Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
>
> Has anyone read Stephen Andors' or John Gurley's defenses of Maoist
> economic strategy? Or Michel Chossudovsky's appraisal? Mark Selden's or
> Victor Nee's? From an impossible to get edition of Root and Branch: A
> Libertarian Marxist Journal 8, Bill Russell argues tha
There is no Congressman Schnell.
The title "Bill 602P" is not the way bills are labeled.
There is no Stepp in the DC yellow pages.
Any tax would go to the Feds, not the Post Office.
The last thing Congress is interested in these
days is a new tax, possibly excepting one on
tobacco.
The PO run
>Brad, the chief point I wanted to make was
>that such debates are pointless. I and
>many others on the list do not accept your data.
I have no "data" for you to accept.
No one does.
The Mao-Liu-Chou regime established at the Lushan Plenum had a strong
interest in there being no data. It made
The San Jose Mercury News June 3, 1999
THE OTHER WAR CRIMINAL: BILL CLINTON
By Alexander Cockburn
Compared to Bill Clinton and his accomplices, Slobodan
Milosevic is a piker when it comes to war crimes. Take Iraq. The
sanctions impos
Military voice grows louder in spat with US
By Cary Huang - Hong Kong Standard.
STORY: THE Cox Committee report and Nato's bombing of the
Chinese embassy in Belgrade will strengthen the military's
political influence in Beijing.
Both events have fuelled anti-US
I agree with Brad D.'s discussion below substantially more than with his other
discussion in this area of giant body counts, although of course the issue below is
hypothetical. So I mean I agree with his thinking the whole matter through more
completely. I am glad to see he thinks out this aspe
Carrol makes a very important point. Revolution is not comparative shopping.
Jim, although, I think, is stressing the importance of context in judging the
desirability or sppropriateness of various permutations of social engineering.
As I pointed out before, bothe demcracy and capitalislism had b
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The Progressive Response 7 June 1999 Vol. 3, No. 20
Editor: Tom Barry
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The Progressive Response (PR) is a weekly service of Foreign P
Jim Devine wrote:
> I would guess (95 percent probability) that Brad would oppose neoliberalism,
> favoring some kind of social democracy instead. I doubt (85 percent
> probability) that he favors of classic social democracy (with a mass labor
> movement linked to a political party, plus a full
Has anyone heard anything about this, or is it another fake rumor running
around the net?
Doug Orr
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From: Vasilios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Vasilios (Work) Kalaitzidis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: E-Mail Tax
Date: Saturday, May 2
Brad De Long wrote:
>
> Long-term violent and starvation deaths (say, between 1945 and 1990) had the
> Stalin regime collapsed in the summer of 1942, and had the U.S. and Britain then
> made a separate peace with the Nazis--settling for Nazi abandonment of the
> alliance with Japan and withdraw
>From another list:
At 11:08 AM 6/7/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
> Following is the link to an article about Jurgen
>Habermas's defense of the Balkan war. It is from the World Socialist
>website. If you are unable to access the article online, please send me
>your e-mail and I
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1999
Congress should change labor laws to protect temporary workers from
exploitation by business, according to a report by the 2030 Center, a
Washington, D.C., think tank that focuses on economic issues for young
adults. The report, "When Good Jobs Go Bad," a
Jim Devine wrote:
> Henry wrote: >The larger issue is whether neo-liberalism is more humane and
> effective than socialism as an economic alternative for the world as a
> whole. ...<
> [SNIP]Those who favor capitalism would argue that we need to bring in the
> issue of "what kind of capitalism
Henry, I agreed with everything you said until you changed your tone at the end.
> So Professor DeLong's allegations about are neither scientific nor convincing.
When you write like that, Brad will, understandably respond in a tone that will offend
you.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
> -Original Message-
> From: Craven, Jim
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 1:15 PM
> To: Craven, Jim
> Subject: Liberalism: Classical or Neo, Same Shit
>
> From "Year 501: The Conquest Continues" by Noam Chomsky, South End Press,
> Boston, 1993
>
> "Adam Smith may have eloquen
BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1999
RELEASED TODAY:
The unemployment rate, at 4.2 percent, was little changed in May. The
number of nonfarm payroll jobs edged up by 11,000, following a large
increase of 343,000 in April (as revised). In May, substantial job losses
occurred in manufacturin
The larger issue is whether neo-liberalism is more humane and effective than
socialism as an economic alternative for the world as a whole.
Since the 80s,the question is invariably framed, with the shift in the intellectual
establishment toward TINA (there is no alterantive), as a meritorious just
What do you think of the following article--both its content and the very
fact that the New York Times printed it? Doesn't it say something about
both the nature of Albanian 'nationalism' a la KLA _and_ how NATO is
planning to treat Albanians (that is, not as "innocent victims" of the
media covera
Can any list members put me in touch with progressive
economists/organizations with a knowledge of the Palestinian political
economy? Ideally, e-mail address or fax no.
Thanks,
Mat Forstater
(subject line was: [PEN-L:7790] Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Daring the list)
I wrote:>>Those who favor socialism should similarly ask: "what kind of
socialism?" I, for one, do not favor bureaucratic socialism (BS), though
it's hard to...<<
Carrol writes: >This won't do. I treats social systems as thoug
Brad, the chief point I wanted to make was that such debates are pointless. I and
many others on the list do not accept your data. In addition, the weighting is
questionable. All the deaths are due to Stalin; all the good to the soldiers and
workers, as you say below.
I do not mean to defend S
Henry wrote: >The larger issue is whether neo-liberalism is more humane and
effective than socialism as an economic alternative for the world as a
whole. ...<
The "larger issue" needs to be restated. It's too much like "socialism vs.
barbarism," without having the societal crisis and other materi
>The National Post June 3, 1999
>
>STUDY PAINTS BLEAK JOB SCENE IN CANADA
>
> 52% BELOW $15 AN HOUR
>
> Jobless figures don't measure underemployment, report contends
>
> By James Cudmore
>
> Canadian workers are underpaid and u
>...or by Stalin in defeating the
>Nazis.
>
>This sort of accounting is ultimately fruitless since nobody is ever convinced
>or even educated in the process, but it sure beats namecalling.
No, people are educated. And people who are open-minded enough to be
willing to mark their beliefs to market
Thanks to Mike E. for his insight.
The Steelworkers through our Rapid Response program and other efforts
have been doing as Mike suggested and trying to involve the rank and
file in political action. The Rapid Response effort has been very
successful.
Back in 1994 I gave a speech for the union
This is a reissue from the past to provoke thought about the present.
-Original Message-
From: James Michael Craven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 1996 3:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: "Freedom From Fear"
The following was written and delivered by Aung San
I appreciate the way Jim Craven approached the question. Some time ago, Bob
Naiman posted estimates to the list of the number of deaths attributed to IMF
policies. Even earlier, I suggested that we could look at the number of deaths
caused by the Federal Reserve.
We might also tally up the numb
-Original Message-
From: Craven, Jim
Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 1:24 PM
To: Campus Master List
Subject: FW: Please retain Roslyn Williams - amended
My mother once said (in response to my comments about a right wing woman
General justifying the Vietnam War featured in Ms Magazine) tha
Thanks for the kind thoughts and response to Michael. Let me try, without
invective, to illustrate what my red pencil would write if a student turned
in an essay entitled "Mao, Akin to Hitler: Also a Murderer of Millions".
1. What do you mean by "murder"? Since it is a legal term, do you mean the
> From: "Henry C.K. Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ...
> There is nothing wrong with friends bearing gifts, but the American approach
> is: let me exploit you while I tell how terrible you are. That is
> overreaching.
Right you are:
Globalization, Pharmaceutical Pricing and South African H
Monday June 7 12:47 AM ET
Iraq Says Western Air Strike Kills Four
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq said four people were killed and five were wounded
Sunday when Western planes bombed targets
in a no-fly zone in the south of the country.
``Four citizens met martyrdom and five others were wounded in
Henry C.K. Liu wrote:
> You are absolutely right. China has insufficient capital and
> techinology to be beneficially competitive in the global market
> devoid of nationalistic protectionism. The only card China has is
> its enormous market potential. Joining WTO requires China to give
> that
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