Abraham Lincoln, the Corporations and Ralph Nader

According to the Socialist Worker, "The Green Party campaign of Ralph Nader for president in 2000 was a lightning rod for grievances throughout U.S. society - and helped to bring together activists from different movements who had never worked together before. But while elections do matter, struggl

Reply to Jim C. on marginalisation

Jim C. wrote: "it is an honor to be marginalized and demonized by half-wits, sycophants and idiots and if for some reason they did like me I would worry and lose sleep what I am doing wrong - why I have not drawn the line of demarcation clear enough." With due respect, I don't look on it that way

Re: Doug's insult

> Uh, that was a joke, unlike Jurriaan accusing me of "political > racism," or some such, which I just let pass. Here in Europe, we distinguish between passing wind and a joke. The New Zealander Bill Rosenberg, a social democrat who sometimes has interesting things to say, has sometimes posted "sh

Re: Fetters on Forces of Production? was Re: RS

The fundamental cause of the present acute party crisis lies in the extremely indecisive, vacillating and dilatory policy of the centre's leading elements. Confronted with un-postponable organizational needs of the party, they try to gain time and thereby provide a cover for the policy of directly

Re: Teaching and Politics - reply to Carrol

> (By "professional revolutionaries" Lenin did NOT mean fulltime > revolutionaries. He meant ordinary people who were working for a living > but in what time they had for politics they trained themselves as well > as possible.) I think Carrol is basically correct, but: (1) She does not distinguis

Re: Reply to Doug Henwood on Ralph Nader

> Could someone explain what Ralph Nader's candidacy has to do with the > development of a socialist party in the U.S.? I could swear he was a > petit bourgeois who believed in the beauties of small business and > competition. This seems to be more a kind of supercilious political racism on your p

Why was the Taft-Hartley Act not rescinded

"By invoking Taft-Hartley against the longshore workers, Bush is effectively declaring war on the working class here and the Iraqi people simultaneously." - Jack Heyman, business agent for ILWU Local 10, cited in Counterpunch (2002). I agree with Shane Mage on the Labor Management Relations (Taft

The emergence of the do-it-yourself nuclear bomb: the Netherlands-Pakistan connection

Aaron Gray-Block reports on the Expatica site: Pakistan has pardoned atomic guru Dr Abdul Khan for trading nuclear secrets, but Khan's Dutch business partner is under investigation in the Netherlands. (...) International intelligence services have accused Henk Slebos - the Dutch academic friend an

Re: there's no hope?

>Of course, if we don't see more "street heat" in the future, these changes will likely not last. Personally, I had the 'flu the last few days, felt terrible. Didn't make it out the door tonight, and ended up discussing Biblical politics in the Middle East with my flatmate Youssef. He reckons thin

Re: Bob Kerrey says no to unionizing the New School

>Disgusting. First they changed the name of my school for marketing >purposes and now they are completing the process of destruction of >radical tradition that the New School represented. It's bad if American scholars have forgotten what democracy is, or what a university is, for sure. But can th

Re: Socialist Scholars Conference - reply to Justin

> Now that Justin is a rich lawyer, his career as a poor professor of > philosophy derailed by the politics of academia, he should take a > break and travel abroad, which I think will reinvigorate his > political spirits more than any PEN-pals can. It's not for me to say what Justin ought to do, o

Just trying to be helpful - a research inquiry into the Lord's mission in Iraq

(Dutch Premier Balkende's visit to President Bush inspired me to write this story). In 1975, Dr Henry Kissinger, speaking about the CIA's policy towards Iraqi Kurds, declared that "covert action should not be confused with missionary work". Ahem. Amidst more horrific, gruesome carnage, Al Jazeera

Re: Socialist Scholars Conference - reply to Justin

Justin wrote: > Nonetheless there are certain obvious differences > between 1917 and now, like the existence of mass > working class radical movements of the left and the > far left, and a history of revolutionary struggle that > shook the government within living memory, and > socialist parties t

Re: Reply to Louis Proyect on revolutionary socialism

Peter, Thanks for your comment, which is encouraging. I've never really had any despair about political prospects or the lack of them. I don't care about that, it's none of my concern. For most of the 1980s and some years in the 1990s I was involved in various groups and campaigns on and off. But

Re: Reply to Louis Proyect on revolutionary socialism

There are going > to be "bosses." Leadership or being boss means you have accepted - one way or > another, responsibility to do something. Okay, so now there are going to be bosses. The question raised however is: how do they become bosses, by what process ? How do they establish their leadership

Re: Observations on the Socialist Scholars Conference

about two > months before the Russian revolution Lenin apparently wrote to Krupskaya > and said that they were not being able to see any socialist revolution > in their lifetime! That's true as far as I know. Roman Rosdolsky actually published a really interesting piece on this topic, about the r

The ABC of sectarianism

Since my time as Education student, I have frequently pondered the phenomenon of sectarianism. Here's my thoughts, for the record: 1. ORIGINS Sectarianism refers to mistaken and stunted attitudes to politics, real social movements and human relations. The point of departure of sectarians is basic

Re: Reply to Louis Proyect on revolutionary socialism - rejoinder

> This is a very good point. The appeal of autonomism is that you can call > yourself a revolutionary without actually forming organizations and taking > responsibility for anything. This was also the appeal of the New Left in > the 1960s. But, with due respect, even there I think you are mistaken

Re: corporations/More Side Issue

Charles asked:   > How do you avoid touching during sex ?  Must be quite a trick.   This is a slightly "schizo" answer maybe, but I would say, it could happen in a dream. John Lennon explains this as follows in his track #9 Dream, as follows:   On a river of soundThru the mirror go round,

Reply to Louis Proyect on revolutionary socialism

Louis wrote: >B-52's raining Volkswagen size bombs on peasant villages recruited me to socialism, not elegant descriptions of the "benefits" of a future world. I do not see how the one need exclude the other, and it really avoids the question of what would "recruit" young people to socialism the

Is a revolution in the USA possible ?

Doug asked: >I'd like to hear someone argue to the contrary. At the risk of appearing impossibly arrogant and irresponsible, I think it is quite possible to unleash a revolution in the United States, you just need to attack the weakest links in the chain there. All that is required is to create a

A Cambridge lesson for US Democrats: how Prof. Eatwell answered Alan Greenspan... 11 years ago

Professor Lord John Eatwell, one of the brightest British reformist economists(http://www.jims.cam.ac.uk/people/faculty/eatwellj.html) wrote a very simple but quite prophetic article at the beginning of the Clinton era, which I've edited a little, with ten new subheads to fit with the current situa

Re: Observations on the Socialist Scholars Conference

> Well, as I said, if we in the US had what they have in > Sweden or the Netherlands, we'd think we had won. And > certianly it would be a great victory. The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. What you shouldn't overlook is that inequality and disparities have increased a l

Re: Observations on the Socialist Scholars Conference

Revolutionary > socialism contrasts with reformist socialism that believes in changing > capitalism so as to socialise certain aspects of the system to distribute > wealth and power somewhat more equitably and tomake capitalism more > responsive to the needs of everyone and specifically the worst o

Re: Observations on the Socialist Scholars Conference

> what sense does it make to proclaim "revolutionary > socialism" today? The estimable Ernest Mandel once drafted an article on "revolutionary politics in a non-revolutionary situation" (he never published it I think), and indeed there was a real question there which needed to be answered. How sp

Of democracy and dead cattle

Jim wrote: > so that the dominated groups can dominate. Dominate what, or what sense ? (if you like word puzzles and poetry, in Dutch, "dominate" = "domineren", cryptologically containing the words "dom" (=dumb), "dominee" (=church minister), "nee" (=no), "ren" (=run"). "neren" is also close to "

Spotting the error: the Jackson breast, statistical fallacy and women's health

February 12 2004 Cleavage Among the Voters? USA Today's poll on Jackson's breast baring We usually think that spotting an error in a professionally administered poll takes some extra degree of training, or some knowledge of higher math. But sometimes spotting a major problem in a poll published by

International politics update: three Dutch MNCs back Bush campaign financially

In the latest copy of Revu (p. 8), Henk Willem Smits mentions that KPMG, Fortis and Philips are supporting the Bush campaign, contributing $400,000, $119,000 and $34,000 respectively. KPMG said that the US branch had made an autonomous decision. Likewise, Fortis said an independent decision was mad

Re: What is this thing called love?

Personally, I often think that love is smoking your last cigarette, and knowing that you'll never smoke again, because your are faced with something fantastic (or have something fantastic in your face) which makes that you don't want to smoke anymore. My hunch is that human awareness is best categ

Re: Will the oil run out ? Reflections from a layman

-Original Message- From: Jurriaan Bendien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:41:45 +0100 Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Will the oil run out ? Reflections from a layman > 1) On the global level, the U.S. wields control over the oil wells for some time to com

Re: Will the oil run out ? Reflections from a layman

1) On the global level, the U.S. wields control over the oil wells for some time to come and this would place it in a better competitive position vis-à-vis partners in the Western World.   But is that really true ? My understanding is that the US controls SOME of the oil resource but not ALL

Re: Music 30-35,000 years ago

> BBC World service this week featured a programme about drums quoting a > Paul Barnes saying that the earliest evidence for human music making > goes back 30-35 thousand years ago Well you shouldn't believe just any sort of sexed-up English story, you know. There's the serious side of the BBC and

Re: Derivatives

> That's because he is in exile. Yes, I knew that. My own exile is more self-imposed, to the extent that, after what happened to me, basically I just want to shut a lot of stuff out, so that I concentrate better on saying and doing what I mean, and not what I do not mean, or what other people thin

Re: corporations/More Side Issue

> One of the problems with a capitalist society (or, more generally, a commodity-producing one) is that market competition encourages rampant individualism and instrumentalism, undermining the needed fellow-feeling and trust. A problem I think is that many leftist politico's think that "solidarity

Re: Derivatives

> a) prohibit the $130 trillion trade in derivatives altogether. It is not a $130 trillion "trade" in derivatives, if you want to be precise. The trade is a contractual assurance exchanged for a fee. That BIS estimate, refers to the value of the underlying asset (tangible or financial), which is i

Re: Derivatives

I think it was good of Juriann Bendian to raise it, and bad > for Sabri to curtly dismiss his effort as a "bad essay" without any > explanation except "derivative are dangerous" (indeed) and to invite me to > kiss his sweet cheeks for pursuing the thread. Don't worry about that. Sabri is really t

Re: Critique of Louis Proyect, on the topic of socialist scholars

Just to reply quickly to Louis's points: 1. To begin with, there was absolutely nothing about Venezuela or Haiti - two of the more important hot spots in the world today. Reply: Best to concentrate on what is there, not on what is not there. Louis underestimates very much the attack of Richard Pi

The idiocy of Israeli fascism

A new species of officer is achieving greatness in the Israel Defense Forces. These people did most of their service as occupation officers, and their excellence is a function of the degree of violence and brutality they exercise against the Palestinians. The most striking example of this trend is

Re: Corporations

that > investors find the limitation of liability an > attractive feature. What is wrong with that view? "Wrong" in what sense - moral culpability, economic benefits or private interest ? The search in on for new legal forms to offload costs and losses. LLCs provide tax and managerial advantages.

A new religion in economics: the privatisation within privatisation in Israel

Banking is one of Israel's largest industries. In 1996, the banking industry (1) generated NIS 15,250 million ($4,690 million) in added value, (2) accounting for 8 percent of business sector product and 20 percent of total product in trade and services. (...) http://www.iasps.org.il/bank.htm (...

Re: The emotional economy in Holland

There's got to be a way to find my way to heaven, cuz I did my time in hell, to paraphrase Keith Richards. Actually, I quite like short skirts on women, but then, I'm a man. I haven't got time just now to go into a whole dialectical analysis of Dutch Treat, but thanx for the comment. J.

Correction

I wrote: But this story has another implication. As I have said previously, the perfect crime is "the crime which is not a crime" since then it considered a crime, and can be prosecuted legally as such. That should obviously be: But this story has another implication. As I have said previously,

Re: Mel Gibson splits the Neocons where Marxists failed ?

> Have you seen the movie? No, not yet, but intend to see it when I am thinking about my father again. Jurriaan

Re: corporations/More Side Issue

Jim wrote: > I think that Sabri goes much too far. All contracts -- including unsigned ones -- are based on trust, not love. (...) One of the problems with a capitalist society (or, more generally, a commodity-producing one) is that market competition encourages rampant individualism and instrumen

The emotional economy in Holland

Reflecting on Robbie Williams, Dutch journalist Jan Kuitenbrouwer has some interesting backchat comments on the critique of the political economy of consumption, in a recent issue of the middleclass "Hague Post/Time" magazine (12 March 2004 issue, p. 90), of which I have translated this excerpt: "

Jackass complaint, and the culmination of the perverse economy in Iraq

ROADSIDE BOMB Shakespeare wrote once that "all's fair in love and war". Associated Press just now reports that in Tikrit, a roadside bomb killed two American soldiers and wounded three this Saturday. They were the first casualties suffered by a new US army regiment taking over security in Saddam H

Re: corporations, love, exchange and the philosophy of pop music - addition

"Peter Drucker, the doyen of the management community, claims that 90 percent of all financial transactions in the world have no relationship with either production or trade [of tangible goods and services]. Drucker refers to this as the growth of the symbol economy" (see Peter Drucker, The New Rea

Re: corporations, love, exchange and the philosophy of pop music

> Why not simply say that human relationships are bound by love. After all, > contracts are always conditional, whereas love is not. Let's have a think. This idea would possibly help to explain why many people disparage "free love" so much, as a dreamy hippy phenomenon, applying only to marginalis

Re: "Love Affair" Update - additional comment

> why send the lyrics to the list? It does not add much. Sorry. A bit of dark sarcasm. I'll try to be more constructive and observe good style. Okay then. From a linguistic point of view, in American idiom, the expression ""America's love affair with...", "America's love of/with..." etc. is in tr

Re: "Love Affair" Update

I believe this song (Robert Gordon ?) is very popular in Iraq again.I'm drivin' in my car, you turn on the radio I'm pullin' you close, but you just say no You say you don't like it, but girl I know you're a liar 'Cause when we kiss, ooh, fire Late at night, I'm chasin you home I say I wanna st

Re: An essay on economic basis of bourgeois risk and gambling culture

> Frank Partnoy's book suggests that most derivatives exist in order to > get around financial regulations. That's true in my opinion, although originally that wasn't so much the case. The question nowadays regularly arises as to what compliance to the law would mean. It's part of a larger greedy

United States campaign contributions - some helpfull links

I previously sent this to some friends, thought I would post it - maybe useful for other PEN-Lers. They're URLs of sites which give campaign contributions to parties in the United States. So if you want more details on campaign finance, these links might help you out. http://www.fundrace.org/money

Re: An essay on economic basis of bourgeois risk and gambling culture

> The above is true only if they have the reigns in > their hands. Just as they can make more money faster, > they can lose more money equally faster, if they don't > have the reigns in their hands. If you think it's not a good essay, I'd like to know more specifically why, so that I improve. See

An essay on economic basis of bourgeois risk and gambling culture - parasitism as derivatives, options, swaps, hedge funds etc.

The derivatives market has expanded enormously in recent years, with investment banks selling billions of dollars worth of contracts to capitalists as a way to minimise loss of their capital through unforeseen market fluctuations that could possibly lower its value (what Marx called "devalorisation

Mel Gibson splits the Neocons where Marxists failed ?

As ticket sales for the Australian superstar-filmmaker's gory, blood-drenched cinematic interpretation of the last 12 hours of Jesus Christ's life surpassed the US$200 million mark less than two weeks after its Ash Wednesday release, the debate over whether the movie is anti-Semitic in its intent o

Mel Gibson to Iran: pithy commentary from the Asia Times

Mel Gibson's Lethal Religion Mel Gibson has laid a cuckoo's egg in the nest of American Christianity. What he has hatched in US cinemas is a quasi-pagan throwback to the sepulchral old-world cult that the United States was set up to oppose. The US is a by-product of the Protestant Reformation's pu

Jagdish Bagwhati and New Zealand's world-historical lesson in petty-bourgeois morality

As a characteristic neoliberal, Bagwhati actually denies economics is a science. If all that is objective about society is actual prices paid, and if there is market uncertainty, then you can never really know what the aggregate effects of market forces will be, and there can be no economic laws, o

The logic of Baghwati's neoliberalism

Just to add to Yoshie's comment: looks to me as though the real "finish of neoliberalism" is necessarily the extensive privatisation of government debts, but in a specific way. Suppose you have these government institutions, and they have large debts. How then can you balance the budget ? In New Z

Re: A tactical debate - some more views

Jim wrote: "I think the Bushmasters are arrogant because of their long experience with having power (as part of the economic or military elite). Bush and the like went to elite schools, etc., etc." Quite. You say it very succinctly. But here's some additional comments, for the more patient reader

Will the oil run out ? Reflections from a layman

After the second world war, the Middle East was said to have perhaps 16 million barrels in oil reserves (deposits), by 1967 the estimate had risen to 250 billion barrels, in the 1990s it reached 500 billion, and now it's at over 900 billion barrels or close to a trillion. In approximate figures,

Re: A tactical debate

Jim wrote: "one thing that's striking is how humble Bush acted in the 2000 presidential debates and how arrogant his administration has been". Quite. Maybe like that song "Oh Lord it is hard to be humble ?". To arrogate is to claim or seize without real justification, or to make undue claims to h

Russian shadow economy, GDP and Marx's value theory

I will just post a digressive comment I made to Chris Doss, with some additions, in case anybody is interested in this type of issue. As I told Chris, I know little about contemporary Russia. I think the main thing to note is that the black and grey economy (or the "shadow" economy) in Russia is so

A tactical debate

Looks like I'm back on PEN-L after all, but hopefully more sparingly... I don't know what these comrades are talking about here, but then again, I realise I'm not an American. In a lead-up to the election, the candidates normally try to sound out or air views to find a consensus or base for unity,

Re: Krugman on Greenspan and Bendien on Bujes

Joanna wrote: > It's funny how a rational centrist (Krugman) can sound like a raving > socialist these days. So what is the point of this ? This type of comment is useless in my view, and I will say why. What is the purpose, beyond trying to show how savvy or smart you are about the latest politi

Angela Davis returns: are prisons obsolete ?

Book Review - Are Prisons Obsolete?, by Angela Y. Davis. New York, Seven Stories Press, 2003. While the US prison population has surpassed 2 million people, this figure is more than 20 percent of the entire global imprisoned population combined. Angela Y. Davis shows, in her most recent book, Are

Re: Dying languages - Kenan Malik and the struggle for the lowest common denominator

Kenan Malik argues at http://www.kenanmalik.com/essays/die.html that: (1) The purpose of a language is functional: to enable communication. I think this is simplistic and question-begging because it fails to specify exactly what a language is or how exactly language enables communication. Language

Re: Greenspan and the use of time to commit fiscal crime

> this is sort of circular isn't it? or is it that only the rest of us are > to learn? That depends on your definition of agreement and disagreement. Obviously I am not arguing that only "the rest of us" should learn. For Marx, learning is a process of dialog. J.

Re: DeLong on Paul Sweezy - brief comment on law of value

> So, Sweezy wished to clarify the meanings of the terms "socialism" > and "communism" by saying that the law of value still continues to > operate under socialism to the extent that economy is capitalistic, > i.e., governed by market discipline, whereas it won't under communism > worth its name.

Re: Greenspan and the use of time to commit fiscal crime

Your remarks are irrelevant, because it ignores what currency hedging expresses. > One more point-- your remarks to Joanna Bujes are completely out of line and > have no place in public communications. Okay Mr FBI, perhaps you ought to get it on with Joanna. You just try to show how smart you ar

Re: Greenspan and the use of time to commit fiscal crime

> The shit rises to the top because the game is not about innovation or > creativity or productivity...but about collaboration. That's like saying, it all depends on who you want to work with. As a technical writer, you should know that shit is produced through digesting food. Food enters the mout

Re: Greenspan and the use of time to commit fiscal crime

> unless he works hard to meet their needs. Frankly Juriaan, you surprise me. You, of all people, are perfectly aware of the mediocrity and shalowness that characterizes a lot of economic stars. It is no different in economics than in society at large. The shit rises to the top. I see this dail

Re: He does have a point

> I agree with your critique of "Marxism" Feminism and Marxism are oppressive if they tell you what you should do or think, rather than explain and exemplify why you should do it. J.

Re: Greenspan and the use of time to commit fiscal crime

> I didn't think that what David wrote was abuse and character > assassination. Impassioned critique perhaps. Pointing out some very > obvious and noxious facts abut Mr. G That shows more about what you are than about Al Greenspan and David Schanoes. J.

The lover of the devil: obtaining knowledge and the nuance of "feminism fatigue"

e strong women, than a few old lesbians who are still living in the past. (translation by Jurriaan Bendien from Strictly Magazine, No. 2 March 2003, p-015-016 - if you want to use my work, ask me - and I hate arrogant female pricks just as much as I hate arrogant male pricks with their class snobbery a

Re: Greenspan and the use of time to commit fiscal crime

> That, the above, was/is the sole and whole reason I took issue with JB's > characterization of AG as a deep economic thinker with a wrong theory. One thing David Schanoes is very good at is falsely presenting somebody else's point of view. On previous occasions he has written to me or about me a

Re: He does have a point

> what obliges people to change the system? Marx took for granted the general antipathy of the socialist and communist movements of his day toward capitalism. Jim, I agree with the substance of what you say. But in your last sentence, I am inclined to think this ignores that it isn't "pretty obvi

Re: Greenspan and the use of time to commit fiscal crime

> Follow the cash. It's that simple. If it were any more difficult, > Greenspan would be flipping burgers at McDonald's. Okay. J.

Re: Greenspan and the use of time to commit fiscal crime

> Next thing you'll be telling us is that Jack Welch is a great leader of men > and women with a misquided theory, Kissinger is a great diplomat with a > mistaken world view, Oliver North is a real humanitarian who made a poor > career choice. That is why I associate with few Marxists, because the

Re: He does have a point

Marx wrote: The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it (Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretiert; es kommt aber darauf an, sie zu verändern). Alvin Gouldner then philosophises: "Marxism is not attempting simply to understand soc

Re: Greenspan and the use of time to commit fiscal crime

> What character assassination? He did recommend Keating. He did tell > Thailand to eat baht. He did recommend increased SS taxes, and if you look > several years back at his Congressional testimony, you'll see him stating > that SS was not facing financial ruin due to the pre-collection scheme.

Re: Economic question

> I get the feeling that the international financial system is perhaps the > weakest link in the whole world economy. That is a very long story, and, apart from requiring further research, in one mail I can only do a bit of justice to your important economic question. The question I would ask, is

Re: Greenspan and the use of time to commit fiscal crime

Well I think that substantiates your argument and my argument. I think David Schanoes is entitled to his viewpoint, but surely if a pithy article is written in the NYT explaining what is wrong with Greenspan's idea, then that helps us much more than a bunch of abuse and character assasination ? J.

Towards liberation from the camp in The Netherlands

A 35-strong group of rejected asylum seekers called "A Long Walk to Freedom" (recalling the title of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela's book, and the Chinese national liberation war) is on a 234km "long march" from Groningen in the far north of The Netherlands to the Parliament Building in The Hague, in

Re: Paul Marlor Sweezy (1910-2004)

I am very sad hearing that news and want to say something. I never met him personally but I knew him through his writings which made a lasting impression. He wasn't just a great publicist, an independent, pioneering American socialist, a team worker, and a great, cultured scholar, but he was also a

Re: article on MR website

I have an article posted on the Monthly Review website (www.monthlyreview.org) titled "Can the Working Class Change the World?"  It is a write up of a talk I gave to the Marxist School in Sacramento.  Comments welcome.   I think the working class not only can change the world, but does change

Re: Critique of the Brookings Institute - correction

Chris comments: > BTW [the author, John Dolan] not Russian; he's a US citizen who taught English in Auckland, NZ, for several years and then relocated to Moscow. His wife is a New Zealander. J.

Re: Answering Ted Glick

You are really smart. J. i realize that part of above is rhetorical flourish but... re. pfp in 68: cleaver & doug dowd (bless his heart) were on ballot in 12-13-14 states, received about 75,000 votes nationwide, made no difference in any state (which is what folks must focus on re. prez electio

Re: Preventing Working-Class Electoral Participation

Any sweeping change in technology is not without its challenges. The Election Technology Council understands that while DRE systems offer the American public substantial advantages, it is natural that questions about the security of these newer systems will be asked. The ETC is ready, willing and

Re: demo fervor

>if so, we agree. I cannot think of anytime I disagreed with you. The more I think about this, the more I think I disagree only with the people I disagree with, but, one always has to keep that critical inquiry going and not tule out the possibility you might disagree. >It's also extremely hard t

Re: demo fervor

> Bush thinks that homoskedasticity is unnatural and is going to ban any talk > of it in government funded statistical studies. Only observations that are > heteroskedastic will be allowed. Thanks. I'm not actually gay, but I had a lot of sexual harassment in the past, you end up doing things you

Re: demo fervor

> if the data is poorly measured, then even a case where there are no empirical counterexamples may be wrong. > Jim D. Of course, that's possible, yes. J.

Critique of the Brookings Institution - this time by a Russian

On 16 november 2003 I posted a critical comment on a book by Brookings Institution authors about Siberia on Marxmail and PEN-L. Here is another one by a Russian author that is much better (thanks to Chris for drawing my attention to it): Every year or so, another silly theory comes into vogue amon

Re: overposting

Okay. But I had to reply to some stuff. I'll cool it now. J. - Original Message - From: "Michael Perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 5:16 AM Subject: [PEN-L] overposting > A couple people are posting far too many times per day. Please k

Re: declaration of war?

I think you are correct. I already experienced this in the 1980s in New Zealand, it's just that the USA is much wealthier and so the processes work themselves out full with a greater time-lag. That is why we need good research, good argument, good professional organisation, and not lefty rhetoric a

Re: demo fervor

> What are you talking about? Greenspan's positions of responsibility is to > his class, the bourgeoisie. I would not be in that position. Then who would you prefer to be in his position ? Chairman of > the FRB is not a "class neutral" position. He is the bankers' banker. Agreed. > Civility?

MEGA II: towards recovering the real Marx

Især hos Marx og Engels fremtræder sammenhængen mellem deres udsagn og deres teoris forskellige dele tydeligt. En kronologisk fortløbende, sammenhængende udgivelse ville derfor have været bedre, har det været hævdet. Det er et rimeligt standpunkt, men afgørelsen er truffet for længst. MEGA kommer i

Re: demo fervor

> strictly speaking, no propositions at all can be "proved" with statistics. All one can say is that your hypothesis survived a statistical test. True, but it occurs to me that this might be too strongly worded, insofar as SOME propositions could be proved with statistics. For example, take propos

Re: Soft on the Empire

> I hear that Gibson's film is soft on the empire and tough on the > "mob" and the national elite. It's a fitting blockbuster for the New > American Century. Well put. Maybe ought to reread Canetti anyhow. J.

Re: query: "institutionalized" population

In the US Bureau of Labor Statistics current population survey, who counts as being part of the "Institutionalized" population and thus is excluded from the labor force? Are prisoners who are paid to answer phones (etc.) part of the paid labor force and employment? The US non-institutional populat

Re: demo fervor

> > > which tells us that such a beast does exist. and i thought i earned my > math degree with higher grades than sonofabush! I think the definition isn't very good. Heteroskedasticity and homoskedasticity really refer to the

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