Robert,
At 18:41 17/04/00 -0400, you wrote:
Keith, in commenting on my response to Harry Pollard, wrote:
"This is a crude way of interpreting history."
I was not interpreting history. I was criticizing the idea of the use of
philosophy as a methodology of solving very immediate and practical
Mike, the difference between us may be that I see the glass as half empty.
The industrial revolution required a tremendous build up of capital but also
a tremendous build up of labour. Because it was so heavily involved in the
new processes of production, and because of the fluidity of society
The following is from today's Globe and Mail.
Ed Weick
Global justice? Don't make me laugh
ANDREW MILLS Tuesday, April 18, 2000
The movements of my parents' generation were straightforward: civil rights,
Ban the Bomb, anti-Vietnam war. I am a 19-year-old history student; my
generation's
small but important (I think)point.
Ed,
Arthur has also commented that the kinds of criticisms which I leveled at
the Washington protesters were also leveled at the kids who were protesting
the Vietnam War. I think there's a difference. The Vietnam protesters were
opposing something specific
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Below is my Los Angeles Times column for today, Monday, April 17,
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Yup. The word you are looking for is, I believe, parody. A word that
defines much of what is going on these days. Question is what will
authentic reaction and rebellion look like?
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small but important (I think)point.
Arthur
It was very difficult for those who protested the Vietnam war.
ANDREW MILLS wrote in the Globe and Mail
Last Saturday, I took a seat on one of the four Canadian Auto Workers'
subsidized buses full of communists and churchgoers, Luddites and lesbians
bound for Washington to join the protests.
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It was rare to find a protester who could
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Good day folks,
Mr. Douglas P. Wilson's forceful presentation of the Tory world view, which
is known to us colonials as the Conservative world view, seems to have
Hi Mike,
Let me try to restate my argument. Economic growth requires certain basic
conditions. I would not pretend to know what all of these are, but stability
and the possibility of upward mobility would, I suspect, be among them. I
would also include the existence of capital; not only capital
Hi Ed,
I agree with the role of plunder and greed in the English Industrial
Revolution. They played a role. But it has not been true of all
industrial revolutions. There was no plundering and greed in the medieval
European industrial revolution. The driving actors were a religious order
(the
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