Robin Cook was explicit last night on BBC tv that he is an
interventionist - and he cited Kosovo.
The point he chose to make was that the declared basis for the
intervention in Iraq did not turn out to be well founded, and if it
was to liberate the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein it was very ill
Peter Camejo vs. David Cobb: S/RES/1546:
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/06/peter-camejo-vs-david-cobb-sres1546.html
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English
Comparative Studies
Ohio State University
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614-668-6554
I wish they would follow his wishes. he wanted to be buried or cremated, I forget which. I doubt that anyone wants to be put on permanent display...jd---
It's a political decision. It was outrage a lot of conservatives (in the Russian sense of the word). Most people think he should be buried
Incidentally, the Lenin Mausoleum has a website in both Russian and English. It's a tourist attraction: http://www.aha.ru/~mausoleu/
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1.None of your business
2. I don't call it Marxist
3. No
4. The system that is so efficient that some won't have to eat cat food in
their golden years requires that many don't eat period, that some cats eat
better than many humans, that many never live to see golden years. So much
for
In a message dated 6/25/2004 3:44:48 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's a political decision. It has outraged a lot of
conservatives (in the Russian sense of the word). Most people think he should
be buried and the mausoleum turned into a museum.
Wasn't
Marx wrote volumes criticizing bourgeois economic theory, analyzing its
class origins, its ideological obfuscations, and the necessity for the
overthrow of bourgeois economic practice, with the emphasis on the last.
He did not present an alternative political economy, propose morally or
socially
I wrote:
It's a political decision. It has outraged a lot of conservatives (in the Russian
sense of the word).
I meant to say would outrage.
Just backing up my point. I have lots more material. (Thanks, Ralph!) This has been
cut down considerably, since originally he sent me about 70K of materials from JTA and
elsewhere.
Chris:
Sorry for the delays . . . I publish a newsletter on Russian Security
and Military Affairs, which covers
And that was just Jews. Lets see how other people were doing in the Wonderland of
Independent Ichkeria. And I didn't even have to use Lexis-Nexis.
KRO, Stavropol Authorities Sign Resettlement Agreement
By RIA Novosti correspondent Andrey Malosolov
MOSCOW, MAY 20, 1997 RIA NOVOSTI -- The
Reverse-Robinhood?
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James
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:39 PM
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Subject: [PEN-L] query: trickle-down economics
does anyone know of a good synonym for trickle-down economics besides
Chris Doss wrote:
Another 4,000 Leave Chechnya Fleeing Harrasment
By Nikolay Styazhkin
STAVROPOL, August 7, 1997 (Itar-Tass) -- About 4,000 refugees from
Chechnya have come to Russia's southern Stavropol territory since the
start of this year, a territorial migration service spokesman told
Melvin:
What of the question of Appalachia!
The right of nations to self determination can be tricky if the dominate political group that advocates such right makes an assessment that ones group is not a nation.
Exactly what is a national minority? What is a minority? What is an autonomous
Just got sent another 100K of material on this... Amazing how much you can find out by not using Lexis-Nexis.
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I always wonder whether Marx intended the concepts in _Capital_ to be used
in detailed analyses of things like oil price fluctuations or concrete
business cycles. The only practice that might accompany such analyses would
be such things as Keynesian and social dem reforms to soften the impact of
Volume I of CAPITAL is all about class domination, exploitation, and struggle. But
volumes II and III are more superficial (in Marx's terms), dealing with the
relationships among industries, issues of finance, etc. In fact, volume III is in many
ways the same as the bourgeois political economy
by sartesian
Marx wrote volumes criticizing bourgeois economic theory, analyzing its
class origins, its ideological obfuscations, and the necessity for the
overthrow of bourgeois economic practice, with the emphasis on the last.
He did not present an alternative political economy, propose
Krugman used dooh nibor or robin hood spelled backwards.
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 09:03:32AM -0400, nomi prins wrote:
Reverse-Robinhood?
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James
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:39 PM
To: [EMAIL
If there are going to be memorials, monuments and statues to great people,
like the Lincoln Monument, for example, the actual person's body is a kind
of cool variation of those institutions. The actual person's body is , I
don't know, heavier/deeper, if one is not skiddish about dead bodies. In a
David, please cool it. There is not need to be abusive here.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Jim is absolutely correct here. Like Doug says, part of surviving in the capitalist
world is having resources to cover one's expenses after retirement, especially if you
have responsibility for other family members.
Reconciling marxist beliefs in a capitalist world is a tricky situation for all
From a correspondent:
I'm wondering if you know offhand a Marxist analysis of the recent rise
in insurance premiums (as being due to bad investment as opposed to tort
claims running wild). Also, do you know of a Marxist analysis of the
insurance industry specifically?
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The Marxism list:
Did you tell me once or did I hear that they closed or moved the Lenin
museum at the end of Red Square there ? Anyway, they already had the museum.
John Reed and Big Bill Haywood are outback with Stalin.
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Damn it's late. Time to get away from the computer in search of sweet, sweet beer.
John
BTW there's a lot of this rehabilitating of Soviet themes in Putin's Russia -- bringing back the Soviet anthem and the Red Flag, naming schools after and erecting statues to Andropov, putting the plaque to honor Andropov back in the Lubyanka, Luzhkov wanting to put the statie of Dzerzhinsky back
If there are going to be memorials, monuments and statues to great people,like the Lincoln Monument, for example, the actual person's body is a kindof cool variation of those institutions.
SIMI VALLEY, CA--Slave manpower was doubled this week in an effort to
assure that erection of the
Here is an article from today's Wall Street Journal regarding the
failure of economic growth to eliminate poverty -- relating in part to
the outcome of the Indian election. Actually, the graph accompanying the
article shows a very slight decrease in absolute poverty over the last
decade or so,
Dogville: God Doesn't Bless America:
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/06/message-of-dogville-dir.html
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Yoshie
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* Calendars of Events in Columbus:
I think Jim is absolutely incorrect here, and also in regard to Marx's works.
First, I don't believe anything I said is abusive. I answered Mr. Henwood in exactly
the tone he addressed me. I answered with gusto the notion that we can be Marxist
debt-holders.
And as I stated earlier, I can't
Sartesian writes:
I think Jim is absolutely incorrect here, and also in regard
to Marx's works.
gee, I've never been _absolutely_ incorrect before. I'm worse than the proverbial
stopped clock!
To not feel, read, see that the class struggle is the red
thread through every bit
of Vol 2
hello, everyone. to US and Canada folks: please consider acting on the
following request. feel free to respond to me with any questions.
-Robert Naiman
(in Washington DC for the summer, but back in the PhD program in economics
at UIUC in the academic year)
--
Robert Naiman
Senior Policy
Reading JD, I thought I'd go back and check the archives, because I could have sworn
somebody
was actually giving financial advice in response to the original query. The thread
started on 21 June.
Jim's was the first response-- his words were diversify, diversify, diversify.. he
did warn
Sartesian writes:
Now for Marx's writings. ... Is there more to Marx than the class struggle? Yes.
But there is nothing to
Marx without that class struggle. All that is more is the expansion of the that core.
agreed.
The competitition of capital's is a manifestation of the flaw in the
Jim:
The guidance I gave, as Michael Perelman noted, was
simply common sense, not something from Marx (though
I doubt Marx would reject the advice).
Put differently, it was simply common nonsense. If Roach is right and the
equity bubble of the late 1990s was a transforming event in many
c'mon! Diversification is diversification, not diversification only in dollar
assets. Strictly speaking, diversification includes holding gold and canned food,
along with euros and rupiahs.
It's true that if the world economy melts down (or if the scenario of the flick the
Day After Tomorrow
c'mon! Diversification is diversification, not diversification
only in dollar assets. Strictly speaking, diversification includes
holding gold and canned food, along with euros and rupiahs.
Well!
Nice to see that we agree. Now let us give some Marxist financial advice
based on this
Sabri Oncu wrote:
This is not diversification at all. It is a single bet, a bet on the US
dollar hegemony, whose future is more uncertain than ever.
Let's remember that very few if any of the subscribers to this list have
much in the way of discretionary investment. So the question (which
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The only condition is that you have to be someone I like.
Sartesian has no hope to get that 20 Million Liras Turkish banknote from me,
David is right here. Banter is fine when both parties are on the same page, but once
tempers get a little warm, its best to lay off.
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 07:20:28PM -0400, s.artesian wrote:
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Sent: Jun 25, 2004 6:56 PM
To:
In a message dated 6/25/2004 8:40:18 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The situation is particularly complicated in a state like
the USSR and Russian Federation, neither of which were/are nation-states.
(None of the ex-Soviet republics are nation-states, which maybe
I won't ask how much 20 million Turkish Liras are worth but I'm going to diversify
by putting my assets into gin _and_ tonic or scotch _and_ soda.
jd
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'Descendants': Class Dismissed in Affirmative Action (about the
dearth of the descendants of American slaves at elite colleges and
universities, the majority of whose Black students are children of
immigrant parents and/or biracial families):
I wish I could fully support Mr. Devine's portfolio plan. I cannot. I
believe vodka is preferable to gin. Freezing cold vodka. Straight up, with
a twist. Many twists. Like life.
Name the author:
The passions of the human heart are as twisted as a corkscrew.
Sartesian:
Hey, didn't you read what Michael said about nastiness?
It is you who is nasty, not I. I am just responding in kind.
If I weren't such a thick-skinned, jolly, all around sweet
guy I might be tempted to answer in kind.
What a coincidence that we used the same phrase. I must
Michael:
David is right here. Banter is fine when both parties
are on the same page, but once tempers get a little warm,
its best to lay off.
What is wrong with letting a person know that you do not like him Michael?
Do we have to like everybody?
Does everybody have to like each of us?
It
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