hi again bill,
you wrote:
Your account of racism seems to assume that its real base is among
working
people rather than the 'relatively powerful', and that it is rooted
in
individual psychology rather than capitalist social relations. If so,
I
don't see any way to overcome racism; perhaps I
Michael Eisenscher laments:
Subsequent to sending this along, I learned that it is very likely a hoax.
Snookered again by the digital demons!
That's OK, Michael; we jumped at it because it has all the earmarks
of an eventual development. It's good to have a practice go at it.
Dear Friends:
A participant on PEN-L during much of 1997-8, I'm off now to concentrate on
a project we've started on internationalized capitalism and how it is lived
by workers here in one part of Bolivia.
At present we are in desperate need of some marxist
interpretations/critiques of the what
INDONESIA
Mr. Moderate
Firebrand Amien Rais cools stance ahead of
June polls
By Michael Vatikiotis in Hong Kong and
Margot Cohen and John
McBeth in Jakarta
At 06:52 PM 2/18/99 -0800, Gar Lipow wrote:
As long as they keep up the effort , it gives us some leverage, which we
are fools not to use. Writing a letter really doesn't cost us that much
effort. As long as congresscritters need votes to stay in office you get
results disproportionate to your
(I don't know how many people plowed through the 4-part NY Times analysis
of the global crisis, but I do want to call your attention to the
concluding paragraphs, which seem especially charged with significance for
Marxists or progressive economists.)
=
The Danger of Hubris
So
Elvin's high level equilibrium trap suits Frank's argument much more
than a straightforward Malthusian crisis. The logic of a Malthusian
crisis says that continued population growth will eventually lead to
decreasing agricultural returns, which will lead to a rise in the price of
food, an
Tom,
I don't remember exactly when the crisis was but I think your
characterization of the post-crisis events as an Albanian invasion is
not quite accurate. The KLA is, to the best of my knowledge,
made up of native 'Serbians' -- ethnic Albanians who have lived for
generations in the
To complete my analysis of Elvin's "high-level equilibrium trap"
requires at least a sketch of China's agrarian/population history,
which I will get to once I re-discuss Europe's agricultural
productivity. I already offered some figures by Craft to the effect
that there was a 59% increased
"Having said that," he added, "I think that we all missed the true
importance and the difficulties
created by the enormous growth of the amount of free cash floating
around the world. In the
speeches, we said the right things. But it was a question of
February 16, 1999, New York Times
How U.S. Wooed Asia to Let Cash Flow In
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF with DAVID E. SANGER
They were serious men, prosperous and pinstriped, and they
derided "the politics of class
warfare" as they conducted a job interview with the young
Governor from Arkansas.
It
I thought that the comment on McVeigh was inappropriate. Even if you
accept his thesis that bombing the oppressor is a reasonable approach,
killing children does not make much sense.
As I understand Marx's intention in writing capital, he was concerned to
show how to avoid stupid actions, such
The following can be found at: http://www.salam.org/ the web site of
Salam review
How do you spell apartheid? O-s-l-o
By Edward W. Said
Yasser Arafat's intention to declare a Palestinian state next May
could spell disaster, dividing the Palestinian people and crippling
their cause
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 06:52 PM 2/18/99 -0800, Gar Lipow wrote:
As long as they keep up the effort , it gives us some leverage, which we
are fools not to use. Writing a letter really doesn't cost us that much
effort. As long as congresscritters need votes to stay in office you get
At various times during the 80s, when the HK$, pegged to an undervalued US$
(at 90 yen), Hong Kong had negative interest rates because of the currency
board arrangement. It caused a bubble in the HK economy that it still is
unable to recover.
Your link of the yen to the euro is curious. Japan
Hooray! It's time to party! Japan is going to fuel a massive reflation and
finally kick in the Long Boom of 2000-2025.
-- Dennis
Yes, I see a long wave coming myself. I read it in the Financial Times
horoscope.
Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, michael perelman crossposted:
The Globe and Mail Report on Business February 18, 1999
BANK OF JAPAN PUSHES SHORT-TERM RATES NEAR ZERO
Bill Spindle, Jathon Sapsford
The Wall Street Journal, Tokyo
The central bank's decision to
Philip is right that Tom's characterization of the
Albanian-Serbian stuff is "not quite accurate." It's completely wrong, in
fact, although I don't attribute any ulterior motives to Tom.
What happened in Albania was not a stock-market crash, but the
collapse of a
Dear Mark Jones:
It was orchestrated. The entire past 5 years has to be viewed as a
campaign, a strategy. You can tax people to fund a defense budget or allow
them to invest in worthless paper. Why else would the SEC approve Russian
ADR's that no other nation had a chance of getting approved. I
Pen-L,
Does anyone recall in what month and year the Albanian stock
market(ponzi scheme) collapsed? I'm pretty sure it was two or three
years ago---anyone remember the exact month and year.
Next question does anyone see a connection between the Albanian stock
market collapse and the Albanian
"Valis":
I thought it was wonderful when a Gulf War vet blew up that
G-building
(though he could have proven the same point on a Sunday, when his
victims were in church praying for extended American hegemony and
other heavenly signs). McVeigh taught the big boys some manners,
and when those
The prosperity covenant: how reducing work time really works to create jobs
by Tom Walker
A brief presented to the
Operation JOBS Roundtable
Vancouver, B.C.
February 19th , 1999
(This brief is posted at www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm with updates
and links to come.)
"The harder we crowd
Is there any reason, whatsoever, for sending all of this garbage,
Henry? I have asked you before to not send this to PEN-L. Sending
the URL is entirely adequate. Please try to remember that not
everybody has the latest fancy software gizmos --- I think we should
stick to plain ol' text for
Patrick Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Comrade, they're doing it to us as well in South Africa. Will send
you off-list some of the issues that the social movements here are
raising as an effort to counter the commodification logic, to halt
the mass cut-offs of water supplies in townships
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