Dear friends,
I will be on a leave from the first of May until the end of December. I am
interested in moving around the country, meeting activists and perhaps speaking.
I will be on the West Coast in September for sure. I have given many talks to
college groups and union groups. I know
Has anyone seen reports in __The Independent_ or _The Big Story_ about the
CIA, Contras, and crack? Our local alternative weekly reports that they
ran a great story whose bottom line was, "The CIT actively encouraged drug
trafficking in order to fund right-wing contra rebels in Nicaragua during
For More Information, call: (510) 649-8173
BREAD AND WORK ALLIANCE FORMS TO FIGHT FOR
JOBS AND THE RIGHT TO FOOD FOR ALL
-- March 1st Rally and Marches planned nationwide
Determined not only to fight the recently enacted welfare
"deform" law but to take
A couple of brief further notes:
1) Gerhard Mensch's book was originally published in
1975.
2) The new Edward Elgar volume is very comprehensive,
an excellent source, especially with the inclusion of the
newly translated "Springflood" by van Gelderen.
3) One reason for
Doug Henwood writes:
Well, Tom, what do you think Marx's theory of interest rate
determination was?
I think there is a good reason why Marx did not have a complete
theory of the interest rate--namely, Marx's initial results
prompted him to postpone further consideration of the issue
until he
Bob, here is the original post. There is no other post. This is the
only one dealing explicitly with Modern Communism.
Now, as for your question, "What is Modern Communism?", the answer, as
I've already indicated, is contained in the post, in the second
paragraph. If you need elaboration,
Rosser Jr, John Barkley informs us:
3) One reason for the current interest in Kondratiev
in Russia is that he was verboten for a long time. He was
an ally of Bukharin's in the planning debates of the 1920s,
worked in the Vesenkha and supported the NEP and was
executed during the
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Robert Malecki wrote:
Shawgi wrote;
The answer to your question "What is Modern Communism?" is contained in
the original post. If you have a more specific question, feel free to ask
Sorry, But I am rather new to the list and seem to have missed the original
post.
A study of the conditions as they prevail on the world scale shows
that the main content of the present counter-revolution is the all-
sided pressure to "liquidate" i.e. get rid of, whatever positive
achievements have been made by modern society. This attack takes
the form of the anti-social
To answer Doug's question,
Schumpeter distinguished between inventions (technological discoveries/
applications) and innovations (commercially viable applications). Mensch,
among others, elaborates on this and argues that a technology can be around
for some time before it becomes the basis for
At 5:49 PM 1/13/97, Michael Perelman wrote:
Would moving social security funds to the stock market raise the cost of
government borrowing or would current equity holders just shift some of
their funds back to the bond market?
What government borrowing? Clinton and Congress have both pledged to
Hello Michael,
We would be very interested in having you come to the Calif State
Polytechnic Univ., Pomona. Unfortunately, our school is on the
quarter system and we don't start until late September. I am
presently chair of the Faculty Senate, but next year I may be the
President of the
At 10:13 AM 1/13/97, DICKENS, EDWIN (201)-408-3024 wrote:
I'm skeptical, but open to
anyone who wants to try and resolve the issue by constructing
an index of the relative strengths of financial and
industrial capital.
While I'd never go so far as Hilferding and argue that they've become one,
Friends, My apologies for posting my reply to Michael Yates to
everyone. It's late and I'm tired. Larry Shute
If we could have a system without exploitation
of any individual or group of individuals by another, and with everyone
living off their own work, the whole of mankind would be emancipated.
"Everyone living off their own work?" But this is socialism, not communism,
according to the previous
Amplifying on Maggie's comments, the cotton gin changed things overnight
because it did not require any substantial changes in other parts of the
production system. Electricity took decades to affect productivity
substantially because the mills were fitted out to take power from a
central
At 10:13 AM 1/13/97, DICKENS, EDWIN (201)-408-3024 wrote:
I'm skeptical, but open to
anyone who wants to try and resolve the issue by constructing
an index of the relative strengths of financial and
industrial capital.
While I'd never go so far as Hilferding and argue that they've become one,
One of the features of the capitalist economy is its destructive
nature. The capitalist economy carries on the destruction of the
productive forces uninterruptedly. It puts an all-round brake on
their development.
The greatest productive force in the capitalist economy is the
working
Third, the principle, "From each according to his abilities, to each
according to his work," is socialist. The principle, "From each
according to his abilities, to each according to his needs," is Communist.
This is quite well-known.
It's also sexist. The personal pronoun is entirely
DICKENS, EDWIN wrote:
I think there is a good reason why Marx did not have a complete
theory of the interest rate--namely, Marx's initial results
prompted him to postpone further consideration of the issue
until he got to his planned book on the state. snip
After abandoning his initial
Would moving social security funds to the stock market raise the cost of
government borrowing or would current equity holders just shift some of
their funds back to the bond market?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 916-898-5321
E-Mail
I am no expert on long waves but I think it makes
sense that regimes of technology and work organization
have a pattern of rise and fall. I don't see any reason
why the periodicity should be of any set frequency or
amplitude because as Barkley Rosser (I think) and Maggie
Coleman said, there
Friends, My apologies for posting my reply to Michael Yates to
everyone. It's late and I'm tired. Larry Shute
Hello Michael,
We would be very interested in having you come to the Calif State
Polytechnic Univ., Pomona. Unfortunately, our school is on the
quarter system and we don't start until late September. I am
presently chair of the Faculty Senate, but next year I may be the
President of the
At 5:49 PM 1/13/97, Michael Perelman wrote:
Would moving social security funds to the stock market raise the cost of
government borrowing or would current equity holders just shift some of
their funds back to the bond market?
What government borrowing? Clinton and Congress have both pledged to
One of the features of the capitalist economy is its destructive
nature. The capitalist economy carries on the destruction of the
productive forces uninterruptedly. It puts an all-round brake on
their development.
The greatest productive force in the capitalist economy is the
working
Would moving social security funds to the stock market raise the cost of
government borrowing or would current equity holders just shift some of
their funds back to the bond market?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 916-898-5321
E-Mail
A study of the conditions as they prevail on the world scale shows
that the main content of the present counter-revolution is the all-
sided pressure to "liquidate" i.e. get rid of, whatever positive
achievements have been made by modern society. This attack takes
the form of the anti-social
Third, the principle, "From each according to his abilities, to each
according to his work," is socialist. The principle, "From each
according to his abilities, to each according to his needs," is Communist.
This is quite well-known.
It's also sexist. The personal pronoun is entirely
If we could have a system without exploitation
of any individual or group of individuals by another, and with everyone
living off their own work, the whole of mankind would be emancipated.
"Everyone living off their own work?" But this is socialism, not communism,
according to the previous
At 10:13 AM 1/13/97, DICKENS, EDWIN (201)-408-3024 wrote:
I'm skeptical, but open to
anyone who wants to try and resolve the issue by constructing
an index of the relative strengths of financial and
industrial capital.
While I'd never go so far as Hilferding and argue that they've become one,
I am no expert on long waves but I think it makes
sense that regimes of technology and work organization
have a pattern of rise and fall. I don't see any reason
why the periodicity should be of any set frequency or
amplitude because as Barkley Rosser (I think) and Maggie
Coleman said, there
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Robert Malecki wrote:
Shawgi wrote;
The answer to your question "What is Modern Communism?" is contained in
the original post. If you have a more specific question, feel free to ask
Sorry, But I am rather new to the list and seem to have missed the original
post.
Rosser Jr, John Barkley informs us:
3) One reason for the current interest in Kondratiev
in Russia is that he was verboten for a long time. He was
an ally of Bukharin's in the planning debates of the 1920s,
worked in the Vesenkha and supported the NEP and was
executed during the
At 10:13 AM 1/13/97, DICKENS, EDWIN (201)-408-3024 wrote:
I'm skeptical, but open to
anyone who wants to try and resolve the issue by constructing
an index of the relative strengths of financial and
industrial capital.
While I'd never go so far as Hilferding and argue that they've become one,
Bob, here is the original post. There is no other post. This is the
only one dealing explicitly with Modern Communism.
Now, as for your question, "What is Modern Communism?", the answer, as
I've already indicated, is contained in the post, in the second
paragraph. If you need elaboration,
DICKENS, EDWIN wrote:
I think there is a good reason why Marx did not have a complete
theory of the interest rate--namely, Marx's initial results
prompted him to postpone further consideration of the issue
until he got to his planned book on the state. snip
After abandoning his initial
Doug Henwood writes:
Well, Tom, what do you think Marx's theory of interest rate
determination was?
I think there is a good reason why Marx did not have a complete
theory of the interest rate--namely, Marx's initial results
prompted him to postpone further consideration of the issue
until he
To answer Doug's question,
Schumpeter distinguished between inventions (technological discoveries/
applications) and innovations (commercially viable applications). Mensch,
among others, elaborates on this and argues that a technology can be around
for some time before it becomes the basis for
Amplifying on Maggie's comments, the cotton gin changed things overnight
because it did not require any substantial changes in other parts of the
production system. Electricity took decades to affect productivity
substantially because the mills were fitted out to take power from a
central
A couple of brief further notes:
1) Gerhard Mensch's book was originally published in
1975.
2) The new Edward Elgar volume is very comprehensive,
an excellent source, especially with the inclusion of the
newly translated "Springflood" by van Gelderen.
3) One reason for
For More Information, call: (510) 649-8173
BREAD AND WORK ALLIANCE FORMS TO FIGHT FOR
JOBS AND THE RIGHT TO FOOD FOR ALL
-- March 1st Rally and Marches planned nationwide
Determined not only to fight the recently enacted welfare
"deform" law but to take
At 05:26 PM 1/12/97 -0800, you wrote:
Dear Comrades
For reasons to unpleasant to mention I have been forced to turn my
attention from the esoteric world of regulation school methodology to the
more prosaic topic of the minimum wage.
This involves a brush with the empirical for which I am ill
Has anyone seen reports in __The Independent_ or _The Big Story_ about the
CIA, Contras, and crack? Our local alternative weekly reports that they
ran a great story whose bottom line was, "The CIT actively encouraged drug
trafficking in order to fund right-wing contra rebels in Nicaragua during
Dear friends,
I will be on a leave from the first of May until the end of December. I am
interested in moving around the country, meeting activists and perhaps speaking.
I will be on the West Coast in September for sure. I have given many talks to
college groups and union groups. I know
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