>Why do you say so casually that "no one has shown that
>machinofacture makes direct
>human labor superflous in the production of commodities - it just
>changes the character of that labor"? Marx says as much in
>the Grundrisse, as I showed in two previous missives. Here he writes
>unequivocally
In response to the following passage by me,
>> Now, ascribing goals to *systems* rather than conscious beings, as Postone
>> does here, is necessarily a dicey proposition, but in any case it is clear
>> that *capitalists* direct production, not *capitalism*. Capitalists want to
>> make profits
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Jim Devine wrote:
>Yesterday, I heard Matt Miller, a US News & World Report reporter, say on
>the radio that the US has only about 3 percent tariffs on foreign goods,
>while the relevant trading partners in the "fast track" debate (like Chile)
>have so
At 22:22 5/11/97 -0500, Gil wrote:
>I've just finished reading the chapter in Moishe Postone's _Time, Labor, and
>Social Domination_ that Rakesh recommended to me, and it strikes me that
>the point made above is emphatically borne out in Postone's (otherwise quite
>insightful and interesting) ana
Jeff St Clair is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Robert Naiman wrote:
> [P.S. I think there is more to this -- I think Kodak had a production shift
> to Mexico in '94 and that there have been enviro problems associated with
> this and that Jeff St. Clair knows about it. Anyone knows how
Jim,
Noam Chomsky has made this point in Z and elsewhere. He believes that NAFTA
is likely to subvert the economies of the South > the USs
Jason
[P.S. I think there is more to this -- I think Kodak had a production shift
to Mexico in '94 and that there have been enviro problems associated with
this and that Jeff St. Clair knows about it. Anyone knows how to reach him?
-rn]
Kodak Shifts ALOT of Jobs Overseas
Leading ALOT Member Shows J
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> Subject:Postone on value form and capitalist production
> Skillman writes:
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> I've just finished reading
Ricardo Duchesne:
>
>By the way, I was a student of Ellen Wood. I respect her. It is just
>that she cannot let go of classical marxism even when reality no
>longer
>fits. I heard her on the radio (CBC) just this tuesday. There she
>argued that capitalism was reaching its geographical limits,
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> Ricardo Duchesne:
> First, let us get the history straight: Magna Carta cannot be "un
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Hi, Ajit. You may well disagree with me, but it can't possibly be on the
basis of the arguments you attribute to me below, because I don't make them.
Ajit writes:
>Though I have not read Postone's book under attack, I beg to disagree with
>Gil's basic point that methodological individualism is t
Yesterday, I heard Matt Miller, a US News & World Report reporter, say on
the radio that the US has only about 3 percent tariffs on foreign goods,
while the relevant trading partners in the "fast track" debate (like Chile)
have something like 25% tariffs.
These are the official statistics, but wh
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This post will not be about Postone, for Gil's criticism of value theory is
quite confusing.
He argues quite rightly that individual capitalists are motivated by
profit, not surplus value. He notes as well that value operates at the
level of the system as a whole: on the one hand, he reduces this
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