Yet another UN Report

2002-06-18 Thread Ian Murray
100m more must survive on $1 a day IMF and World Bank told to stop peddling discredited policies Charlotte Denny and Larry Elliott Wednesday June 19, 2002 The Guardian More than 100m people in the world's poorest countries will be dragged below the basic subsistence level of a dollar a day by 2

Rediscovery of India

2002-06-18 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
The Times of India MONDAY, JUNE 03, 2002 Rediscovery of India TIMES NEWS NETWORK When Stalin fell ill, the Communist Party's politburo asked the Russian church to pray for him. Mao Zedong presided over the celebrations of 2,500 years of Buddhism in the midst of the cultural revolution. Noted p

Re: re: centripetal accumulation

2002-06-18 Thread Chris Burford
At 18/06/02 00:59 -0700, you wrote: >On coffee: perhaps a luxury item to some (tho try taking it away from an >Italian!), it is the US's leading import after oil and is a global US$50 bn >industry, so of some larger significance. Interesting. But it is not exactly a commodity meeting the needs o

Enron Execs walk away with the dough again

2002-06-18 Thread Steve Diamond
USA TODAY, June 18, 2002 Copyright 2002 Gannett Company, Inc. USA TODAY HEADLINE: Payouts anger former Enron workers 152 execs, managers got more than $745 million BYLINE: Edward Iwata BODY: Less than a week after a workers' severance-pay agreement was announced, former Enron employees and t

Forest fires

2002-06-18 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Times, June 18, 2002 Forest Worker Held in Fire Creates Anger and Sympathy By MICHAEL JANOFSKY DENVER, June 17 — As she sat in federal court here this morning, Terry Lynn Barton looked a little disoriented, a little sad and completely overwhelmed, in effect, not unlike many Coloradans affecte

Re: Re: a query on "surface appearances"

2002-06-18 Thread Carrol Cox
Michael Perelman wrote: > > Jim, you might want to go back to > > Lewin, Haskell and Jacob Morris. 1977. "Marx's Concept of Fetishism." > Science and Society, 21: 2 (Summer): pp. 172-90. Is that article available in electronic form anywhere or does one have to go dig it out of the library fi

Re: a query on "surface appearances"

2002-06-18 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
Jim Devine wrote: >The misuderstanding of the systemic nature of capitalism is based in >its own structure. It's more like a mirage, where we "see" water on the >highway that's a distorted reflection of an actual phenomenon. Put >another way, a fetishized consciousness of capitalism arises from a

On Colonial Development

2002-06-18 Thread Michael Perelman
Rakesh sent this article to us. http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2002&leaf=06&filename=4555&filetype=html EPW Special Article June 08, 2002 The Other Side of Foreign Investment by Imperial Powers Transfer of Surplus from Colonies In the era of the rise of industrial capitalism and it

Re: a query on "surface appearances"

2002-06-18 Thread Sam Pawlett
"Devine, James" wrote: > > > An e-friend asks: > > By the way, when you have some time, could you please give me > > some information about this so-called "surface relations" that I > > recently saw on PEN-L in a discussion, if I am not wrong, you > > were involved? Don't waste too much of your

Re: a query on "surface appearances"

2002-06-18 Thread Michael Perelman
Jim, you might want to go back to Lewin, Haskell and Jacob Morris. 1977. "Marx's Concept of Fetishism." Science and Society, 21: 2 (Summer): pp. 172-90. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

a query on "surface appearances"

2002-06-18 Thread Devine, James
Title: a query on "surface appearances" An e-friend asks: > By the way, when you have some time, could you please give me > some information about this so-called "surface relations" that I > recently saw on PEN-L in a discussion, if I am not wrong, you > were involved? Don't waste too much of

Re: tech question

2002-06-18 Thread ravi
Michael Perelman wrote: > How does microsoft put a cookie on my system every time I use my > computer? Can I block that particular cookie? > microsoft could, but i do not think they do (it would be kind of extreme, but microsoft has committed such silliness before). they can and do put a cookie

Comparing the cost of living in Cuba and LA

2002-06-18 Thread Louis Proyect
WHAT DOES IT COST TO LIVE? An average salary in Havana is only 200 pesos a month, but clearly the percentage of a family's income spent on the most basic necessities is still far less than what people must spend in the U.S. for a place to live and essential utilities. Havana Utility Bill Cu

Re: tech question

2002-06-18 Thread Bill Lear
On Monday, June 17, 2002 at 21:36:24 (-0700) Michael Perelman writes: >How does microsoft put a cookie on my system every time I use my >computer? Can I block that particular cookie? If by "every time I use my computer", you mean "every time I use my browser", then the answer is to 1) use a brow

Re: colonial development

2002-06-18 Thread Grant Lee
Michael: I haven't read the whole article, but my first reaction is dismay (if not surprise) at the authors' use of an approach which fails to recognise the historical diversity and agency of indigenous peoples within the modern European empires. I thought that "environment" here might be include

re: centripetal accumulation

2002-06-18 Thread Steve Diamond
On coffee: perhaps a luxury item to some (tho try taking it away from an Italian!), it is the US's leading import after oil and is a global US$50 bn industry, so of some larger significance. On Luxemburg: that primitive accumulation (of surplus value outside of the capitalist world) is essential