--- Eubulides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [Jeebus..]
Quite intriquing that workers keep producing and
producing, yet *we* appear to be in debt to other
ruling classes of the world. I guess there's nothing
left to do but to take over and run the means of
production for ourselves. Wake up
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I think it's Billy Joel's working notes for the 1990s
update of "We Didn't Start The Fire".
dd
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 06:39:17 -0500, Michael Pollak
wrote:
>
> [picnic.jpg] adulthood boggle botswana expressly
> polluted messy sanely
> acquit playtime bostonian hoses hunted count billie
> thence ex
Didn't remember that one. Pretty sharp.
http://uploader.wuerzburg.de/gym-fkg/schule/fachber/englisch/joel/songtext.h
tml
"We Didn't Start the Fire" is a song about blame and about victims. A song
about problems brought on by a society's lack of concern for the rights of
their fellow man. A song ab
Al Jazeera reports (28 November 2003) that the invasion and occupation of
Iraq have cost Britain more than two billion pounds ($3.4 billion). In
March, UK chancellor Gordon Brown earmarked £1.75 billion for the war, and
two years of war is estimated to cost British taxpayers up £3.6 billion.
"Quoti
In today's NY Times, Paul Krugman defends the capitalist model of development:
"But in the mid-1970's, development economics was just too depressing to
pursue. Indeed, it might as well have been called non-development
economics. No third world nation had made the transition to
advanced-country sta
Louis Proyect wrote:
> In today's NY Times, Paul Krugman defends the capitalist model of development:
I suspect something else is involved here in this editorial. The key might be in
the opening statement: "I've heard it said that I should try, just once, to write
something upbeat."
Where you th
For Chinese Tycoons, Formal Lessons in Capitalism
MBA Program Is Billed as First Partnership of a U.S. Business School,
Republic's Government
By Peter S. Goodman
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, November 28, 2003; Page D13
SHANGHAI -- Inside the classroom, the heads of some of China's lar
I suspect something else is involved here in this editorial. The key
might be in
the opening statement: "I've heard it said that I should try, just once,
to write
something upbeat."
Speaking of NY Times pressure on journalists, I strongly urge everyone to
look for John Hess's "My Times: a Memoi
--- Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In today's NY Times, Paul Krugman defends the
> capitalist model of development:
>
> "But in the mid-1970's, development economics was
> just too depressing to
> pursue. Indeed, it might as well have been called
> non-development
> economics. No third
Capitalist apologetics aside, this report shows the
immiseration which has occured for most people under
the rule of world Capital:
http://cepr.net/globalization/scorecard_on_globalization.htm
Regards,
Mike B)
Part of the problem is that there are two sets of figures, almost like
Enron's p&l stat
In a message dated 11/27/03 3:13:36 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Melvin, neither I nor Mark Jones when was alive were "Malthusian", neo or
otherwise. Karl Marx was keenly aware of ecological limits. In his age the
crisis revolved around soil fertility. Soil exhaustion had be
> No. The point is to change that reality and that can
> only be done by consciously organizing as a class
> across the borders and fences put up by our national
> ruling classes.
Well, my argument would be
1) if you're serious about that, "anti-globalisation" doesn't make much
sense at all
2) p
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Krugman was quoted saying
> Now we know that the club isn't that exclusive, after all. South Korea and
> several smaller Asian economies have made a full transition to modernity.
> China is still a poor country, but it has made astonishing progress. And
> there are signs of an
[Not that I'd make it a campaign issue . . . But his concluding paragraph
comes to a satisfyingly sharp point.]
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/28/opinion/28FRAN.html
The New York Times
November 28, 2003
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Why We Need Gays in the Military
By NATHANIEL FRANK
T en y
Melvin wrote:
Starting from the
existence of a communist society - based on this stage of development,
means the
reemergence of human sexuality and concepts such as homosexuality lose
their force
and have no meaning.
Not everything can be reduced to modes of production. In primitive hunting
and gat
Melvin, we have had enough of the homosexuality debate. Please drop it.
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 06:38:34PM -0500, Louis Proyect wrote:
> Melvin wrote:
> >Starting from the
> >existence of a communist society - based on this stage of development,
> >means the
> >reemergence of human sexuality and
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/columnists/jim_defede/7363245.htm
Posted on Thu, Nov. 27, 2003
JIM DEFEDE/COMMENTARY
Thanks to cops, the anarchists are the winners
For a week, Miami leaders have been praising police for preventing the
type of property damage Seattle had during the 1999
Hi Jurriaan,
--- Jurriaan Bendien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > No. The point is to change that reality and that
> can
> > only be done by consciously organizing as a class
> > across the borders and fences put up by our
> national
> > ruling classes.
>
> Well, my argument would be
>
> 1) if you
Melvin,
Without wanting to raise the whole issue of Stalinism again, I'd just like
to say that in my opinion you aren't a Stalinist in terms of what you write.
Your "problem" if anything is different - you seem to believe that, under
very difficult circumstances, Stalin's regime advanced the trans
> The way I view "anti-globalisation" is a part of the
> overall *movement* resisting the rule of Capital.
Well of course you have to support "resistance" if it is resistance against
real oppression and real exploitation, if it is effective, and if that
resistance expands the scope of human freedo
In a message dated 11/28/03 3:36:36 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Melvin wrote:>Starting from the>existence of a communist society - based on this stage of development,>means the>reemergence of human sexuality and concepts such as homosexuality lose>their force>and have no
In a message dated 11/28/03 3:38:30 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Please drop it.
Sorry, I sent a reply before reading this.
Melvin P.
In a message dated 11/28/03 4:03:04 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Melvin,Without wanting to raise the whole issue of Stalinism again, I'd just liketo say that in my opinion you aren't a Stalinist in terms of what you write.Your "problem" if anything is different - you seem
- Original Message -
From: "Jurriaan Bendien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> For me the ghettoisation trend involves much more, and because it is
ceteris
> paribus the longterm tendency, the "anti-globalisation" rhetoric is
doubly
> ridiculous. Like I said, they should join the flat earth society.
--- Jurriaan Bendien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But I think there is often
> more "rhetoric" about > resistance than "real
resistance". At stake in this > "anti-globalisation"
> debate is arguing effectively for socialist
> alternatives and whether you can > pick a fight you
can win, and that real
* EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM: `Constructing another Europe, another world'
BY SUSAN AUSTIN
PARIS - The second European Social Forum, held in Paris from November
12-15, attracted around 50,000 people, mainly from the countries of
the Europe Union. The ESF is modeled on the World Social Forum (WSF),
Some Lost Jobs May Never Come Back
Improved Productivity Allowed Manufacturers to Reduce Payrolls Permanently
By John M. Berry
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 29, 2003; Page E01
Nearly a quarter of a century ago, when the number of manufacturing jobs
in the United States peaked a
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