Re: [Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred....

2005-10-06 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Viviana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cornel - Your post is very interesting and informative, but I have to disagree on the subject of no segregation in Scandinavian countries. What about Malmo??? Do you see a difference between forced segregation, as in The South (USA) during the last century,

Re: [Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred....

2005-10-06 Thread Mario Goveia
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have serious doubts about the trickle-down theory. Indeed, there is much in the serious literature to indicate that the gap between the well to do and the poor in the USA has widened ever so detrimentally in recent years. The measure of this kind of

Re: [Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred....

2005-10-06 Thread Mario Goveia
In my opinion, Cornel has no idea what he is talking about when it comes to poverty and segregation in the US, where I have lived for 35 years and am a volunteer in a social service agency that helps people considered poor in this country. Many poor Americans have a better standard of living than

Re: [Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred....

2005-10-06 Thread Viviana
Cornel - Your post is very interesting and informative, but I have to disagree on the subject of no segregation in Scandinavian countries. What about Malmo??? Do you see a difference between forced segregation, as in The South (USA) during the last century, and the natural desire of people

Re: [Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred....

2005-10-06 Thread cornel
etc as I have done this post at speed. Cornel - Original Message - From: Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: goanet@goanet.org Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 5:15 AM Subject: [Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred Cornel, I will see what I can find. However, the ruins

[Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred....

2005-10-05 Thread Mario Goveia
Cornel, I will see what I can find. However, the ruins and misery from Karl Marx's ideology are strewn around the world, from the old Soviet Union to China, India and much of Africa and South America. Some, like India, which had a committment to democratic principles learned from the Brits, did

[Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred....

2005-10-05 Thread cornel
Mario, Thank you for your response. While I can find hundreds of references which basically debate with the ghost of Marx as a great thinker, I wonder if you can provide some references which see him utterly negatively in the specific way you have described? I would welcome such info. Cornel

Re: [Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred....

2005-10-04 Thread Mario Goveia
after his death. Cornel - Original Message - From: Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@goanet.org Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred --- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred....

2005-10-04 Thread cornel
@goanet.org Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred --- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Vidyadhar, I studied Marx and his writings hell of a lot in student and post-student days. Ok, this was many moons ago. However, I never came across

Re: [Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred....

2005-10-03 Thread Mario Goveia
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Vidyadhar, I studied Marx and his writings hell of a lot in student and post-student days. Ok, this was many moons ago. However, I never came across the view that Marx said question everything. I am just curious about its source. Is this

Re: [Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred....

2005-10-03 Thread cornel
- Original Message - From: Vidyadhar Gadgil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Goanet mails goanet@goanet.org Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 3:30 PM Subject: [Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 22:44 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Musings on crossing a hundred

[Goanet] Re: Musings on crossing a hundred....

2005-10-02 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 22:44 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Musings on crossing a hundred For his September 9, 2005 birthday, he had the company of his children and grandchildren from Geneva, Switzerland, Perth and Montreal and Toronto. Now, doesn't that say something about Goan