[PEN-L:9587] Re: M-I: LatAm Marxism

1997-04-21 Thread MEADHajduk
greetings to all. There's been alot of hoopla about Evita Peron and the movie EVITA. I understand that Juan Peron was an admirer of Mussilini. His regime was in power during the post WWII era, when Nazi fascists were flooding South America, especially Argentina. Other than that I do

[PEN-L:9586] Re: MAI

1997-04-21 Thread Bill Burgess
I skimmed parts of this earlier discussion but didn't realize most considered that the issue had already been beaten to death or that wounds were still too tender to touch. I can go along with that, but I don't think the issue will go away. Bill Burgess On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Sid Sh

[PEN-L:9585] Re: LatAm Marxism

1997-04-21 Thread Anthony P D'Costa
Off the top of my head, not directly related to Marxism in Lat Am but certain understanding of marxian understanding of development, see Anibal Quijano, Cristobal Kay, Jorge Larrain. Anthony P. D'Costa Associate Professor Senior Fellow Comparative International Development D

[PEN-L:9584] Re: DARWIN AWARDS

1997-04-21 Thread Jeffrey Strohl
that is pretty good

[PEN-L:9583] Re: LatAm Marxism

1997-04-21 Thread Louis N Proyect
Michael Lowy has a good collection called "Marxism in Latin America". The only problem is that it might not be in print. If it isn't, then I'd suggest the new edition of Mariatequi's writings from Humanities Press; Guevara and Castro collections from Pathfinder Press. Louis Proyect On Mon, 21 A

[PEN-L:9582] Re: LatAm Marxism

1997-04-21 Thread Colin Danby
>What's good to read on Marxism in Latin America? Are there any >specifically Cuban >versions of Marxism worth studying? > >Doug Liss, Sheldon. (1984) Marxist Thought in Latin America. University of California Press. Is a good survey, with a chapter on the Cubans. Best, Colin

[PEN-L:9581] LatAm Marxism

1997-04-21 Thread Doug Henwood
What's good to read on Marxism in Latin America? Are there any specifically Cuban versions of Marxism worth studying? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: web:

[PEN-L:9580] Re: Austrians and the left (was: German liberalism)

1997-04-21 Thread Louis N Proyect
For a good critique of Hillary Wainwright, see John Bellamy Foster's "Market Fetishism and the Attack on Social Reason: A comment on Hayek, Polanyi and Wainwright" in the Dec. 95 "Capitalism, Nature and Socialism". Foster states that Wainwright concedes too much to Hayek and that Polanyi is good a

[PEN-L:9579] Fw: Brazilian strikers close ports (UPI Report) (fwd)

1997-04-21 Thread D Shniad
> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 00:05:58 GMT > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dckom) > Subject: Re: Brazilian strikers close ports > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Brazilian strikers close ports > Copyright 1997 by United Press International > >

[PEN-L:9578] Re: MAI

1997-04-21 Thread D Shniad
Dear Bill, In order to save Penners the agony of going through the entire debate one again, may I suggest that you do a search of the Pen archives and read the debate between the Progressive Nationalists and the Progressive Internationalists (the terms were Tom Weiskopf's) that took place in the

[PEN-L:9577] Thank you from Santos port unions (fwd)

1997-04-21 Thread D Shniad
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Apr 21 04:35 PDT 1997 > Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:34:00 GMT > Reply-To: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: LabourNet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Thank you f

[PEN-L:9576] A true internationalist

1997-04-21 Thread D Shniad
Ford & the Nazi war efforts: HENRY FORD WAS NO OSKAR SCHINDLER The Ford Motor Company's commercial-free sponsorship of NBC's airing of Schindler's List, the epic movie about the Holocaust, was a class act. Nevertheless, it would be remiss of us here at Corporate Watch, not to point out

[PEN-L:9575] Re: German liberalism

1997-04-21 Thread Rosser Jr, John Barkley
A curious tidbit on this is that although the Ordo-Liberals were not Austrians, despite their support of market capitalism and opposition to central planning, Hayek ended his career at Freiburg. BTW, in my earlier message on all this I misspelled the German for "social market economy

[PEN-L:9574] Re: German liberalism

1997-04-21 Thread Tavis Barr
I don't know anything about the Austrian School bit. Sympathy for English liberalism would indeed be surprising, since it goes against the grain of everything Foucault had written. As you know, he spends a lot of time both in Discipline and Punish and in the History of Sexuality V1 describi

[PEN-L:9573] Austrians and the left (was: German liberalism)

1997-04-21 Thread Robert R Naiman
In her book "Arguments for a New Left" Hilary Wainright had what I thought was an interesting take on this issue. HW argued that while there was something to the Austrian critique of socialism and government action, namely that even if nominally democratic government action was limited by the limi

[PEN-L:9572] questions on trade:

1997-04-21 Thread Robert R Naiman
questions on trade: what significance to we attribute to the fact that a given country consistently runs a trade deficit? a surplus? at bretton woods, keynes proposed that international trade be managed so that no country ran a consistent (global) surplus or deficit, and that in the event of an

[PEN-L:9571] Re: German liberalism

1997-04-21 Thread Rosser Jr, John Barkley
Foucault is right. This was the dominant school of postwar German economic thought. It was indeed based in Freiburg, and its chief policymaking follower was Ludwig Ehard, put into place by the Americans as the organizer of the Deutches Wirtschaftswunder (German Economic Miracle) in 194

[PEN-L:9570] German liberalism

1997-04-21 Thread Doug Henwood
In "The Birth of Biopolitics," one of the course descriptions collected in Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth [The Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984, vol. 1] just out from the New Press, Foucault wrote: "...German liberalism of the second postwar period was defined, programmed, and even to a cert

[PEN-L:9569] Re: FWD: IMPORTANT !!! READ RIGHT AWAY!!!!

1997-04-21 Thread Tavis Barr
It may or may not be a hoax (though my inclination is that it is). While it is more or less impossible to send a virus as an email message, it is possible to send a virus as an email attachment with some email programs; for example, a viewer might recognize an attachment with a ".com" extens