G'day Penners,
Got some bloody good posts out of my attempt to get a thread going here -
so I'm going to push my luck.
Let's go, for a speculative moment, with the discontinuity line. A new
complex of social relations is coming into being as exchange-focussed
enterprise shifts the balance of
On Sat, February 21, 1998 at 21:47:46 (-0500) Louis Proyect writes:
The Fall 1996 Science and Society, edited by PEN-L'er David Laibman,
contains an article by Douglas Boucher called "Not With a Bang, but a
Whimper." It includes a paragraph that I find highly disturbing:
As ecosystems are
LYNN TURGEON, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ECONOMICS, HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY,
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In the fifties, it was assumed that there was only one type of
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A VISION OF ECOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE is becoming increasingly prominent in
leftist thought. The idea of the end of the world -- not just as a
metaphor, but quite possibly as a real event -- is becoming common in the
writing of Marxists, usually linked to an implicit forecast of ecological
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In a message dated 98-02-20 12:12:40 EST, you write:
Bill Lear:
The scenario of
every last species except homo sapiens becoming extinct would indeed
be catastrophic, but I also see this as quite consistent with LL's
comment about replacing one environment we like (this one, though we
would like it better if we would stop "all the terrible things"
I have not read either the Boucher article or the
Levins and Lewontin piece in O'Connor's journal. But I
think that they are being misinterpreted and unfairly
castigated here. They are the authors of _The Dialectical
Biologist_ and are both extremely capable ecologists.
Levins is one
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote:
I have not read either the Boucher article or the
Levins and Lewontin piece in O'Connor's journal. But I
think that they are being misinterpreted and unfairly
castigated here. They are the authors of _The Dialectical
The focus
Louis,
My mail comes in in a funny order. I actually keep
track of SS but somehow did not bother reading the Boucher
piece in its original site. It isn't all that impressive I
must say, especially in its political analysis which is
somehwere between medieval and pathetic.
I should
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On February 9, 1998, Beverly Enterprises, a company with a
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Boucher's article seemed to be much weaker than I had expected. He seemed to
be attacking straw men. What eco-Marxist would take a position that we should
sit back then just deferred to science? What eco-Marxist would ignore politics
altogether and stake her or his politics on some future
A number of people have been posting long messages. Whey you reply to
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Thanks.
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Where did Balzac write: "Behind every fortune lies a grand crime."?
Thanks.
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Michael Perelman
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California State University
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Louis was kind enough to post Boucher's article. After reading it, I was a
little confused about Louis' argument w/ Boucher. Although the piece has
its problems, Boucher ends on what seems to me to be a respectable position
for a Marxist:
[snip]
If it is possible that modern capitalism can
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Several remarks on this issue:
1) Whether or not a pub in RRPE "counts" depends on
where one is. There are places where only pubs in "top
ten" journals count. There are others where RRPE will
"count," but not very much and may be viewed somewhat
unfavorably because of what it is.
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In a message dated 98-02-20 12:12:40 EST, you write:
Some of the radicals want it both
ways: doing heterodox topics and theories on the one hand, but for
the usual objectives/imperatives of publish or perish, CV knotching
and acceptability/getting published within the "mainstream" media,
February 20, 1998
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Professors of Jazz Vote to Form Union
by Jason M. Reynolds
Jazz professors at the New School for Social Research voted last month, 42
to
These are comments by Mark Jones that appeared on the m-i list, where I
posted the entire Boucher article. (For anybody at all interested in
Marxism and ecology, the fall '96 issue of Science and Society is a must.
Perhaps Dave Laibman can provide details on how to get a copy.)
Louis P.
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