Re: [PEN-L] What Marx meant by primitive accumulation

Actually correct. And Catalonia was not Spain. Brenner shows that the social relations of production governing agriculture in Catalonia were in direct contrast and conflict with Spain. - Original Message - From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Saturday,

Re: [PEN-L] What Marx meant by primitive accumulation

I forgot to add-- the capitalist agricultural relations in Catalonia in the 15th century precede the organization of the commercial slave trade, the growth of commerce, and the destruction of the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean and the Americas. - Original Message - From: Louis Proyect

[PEN-L] Sovereign wealth funds

China's recent purchase of a $3 billion stake in the US hedge fund Blackstone and its plans to recycle hundreds of billions of its USD and other foreign exchange reserves into global equity and real estate markets has drawn excited attention by the financial press to the proliferation and rapid

[PEN-L] The Specter Haunting Your Office

NY Review, Volume 54, Number 10 · June 14, 2007 The Specter Haunting Your Office By James Lardner Review: The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences by Louis Uchitelle Vintage, 287 pp., $14.95 (paper) The Great American Jobs Scam by Greg LeRoy Berrett-Koehler, 290 pp., $24.95 The

[PEN-L] Picture This - Everything You Need To Know About US/Iraqi 'Relations'

Buda-buda-buda http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070526/capt.bag10605260846.iraq__bag106.jpg?x=380y=251sig=Q_oTh2lSrq8mksPSk5SwfA-- Caption: An Iraqi man reacts next to a wall with a painted Iraqi flag following an attack by U.S. warplanes and helicopter, in Sadr City district of Baghdad

[PEN-L] There's a defect in your 'Pop' - Music to 'Memorialize' by...

Pardon if I've posted this here before: http://leighm.net/sounds/archive/mp3/pdr.m3u Change the 'm3u' to 'mp3'... r-click/save as [windoze] to download, 27mb. Leigh

Re: [PEN-L] What is Marx's view of fiscal policy ?

Fred M., quoting me writes: [Some references: On Being Keynesian in the Short Run and Marxian in the Long Run Dumenil Levy; Wandering Around the Warranted Path Shaikh; The Social Wage, Welfare Policy, and the Phases of Capital Accumulation Moudud Zacharias] Paul, I would say that none of

[PEN-L] cheap motels blog

Dear friends, I now have a blog on my website. Got to www.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org In the middle of the page, you'll see a link to Mike's Blog. Click on this to see the blog. And by all means post comments. We've begun our book tour, and I wil post comments on it and on travel in the US,

Re: [PEN-L] What Marx meant by primitive accumulation

At 23:56 25/05/2007, sartesian wrote: But Brenner's and Wood's definition of capitalism is not the competition among commodity producers. Brenner's definition is the separation of the conditions of labor, and the laborer, from the means of labor and, initially, critically, the means of

Re: [PEN-L] From Nitzan Bichler: The Gods Failed, The Priests Lied (in Hebrew)

You can say that again! On 5/25/07, Jonathan Nitzan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: העולם של היום הוא עולם קפיטליסטי. יתר על כן, הוא עולם של קפיטליזם יציב. המשטר הקפיטליסטי � יצח והסדר הקפיטליסטי הושלט בכל מקום בעולם. הקפיטליזם מתגלה יום-יום ישירות באמצעות המחיר. ה� תי� ים בעולם מתוודעים אל הסדר

[PEN-L] Alexander Cockburn's experts

A modified version of Alexander Cockburn's Nation Magazine article The Greenhousers Strike Back, and Strike Out has just shown up on Counterpunch. The main difference between the two articles is that Counterpunch version puts one degree of separation between our contrarian left journalist and the

[PEN-L] Southern Bank: A road towards a new financial architecture...

Transparency Disclaimer: Choike is a project of the Instituto del Tercer Mundo, NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations based in Montevideo, Uruguay Southern Bank: A road towards a new financial architecture Source: ALAI Pablo Dávalos

Re: [PEN-L] What Marx meant by primitive accumulation

First we need to distinguish apples from oranges and whats from whats. Brenner is not defining capitalism. Brenner is searching for the changes in social relations that enable capitalism, that are essential to the development of capitalism, that are both necessary and sufficient. Brenner

Re: [PEN-L] From Nitzan Bichler: The Gods Failed, The Priests Lied (in Hebrew)

Where are the vowels? - Original Message - From: Sandwichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] From Nitzan Bichler: The Gods Failed, The Priests Lied (in Hebrew) You can say that again! On 5/25/07, Jonathan Nitzan

Re: [PEN-L] From Nitzan Bichler: The Gods Failed, The Priests Lied (in Hebrew)

It's old hebrew... No vowels [giggle]. But seriously, I learned enough hebrew for my bar mitzvah... 1967, and somewhere in the blur between then and, oh... 1968, and now, it all went away. Pity. I did notice the absence of hebrew translators-on-the-web. The one on my site, linked to the

[PEN-L] Redux: [PEN-L] From Nitzan Bichler: The Gods Failed, The Priests Lied (in Hebrew)

I suspect '1968' did most of the 'damage' [snicker/giggle] Leigh On 5/26/07, Leigh Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's old hebrew... No vowels [giggle]. But seriously, I learned enough hebrew for my bar mitzvah... 1967, and somewhere in the blur between then and, oh... 1968, and now, it all

[PEN-L] Shanghai: Creating a global city

BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/ Last Updated: Monday, 7 May 2007 Shanghai: Creating a global city http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6618163.stm By Steve Schifferes Globalisation reporter, BBC News, Shanghai, China [The new Shanghai often overshadows the old] Shanghai is the ultimate

Re: [PEN-L] What Marx meant by primitive accumulation

That the social relation that defines the origin of capital first appears in agricultural production, and sinks its deepest roots into English agriculture, is recognized by Marx. Timing is everything. s.a. http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/2005_summer_fall/agronomist.htm In Jefferson's era

[PEN-L] The Secret of Why the Air War Is So Secret

The Secret of Why the Air War Is So Secret Unfortunately, media reports on the air war are so sparse, with reporting confined largely to reprinting U.S. military handouts and announcements of air strikes, that much of the air war in Iraq remains unknown -- although the very fact of an occupying

[PEN-L] Immigration = fetishism of labor + globalization

Business must be able to move around labor just like machines, raw materials, and finished products, per Business Week economist Michael Mandel: Commentary: Globalization vs. Immigration Reform By Michael Mandel Business Week, June 4, 2007 ... Immigration reform, in any flavor, has to contend

Re: [PEN-L] Immigration = fetishism of labor + globalization

Also, wasn't Mandel a lefty long time ago? Robert Cringley shows how the IBM strategy is a crock: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070511_002058.html http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070504_002027.html -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State