Re: Re: Re: Re: The Rise and Future Demise of World-Systems Analys...

2000-07-13 Thread Brad De Long
And so is Soviet-style socialism. So what's left? Doug ...most of all, revolutionary Cuba Louis Proyect There's your answer: 40-year long dictatorship as the *model* we are supposed to aim for... Right. Brad DeLong

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The Rise and Future Demise of World-Systems Analys...

2000-07-13 Thread Louis Proyect
There's your answer: 40-year long dictatorship as the *model* we are supposed to aim for... Right. Brad DeLong For North Americans? Heavens no. But for other countries in the Caribbean. YES. Here's an excerpt from a profile on Paul Farmer in last week's New Yorker Magazine. Farmer is a

Re: Re: Re: Re: The Rise and Future Demise of World-Systems Analys...

2000-07-13 Thread Charles Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/13/00 02:16PM And so is Soviet-style socialism. So what's left? Doug ...most of all, revolutionary Cuba Louis Proyect There's your answer: 40-year long dictatorship as the *model* we are supposed to aim for... )) CB: But it is a big improvement over

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:The Rise and Future Demise of World-Systems Analys...

2000-07-13 Thread Michael Perelman
I think answering this question would be fruitless. We have been over that before quite a few times. Brad De Long wrote: And so is Soviet-style socialism. So what's left? Doug ...most of all, revolutionary Cuba Louis Proyect There's your answer: 40-year long dictatorship as

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:The Rise and Future Demise of World-Systems Analys...

2000-07-13 Thread Dennis R Redmond
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Brad De Long wrote: There's your answer: 40-year long dictatorship as the *model* we are supposed to aim for... It worked for that icon of global competitiveness otherwise known as Singapore, didn't it? -- Dennis

Re: Re: Re: Re: The Rise and Future Demise of World-Systems Analys...

2000-07-12 Thread Jim Devine
I wrote: Originally, I'd say that Analytical Marxism was a kind of Marxism, one responding to dissatisfaction with both the "orthodox" Marxism of the 2nd 3rd Internationals and Althusserian structuralist Marxism. But combining Marxist propositions with the narrow-minded method of orthodox