At 3:45 PM 4/21/96, SHAWGI TELL wrote:
> The main thing with regard to the capitalist system is that it
>cannot provide for the people. The very motive of production is the
>making of the maximum capitalist profit and not the guaranteeing of
>a livelihood to anyone. The demand for a guaranteed
At 8:25 PM 4/21/96, Jim Devine wrote:
>Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>"A society is rich when material goods, including capital,
>are cheap, and human beings dear." -- R.H. Tawney.
Jim: I just noticed your signature with the quote from Tawney. Have to say
it sounds like he's talking about slav
> Oh yes I agree that ecological crisis may yet cause a serious rupture.
> But
> it hasn't been incorporated seriously into politics, nor into the mind
> of
> the capitalist planning investments. They still think in terms of
> quantifiable risk - catastrophe can be hedged with futures, with
> Berm
In the context of the resistance of the workers to unemployment,
workers are demanding their right to a livelihood. The question
comes up repeatedly: Who should the demand for a job be addressed
to? Who should the worker demand that they provide him with a job?
The government, the capitalist or
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At 7:57 AM 4/21/96, Blair Sandler wrote:
>I wonder, in this
>era of what Martin O'Connor calls the "ecological phase of capital," and in
>the spirit of Jim O'Connor's "second contradiction of capital," whether we
>are not again in non-normal times. Here is a quote from my dissertation
>that I thi
At 7:39 AM 4/20/96, Doug Henwood wrote:
[long interesting quote from Negri deleted...]
>Once the fear of revolution subsided, and the working class was
>domesticated, the concessions of the Keynesian order could be revoked - and
>with the collapse of the USSR, the demand for givebacks has intensif
