Re: [PEN-L] European moral inferiority

> Leon Kuunders: > I wonder if there is any difference between 'capitalism' then and now? > Did capitalism get it's current form immediately when it was > invented or is there a difference? > > ^^^ > > CB: Yes capitalism has developed. One thing that modified it > was its struggle with the beginnin

[PEN-L] Anti-Semites Make "Aliyah" to Israel . . . as the Best and Brightest Jews Return to Russia

"Anti-Semites Make 'Aliyah' to Israel . . . as the Best and Brightest Jews Return to Russia": -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: * Greens for Nader: * Bring The

Re: [PEN-L] Jonathan Nitzan on Against the Grain

Should have had the left/right order of the "equation" reversed: ...More specifically, we argue that the QUANTITATIVE process of differential capitalization (the *left* hand side of the “equation”) represents or “discounts” the QUALITATIVE processes of social power (the *right* hand side of th

Re: [PEN-L] Jonathan Nitzan on Against the Grain

Why wasn't this post in plain text. HTML, MIME, etc. can carry viruses, besides being in general a pain in the ass. Carrol

Re: [PEN-L] Rosemary Kennedy

a couple of comments: the psychiatric profession deserves a lot of the blame. They thought that lobotomies were wonderful (even though they didn't have the slightest understanding of how the brain worked or how lobotomies worked, even compared to today's state of ignorance). They've mostly giv

[PEN-L] a comment on the tsunami

[lyrics by Robbie Fulks, with a heavy country and western style guitar, etc.] A world filled with wonder, a cold, fathomless sky A man's life so meager, he can but wonder why He cries out to Heaven its truth to reveal The answer: only silence, for God isn't real. Go ask the starving million

Re: [PEN-L] opportunities for economists

$2400 an hour for a call girl!? Are you sure you have the exchange rate right? That's the most eye-popping cost for libidinal servicing I've seen since John Profumo went gaga over Christine Keeler and paid his whole career for the experience. It seems to me the individual contracting this service

Re: [PEN-L] Jonathan Nitzan on Against the Grain

Jonathan, 1. Does what you say differ -- or if it does, how does it differ -- from Postone's distinction between social domination as the "fundamental core of capitalism" and the regime of accumulation as its 19th century, "increasingly abstract" form (Time, Labor, and Social Domination? 2. The s

Re: [PEN-L] Genghis Khan

BTW, Orlando Figes has a great chapter on the Mongol influence on Russian civilization in his remarkable book Natasha's Dance. For instance, the following "Russian" names are actually Mongol: Turgenev (from the Mongol word for "swift") Bulgakov Akhmatova Chaadaev Rimsky-Korsakov Berdiaev Bukharin

Re: [PEN-L] Anti-Semites Make "Aliyah" to Israel . . . as the Best and Brightest Jews Return to Russia

NEWS ANALYSIS Sharon tells Russian Jews to move to Israel, but words fall on deaf ears By Lev Krichevsky MOSCOW, Nov. 4 (JTA) — Ariel Sharon brought a message to Russian Jews when he visited this week: Israel needs you. But for some Russian Jewish leaders, the message seemed a bit out of step wit

[PEN-L] Jonathan Nitzan on Against the Grain

Do you use the Marxist concept of "state" and state power ? See _The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State_ and _The State and Revolution_ . What's "capitalist nomos" ? Naming ? How do you want to "change" capitalism differently than "overthrowing" it ? What we want to overthrow i

[PEN-L] Slate's Today's Papers: Iraqi elections

The Bushwhackers' commitment to holding the Iraqi elections as scheduled now seems in the same general ball-park as Hitler's order (during the last phases of WW2) that German troops never retreat. Obviously, there are major differences, but in both cases there's an effort to make symbolic commitmen

Re: [PEN-L] Slate's Today's Papers: Iraqi elections

Jim -- I have read in two different sources, one of them the blog "Baghdad Burning," that the names of the candidates for office in Iraqi have not been announced due to fears of assassinations. If one does not know who's running for office, they do not campaign publicly, etc., then of what use is

Re: [PEN-L] Slate's Today's Papers: Iraqi elections

From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Bushwhackers' commitment to holding the Iraqi elections as scheduled now seems in the same general ball-park as Hitler's order (during the last phases of WW2) that German troops never retreat. Obviously, there are major differences, but in both cases th

[PEN-L] Politics Idol...

MPs blast 'tawdry' Politics Idol show Gaby Hinsliff, political editor Sunday January 09 2005 The Observer A former prostitute, a Celtic druid, and a woman who hates mobile phone masts will tomorrow go head to head in the most unlikely reality TV show yet: a contest to create Britain's first genui

[PEN-L] Targeting teens for troops

Targeting teens for troops By BILL HENDRICK Cox News Service Sunday, January 09, 2005 ATLANTA - Sprawled beneath an olive-green camouflage net snapping like a bullwhip in cold, blustery winds, Senae Hobson, a petite 17-year-old, shivers in a T-shirt behind a .50-caliber machine gun, hardly able t

Re: [PEN-L] Slate's Today's Papers: Iraqi elections

I'm waiting for the Onion to do a story any day now about how the Iraqi interim regime foiled the insurgents by pulling off a surprise election two weeks ahead of schedule. There could be no disruption of such an election because nobody would know it was happening. They could just announce the winn

Re: [PEN-L] opportunities for economists

$2400 an hour might seem quite a lot of money to spend on a prostitute, but you have to remember that it's a positional good. christ I'm infantile. dd -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carl Remick Sent: 10 January 2005 15:14 To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.

[PEN-L] Robert Heilbroner (1919-2005)

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/45bfa7f0-62ac-11d9-8e5d-0e2511c8.html Inspiration to generations of economists Published: January 10 2005 02:00 | Last updated: January 10 2005 02:00 Robert Heilbroner, author of Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers and among t

Re: [PEN-L] opportunities for economists

Daniel Davies wrote: > > $2400 an hour might seem quite a lot of money to spend on a prostitute, but > you have to remember that it's a positional good. About 50 years ago (or more) David Rockefeller used to tuck $1000 bills in the stockings of cigarette girls in night clubs. That $1000 in (say) 1

Re: [PEN-L] opportunities for economists

Of course, Nelson Rockefeller probably died because his "girlfriend" couldn't get medical care in quick enough after his heart attach -- because she was tied up at the time. Jim Devine, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine/ > -Original Message- > From: PEN-L list

Re: [PEN-L] Slate's Today's Papers: Iraqi elections

Chomsky & Herman have several books and article about "demonstration elections." Jim Devine, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine/ > -Original Message- > From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter > Hollings > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 10:0

Re: [PEN-L] opportunities for economists

[The story supposedly runs like this:] Where was Megan Marshak when Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller Died? In recounting old news stories similar to the Monica Lewinsky case, the press has often invoked the name of 27-year-old Megan Marshak, whom, they say, was at the side of former Vice-President

Re: [PEN-L] opportunities for economists

Carl Remick wrote: [The story supposedly runs like this:] Where was Megan Marshak when Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller Died? And as I recall, NYT columnist James Reston did an obit that declared, before all the facts were known (quoted from memory): "Nelson Rockefeller died as he lived, hard at w

Re: [PEN-L] opportunities for economists

The early news stories as I recall them said that his assistant had been working with him to catalogue his art works. They gave it away, however, by a weird euphemism: she was described as wearing a black evening gown. Such a difference between evening and night. Carrol

Re: [PEN-L] opportunities for economists

Many years ago we had a series of long debates that degenerated into tedium -- whether prostitution is productive work or not. Now Carl is trying to get that started again. Carl Remick wrote: [The story supposedly runs like this:] Where was Megan Marshak when Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller Died?

Re: [PEN-L] opportunities for economists

Reston may have been right. It depends on what's meant by "hard." Jim Devine, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine/ > >Where was Megan Marshak when Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller > Died? > > And as I recall, NYT columnist James Reston did an obit that > declared, befor

Re: [PEN-L] opportunities for economists

Just want to be sure Rocky's not forgotten as a hunk-o' hunk-o' burnin' love and remembered only for his drug laws and Attica :) Carl From: michael perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Many years ago we had a series of long debates that degenerated into tedium -- whether prostitution is productive work or

Re: [PEN-L] opportunities for economists

Thy Will Be Done is an excellent book about Rockefeller's imperialism in Latin America -- working with the fundamentalists. Carl Remick wrote: Just want to be sure Rocky's not forgotten as a hunk-o' hunk-o' burnin' love and remembered only for his drug laws and Attica :) Carl -- Michael Perelman Ec

Re: [PEN-L] opportunities for economists

On Jan 10, 2005, at 1:20 PM, Devine, James wrote: Reston may have been right. It depends on what's meant by "hard." Especially on a Rockefeller

Re: [PEN-L] opportunities for economists

On Jan 10, 2005, at 1:50 PM, Carl Remick wrote: Just want to be sure Rocky's not forgotten as a hunk-o' hunk-o' burnin' love and remembered only for his drug laws and Attica :) Carl He should be remembered for paving the way into Central and South America during WWII, first via FDR, then via Christ

Re: [PEN-L] opportunities for economists

all that & more in They will by done. On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:59:35PM -0800, Dan Scanlan wrote: > On Jan 10, 2005, at 1:50 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > > > Just want to be sure Rocky's not forgotten as a hunk-o' hunk-o' > > burnin' love > > and remembered only for his drug laws and Attica :) > > >

[PEN-L] Korea: Leading the way in human capital?

Tom Walker may want to pick up on this. Fifield, Anna. 2005. "S Korean Businesses Learn That Less Work Can Still Pay: Threat of Cheap Labour From China Has Seen Some Companies Adopt a More Enlightened Approach to Their Staff." Financial Times (7 January): p. A 16. "On his days off, Shin Hyun-chul g

[PEN-L] When Doctors Go to War

"When Doctors Go to War" (U.S. doctors complicit in tortures and even murders of Iraqi and other detainees "tend not to see these practices as unethical," according to M. Gregg Bloche and Jonathan H. Marks's article in the New England Journal of Medicine):