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In a message dated 3/14/99 9:35:57 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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Date: 3/14/99 9:35:57 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John
Footnote on Plato
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carrol in response to chuckster:
Not a bad characterization. I'm woozy from the flu right now, but
I intend to stumble some more. I want to complicate irony enough
so that it can't be used as a slogan.
Leaving aside dramatic irony, which does
At 02:20 PM 3/12/99 -0800, Jim Devine wrote:
Louis Proyect wrote:
Isn't it time that we placed this nebulous term "civil society" on the
shelf until we define what it means more clearly?
Doug answered:
Ain't dat da troot, as we say in NYC.
I think it's okay to use the phrase "civil society."
Frank,
Such historically decontextualized news reports make you wonder if the
US corporate media is real or a fiction created by Orwell.
Seth
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We have just posted a new piece on the Coalition web site:
Uncommon Sense 21: Social Security Is Not in "Crisis", by
Richard Du Boff
Du Boff includes discussion of the aging population and
comparisons of projected dependency ratios with those during
the youth of baby boomers, Trustees' growth
Does "Red" mean left keynesian now?
Better terminology than 'red' might be precepts
which are not subject to dispute or which are ruled
'out of order' in political debate and media-
sponsored presentations, either because they are
classified as intellectually bankrupt or politically
untenable.
Leaving aside dramatic irony, which does present special problems,
the ironic tradition in the West begins with something close to deliberate
distortion of an opponent -- I'm thinking in particularly of the debate
between Thrasymachus and Socrates which begins my favorite book,
Plato's
I've always wondered just how much Francis Cornford was influenced by
Marxism. Anyone know? His translations of Plato contain a lot of Marxish
language. He translates Thrasymachus like this:
"In every case, the laws are made by the ruling party in its own
interest; a democracy makes democratic
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From: Greg Nowell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: POST-KEYNESIAN THOUGHT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday, March 12, 1999 4:51 PM
Subject: A Note on Lynn Turgeon
I only knew him through this list. I recently reviewed
his last book for ROPE, and learned he was ill because
he
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From: Lonnie K. Stevans [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: POST-KEYNESIAN THOUGHT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 11:19 AM
Subject: RE: Regarding Lynn Turgeon
A memorial service for Lynn Turgeon will be held sometime this week at
Hofstra University. When I receive
Jim Devine wrote:
Max, could you explain why US Medicare isn't in crisis? what are the easy solutions
you propose to the relatively minor problems you see?
I heard an interesting talk by Burton Singer about the
assumptions by the Medicare actuaries on disability. They do
not include a
June Zaccone wrote:
What is especially surprising about Nadler's current
position is that he was very early in adopting the view of
no Social Security crisis. And supported it by citing
Henwood's work.
Fascinating. Tell us more.
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Economics Department
California State
I was asked to pass this on.
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It will help you understand the complicated world of international
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E. Lynn Turgeon, Economics Professor, 78
E. Lynn Turgeon, a longtime professor of economics at Hofstra
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Dr.
U.S. jurisprudence has a binary opposition category civil/criminal law. Then there are
civil rights, civil liberties, civil defense ,the Civil War and "civilization".
19th Century anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan distinguished between civitas and
societas (Latin terms) The former form of
I had written: my presumption is that racist and sexist practices change
due to impacts from capitalism which (1) disrupt the power of the
dominators and/or (2) strengthen the struggles of the dominated.
Colin and Charu answer: First, thanks to Jim for emphasizing that these
are *assumptions*
At 02:27 PM 3/15/99 -0800, you wrote:
I've always wondered just how much Francis Cornford was influenced by
Marxism. Anyone know? His translations of Plato contain a lot of Marxish
language. He translates Thrasymachus like this:
"In every case, the laws are made by the ruling party in its own
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A good letter opposing any government use of SS funds for
the stock market. June Zaccone, National Jobs for All
Coalition [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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What is especially surprising about Nadler's current
position is that he was very early in adopting the view of
no Social Security crisis. And supported it by citing
Henwood's work. June
June Zaccone, National Jobs for All Coalition
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Tom Lehman wrote:
Dear June,
I too was
Bill Rosenberg wrote:
There are some figures that may be useful in the UN's "World
Investment Report" for 1996 and 1997 - I haven't seen the 1998 one.
I think they use the IMF's balance of payments figures, which wouldn't
distinguish between financial flows and capital expenditures.
Doug
At 05:42 PM 3/15/99 -0500, you wrote:
from John Ehrenberg's "Civil Society Marxist Politics," *Socialism
Democracy*, Vol. 12, Nos. 1-2, 1998...article is based on his
recently published _Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea_...
any listers read it? Michael Hoover
Yeah, I did. John
from John Ehrenberg's "Civil Society Marxist Politics," *Socialism
Democracy*, Vol. 12, Nos. 1-2, 1998...article is based on his
recently published _Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea_...
any listers read it? Michael Hoover
'The contemporary obsession with "civil society" began
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Tom Lehman wrote:
I too was surprised to read Nadler's comments. I had been led to
believe that he was going to oppose privatization---matter of fact the
Cleveland ADA had invited him to Cleveland for that reason or so I was
told. Now from what I understand he wants to invest 30% of the social
Max writes: Better terminology than 'red' might be precepts
which are not subject to dispute or which are ruled
'out of order' in political debate and media-
sponsored presentations, either because they are
classified as intellectually bankrupt or politically
untenable. For instance:
1. Social
Dear June,
I too was surprised to read Nadler's comments. I had been led to
believe that he was going to oppose privatization---matter of fact the
Cleveland ADA had invited him to Cleveland for that reason or so I was
told. Now from what I understand he wants to invest 30% of the social
Can anyone tell me the info on rpoposals for sessions for urpe at assa
2000? What is the deadline, who does it go to, what is the from of the
proposal? Thanks! mat
The quote below is from the article by Ruth Conniff in the
Progressive (referred to on pen-l last week). I am very
disturbed by this acceptance of error just because it is
widespread. One good argument against merely accepting the
Clinton plan as a solution is in a note by Pat Conover (on
our web
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Barbara Laurence wrote:
Doug, I don't think your data distinguish between foreign direct investment
that are merely M and A's, contrasted with the FDI that consist of the
construction or addition or modification of real productive capacity. I'm
speaking of the latter. I see the former mainly as
No two people are better qualified as guides to working-class Pittsburgh
life than my weekend hosts, Michael and Karen Yates. Michael's dad was a
blue-collar employee of Pittsburgh Plate Glass (PPG) all his life, while
Karen's grandmother worked as a cook on the steel-toting boats that plied
the
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RELEASED TODAY: The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods declined 0.4
Monday March 15 5:48 AM ET
U.S. Jets Fire At North Iraqi Air Defenses
ANKARA (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes attacked Iraqi sites in the no-fly zone
over northern Iraq Monday, a statement from the
jets' home base in southern Turkey said.
It said the warplanes ``responded in self-defense to Iraqi
Get a load of this New York Times article:
Peter
I think Lafontaine's resignation gives some credence to the
globalization argument. It seems all the major capitalist countries
are supposed to have a uniform politics. I think since Thacher this
tendency has become quite
G'day Brad, Tom Jim,
Jim writes:
One thing is that Japan is highly dependent on imports of raw materials, so
that a high Yen makes them cheaper.
This counteracts the effect of exports becoming more expensive in dollar
terms as the Yen rises.
Does Oz a bit of good, too - as we are a salient
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