[PEN-L:2203] Re: Affirming Minority Rights. Dire Straits (Part

1995-12-30 Thread Mason A. Clark
At 09:04 AM 12/30/95 -0800, Shawgi Tell posted quotations including: >The low level of productivity is also said to be a problem in Latin >America, caused mainly by the lack of education and illiteracy. The level of >qualification of Latin American workers . . . While there is much in the quo

[PEN-L:2202] Re: Internet mailing lists: what are they?

1995-12-30 Thread bill mitchell
Jim in attacking jerry said among other things: > It is THESE academics who are `fair game' on the Marxism List -- >as I (for one) simply _cannot_ comprehend that an intellectual's >thought-work can be taken at all seriously, if he is not CONSTANTLY >testing it AGAINST REALITY. why we are

[PEN-L:2201] Re: Internet mailing lists: what are they?

1995-12-30 Thread Jim Jaszewski
On Thu, 14 Dec 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To so-called activists on the marxism list often display an astonishing > lack of political experience and understanding. It is *very* hard for me, > indeed, to believe that most of the list members who tout activism have > any major political ex

[PEN-L:2200] Socialism, Radical or Otherwise

1995-12-30 Thread bill mitchell
Louis (self-styled badperson) has discussed the issue of the relationship b/tw economic and extra-economic factors in a radical paradigm leading to societal change. he has by and large reflected a traditional marxist position with an emphasis on the base or economic changes. i don't agree really.

[PEN-L:2199] Affirming Minority Rights. Dire Straits (Part II)

1995-12-30 Thread V600A8E6
In latin America, unemployment has reached unprecedented levels as the social repercussions of the structural adjustment programs and economic reform imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank are also being felt. In some countries the real level of unemployment and unde

[PEN-L:2198] Re: Yale Strike

1995-12-30 Thread Doug Henwood
At 8:58 PM 12/29/95, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The accounts of the Yale strike and the behaviour of the >administration and, worse, the faculty are so abominable as >to shake anyone's faith in 'higher learning in America'. >Who can we write to protest. Whose got an e-mail address that >we can re