[PEN-L] What's Keeping The American Auto Industry From Collapsing

Americans no longer fight to keep their shores safe, Just to keep the jobs going in the arms making workplace. http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2007/0706/anbar0601.jpg Then they pretend to be gripped by some sort of political reflex, But all they're doing is paying dues to the Military Industri

Re: [PEN-L] Re: [PEN-L] The current counter-revolutionary offensive in Venezuela – what it means and how to defeat it

At 18:32 02/06/2007, raghu wrote: Hi Michael, A naive question: on the face of it, cancelling licenses of unfriendly TV stations does sound like a suppression of free expression. What is the background to this? Was this decision taken in a democratic way? Thanks. -raghu. Hi Raghu, Firs

[PEN-L] Re: [PEN-L] The current counter-revolutionary offensive in Venezuela – what it means and how to defeat it

On 6/2/07, michael a. lebowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.marxist.com/counterrevolutionary-offensive-venezuela010607.htm do not need excuses. If they do not have any, they invent them. The measure taken of not renewing the licence to RCTV is perfectly legal, and does not even affec

[PEN-L] another industry faces hard times

from SLATE's news summary:>The NY [Times] reports that the porn industry has fallen on hard times; publishers of blue movies say they can't compete with the growing numbers of lusty amateurs who are willing to post home-brew sex tapes online for free. < -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e las

Re: [PEN-L] Schooling In Capitalist America or What Happened to Bowles and Gintis

You are right that not all anti-Marxists are right wing but I do consider rejection of Marxism a turn to the right even if the person remains leftist. In the case of Gintis I consider his rejection of Marxism a turn to the right because he adopts neo-classical concepts even when he is using them

Re: [PEN-L] critique of Gintis

On 6/2/07, Julio Huato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I agree that Hahnel's book is a valuable contribution. But I don't think it was meant as the final word. Instead, it's the sketch of a research program to go beyond traditional welfare analysis. At least, that's the way I understand it. In the

Re: [PEN-L] Herbert Gintis: Review of Fullbrook's book

On 6/2/07, Julio Huato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marxism aspires to being the living, breathing, kicking worldview of a revolutionary class. So Marxism (as any other doctrine with such high aspirations), just to survive, needs to subject itself to relentless self-criticism, pretty much to exper

[PEN-L] Health care in Honduras

http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=327155 _ Get a preview of Live Earth, the hottest event this summer - only on MSN http://liveearth.msn.com?source=msntaglineliveearthhm

Re: [PEN-L] Announcing Muhammad Yunus' Candidacy to Head the World Bank

awhile back, one of my former colleagues presented a paper on microcredit. (He actually did it twice, once when he started and once to get tenure. Our standards were lower then.) One thing I noticed (both times!) was that microcredit replaces the usual collateral requirement with social pressure:

Re: [PEN-L] dicta

I think that the whole issue is clarified (at least for down-to-earth people such as myself) if we see Marx as critiquing the actually-existing political economy of his time, which was different from political economy _in general_. On 6/2/07, sartesian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, will check i

Re: [PEN-L] Reading list

try Bowles, Edwards, & Roosevelt, UNDERSTANDING CAPITALISM. It's a vaguely Marxist textbook and very readable. It doesn't have anything about socialism in it. On Friday, June 1, 2007 at 19:24:14 (-0700) steve houston writes: >Hello gentleman (and ladies) > >I am a student who is interested in r

Re: [PEN-L] critique of Gintis

Michael Lebowitz wrote: I've always felt that Robin Hahnel took the best of all that in his fine 'Quiet Revolution in Welfare Economics'. I agree that Hahnel's book is a valuable contribution. But I don't think it was meant as the final word. Instead, it's the sketch of a research program to

Re: [PEN-L] Announcing Muhammad Yunus' Candidacy to Head the World Bank

I'm sorry, Patrick, I thought I covered this. Can't we unite with the liberals against the common enemy just this once? :) "Objection: Muhammad Yunus is not Jesus Christ Almighty. His presidency might not represent a real break from the policies of the Washington Consensus. To which the answer i

Re: [PEN-L] Announcing Muhammad Yunus' Candidacy to Head the World Bank

On Jun 1, 2007, at 11:40 PM, Daniel Davies wrote: Could I have the paper please Patrick? I've been suspicious of Yunus for a long time, ever since that great Heather Boushey article in Left Business Observer. Correction: that was by Gina Neff. Doug

Re: [PEN-L] dicta

OK, will check into those works... and try to avoid expressing disagreements as dicta. - Original Message - From: "michael a. lebowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 9:51 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] dicta > At 08:04 02/06/2007, sartesian wrote: > > >Michael, > > > >Fi

Re: [PEN-L] dicta

At 08:04 02/06/2007, sartesian wrote: Michael, First, I sense I may have personally offended you, and/or others. That is not at all my intention. But regarding Marx's statement addressing the First International Marx's makes lots of statements that may or may not be consistent with the f

[PEN-L] The current counter-revolutionary offensive in Venezuela – what it means and how to defeat it

http://www.marxist.com/counterrevolutionary-offensive-venezuela010607.htm The current counter-revolutionary offensive in Venezuela – what it means and how to defeat it By Yonie Moreno and William Sanabria of the CMR in

[PEN-L] Toxic waste on Indian reservations

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dump2jun02,0,7610180.story?coll=la-home-center From the Los Angeles Times Toxic waste litters desert Indian reservation Rampant dumping in Thermal has gone on for years, and pupils breathe tainted air. Government can't yet stamp it out. By David Kelly Tim

Re: [PEN-L] dicta

Michael, First, I sense I may have personally offended you, and/or others. That is not at all my intention. But regarding Marx's statement addressing the First International Marx's makes lots of statements that may or may not be consistent with the focus of the great body of his workfor

Re: [PEN-L] Herbert Gintis: Review of Fullbrook's book

Ken Hanly wrote: What are the grounds upon which Gintis rejects Marxism or other heterodox alternatives? I disagree with Gintis on this one. But I think I can see a rational kernel in his remark. Marxism aspires to being the living, breathing, kicking worldview of a revolutionary class. So

Re: [PEN-L] dicta

At 23:28 01/06/2007, sartesian wrote: Says Marx. In everything he writes he attacks political economy [of capital], exposing its class function. He is quite clear on what political economy [of capital] is-- an ideological function, a necessary obscuring of the actual social relation of producti

Re: [PEN-L] critique of Gintis

Eugene Coyle wrote: The best undergrads are not able to stomach the incompatability of the material with the world they know. So they switch to anthropology, sociology, pre law, etc. Strong inference. I'd love to look at the data myself.

Re: [PEN-L] critique of Gintis

Walt Byars wrote: An odd criticism. In the mid 1970's Gintis wrote some well known papers on the implications of "endogenous preferences" i.e. preferences which are not given but caused by the economic system. He always mentions how his more recent work is an extension of this. Bowles's Microeco

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

Charles Brown wrote 29 May 2007 CB; . . . Has it been mainly in the U.S. that crises have been smoothed over, and long term rate of profit raised ? . . . Does the almost complete recovery of the long-run rate of profit without a serious depression and devaluation of capital depend in part on the

[PEN-L] Operation First Casualty has a posse... VFW backs vet in trouble over protest

VFW backs vet in trouble over protest By SAM HANANEL, Associated Press Writer 15 minutes ago http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070602/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/military_protest_hearing WASHINGTON - The nation's largest combat veterans group on Friday urged the military to "exercise a little common sens