In a message dated 7/29/2004 2:02:24 PM Central Standard Time,
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Are the ethnic hostilities something that would naturally
die out without being enflamed intentionally for political gains or are they
inevitable?
The Irish were regarded almost identically to the
--- Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If Kurds, Kashmiris, Chechens, etc. exercised the
right to
self-determination, would that necessarily result in
the breakup of
Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, India, and Russia?
Presumably, they could
very well choose to remain part of the countries in
(Jonathan Schell, in the forthcoming issue of The Nation, argues that the
Democratic party has locked itself into continuing the war in Iraq, even
though its base is in denial and is hoping Kerry's pledge to do so is just
rhetoric designed to win the election. In fact, the outcome of the US
Marvin Gandall wrote:
(Jonathan Schell, in the forthcoming issue of The Nation, argues that the
Democratic party has locked itself into continuing the war in Iraq, even
though its base is in denial and is hoping Kerry's pledge to do so is just
rhetoric designed to win the election. In fact, the
--- Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The question, I thought, was whether Kurds, Kashmiris,
and Chechens
(as well as East Timorese, Albanians in Kosovo, etc.
from recent
history) have the right to self-determination.
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Yoshie, upon a little reflection, I think this is a
pretty naive
[was RE: [PEN-L] Deeper Problems for Shleifer]
Michael writes: Does anybody niotice the rapid decline in the Journal of Economic
Perspectives? A right winger will take over the Journal of Economc
Literature.
I haven't been paying attention. Why do you think that the JEP is in decline? why do
Shleifer is the editor; DeLong is gone. So the journal has become more technical,
less topical. Its beauty, especially under Stiglitz, was that it could keep
non-specialists informed about different fields and truly offer different, even
dissident, perspectives.
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at
I recently quoted Fred Engels as referring to anti-semitism as the socialism of
fools.
Pen-l alumnus Jurriaan Bendien writes me that: From memory the socialism of fools
remark was by August Bebel, circa 1873.
I looked for the quote on the web. The following is part of what I found.
James
Louis P. writes: One of the main goals of the Democratic Party over the past year or
so, besides ousting Bush so as to provide sinecures in Washington for their own
loyalists, has been to disarm the antiwar movement. By creating fake
antiwar outfits like Moveon.org, ... it has forced politics to
James Heartfield, a person who Louis P. has a heart-felt dislike also
cites Bebel: A century ago, the German socialist August Bebel exposed
the limitations of another one-sided and illusory criticism of the
market. In his day, the 'predatory' capitalists who were singled out for
special treatment
Devine, James wrote:
did the DP create Moveon.org? my impression is that its leaders created it and then moved into the DP orbit on their own.
I wasn't clear enough. Moveon.org was created by people who wanted a
respectable alternative to the antiwar movement. It then morphed into
Howard Dean's
Moveon began in protest of the Clinton impeachment. It began as a letter that took a
life of its own.
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 12:29:41PM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
Devine, James wrote:
did the DP create Moveon.org? my impression is that its leaders created it and
then moved into the DP
--- Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Shleifer is the editor; DeLong is gone. So the
journal has become more technical,
less topical.
The same Shleifer that was investigated b/c of his
work in Russia?
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Whoops, obviously yes. I hadn't read that post yet.
--- Chris Doss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Shleifer is the editor; DeLong is gone. So the
journal has become more technical,
less topical.
The same Shleifer that was investigated b/c of his
From the Law and Politics Book Review
WELFARE AND THE CONSTITUTION, by Sotirios A. Barber. Princeton, New
Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2004. 184pp. Cloth $27.95 / £17.95.
ISBN: 0-691-11448-X
Reviewed By Ronald Kahn, Department of Politics, Oberlin College.
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In a message dated 7/31/2004 8:22:28 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In 1991, Grozny's population was about 50% non-Chechen. The Nautsky
district in Chechnya was about 75% non-Chechen, mostly Russians, Ukrainians and
Cossacks who lived there since the 15th century. Those
Our local police department wants to get some money from the Homeland Security
Department. The only catch is that they have to prove that we have terrorists in our
midst. I assume that as police departments throughout the country compete for this
money, the feds will have convincing evidence
My Partner Had an Abortion (What about men owning up to abortions?
How about My Partner Had an Abortion T-shirts for them?):
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/my-partner-had-abortion.html
--
Yoshie
* Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/
* Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/
This was the problem that I was referring to when I was trying to
describe a progression of fragmentations. I first began to think about
this sort of problem when Lebanon began to fall apart. At first, it
seemed to be a religious division, but then I began to realize that
there were divisions
Ours is a war for position and ideological and political
statements are converted into policy . . . in real time. Who determines "what"
is the great war of attribution and will. If we win over no we lose by default.
We cannot win over any segment of our working class on the
basis of
I think My wife had an abortion or My life partner had an abortion makes more
sense, since so many men have _business_ partners, who are often male.
(How about a T-shirt saying I didn't treat every sperm as sacred?)
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Melvyn posed posed one of the truly difficult challenges that the left faces:
learning how to learn from the masses at the same time as we supply them with
information. Listening is a very difficult skill. I remember trying to speak with
the boyfriend of my first wife's mother. He worked in a
NY POST front-page headline:
PARIS: MY LOVER BEAT ME
La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/31/04 12:10 PM
I recently quoted Fred Engels as referring to anti-semitism as the
socialism of fools.
Pen-l alumnus Jurriaan Bendien writes me that: From memory the
socialism of fools remark was by August Bebel, circa 1873.
I guess I sit corrected, though I couldn't find
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/31/04 7:59 PM
above is one of those quotes that floats around, that people cite and
never indicate source, few folks probably have any idea its origins and
many/most who reference it have probably never read it in english as i
don't believe text has ever been translated from
Waistline2 wrote:
In my estimate the American Marxists are the least qualified amongst world
Marxists when dealing with the national factor. Between 1973 and I978 I had
compiled much of the writings on the national factor in our history using a
collection of roughly 30 years of Political Affairs
Jim says:
I think My wife had an abortion or My life partner had an
abortion makes more sense, since so many men have _business_
partners, who are often male.
Only a tiny minority of men have business partners.
In any case, that sort of ambiguity makes it even more interesting.
Jello Biafra goes
At 6:22 AM -0700 7/31/04, Chris Doss wrote:
--- Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The question, I thought, was whether Kurds, Kashmiris, and Chechens
(as well as East Timorese, Albanians in Kosovo, etc. from recent
history) have the right to self-determination.
---
Yoshie, upon a little
In a message dated 7/31/2004 7:33:32 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would be interested to learn which articles in PA you
considered valuable and those which you found unhelpful on the subject of the
national question. As I recall DuBois and James Jackson produced
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