For an orthodox view on this see ILYENKOV's On
Dialectical logic, On the ascent from the abstract to
the concrete in Marx's capital, and On idols and
ideals.difficult to find but easy to read.
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in
Martin:
You might try Thomas Frank's One Market Under God (Doubleday,
2000). It goes at the issue from a slightly different angle, but is clearly
written and contains at least some of what you want.
Joel Blau
Martin Watts wrote:
Has anyone got a good contemporary reference to the
universal
Joel, Thanks. I am not sure I'll be able to find it here, but
I'll try.
Kind regards
Martin
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Subject: [PEN-L:14725] Re: The Universal
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Martin:
You might try Thomas
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 2001:
The number of Americans filing new claims for state unemployment insurance
rose last week after falling for 3 weeks in a row. The jump provided
fresh evidence that the struggling economy continues to take a toll on
workers. The Labor
Everything For Sale, Robert Kuttner
mbs
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Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 7:49 PM
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Subject: [PEN-L:14716] The Universal market
Has anyone got a good contemporary reference
There is little hope left for an economic recovery in the second half of
the year, the president and chief executive officer told employees recently
in a recorded telephone message.
-- Globe and Mail, July 4, 2001
In 25 words or less, what are Pen-l subscribers doing to respond politically
to
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Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 3:21 AM
Subject: [marxist] Q on underconsumptionist theories
If one accepts underconsumptionist theories, doesn't that mean that
free trade, cutting welfare, cutting Unemployment insurance
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. jobless rate edged up in June and job losses
mounted as weakness spread to the service sector of the economy, the
government said on Friday in a report that cast a shadow on other recent
upbeat data.
Perhaps the most worrisome aspect of the report was the fact
I'll be writing an electric manifesto on
taking back the tax cut.
mbs
There is little hope left for an economic recovery in the second half of
the year, the president and chief executive officer told employees recently
in a recorded telephone message.
-- Globe and Mail, July 4, 2001
In 25
Actually, considering the somewhat diverse literature using
the term, analytic Marxism, I think it's unfair to accuse it of trying to be
seeking a totalizing logic (this of course suggests that monolithic demonizing
seen frequently in this list). It at every moment is always a form of
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very good as a basis of historical analysis? Perhaps it is the productivity
that comes from contradiction and ambiguity which gave Marxism its
conceptual
power.
That'd be a dubious productivity. On the premise of logical contradiction
and ambiguity anything can be
Couple of things; Thomas Franks of the Baffler has a book called One Nation
under the Market, or something like that. Robert Kuttner has a good book
called Everything for Sale. On a more theoretical level, see Michael Walzer,
Spheres of Justice, and Elixabeth Anderson, Value in Ethics and
From: Ravi Malhotra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 02:49:50 -0400
Please distribute as widely as possible.
In Solidarity,
Ravi
Tom Walker wrote:
Easy. Generational cohort replacement cycle. You know the old saying rags
to riches to rags in three generations? I figure that as one and a half
K-waves. Come in on the downswing. Go out on the upswing. Or vice versa.
Jerry Lembke had an article SCIENCE SOCIETY a few years
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Subject: [PEN-L:14738] Re: Re: K-waves
Tom Walker wrote:
Easy. Generational cohort replacement cycle. You know the old
saying rags
to riches to rags in three
At 10:59 PM 7/5/01 -0400, you wrote:
One way of looking at Analytical Marxism is as an attempt to produce a
completely internally consistent [non-contradictory] and entirely coherent
[non-ambiguous] school of social analysis. But this might just destroy the
power of Marxism as a form of
Martin Watts wrote:
Has anyone got a good contemporary reference to the universal market ie the
notion of capitalism intruding into all areas of people's lives in the
pursuit of profit or is Harry B/Marx the best?
Maybe my Krugman-Kritik (aimed at a popular audience) is relevant, since I
shift
Tom Walker wrote:
Easy. Generational cohort replacement cycle. You know the old saying rags
to riches to rags in three generations? I figure that as one and a half
K-waves. Come in on the downswing. Go out on the upswing. Or vice versa.
Jerry Lembke had an article SCIENCE SOCIETY a few years
Tom Walker wrote:
There is little hope left for an economic recovery in the second half of the
year, the president and chief executive officer told employees recently in a
recorded telephone message.
-- Globe and Mail, July 4, 2001
This seems to have got around, judging by
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Subject: [PEN-L:14743] Re: shit hits fan
I think the list should ring around the media outlets and present
itself as a
pundit pool. If this becomes half the mess it could
At 04:05 AM 7/7/01 +, you wrote:
the neoliberals proved thirty years ago how quickly a well
organised bunch of radical upstarts can scale the heights of conventional
wisdom ... and even if your predictions and prescriptions are empirically
falsified from the off, the punters'll just go right
At 1:27 PM -0400 7/6/01, David Hearne wrote:
I hate when people see the world in black-and-white colors. There
are a lot of shades of grey in between a suburban mall filled with teenage
parasites sponging off parental income and blowing it on overpriced
Nike sneakers and Gap t-shirts - and
Right-Wing nuts...Our Latest Read My Lips #56
Economists on Globalization
http://www.theglobalist.com/nor/readlips/archive/index.shtml
... What will the Pope think about Eastern European Catholics being
controlled by atheistic
communists? Stalin responded, How many divisions does the Pope have?. ...
www.psych.org/pnews/99-08-06/blood.html - 2k
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 05/07/01 09:47 +0300, you wrote:
British base on Cyprus rocked by riots
Governments condemn violence sparked by plan to build radio mast
Important detail with all its particularity (large radar nets near a salty
estuary with valuable bird life) in a much large picture of tidying up the
The decision of the Chinese to return the US spy plane totally dismantled
and shipped back as freight is particularly clever. Without doing anything
to fit in with the role of Bush's new global Communist enemy, it expresses
a gut-felt opposition to spying by the imperialists countries whether
I would like to ask the more historically minded on the list if these women
are any different than say, the single women displaced in England during the
later industrial revolution who may have formed or swelled various urban
areas. Obviously the periods are different but their relationship to a
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2001:
RELEASED TODAY; Nonfarm payroll employment fell by 114,000 in June, and
the unemployment rate was little changed, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
of the U.S. Department of Labor reports. Manufacturing experienced
another
Jim already said [reproduced below] some of what I would have said in reply
to some of the responses to my comments on Analytical Marxism. I would add
that part of what makes Marx's work so productive, and what has produced so
many schools of Marxism, is that there are many Marxes. I mean by
Ann wrote:
I would like to ask the more historically minded on the list if these women
are any different than say, the single women displaced in England during the
later industrial revolution who may have formed or swelled various urban
areas. Obviously the periods are different but their
No, I meant actually in the late 19 C. around the times of the art crafts
movement where the preconditions for the consumer culture already are in
place (Adrian Forty's work comes to mind here). I guess I don't think of the
interwar period as later relative to those machine-age categories used
No, I meant actually in the late 19 C. around the times of the art crafts
movement where the preconditions for the consumer culture already are in
place (Adrian Forty's work comes to mind here).
I haven't read anything by Adrian Forty. What does he say about
urban working-class women in the
Thanks to all those who responded to my query. Jim I shall read your piece
with interest!
Kind regards
Martin
Martin Watts
Deputy Director
Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE)
Department of Economics
University of Newcastle
New South Wales 2308
Australia
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It is not common to be able to catch monopoly capitalist companies in
specific monopoly practices rather than merely activities that tend to
perpetuate domination by large finance capitalist companies.
But ASH, Action on Smoking and Health,
http://www.ash.org.uk/
appears to have done it!
http://www.cpusa.org/articles/Big%20Tobacco%20undermines%20the%20American%20
way.htm
Big Tobacco undermines the American way
Kelle Louaillier
First the parade passes. Then dusk descends, the sky explodes.
It's the grand annual celebration of the foundations of American ideals:
freedom,
It's older stuff from the 1980s on how consumer culture was in place earlier
than thought ( i.e. Wedgewood's 17C. use of marketing techniques and
promotion ) and the new markets for finished goods where cheap designs
imitating upperclass designs were produced for growing markets of single
working
I just attended the first 2 days of the Western Meetings, which are 99.9%
pure right wingers. Let me let you in on a secret. I just learnt that
economic growth may be a bit slow this year, next year will boom, social
security represents a looming disaster -- unless we privatize. Some of
the
I thought that it was also called analytical because it empahsised
conceptual clarity as did analytical philosophers, many of whom were not
great model builders or deductivists. The reductionism was an attempt to
clarify and extract the rational core from fuzzy Marxian concepts. Many
analytical
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