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THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST:
A MONTHLY JOURNAL FROM THE HEARTLAND
January 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 1
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EDITORIAL
The Next Battle: MAI
The good news is that the move to stop "Fast Tr
Quoth Mark Jones, in part:
> Such a post-capitalist world will be in the truest sense sustainable:
> a post-scientific, post-industrial world, a world of social stasis as
> the true precondition for HUMAN development and for the regeneration of
> now-failing ecosystems, a world in which time will
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Jones
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> The slave-plantation system was not only integrated into the
>world circuits of proto-capitalism and then early industrial capitalism,
>it was at the heart of so-called 'primitive accumulation'. There is a
>wealth of research
> This was originally posted by Sid on December 1st,
so maybe it's time for a re-run.
(Since, as is mentioned at the conclusion, the Swiss visa
procedure may be the world's most difficult, the question
of the choice of Geneva may long outlive some of
the resolu
Heartfield:
> What I
>was saying was that the 100 000 Pennsylvania Dutch who squatted land in
>the eighteenth century after escaping indentured servitude could not be
>described as capitalists or landlords.
There are many landless peasants who are invading the Yanomami Amazon
rainforest homeland
Hello --
I'm writing the Pen-L list to ask for assistance with two specific
questions as part of my research for a book, tentatively entitled "Obscene
Profits : Becoming a Pornographer in the 21st Century" (scheduled for
publication by Routledge in Setp. 1998):
1. Is anyone aware of any stu
Quoth Wojtek, in conclusion:
> The Bushmen had no way of knowing that anthropologists could replenish their
> water supply in a very short period of time; they thought that the few
> canisters on the expedition's truck was all the water they got. Yet, the
> first to receive water were those who n
Doug muses:
> So tickets went on sale for Diana's gravesite, at the equivalent of US$15.
[$8 for minors]
> Proceeds will benefit her memorial charity. She married into one of the
> most pointlessly rich families in the world, and yet her frenzied mourners
> are going to fund her legacy.
Get over
Yet another anecdote to consider when comparing cognitive ability of rural
vs urban folks. Some time ago I saw a documentary about the !Kung Bushmen
of the Kalahari desert - the only known surving hunting and gathering tribe
on Earth. The fact that their culture survived almost intact until rece
> Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 22:55:28 -0500 (EST)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: The Communist Manifesto After 150 Years
>
> Dear Renee Pendergrass, Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:19:20 +
> From: Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <
> Subject: The Manifesto
I suppose it would be ni
At 10:09 AM 1/5/98 -0800, Michael Eisenscher wrote, in response to Louis
Proyect questioning the accuracy of the "rural idiocy" phrase:
>Second question: Is our objection as critics of capitalism (and dare I say,
>proponents of socialism) to urbanization per se or to capitalism and its
>consequen
Doug,
You might want to look at:
Klein, Laura & Lilian Ackerman (eds.) Women and Power in Native North
America (1995 Norman, OK)
Bernstein, David J. Prehistoric Subsistence on the Southern New England
Coast (1993 San Diego)
Simmons, Wm. S. The Narragansett (1989 NY)
Sharer, Robert T
[The # sign below represents British pounds.]
The GuardianMonday January 5, 1998
BENEFIT CUTS REAP £3.2BN EVEN BEFORE WELFARE REVIEW
By David Hencke Westminster Correspondent
Benefit cuts totalling £3.2 billion are to be imposed by
Louise Erdrich. Great author. Wonderful insights.
Love Medicine is the second title.
Sid
>
> I liked "Bingo Palace". I can't remember the woman's name who wrote it, she
> also wrote Heart Medicine? (or Love Medicine?) or something like that and
> "Beets... something" I know it's very current,
I picked up David E. Stannard's "American Holocaust: The Conquest of the
New World" at lunch from the ever-rewarding Labyrinth Bookstore. He makes
some interesting points about the circumstances in which epidemics caused
the deaths of upwards of 90% of the Indian populations. It must be
understood
Michael Eisenscher:
>Pardon my intervention in this fascinating discussion, but weren't Marx and
>Engels referring to "rural idiocy" in the context of rural life in the
>transition from feudalism to capitalism in which the rural population was
>imprisoned by superstition, ignorance, and technical
I liked "Bingo Palace". I can't remember the woman's name who wrote it, she
also wrote Heart Medicine? (or Love Medicine?) or something like that and
"Beets... something" I know it's very current, were you looking for olden
days stories? I'll dig you up a better reference if you don't mind reading
Michael Eisenscher wrote:
>Last question: For those who are tempted to romanticize the lives of
>Amazonian indians or the simplicity of rural life, how many currently have
>adopted anything approaching that kind of lifestyle?
>From Yahoo! 411:
> Jerry & Anica ManderBolinas,CA 94924
> Kirkpa
Thanks to everyone who's supplied titles on Indians. Most have been about
their decimation by the Europeans - I'm more interested in stuff about
their social lives - work, kinship, property, etc. Any ideas?
Doug
So tickets went on sale for Diana's gravesite, at the equivalent of US$15.
Proceeds will benefit her memorial charity. She married into one of the
most pointlessly rich families in the world, and yet her frenzied mourners
are going to fund her legacy.
Doug
Enclosed is a posting re. scholarship opportunity for foreign scholars
working on urban issues. If interested, please respond directly to Naomi
Feigenbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED], the program coordinator (do not
respond to me).
Regards,
wojtek sokolowski
>Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Mon
See the book edited by Annette James, "The State of Native America". It
was published by South End press in 1992 or 1993. there ar many excellent
articles dealing with land, fishing rights, water, governance, and
resistance.
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who's
On Mon, January 5, 1998 at 13:23:13 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
>Thanks to everyone who's supplied titles on Indians. Most have been about
>their decimation by the Europeans - I'm more interested in stuff about
>their social lives - work, kinship, property, etc. Any ideas?
You might try:
Alvin
>My problem with Shiva is her gender essentialism, her romanticism about
>India's pre-colonial past, her hypocrisy in leading a very cosmopolitan
>life while recommending that everyone else stay at home, and a very
>un-nuanced rejection of technology. Just because Monsanto is using biotech
>to scr
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Louis Proyect wrote:
>This is the 150th anniversery of the Communist Manifesto. Mike Albert's
>attack on the Manifesto has been circulating on the Internet and is the
>subject of an intense debate on Marxism-International between Doug Henwood
>and Chris Warren, a dogmatist from Australia. The iro
A great smoke screen of abuse and posturing has been blown up by Louis
Proyect and Mark Jones, after Lou Godena dared to disgree with their
romanticisation of native American culture. Accusations like FBI agent,
racist, pro-imperialist are thrown about, not with any intent to clarify
matters, but
>The unlikely question of whether the north American tribes or the
>Zemstvos represent missed opportunity is surely a laughably academic one
>- unless of course Proyect is suggesting that we go back to that stage,
>before going forward again to socialism: the most extreme version of the
>theory of
Pardon my intervention in this fascinating discussion, but weren't Marx and
Engels referring to "rural idiocy" in the context of rural life in the
transition from feudalism to capitalism in which the rural population was
imprisoned by superstition, ignorance, and technical backwardness in
subservi
James wrote:
> The first was wholly reactionary: the plantation system, which as Marx
> explains in 'The American Civil War', was driven to expand extensively
> because, depending on slave labour, it was incapable of intensive
> devlopment. Yields could only be increased by taking more land under
> Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone recommend anything good to read on Native Americans/Indians?
>
I found Ronald Wright's _Stolen Continents_ a real education. His account
of the Spanish conquest is incredible. If I remember correctly, Wright
estimates that 9/10s of the Indian population
There was a book in the late 70s or early 80s called KEEPERS OF
THE GAME by an anthropologist (Calvin ???) whose last name I
cannot remember. He makes a very interesting and HIGHLY
controversial argument about how the tribes in the northeast and
northwest (that is, what we now refer to as the Mid
At 07:26 PM 1/4/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Doug:
>
>This claim is NOT controversial in the literature. The best known popular
>account is Alfred Crosby's THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE. Also see McNeill's
>PLAGUES AND PEOPLE. The classic sources are monographs and papers by
>Woodrow Borah et al. This fact -- o
===> Surely the stars are smiling, or at least lurking along with me.
valis
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 11:53:30 -0500 (GMT)
From: "Dr. Gail Omvedt Faculty-Sociology" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear friends,
We a
> At 07:26 PM 1/4/98 -0500, you wrote: > >Doug: > >
> >This claim is NOT controversial in the literature. The best known popular
> >account is Alfred Crosby's THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE. Also see McNeill's
> >PLAGUES AND PEOPLE. The classic sources are monographs and papers by
> >Woodrow Borah et a
>> As a precautionary note, I should say that when I envision a worthwhile
>> society, I generally think in terms of free people forming voluntary
>> associations (though that is perhaps a muddy phrase). Thus, I tend to think
>> of: in what manner(s) will people feel like organizing in?
>Neithe
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