the never-ending saga...
Wojtek writes: >... I think you misinterpret my position on the role of the
government and related institutions vis a vis institutionalised
racial/ethnic seggregation ... It is my impression that you tend to view
the behaviour of these institutions in a "psychologistic" .
Since the subject was raised about the so-called "Comfort Women" put
into slavery by the Japenese fascists, perhaps the discussion should
be expanded as there are very real issues of "political economy"
here.
First of all, when one sees press accounts, the so-called "comfort
women" are referr
At 01:14 PM 8/7/97 -0700, Jim Craven wrote, inter alia: >
> >So we hear white male workers decrying the evils and forms of
> >oppression to which they are subject while remaining impervious to
> >the evils and forms of oppression to which the women in their lives
> >or women in general; are
At 01:14 PM 8/7/97 -0700, Jim Craven wrote, inter alia:
>So we hear white male workers decrying the evils and forms of
>oppression to which they are subject while remaining impervious to
>the evils and forms of oppression to which the women in their lives
>or women in general; are subject or t
In John Le Carre's "The Russia House" there is a scene where the main
character, Barley Scott Blair, a somewhat nihilistic, hedonistic,
drunken publisher, who is at a Dacha with some Russian intellectuals
says:
" If there is to be hope, we must all betray our
country.
This is too much! Now I've got another distraction from my more important
work of
answering Wojtek's earlier missive on rhetoric. ;-)
I had written: >The key question is whether or not Marx's sins, errors, and
omissions are organic parts of his theory, so that their removal causes the
whole edifi
> . . .
> On the second thought, however, that seems to confirm one of the fundamental
> points of Marx's critique of capitalism: that the system operates on its own
> logic that is rather independent of virtues and vices of individual
> capitalists. It follows that even a devout anti-capital
You really had to be there. Epithets about the beats risk a sort of Forrest
Gump revision of history. There's no doubt about the overt male chauvinism
of some beats. What that speaks to, IMHO, is the ambivalence that beats had
toward the dominant patriarchal culture and the difficulty of "being
di
At 07:03 PM 8/6/97 -0700, Daniel Myers wrote, inter alia:
>An obvious example of consolidation between government and private
>interests in recent years has been government sanctioned oppression of the
>homeless by the middle class. This is an indirect result of pandering to
>a spoiled middle cl
On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, William S. Lear wrote:
> On Wed, August 6, 1997 at 22:45:28 (-0700) Michael Eisenscher writes:
> >Houston Police Announce "Zero Tolerance" for Management-Driven UPS Trucks
> >
> >Houston police officers, members of the Houston Police Patrolmen's Union,
> >announced today that
At 01:18 PM 8/6/97 -0700, Jim Devine wrote, inter alia:
>The key question is whether or not Marx's sins, errors, and omissions are
>organic parts of his theory, so that their removal causes the whole edifice
>to come crashing down.
My reply (ws):
Well, that seems a rather odd proposition about
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