[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bill,
Could you give us the lowdown on the recent election results.
From the paltry news we get here I understand Labour was just
short of a majority and was expected to form a coalition with the
Greens and one other party which I had not heard of.
It is
I bet Max Sawicky that the DJIA would fall to 3,000. It did not. This bet
was akin to the famous bet made between Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich about
whether the Club of Rome's central predictions about eco-doom were wrong or
right. Simon (the eco-optimist) won his bet. Ehrlich et al had to
At 05:46 PM 8/3/2002 -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
Wallerstein's hostility to socialism is conveyed in an interesting
exchange with John Bellamy Foster in the January 2002 Monthly Review. He
says that he is not sure that the collapse of the USSR was a setback for
the left, which he equates with
At 03:10 PM 8/3/2002 -0700, joanna bujes wrote:
At 01:30 PM 08/03/2002 -0700, you wrote:
I thought it happens when your wife is a socialist and you actually pay some
attention to what she says.
Hmmm. Reminds me of when I used to be married to a Trotskyist. Since he
was so busy doing political
Ulhas Joglekar wrote:
Malaysia's (Pop. 20 mn) rank (59) in global HDI data for 2002 is not far
behind that of Cuba (55). Malaysia became independent in 1955 or 1956.
In terms of per capita income in PPP terms, Malaysia is far ahead of Cuba.
Comparisons between the Asian tigers and Cuba is
Ben Day wrote:
I'm curious, does anyone know of any extant research on the history,
economics, politics, etc. of NGOs? I'm sure that particular groups of
NGOs - e.g. environmental - have received some level of systematic
attention, but I'm wondering if anyone has attempted to look broadly
NY Times, August 4, 2002
EDITORIAL OBSERVER
What the Bard of Oxford Can Teach Critics of the New World Order
By ADAM COHEN
XFORD, Miss. -- Ernest Hemingway drove an ambulance in wartime Italy,
safaried in Africa and lived for years in a finca outside Havana. F.
Scott Fitzgerald cut a wild
The Financial Express
Friday, August 02, 2002
Foreign Cash To Propel Chinese Airline Revamp
Shanghai, August 1: China's easing of caps on foreign investment in the
aviation sector on Thursday will propel its airlines into the global jet set
and give foreign carriers a bigger share of the
What forces tend to put delayed negative tendencies with a delay into
play? I mentioned the fiscal conditions of state and local governments.
Companies will have to make up for the shortfalls in the expected profits
of pension plans. The WSJ suggested that top end housing is starting to
fall.
Michael,
A foreign direct investment downturn in the US?
Seth
Foreign Investors Turning Cautious on Spending in U.S.
August 4, 2002
By LOUIS UCHITELLE
Foreign investors, who once joined with confident Americans
in a wave of spectacular acquisitions and business spending
that helped power the
Title: abstraction vs. concreteness
[was: RE: [PEN-L:29084] Re: RE: the D of P]
I wrote:
reality is a great orientation, but we have two eyes. We can't just
focus on reality alone -- which ends up with pessimism or even
fatalism or opportunism. (I have met corrupt labor union leaders
Title: greed
This rightwinger is right, i.e., that much of the revulsion is that of old wealth being repulsed by the grasping of the newly-wealthy and the wannabe wealthy. But there's also a revulsion from those laid off or who have lost their pensions or who lost due to inside trading.
It
Title: prefigurative politics
[was: RE: [PEN-L:29095] Socialism in the Bedroom]
Ben Day writes:... I've found especially with socialists of upper class or upper middle-class background, and even more particularly among trots
and anarchists of the same, there's a tendancy to obsess over
Devine, James wrote:
It seems to me that greed would be better defined as
self-aggrandizement unconstrained by any sense of morality.
As a technical term for use among marxists and semi-marxists I would
agree with this definition. (And in particular with your further point
-- below --
Title: RE: [PEN-L:29097] Re: Re: NGOs in society
Petras' analysis sounds like it's true _in general_, but are there any exceptions? maybe Oxfam?
JD
---
Imperialism and NGOs in Latin America
by James Petras
By the early 1980s the more perceptive sectors of the neoliberal
Devine, James wrote:
I notice that the opposition to abstraction is very common today. Or
is anti-intellectualism a chronic condition?
I am opposed to idealism, not abstractions. If we were discussing an
abstraction like commodity, we might get somewhere--although without
my participation.
[Was: the D of P, then abstraction vs. concreteness]
Re
Sorry, Jim, this is not worth responding to. Your arguing in favor of
workers democratic socialism is akin to Justin arguing in favor of market
socialism. I am not in the business of countering one abstraction with
another. I prefer
Pardon: substitute the word ideal for every instance of the word
abstraction in my previous post under this heading.
Abstractly,
Gil
This is just bizarre.
From Military Review:
Cashiering Freedom for Security: Lessons in Modern Terrorism
J. Michael Brower
Reflecting on the indispensability of the terrorist technique in 1920, Leon
Trotsky, the first Soviet Commissar for War, wrote about the issue while on
a military train
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