To claim that capital formation is weak or not there is a complete
mis-reading of the Asian situation. While these countries may not become
like imperialists in the military sphere, economic imperialism is already
quite evident. Historically Japan is the classic example of a rise of a
new
See July/August _Dollars and Sense_ "Why Did the USSR Fall?" You might take
a look at the topic Big Government vs Privatization in my conference econ.
democracy on PeaceNet where several recent newspaper articles re Russia are
posted as well. If you don't have access to PeaceNet give me your
UNEMPLOYMENT A SERIOUS PROBLEM IN PRC
September 18, 1997 - Source: Central News Agency (Taiwan)
According to the Central News Agency (Taiwan), unemployment in
China is reaching serious levels as 135 million people are now
officially out of work. Although economic growth in China has been,
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, James Devine wrote:
Doug reports poll results: half of "American Indians" called themselves
that, 37% "Native American";
My wife has worked a lot with the "Native community." She finds that most of
them call themselves "American Indians," thinking that "Native
My impression is that the "economic miracles" of East Asia, including that
of market-Stalinist China, are based to a large extent on the grossest
abuses of the natural environment (not to mention of workers). Yes, I know
that the UK and US did likewise when they had their "industrial revolutions"
Louis Proyect wrote:
Leaving aside the question of growth per se, the real question is capital
formation. Indonesia and the "tigers", etc. will never join the first rank
of imperialist nations. This is historically precluded.
I tend to agree with this, but the "Asian miracle" is a big
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:
For some reason, it's popular in PC copyediting circles to capitalize Black
but not white. I've never understood the reason for this. I asked editors
at two now-defunct publications, the Guardian and CrossRoads, why they did
this, and neither could
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Dennis R Redmond wrote:
But what about the 2.5 billion people of Thailand, Malaysia, Chile,
Vietnam, Indonesia, and the vast subcontinents of India and China, all of
which have seen enormous economic growth from 1985-95? Decline in
capitalism is always relative to the
Doug reports poll results: half of "American Indians" called themselves
that, 37% "Native American";
My wife has worked a lot with the "Native community." She finds that most of
them call themselves "American Indians," thinking that "Native American" is
too academic. On the other hand, a lot
I've had an instructive offlist correspondence with the
irascible Bill L and will try to clarify a couple of points.
1. I sought in my last post to offer a very broad definition
of culture as ditinct from say economics or biology, not of
what marks the boundaries of one culture as opposed to
William S. Lear wrote:
I have one final question. I'm not very consistent in my treatment of
the words "black", "blacks", "white", "whites", etc. when referring to
black persons, black "culture" (I still don't know what this is exactly),
etc. Is it the accepted practice to capitalize these
I'm going to be in Toronto early this coming week on a whirlwind self-promo
tour (including some big morning TV show on Tuesday whose name escapes me).
Any locals want to have a beer or something on Monday or Tuesday
evening/night?
Doug
J Cullen wrote:
So what do you call people of Latin American descent? Latino, Hispanic,
Latin American? Or do you try to break it down to where they came from? And
what do you call "Anglos," which I've always found a little offensive,
being of Irish descent? European Americans?
A survey
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STOP UNION BUSTING BY DISNEY SUBCONTRACTOR!
URGENT CALL IN SOLIDARITY WITH
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Rebecca Peoples wrote:
I desperately need help on Russia today: recommended books, artcles
sites, etc.
Check out Boris Kagarlitsky's 1995 "The Mirage of Modernization", a
serviceable global overview of Stalinism and its (equally global)
aftermath.
As far as economics
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Louis N Proyect wrote:
The Third World, as the
figures above show, has been in steep economic decline over the past
decade. Furthermore, the causes of the economic decline are endemic.
But what about the 2.5 billion people of Thailand, Malaysia, Chile,
Vietnam,
Dennis R Redmond wrote:
But what about the 2.5 billion people of Thailand, Malaysia, Chile,
Vietnam, Indonesia, and the vast subcontinents of India and China, all of
which have seen enormous economic growth from 1985-95? Decline in
capitalism is always relative to the productive forces
Whatever it can be, we're suffering, nowadays, the natures's fighting
against culture. Such is the so called and mystifying "market economy".
RK
My sharp polemics with a member of the British Revolutionary Communist
Party, publishers of Living Marxism.
Louis P.
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Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 14:38:14 -0400 (EDT)
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Third World economic
William S. Lear wrote:
I have one final question. I'm not very consistent in my treatment of
the words "black", "blacks", "white", "whites", etc. when referring to
black persons, black "culture" (I still don't know what this is exactly),
etc. Is it the accepted practice to capitalize these
On Sat, September 27, 1997 at 07:58:39 (-0700) Colin Danby writes:
I've had an instructive offlist correspondence with the
irascible Bill L and will try to clarify a couple of points.
Let me add some rascibility, then.
... the nature of culture
in general,
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