[PEN-L:2215] THE AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER #17 (fwd)

1999-01-16 Thread michael
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[PEN-L:2212] RE: Re: Re: Bosses

1999-01-16 Thread Max Sawicky
> >(Don't worry, Max, I'll give you two days' > > lead time if I have any exotic plans) > > we know your plans

[PEN-L:2213] Re: Judith Butler, Alan Sokal and Doug Henwood<3.0.1.32.19990114134439.00c1db90@popserver.panix.com><3.0.1.32.19990114130219.0069decc@popserver.panix.com><3.0.1.32.19990114120510.0069e628@popserver.panix.com>

1999-01-16 Thread Ken Hanly
Louis Proyect wrote: > . As a stodgy old Marxist, I had become convinced long ago that > the ruling ideas of society are those of the ruling class. Science was not > immune. > COMMENT: Isn't this problematic? Although science is not immune from ruling class ideas in certain respects, I thought

[PEN-L:2211] Fw: Rachel #633: Carcinogens Everywhere

1999-01-16 Thread Perelman, Michael
Interesting material on environmental reacism as well as pollutants in general. [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <77pchj$qa0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > . . > . RACHEL'S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH WEEKLY #633

[PEN-L:2210] Re: Judith Butler, Alan Sokal and Doug Henwoodsokal@nyu.edu

1999-01-16 Thread Doug Henwood
Louis Proyect wrote: >At the time, Doug was pro-Sokal but has shifted all the way in the other >direction. His big complaint seems to be that Sokal knew nothing about >Lacan and company, whom he sent up in his famous Social Text spoof. >Meanwhile, my complaint about Alan Sokal has a different cha

[PEN-L:2209] Re: john gurley and maoism

1999-01-16 Thread Michael Hoover
> Does anybody recall where John Gurley published his famous essay on > Maoism? > Michael Perelman a collection of Gurley's essays appear as _China's Economy and the Maoist Strategy_ (1976), published by Monthly Review...included are: "Maoist Economic Development: The New "Man" in the New China'

[PEN-L:2208] Judith Butler, Alan Sokal and Doug Henwoodsokal@nyu.edu

1999-01-16 Thread Louis Proyect
In December 1996, against my better judgement, I went up to Amherst, Massachusetts for a conference sponsored by the journal Rethinking Marxism. A nurse I knew from Nicaragua solidarity work had told me that she had been to the last one and didn't understand a word they said. Someone had told me o