Doesn't Harvey attempt to locate Marx's crisis theory in
interdepartmental disproportionalities rather than in insufficient
production of a flow of surplus value? But perhaps we don't have to
choose. Mattick Sr for example wrote (think here of that example where
demand goes from 100 ships to
Grossman offered a profound disequilibrium interpretation of volume II,
as Steve Palmer knows quite well (and please accept my profound thanks
for your mighty contributions to the archive). By the way, J.R. Hicks
came to a similar understanding of the special liabilities suffered by
the capital
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Steve Palmer writes:
> Also, John Fox's "Understanding Capital Volume II", Progress Books,
> Toronto, 1985 is very helpful, particularly when confronting some of
> the more demanding passages on one's own. This is in the queue to
> appear at the MIA, but don't hold your breath ...
Why the holdup
Also, John Fox's "Understanding Capital Volume II", Progress Books, Toronto,
1985 is very helpful, particularly when confronting some of the more demanding
passages on one's own. This is in the queue to appear at the MIA, but don't
hold your breath ...
Steve
> >>
> > thanks for all the comment
Well, Lt. Calley apologized for the MyLai massacre, nothing yet from the US
government about the war in general. As to MyLai where 500 unarmed men women
and children were gunned down, at least one story has it that "the order came
from Abrams to liquidate Son My 4" as MyLai was also known. Abr
seriously, I mean, for example, what are securitized mortgages? how does your
mortgage get bundled and sold and traded en masse with others? For years we
heard about "derivatives" without ever hearing-as with "hedge funds" any
explanation of what they exactly were-aside from glib comments of
Maybe then some of those so enamored of Capital and its take on the minutae of
capitalism and the "dismal science" could provide some "popular" analysis and
demystification of the current economic crisis as it seems that has been
woefully missing from the Left; you get more of it from the NYT.
guava tree writes:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:15 AM, Ralph Johansen
> wrote:
>
>> I'm now reading
>> volume 2 for the first time, using the online MIA study guide which,
>> while its authors recommended it for group study, seems useful for
>> individual study. They supply the relevant textual
An old friend from my ill-spent Trotskyist youth who has embarked on a
study of Capital sent me a copy of Anthony Brewer's guide that he
recommends highly.
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On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:15 AM, Ralph Johansen wrote:
> I'm now reading
> volume 2 for the first time, using the online MIA study guide which,
> while its authors recommended it for group study, seems useful for
> individual study. They supply the relevant textual references for the
> issues rai
Two new stories on this topic.
In this corner, a report on "The Urban Farmers of Havana":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8213617.stm
(found at kclabor.org/news.htm)
And in this corner, a column by a professor who owns an urban farming
corporation and thinks the phenomenon can be spread by the
>
>
> An intense media race is underway to see who will be the Bob Woodward of
> the Obama White House
> Glenn Greenwald
>
> http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/23/alter/index.html
>
>
>
> "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."- *Voltaire*
>
> ---
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/big-bands-on-youtube-swing/
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Shane Mage (shm...@pipeline.com) wrote on 2009-08-24 at 09:00:35 in
about Re: [Marxism] to read?:
>
>
> The "Grundrisse," as the last word in its title--"Rohentwurf"--
> declares, is not "meant" to be read at all. It is just the rough
> draft of Das Kapital. Why read the rough draft when y
Fred Feldman (ffeld...@bellatlantic.net) wrote on 2009-08-24 at 06:20:23 in
about [Marxism] Statement of defamed man known as "Lockerbie bomber":
>
>
> Even more, perhaos he is even seen as
> something of a martyr, for being persuaded by his government to attend
> the Star Chamber in the firs
In a message dated 8/24/2009 11:35:29 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
meis...@xs4all.nl writes:
>I simply mentioned that I disagreed with you,
as many/most others probably would if they had had the patience to read
your lengthy post (23 August 14:38 EDT).<
Reply
Sorry.
WL.
http://tinyurl.com/ltkfhd
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> http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1822-continuity-ueber-alles-massaging-the-message-in-afghanistan.html
> >
>
> "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."- *Voltaire*
>
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http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/08/ferguson_obama_and_felix_the_c.php
Ferguson, Obama, Felix the Cat -- and Pluto
17 Aug 2009 11:28 pm
Let me tell this one in order:
On August 11, last Tuesday, Niall Ferguson wrote an op-ed in the
Financial Times whose theme was that Barack Oba
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/black-cats/
August 17, 2009, 8:48 pm
Black cats
I really had no intention of writing more about Niall Ferguson. Regular
readers may recall that he wrote an article in the Financial Times that
began,
President Barack Obama reminds me of Felix the
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Kosovo, East Timor, R2P, and Ian Williams
Noam Chomsky | August 17, 2009
Editor: John Feffer
In a discussion of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in Foreign Policy In
Focus, Ian Williams vehemently denies my uncontrover
latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-gordon20-2009aug20,0,1126906.story
Opinion
Boycott Israel
An Israeli comes to the painful conclusion that it's the only way to
save his country.
By Neve Gordon
August 20, 2009
Israeli newspapers this summer are filled with angry articles about the
push
Dennis Brasky wrote:
> On 8/23/09, Jewbonic wrote:
>> Jewbonics has posted a new item, 'Alex Cockburn RIP? Naa'
>>
>> I come back from vacation, and what’s the latest? Apparently, Counterpunch
>> editor Alexander Cockburn is dead. According to mailing lists, leftist
>> bloggers,
>> and various wri
On Aug 24, 2009, at 1:15 AM, Horse Badorties wrote:
>
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:51 PM, guava tree
> wrote:
>
>> do people think reading volumes 2&3 of Capital is more valuable than
>> reading the Grundrisse?
>
>
> The Grundrisse is like the I Ching. It's not meant to be read from
> beginni
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Lüko Willms wrote:
> Andy Chambers (achambers.h...@googlemail.com) wrote on 2009-08-23 at
> 23:57:19 in about [Marxism] Union fires official for demanding equal pay for
> women:
>>
>>
>> councils from having to cut their budgets.
>> >
>> > advertisement
>> >
>> > F
An absolute must read on this subject:
Settlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat; by J. Sakai. [also
available online at
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/10/28/17790131.php]
Also:
False Nationalism False Internationalism, Class Contradictions in the
Armed Struggle, by E. Tani and Kae
Barbara Jeanne Fields, "Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States
of America," New Left Review, May/June 1990.
ICarrol
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SOCIALIST VOICE
Marxist Perspectives for the 21st Century
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August 24, 2009
BOOK REVIEW: TWO ACCOUNTS OF ENGELS’ REVOLUTIONARY LIFE
After decades in which there was no life of Engels in print in
English, suddenly there are two, with different strengths. Neither is
perf
(This was submitted by Michael Karadjis to the US-based Green Left list.)
As anyone who has studied a little about this case knows well, not only
was Al-Megrahi framed, but Libya as a whole was framed for this horiffic
act, which it had nothing to do with. The entire "evidence" (something
about
On 8/23/09, Jewbonic wrote:
>
> Jewbonics has posted a new item, 'Alex Cockburn RIP? Naa'
>
> I come back from vacation, and what’s the latest? Apparently, Counterpunch
> editor Alexander Cockburn is dead. According to mailing lists, leftist
> bloggers,
> and various writers within the vaguely Mar
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/world/asia/24military.html
August 24, 2009
U.S. Military Says Its Force in Afghanistan Is Insufficient
By HELENE COOPER
BAGRAM, Afghanistan - American military commanders with the NATO mission in
Afghanistan told President Obama's chief envoy to the region this w
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guava tree wrote:
//do people think reading volumes 2&3 of Capital is more valuable than
reading the Grundrisse?
David Harvey, who conducts a most helpful 13-class video course online
on Capital volume 1 (which I recently took and thereby gained a much
better understanding of the book), recom
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