Marty's comments are all well-taken, but I think
he understates a tad the Chinese advantage.
Yes the Chinese need to sell into the U.S., but
in this vein they are riding the wave of free-
trade policy originating in the U.S., plus the
U.S. appetite for imports. At the
same time they can diddle
Carrol Cox wrote:
This is a vivid illustration of why I get so damned pissed off at
leftists (and particularly leftists self-identified as marxists) who
continually refer to the middle class and/or use the phrase working
class only in reference to those who are in some sense manual
workers.
Marvin Gandall wrote:
The post WWII change in class structure, and the related decline in its
class and political consciousness, has forced the major part of the left in
the capitalist democracies to adjust its expectations of what is possible in
these circumstances -- the foremost reason it has
Louis Proyect wrote:
I wasn't aware that the major part of the left had a perspective of
building independent working-class parties prior to WWII.
The CPUSA tied its fate to the Democratic Party, as did the Socialist
Party, during the height of the New Deal.
Marvin Gandall wrote:
But this doesn't contradict that each in its own way was trying to build
their own party to replace the Democrats, whom the workers then favoured,
any more than the entry of the SWP into the Socialist Party was an
indication that American Trotskyists had abandoned their
The New York Times today reports that the payout for the 2,973 people
killed in the 9/11 attacks is about $7 billion. That's roughly
$2,354,524 per person killed.
Since the invasion of Iraq, The United States government has killed,
surely conservatively, about 100,000 Iraqis, I wonder where we
'Music Is Not a Loaf of Bread'
By Xeni Jardin
wired.com, 02:00 AM Nov. 15, 2004 PT
Giving away an album online isn't the way most artists end up with gold
records. But it worked out that way for Wilco.
After being dropped from Reprise Records in 2001 over creative conflicts
surrounding Yankee
Of course, Browder was subsequently purged for being a liquidationist. :)
I'm familiar with the criticism of the CP tactics which you describe, but
you apparently see them as more than tactical errors, as a strategy designed
to permanently fold the party into the Democrats and end its public
A lot of the New York area victims were high income folks. You need to
adjust your calculations for the correct value of a human life.
Of course your ratio at the end is expressed in human beings rather
than dollars, so that's ok. Except you left out [fill in blank with
country names.]
Gene
Bill wrote:
To look at it another way, for each person killed in the 9/11
attacks, we have killed about 33 Iraqis since the invasion.
I know Bill knows this, but I feel obligated to point out that those 33
were in the wrong country.
JD
From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
... Melville in the 19th century, who lashed out at military injustice in
Billy Budd, ...
Melville's cousin Guert Gansevoort was a key figure in a naval scandal that
helped to inspire Billy Budd. Gansevoort, a navy lieutenant, was first
officer of the
http://leiterreports.typepad.com/
Is economics a science, revisited
I wanted to comment on Brian's excellent past post on this issue. When
the question is raised it usually bogs down pretty quickly into the
dreariest sort of outdated Popperian philosophy of science (we make
falsifiable claims!
Billy Bragg's alternative version of I Vow to Thee My Country, The
Many Not the Few
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2004/11/16/nvow16big.gif;sessionid=P4A4MXETEFQI1QFIQMGCM54AVCBQUJVC),
which he co-wrote with the diligent Battersea MP Martin Linton, poses
a number of questions. As a
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AFTER THE ELECTIONS: WHAT NEXT?
Mark Dudzic, Labor Party National Organizer
---
i too received this e-mail, here was my reply:
political parties run candidates for office...
In a message dated 11/18/2004 8:13:09 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is ironic that some who want to liberate the workers don't even recognizewho they are-- that they are all around them, in their neighbourhoods, theirworkplaces, their families, and that in most cases, as
My sense too.
I do not deny the importance of Martin's question
The issue here is whether Chinese workers are benefiting from this
ongoing
shift to a foreign driven export led growth model.
But in terms of geo-politics this looks like a pivotal moment.
The Chinese have still a unified power
This just in from _The Black Commentator_. Standing up for the most
basic of democratic rights is not only the right thing to do -- it
has put both the Green Party and Ralph Nader on the Black political
map like never before:
blockquoteGreens Shame Dems
The Confederacy has finally won, declared
Michael Hoover sez:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/17/2004 2:45:57 PM
AFTER THE ELECTIONS: WHAT NEXT?
Mark Dudzic, Labor Party National Organizer
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i too received this e-mail, here was my reply:
political parties run candidates for office...
Precisely, but you
In a message dated 11/18/2004 2:16:25 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
AFTER THE ELECTIONS: WHAT NEXT?Mark Dudzic, Labor Party National Organizer---i too received this e-mail, here was my reply:political parties run candidates for
Interesting discussion. I guess the question for me is what is at
stake in this dance between Chinese and U.S. leaders?.
Let us assume that the Chinese can in fact move in and out of the bond
market to give the U.S. a bit of shock treatment. Given their
development model what do you think that
Jim thought you would like this site.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/111904W.shtml
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I think this might interest some of you.
Hari Kumar
November 18, 2004 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THREATS TO ACADEMIC FREEDOM SHOULD WORRY PUBLIC
The Medical Reform Group of Ontario today
noted the serious implications of a Canadian Association of University
- Original Message -
From: Martin Hart-Landsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Interesting discussion. I guess the question for me is what is at
stake in this dance between Chinese and U.S. leaders?.
Let us assume that the Chinese can in fact move in and out of the bond
market to give the U.S. a
http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4046n=1
U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT) called for an end to big government
overseeing the election of big government.
[snip]
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