Anders Schneiderman wrote:
>In other words, sustainability and excess American-style are not mutually
>exclusive. If it makes people like Michael Perelman happy to stay in
>spartan Zen Centers, I think that's great. But so often, comments like
>Juliet Shor's, about how we use too many resources
Due to the massive strikes in France that preceded the recent elections there,
the question of cutting the work week to create more jobs has been raised to a
new level, with the the new French government committed to reducing the work
week to 35 hours.
High rates of structural unemployment motiva
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1997
RELEASED TODAY: The number of families with at least one employed
person rose by 709,000 in 1996. Such families comprised 81.4 percent
of the nation's 69.2 million families, according to a new annual
series on the employment characteristics of families
Doug writes >> Speaking of sermons, I wonder how much of the famously
religious impulse of so many Americans (sorry to be provincial about this,
but the U.S. contains one of the most professedly pious, if not devout,
populations in the world) is a deflected critique of capitalism, an urge
for a li
The Baltimore Sun June 17, 1997
Market on verge of collapse, analyst says
When the stock market crashes, it'll be like an earthquake leveling a city.
That's what Thomas H. Eichler says. And he feels the rumbling.
Eichler, who is the president a
Jim Devine raises a fundamental issue for the Left in many ways: How to
develop a progressive (not tribal) sense of community and nurture a spiritual
need that most humans have to one degree or another. I also agree with Jim
that one must separate out religious nonsense but at least with resp
Yesterday I posted a rquest for sources on the origins of religion (Marxist
preferably) and got no response. Yet we now are having a discussion of
religion. So let me repeat my request.
Am I mistaken or has it been suggestd in recent posts that religion has an
anti-consumerist bent? (somehow
Alright, as to the first question on materialist analysis of religion: Still
nothing better that I know of than Feuerbach; an excellent monography
considering Feuerbach in historical perspective by Stanford professor Van
Harvey, out in '96, would be the place to start.
Secondly, I think you will
In the January/February, 1997 issue of ARCHAEOLOGY magazine, there is an
article by Jeannine Davis-Kimball titled "Warrior Women of the Eurasian
Steppes." The evidence from new archaeological digs finds that many women
were buried as warriors, with weapons and trappings of war. The author
hypoth
sounds like it's time for French workers, leftists, greens, etc., to return
to the streets to give Jospin more backbone -- or to threaten his coalition.
in pen-l solidarity,
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> > Jim Devine wrote, >
> >Left needs to do somehow emulate the old Social Democrats and Communists
> >who set up secular community organizations that can be "hearts in a
> >heartless world" without all the religious nonsense.
>
> I agree with the notion that the left has a lot to learn from r
>France declared victory yesterday in its battle with Germany over
>joblessness,
Call it the unemployment Maginot line.
>"This is a great success for France," said Manuel Valls, spokesman for Mr.
>Jospin. "It's a good compromise. It's a good deal." . . .
It's . . . It's hot air!
>Mr. Jospin
1. I must admit that in my minitreatise on religion in the US, I forgot
Judaism (even though I participate in a secular-Jewish community). Of
course, there (as with Protestantism) there is a lot of "consumer choice,"
control over the leaders by the followers, and escape from the heartless
world. (
The Globe and Mail Tuesday, June 17, 1997
Compromise ends bickering between France, Germany
Unemployment problem gains recognition at EU summit
By Madelaine Drohan
European Bureau
France declared victory yesterday in its battle wit
H Eric --
1) I believe that what you suggest is the way it is normally done --
all prices are expressed with respect to the 82-84 base.
2) There have been several estimates made of the effect of upper
level substitution. First came Braithwait, Steven D. "The
Substitution Bias of the Laspey
Jim Devine wrote,
>Left needs to do somehow emulate the old Social Democrats and Communists
>who set up secular community organizations that can be "hearts in a
>heartless world" without all the religious nonsense.
I agree with the notion that the left has a lot to learn from religion. But
dispe
Thad Williamson:
> 50 years from now we could have (at least) a 20
>hr work week society without giving anything up in income, and probably a
>lot saner society, if we converted all productivity gains into more free
time.
>
Thad is on the right track. Although I reject the sort of blueprint
appr
The 1997 month long Moscow study trip about which information was
previously posted here has just been completed. To keep this message
brief, I can send you the daily schedule on request.
Before leaving Moscow, the host institution invited me to bring a
group for the two weeks surrounding the maj
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