[Marxism] the taming of the american crowd

2011-01-22 Thread MICHAEL YATES
and their value as important -- often the first -- treatment of their subject." Michael Yates, Editorial Director of Monthly Review Press Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set

[Marxism] Loughner's last close friend said that he ignored TV and talk radio

2011-01-13 Thread MICHAEL YATES
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Marv says that right wing paranoia afflicts a large proportion of Arizona's white

[Marxism] blog post: radical labor education, part 2

2011-01-03 Thread MICHAEL YATES
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[Marxism] Request for books, articles on the "Middle Class"

2010-12-16 Thread MICHAEL YATES
references on how we came to speak of a middle class, what the middle class is, why people identify as middle class, etc. You can reply either to the list or to me at mikedjya...@msn.com Michael Yates

[Marxism] blog post: those who dare to tell the truth

2010-12-06 Thread MICHAEL YATES
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[Marxism] an asshole economist chimes in on how to get the economy going

2010-11-28 Thread MICHAEL YATES
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In today's New York Times there is an article discussing the suggestions of variou

[Marxism] blog post: "That Which is Full of Wonder"

2010-11-24 Thread MICHAEL YATES
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[Marxism] blog post: change we (were foolish to) believe in

2010-11-13 Thread MICHAEL YATES
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[Marxism] Stephanie Coontz on "Mad Men" in Wash Post

2010-11-13 Thread MICHAEL YATES
y so. When you can write a poem as good as Kaddish, let us know. "(some marxmailers) come and go, talking of Michelangelo." michael yates Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.ut

[Marxism] blog post: strikes and spares

2010-11-03 Thread MICHAEL YATES
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[Marxism] blog post: These Homes Were Made (and Paid for) by You and Me

2010-10-22 Thread MICHAEL YATES
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[Marxism] blog post: fear and loathing at saint vincent college, an upodate

2010-10-02 Thread MICHAEL YATES
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[Marxism] blog post: a nation in decline? Part 4: Mother Earth, What Have We Done to You?

2010-09-22 Thread MICHAEL YATES
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[Marxism] new blog post: a nation in decline?: part 2: signs of distress

2010-09-03 Thread MICHAEL YATES
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[Marxism] self-indulgence

2010-08-12 Thread MICHAEL YATES
preposterous. Michael Yates Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

[Marxism] blog post: from boulder north and west to portland, part 2

2010-08-05 Thread MICHAEL YATES
undant trails for hiking and walking. The Rose Garden is a flower-lover’s dream. But, it's a shame Portland is so damn white." michael yates Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.

[Marxism] Marilyn Buck

2010-08-04 Thread MICHAEL YATES
summer issue and was deeply moved by the interview. You can read it at http://monthlyreview.org/0701day.htm. Michael Yates Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http

[Marxism] blog post: from Boulder North and West to Portland, part 1

2010-07-25 Thread MICHAEL YATES
it and thought that I am now illiterate, please give it another chance! michael yates Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options

[Marxism] blog post: from Boulder North and West to Portland, part 1

2010-07-25 Thread MICHAEL YATES
llows; recovering patients and visitors will need places to stay." . . . michael yates Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/optio

[Marxism] Red Jackman

2010-07-23 Thread MICHAEL YATES
that you wrote about him. Good to see he is alive and well and sober too! Small world. One nice thing about our moderator is that he knows so many interesting people! Takes one to know one!! michael yates Send

[Marxism] query from a reader of Monthly Review/civil rights movement, etc.

2010-07-12 Thread MICHAEL YATES
Party, or black national groups from the same period, I will also be very interested. Thanks to anyone who can help. michael yates Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your op

[Marxism] new blog post: growth! growth! growth!

2010-06-30 Thread MICHAEL YATES
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[Marxism] new blog post: down along the coast, part 3

2010-06-20 Thread MICHAEL YATES
vulgar displays of wealth would make us sick." michael yates Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

[Marxism] review of a book I wrote

2010-06-12 Thread MICHAEL YATES
is so remarkably positive and insightful that I had to share it: http://www.socialiststudies.com/index.php/sss/article/viewFile/126/116 michael yates Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set

[Marxism] new blog post: down along the coast, part 2

2010-06-12 Thread MICHAEL YATES
uffly chastises the brown-skinned cashier for an error that turns out to be his." michael yates Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/optio

[Marxism] new blog post: The "I" and the "we"

2010-05-23 Thread MICHAEL YATES
it is all produced from start to finish by the brown-skinned people. Cheap labor and subsidized capital are the basis of agriculture and most other businesses, and those that own the land and every other bit of capital aim to keep that labor cheap and those subsidies intact." mic

[Marxism] the united farm workers

2010-05-12 Thread MICHAEL YATES
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == By John Obrien's logic, historians shouldn't examine, analyze, or criticize any la

[Marxism] New blog Post: The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers

2010-05-12 Thread MICHAEL YATES
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Tom Cod appears to know nothing about the UFW,its history, etc. If he did, he wou

[Marxism] New Blog Post: The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers

2010-05-12 Thread MICHAEL YATES
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I have posted a review of Miriam Pawel's book, The Union of Their Dream at http://

[Marxism] new blog post: Mining

2010-05-01 Thread MICHAEL YATES
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Full at http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2010/05/01/mining/ The earth in

[Marxism] new blog post: las vegas/it is us 95 not interstate 95

2010-04-17 Thread MICHAEL YATES
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Christian notes that Interstate 95 doesn't go through AZ, etc. I should have writ

[Marxism] new blog post: Yuma

2010-04-07 Thread MICHAEL YATES
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Full at http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org Yuma is one of those iconic

[Marxism] roaming around the deserts

2010-04-03 Thread MICHAEL YATES
alley. Whole hills are covered with wildflowers, above the salt flats that look for all the world like they are covered with snow. I hope there wasn't any arsenic in the piece of the salt flat I licked! mic

[Marxism] blog post: Ludlow, Colorado/Windber, Pennsylvania

2010-03-25 Thread MICHAEL YATES
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Full at http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org This was inspired by a visit to t

[Marxism] reviewer wanted/nobody called me charlie

2010-03-18 Thread MICHAEL YATES
s to great infamy--Jim Jones. In the beginning, Jones was a champion of Black liberation. I urge list members to read this book, and I hope somemone will review it for George. Michael Yates

[Marxism] Blog Post: Conversations on the Trail

2010-03-14 Thread MICHAEL YATES
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here is an excerpt. Full at http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org Soon

[Marxism] Blog Post: What I Said in 2002 about the FARC in Colombia and the Maoists in Nepal

2010-02-27 Thread MICHAEL YATES
a throwaway and amnesiac society, what they said won’t be remembered and they will never be called on it. I welcome comments. Michael Yates Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu

[Marxism] Roger Casement

2010-02-14 Thread MICHAEL YATES
or it. Michael Yates Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

[Marxism] Howard Zinn is dead

2010-01-27 Thread MICHAEL YATES
for the people and not just about them. Imagine how thrilling it must have been to see his People's History touch the mainstream, even getting mentioned on the Sopranos! And he taught as if it mattered. A fine man all the way around. Michael

[Marxism] A review that made me blush

2010-01-25 Thread MICHAEL YATES
Grandchild." Now I can die a happy man! http://www.monthlyreview.org/100101leary.php Michael Yates Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.u

[Marxism] Radical Economics: A Clearer Look at Things, Part 2

2010-01-25 Thread MICHAEL YATES
6 of Naming the System. Michael Yates Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

[Marxism] Bina's paper

2010-01-16 Thread MICHAEL YATES
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == One thing I noticed about Bina's paper is the considerable amount of self-referenc

[Marxism] blog post: the neoclassical economic dogma: part 2

2010-01-12 Thread MICHAEL YATES
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[Marxism] New Blog Post: The Neoclassical Economic Dogma: Part I

2010-01-10 Thread MICHAEL YATES
from my 2003 book, Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy. The first is on neoclassical economics, the second on Marxist economics. There will be four posts all told, two for each chapter. The first one is up now at http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org. Michael

[Marxism] final blog post from southern Utah

2009-12-04 Thread MICHAEL YATES
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Full at http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org We drove back to Boulder from M

[Marxism] another professor's good name dragged through the mud

2009-11-30 Thread MICHAEL YATES
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == James Towey, president of my alma mater (St. Vincent College in Latrobe, PA) and f

[Marxism] blog post: Capitol Reef to Moab

2009-11-24 Thread MICHAEL YATES
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Full at http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org (I'll bet there is not another tra

Re: [Marxism] new blog post: Zion to Capitol Reef

2009-11-17 Thread MICHAEL YATES
chism and the morality of violence if I am not mistaken. Abbey shows a lot of the best of anarchism. He has written some great stuff on his job as a welfare case worker in New York City. michael

[Marxism] new blog post: Zion to Capitol Reef

2009-11-17 Thread MICHAEL YATES
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Full at http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org Here is the end of the post. I

[Marxism] blog post: zion national park

2009-11-11 Thread MICHAEL YATES
Full at http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org “Zion”: A fortress. An ideal religious community. A sanctuary. A perfect place. Zion National Park is in that part of Utah known as “Dixie.” Brigham Young, looking both to consolidate his earthly empire and to begin cotton production, partly

[Marxism] blog post: interview with mike whitney

2009-10-30 Thread MICHAEL YATES
ayed in creating the crisis? Michael Yates: Corporate America began to wage what turned out to be a one-sided war against working people in the mid-to late-1970s, when it became apparent that the post-World War Two "Golden Age" of U.S. capitalism was over. As profit rates fell, business

[Marxism] Glenn Beck goes after real socialists

2009-10-18 Thread MICHAEL YATES
I hope Beck keeps this up. Can't hurt MR sales!! Thanks for posting this, Louis. YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set

[Marxism] New book about the UFW

2009-10-16 Thread MICHAEL YATES
Miriam Pawel, who wrote a dynamite series on the United Farm Workers union (and its demise into a quasi-racket) when she was a journalist at the Los Angeles Times, has written a book, The Union of Their Dreams -- Power, Hope and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Union (Bloomsbury Books).

[Marxism] FW: [E of S] Why NFL OWners Must Flush Rush

2009-10-10 Thread MICHAEL YATES
Below is a column by Dave Zirin, in my opinion, the best sports journalist in the country. Why NFL Owners Must Flush Rush By Dave Zirin National Football League owners could be on the verge of a catastrophic error in judgment. In a league that is 70 percent African-American, an unapologe

[Marxism] More tragedy and trouble in the Oak Creek country [Sedona, Arizona]

2009-10-10 Thread MICHAEL YATES
edona by Karen Korenoski and Michael Yates Sedona is a small town about twenty-five miles south of Flagstaff in north central Arizona. USA Weekend recently voted it the "most beautiful place in America." Sedona's setting is stu

[Marxism] Blog Post: Whither the National Parks?

2009-10-04 Thread MICHAEL YATES
Full at http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org In light of the interest in the national parks of the United States generated by Ken Burns' new PBS documentary, I thought that readers might be interested in what I wrote about the parks in my book, Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: An Economist’

[Marxism] in search of beethoven/mozart

2009-09-23 Thread MICHAEL YATES
Thanks to everyone for the many interesting comments about music. I learned a great deal. michael yates YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism

[Marxism] Blog Post: A Dirty Little Secret in Boulder, CO, with readers' responses.

2009-09-20 Thread MICHAEL YATES
e world a favor. You’re just another example of good medical treatments gone to waste." The last line is in reference to our saying that one of us was recovering from cancer. Michael Yates __

[Marxism] railroading economics

2009-08-29 Thread MICHAEL YATES
industry bring this experience to us as part of a commentary on a book. I look forward to more as you read more of the book. Michael Yates YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.eco

[Marxism] latest blog post

2009-08-29 Thread MICHAEL YATES
Full at http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org. Comments welcomed. "Control is the Name of the Game" The writer William Burroughs made the theme of “control” central to his work. He spent most of his life obsessed with the idea that he was under the insidious control of outside forces

[Marxism] blog post: Support the Troops? No! A Review of The Deserter's Tale by Joshua Key

2009-08-03 Thread MICHAEL YATES
Full at http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org The United States is the most warlike nation on earth and has been for a very long time. It would take too much space simply to enumerate all of the places where the United States is involved today in wars of one kind or another. Not only are