This is true. Unfortunately it seems to be a logical truth not a
matter of fact. Nothing could count as NATO targeting a civilian.
For example, civilian employees of TV stations are part
of the military apparatus and are thus not civilian targets.
Chinese embassy employees are not targeted but
I don't like to toot my own horn in public, but in this case maybe I
should. I've been writing about socialism in a non-Marxian (and
non-neoclassical) vein for almost 20 years (sporadically). My first
piece was published in 1980 (a critique of Castoriadis' "On the Positive
Content of
Just thought I'd clarify:
I meant the issue has been dressed up as two 'opposites' neither of which we
need necessarily embrace - but if we don't embrace 'em, our discourse isn't
in the frame - the frame constituted for economic debate today is one of
Hayekian freedom plus price as optimal
Early this morning, students in ChengDu, a Southwest city of China,
send an
apology letter to President Clinton and the American people for the
accident
of burning down the US consulate in that city days ago:
We, the students in ChengDu, hereby sincerely express our deep sorrow to
the US
Louis, that's an interesting article, but is there any evidence that Hoxha
actively sought to subvert Yugoslavia by arming ethnic Albanian Kosovars,
propagandizing them, etc.? And did Tito and his successors respond in any
way?
I'll tell you the truth. I've been digging through the
Hi folks,
This is a funny misprint, originally from Agence France Presse. It seems
Boris Yeltsin is identified as a US President? The mistake is ironic, but at
the same time not very surprising, because the discussion is about the
impeachment of a President.
In solidarity,
Greg.
--
Washington
Patrick Bond wrote:
Things are rough all over. Was reading these messages about radical
economists who lose their sense of praxis and it reminded me of the
editorial from the third issue of our SA journal "debate" a couple of
years ago, in a special issue entitled "Intellectuals in Retreat":
.
Sam,
Actually, increasingly it is the case that the students
admitted into the top econ grad programs are math
undergrad majors. Much preferred as a major to econ
which is viewed as being taught at the undergrad level
in a much too "watered down" (non-math) fashion. Plus,
one might have
The first is one of Marx' finest passages, justly famous. The second is
an example of the tendentious and invidious argumentation that has
soured his reputation. Social democracy, whether you like it or not,
has always been the main form of working class political advocacy within
capitalism.
Bark, I've heard the figure "one million displacements" tossed around
regarding Turkey and the Kurds. Can you or anyone else verify? And
what does displacement mean in this context? Were they expelled through
terror the way the ethnic Albanians were, or did they pick up and leave
because the
Peter Dorman wrote:
Bark, I've heard the figure "one million displacements" tossed around
regarding Turkey and the Kurds. Can you or anyone else verify? And
what does displacement mean in this context? Were they expelled through
terror the way the ethnic Albanians were, or did they pick up
Peter Dorman wrote:
The first is one of Marx' finest passages, justly famous. The second is
an example of the tendentious and invidious argumentation that has
soured his reputation. Social democracy, whether you like it or not,
has always been the main form of working class political advocacy
I would note that the Turks have not gotten off
scot-free from their repression of the Kurds. It is one
of the reasons, although anti-Muslim prejudice is
another one, for why Turkey was refused admittance
to the EU, indeed refused even to be put on the waiting
list. This has led to
Peter,
I don't know. Obviously whatever the number is, it has
a) happened over a much longer time than the more than a
million Albanian Kosovars who have allegedly been "displaced"
within the last two months, and b) I doubt those people have
been expelled from Turkey, or most of them at
By the way and for the record, I consider myself a déclassé petit bourgeois
radical democrat. I suspect that a large part of Marx's and Lenin's
rhetorical rancour towards the petit-bourgeois and social-democracy
reflected frustration at the impossibility of ridding themselves of what
they (in my
This is a petit detail but the usage of 'petty bourgeoisie' was from a 1935
English translation used by Progress Publishers in old Moscow editions. As
for Marx's attitute toward the P.B.s, perhaps the following sentence gives
the best flavour of his overall tone: "No party exaggerates its powers
Actually, a more accurate translation of
"grand bourgeois" would be "great bourgeois,"
but "big" is not too far off either, and they certainly
are what is contrasted with the "petit bourgeois."
Barkley Rosser
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From: J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
I think it would help if people did not use the pejorative
"petty bourgeois" which is inaccurate and not in Marx in
the original and, in fact, just plain wrong. It sounds like
that when spoken, but the actual term is "petit bourgeois"
which is French for "small" (or "little") bourgeois to be
Well, after all the statements that have been
made that implicitly or explicitly equate the situation
of the Kurds with that of the Albanian Kosovars, perhaps
it is worth keeping in mind some differences. Certainly
the Turks have oppressed the Kurds very severely. But,
I have not read of
Henry,
Just for the record, I think that it was very
appropriate for the United States leaders to
apologize to China for this appalling bombing.
I also think the US should pay for the damages
and pay the families of the dead as well. While
I'm being free with the taxpayers' money, I am
also
From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
... Butler thinks of herself as a radical
and a leftist, and Lucas doesn't. Butler writes (not your kind of)
critiques of orthodoxy, Lucas writes apologies for it.
I think I mentioned a little while back that in '97 Lucas did a study
of South
Just thought I'd clarify:
I meant the issue has been dressed up as two 'opposites' neither of which we
need necessarily embrace - but if we don't embrace 'em, our discourse isn't
in the frame - the frame constituted for economic debate today is one of
Hayekian freedom plus price as optimal
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