Re: The Collapse of Argentina, part one

2003-08-12 Thread Louis Proyect
Santiago wrote: Dear Mr. Proyect, I came across your comment about a marxist explanation about my country's collapse and I found it really interesting. While studing for my degree in International Trade I had the luck to have professors of marxist thinking. Santiago, I hope you don't mind if I

Re: The Collapse of Argentina, part one

2002-04-12 Thread Grant Lee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hmmm. Yea, there is a lot of superficial truth in this account, at least as relative to Canada. But there is also a lot of overgeneralization and obfuscation in this account also. There is also a lot of superficial truth in his overview of Australian economic

Re: Re: The Collapse of Argentina, part one

2002-04-12 Thread Louis Proyect
Grant Lee: Briefly: before 1901 the six current States were highly autonomous and mutually competitive, although nominally British-controlled Colonies. Before Federation , railways were actually a strong means of protection for the bourgeoisies of the five mainland Colonies, who made sure that

Re: RE: The Collapse of Argentina, part one

2002-04-04 Thread Louis Proyect
(This was posted to Marxmail by Carlos, a west coast activist who is from Argentina originally.) Louis wrote: As the Argentine economic collapse began to deepen, I decided to search for radical or Marxist literature on the country written in English to help me understand the situation better.

RE: The Collapse of Argentina, part one

2002-04-02 Thread Forstater, Mathew
I can sympathize with Louis Proyect's lament concerning the lack of good available work on the Argentinian situation from a radical or Marxian perspective in English. But one good recent work at least should be mentioned: Stunted Lives, Stagnant Economies: Poverty, Disease, and

Re: The Collapse of Argentina, part one

2002-04-02 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/01/02 07:51PM As the Argentine economic collapse began to deepen, I decided to search for radical or Marxist literature on the country written in English to help me understand the situation better. This proved futile (although I continue to be open to recommendations)