Friend,
Have people seen John Sayles new movie, "Men With Guns." It's set in a
LA country and involves a naive well-to-do doctor who sends a bunch of
students into the countryside to help the poor. He sees one of them in
the city and asks him what he is doing back in the city when he is
suppose
Friends,
As a basic econ. text, I've used Hunt and sherman (Economics: An Intro to
Traditional and Radical Views).. They have not done a 7th edition yet, but there
is a lot of pretty good stuff in it.
Michael Yates
Doug Henwood wrote:
> I get questions like this all the time, and never know wh
Michael Meerpol left pen-l some time ago to concentrate on a book. Well
he has just completed it and it is a wonderful book, entitled Surrender:
How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution. It is
now in galleys, so I assume that it will be available soon.
The bulk of the book
G'day Boddhi,
As a sad-eyed square-head from the lowlands, allow me to make one
optimistic point about my home land. The Dutch Socialistische Partij
continues being the fastest growing party in the land and the fastest
growing Sociaslist Party in the world (25000 members now; reps in the upper
ho
Suppose that you were an impoverished refugee who wanted to learn the
weakness of capitalism so that social movements could best understand how
to create socialism. You would want to learn the weak spots of
capitalism, so that the masses could perform political jujitsu.
This, I understand to be
Below this current message is the valis/maggie exchange on marijuana.
Valis, interesting quotes. However, they interviewed farmers in one southern
county where they had voted out the old sheriff who used federal money to
harrass the shit out of weed growing farmers, and elected a new sheriff w
In a message dated 98-05-02 15:57:12 EDT, you write:
<< I get questions like this all the time, and never know what to answer. Any
advice?
>I purchased your "Wall Street" and I find myself lacking substantially
>enough economics background. I was wondering if you could recommend to me,
>an
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THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST:
A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF THE HEARTLAND
May 1998 -- Volume 4, Number 5
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EDITORIAL
Stop Social Security Lies
Mark Twain said "A lie can travel half-way aroun
It looks like two people sent me private messages today but cc-ed
them to the whole list accidentally.
Ben Cashdan is a Harvey PhD student who agrees to some extent with
Louis. Like me he works hard on understanding the details of the
sell-out underway now in South Africa, hence the obscure na
How embarrassing.
The announcement of the LBO-talk l*st I sent out the other day had a typo
in it, in the TO JOIN section, rendering my advice nearly useless. The
corrected portion follows.
TO JOIN Write to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the command
subscribe lbo-talk
in the
I know this thread has died but can't resist a little parochialism --
not quite a socialist council but... Have a look at
http://www.press.co.nz/17/98050133.htm
This is complete with photo of the Christchurch mayor and three City
Councillors in their newly made "People's Republic of Christchurch"
Quoth Maggie:
> There have been several newsprogram reports lately about the extensive
> marijuana cultivation in the deep south: Georgia, Alabama, etc. Does
> anyone
> know exactly how true these reports are? I wonder if, now that the
> conservative farmers are making ends meet with marijuana
I get questions like this all the time, and never know what to answer. Any
advice?
>I purchased your "Wall Street" and I find myself lacking substantially
>enough economics background. I was wondering if you could recommend to me,
>an introductory text on economics, preferably from the left pers
G'day Dennis,
>On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, boddhisatva wrote:
>
>> Isn't being pro-marijuana being pro-market?
Well, certainly being pro-market means you gotta be pro-Marijuana. That's
all very well, but you also gotta be pro-kiddie-porn. The fabled price
mechanism has wrought its magic on the n
though it's a day late, reprinting the lyrics of Billy Bragg's version of
the Internationale seems appropriate:
Stand up, all victims of oppression
For the tyrants fear your might
Don't cling so hard to your possessions
For you have nothing, if you have no rights
Let racist ignorance be ended
For
Bowles & Edwards UNDERSTANDING CAPITALISM is pretty good, though a bit dated,
At 03:48 p.m. 5/2/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I get questions like this all the time, and never know what to answer. Any
>advice?
>
>>I purchased your "Wall Street" and I find myself lacking substantially
>>enough economics
G'day Maggie,
>Yes, May Day is only one step behind International Women's Day for
>nonrecognition.
You probably know this stuff, but I didn't till I read it last year.
Here's a post I sent to M-I on March 8 of last year. It's got a bit to do
with the sort of process by which May 1 got chosen fo
> Most students today, unlike
> a generation ago, have to work at jobs much longer hours during school
> --Nathan Newman
not only do a majority of today's students work more, over 40% attend
part-time and about 40% are enrolled at night...they make up a large
portion of what educrats call 'non-
There have been several newsprogram reports lately about the extensive
marijuana cultivation in the deep south: Georgia, Alabama, etc. Does anyone
know exactly how true these reports are? I wonder if, now that the
conservative farmers are making ends meet with marijuana cultivation, the weed
wil
Rob, thanks for the history review. I remembered the gist of the history, but
not the particulars. It's easy to forget the explosive nature of these
holidays -- and you know the bourgeoisie doesn't forget, which is why they are
always trying to rewrite them. Cheers to downunder for remembering!
In a message dated 98-05-02 00:24:00 EDT, you write:
<< It seems rather unfair to tar students in any
generic sense with a brush >>
i did not talk about students in general -- i spoke about my 30 or so
students. i never said they were representative -- it is you taking my
particular and makin
May 2, 1998
Toxic Spill Defiles Farms and Wetlands in Spain
By MARLISE SIMONS
AZNALCOLLAR, Spain -- At daybreak last Sunday, as Jose Antonio Alvarez
stood by in shock, a black tide rose from the riverbed and kept rolling
onto his farm.
The foul-smelling mud stream went halfway up the trunks o
>On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, boddhisatva wrote:
>> Isn't being pro-marijuana being pro-market?
I notice that Dennis Peron, the San Francisco advocate of medical marijuana
(and no relative of Juan), is running for Governor as a Republican.
This year, all the different parties are lumped together
I thought that just the final assembly was performed in the U.S.
Michael Eisenscher wrote:
> I believe that not all New Balance shoes are U.S. made. As I recall, only
> the high end men's and women's running shoes are U.S. made. Most others are
> imported from China.
>
> At 09:55 PM 5/1/98 +00
To whom...,
PBS in New York has had a show on recently called "Surviving the
Bottom Line". It is squarely reformist liberalism, but there were a few
things that I took note of. First, all violent commie radicals must be
warned: hands off Al Dunlap! This man is
To whom...,
For Marxists it's worth considering that mayday predates unions
and socialism. The celebration of nature and love that mayday has always
represented can get lost in images of parades inspired by class struggle.
That older tradition reminds us that class
To whom,
All I can say about Harvey is that I ate crabs with him one time and
he semed like a little bit of a stiff. His wife[girlfriend?] seemed nice,
though. A latina if I remember rightly, C. Bond?
BTW C. Bond I think we have a mutual acquainta
G'day Wojtek,
You ask:
>Does anyone know about a decent email greeting cards site that does not
>cater to infantile individualism?
No, but does anybody on this list have a scanner? A card decorated with a
picture of how the Korean workers have just celebrated May Day (by paying
due tribute to
I believe that not all New Balance shoes are U.S. made. As I recall, only
the high end men's and women's running shoes are U.S. made. Most others are
imported from China.
At 09:55 PM 5/1/98 +, Andrew C. Pollack wrote:
>A couple progressive publications have mentioned during antiNike reports
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