I partially agree, Peter. George is generally so sensitive to power
relations and so
critical of corporate influence over public institutions that this I was
wrong article really required bizarre distortions.
I have a gut feeling that he is reacting to the rise of deglobalization
discourses, as
Further to last night's post the BBC Radio 4 programme this morning had a
representative of the INC arguing that their contacts suggest that this was
a one off in a village that had had a weapons inspection search by the
British 2 days before in a Shiite region generally sympathetic to the
allies
http://shitbegone.com/
At 2003-06-23 23:58 -0700, you wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I suspect the really difficult debate is about whether there is a single
scientific socialism now, and what it is in today's context. Or whether
marxism is a method of science, rather than a
Jim Devine writes:
Grant writes:
In reality I don't really think there is much difference between
state socialism and state capitalism, although the former is
distinguished
by the support of the working class and the stated intention to abolish
the
state, at some point in the future.
did
Title: RE: [PEN-L] Query from a Venezuelan
Grant writes:
In reality I don't really think there is much difference between
state socialism and state capitalism, although the former is
distinguished by the support of the working class
I asked:
did the Russian working class support
Patrick Bond wrote:
So I'm back with Keynes on that 1933 Yale Review citation that Daly likes:
let goods be homespun whenever reasonably and conveniently possible.
Comrades, let's globalise people, not capital...
You're doing the same thing that the IMF-Treasury-Wall Street complex
does - equate
Carrol wrote:
How much money do the TV networks, the advertisers, and
the makers of the products advertised make off of
them.
Which is why I say we boycott baseball. (What a stupid waste of money,
anyway. They ain't neighborhood heroes anymore.)
In terms of another sport, hockey, I agree with
Rickey Henderson is playing left field for the Newark, New Jersey, Bears, a
minor league team that is unaffiliated with any major league team.
-Original Message-
From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael
Perelman
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 6:03 PM
To: [EMAIL
Denise wrote:
Rickey Henderson is playing left field for the
Newark, New Jersey, Bears, a minor league team
that is unaffiliated with any major league team.
Good for him. (If that is true.)
Rickey was the most Satchel of all the other Paiges in the book of
baseball.
Ken.
--
And it's
Title: RE: [PEN-L] moneyball
Which is why I say we boycott baseball.
there was a movement awhile back to shun major league baseball, but to go to minor-league games.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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Peter Dorman wrote:
rgely powerless. It
benefits from the importance of being unimportant. The WTO is fatally
flawed because it rests on the foundation of trade ministers, the
designated corporate gofers within any government. On top of that, it
is the product (as are all really important
There are two aspects to the WTO power structure that lead it to deviate
from even a moderately acceptable level of democracy. The first has to
do with the behind-the-scenes manipulation, which Patrick referred to.
It is only formally a one-country, one-vote institution. The second
has to do
Peter:
What demonstrators have been demonstrating against
is the steady push, utilizing the WTO as a vehicle,
for the market access interests of those who profit
from exports in every country against all the other
social/economic/environmental interests that conflict
with them. By its very
At 2003-06-25 08:03 +0100, you wrote:
Further to last night's post the BBC Radio 4 programme this morning had a
representative of the INC arguing that their contacts suggest that this was
a one off in a village that had had a weapons inspection search by the
British 2 days before in a Shiite
- Original Message -
From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You're doing the same thing that the IMF-Treasury-Wall Street complex
does - equate trade with capital flows. Keynes said goods, which
you elide into capital.
Doug, come on, you know the rest of the quote: Above all, let finance
I have found that discussions on Stalin on this list have never led to
much communication or information.
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:40:52PM +0800, Grant Lee wrote:
Jim Devine writes:
Grant writes:
In reality I don't really think there is much difference between
state socialism and state
I got this from the H-Labor list. What interests me is the way that
such work becomes transformed into property.
From: Nelson N. Lichtenstein
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Nelson Lichtenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Background Report: From Labor History to LABOR: Studies in
Patrick Bond wrote:
But sure, it's very hard to do autarchy. That's why advocates of delinking
like Amin and Bello specify that they are not for 100% autarchy. They
promote delinking from the most destructive circuitry of capital, namely
pure export-led growth based upon primary commodities, and
Louis:
From the viewpoint of US capital it makes no difference whether it is
excluded from a capitalist protectionist state or a socialist one.
Of course it does. A socialist state like Cuba is the threat of a positive
example. Malaysia is just a place that you can't make a fast buck.
Tell
As soon as I say that though, I wonder - what common
interests are there between Brazil and Zimbabwe?
Doug
I don't know about Brazil and Zimbabwe but, apparently, Brazil
and South Africa are trying to find an answer to your question,
if you replace Zimbabwe with South Africa:
Sabri Oncu wrote:
I don't know about Brazil and Zimbabwe but, apparently, Brazil
and South Africa are trying to find an answer to your question,
if you replace Zimbabwe with South Africa:
Brazil SA are regional hegemons with considerable industry.
Zimbabwe is quite poor and weak. I picked Brazil
Brazil SA are regional hegemons with considerable
industry. Zimbabwe is quite poor and weak. I picked
Brazil Zim deliberately, because of the power
disparity and because of the geographical
distance.
Doug
I don't care!
Turkey is not a third-world country either.
We are gonna screw the
Grant Lee:
Tell that to Intel, whose Malaysian plant made the chip I'm using to write
this email http://www.intel.com/jobs/malaysia/sites/ In fact, Malaysian
industrialisation has more to do with direct and indirect export subsidies
paid to foreign and locally owned firms alike. Not a good
Could Labor History now be considered *fictitious* capital? Aren't you glad
that cows can't fly?
Michael wrote,
I got this from the H-Labor list. What interests me is the way that
such work becomes transformed into property.
From: Nelson N. Lichtenstein
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
did the Russian working class support the Soviet
state in 1936?
Overwhelmingly. Every report from the period indicates
incredible optimism, a heroic sense of pride in the
revolution, love for Stalin, the works. The
intelligentsia and the Old Bolsheviks had more complex
attitudes, but the
excellent detailed report in the Guardian of invaders in trouble
A few hundred metres from the police station is the bazaar, where battered
trucks were yesterday unloading produce. There are no bullet scars here,
but 24 hours earlier a disastrous incident led to claims that five Iraqi
men died
It is certainly not in Britain's interests to see the people of Iraq
colonised and killed in their thousands. Nor is it right to sacrifice
young British lives at the altar of US imperial designs. Only by bringing
the troops home and putting pressure on the US to carry out an orderly
withdrawal
Independent challenging key points.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=419050
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