Peruvian Maoism

1998-03-29 Thread Louis Proyect
There has been an abysmal failure on the part of mainstream Marxism in the United States to engage with Peruvian Maoism on its own terms. Journals like the Monthly Review and NACLA have written about the human rights aspect of the struggle, while paying scant attention to the underlying

Peter Dorman

1998-03-29 Thread PHILLPS
Peter, Could you please resend your e-mail. It got lost with a lot of other stuff with my e-mail problems. Paul Paul Phillips

Re: centres of excellence

1998-03-29 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-03-29 10:34:50 EST, you write: The article also suggests that US professors who are heads of departments earn at least $200,000. Can this be true? Mark sure it can be true -- because they exploit the almost slave like conditions of adjuncts. maggie coleman [EMAIL

Re: Fwd: Coca-colonization II

1998-03-29 Thread valis
Never mind, most kids are drawing the proper conclusions from outrages like this. Someone should do a study showing just how badly Chris Whittle bombed with his horrific Channel One scheme, and why. Retorts Max: Whittle bombed but Channel One is alive and well, broadcast into 12,000

Re: Soviet balance sheet

1998-03-29 Thread michael
boddhisatva wrote: I think it was the expansionism of the S.U. rather than the socialism of the S.U. that was the principal motivator. The worry was that the expansion made the Soviet system seem more attractive and undermined the legitimacy of capitalism. In America the year with the

No Subject

1998-03-29 Thread PHILLPS
Date:Sun, 29 Mar 98 16:39 LCL From:PHILLPS To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Kosovo (corrected) I had trouble with my e-mail and the previous post was cut off and the last part garbled. So let me please correct it. But this relates back to Barkley's message. From what I have been

Re: M-I: Peruvian Maoism

1998-03-29 Thread Mark Jones
In his series of postings on indigenism generally, Louis Proyect has rendered Marxism a service and there are many in his debt, who do not yet know his name. He has succeeded in connecting in intelligible, politically-meaningful ways some of the complex of issues which define the era: the

Re: A Right-wing ballot initiativer

1998-03-29 Thread maxsaw
The name of this initiative suggests that it is a measure in favor of campaign finance reform. One effect might be to force unions to work on organizing more than cozying up to Democratic wing of the money party. The new leadership of the AFL took as its inaugural premise the need for a

Channel One

1998-03-29 Thread Eric Nilsson
Re Channel One, Kohlberg, Kravis Roberts Company and related entities (I think K-III was renamed Primedia)--- From Columbia Journalism Review, Jan/Feb 1995: DART to the schoolchildren's newspaper Weekly Reader, for demonstrating that education may be hazardous to your health. Its

Re: centres of excellence

1998-03-29 Thread Doug Henwood
Mark Jones wrote: The article also suggests that US professors who are heads of departments earn at least $200,000. Can this be true? A bit of an exaggeration. Stars in the humanities and social sciences can earn in the $100,000-150,000 range, plus perks. The perks can probably push the total

Re: A Right-wing ballot initiative

1998-03-29 Thread boddhisatva
C. Devine, By numbering the theoretical proposition 559, I was trying to imply that it would be some years into the future. peace

centres of excellence

1998-03-29 Thread Mark Jones
The Sunday Times has published an international league table of universities, which bears on recent discussions here, as follows: Centres of excellence Harvard (US) Yale (US) Princeton (US) Chicago (US) Stanford (US) Cambridge (UK) Oxford (UK)