attack on abortion is at core an attack on women,
which is one of the reasons there can be no compromise on the issue.
Carrol
because of role it plays in structure of gender oppression - *case
closed*
whoops, guess not, notice how quickly Yoshie's concern with decline
in abortion providers
Born to be bad
Is abortion a weapon in the war against crime? Sharon Krum
reports from New York on controversial new research that says it is
The Guardian, Tuesday August 10, 1999
Can a poor, black woman who had an abortion in Kentucky in 1974 take any
credit for the spectacularly low crime
I was very impressed during the 70s reading Sennett and Cobb's Hidden Injuries
of Class how the anti-welfare whites deep down knew that the Black welfare
people lived under miserable conditions, but they resented the fact that
welfare people managed to live without having to endure the sacrafices
Marx's point in writing Capital was to do away with rhetoric. Rather than
pointing to the horrors of capitalism and pointing to evil acts of specific
people or even classes, he attempted to show how the system as a whole worked
according to its own laws of motion.
Like any polemic work,
Rob Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/16/99 11:26AM
G'day Chas'n'Max,
You write:
So Lauren Bacall , the Sweetheart, was as tough as Boggie ?
I don't think so.
Way tougher, Chas! As with Kate and Spencer. Actually, women had some
serious character and plot grunt there for a while in the
Can anyone direct to any good, preferably online comparisons of
inequality in both income and wealth across countries? I am aware of
James Galbraith's working paper at CEPA and am looking for any other
data sources and tables clearly presented if possible
Thanks in advance
Dave Dorkin
8/7/99 Detroit Sunday Journal Ten-Second Editorial
Republicans want a huge tax cut so that Alan Greenspan will raise interest rates so
the money that would have gone to paying down the national debt will go instead to
bankers and credit card companies.
UN Human Development Report: http://www.undp.org/hdro/
At 02:15 PM 8/16/99 -0400, you wrote:
Can anyone direct to any good, preferably online comparisons of
inequality in both income and wealth across countries? I am aware of
James Galbraith's working paper at CEPA and am looking for any other
Ann Li Michael Keaney:
There's more than a family(sic) resemblance to eugenic and genocidal
arguments of earlier historical periods here and hopefully an equally
stronger response by social scientists in areas like looking carefully at
the full range of microdata on demographics, specific
I should probably point out why I was looking for more info today on
inequality. In Pagina1 12, the Argentinian left daily, a report came out
from an establishment consulting firm (FIEL)that the income share of the
top 10% is 49.3% and not 37 as stated by Indec, the official agency in
Argentina.
david dorkin wrote:
I should probably point out why I was looking for more info today on
inequality. In Pagina1 12, the Argentinian left daily, a report came out
from an establishment consulting firm (FIEL)that the income share of the
top 10% is 49.3% and not 37 as stated by Indec, the official
Wojtek Sokolowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/16/99 02:42PM
At 02:12 PM 8/16/99 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
Charles: Not to be a pessimist or a smart ass, Wojtek, but , I swear to
god, the movement 50 years ago seems to be ahead of the movement today in a
lot of ways. Somehow this progress in
Well, I'm sure you're aware of the fact that Argentina has traditionally
been the most equally disributed country in the region historically;
this approaches Brazilian levels and seems pretty significant to me
coming as it does after a series of Menem and Cavallo reforms which are
widely held to
(From the chapter on Frederic Jameson in Aijaz Ahmad's "In Theory: Classes,
Nations, Literatures)
Jameson seems to be aware of the difficulties in conceptualizing the global
dispersion of powers and populations in terms of his particular variant of
the Three Worlds Theory (I take the point of
At 04:21 PM 8/16/99 -0400, Chareles wrote:
Charles: Why is it do you think that the way you tell it "consciousness"
is not corresponding to "structure" ? Are you saying this "perfect soical
control" is exercised through "structure" and not "consciousness" ? Let me
get this straight. Are you
Perhaps there is either insufficient interest in or, more likely, *few good
ideas* about how to reverse the decline in abortion providers. What is to
be done is not usually debated on e-lists, whereas one can always count
upon getting a profusion of opinions, and if we are lucky, some
John Lloyd was embarrased by Peter Gowan in a debate carried in the New
Left Review# 215. Lloyd it looks has changed his tune since his
neo-liberal ravings in NLR and a previous piece in the LRB.
Sam P.
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Another way to look at Hidden Injuries of Class is how racism helps many
whites accept sacrifices on the job, in that racism helps them translate
such sacrifices into the notion of (racialized) "dignity" of paid
employment. This is a clear example of how racism does
Do you know that Roe v. Wade (1973) itself gave women only a very limited
and circumscribed right?
Remember, the anti-abortion movement has not been happy with Roe v. Wade
(which was itself something of a legal balancing act), nor has it been
satisfied by numerous subsequent regulations
Richard, Is it possible that you might demonstrate to us how the segment
that you quote below is 'rhetorical'? You might not agree with what is
asserted below, but how is it 'heavily rhetorical'? Steve
Someone (?) wrote:
Marx's point in writing Capital was to do away with rhetoric. Rather
Ellen wrote:
You know, I'd love to know who these progressive Catholics
are that can't work in coalition with other progressives
because of abortion. Left Catholics I know (and I know
quite a few) are happy to work with progressives on
issues like welfare, family support, health care and so on,
Right, but the Galbraith paper for example, makes an attempt to work
around this and I was wondering if there were any other readily
available papers or tables on this question of at least some use.
Sorry for not expressing my question better.
Thanks
That's the only internationally comparable
Louis Proyect wrote: Yesterday's NY Times magazine section had an
extraordinarily frank article on the collapse of Russian society brought
on by capitalism... What is also notable is that the author is John
Lloyd, a reporter for the Financial Times, a rock-ribbed Tory
publication.
Politically,
david dorkin wrote:
Thanks, but the Luxembourg study has little info on this and covers very
few countries.
That's the only internationally comparable data. The UN and World
Bank collect national data, but from different years using different
techniques and definitions. The World Bank
Nathan:
Real choice for women, as those anti-abortion advocates argue, requires a
remaking of the workplace to fully accomodate pregnancy, tough
anti-discrimination laws to
protect the right of women to both have kids and a career, and full funding
of benefits to help raise the child after birth.
Thanks, but the Luxembourg study has little info on this and covers very
few countries. I am familiar with the World Banks tables but they too
are quite incomplete and difficult to read (in PDF form). Anyone know of
anything else preferably with some analysis of the stats as well?
try
At 02:12 PM 8/16/99 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
Charles: Not to be a pessimist or a smart ass, Wojtek, but , I swear to
god, the movement 50 years ago seems to be ahead of the movement today in a
lot of ways. Somehow this progress in attitudes is not translated into
progress in action, practice,
Dear Wojtek:
But looking at it from another angle, it could be a sign of a certain
progress. Fifty or so years ago, the presence of a social ill (poverty,
inability to support oneself) would lead to a summary stereotyping of an
antire ethnic group - as it was the case of not only blacks, but
Hi Sam:
Abortion is not morally wrong if you hold the principle of
self-ownership. I have a property right in my own bodymind. Central to
a property right is the right of disposal.
Rosalind Petchesky presents such a view in her "The Body as Property: A
Feminist Re-Vision" (in _Conceiving the
Wojtek Sokolowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/16/99 01:08PM
At 12:33 PM 8/16/99 -0400, Yoshie wrote:
That said, it was and is not inevitable that class antagonism gets deformed
into a racist form. All workers make sacrifices on the job (and in fact
black workers generally make bigger sacrifices than
At 12:33 PM 8/16/99 -0400, Yoshie wrote:
That said, it was and is not inevitable that class antagonism gets deformed
into a racist form. All workers make sacrifices on the job (and in fact
black workers generally make bigger sacrifices than whites under the same
employers), but not all workers
At 07:45 AM 8/16/1999 -0700, you wrote:
I was very impressed during the 70s reading Sennett and Cobb's Hidden
Injuries
of Class how the anti-welfare whites deep down knew that the Black welfare
people lived under miserable conditions, but they resented the fact that
welfare people managed to live
Michael:
I was very impressed during the 70s reading Sennett and Cobb's Hidden Injuries
of Class how the anti-welfare whites deep down knew that the Black welfare
people lived under miserable conditions, but they resented the fact that
welfare people managed to live without having to endure the
At 11:04 AM 8/14/99 -0700, Sam P. wrote:
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
So urban development, gentrification or whatever you want to call it is
bad.
Not necessarily. Gentrification is not all bad. Starbucks has good
coffee (I'm told). Subway makes their own bread too. What I'm
criticising is how
The FT endorsed the Labour Party in the last British election, which
of course isn't to say they don't hold orthodox financiers' opinions;
it's a measure of how far right Labour has moved and how irrelevant
the Tories have become. The news staff of the FT is full of social
democrats and even
What is remarkable is how far Marx purged Capital of polemics, as I said before,
treating capitalists as the charactermasks of capital.
Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
Marx's point in writing Capital was to do away with rhetoric. Rather than
pointing to the horrors of capitalism and pointing to
The obverse of shares.
At Washington-on-the-Brazos--where Texas' Declaration of Independence
was signed, is a small museum. In that museum, framed on a wall, is
a share of the original township which was issued by the city fathers
to its citizens. The shares circulated as money in this pioneer
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Sam, there are some free exchange programs in the U.S., but they are not legal.
Sam Pawlett wrote:
BTW, the only free needle exchange program in N.America is in
Vancouver. It has worked quite well. Evidence is fuzzy, but it has saved
lives and stopped the spread of HIV.
Sam P.
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A lot of folks simply dismiss anti-abortion views as support for
capitalist
patriarchy, while ignoring the real existence of anti-abortion activists
who
support womens rights and other progressive social values in every other
sphere of society. Progressive Catholics
Abortion cuts crime says study
Michael Ellison in New York
The Guardian, Tuesday August 10, 1999
Up to half the fall in the United States crime rate is due to abortions for
teenagers, the poor and women from minority communities, according to
research that gives a new twist to one of the most
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