On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Interhemispheric Resource Center wrote:
> The main goal of the In Focus project is to bring academics, ngos,
> activists, policy makers and citizens together to create a united voice for
> a more progressive foreign policy. By teaming the Institute for Policy
> Studies (insid
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Anthony D'costa wrote:
> There is merit to the argument that the shortage is fiction. At the same
> time the skills found among Indian engineers are not necessarily found in
> large numbers in the advanced capitalist economies. In the software
> business if one wants do the mo
For people's information, their CD is absolutely fantastic. The single
"Pissing the Night Away" gets heavy rotation on commercial FM station,
but the truth is that every cut is superb. Don't miss it.
Louis Proyect
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote:
> I have not read either the Boucher article or the
> Levins and Lewontin piece in O'Connor's journal. But I
> think that they are being misinterpreted and unfairly
> castigated here. They are the authors of _The Dialectical
The focu
I don't know why I find all this discussion of how not to frighten off Mr.
Card so _odd_. Maybe its because I am not a trained economist and don't
know who's who. The discussion sounds to me a little bit like this:
"Kids, I've invited Mr. Blunkhorst over for dinner. He's the president of
the Fir
On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:
> productive/unproductive sort - the "fake" Trotskyists denounced by the
> Sparts (who are the authentic Trots, it goes without saying), or the
Doug, one of the great misfortunes of the American left was the decline
and fall of the SWP, Trotsky's favorite
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Or the old Marx school business, even, with poverty being produced
> alongside wealth.
>
I think Marx had 19th century England in mind when he developed his
analysis. Yes, capital accumulation had a double-edged character in
Western Europe. Does it in
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
> is pretty compelling. I tried to give you some good leads for criticism of
> Living Marxism in terms of their support of green revolution solutions.
Rakesh, I can't really treat you as serious person any more. What makes
people adopt one standard on
This is how I first heard about the TV show in question. It was circulated
on the mclibel mailing-list that I belong to. The web address at the
bottom has links to both the show's transcript and critiques.
Louis Proyect
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Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 18:07:43 GMT
Karl Marx:
The chapter on primitive accumulation [in Marx's Capital] claims no more
to trace the path by which, in Western Europe, the capitalist economic
order emerged from the womb of the feudal economic order. It therefore
presents the historical movement which, by divorcing the producers from
Famed Music Critic Robert Palmer Dead At 52
Heralded record producer, documentarian and author of Deep Blues
succumbs to liver disease.
Addicted To Noise Staff Writer Chris Nelson reports :
Renowned music critic and record producer Robert Palmer, whose recent
bout with liver disease rallied mu
Roger Burbach, Boris Kargalitsky, Orlando Nunez: "Globalization and its
Discontents"
Kim Moody: "Workers in a Lean World"
William Robinson "Promoting Polyarchy Globalization: US Intervention and
Hegemony"
Louis Proyect
(all of the above are attempts at a Marxist understanding of
"globalization
Just so there isn't any confusion. I decoded Michael's article and sent it
out as regular text today. It is a titanic work of scholarship. Michael,
was it ever published?
Louis Proyect
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Michael;
>
> I've downloaded all three Carey files and will r
The recent International Brotherhood of Teamsters' (IBT) victory over
United Parcel Service is part of a historic struggle to transform the
American trade unions into instruments of class struggle. Back in 1934,
socialists organized a powerful teamsters strike in the mid-west city of
Minneapolis,
October 26, 1997
Its Mood Dark as the Haze, Southeast Asia Aches
By SETH MYDANS
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Tigers and elephants are fleeing the burning
jungles. Birds are falling from the murky skies. School children are
fainting at their desks. Ships are colliding at sea.
As a filthy haze fro
David Harvey spoke on the Communist Manifesto last night at NYC's Brecht
Forum as part of a year-long celebration of its 150th anniversary. Harvey
has some of the most interesting insights into the Marxist classics today,
especially involving questions of their "spatial" dimension. Since he a
geog
On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> adjusting for inflation, substituting salary for wealth etc. What concerns
> me is the type of political debat that is based on complex models and
> estimates, such as global warming or social security.
For social security, check LBO. For global
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
> I do number crunching for a living and what amazes me is that numbers are
> more important than reality they represent. One can tell the most blatant
> lie with impunity, if only he can produce graphs and charts to back this
> claim up. It is a
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, michael perelman wrote:
>
> Jews, as neuvaux riche, wanted to shout with pride about their
> accomplishments. By calling attention to themselves, they made themselves
> more vulnerable to charges of control. In addition, by gravitating to the
> lower ranks of business, the
The World Bank has excellent figures. (www.worldbank.org)
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Thad Williamson wrote:
> Dear Pen-L'rs,
>
> Does anyone know of an easy reference source for figures on the GLOBAL
> distribution of income and wealth, and historical trends in regard to each?
> Both internet and pa
Recently the "globalization" theorists have begun to target "finance
capital" as the root of all evils. In a glossy newsletter that I received
recently from the Forum on Globalization, David Korten, the group's
executive director and author of "When Corporations Ruled the World",
makes the case th
It was Christmas vacation, 1989 and I was with four other members of
Tecnica in a cab in downtown Lusaka, Zambia getting a tour of the city.
Michael Urmann, our executive director, was with his companion Mary, while
Jeff Klein was with his wife whose name I can't recall. I was the
president of th
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, James Devine wrote:
>
> you missed one of my points, i.e., that it's quite possible that a proletarian
> revolution was impossible in Cuba in 1959. So I don't join Karol or Farber in
> using my kind of observation to lambaste Castro.
>
No, I was quite aware that you though
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, john gulick wrote:
>
> My question is this: does the abandonment of the peasant-led socialist
> revolution model not only have to do with the oft-cited reasons (the end of the
> Cold War and Soviet aid, the failure of past experiments due to imperialist
> aggression or counte
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, James Devine wrote:
> Now it's true that the USSR-type revolutions have helped _create_ a
> proletariat, by pushing industrialization. But that's something that
> capitalism does too.
>
This is the central feature of 20th century revolutions: They tend to
occur in peasant na
At 01:57 PM 10/8/97 -0700, Bill Burgess wrote:
> I'd also be interested in whether
>the Johnson-Forest tendency (Anderson's political pedigree) agreed with
>Trotsky's emphasis on dialectics in opposing the characterization of the
>USSR as capitalist (see_In Defence of Marxism_), since Anderson lu
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, john gulick wrote:
> I thought recent reputable historical research has shown that a sizable
> percentage of the German working class (formally defined) supported the
> Nazis (although of course this percentage mushroomed when the Depression
> took hold) -- especially workers
October 7, 1997
Sherritt Rocks the Boat in Cuba But Success Is Not In-Shored
By PETER FRITSCH and JOSE DE CORDOBA
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
HAVANA -- Ian Delaney brings a rare board meeting here to a close one
recent afternoon, late for an engagement back in Toronto.
But he
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Harry M. Cleaver wrote:
> move in new directions. As far as I can remember they both considered
> themselves to be dialectical and historical materialists --theories which
> have kept their practitioners trapped within the neverending synthesis of
> capital's master narrative
On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Harry M. Cleaver wrote:
> Doug: I beg to differ, especially about Deleuze & Guattari some of whose
> works I know quite well. There is a great deal of extremely thought
> provoking and useful material in their writings. While there was no excuse
> for writing Anti-Oedipus the
October 5, 1997
Free-Market Plunge Is Rattling China's
Businesses
By SETH FAISON
SHANGHAI, China -- Lu Yaqin cheerfully admits that, for a chairwoman of
the board, she does not know much about business.
Ms. Lu's position, running a company newly freed from government
ownership, right in the he
Michael, now that we have shifted to galaxy, the primary addressee when
you reply to a message is not the mailing-list, but the person who sent
it. A bit inconvenient and worth fixing.
Louis P.
I'll pass this on to him and see what he says.
Lou
On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Louis N Proyect wrote:
>
> >"The ultimate validity of our criticism," Sokal said, "has to
> >be judged author by author, case by case."
>
> Ok, Deleu
October 4, 1997
Physicists Take Philosophers to Task in Paris
By CRAIG R. WHITNEY
PARIS -- In the country that invented Cartesian logic, the
philosopher is king. So Alan Sokal, professor of physics at New York
University, and Jean Bricmont, a colleag
Last night I went to a poetry reading mainly to hear Carolyn Forche, one
of the two featured readers, who has written socially conscious poems
about a variety of topics, most especially Central America. She is the
author of the new anthology "Against Forgetting", which brings together
topical poet
Most of the information came from Rachid Tlemcani's "State and Revolution
in Algeria", published by Westview. My guess is that this is out-of-print.
One of the benefits of working at Columbia is that I can usually track
down a jewel like this. My biggest problem is usually finding just the
right t
In a way, this is moot because the era of these types of revolutions might
be over, with the collapse of the USSR. Victor Tirado, a Sandinista,
argued that the era of anti-imperialist revolutions in the third world
might have come to an end based on the experience of Nicaragua. Cuba seems
to be th
There has never been such a thing as a purely proletarian party with a
purely revolutionary program and the FLN of Algeria was no
exception.
It contained political contradictions between Marxist and bourgeois-
nationalist groupings. These contradictions were most often expressed
through the wo
I didn't want to get into this, but Maxime Rodinson has argued that Leon's
history is not accurate for the pre-feudal period when there was class
differentiation according to recent scholarship. Rodinson says that the
people-class only emerges at the time of the Crusades when ceased being
farmers
If the Sandinistas abandoned their original revolutionary project, the
question then becomes one of what caused their retreat? Was this shift to
the right attributable primarily to factors within Nicaragua or was it
caused by external pressure? If it is a combination of the two factors,
how much w
Abram Leon wrote "The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation" in 1941
when he was all of 24 years old and at a time when his hands were filled
leading the Belgian Trotskyist movement under conditions of fascist
repression. Eventually, the Gestapo captured him and sent him to
Auschwitz. He did n
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Lou, it's a bit more complicated than this. South Korean and Taiwanese
> firms have become pretty formidable technically and financially and are
> themselves now investing abroad, in their poorer neighboring countries and
> also in the U.S. and Europe
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Anthony P D'Costa wrote:
> But here's the problem. What sort of non-capitalist growth is there?
Well, there was Nicaragua. It had the fastest growing economy in Central
America in the early years of the Sandinista revolution. The government
was also opposed to environment
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Anthony P D'Costa wrote:
> Growing unemployment? Where? The S'pore PM wants foreigners to drive
> the economy, obviously under a controlled system. The govt is worried
> that Singapore's won't be reproducing itself so the govt is getting
> educated people together (matchma
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Romain Kroes wrote:
>
> .. And it can be added that the growth rates associeted to the
> "miracle" are widely made of a transferance process of activity from the
> former traditional domestic productions to other ones that are now
> devoted to export. Such a "miracle" is not
Fred Haliday wrote an interesting book on Japan's emerge as a major
capitalist nation. Although I read it about 20 years ago, the arguments
remain vivid in my mind. The Japanese bourgeoisie made a political
decision to isolate itself from the West, unlike China. The literal
insular character of Ja
UNEMPLOYMENT A SERIOUS PROBLEM IN PRC
September 18, 1997 - Source: Central News Agency (Taiwan)
According to the Central News Agency (Taiwan), unemployment in
China is reaching serious levels as 135 million people are now
officially out of work. Although economic growth in China has been,
accordi
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Dennis R Redmond wrote:
>
> But what about the 2.5 billion people of Thailand, Malaysia, Chile,
> Vietnam, Indonesia, and the vast subcontinents of India and China, all of
> which have seen enormous economic growth from 1985-95? Decline in
> capitalism is always relative to t
My sharp polemics with a member of the British Revolutionary Communist
Party, publishers of Living Marxism.
Louis P.
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Subject: Third World ec
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Subject: M-I: Nazism in power
One of the big differences between workers and
September 22, 1997
Asia's Economic Tigers Growl at World Monetary Conference
By DAVID E. SANGER
HONG KONG -- After a decade of persuading nations to open their financial
markets, American officials at a tense conclave in Hong Kong have run into
a wall of resistance as angry Asian leaders charge
Pierre Dorge's "New Jungle Orchestra" is inspired by Duke Ellington's
original Jungle Orchestra that performed at the Cotton Club in Harlem in
the late 1920s. The nine-piece Danish band is appearing at New York's
Sweet Basil and I saw them last night. I knew I was in for a treat when I
got a seat
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Thad Williamson wrote:
> PBS carried a one-hour, Pew Trust sponsored program called "Affluenza"
> tonight about American consumerism. The first 45 minutes were quite good
> though the last part on responses focussed solely on individualist
> strategies for dropping off the tr
On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Tom Walker wrote:
> "just". We can often see, for instance in peasant revolts, the idea that the
> king only needed to be properly informed to put an immediate end to all
> evil. If he only knew how the peasants were being ill-treated, he would
> order it to stop. In this basi
UNITED STATES
The left rises from the almost-dead
As Congress resumes, the left in America seems in a stronger position than
it has been for some years. Is this really so? TWO years is a short time
in American politics. Already, more than two years before the primaries
for the presidential el
September 3, 1997
Blue-Collar Jobs Gain, but the Work Changes in Tone
By ROBERT D. HERSHEY Jr.
BALTIMORE -- Like so many of the corporate downsizings of the 1980s and
1990s, the 1984 breakup of Ma Bell led to tens of thousands of layoffs
while bringing vast efficiencies to the telephone industr
This weekend I attended a conference on the Borscht Belt at the Sunny
Oaks, a very modest hotel that has survived the economic collapse of the
famed Jewish resort area in Sullivan County, New York. The conference was
organized by Phil Brown, a Brown University professor. (There is no
relation, of
Between 10 and 15 thousand New Yorkers protested police brutality at rally
this afternoon in City Hall park. They demanded justice for Abner
Louima--in Creole, "Jistis pou Abner Louima"--as they streamed across the
Brooklyn Bridge. The crowd was mostly Haitian, judging from the Creole
conversation
I erred the other day when I said that "Law and Order" was not a liberal
TV show. After watching a rerun last night, I have come to my senses. I
must be spending too much time on the Spoons Marxism lists where
ultraleftism reigns supreme.
The episode was based on the events surrounding an alleged
Nation Magazine, September 8-15, 1997
Whose Economy Is It?
By Gary Mongiovi
Wall Street: How it Works and for Whom. By Doug Henwood. Verso. 372 pp.
$25
Economic processes are complex, and the forces that shape them are seldom
transparent; such conditions are favorable to opportunistic ideologi
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Tom Walker wrote:
> Another problem with a result like 25% favouring socialism is that it
> doesn't tell us anything else about what the survey respondents thought.
The survey results actually come from Michael Denning's superb new book
called the "Cultural Front", a study o
I was wrong about the usual villain being a minority member on "Law and
Order" but I'll stick with everything else I said about the show. There
is nothing liberal about it. To use the word liberal to describe it would
strip the word of all meaning.
There have been weekly dramatic series on TV t
On Sun, 24 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Would the left be content with a world in which the package
> carrying working class could afford to purchase and consume the
> mail order catalogue goods they deliver, in the private splendor
> of their tract homes with a sport utility vehicle in ev
August 24, 1997
The Worker Backlash
By STEPHEN S. ROACH
EAST HAMPTON , N.Y. -- The just-resolved United Parcel Service strike was
a shot across the bow of the inflationless 1990's. American workers are
now beginning to challenge the very forces that have led to a spectacular
resurgence in corp
August 24, 1997
Work Hard, Earn Less
Market forces, the authors say, are depleting skilled workers' earnings
By PETER PASSELL
The villains of this book are familiar: overpaid corporate executives,
soulless bond traders, inflation-phobic central bankers, clueless
politicians. So are the victi
And one other: Dan Moldea's "Teamster Wars", which focuses on the Hoffa
years. The 3 books are a must for understanding the labor movement.
Louis P.
On Sat, 23 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Friends,
>
> In additin to the La Botz book reviewed by Louis P., people might want to look
> at
I guess everybody has heard about the courts ordering a new election for
the office of Teamster president. Cary got caught up in some
irregularities as described in this morning's NY Times:
"With heavy restrictions limiting contributions -- a legacy of the effort
to rid the Teamsters of corruptio
On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Laurie Dougherty wrote:
>
> The genius of the industrial union movement was the realization that mass
> production was not going to go away. The genius of the New Deal was the
> recognition that mass production required mass consumption to keep it
> going. Every culture con
Jim Craven should really give the professor-bashing a break. Especially
with respect to somebody like Harry Cleaver, who has been more responsible
than anybody in getting the word out on the peasant struggle of Chiapas.
I myself used to indulge in this sort of thing a couple of years ago when
I f
Thanks to Michael Yates for his kind comments. His reference to Ornette is
timely since there is a fascinating tie-in between him and the European
Marxist thinker named Cornelius Castoriadis as reported in the current
issue of Lingua Franca. I don't know how many PEN-L'ers read this magazine
but I
Last night I heard Chico O'Farrell lead an 18 piece band at Birdland on
West 44th Street. O'Farrell is the legendary arranger and songwriter who
Dizzy Gillespie hired in the late 40s to help him develop an Afro-Cuban
jazz style. O'Farrell came on board around the same time as Chano Pozo
did. Pozo
A tip of the hat to Michael Perelman. What a great moderator. Unobtrusive
except when action is called for. And earlier when he said that the thread
on prostitution was "repetitious", that's all I needed to hear. Done.
Louis P.
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Michael Perelman wrote:
> Sorry about bringi
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
> To summarize: I am not arguing that there is no exploitation of women doing
> sex work -- there is plenty, especially of the non-white workers. But that
> does not mean that sex work work should be abolished (as they did in Cuba or
> China which
> In "The Wealth of Nations," published 221 years ago, Smith
> wrote with realism about manufacturers and merchants. He
> described them as "men whose interest is never exactly the same
> with that of the public, who have generally an interest to
> deceive and even to oppress the public, and
What Goes Up Must Usually, Well, Stop Going Up
By LOUIS UCHITELLE
When the history of America's mid-1990s economic boom is written, a fat
chapter will certainly be devoted to the mystifying strength of corporate
profits -- how they were able to rise so fast for so long.
But there must also be
William S. Burroughs' death has been on my mind. Long before I was a
Marxist, I was a youthful member of the beat generation. In 1960 I read
Jack Kerouac's On the Road and a year or so later I read Burroughs' Naked
Lunch. These two works deepened my outsider identity. It was the 1960s
radicalizati
August 5, 1997
Analysis: Teamsters, UPS Fighting Over Part-Timers
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
The walkout against United Parcel Service stems from the inevitable clash
of two powerful forces in the nation's economy -- the revitalized labor
movement's opposition to the use of part-time workers and corp
LISBON, July 26 (Reuter) - South African President Nelson Mandela
urged President Suharto to free Timor guerrilla leader Xanana
Gusmao during his visit to Indonesia, a Lisbon newspaper reported
on Saturday.
Nobel laureate and Timor resistance leader Jose Ramos Horta told
the weekly Express
David Harvey:
"Explanation in Geography"
"Social Justice and the City"
"The Urban Experience"
"Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference"
Does anybody know the exact date for the next SSC? If so please, email me
directly.
Thanks,
Louis P.
PEN-L'er Michael Yates is the co-editor of the latest Monthly Review,
which is a special issue on labor.
There's an article by Doug Henwood on the disappearance of work question
(check out today's NY Times for the article on how labor is being absorbed
into the new round of hiring); Kim Moody on
This originally appeared on the Marxism-international list and Michael
Perelman invited me to post it here, stating:
---
Are you going to post your Denning piece on pen-l?
I think that it is important. We are losing the cultural wars and
losing
>From Gabriel Kolko's new book "Vietnam: Anatomy of a Peace":
"The IMF [International Monetary Fund] blocked credits to Vietnam in 1985
because it failed to pay its arrears or adopt 'a reasonable set of
policies.' In August 1987, with its reform program capsizing and no
alternatives, the Politbur
The Money Story
by Thomas Goetz, Village Voice, July 1, 1997
If capitalism is America's national religion, the press is its pulpit.
Televangelists trumpet the Dow's ascent on the evening news and on
business channels such as CNBC and CNN. Billion-dollar wire operations
like Reuters and Bloomberg
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jun 10 15:05:13 1997
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 09:53:04 -0700
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Cc: 'Joel Rubinstein' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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'RESULTS List' <[EMAIL PROT
Social democracy has to be put into perspective. The gains of reformist
governments ultimately are rooted in revolutionary struggles. For example,
the film "Adalen 31" (this is probably not available as a video, but it is
the ultimate labor history film) depicts a protracted and bloody strike of
m
Daniel Singer is writing the most interesting things about the French
elections. Just the other week, before the elections, he made the
observation that the number of people in the streets in the 1996 protests
involving truckers, et al, were actually larger than in 1968. The
elections were a produ
The reason that you put "documentary" in quotes should be spelled out.
There is no such town as Dadetown and the film-makers simply created a
"faux" documentary which turned many people off. I suspect that the
film-makers were more interested in making a statement about signifiers
and spectacle ra
>Cuba and South Africa: The Fate of Revolution
>
>by Joel Kovel
>The ties between Castro's Cuba and Mandela's South Africa run very deep.
>Cuban slave society was less efficient in demolishing linkages to Africa
>than its North American counterpart, allowing Cuba to retain a strong sense
>of the m
On Fri, 30 May 1997, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
> > but ther politics tend to be leftish. If a thread on Cuba opens up on this
> > list, I hope it can be based on solid information rather than off-the-cuff
> > opinion.
>
> By these criteria we'd have to shut down the
> whole Internet.
>
Look, Max,
The remarks below by Max and Jim Hurd are flippant and show very little
insight into Cuban history and politics. Even the bourgeois press concedes
that there is very little support for a capitalist restoration in Cuba
along Polish lines. One of the reasons for this obviously has to do with
the suc
Our Marxist knowledge of Africa is underdeveloped. There is far too little
coverage in left journals and discussion on the Internet tends to revolve
around advanced capitalist countries. Exceptions are made for Asia and
Latin America occasionally but much more attention should be paid to
Africa, e
I was not arguing that efforts to export projects to India have been
unsuccessful. I was instead stating that there is a lot of hype about
disappearing American jobs in the field.
Louis
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Michael Perelman wrote:
> My understanding of the Indian software industry is different
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
> I presume similar arguments were tossed around when Frederick Winslow Taylor
> started replacing skilled workers with "hacks" controlled through his
> time-motion studies. The quality might have gone down then and may, as
> well, go down now (for
On Sun, 4 May 1997, Rosenberg, Bill wrote:
>
> and the New Zealand figures are for the legal definition of
> "overseas company" - i.e. more than 24.9% foreign. Some of those are
> arguably not foreign-controlled (e.g. 58% of shares of companies
> listed on the NZ Stock Exchange are foreign owned)
On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Tavis Barr wrote:
>
> What amazes me is this: The system that I put together probably cut the
> non-production workforce (people with the fairly mundane jobs of keeping
> track of inventory and filling out and keeping track of purchase orders
> and payments on bills) by a
On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Tavis Barr wrote:
>
> What amazes me is this: The system that I put together probably cut the
> non-production workforce (people with the fairly mundane jobs of keeping
> track of inventory and filling out and keeping track of purchase orders
> and payments on bills) by a
This sounds like SAP, a client-server database application from a German
company that ties together inventory, purchasing, general ledger, payroll,
personnel, etc. My plan for socialism is to install SAP globally. That was
a piece of the software that I posted a while back in my debate with Robin
On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> In that capacity, the nonprofit sector has nothing to do with the role of
> civil society envisioned by deTocqueville (and later Gramsci). The former
> is merely an ancilliary mechanism of manufacturing public goods, the latter
> -- the mechanism f
Michael Lowy has a good collection called "Marxism in Latin America". The
only problem is that it might not be in print. If it isn't, then I'd
suggest the new edition of Mariatequi's writings from Humanities Press;
Guevara and Castro collections from Pathfinder Press.
Louis Proyect
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