louis Proyect reviews 2 books that put forward the view that the collapse of the USSR does not imply a collapse of socialism and marxist theory because the USSR was State Capitalism and not Socialism. This is an attempt to use a verbal smokescreen to hide a historical disaster. It hardly matters what label one sticks on the USSR - State capitalism Degenerated Workers State, Bureaucratic capitalism, etc. What matters is the FACT that in the USSR there was no private ownership of the means of production and the government ran the entire economy. Yet this system was rejected by the majority of its own population which was conditioned for 3 generations, by intensive education and propaganda, to support and adore the system it finally rejected.. . This rejection is the historical proof that nationalization of the means of production - and the theory advocating it - failed. If Proyect (or the authors of the two works he reviews) have an alternative to private ownership of the means of pruduction OTHER THAN nationalization of the means of production, let them state it explicitly. sincerely Aki ORR
