At 12:15 16/09/97 -0700, Jim D. wrote:
In response to my sermonette, Ajit Sinha writes: I'm sorry I
don't understand what this is all about. Sounds more like Jorge Bush
and Denesh DeSuza led attack on "pc" even though "pc" was their own
creation and not Duke University's.
Ajit, I know you
I think Maggie Coleman is quite right that one can offer a
critique of non-Western cultural practices (i.e dowry, widow
burning) without being a cultural chauvinist.
May I ask what it means to call something a "cultural
practice"?
In the media, and to undergrads I teach, it means that
the
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I wrote: In response to my sermonette, Ajit Sinha writes: I'm sorry I
don't understand what this is all about. Sounds more like Jorge Bush and
Denesh DeSuza led attack on "pc" even though "pc" was their own creation and
not Duke University's.
Ajit, I know you reject politeness as "middle
Terry McD writes: Politically correct" was used within Maoism as a term of
self satire, meaning, as Jim states, holding overly rigid views. I'm not
sure this term was used widely on the left,
I know for a fact that the term "PC" had the satiric meaning in the
non-Maoist left, at least in the SF
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Let me add one thing here. The problem here could be cultural as well. I
hope I'm not condemning all Indians of impolitness, but it is true that
Indians argue among friends with a lot of passion and not much
Oops. I missed the following in Ajit's missive, which might have been
misinterpreted as a comment by me: Let me add one thing here. The problem
here could be cultural as well. I hope I'm not condemning all Indians of
impolitness, but it is true that Indians argue among friends with a lot of
Greetings,
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:
Shawgi A. Tell wrote:
Unemployment figures for August reveal a continuation of the chronic high
levels of unemployment which is one of the features of the deepening crisis
of the capitalist system, referred to as the "jobless recovery."
Richard Duchesne wrote:
What about pre-linguistic mental capacities, say in the first two
years of a child? This is possible, but should we call that
"thinking"?
Are you saying learning is possible without thinking? If so, then a child
learns nothing during the "pre-linguistic" period of life.
The Wall Street Journal September 16, 1997
International: The Dark Side of Freer Global Markets
U.N. REPORT FORESEES WORKER BACKLASH
By Bhushan Bahree Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
GENEVA -- Western industrialized nations are the leaders so
Shawgi A. Tell wrote:
It's relevant to keep in mind that "official" data is inaccurate.
"Official" data often portrays a rosier picture than what is actually the
case, as if roughly 5% unemployment were acceptable. The fact of
the matter is that millions of Americans remain unemployed
In a message dated 97-09-17 12:12:02 EDT, you write:
So the task for non-rigid Marxians and other socialists is to
take the insights of postmodernism (about language, about the construction
of subjects) and move beyond them - to devise a non-vulgar foundationalism,
and to rethink class as the
I have had a lot of heated exchanges with Ajit over the years and yet we
are still good friends and Ajit is VERY capable of laughing at himself in
the middle of a fierce discussion! I could say that I have joined the
Indian cultural space Ajit refers to, except that that space is also
shared by
QUERY *
Greetings,
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:
Shawgi A. Tell wrote:
It's relevant to keep in mind that "official" data is inaccurate.
"Official" data often portrays a rosier picture than what is actually the
case, as if roughly 5% unemployment were acceptable. The fact of
please post and forward...
"Globalization From Below:
Contingency and Contestation in Historical Perspective"
an international conference at Duke University, Durham, NC
February 5th-8th, 1998
Second call for papers: abstracts due
At 11:44 AM 9/17/97 -0700, Doug Henwood wrote:
Shawgi A. Tell wrote:
It's relevant to keep in mind that "official" data is inaccurate.
"Official" data often portrays a rosier picture than what is actually the
case, as if roughly 5% unemployment were acceptable. The fact of
the matter is
Colin,
I have been off-line for a few days trying to get bugs out of my new
computer. So I just came across your message when I back online today. On
reflection, I think you are right (about my failure not my smarts). Thanks
for calling me to account. I'll try to do better in the future.
When Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell decided to make a documentary about
teenagers who rode the rails during the Great Depression, they placed an ad
in "Modern Maturity", the magazine of the American Association of Retired
People (AARP). To their astonishment, they received 3,000 moving and
detailed
I'll bite on Doug's bait. While I'm not at all a fan of pomo et al., I
also don't think it's fair to say that Sokal nailed it in any
fundamental way. What I think he showed is a sociological flaw in the
pomo community: an unhealthy stew of sycophancy, opportunism, and
pretension that should (as
Given the discussion on the list re the Affluenza program, it's interesting
to note the differences in the earlier Running Out of Time documentary
(1994), also fronted by Scott Simon and produced by Oregon Public
Broadcasting KCTS/Seattle. I think Oregon PBS produced the Affluenza
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Terrence Mc Donough wrote:
I also think this discussion is a small manifestation of an ongoing
process which is of more importance. With the Sokal affair marking a
turning point, the Marxist left has sought to distinguish itself from
identity politics and its theoretical manifestation in pomo,
This week I have been reading Walter Wriston's feisty little 1992 book
"The Twilight of Sovereignty, etc," an exuberant paean to a galactic
world of knowledge workers the "limits to growth" people never knew.
Wriston takes a whole chapter to trash the common instruments of
economic measurement,
maggie coleman wrote,
In a message dated 97-09-16 03:51:58 EDT, Tom Walker writes:
3. All resolutions of the 1969 Conventions of the Students for a
Democratic Society are to be published in Durruti. It is our conviction that
these resolutions will be at least, if not more, meaningful to
Business Week September 22, 1997
BW/HARRIS POLL: FREER TRADE GETS
AN UNFRIENDLY RECEPTION
President Clinton kicked off his campaign to secure
''fast track'' authority to
negotiate trade deals on
I think it is true that the (catholic) church has not always been
monolithic on the subject of the poor. (Or women for that matter; St.
Bernadette the patron saint of Ireland for instance ran abbys and performed
at least one abortion, two unusual things the church today would not have
smiled
Unemployment figures for August reveal a continuation of the chronic high
levels of unemployment which is one of the features of the deepening crisis
of the capitalist system, referred to as the "jobless recovery."
The official unemployment rate in August remained 9 percent for the
second
The Cuban Communist Party is carrying out preparations for its Fifth
Congress, to be held in Havana from October 8-10. The Party has just
concluded broad-based discussions on the document The Party of Unity,
Democracy and the Human Rights We Defend which will be presented in its
final form for
Jim D. writes about the origin of PC within Maoism. He is partly
correct (pc). "Political incorrectness" was current within Maoism to
describe views, actions, speech practices etc. which analysis could
demonstrate had politically negative consequences, i.e. retarded the
advent of socialism.
At 11:53 16/09/97 -0700, Ricardo D. wrote:
I think Maggie Coleman is quite right that one can offer a
critique of non-Western cultural practices (i.e dowry, widow
burning) without being a cultural chauvinist. The real dilemma here
is to what values does one appeal in conducting such a
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