Jim Devine:
>I'm all in favor of freeing the slaves. But it's not an unmixed
blessing. In
>some places in the Caribbean, I understand that the slave-owners
freed
>their own slaves in order to avoid the responsibility of keeping them
alive.
Some thought about the demographics of the Caribbean mig
Louis:
>Interesting. Deidre went from ITT to NACLA where she turned the journal
>into a forum for "civil society" as opposed to the "thuggish" guerrilla
>movements the mag used to identify with. She wrote a horrible editorial
>clucking her tongue at Lori Berenson who was "ill-advised" enough to w
I'm not sure this is a discussion that needs to take place on PEN-L, but just to clear
up a couple of points:
1. The decision to stop publishing Diana Johnstone was not made by James Weinstein,
but by ITT's editorial staff--at that time, Deidre McFadyen, Dave Mulcahey and me.
(All three of us
Louis Proyect:
>Returning Manhattan to the Indians? This is a joke, right? I haven't heard
>this kind of Rush Limbaugh-tainted leftism, since I first started posting
>about indigenous struggles on PEN-L a year ago.
I thought I was paraphrasing something you actually wrote. Maybe I'm wrong, or ma
Louis Proyect:
> the whole question of museums. Something tells me that these sorts of
>institutions should be dismantled after the capitalist system is
>overthrown, and the contents returned to the rightful owners.
This must be from the same part of your program as returning Manhattan to the I
>Gerald Levy wrote:
>>Doug writes:
>>
>>> H-lp! LBO badly needs an intern
>>
>>What did you say you were offering prospective candidates in terms of an
>>hourly wage and benefits?
>$50/week for 5-10 hours of work. No benefits, sorry.
Except an education money can't buy. And the doors Doug's na
Sounds to me like Noise Trader Risk in Financial Markets, by a certain J. Bradford
DeLong.
Josh
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that sounds like Robert Barsky's style ???