Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: "The Upheavals of June, 2000"

2000-07-11 Thread Mine Aysen Doyran
> >How about Theda Scokpol's and Brenner's critique of "liberal" and > >neo-smithian approaches of IW? > > xxx > >Anthony P. D'Costa, Associate Professor > >Comparative International Development > >University of Washington

Re: "The Upheavals of June, 2000"

2000-07-11 Thread Timework Web
I don't know about IW, but I had a vision one night -- I think it was in June. A voice told me to go forth as "Sandwichman". Actually there wasn't really a voice, but it makes a better narrative if I say there was a voice. And really, I've been kicking around the sandwichman motif for around 14 ye

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: "The Upheavals of June, 2000"

2000-07-11 Thread Mine Aysen Doyran
Yes, he is a _world system marxist_, as i said.. Mine >Michael Perelman wrote: > >He was taking pains to distinguish his own work from Marxism. > > >Mine Aysen Doyran wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > >I heard Wallerstein speak recently. He was contemptuous of >Marxists, > > > >

"The Rise and Future Demise of World-Systems Analysis"

2000-07-11 Thread Mine Aysen Doyran
http://fbc.binghamton.edu/iwwsa-r&.htm "The Rise and Future Demise of World-Systems Analysis" by Immanuel Wallerstein ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) © Immanuel Wallerstein 1997. (Paper delivered at 91st Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, Aug. 16, 1996) World-systems analy

Re: Re: Re: "The Upheavals of June, 2000"

2000-07-11 Thread Doug Henwood
Brad De Long wrote: >Yesterday the United States! Today the OECD! Tomorrow the World! (It >ain't Utopia, but it's the only game in town--unless you think, like >Lars-Erik Neilsen in the _New York Review of Books_, that Mexicans >ain't fit to assemble staplers and should go back to the subsiste

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: "The Upheavals of June, 2000"

2000-07-11 Thread Michael Perelman
Or maybe I slept through the revolution Doug Henwood wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I heard Wallerstein speak recently. He was contemptuous of Marxists, > >implying that they had a simplistic way of looking at the world. > >Obviously, some of us do, but his characterization was all-

Re: Re: Re: Re: "The Upheavals of June, 2000"

2000-07-11 Thread Anthony D'Costa
How about Theda Scokpol's and Brenner's critique of "liberal" and neo-smithian approaches of IW? xxx Anthony P. D'Costa, Associate Professor Comparative International Development University of Washington

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: "The Upheavals of June, 2000"

2000-07-11 Thread Michael Perelman
He was taking pains to distinguish his own work from Marxism. Mine Aysen Doyran wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >I heard Wallerstein speak recently. He was contemptuous of >Marxists, > > > > >implying that they had a simplistic way of looking at the world. > > >Obviously, some of us do,

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: "The Upheavals of June, 2000"

2000-07-11 Thread Mine Aysen Doyran
>Stephen E Philion wrote: > >Lately I'm convinced the definition of Marxist on this list for some has > >become, 'I like xx, therefore they are Marxist.' > > >Steve > > >On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Mine Aysen Doyran wrote: > > >> No. IW does *not* endorse the Smithian view implied above. He is >a mar

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: "The Upheavals of June, 2000"

2000-07-11 Thread Stephen E Philion
Brenner, if I recall, in his latest work actually includes quite a bit of discussion of the impact of global integration and intensified global competition in the international political economy... On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Mine Aysen Doyran wrote: > I have heard Wallerstein speak very recently too, b

Re: Re: Re: "The Upheavals of June, 2000"

2000-07-11 Thread Jim Devine
>Yes! He [Wallerstein] does not seem to have learned the extent to which >the neo-liberal program is successfully advancing. Bind all prosperous >market economies of the world into one single bloc in which the prosperous >development of all is a precondition for the prosperous development of

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: "The Upheavals of June, 2000"

2000-07-11 Thread Mine Aysen Doyran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I heard Wallerstein speak recently. He was contemptuous of >Marxists, > > >implying that they had a simplistic way of looking at the world. > >Obviously, some of us do, but his characterization was all-inclusive. > -- > Michael Perelman > Economics Department > Ca

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: "The Upheavals of June, 2000"

2000-07-11 Thread Doug Henwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I heard Wallerstein speak recently. He was contemptuous of Marxists, >implying that they had a simplistic way of looking at the world. >Obviously, some of us do, but his characterization was all-inclusive. And don't you think that piece was just a little fevered? The w

Re: Re: "The Upheavals of June, 2000"

2000-07-11 Thread Jim Devine
At 08:00 PM 07/11/2000 -0500, you wrote: >An essential part of the battle against anti-communism is that >propositions be debated on their merits, not on whether a label applies to >them or >not. And just as we should view with contempt the argument that because such & >such is marxist (or stalin

Re: Re: Re: Re: "The Upheavals of June, 2000"

2000-07-11 Thread michael
I heard Wallerstein speak recently. He was contemptuous of Marxists, implying that they had a simplistic way of looking at the world. Obviously, some of us do, but his characterization was all-inclusive. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel.

Re: "The Upheavals of June, 2000"

2000-07-11 Thread Carrol Cox
Stephen E Philion wrote: > Lately I'm convinced the definition of Marxist on this list for some has > become, 'I like xx, therefore they are Marxist.' I have been following this thread, but if what Steve says is correct, it is a serious error because it leaves too much room for the opposite e

Re: Re: Re: Re: "The Upheavals of June, 2000"

2000-07-11 Thread Stephen E Philion
Lately I'm convinced the definition of Marxist on this list for some has become, 'I like xx, therefore they are Marxist.' Steve On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Mine Aysen Doyran wrote: > No. IW does *not* endorse the Smithian view implied above. He is a marxist. > > > Mine

Re: Re: Re: "The Upheavals of June, 2000"

2000-07-11 Thread Mine Aysen Doyran
> De long wrote: > >Yes! He does not seem to have learned the extent to which the > >neo-liberal program is successfully advancing. Bind all prosperous > >market economies of the world into one single bloc in which the > prosperous development of all is a precondition for the prosperous > >d

Re: Re: "The Upheavals of June, 2000"

2000-07-11 Thread Mine Aysen Doyran
Dennis R Redmond wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Mine Aysen Doyran crossposted: > > > "The Upheavals of June, 2000" > > > > Europe was born in June 2000. Of course, we have been talking about > > Europe for 50-odd years now. But heretofore Europe has meant west

Re: Re: "The Upheavals of June, 2000"

2000-07-11 Thread Brad De Long
> > Europe was born in June 2000. Of course, we have been talking about >> Europe for 50-odd years now. But heretofore Europe has meant western >> Europe, not Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals, dear to both Charles >> de Gaulle and Mikhail Gorbachev. Hitherto, the Germans would not really

Re: "The Upheavals of June, 2000"

2000-07-11 Thread Dennis R Redmond
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Mine Aysen Doyran crossposted: > "The Upheavals of June, 2000" > > Europe was born in June 2000. Of course, we have been talking about > Europe for 50-odd years now. But heretofore Europe has meant western > Europe, not Europe from the Atl

Re: anti-communism

2000-07-11 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
>THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION May 14, 1986 > >Point of View > >By Michael D. Yates > > >South Africa, Anti-Communism, and Value-Free Science > > > At a recent faculty meeting I suggested that our senate discuss the >university's portfolio of stocks in corporations with investments in >S

Russian foreign policy

2000-07-11 Thread Chris Burford
(snips from IHT) Russia published a new foreign policy doctrine Monday which was unveiled by Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov. This is the first revision since a 1993 document was approved by former President Boris Yeltsin.

"The Upheavals of June, 2000"

2000-07-11 Thread Mine Aysen Doyran
Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University http://fbc.binghamton.edu/commentr.htm Comment No. 43, July 1, 2000 "The Upheavals of June, 2000" The month of June 2000 may go down in history as a major turning-point of post-

Re: anti-communism

2000-07-11 Thread Mine Aysen Doyran
Michael, I liked the article, especially the part where you mention US legitimization of apartheid in Africa. One thing I find amazingly disturbing among the liberal academics dominating the university system is that they deliberately engage in red baiting communism for being anti-democratic,

Re: anti-communism

2000-07-11 Thread Charles Brown
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/11/00 12:12PM >>> South Africa, Anti-Communism, and Value-Free Science -clip- I believe my colleagues' remarks can best be accounted for not by racism but by two ideological beliefs that are deeply entrenched in academe. The first is anti-communism. Nowhere in the

Anthropocentrism

2000-07-11 Thread Charles Brown
On another list, Mark Jones says verily, >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/11/00 05:24AM >>> anthropocentrism is not an *option* it is a symptom of a moral disorder and a failure of reason. You cannot privilege humans against other species without undermining the conditions of existence of human socie

Cuba's New Environmental Law

2000-07-11 Thread Ken Hanly
An article and translated text of Cuba's New Environmental Law (1997) are at this site: http://www.law.tulane.edu/programs/environmental/envirolaw/institute/cuba/houckeng.htm Cheers, Ken Hanly

Changes in Cuban agriculture

2000-07-11 Thread Louis Proyect
An excerpt from "CUBA'S NEW AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION: The Transformation of Food Crop Production in Contemporary Cuba" Laura J. Enríquez Department of Sociology University of California Berkeley, California May 2000 Full article at: http://www.foodfirst.org/pubs/devreps/dr14.html With the deep

Re: anti-communism

2000-07-11 Thread Jim Devine
excellent letter, Mike! You should feel good about being trashed by Sidney Hook. I have a comment on the following: >Then an economist chimes in smugly with what I'm sure he thought was a >sophisticated remark. He said the university's stock holdings were a >question of "portfolio management,

anti-communism

2000-07-11 Thread Michael Yates
I have appended below an article I wrote many years ago, which might be of interest to those who participated in the debates on these lists about Stalinism, redbaiting,etc. I received numerous commments on this after it was published, mostly favorable. However, the late red turned redbaiter, Sidn

Re: new trade theory

2000-07-11 Thread Diane Monaco
Hi Jim, I guess I am the Paul Krugman defender you refer to below. I didn't know my posts to another list were being forwarded, and it appears that you didn't know yours were either. Oh well its all in the public domain. Thanks for the reference by Anwar Shaikh on absolute advantage in t

BLS Daily Report

2000-07-11 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, JULY 10, 2000 __A 190,000 decline in the number of temporary Census Bureau workers largely offset a 206,000 increase in private-sector nonfarm payrolls in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. The unemployment rate dipped 0.1 percentage point to 4 percent in Jun