Last night I watched "The Day the Earth Stood Still" on video. It was the
first time I had seen it since its original theater appearance in 1951. It
is one of the first films of the period to question the cold war even if on
an allegorical basis, just as another science fiction flick "Invasion of
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Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern, eds. _Empire and Others: British
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I noticed in the PEN-L archives a very short exchange on February 13 about government
failure between Jim Devine and JKSCHW. There is a allusion to an earlier discussion
but I have not managed to track that down.
I feel very comfortable with the concept. As a socialist I am happy with the idea
Has anyone read Mark Pendergrast's UNCOMMON GROUNDS? What do you
think? How does it compare to the other books about coffee that have
come out recently?
(Personally, I have to admit that coffee is not my cup of tea.)
Peter
It's good, but it tends to mix colorful anecdotes that you can find
On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
Nathan Newman wrote:
How do you measure profit share of GDP for multinationals?
That doesn't matter for a trend measured over several years.
Sure it does if an increasing share of profits is coming from overseas
exploitation. As you note, there has been a slight
Nathan Newman wrote:
On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
Nathan Newman wrote:
How do you measure profit share of GDP for multinationals?
That doesn't matter for a trend measured over several years.
Sure it does if an increasing share of profits is coming from overseas
exploitation.
Over
By now, ample honest confessions have been put forward by US policy
makers to explain to the Congress and American labor the real aim of US
support for China's accession to the WTO: To force open Chinese markets
and to change China's socialist political system toward capitalist
democracy and to
Again, you seem to have a US-only approach on this. You are seriously
arguing that multinationals are not increasing exploitation globally.
No I'm not. U.S. corporate profitability rose from around 1982 to
1996, and is off a bit since. One of the reasons is higher
international
At 07:18 AM 3/1/00 +, you wrote:
At 15:00 29/02/00 -0800, Jim Devine wrote:
Maybe it's already been done, but could someone give a short summary of
what Marx says about suicide? is it a class analysis?
I would say yes.
of course, there's an alternative Marxian analysis of suicide: suicide
Michael P. wrote:
I didn't mean to say the rapid payback causes high profits, but rather than
high profits mean that companies will expect rapid payback.
that fits with what I was saying: if high profits make companies expect
rapid payback, they're more likely to invest in fixed capital now to
Chris B. wrote:
However no one can seriously argue that there would be no suicides under
socialism. Indeed some research suggests that the rate may be higher in
some social democratic countries than in some others where oppression and
exploitation is more obvious.
US President Eisenhower once
David McMullen writes:
I feel very comfortable with the concept [of government failure]. As a
socialist I am happy with the idea that not only does the market fail but
so too does the capitalist state.
Government failure is essentially about rent seeking - individuals and
organisations trying
This article is interesting. Any pen-l comments?
SLATE MONEY: Wed., March 1, 2000
Why High Oil Prices Are Bad ... for the Sellers
By James Surowiecki
Although OPEC remains in the American imagination essentially an
Arab organization, with its meetings ending in those great visuals
of the
It has been a long time since I read the material, and I remember
neither sources nor many details, but coffee and choclate were at
one time rather important in western european (and particularly
british) cultural/intellectual/literary/political history. In the late
17th
and 18th centuries each
Gosh, I thought Texas grew because of oil, now I realize it grew because it
created wealth through its school system. These Slate cliches validate
other cliches, and are validated by them.
Gene Coyle
Jim Devine wrote:
This article is interesting. Any pen-l comments?
SLATE MONEY: Wed.,
Jim Devine wrote:
US President Eisenhower once used this "fact" to argue against the welfare
state.
The welfare states at issue were Sweden and Norway. But suicide rates are
high in all states further north (longer winter days, longer winters) because
of
SAD (seasonal affective disorder).
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"A McGraw-Hill vice president once said to me: "You can't buy happiness
with money. You can't buy love with it, or buy good health. Of course, I
mean Confederate money." He was not wrong. But I have found you are rich
if you have a little more money than those around you."
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I wrote:
US President Eisenhower once used this "fact" to argue against the welfare
state.
Carrol writes:
The welfare states at issue were Sweden and Norway. But suicide rates are
high in all states further north (longer winter days, longer winters)
because of SAD (seasonal affective
At 03:11 PM 3/1/00 -0500, you wrote:
Last night I watched "The Day the Earth Stood Still" on video. It was the
first time I had seen it since its original theater appearance in 1951. It
is one of the first films of the period to question the cold war even if
on an allegorical basis, just as
At 08:44 01/03/00 -0800, you wrote:
At 07:18 AM 3/1/00 +, you wrote:
At 15:00 29/02/00 -0800, Jim Devine wrote:
Maybe it's already been done, but could someone give a short summary of
what Marx says about suicide? is it a class analysis?
I would say yes.
of course, there's an alternative
[Forwarded from a UW prof. PFFT/No to WTO worked with last year, please
spread far and wide]
Ward Morehouse (of the Program on Corporations, Law Democracy and the
Council on Internat'l Public Affairs) was arrested in Seattle with Cheri
Honkala as the two of them attempted to deliver the
I was asked to forward this to the list:
The Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program (FANRP) of the
USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) is inviting proposals for
competitive grants and cooperative agreements on the topics of:
Reaching Underserved Populations, Food Programs as a Safety
Jim, are you thinking of the second film of the same name?
Gene Coyle
Jim Devine wrote:
At 03:11 PM 3/1/00 -0500, you wrote:
Last night I watched "The Day the Earth Stood Still" on video. It was the
first time I had seen it since its original theater appearance in 1951. It
is one of the
Nathan Newman wrote:
Okay, so we have higher rates of exploitation and a growing stock market.
Except for your fussing over the trend in the last couple of years, I am not
sure where what you are saying contradicts the general argument that the
ever expanding stock market valuations are based on
Jim Devine wrote:
Why High Oil Prices Are Bad ... for the Sellers
By James Surowiecki
In one important sense, this is of course a good thing for
Venezuela, which under its new *strongman*
This is a very important term. Strongman means we are not supposed to like
him.
president,
On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
"Fussing" isn't the right word to describe what's happened in the
U.S. stock market. The last several years have seen one of the great
speculative manias of all time. There's just no other way to describe
it. The first stage of the bull market, roughly the 1980s,
Surowiecki writes:
The problem is that insofar as higher oil prices encourage
Venezuela to rely on its natural resources for economic growth and
job creation, they probably do more long-term damage than
short-term good.
Michael P. writes:
you can argue that high wages have the same
HCKL instructs the PKT list . . .
"The battle in the US is no longer one between workers and capitalists. All
Americans are capitalists through their pension funds. The wealth effect
from pension assets has kept all Americans happy."
mbs
HCKL instructs the PKT list . . .
"The battle in the US is no longer one between workers and capitalists. All
Americans are capitalists through their pension funds. The wealth effect
from pension assets has kept all Americans happy."
mbs
Haven't we heard this line about their being "bourgeois
Nathan Newman wrote:
Now, the last few years have obviously been an incredible run up stock
values, but there is a reasonable argument that there has also been an
incredible expansion of global expansion by US corporations, fueled by the
Internet-related technology explosion along with the
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
HCKL instructs the PKT list . . .
"The battle in the US is no longer one between workers and capitalists. All
Americans are capitalists through their pension funds. The wealth effect
from pension assets has kept all Americans happy."
More than 1/2 of U.S. workers have no
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Max, Henry is no longer here. What he writes on PKT seems to raise no
hackles there. No reason to critique him here.
His posts get forwarded here regularly, so he's a spectral presence on PEN-L.
Doug
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[I first learned of the magazine American Socialist from CLR James scholar
Scott McLemee, who referred to it as the first "New Left" publication in
the US, except one that retained a Marxist orientation. This article from
the June '55 issue on "Currents in the French Left" is the very first
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