Dennis R Redmond wrote:
>I just wish we Leftists spent more time acknowledging the richness
>of the dissident tradition and thinking through its heritage instead of
>constantly creating our own imaginary Cold War internment camps for those
>thinkers deemed insufficiently radical, in unwitting ech
>
> But Michael, isn't it important to acknowledge that Actually Existing
> Socialism was notorious for its inability to produce decent consumer
> goods, including clothes?
>
It was a matter of priorities. I remember asking Cubans why they would
accept a Soviet nuke plant if they hated Soviet c
Doug Henwood quoted Adam Phillips,
>Every child rightly wants to know whether there is a position
>beyond exclusion or difference or separateness - a world in which leaving
>and being left out disappears . . .
Reuben, my four year old (on the first), just says, "*Fast* is my favorite
opposite."
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Just for a change of subject, I thought I'd throw in something completely
different. As part of my holiday reading, I'm making my way through John
Le Carre's Tailor of Panama.
In an aside, one of the characters disparages the notion that Bush invaded
Panama to bring Noriega to heel. Has anyone on
I heard a CBC radio report quoting Yeltsin's year end report to the
people, in which he is supposed to have bemoaned Russia's fate at the
hands of the free market.
Has anyone on Pen seen this speech reported in any detail? If so, can you
forward anything interesting to Pen?
Sid Shniad
Having read this missive, I feel ever so much more optimistic for the
future. :--[
Sid Shniad
>
>
> That reminds me of a supposedly true story told of a certain Polish Jew who
> went into hiding (for obvious reasons) when the Nazis invaded Poland in
> 1939. He created an intricate network o
Louis, thanks for the pointer.
On the issue of blue jeans, I wasn't discussing designer jeans. (This is
a relatively recent escalation of consumer madness.) I was discussing
serviceable consumer goods.
Just as you note periodically that the advent of technical change makes
all kinds of things po
> >For those unfamiliar with Australian industrial relations history, "the awards"
> >referred to at the end of the article are industry-wide standards of pay and
> >working conditions (I gather something similar once held in New Zealand also).
> >Traditionally these awards were ratified (and of
But Michael, isn't it important to acknowledge that Actually Existing
Socialism was notorious for its inability to produce decent consumer
goods, including clothes?
Sid
> > Sid wrote:
> > I don't think that's the case, Michael. You raised the matter of Cuban
> > kids' attraction to blue jeans a
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On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:
> If S Korea can't make it, it's hard to imagine any "Third World" country
> from joining the First.
Very true. The South Korean smash-up has the added piquancy of being the
first truly global neoliberal bailout: something like 70-75% of Korea's
$120 bill
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Dennis Grammenos cross-posted from David Curtis:
> Cornelius Castoriadis Dies at 75
> Philosopher and Political Thinker Inspired
> May '68 Rebellion in France
>
> ...Nor did he fit
> the mold of German critical theorists, from Max Horkheimer, Theodor
Louis Proyect wrote:
>If capitalism has failed in South Korea, then what model can possibly be
>offered to developing nations.
Latin America, of course. This theme has been richly developed by Stephen
Fidler of the Financial Times, who a few weeks ago had a big op-ed piece
pointing to the Latin
Wojtek writes: >Two modern examples: space flights are impossible because
the energy released by fuel is less than that required to bring the mass of
that fuel into orbit; capitalism has internal contradictions therefore
capitalism will cease to exist.<
Wojtek, can you name anyone who believes in
The NY Times has been covering the South Korean meltdown in a first-rate
manner. A day or so ago it described how US multinationals are making plans
to buy Korean companies at cut-rate prices. Today there's an article about
how a company town tied to the second largest steel producer in Korea face
At 10:34 AM 12/29/97 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
>fantasies of localist simplicity as an alternative. Across the political
>spectrum people have ceased to believe in anything like "progress," which
>is a serious blow to any socialist hopes of doing better than capitalism
>has with the tools that c
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1997:
New claims filed with state agencies for unemployment insurance benefits
fell by 13,000 to a seasonally adjusted 307,000 in the week ending
December 20, the Labor Department's Employment and Training
Administration reports (Daily Labor Report, page D-7
R. Anders Schneiderman wrote:
>Right now, the IMF is demanding
>"deregulation" without saying that they'll refuse to bail out the Big Boys
>when they get into trouble again--a sure-fire recipie for future disasters.
It's even worse than that. The IMF is pushing for a capital account
convertibili
At 09:30 PM 12/27/97 +, you wrote:
>Surely no discussion on cats is complete without the experiment first
>proposed
>by Schroedinger (Naturwiss 48.52 (1935) trans Jauch, Josef M (1965:125),
>Foundations of Cat Mechanics (Reading, MA and Addison-Wesley)) cited in
>Griffiths (1994), an experim
At 01:15 PM 12/28/97 -0400, Tom Kruse wrote:
>One of my ocncerns is the way bailouts are really cover for "lockins" into
>free trade regimes, de-regulation, etc. So, concretely, what would a
>bailout for S. Korea look like that:
>
>- protects the most vulnerable small savers and small businesses
Sid Schniad:
>
>I asked if there was some theoretical link between social planning and
>ownership (which brings the public health care and controlled rents) on
>the one hand and the inability to produce blue jeans (the quintessential
>symbol of the consumer good under capitalism) on the other.
>
>
Louis wrote:
> I used to recommend William Leach's "Land of Desire" to PEN-L all the time
> and it seems appropriate to do it once again. This is a history of the
Leach's book is good. So is Richard Ohmann. Selling Culture (Verso).
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State Univ
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Please excuse, again, t
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