[PEN-L:3020] Primitive communal societies as an archtype for socialism?

(Stanley Diamond, "In Search of the Primitive," pp. 102-109): In the nineteenth century... the concept of the primitive no longer implied the search for natural man. In the hardening scientific perspective, primitive characteristics were regarded as remote in time and space; they were at the base

[PEN-L:3026] job ad

Here is a job ad from a Pittsburgh paper. Talk about alienated labor! ROBOT TECHNICIAN "Robot technicians assist a robotic prrescription-filling unit with filling prescriptions. Duties include preparing prescription vials, loading those vials onto the robot, and stockin

[PEN-L:3028] Re: New Economists' Petition

Brad DeLong wrote, >Hmmm... Because I'm overwhelmed trying to save some of the graduate >students' tuition waivers from a money-hungry dean? Because I have 100 >admissions files still to read? Because out of the three courses I am >teaching this semester two are courses that I have never taught b

[PEN-L:3027] Re:job ad

You think the job is alienated? What do you think the prescriptions are for? michael yates wrote, >Here is a job ad from a Pittsburgh paper. Talk about alienated labor! > > ROBOT TECHNICIAN > >"Robot technicians assist a robotic prrescription-filling unit with >filling pre

[PEN-L:3024] Anthropology, museums and racism in the 19th century

(From chapter 2 of Lee D. Baker's recently published "From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the construction of race, 1896-1954". Baker is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies at Columbia University.) Lewis Henry Morgan also made a tremendous contribution to the found

[PEN-L:3022] RE: Re: New Economists' Petition

> . . . > Saying that debt paydown is not the first-best option is fine. But in so Isn't that exactly what the statement contradicts? (reproduced below for your convenience) > saying, please don't do anything to make people think that the > Rubin-Sperling budget proposals are worse than tax cuts

[PEN-L:3025] Re: New Economists' Petition

> >I would refer readers' attention to the advocacy of a 15-year >program of surplus generation (no hint of business cycles). >There is a reference to "unproductive spending," whereas >by contrast tax cuts (not necessarily for the rich) are merely >not preferred. Touche... >We are also told that

[PEN-L:3021] Re: The economic difference between Indian tribesand colonizers

Thanks for this, Louis. I believe Stanley Diamond was at the University of Michigan (my alma mater) for much of his career. Charles Brown >>> Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/06 2:56 PM >>> (From "Primitive Communism and Its Transformations", by Eleanor Burke Leacock, Christine Ward Galley.

[PEN-L:3023] the lump and the labyrinth

I have in mind a mirrored maze, the kind they have at old-style amusement parks called "playland". This labyrinth performs, for utilitarian "theory", the role that Bentham's panopticon performs for its practice. "Bentham's panopticon is the architectural figure of this [disciplinary] composition

[PEN-L:3019] Re: Re: Long waves

Sounds like you have a good Marxist dialectic to me, Doug. Not all dialectics are equal. Charles Brown >>> Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/07 9:53 AM >>> Tom Walker wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote, > >>Whether times are good or bad, capitalists are useless and destructive. > >Not very dialectic

[PEN-L:3018] Re: Re: Long waves

Tom Walker wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote, > >>Whether times are good or bad, capitalists are useless and destructive. > >Not very dialectical of you, Doug. Some things are constant in life. But I will concede that the nature of the uselessness and destructiveness changes over time and space. Doug

[PEN-L:3017] re PEN-KGB file DH-1

Quoth Rev. Tom: > >Whether times are good or bad, capitalists are useless > >and destructive. > > Not very dialectical of you, Doug. Quite observant of you (in both senses) to notice, Tom. I suspect that Doug has lately been going round and round with a publisher, one which, unlike Verso, was n