Separated at birth

2004-01-30 Thread Louis Proyect
http://www.marxmail.org/separated_at_birth.htm -- The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org

Re: China's new Marxist left - a Dutch socialist reply concerning managerial socialism ideology

2004-01-30 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
The capitalist, as representative of capital engaged in its valorisation process - productive capital - performs a productive function, which consists precisely in directing and exploiting productive labour. Marx distinguishes in the manuscripts of Das Kapital between what he calls the

my new book

2004-01-30 Thread Robert Scott Gassler
Dear PEN-L: You might be interested in my new book from Elgar: Robert Scott Gassler. Beyond Profit and Self-Interest: Economics with a Broader Scope. It is out in Europe and will be out in the US in February (I guess that's next week). Without a trace of modesty I'll reproduce the publisher's

Eco-imperialism?

2004-01-30 Thread Louis Proyect
(From ultrarightist David Horowitz's website. The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise was founded by wise use spokesman Ron Arnold, who was cited heavily on the infamous British TV channel 4 documentary on the Greens produced by Frank Furedi's crew. The notion of Eco-Imperialism is

How to Defeat the US Military with your Underpants

2004-01-30 Thread Brian McKenna
PEN-L folks, You must read this story, posted on the web a few days ago. http://www.lewrockwell.com/wiggins/wiggins8.html It's about David Wiggins, a West Point (United States Military Academy) distinguished graduate and an honors graduate of New York Medical College. He left theĀ  Army as a

Re: my new book

2004-01-30 Thread Devine, James
what's the book about, exactly? macro? micro? what is one of its major theses? Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine -Original Message-From: Robert Scott Gassler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 8:30 AMTo: [EMAIL

Re: How to Defeat the US Military with your Underpants

2004-01-30 Thread Louis Proyect
A fascinating website. It is filled with antiwar material, although Lew Rockwell describes himself as founder and president of the Mises Institute in Auburn, Ala., and vice president of the Center for Libertarian Studies in Burlingame, Cal., is an opponent of the central state, its wars and its

Chemical warfare in the 1920s 30s

2004-01-30 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
* Chemical warfare in the 1920s 30s. (Frontline). History Today, June, 2002, by Sebastian Balfour BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS, Britain, Spain and Italy launched chemical offensives against their enemies in Afghanistan, Iraq and North Africa. Most of these wars have been kept secret for

Re: intermediate microeconomics textbook...

2004-01-30 Thread Diane Monaco
To all you good people of pen-l, Thank you! Thank you! I now have everything -- textbooks, supplemental readings AND syllabi -- necessary to give intermediate microeconmic theory a go. The only thing missing is someone to teach it for me :). Actually, I'm sort of looking forward to drawing those

Correction/addition

2004-01-30 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
I wrote: Total federal employees 1.8 (domestic overseas) Should be: not 1.8 but 1.8 million. Because US capitalist society is a competitive society based on business and government secrets, rivalry and lack of nationwide coordination or planning in most fields (i.e. the closed-off society

Was that health care or wealth care?

2004-01-30 Thread Diane Monaco
January 28, 2004 Chicago Sun-Times Was that health care or wealth care? American HMOs show record profit of $2.3 billion in first quarter of 2003, up 60 percent from the year before. Just to let you know the higher premiums aren't going to waste.

Higher Price Tag for Drug Benefit

2004-01-30 Thread Diane Monaco
January 30, 2004 Bush's Aides See Higher Price Tag for Drug Benefit By ROBERT PEAR ASHINGTON, Jan. 29 ? The Bush administration said on Thursday that the new Medicare drug benefit would cost at least $530 billion over 10 years, or one-third more than the price tag used when Congress passed the

Kerry's falsehoods

2004-01-30 Thread Louis Proyect
Counterpunch, January 30, 2004 Same Skeletons, Different Closet How Many People Will Die Because of This Mistake, Senator Kerry? By SAM HUSSEINI Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton At the debate last night, John Kerry, asked to give examples of the

Re: new frontiers of profit......

2004-01-30 Thread Dan Scanlan
Is the Exxon Valdez verdict final or will it be appealed? I believe it's been appealed. I just spoke with a friend, a salmon fisherman, who stands to get a small sum of money if the suit is ever settled. He's says one of the long reaching effects of the spill was that the salmon farms got a fin

US: unemployment benefits running out

2004-01-30 Thread Eubulides
Record Number to Run Out of Unemployment Benefits By Kirstin Downey Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, January 30, 2004; Page A05 A record-high 375,000 jobless workers will exhaust their unemployment insurance this month and an estimated 2 million workers will find themselves in the same

clinton and clinton

2004-01-30 Thread Dan Scanlan
Wall Street Journal January 29, 2004 COMMENTARY Clinton Clinton == By R. EMMETT TYRRELL JR. So, no sooner does Sen. John Kerry emerge from the New Hampshire primary as the Democrats' fragile frontrunner than word gets out that ex-President Bill Clinton is flying down to

Iowa subborned

2004-01-30 Thread Dan Scanlan
Below is an excerpt from an excellent article on the Kucinich Iowa campaign by William Pitt Rivers. The etnire article can be found at : http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/012604A.shtml Dan - 100 years ago, agriculture in Iowa was dominated by family farmers. Each farm

how it's done

2004-01-30 Thread Dan Scanlan
Title: how it's done The very secret service David Kelly referred obliquely to Operation Rockingham. What role did this mysterious cell play in justifying the Iraq war? Michael Meacher Friday November 21, 2003 The Guardian David Kelly, giving evidence to the prime minister's intelligence and

dinnertime reading ;-)

2004-01-30 Thread Devine, James
Reuters in Taipei Friday January 30, 2004 The Guardian The decomposing remains of a 60-tonne sperm whale exploded on a busy street in Taiwan, showering cars and shops with blood and organs and stopping traffic for hours. The 17 metre (56 foot) mammal had been on a truck bound for postmortem

Re: Iowa subborned

2004-01-30 Thread Michael Perelman
Not to get conspiratorial about it, but it was Rockefeller Fdn. money that pushed the ag. modernization movement. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Nanoparticles in the Brain

2004-01-30 Thread Mike Ballard
Thought this might be of interest. Nanotech is getting a lot of attention by those in the van of the capitalist production process these days. Regards, Mike B) *** Tiny particles enter the brain after being inhaled JIM GILES / Nature 9jan04

Re: China's new Marxist left

2004-01-30 Thread Doug Henwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because the amount of labor-time of capitalists, which can fit to this identification of productive labor, is so small (almost non-existing in contemporary capitalisms) there is no reason to theorize this phenomenon. Who are the capitalists you're thinking of?

Re: China's new Marxist left

2004-01-30 Thread eatonak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because the amount of labor-time of capitalists, which can fit to this identification of productive labor, is so small (almost non-existing in contemporary capitalisms) there is no reason to theorize this phenomenon. Who are the capitalists you're thinking of?

Re: Iowa subborned

2004-01-30 Thread Brian McKenna
yo-da-ladeee.. .yo-da-lay-deee Rock-a-fellah.. .rock-er-fell eer Rocky money was also tied to medical science and the Flexner Report. . .which helped create bio-medicine a century ago. . .the scourge of social medicine. . . Brian McKenna.

Break Through 2004: A Refuser Solidarity Network Conference (3/13-14)

2004-01-30 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:30:12 -0800 From: Steven Feuerstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: You are invited to Break Through 2004, an RSN conference List-Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Update and request for action from the Refuser Solidarity Network Dear friend of the Refuser Movement: Below

faxed article

2004-01-30 Thread michael
the last page never came. I found it on the web. http://www.bahdayton.com/surviac/e-news/PDF/CGSC_Space_News_04-02-13Jan04.pdf -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901

Re: faxed article

2004-01-30 Thread Michael Perelman
Apologies again. Swamped with about 1500 MyDoom insults per day, I sent it to the list instead of Ian. It is interesting nonetheless, describing Space Warfare. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at

new frontiers of e-commerce

2004-01-30 Thread Eubulides
Cannabis online: click now and it's with you in 24 hours As the drug is downgraded, police crack down on internet vendors offering supplies by post David McCandless Saturday January 31, 2004 The Guardian It will arrive next day by registered delivery in an unassuming padded envelope, promises