NY Times, April 15, 2001
Lives Held Cheap in Bangladesh Sweatshops
By BARRY BEARAK
NARSINGDI, Bangladesh The fire in the garment factory began on the fourth
floor, where polo shirts, neatly folded in boxes, made a fine feast for the
hungry flames. The 1,250 workers scampered for their
NY Times Magazine, April 15, 2001
Keeping Up With the Shidhayes: India's New Middle Class
By JAMES TRAUB
There is an expression you hear nowadays in Aurangabad, a city of about a
million souls located 150 miles northeast of Bombay, that would have made
absolutely no sense when I lived there
Average life expectancy in India is 63 years, 44% of Indians over 15
are illiterate, 53% of Indians under 5 are malnourished. India's
poverty rate appears to have held constant over the decade of the
1990s. But I don't see how anything is going to push India's poverty
rate down until
Hi Jim,
Check out the critique of Lenin's theory by Rosa L., certainly no bourgeois
thinker (500 Years of Revolution: European Radicals from Hus to Lenin.
Charles George. 237-239.) Or am I misreading your words on Lenin and the
Russian Revolution?
Seth
"The Russian revolution was
Maybe the MIA archive online has the pamphlet that Univ. of Michigan Press
gave the title, "Leninism or Marxism, "(arrgh goes Lou) ed. by Bertram Wolfe
by Red Rosa.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Luxemberg+on+Lenin
Avoid the fascist, "Jew Watch, " website on these hits.
Michael Pugliese
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Isnt it important to look at these issues at the state level. For example,
Kerala as I recall is more progressive in many respects than some other
states.
By the way I do not think that citing growth statistics is just baiting
leftists. It is a standard but exceedingly dubious measure of
On another list, someone had an apt thought about the issue of whether or not we should
discuss theory on pen-l, by implication including issues of how socialism can and
should
be organized as a socio-econonomic system:
At best, theory and practice are distinct but not separate.
Perhaps you
I wrote: The Russian revolution was well-nigh inevitable. Lenin and the Bolsheviks
stepped in and tried to make it a good thing for workers and peasants. The imperialist
powers invaded and encouraged the civil war (which would have happened anyway), so
Lenin
_et al_ had little choice but to
Michael Pugliese writes: Maybe the MIA archive online has the pamphlet
that Univ. of
Michigan Press gave the title, "Leninism or Marxism," ... ed. by Bertram
Wolfe by Red
Rosa.
The title was chosen in order to enlist Rosa L. in the Cold War against
the USSR. If I
remember correctly, Wolfe
Jim D. writes:
(I'm wondering when the neoliberal revolution will create a "god
that failed" generation.
It's quite a religious movement, with a lot of political power, and
they're producing a
world-wide disaster. Some of the more enlightened folks -- e.g.,
those who don't
reflexively use GDP
Although this thread began with some early taunts and flames, I think it is
helping to shape out a picture of what growth means. I have not seen any
professional academic journal article -- probably due to my own ignorance --
that describes how growth affects difference classes and sub-classes.
http://www.frontlineonline.com/fl1808/18080630.htm
Business not as usual
India-Nepal trade relations force another round of turbulence.
RITA MANCHANDA
IT has been open season on Nepal, first with Indian intelligence agencies raising an
alarm about the Himalayan kingdom becoming the new base
The Globe and Mail (Canada)
April 14, 2001
Canadians red-faced over Russian bankruptcy laws
By GEOFFREY YORK
Moscow - When the Canadian government was spending more than $1-million to
help draft Russian bankruptcy legislation, its supporters bragged that the
new law would be a pillar of reform.
Brad says
Brad DeLong wrote:
Rates of growth of GDP per capita, India:
1950-19801.1% per year
1980-19903.3% per year
1990-20004.2% per year
At the pace of the last decade, India's real productivity is
doubling every seventeen years (compared to a doubling time of 65
years before
* new internationalist issue 241 - March 1993
KERALA old and new...
THE OLD
Education was traditionally the domain of the higher castes - the
Namboodiris, Nairs and Syrian Orthodox Christians. But with the
Europeans came missionaries who set up church schools to instruct and
convert
Michael Perelman writes: Rapid growth [of real GDP?] seems to be associated, in most
cases, with deteriorating conditions for the lowest quintile, differentiation within
the
less impoverished classes, and wild accumulations for the top -- sort of like our own
"new
economy" until the late 1990s.
Most recent studies on Indian poverty show that the level of poverty has
fallen, has been falling since the 1980s. But sheer numbers are large and
the official poverty line in India in reality is bare subsistence. The
Indian "middle" class is a misnomer. It is really the upper class,
given the
Leonard, Thomas C. 2000. "The Very Idea of Applying Economics: The
Modern Minimum-Wage Controversy and Its Antecedents." in Roger E.
Backhouse and Jeff Biddle, eds. Toward a History of Applied
Economics (Durham and London: Duke University Press): pp. 117-44.
117 n: "In the wake of Curd
Leonard, Thomas C. 2000. "The Very Idea of Applying Economics: The
Modern Minimum-Wage Controversy and Its Antecedents." in Roger E.
Backhouse and Jeff Biddle, eds. Toward a History of Applied
Economics (Durham and London: Duke University Press): pp. 117-44.
117 n: "In the wake
Brad says
Brad DeLong wrote:
Rates of growth of GDP per capita, India:
1950-1980 1.1% per year
1980-1990 3.3% per year
1990-2000 4.2% per year
At the pace of the last decade, India's real productivity is
doubling every seventeen years (compared to a doubling time of 65
years before
Although this thread began with some early taunts and flames, I think it is
helping to shape out a picture of what growth means. I have not seen any
professional academic journal article -- probably due to my own ignorance --
that describes how growth affects difference classes and sub-classes.
A key component of Japan, S. Korea, Taiwan was land reform. Also,
education of the lower classes, something that the World Bank has been
discouraging by demanding payment.
Also, you tend to take unrepresentative samples.
Finally, of the countries that you names, Japan, China, S. Korea, and
Folks on PEN, feel free to circulate this important message to other
lists. It's now day 8 of the strike and negotiations have not made that
much progress. I'm part of an effort to get students on the picket lines
to show support for the faculty union here. It's a story that hasn't
gotten much
(BTW, contrary to Brad's misrepresentation, there are many socialists -- including
some on
pen-l -- who think it's worthwhile to look before leaping, to think about what
socialism
might look like.)
-- Jim Devine
Actually, contrary to Jim's assertion here, it is Michael who
has been
You will also find horror stories with the CPM, and this is coming from a
CPM sympathetizer (that's me). From a distance everything looks
sanitized. The ground reality is far more complex.
xxx
Anthony P. D'Costa,
My intention was to stop a rehash of Hayek and market socialism. That
debate seemed to be repeating itself. I suspect that we will not see to
much new, but if you want to give it a whirl, go for it.
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 10:45:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(BTW, contrary to
Water is fast becoming the bottleneck to development. Canada is
probably unique in having so much good water per capita.
I suspect that within 10 years, the world will be turning its attention
far more to water than to oil. Sort of a global version of Chinatown --
the old movie.
Now, NAFTA is
On this I will have to agree with Brad. I think the (advanced
capitalist country) left tends to dismiss growth. It is possible that
growth is likely to lead to inequality initially (Kuznets curve) but it
does not have to remain that way. If as we find in the Korean case,
labor-intensive
But I don't recall that growth had to be free market oriented. It was
simply growth, and as far as I know, India's growth rates over the various
decades provided covered different regimes. Strictly speaking India does
not play by market rules, although today it does more so than before.
FYI
xxx
Anthony P. D'Costa, Associate Professor
Comparative International Development
University of WashingtonCampus Box 358436
1900 Commerce Street
Tacoma, WA 98402, USA
Phone: (253) 692-4462
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