[PEN-L:12872] Re: RE: RE: The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 19Oct 1999 -- 3:85 (#343)

1999-10-22 Thread walter daum
It's not a question of supporting the Klan's rights, but of denying the mayor's right to decide who can march, where and when. Hope to see you all (from the NYC area) there tomorrow. WD On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 11:51:10 -0400 Max Sawicky said: >Father D: >>> yeah, it's because il Duce would use any

[PEN-L:5080] Re: Civilians bombed in Serbia--a DIRECT report fromAleksinac

1999-04-09 Thread walter daum
Paul, Thanks for forwarding this. I've seen a number of email messages from Serbia, and this one of the few that has sympathy for the victims of Serbia in Kosovo. It makes his report all the more believable. Walter

[PEN-L:4618] Re: IGC-PeaceNet on Kosovo Crisis

1999-03-28 Thread walter daum
For clarification: Does this mean that Amnesty and Human Rights Watch have made statements in support of the NATO bombing? Has PeaceNet made a public statement of its "pro-war position"? Walter Daum On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 12:40:27 -0500 Nathan Newman said: > >For those who want

[PEN-L:2445] Re: Re: Ben Shahn links (addendum)

1999-01-21 Thread walter daum
h icons, I have a copy of a rabid right book about "The Marxist Minstrels" that refers in passing to the Brooklyn Dodgers as "the baseball arm of the CPUSA." Walter Daum

Re: In Defense of Latin

1998-02-07 Thread Walter Daum
d to be very bad at math. > Well now, as a mathematician by profession I indeed recognize myself in this all-too-brief summary.[:)] But what about the reputation of mathematicians and computer whizzes as emotion-free nerds? Seriously, though, do you have a reference for this research? Walter Daum CCNY/Math

Re: dinosaurs and pancakes

1998-01-26 Thread Walter Daum
eils ouvriers, 1969. Walter Daum

re: drawing a line

1997-12-28 Thread Walter Daum
ames. If the workers' movement, and left theorists, don't sharply point the finger at capitalism as responsible for enormous economic uncertainty as well as growing working-class misery, then right- wing populists will win with their line and aim U.S. workers' anger at their brothers and sisters abroad. Walter Daum

Re: MAI in The New Republic (fwd)

1997-12-04 Thread Walter Daum

[PEN-L:12001] Re: The call for new Teamsters election and

1997-08-27 Thread Walter Daum
0's, the IS was more right than I >was, among others, so I have to tip my hat to >them. I heard Walter Daum of IS give a speech 26 >years ago. I wish I had taken what he said more >to heart. I would have gone further in life. I >doubt that an ISer would actually put on the

[PEN-L:10584] Re: Response to Michael's quandary

1997-06-05 Thread Walter Daum
change the world. > Even more consistent with Marx's method, I think, would be to read the Thesis as saying that one has to be changing the world *in order to* analyze it. Walter Daum

[PEN-L:9067] Re: Russia

1997-03-21 Thread Walter Daum
) I think you can just write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warning: there's lots of output on this list! Walter Daum

[PEN-L:7851] Re: superprofits

1996-12-12 Thread Walter Daum
ve is Mandel's Marxist Economic Theory, 1962 or so. I had assumed the term went back to Lenin, but apparently it doesn't. Walter Daum

[PEN-L:7690] Re: Superexploitation

1996-12-02 Thread Walter Daum
ime, the earliest and most explicit reference found was in Andre Gunder Frank's book, Crisis in the Third World (1981). But an earlier source is Ernest Mandel's Marxist Economic Theory, which dates from the 60's. Walter Daum

[PEN-L:7574] The Decline of Economics

1996-11-26 Thread Walter Daum
ity growth and the increase in wage inequality, and honest economists admit that they don't have an adequate explanation for either." Any honest economists care to comment? Walter Daum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[PEN-L:7472] Re: more science!

1996-11-19 Thread Walter Daum
On Mon, 18 Nov 1996 22:02:45 -0800 (PST) Ajit Sinha said: > [...] >Any way, Michael Sprinker wrote a good and long paper a few years ago in New >Left Review on Roy Bhasker--a critique of Bhasker from Althusserian >perspective. People who are interested in Bhasker may wanna take a look at >it.

[PEN-L:7247] Re: Pomo and Opera

1996-11-04 Thread Walter Daum
agner scholar pointed >out that as far as it went her account was wholly accurate. So as to make this >relevant I would point out that her rendition is very economical compressing >the hours of turgid prose into about half an hour or so. > Cheers, Ken Hanly > Walter Daum

[PEN-L:6791] Re: pen-l

1996-10-19 Thread Walter Daum
hutdown, a subject which ought to be of interest to progressive economists. Walter Daum

[PEN-L:6319] Re: Labor Party & Paul Z.

1996-09-23 Thread Walter Daum
Something's fishy here. In the current (October) issues of The Progressive, Adolph Reed issues his own endorsement of Democrat Tom Fricano -- the same candidate the Buffalo chapter was ousted for endorsing. Walter Daum On Sun, 22 Sep 1996 13:43:00 -0700 (PDT) Doug Henwood said: >I f

[PEN-L:6240] Re: superexploitation

1996-09-17 Thread Walter Daum
hat is, wages are below the value of labor power. Frank's book is dated 1981. He cites several sources from the mid-70's that use the concept. The earliest use of the term that Frank cites is a paper by Jaime Osorio Urbina, "Superexplotacio'n y clase obrera; el caso mexicano," of 1975. Walter Daum

[PEN-L:6228] Re: query: superexploitation

1996-09-17 Thread Walter Daum
the first use of the term. Memory tells me it was used in the 60's, or at least by the early 70's. But it may indeed be true that it was originated by dependency theorists. Walter Daum

[PEN-L:6227] Re: query: superexploitation

1996-09-17 Thread Walter Daum
workers will be both poorer and more exploited. So he does appear to accept the category of superexploitation. I'm still interested in finding out how the term was intended by its originators. Walter daum

[PEN-L:6217] Re: query: superexploitation

1996-09-17 Thread Walter Daum
d to be superexploited, because of this. > >>Walter Daum >___ > >Of course, I disagree. Marx's quote is in relation to the intensity of work, >and not, as it is generally interpreted, in terms of 'productivity of >labor'. The con

[PEN-L:6191] Re: query: superexploitation

1996-09-16 Thread Walter Daum
... reciprocally, of course, this means that, depite their low wages, the workers of the less developed countries are less exploited than those of the advanced..." Others reason similarly, and some conclude that the workers of the poorer countries cannot be said to be superexploited, because of this. So I'm looking for sources. Walter Daum

[PEN-L:6185] Re: query: superexploitation

1996-09-15 Thread Walter Daum
s both usages apply.) I'm trying to find out what's been said on this in the Marxist literature. Thanks again, Walter Daum

[PEN-L:6180] query: superexploitation

1996-09-15 Thread Walter Daum
Does anyone recall the original (or any) use of the term "superexploitation" in Marxist literature? Thanks, Walter Daum

[PEN-L:6108] Re: Pins and Needles

1996-09-10 Thread Walter Daum
t a raise, thus letting management and labor live happily together forever after. Walter Daum On Tue, 10 Sep 1996 14:32:57 -0700 (PDT) Max B. Sawicky said: >Breen, Nancy wrote: >> >> Did this end up being the Pajama Game, with Doris Day, in the 1950s? The >> story IS abou

[PEN-L:4382] re: French Strike

1996-05-22 Thread Walter Daum
To Maggie and others: I checked out the CUNY channel at 8 am today and found it had a different program on, not the French strikes film. Anyone know what's going on? Walter Daum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[PEN-L:4256] Re: UNION SUMMER NEEDS HELP -- QUICK

1996-05-13 Thread Walter Daum
candidates" include Bill Clinton and the rest of the in-reality anti-labor Democrats? Walter Daum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[PEN-L:2850] Re: quotes from Pat Buchanan

1996-02-09 Thread Walter Daum
nounce him the way they once did Farrakhan. Walter Daum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[PEN-L:2216] Re: economics, political economy, and

1996-01-01 Thread Walter Daum
dency, and there and elsewhere he cites this tendency as a herald of capitalism's inevitable end. Overall, I suspect that CAPITAL as a critique of political economy was intended to undermine any claim that the system, like some perpetual clockwork, could operate lawfully or smoothly. Walter Daum

[PEN-L:818] re: Minneapolis bus drivers strike

1995-10-12 Thread Walter Daum
demanding to re-open the contract to eliminate thousands of jobs. Whether they have the bus driver provision in their sights at the moment I don't know. What is clear is that TWU Local 100 leaders have collaborated with management's "rationalization" schemes. Walter Daum

[PEN-L:618] Re: "Marxist Humanists" and Raya Dunevskaya - query

1995-10-02 Thread Walter Daum
Trond, They are the News & Letters group, and they publish a monthly paper by that name. The only address I have at hand is: The Raya Dunayevskaya Memorial Fund 59 E. Van Buren, Room 707 Chicago, IL 60605 I'm sure they will be happy to tell you all about Raya D's writings. Walter On Mon, 2 Oct

[PEN-L:5931] Re: Stalin's "totalitarianism"

1995-07-20 Thread Walter Daum
alyzing Stalinism in the 1930's, well before Arendt (or Kirkpatrick, Brzezinski & Co.) took it over. Walter Daum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[PEN-L:5860] Re: FW: BLS Daily Report

1995-07-15 Thread Walter Daum
sessment of the productivity gains accurate? And if so, isn't it something of a contradiction to propose that productivity achieved by screwing the workers will be maintained if the bourgeoisie eases up on them? Walter Daum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[PEN-L:5502] Re: Three Pen-l challenges

1995-06-14 Thread Walter Daum
appearance things look different. ... ... Once the interconnection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice." I would think the last sentence sums up Marx's purpose for value theory pretty well. Walter Daum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[PEN-L:3678] Re: The Chechen war - why the lack of outrage?

1995-01-10 Thread Walter Daum
7;t seen the indifference your posting implies. Walter Daum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Decatur

1994-10-15 Thread Walter Daum
Very much. Thanks in advance. On Sat, 15 Oct 1994 09:04:05 -0700 Robert Naiman said: > >Would folks be interested in updates on the Staley lockout, etc. in Decatur? > >-bob

Mandela

1994-10-08 Thread Walter Daum
been other expressions on this list, to the effect of "what choice does the ANC have?", which come under the heading of Rick Baldoz's comment. Walter Daum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: competitiveness index and New Zealand

1994-09-10 Thread Walter Daum
inions of their countries' strengths and weaknesses." So it's not exactly pure hard data. The article also gives some information on where the data are found. Walter Daum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dept. of Mathematics City College New York, NY 100031

Re: State capitalism

1994-07-17 Thread Walter Daum
laws of motion of this society. From what I've seen the society has been defined by what it isn't, not by what it is. Walter Daum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

fabulous prize

1994-04-15 Thread Walter Daum
Trond Andresen, Thank you, thank you! Somehow the glory of winning is only slightly dimmed by my sneaking suspicion that I was the only contestant. Now, how do I e-mail myself to Norway? For multilingual internationalism, Walter

Re: Competition with a fabulous prize

1994-04-14 Thread Walter Daum
OK, I'll try your puzzle. This would be the 2nd Norwegian sentence I've ever seen, after your Marx quotation! I think that Anglo-American cultural imperialists should write in Norwegian on pen-l.! Not sure about the second word, but the rest seems fairly obvious. Keeping my fingers crossed, Wal

Re: Health Care Reform Demystified

1994-04-10 Thread Walter Daum
Sorry to reply via pen-l, but a missive to cns@cats etc. bounced. I would like a copy, and will acknowledge. Walter Daum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Marx quote

1994-04-01 Thread Walter Daum
International Publishers edition (New York, 1967); page 742 in the Vintage Books edition (New York, 1977). In this case there is no dispute between the two English translations. Walter Daum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

re: karl on krisis

1994-02-20 Thread Walter Daum
of capital, and since the Stalinist economy prevented such a solution, a state of permanent crisis existed under Stalinism. But now history has once again proved that permanent crises do not exist. Or at least that "permanent crises" do not last forever. Walter Daum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

re: karl on krisis

1994-02-20 Thread Walter Daum
of capital, and since the Stalinist economy prevented such a solution, a state of permanent crisis existed under Stalinism. But now history has once again proved that permanent crises do not exist. Or at least that "permanent crises" do not last forever. Walter Daum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Reply to Steve Keen on value

1994-01-09 Thread Walter Daum
erwise, but that would't be the only point he refined by the time of Capital I. Perhaps the problem is that you try to find Marx's "proof" of the theory of value. But there is no proof: the theory is verified by the understanding it offers, the consequences it leads to, et

Reply to Steve Keen on value

1994-01-09 Thread Walter Daum
erwise, but that would't be the only point he refined by the time of Capital I. Perhaps the problem is that you try to find Marx's "proof" of the theory of value. But there is no proof: the theory is verified by the understanding it offers, the consequences it leads to, et