Comment: I don't see this. That a class contains all
of a given group does not mean that the class term
is meaningless.
You are right. That a class contains all of a given
group does not mean that the class term is
meaningless, at least, not always.
My point was that there is no one out there
Re-reading my post on Ba'athwater I am not sure that the sarcastic
pun really came off.
But it is remarkable that the imperialist coalition is forced to
scramble to use the Baathist intelligentsia to counterbalance the
fast-growing passionate Muslim fundamentalist reaction a matter of
weeks
Chris Burford wrote:
Now in relation to Iraq the strategic dream of the Neo-Cons -
themselves defined as a group of the US intelligentsia by an unusual
and 'interesting' intellectual trajectory - was that within a new
century policed by overwhelming US hegemonic power, a whole Middle
East in
Sabri Oncu wrote:
My point was that there is no one out there who
exactly knows what the future will bring us, so in
that sense everybody, is a noise trader, meaning
that their decisions are guided by hueristics and
biases.
Put differently, there are no rational traders,
whatever rational means.
Look, I don't think it's any great mystery why the USSR fell apart.
The USSR was probably the most multicultural, multiethnic country in the world,
containing everyone from Balts to Tajiks. The CPSU instituted glastnost' and
perestroika in attempt to develop the country. Perestroika created an
Mike Ballard wrote:
Marx and many
others thought that the French--espeically the workers
of Paris--had reached at least a level of class
consciousness sufficient to begin to junk the old
State machinery and to attempt to create a class
dictatorship of their own: the Paris Commune of 1871.
Of
Thanks for putting it politely, Joanna! [see below]
It attempts a summation of the Neo-Con strategy for the Middle East,
with the class implications for the intelligentsia and for capitalism
made explicit.
Risky and speculative, because probably there was no one specific
Neo-Con position but a
(In this editorial, the liberal NY Times, which is likely to back the
liberal Senator Kerry, calls for more US troops and an end to half
measures. This is shaping up to be an interesting division between the two
factions of America's ruling party. The extremist Bush faction is being
outflanked to
Just added to my radio archive
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html:
April 15, 2004 Jagdish Bhagwati, professor of economics at Columbia
and author of In Defense of Globalization, talks about trade, capital
flows, poverty, and development
April 8, 2004 Chalmers Johnson, author of The
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