Eva Durant wrote,
mass unemployment cuts the unions bargaining power
due to cut in membership and that competitive pool
of unemployed who are ready to work for less in
worse conditions. Also the mass media for the last
30 years was constantly hammering the idea of
unionism.
Unemployment may
I agree with you; the leadership of the union
tend to be right wing and to thrive on apathy.
The only initiative comes from pressure from
the memebership - when it happens.
Eva
mass unemployment cuts the unions bargaining power
due to cut in membership and that competitive pool
of
Brad McCormick:
Slavery by identifiable persons, or slavery by "no one" ("The
invisible hand" which supposedly gives even the CEOs of gigabillion
dollar global corporations no choice -- but Marx already talked about
this
in Das Kapital, where he observed that the only way the work day
was
Caspar Davis
I am actually a great admirer of the market system, but two
prerequisites for its effective function are perfect competitition
(practically non-existent) and perfect information- almost as rare in
the world of ubiquitous advertising and the corporate media. Like
Marxism, the free
Jay Hanson wrote:
From: Ed Weick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
of their overlords. In comparison with the economic institutions of former
times, I would take the market any day.
There you have all the choices in the universe folks: either modern market
slavery or even worse slavery. G If that
Let us make our meaning more precise. No society could, naturally, live for
any length of time unless it possessed an economy of some sort; but
previously to our time no economy has ever existed that, even in principle,
was controlled by markets. In spite of the chorus of academic incantations
so
From: Ed Weick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
of their overlords. In comparison with the economic institutions of former
times, I would take the market any day.
There you have all the choices in the universe folks: either modern market
slavery or even worse slavery. G If that ain't science, I don't know
At 5:33 PM -0400 10/13/98, Ed Weick wrote, in part:
The point I would make is that economies have to be powered by something -
that is, they have to have a dominant institution which enables them to
function. While it is true that, in the past, mankind was not subjected to
gain and profit as
I am reminded by Arthur Cordell that pricing which includes ALL the
true costs is another prerequisite of a real free market economy. The
present system externalizes most true costs and internalizes (as
profit) many benefits (such as rent for land and othr natural
resources) which should rightly
