Re: Re: Re: The Subject is Capital

2000-11-07 Thread Eugene Coyle
Being tone deaf, I'd like to stand with the choir and lip-synch. Gene Coyle Rob Schaap wrote: > A quick rant, Reverend Tom ... by way of testimony from the congregation. > > As Charlie Andrews so pungently summarises the whole sad business, "By > living his life the worker produces his capacity

Re: Re: The Subject is Capital

2000-11-07 Thread Rob Schaap
A quick rant, Reverend Tom ... by way of testimony from the congregation. As Charlie Andrews so pungently summarises the whole sad business, "By living his life the worker produces his capacity to work." The raison d'etre of the dispossessed is to produce commodities - 'his' being is not an en

Re: Re: The Subject is Capital

2000-11-06 Thread Joanna Sheldon
At 06:21 06-11-00, you wrote: I've been floundering around for twenty years or so trying to work out a program -- not a vision, not a theoretical critique but a program. Of course a program needs to be grounded theoretically (here) and it needs to project a vision of where its going (there). One o

Re: The Subject is Capital

2000-11-05 Thread Timework Web
Rob Schaap wrote, >Hey, Tom - I've read this one! Won't pretend I'm across all of it, but I >certainly felt breathlessly close to something big while I had my beak >buried in it. So what are we talking about? That we should disagree with >Panglosses and those who belabour us with all that a pr

Re: The Subject is Capital

2000-11-05 Thread Rob Schaap
Hey, Tom - I've read this one! Won't pretend I'm across all of it, but I certainly felt breathlessly close to something big while I had my beak buried in it. So what are we talking about? That we should disagree with Panglosses and those who belabour us with all that a priori difference stuff?

Re: The Subject is Capital

2000-11-02 Thread Carrol Cox
Timework Web wrote: > Two great quotes from Time, Labor and Social Domination (p. 80). I would > be more than happy to discuss, if anyone else is interested: > Plunge ahead & see what happens. Carrol