Re: What is to be done in Argentina

2003-08-12 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
> do you think that writing a book can have that big an effect? Whether or not a book has a "big effect", depends I think on numerous factors, and a publisher would affirm this: - its content and form - who wrote it - the life and doings of the author - the specific context it is written in, or w

Re: how to lead the revolution

2003-08-12 Thread Michael Perelman
I think that there are different levels of specificity in answers. It is easy to say that a more equitable tax system or less military spending would make the economy work better. It is less easy to say what Jamaica, to use your example, should do, when its options are far less open. Clinton kne

Re: China's impact

2003-08-12 Thread Doug Henwood
Devine, James wrote: in addition, China represents an important force (along with the World Bank, the IMF, and the US Treasury) encouraging the world-wide process of competitive austerity (outside of the US, the UK, and a few others). By pushing down world wage levels, China is encouraging the wor

China's impact

2003-08-12 Thread Devine, James
[was: RE: [PEN-L] The Road to Serfdom] Marty writes:>Well there is a lot surrounding the issue but I would say first of all that the left should be careful to endorse a strategy of growth that promotes exports in one country at the expense of worker well-being in others. So, rather than just see

Re: Reply to an Observer article by the Italian Refounded CP

2003-08-12 Thread Michael Perelman
Look, I have been gone all day. An old friend from my hometown visited, who is writing a book on colleges. I get back and see nastiness. With several hundred e-mails, I look at them quickly and relatively randomly. So when I try to give a cease and decist order, the post to which it is attached

Re: Reply to an Observer article by the Italian Refounded CP

2003-08-12 Thread Devine, James
Doug writes: > > >I'd say the Empire thesis has some life in it yet.< I asked: > >in 25 words or less, how would you summarize the "Empire thesis"? Doug replies: > What's relevant here is that imperial power is far more dispersed and > polycentric than the old-fashioned Washington/Hollywood/Wal

Re: The Collapse of Argentina, part one

2003-08-12 Thread Louis Proyect
Santiago wrote: Dear Mr. Proyect, I came across your comment about a marxist explanation about my country's collapse and I found it really interesting. While studing for my degree in International Trade I had the luck to have professors of marxist thinking. Santiago, I hope you don't mind if I rep