Hugh Rodwell wrote:
If market socialism is such an attractive alternative, and vastly to be
preferred to party dicatatorships, and capable of arising more or less
spontaneously in periods of mass mobilization, then why
a) did it not arise spontaneously in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet
George Pennefather wrote:
Why am I getting two copies of email postings?
Why do I get five copies of everything you post?
Doug
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Hugh Rodwell wrote:
Only thing that bothers me is that Doug is claiming to be able to recognize
political principles here.
Well, I suppose when he kicked me out of his own p-b incubator of
bureaucratic-academic scepticism for making some pretty self-evident
pro-revolutionary remarks -- about
Rob Schaap wrote:
Time for Doug (to whom, many thanks for letting Hugh's little gratuity glide
past)
Only because I didn't read it. What'd my favorite TrotBot say?
to put his finger to the pulse, I reckon. Wassa story, Doug?
Internal disputes. My lips are sealed, except to say it's more a
Michael Pugliese wrote:
Alan Greenspan was a young Randian "Objectivist"
Yup, and he wrote a couple of essays for her newsletter, which were
collected in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. In one, AG argued for a
gold standard as the only defense of the haves against the envy of
the have-nots;
k like center-to-right social
democrats. Importantly, the magazine opposed the NATO war against
Yugoslavia (though several contributors filed dissenting, prowar
views).
Doug Henwood
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Gerald Levy wrote:
I don't really think that one sends a convincing message re one's own rage
dressed as a butterfly or a turtle.
How about a plant? Does that work for you?
Doug
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Chris Burford wrote:
Despite the openly declared attacks on world capitalism, I have heard no
reports yet of pictures of Marx among the demonstrators at Seattle.
Didn't see it, but I heard there was a giant one at a demo on Thursday.
Doug
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I've been posting reports from Seattle to the LBO website
http://www.panix.colm/~dhenwood/Seattle.html. Fresh material has
just arrived.
Doug Henwood
Left Business Observer
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New York NY 10024-3217 USA
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Hugh Rodwell wrote:
stifling passivizing crap a la Henwood Observatory
Aw thanks, Hugh - it's been so long that I'd thought you'd forgotten
me. But now I'm all cheered up keep going for another few weeks.
And it's so inspiring to hear of the revolutionary mobilization in
Umeå - the first
Gerald Levy wrote:
In typical fashion, you confuse personal with political differences.
Oh fuck, here we go again. What, did the malathion energize you, Jerry?
Doug
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Could someone remind me of the Thaxis URL?
Doug
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[This post was delayed because it contained the word "subscr*be"
in the first 10 lines; it was forwarded to the list by Hans Ehrbar]
Jim heartfield wrote:
In message l03130308b3d57f5f0b43@[137.92.41.119], Rob Schaap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
G'day Thaxists,
Does anyone else here (except
environmentalism
that he espoused. After we were criticised for carrying the article, we
had to have him again. I was introduced to Arnold by Doug Henwood, who
has had him on his radio show.
That I have, several times. Certain persons, like [EMAIL PROTECTED],
think it's evil for me to have done this. Call
Bob Malecki wrote:
Doug writes:
For goldbugs, the beauty of the metal is that it's a nonstate form of money
and its supply rises about 2% a year (and not even Hans Tietmeyer could run
a monetary policy that tight). For Marxist goldbugs, the beauty of the
metal is pretty similar - they just
Lew wrote:
As above, they think governments (even a "workers'" government) have the
ability to spend their way out of recessions to the land of peace and
plenty (or to counter the cyclical trade slump). Generally, they think
employment can be optimised by the correct usage of interest and money
Rob Schaap wrote:
C'mon Hugh!
You're reaching here:
The book is boring, superficial and grotesquely pretentious. If it was a
straight-forward petty-bourgeois radical attack on Wall Street it would
hardly pass muster because it's such a drag to read, the forest is lost
from sight as each new
Bob Malecki wrote:
Sorry I thought it was Clinton who wrote this garbage. And if this was
suppose to be "ironic" well maybe you are right I don't get it.
This is an interesting confession for a guy who presents himself to the
whole world as a writer and publisher!
'Besides this I don't like
Hugh Rodwell wrote:
Doug does not at all follow Marx every inch of the way, as he holds no
truck with the labour theory of value.
Bullshit. I've never said any such thing. I've said I don't see the use of
efforts like Shaikh Tonak's to translate bourgeois economic statistics
into Marxian
J.WALKER, ILL wrote:
How can money - as the universal measure of value - function if it
does not itself have any value? If value is determined by the labour
time necessary for its production.
It's valorized by the goods and services it can buy, including labor power.
The last problem I have
Lew wrote:
The main purpose for gold these days is settling international exchange
rates between currencies.
Gold has minimal international functions. I have no idea what you're
talkinga bout when you say its main purpose is settling international
exchange rates. Those are set on foreign
Bob Malecki wrote:
Now Bob, isn't it only fair that you should put up a link to my response to
WV's idiocies? After all, I've got a link to your critique, your homepage,
and your memoir!
Doug
Doug, I'll do even better. Send me the document and I will put it up and
link it from the same
Dave Bedggood wrote:
Interesting that Doug Henwood thinks that non-profit ownership is
perceived as a threat by Ford.
Ford FOUNDATION, not the Ford Motor Corp. And point was, if you even
bothered to read the original text, was that the various community
organizations in the U.S. were in many
Chris Burford wrote:
In "Wall Street", Doug quotes a long passage from the Third Volume of
Capital in the Fernbach edition, p571-2, which I do not have. I would be
grateful if someone could identify the chapter and the section so I can
check it in the older translation.
It's about 6 pages into
Hugh Rodwell wrote:
The reason our indirect (not so bloody indirect actually) apologists for
capital (such as Doug and Chris, with Rob flapping around them like one of
Dante's trimmers on the banks of the Styx)
Luv ya too, Hugh!
keep trying to make us think
that capital is doing OK and will
Robert Malecki wrote:
Pretty equivocal hej Doug. Not even reformist winding the clock backwards.
But hardly true! In fact Japanese society will NEVER be the same
When is anything ever the same?
and that
this stuff has disappeared under the surface has more to do with what is
going on in Europe
Andrew Wayne Austin wrote:
I have myself begun to rethink the idea of reformism. I have a webpage
titled "Reformist Socialism." This webpage has links to DSA and so forth.
But what I really mean is "reformist capitalism," since DSA is not working
to reform socialism, but to reform capitalism.
Bob Malecki wrote:
Yeah Jim and we are back to What Hugh mentioned in his first reply. The
bourgeoisie and the Times using you because they agree that this is
what's happening.
Hey Bob, I thought you achieved a brief celebrity in the Swedish media
during the last election campaign as
Bob Malecki wrote:
You mean we're in a pre-revolutioanry situation now? So the alleged rise of
Nazis, from London to Littleton, is somehow a response to this? How do you
know?
Doug
What?
Bob
Sure sounded to me like you were arguing that the Nazis were a serious
political threat, and by your
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