The San Francisco antiwar demonstration was indeed really huge, certainly the
biggest demonstration in this area since the Vietnam War days--and even then
only a few demos might have been bigger, I think. It seemed to me to be at
least twice the size of the Oct. 26 event, which was very big its
One of the curious things about discussions among "leftists" is that we can't
agree about ANYTHING. Even about what capitalism and socialism are.
Is China a capitalist country, for example? Well, most people on the left are
finally starting to admit that China has become a capitalist country--th
Japan's economic crisis is intensifying again, and the chief of the IMF says
"no need to panic". I will merely recite my No-Panic Contrary Rule: When they
say there's "no need to panic", that is precisely the time to start to panic.
--Scott Harrison
IMF Chief Downplays Japan's Woes
By HANS
In a message dated 8/14/02 9:03:59 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I have heard nothing about this particular case. I wonder how common it
> is.
The main focus of the U.S. "war on terrorism" remains on radical Islam, but
it has already shown several signs of being expan
In a message dated 7/30/02 1:38:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> >Well, I'm glad we can agree on one thing--you are indeed a bourgeois
> >liberal.
> >Why you hang out on pen-l is still a mystery to me, however. I think very
> >few
> >people here regard themselv
[I wrote:]
> >It is a popular bourgeois myth that there is no place for expertise in
> >politics. Actually, there is room for knowledge, wisdom, a scientific
> >approach, and expertise everywhere, and certainly in politics.
[In a message dated 7/29/02 9:17:28 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL
In a message dated 7/29/02 1:49:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> Of course, in politics, the main body of "experts"
> >is the revolutionary party guiding society.
> >
>
>
> Gaak. That is exactly where there and can be no expertise, just politics.
> When will
In a message dated 7/29/02 10:55:43 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> We should never forget that just
> because "we experts" "know more than they do," their insights can be
> extremely useful and even superior.
Experts and authorities are needed everywhere, but as Jim D
f base.
As it happens, I have two essays posted on the web that criticize this sort
of thing, condemning it as a failure to take note of the particularity of
contradiction (in dialectical terms). The first of these is a long critique
of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA's scheme of imperi
Jim wrote:
> However, I think it's a mistake to assert that "Everything in the world
(and
> also in human society and in human thought) is composed of dialectical
> contradictions." In view of the idea that dialectical thinking is more of a
> set of questions than a set of pre-digested answe
In a message dated 7/5/02 5:30:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> Nancy writes: >I guess my question is, "What *is* a dialectical approach?<
>
> In their THE DIALECTICAL BIOLOGIST, Levins & Lewontin have a useful
> description of the dialectical approach, though it's ha
Forgive me if my following comment has already been made by others, or
if--indeed--it is really unnecessary to make it at all on this list. But the
thing that I found most interesting about the article below, which Louis
posted, was the outrage of the workers who objected to being forced to "w
In a message dated 6/22/02 9:10:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> A reader of my web site asks for a list of suggested
> books on economics for the lay person. I'd like to
> post such a list and hereby ask for nominees. I already
> post organizations that publish mate
http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2002-06-05/smith.html/1/index.html
>From sfweekly.com
Originally published by SF Weekly Jun 05, 2002
©2002 New Times, Inc. All rights reserved.
Off the Waterfront
News media have abandoned the labor beat and missed a
story of global financial import: the loomi
munist Party, USA, with respect to both political economy
and its general political appraisal of the world situation. It is posted at:
http://members.aol.com/ScottH/essays/NotesNPE.htm
It is true that water does not begin to boil at an instaneous moment. Boiling
itself is a process, and al
In a message dated 5/21/02 12:57:44 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > I find it somewhat ironic that Michael should say that this theory
> > > should have in turn influenced him and others in the area of political
> > > economy. The qu
In a message dated 5/21/02 9:04:53 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Stephen Gould's is a great loss. He seems to have been an exceptional
> person in many ways. He certainly has enriched my understanding of
> economic processes, especially with his theory of the punctuat
Chris--
There are three issues we should not confuse:
1) Who benefits from U.S. government actions?
2) Why does the U.S. do the things it does?
3) Which sections of the U.S. population support the actions of the
government?
It seems to me the answer to 1) is that the principal beneficiary of a
In a message dated 5/14/02 11:41:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> ...the primary aim of U.S. policy in the Middle East is U.S. dominance over
> the region and its oil resources, through support for regimes that play
our
> game and through our ever-increasing military
In a message dated 5/5/02 11:39:03 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
>
> Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
> >
> >
> > The Socialist Party I belong to here was originally Maoist, but they
> > ditched that mostly, in order to create a new socialist movement which
> > addressed th
"It is a fact, that every philosopher of eminence for the two last centuries
has either been murdered, or, at the least, been very near it; insomuch, that
if a man calls himself a philosopher, and never had his life attempted, rest
assured there is nothing in him." --Thomas de Quincey, "On Murd
In a message dated 4/29/02 7:15:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> Usually, when people use the phrase "trickle down economics," they rightly
> use it with disdain. But in the case of military Keynesianism, we've got to
> admit that (at least in the short run), there is a
In a message dated 4/28/01 11:39:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Scott was right, and I was wrong, about the date of Einstein's Brownian
> motion paper (1905). Of course this pushes back the date at which it was
> still reasonable to be skeptical of the atomic hypoth
In a message dated 4/27/01 1:27:15 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Scott,
>
> You are right to reproach me for my caustic and rude tone, and your
> responded better than I deserved, for which thanks, and I apologize
directly
> to you. We disagree on many things, how
In a message dated 4/27/01 8:39:56 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> Beating on "positivism" is beating a dead horse, if logical empiricsim is
> meant--at least in philosophy. However there are serious inaccuracies in
the
> following that I will comment on.
>
Just
In a message dated 4/26/01 8:22:16 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> avi narayan wrote:
> >
> > Carrol Cox wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Anyone have a better definition of positivism?
> > >
> >
> > http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/l/logpos.htm
> >
> > is a good start at
In a message dated 4/26/01 7:19:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> "In a foyer of University College London, in a glass fronted cabinet, sits
> the preserved body of Jeremy Bentham; philosopher, economist, expounder of
> Utilitarianism, Bentham is chiefly remembered for i
In a message dated 4/26/01 10:46:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> > Why, you may ask, has the University seen fit to display Bentham all
these
> > years? The answer, like the answer to so many other questions, is that
we
> > liv
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