[PEN-L:3384] Psychoanalysis

basically made race prejudice punishable by a stiff jail term. Castro drove this point home by making Afro-Cubans top leaders of the military and police. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3387] Psychoanalysis

ay even be driven to attempt to grasp the writings of the master himself. But to negotiate this feat they will probably have to follow Mr. Schneiderman to Paris. © 1999, LEXIS®-NEXIS®, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3388] Psychoanalysis

is by independent external corroboration. Otherwise, the battle continues. This book is a stylishly written and persuasive summary of the state of the argument. © 1999, LEXIS®-NEXIS®, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3441] Psychoanalysis

e is a nice irony to the story, however: Freud's abandonment of his original views has itself fallen victim to his own brand of sophistry. According to Powell and Boer, some modern psychoanalysts now claim that his rejection of the Seduction Theory is merely another example of the psychological "denial" of sexual abuse. © 1999, LEXIS®-NEXIS®, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3445] Psychoanalysis

psychoanalysts made a living based on these superstitions throughout the 40s and 50s. Nowadays, physicians prescribe medication, which is about the best thing you can do for people who are suffering. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3458] NY Times analysis of global economic crisis

k in Bangkok Bank, which lent to Bangkok Land -- an illustration of the way in which globalization now gives just about everybody some tiny financial stake in everybody else. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3482] G.A. Cohen

ems is not the subject-matter of Marxism. Marxism studies classes. A proper use of a Marxist's time would be to study *actual* rather than *imaginary* workers in identical situations. It would be useful to explore how capitalism tends to threaten the job safety of the working-class even in the expansionary period of 1956 or 1997 for that matter. It would then consider how the ruling-class parties share in the creation of a legal fabric that allows such plants to be kept going. It would conclude with recommendations about how to abolish such oppressive conditions. This is not to be found in Cohen's work. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3557] Global stock market values

---minus 29% Thailand---60---35---minus 42% Brazil---311---154---minus 50% Philippines---74---34---minus 54% Malaysia---282---74---minus 74% Indonesia---111---22---minus 80% Russian---84---12---minus 86% Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3580] The United States now has a bubble

s have slumped, and the nearby John Deere plant has announced layoffs. Banks are nervously checking their exposure to the agricultural sector. And Mrs. Paoni, after some reflection and several hours of interviews, has decided that she is linked to the global crisis. "I sit here in this kitchen

[PEN-L:3597] Serbia36CD91C4.665F99D0@Lorainccc.edu

t who gets raped more, or who has larger concentration camps, or who does more "ethnic cleansing". Rather, it is which struggle has the potential to move humanity out of the dark ages of capitalism. So far, there's not much to choose from. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3603] David Harvey and Leibniz

now eating candied citron and pistachio nuts." "That is well put," replied Candide, "but we must cultivate our garden." Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3609] David Harvey and Leibniz

he same sort of mood of philosophical detachment that prompted Voltaire to write his satire. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3610] Christopher Cauldwell on Freud

der consciousness, too, awaits delivery. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3622] Barbara Smith on race and theory45a3aa3a.36c6d7b5@aol.com

--- Subscribe: Email "subscribe brc-news" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3627] Race as a construct

bornly refuses to do. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3667] Race as a construct

a profound symbol of the dry rot of postmodernism and its pernicious influence on Marxism. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3681] Race as a construct

proved* capitalism's inevitable demise. Of course Paul Sweezy once said that it might take 400 years to happen, which would try my patience. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3709] Salif Keita

own life in a modern community." And this too would describe Salif Keita's music: a response to the challenge and the perils of town life in a modern community. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3736] Postmodernist Marxism

e contents of a typical Social Text or Rethinking Marxism and throw them out the nearest window. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3742] Postmodernist Marxism

French thinkers Sokal sends up. I, on the other hand, think that the scientists digging up Indian skeletons should go to hell, while people like Lacan should spend some time in purgatory. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3750] Postmodernist Marxism

21 fax 530-898-5901 Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3769] Bourdieu, etc.

ecological ruin, B-52 bombings, etc., but from the standpoint of moralism rather than class politics. Reduced to its essence, it is a plea for the ruling class to stop being evil. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3771] Bourdieu, etc.

Is that esoteric? Doug No, what you clipped from my post is what I find esoteric, the notion of "cultural capital". Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3780] Bourdieu, etc.

infamous tungsten. The purpose of the war was to defend the long term interests of the US ruling class. As Chomsky has suggested, they have enjoyed a solid dividend on their investment. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3784] Bourdieu, etc.

now is that of the relation between these two moments of exchange. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3799] Clarification

Yesterday Jim O'Connor sent email to PEN-L that was intended to be sent to me privately, something that occasionally happens in cyberspace. Sorry for any confusion. Louis Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3826] Sociological terrorism?ON.EDU

revolutionaries have no time for, right? -- Dennis Dennis, don't go starting flame wars now. I am on record permitting people to read Jameson. It's Bourdieu whom I forbid. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3835] Postmodernist Marxism

s aspect of his career is totally at odds with what I have described as academic Marxism. Once again, I have to repeat that I don't object to people reading all the latest French theorists so that they can make clever bon mots at university or leftish publishing houses cocktail parties. Just don't confus

[PEN-L:3847] Camille Paglia: Why I hate Foucault

forge your own ideas and systems. Poststructuralism is a corpse. Let it stink in the Parisian trash pit where it belongs! (From Salon magazine archives) Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3842] Postmodernist Marxism

Goodman and Charles Reich, this crowd. But French and Italian theorists who write in a highly allusive and self-referential manner: Like wow, man! Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3819] Lenin, peasants, home market.

s were to be found abroad, the amount held in England, France and Belgium being almost double that in Germany." (Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution) Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3805] Sociological terrorism?

this kind of garbage. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3801] Postmodernist Marxism

the central task that Karl Marx set for himself. Furthermore, as the capitalist crisis deepens, it will be more and more necessary to call things by their rightful name. Political clarity, not camaraderie, is the goal. If I was interested in camaraderie, I'd take up some other cause than Marxism. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3782] Sociological terrorism?

an American, and Jean Bricmont, a Belgian. The two physicists dismissed M Bourdieu's friends and enemies as a whole lot of "impostors". © 1999, LEXIS®-NEXIS®, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3773] Bourdieu, etc.

just don't like French thinkers. They are a bunch of verbose intellectual snobs. I prefer Italians, Peruvians and Trinidadians. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3732] Postmodernist Marxism

153-169. 14. "Voices on the Left" NACLA Report on the Americas, p. 5. ** End of text from cdp:nacla.report ** ******* This material came from PeaceNet, a non-profit progressive networking service. For more information, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3731] Robert Rubin and Bruce Babbit held in contempt over ripoff ofIndian trust funds

Indian country. Government officials say they have had a hard time tracking down some of the descendants who are beneficiaries of the trusts, an explanation dismissed by Indians who have been fighting for basic accountability. Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3689] Race as a construct

story... Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3684] Don't just offer facts

ake 400 years, my satisfaction will be in knowing that I've communicated the original vision of Marx to the next generation of fighters. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3675] Race as a construct

, Roger Burbach or Stanley Aronowitz. This is the direction that Doug seems to be moving in, but appears to be less convinced of Marxism's merits than any of these other folks. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3634] George Rawick

d in terms that rendered them inaccessible to a nonsocialist audience. C. L. R.'s avowed sympathy for aspects of American history and culture may also have puzzled some activists. Yet connections were made: by the late 1960s, James was well received on many college campuses, and he prodded a number

[PEN-L:3621] Water resources and the Kurdish struggle

one we've been used to. Robert D. Kaplan, a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, is the author of ``The Ends of the Earth.'' Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3620] Foucault, Butler and Lacan: never talks about what you do

, fine, but then what do we do about rape? If gender is performance, can I walk around at 10 o'clock at night? Or is being armed for protection part of my gender performance as well? Full interview is at: http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/1in10/99/02/BARBARA_SMITH.html Louis Proyect (http

[PEN-L:3619] Race as a construct

of as their turf? Only people who have not experienced dead-on racial hatred and violence can play with "race" in that way. To me it is nothing to play with. [From an interview in the February 1999 Boston Phoenix] Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3588] Re: Re: [Fwd: BANK OF JAPAN PUSHES SHORT-TERMRATES NEAR ZERO]ON.EDU

Hooray! It's time to party! Japan is going to fuel a massive reflation and finally kick in the Long Boom of 2000-2025. -- Dennis Yes, I see a long wave coming myself. I read it in the Financial Times horoscope. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3548] Interesting comments on G.A. Cohen from another list

gical interpretation as being closely tied to a positivist philosophy of science while he links his own "mode of production interpretation" with the anti-positivist philosophies of T.S. Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend. Jim Farmelant Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3545] A Krugman mea culpa

of its economic crisis. 5. My apologies to Arminio Fraga for my carelessness. Paul Krugman Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3517] Re: Re: Racism at Microsoft

some strange reason people harbor all sorts of irrational antipathy toward Microsoft corporation. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3516] Re: Re: Racism at Microsoft

Fascinating, but under what possible circumstances was this discovery initially made? valis I suspect that it was common knowledge at Microsoft, but somehow leaked out. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3512] Racism at Microsoft

sn't alive and well- it has just taken different form. I wonder if Bill Gates knows what his programmers are up to, and have put into the system. NOW is the time to let him know! Pass it on!! Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3451] Emo Phillips visits the school psychologist

inferiority complex. Had you eaten the tail first you would have had latent homosexual tendencies and had you eaten the breasts first you would have had a latent oedipal complex." "Well...go on, what does it mean when you bite out the eyes and scream 'stop staring at me?'" He said, "It means you have a tendency towards self destruction." I said, "Well, what do you recommend?" He said, "Go for it." Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3437] Psychoanalysis

the barbarism of the 20th century, much attention will be devoted to the phenomenon of licensed physicians trying to cure people of their unhappiness by listening to them talk for 50 minutes. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3421] Terry Eagleton on postmodernism

as ruffled the edges of a bloodless rationalist discourse, and is currently en route to becoming the greatest fetish of all. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3408] Death of a wise man

p://www.alphacdc.com/banyacya/banyacya.html, a site maintained by the Alpha Institute. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3365] Psychoanalysis

ess chatter when you get feel good with a pill. Mind you, I am not endorsing Prozac (although I found it a nice high when it first kicked in), I am just telling you that psychoanalysis and psychotherapy are kaput. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3359] Re: Re: The pleasures of pulp fiction

Yup. Rent "Out of Sight". It is set in Detroit's wealthy neighborhood. What's it called? Something Park. I'll call you tomorrow about the email deal. Lou At 02:08 PM 2/14/99 -0500, you wrote: Isn't Leonard from Detroit ? Charles Brown Detroit Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/1

[PEN-L:3351] The pleasures of pulp fiction

t;Four times I went up the hill to collect," Tyler said in his prison stripes and haircut, looking hard and half starved. "Try and find anybody in charge can cut a check. I went to the Maripoca Bank, showed the teller a .44 and withdrew the nine hundred from the mine company's account." endquote That's my kind of writing. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3337] Kissinger and the purloined Chinese vase

, Feb 1-15) Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3320] Clarification on Cuba

nding weaknesses of the economy. These changes must be understood in class terms. While Batista and Castro both stressed "development", it will be obvious that Castro's path followed an entirely class dynamic. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3209] Congratulations to Michael Hoover

£13/$26CAN Hardback 1-85984-716-1 $60US/£40/$85CAN 256 pages 20 b/w photographs Cinema Translation rights Verso Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3180] Feuding radical journalists

irst real sign of a shift away from the capitalist consensus. More changes will come, because the capitalist system itself is forced to produce them. That part of the Communist Manifesto is as true as ever. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3168] Ken to Louis--Doug

it is certain that after 1857-8... he increasingly stressed the viability of the primitive commune, its powers of resistance to historical disintegration and even--though perhaps only in the context of the Narodniki--discussed its capacity to develop into a higher form of economy without prior dest

[PEN-L:3161] Aztecs

those that had evolved in Europe over centuries. Alienation and hatred characterized the relationship between ruler and ruled. Racism and religious bigotry were the root causes. Centuries of meztiso attempts to wipe out Indian identity have not pacified them, as the recent Maoist rebellion proves. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3154] Re: Re: Nigeria

ory nature. The evidence supports Lenin. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3152] Aztecs

o find out more about this period, I recommend books by Carlos Vilas, Robert Armstrong, George Black, Stephen Kinzer and Raymond Bonner. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3140] Investment in the third world

ty of Moroccan public capital, and is run by Morocco the sole benefit of the Moroccan economy. It no longer depends the Polish builder for anything but replacements, a dependence which could hardly be avoided. It is known, of course, that in other countries the cooperation and technical assist

[PEN-L:3133] Re: Re: Aztecs

ds into places along the border to get jobs that barely keep them alive. This is not about freedom, it is about the economic vise of the marketplace. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3109] Re: Re: Re: Aztecs

lace. What took its place was a Spanish version of Auschwitz. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3099] Aztecs

e capitalist economy. If you go into the forests, you will find tribes who live the same way they lived a thousand years ago and whose only hope is that they may live this way in the future. These "People without history" do not find their way into LBO. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3083] Aztecs

ut with your typical hedging strategy. I suppose that is the difference between a post-Trotskyite sectarian like him and a cagey journalist like yourself. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3082] Aztecs

societies. As long as subject peoples provided the required tribute, there were no further obligations. In contrast, the Spanish colonial administration turned Indians into slaves, who worked around the clock in places like Potosi, Bolivia until the mines were exhausted and the Indians were corpses. Lou

[PEN-L:3076] Aztecs

e material interests that might explain this, just as they would explain the corruption of the Second International on the eve of WWI. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3066] Re: Re: Aztecs

At 09:12 PM 2/8/99 -0500, you wrote: Louis Proyect wrote: The European invasion of the Americas, Africa and Asia destroyed the old tributory societies and replaced them with commodity producing plantations and mines that were completely destructive. Undeniably true. What does this mean

[PEN-L:3052] Aztecs

. The Aztec or Inca empire was different from the mercantile capitalism of the 16th century. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3038] Wampum

in the shape of goose heads. ``Wampum was of enormous value to the Algonquian people, and became cash money to Europeans,'' Smith said. ``Many people grew rich trading Long Island shells -- the same shells we see today on all our beaches.'' Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3011] The economic difference between Indian tribes and colonizers

tive dynamics that, usually but not always, subvert the emergence of exploitation. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:3001] The trouble with long waves199902060600.WAA04188@galaxy.csuchico.edu

n. That some respectable academics have allowed themselves to take such theories seriously is thus only of interest as an indicator of how far some will go to avoid addressing the harsh realities of systemic failure." Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:2979] Long waves

Doug wrote: How do you know where to muck, or how? I have a board version of Bertell Olmann's "Class Struggle" and I throw darts. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:2965] Re: selling Manhattan

and-claims, not search for reasons not to. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:2955] Re: Re: Long waves

upik." I would note, however, that most of the Marxist long wave theorists have tied it to trends in the class struggle. I prefer to muck around in the class struggle rather than theorize about it. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:2946] Re: Re: Long waves

Barkley, as I pointed out in my initial reply to Anwar, I admire Mandel greatly. Except for Marx himself, the only other economists I have taken the trouble to read in any kind of depth are Mandel, O'Connor, Sweezy, Baran and Magdoff. Oh, I forgot my favorite: Michael Perelman. Louis Proyect

[PEN-L:2944] Re: Long waves

either be amassed or depleted. Such events include wars, invasions and fascism. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:2928] Re: Long waves

the people at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty earth science labs are doing. In reality, all bourgeois economics--all of it--is unscientific. When Marxist economists try to vie with their professional colleagues, they inevitably make concessions to the empirical bias of this very unscientific profession. Lou

[PEN-L:2914] Re: Elgin marbles, museums, etc.

ecades trying to find "Big Foot"? What's next? The Loch Ness monster? Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:2885] Re: Surrender, Dorothy.

ced by this excerpt from one of his articles written during a stint with a midwest newspaper. It was prompted by Little Big Horn: "The peculiar policy of the government in employing so weak and vacillating a person as General Miles to look after the uneasy Indians, has resulted in a terrible loss of

[PEN-L:2897] Re: Re: Re: Surrender, Dorothy.

Oz? : Yip Harburg, Lyricist by Harold Meyerson, Ernie Harburg, Yip Harburg ISBN: 0472083120 I heard Amy Goodman interview Ernie Harburg (his son) about this book and his father. -- Joseph Noonan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:2902] Re: Bounced from Anwar Shaikh

es, it seems to me, are associated with colonizing economies. Isn't it possible that "long wave" theory is not really a theory, but simply empirical observations about the long-term performances of advanced industrial economies? Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:2899] Re: Bounced from Anwar Shaikh

d there have been a "long wave" or would the US economy have stagnated? Perhaps the long waves are nothing but a barometer of the imperialist lurches forward of the Yankee republic. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:2873] Two cultures?

Verbatim program documentation from the machine I work on: "Everything in the unix directories which is cleaned up is put into a subdirectory 'junk', so it's still there if it was important." "move the files to the backup directory so that the reconciliation process cannot run

[PEN-L:2917] Re: Elgin marbles, museums, etc.

Charles Lodwick marveled. "Also," Jasper Danckaerts added, "there are among them no simpletons, lunatics or madmen as among us." Indeed, that the Lenapes lived so contentedly in what looked to Europeans like a setting of wonderful "natural" abundance made them all the more contemptible. How could people living in such a place fail so utterly to take advantage of the opportunities that lay all around them? They ought to have been civilized and rich, but they weren't. It was only a short step to the conclusion that they didn't deserve to be there at all. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

[PEN-L:2921] Long waves

s" is very much tied up with West Europe and the US. There is no disagreement about the existence of "long waves", just how insightful they are. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)

Changes in Cuban agriculture

es had been given to 45,804 people-known as parceleros-so that they could engage in self-provisioning. The objective of this policy has been to ease the pressure on official channels of food distribution, as well as to reduce potential discontent about food shortages, by permitting people to grow their

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

Yugoslavia imploded, it made it more difficult to talk about the benefits of including market mechanisms in a socialist society. If AM is finished, so is market socialism. Louis Proyect The Marxism mailing-list: http://www.marxmail.org

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

Cuba which is showing how a genuine Red-Green synthesis can be accomplished, even under the gun of imperialism. If struggles in "peripheral" countries are not your cup of tea, then I can understand how you can get demoralized like the AM'ers and the academic left in general. Lou

More on Peru's democratic initiative (posted to the Marxism list by Tony Abdo)

y escritor Alvaro Vargas Llosa. Louis Proyect The Marxism mailing-list: http://www.marxmail.org

Babelfish translation of Liberation article

ara and the writings of the soldier "Lei Feng", who was a hero of the Mao years. This new left movement is certainly confined to the intellectual or artistic milieu, but reflects significant growing dissatisfaction with a party perceived as irredeemably corrupt. Louis Proyect The Marxism mailing-list: http://www.marxmail.org

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

arvelled at the warmth with which the Cubans received him. What did I think accounted for this? I said I imagined they liked his connection to Harvard, his published attacks on American foreign policy in Latin America, his admiration of Cuban medicine. I looked up and found his pale-blue eyes fixed o

Markets and socialism

ssion period, Rafael Causa from the Cuban Mission to the UN made the case that Cuba introduced markets because it had no choice. He also explained that the embargo has been tightened in recent years, despite the perception that trade with Cuba has been relaxed. Louis Proyect The Marxis

Harry Magdoff on market socialism

ot more gadgets or information highways, but the enrichment of education, medical care, room for the creative urges to flourish--alas, not grist for viable ventures in the marketplace." Louis Proyect The Marxism mailing-list: http://www.marxmail.org

Chinese new left

Louis Proyect wrote: In spring the daily CP newspaper published letters from students at the University of Peking denouncing their professors, whom they considered to be too liberal. Anti-globalization nationalists, part of the new left, are very critical towards social inequalities, which

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