On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Michael Perelman wrote:
Would it be better to provide for the corn farmers with credit, with the
same access to water that the large farmers get, and with the same sort of
cultural amenities available in cities -- maybe by setting up colleges in
the countryside instead
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Brad De Long wrote:
There's your answer: 40-year long dictatorship as the *model* we are
supposed to aim for...
It worked for that icon of global competitiveness otherwise known as
Singapore, didn't it?
-- Dennis
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Mine Aysen Doyran wrote:
there are also conference papers by Arrighi and Wallerstein (His article on
_Rise and Demise of World System Theory_ is pretty useful in outlining some of
the features of the world system theory. http://fbc.binghamton.edu/).
Sure, but here's
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Mine Aysen Doyran wrote:
My question is that "are *geo-politics* and *geo-economics* separate" in
the way that you imply above?
Of course they are; the dialectic of capital is that politics drives
economics which in turn drives politics ad infinitum. The poles of the
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Mine Aysen Doyran wrote:
with religion? I do *not* believe in religion. Your attempt to associate my
identity with religion reflects your desire to portray middle eastern people
as religious and middle eastern women as traditional. When I said "I am known
to be a muslim",
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Mine Aysen Doyran wrote:
ARABS!); plus not all arabs or muslims are even religious. As a turkish,
I am known to be a muslim, but I am an atheist, feminist and marxist. We
have Samins, we have Nawal El Sadawis, we have Nazim Hikmets!!
"Woman at Point Zero" is amazing, a
On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Rob Schaap wrote:
Would I be wrong in suspecting that Asia's Tigers are just making up some of
the ground they lost in '98, have lost many of the stabilising mechanisms
that afforded them the sustained growth of the three decades leading up to
'97, are having their
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, neil wrote:
The problem is for these reformers of capitalism , the overall
economic crisis is deepning on the world scale and also in the USA.
Really? So why has world economic growth accelerated in the late Nineties?
Asia is growing again, the EU is picking up steam,
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Doug Henwood wrote:
How do you propose Japan would collect on this demand? They may be
the creditor, but the U.S. has all the bombs.
That's what all those Chinese and French missile systems are for. If the
new metropoles find the political will, there's plenty of
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Let's suppose an unlikely event: the Japanese working class rise up
make a socialist revolution (of some kind). The rest of the imperial
world, condemning the expropriation of Japanese other expropriators,
swiftly puts an embargo on Japan to
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Michael Perelman wrote:
DRAM is not protected by IP. It is regarded as a commodity, like wheat or
soybeans. A processor chip is protected.
This may be changing, though -- new and more complex types of DRAM, like
Rambus' RDRAM, are indeed protected by IP agreements.
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Louis Proyect wrote:
Jay points out that the Frankfurters reject the notion that class conflict
is the locomotive of history, a basic Marxist theory.
Nonsense. Walter Benjamin once wrote that the Revolution is really the
emergency handbrake on Progress. The greatness of
On Fri, 26 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"high" art and "low" art, Wagner versus "mass music". I
never see jazz in the way that Adorno sees. What about the aesthetic
beauty of Moroccon jazz? or Cuban jazz? or Jamaican jazz?
Adorno is useless vis-a-vis jazz. He didn't know the great jazz
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Doug Henwood wrote:
Dennis, what do you make of the post-WW II Adorno, who took CIA money
to rebuild the Frankfurt School, and refused to republish Neumann's
Behemoth because it was too Marxist?
The Institute was originally financed by a wealthy Dutch rentier, proving
On Wed, 24 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
culture with formal capitalist rationality. Whenever folks talk about
culture, it is always the monolithic instrumental rationality that they
see, whereas culture is a more dynamic and complex phenomenon.
Which folks are these? Surely not Adorno
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Louis Proyect wrote:
of Hegel's philosophy. But in the Frankfurt School the task of revolution
is dumped overboard and the problematic of alienation remains, only to be
solved within the context of what ultimately will prove to be the modern
liberal state, as evidenced
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
Lets see, US firms make the stuff in China then send it back duty free to
sell to US consumers [or anywhere else]; just what does trade deficit mean
in this circumstance? My guess is zilch.
Well, it does mean something in the comparative sense
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Louis Proyect wrote:
very often of a seasonal nature. If you read Juliette Schor's "The
Overworked American", you will discover that the average peasant worked
half as many hours as the average proletarian during the rise of the
industrial revolution. That is the reason
On Fri, 12 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
moreover, how would US develop its own capitalism without slave labor (
especially agricultural production in the South)?
Ah, but Marx would insist on the relative antagonisms between rival modes
of production: it's not that capitalism is identical
On Fri, 12 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
market econmy do not seem to benefit these people. In fact, what is going
on in Vietnam is a sign of peripherilization in a country charecterized by
devestating poverty and inequalities.It is generally the most vulnerable
sectors such as women,
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Louis Proyect crossposted from the Baltimore Sun:
MALNUTRITION IS EPIDEMIC: ROUGHLY HALF OF ALL CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 5
ARE STUNTED FOR LACK OF FOOD. HUNGER AND A GROSSLY INEFFICIENT AID SYSTEM
HAVE KEPT VIETNAM'S POVERTY RATE THE HIGHEST IN THE REGION: THE WORLD BANK
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Louis Proyect wrote:
About 4 million hectares of land were scheduled for reallocation after
1988. After the transition, the social bonds in the countryside were
profoundly shattered. The basic structure of the nation was placed under
severe stress and dispossessed
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, M A Jones wrote:
Hey, Russia posted a whacking bal of payments surplus last year and has done
almost every year since 1991. Is it also a no-brainer to buy up some roubles
right now?
That sounds like a challenge to me. Only trouble is I'm not a Malt Man.
But I'm willing
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] crossposted:
UNDERSTANDING THE BATTLES OF SEATTLE AND WASHINGTON
By Dick Platkin and Chuck O'Connell*
Lemme see if I get this right: they're arguing that the anti-WTO and
anti-IMF protests are financed by nationalist bourgeois pig foundations,
organized
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Louis Proyect crossposted:
Conclusion to "Not A Happy Ending" by Samir Amin, published in Al-Ahram.
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/1999/462/samir.htm
US HEGEMONY ATTACKS --THE 21ST CENTURY WILL NOT BE AMERICAN:
There are no European TNCs: only British, German, or
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, M A Jones crossposted:
Mark Milner, deputy financial editor The Guardian
Thursday April 27, 2000
How low can the euro go? ... Today the currency slumped to fresh lows on the
foreign exchanges despite a rise in interest rates by the ECB.
This is known as a buying
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Louis Proyect crossposted
New York Times, April 22, 2000
Renault Agrees to Buy Troubled Samsung Motors
[text deleted]
Actually, a fine example of the new hegemons at work. Samsung got into the
auto biz way late, I think in 1995 or so, and has pretty limited
industrial
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
Spivak should just settle down and stop feeling guilty about her big
western salary; I mean, at least she uses some of it for her two per
year trips to India in her struggle against eurocentrism.
And wrote some classic books on neocolonialism. And
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
trying to do political organizing and no less dim years teaching. But Jim D's
comment about Antioch students being sheep with respect to each other even if
they diverege from the national consensus is about right. I always fely sorry
for them:
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Max Sawicky wrote:
We do. They're [Red Guards] all English professors.
They bludgeon us with idealist notions.
No, no, they're the English departments themselves, who are run by a scary
bunch, who subject their hired serfs -- er, grad students -- to the Iron
Thesis Bowl
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Brad De Long wrote:
I think that Weber is arguing for parliamentary democracy by saying
that only if each individual is a co-ruler--a Herr--can the nation's
people be a master race--a Herrenvolk.
"Herr" means, literally, "Mister", and also "Master" and "Lord", in the
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Brad De Long wrote:
Neoliberals hope that multinational corporations, financial analysts,
bond-fund managers, and bond raters will in the end be able to apply
some constructive pressure to improve the situation: better the
discipline of the world market than no
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, John Bellamy Foster wrote:
criticisms that such and such views are "dogmatic." And one should avoid
making such a charge oneself. It falls short of critique, and simply relies
on the ("dogmatic"?) 0notion that indeterminacy (or philosophical
scepticism) is always a
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Max Sawicky wrote:
And if the doom foretold of ecological disaster some
50 years away is the last straw supporting 'socialism
or barbarism' . . . well, that's rather pathetic,
isn't it? Even worse, it suggests the right politics
is to urge abstention from struggles in
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Max Sawicky wrote:
More secret sponsors:
OU/Dennis Redmond-- Id Software
Shocked, I am shocked at these baseless, groundless, modemless and
probably ISP-less accusations. These proletarian hands would never soil
themselves with the ill-gotten lucre of evil running dog
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Brad De Long wrote:
landlords. In Asia these days this argument easily turns into an
argument against democracy. And for this reason I have always feared
it: the argument that technocracy needs to be *completely* insulated
from politics has seemed to me to be a
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Doug Henwood wrote:
tried to smother it in its crib? Who knows what would have happened
elsewhere in Latin America the Caribbean if the Cubans had been
allowed to go their way? What would have happened in Nicaragua if
Reagan hadn't unleashed the contras? What would
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
*Pain* is the one feeling that confirms morality for Kant; other feelings,
especially pleasures, negate it.
Though Kant also has a subterranean utopian side, e.g. the theme of
Glueckseligkeit (bliss) in Critique of Practical Reason, which keeps
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Peter Dorman wrote:
well known for it. But viewing the strings as the proletarians of the
ensemble is just strange. The violin, after all, was seen as the most
expressive of all instruments with the longest history of virtuoso
performance.
Eh? Class identity isn't
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Peter Dorman wrote:
open-ended science of musical development. He takes his themes apart,
works with just a few notes ("cells") or just the rhythm and dazzles the
listener with the complexity he is able to achieve. The formalistic
impulse that had always been present in
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Henry C.K. Liu wrote:
job insecurity prevents spending in favor of savings. Worse, Japan is
falling victim to capital spending recession. No one is expecting the
latest round of fiscal stimulus to revive sustainable growth in Japan.
Well, the OECD says Japanese
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Tom Walker wrote:
The Guardian, London Tuesday June 1, 1999
The penthouse office of Romero's Ion Storm is an astonishing place, like
something out of a Jetsons cartoon with walkways suspended above a maze of
stainless steel
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Rob Schaap wrote:
I see Wall St is another 2.6% up on the morning alone. That's about 17% so
far this year, right? And on its way to gaining a full thousand in about a
month. Either we're talking tulips, or we're talking something brand new.
We're talking the
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Here's a book for Dennis Redmond. Will the Asian economic crisis spell the
end of Hong Kong cinema and the beginning of brain drains? Yoshie
My impression is that the film industry is turning into the video biz, is
all. And then there's Wong
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
It doesn't seem to do so, in the post-socialist Eastern Europe. (In fact,
just the opposite.) The Balkan civil wars illustrate why capitalism is not
at all 'progressive' there.
Then what about the Visegrad countries, with their still-extensive
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Wrong reasons: removing any existing or potential obstacles for capitalism
all over the world.
But capitalism civilizes, right? It's too simple to abstract global
accumulation into a simple case of butchery. I myself am troubled by the
fact that
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Max Sawicky wrote:
So until I hear a better explanation, the simple one of suppressing
nationalism that might by example destabilize Europe, but forestalling
massacres that diminish the political credibility of NATO and the EU (or
U.S. imperialism, if you like) explains
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Doug Henwood wrote:
Of course, they'll have to rebuild bombed-out refineries, power plants,
factories, railroads So the World Bank and the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development can make high-minded noises about
war-recovery "aid," lend the devastated
On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Rob Schaap wrote:
And how is Japan's billion-dollar pump-prime beginning to look to you lot?
Well, check out this recent article in Semiconductor News, by Anthony
Cataldo http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19990311S0055, dated
March 11, 1999:
--
"Intel has
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Louis Proyect wrote:
Check out the article in the latest Economist on Germany
(www.economist.com). Here's the conclusion:
Above all, Mr Schröder must find the determination to mend a broken
economy. Germany has become the sick man of Europe: growth
is slowing, exports,
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:
Czech Republic, $7,550
Slovak Republic, $ 6,290
Hungary, $ 6,050
Russia, $ 5,050
Latvia, $ 5,010
Poland, $ 5,000
Ukraine, $ 4,450
Bulgaria, $ 4,100.
Suspiciously high numbers, those. The OECD says that the 1997 per
capita figures, based
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:
According to my handy dandy 1997 CIA World Factbook, the PPP per capita
incomes in 1996 of the leading transition economies (in per capita income
terms were as follows: Slovenia, $12,300, Czech Republic, $11,100, Slovakia,
$8,000,
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Peter Dorman wrote:
The Czech Republic, on the other hand, is a disaster zone.
Pseudo-privatization has given the cronyklatura a corrupt grip on
enterprises, few of which have even begun to transform themselves.
Well... not quite. The Czech Republic also had one of the
Barkley -- I know you asked for the lowdown on Butler, I can't speak on
her newest stuff, not having access to the texts (the library here has
ordered them), but here're some brief pointers:
"Gender Trouble" (1990) Does the tour through Beauvoir and structuralism
through psychoanalysis and
So there I was, contemplating the savagely-deindustrialized wasteland of
the Pax Post-Britannia, when a line in the Economist's February country
survey of Germany caught my eye. Amidst the usual loathesome bleatings
about how the second-richest industrial country in the world (behind
Japan) just
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Louis Proyect wrote:
...Bourdieu's prose reeks of intellectual pretentiousness and
name-dropping.
Gee, Lou, now you've cast Fred Jameson *and* Bourdieu from the Paradise of
of Approved Marxists down into the Hades of Evil Running Dog Intellectual
Pig Allies of the
On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Henry C.K. Liu wrote:
Hyperinflation will not help Japan. Krugman is wrong. Because both the
debtors and creditors in Japan are Japanese and they both use yens.
The secret of Keynesianism is that you don't just print money, you use it
to *buy stuff*. That means
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Henry C.K. Liu wrote:
Where is the party? Who is celebrating and celebrating what? A lot of working
people in America are finally going to lose their jobs and companies are going
to go under.
The US owes Japan $1 trillion. Lessening the interest burden on that debt
is a
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, michael perelman crossposted:
The Globe and Mail Report on Business February 18, 1999
BANK OF JAPAN PUSHES SHORT-TERM RATES NEAR ZERO
Bill Spindle, Jathon Sapsford
The Wall Street Journal, Tokyo
The central bank's decision to
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Louis Proyect wrote:
It is not a great mystery why people act against their own material
self-interest.
Oh yes it is. For one thing, the fact that this happens over and over
again totally negates one of the fundamental tenets of neoclassical
economics: that we're all just
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Ken Hanly wrote:
You say that the Phallus is the symbol of authority not the authority itself
You then say that this is analogous to bank credit. But how is bank
credit symbolic? Bank credit is a reality.
A *mediated* reality. It's a claim on some future profit
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Ken Hanly wrote:
However, I would like to know how this (Butler type) analysis is of
practical use.
It's quite simple: we all agree that late capitalism sucks, that the
System is oppressive and evil, and that ordinary folks are being screwed.
So why don't those people
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Rob Schaap wrote:
How does this *polarise* our identities? Doesn't it sorta *merge* 'em?
Yep. That's the scary part of it: capital isn't just this external thing,
it gets into our skulls. We're all part of The Beast.
their identity? Or is identity not about exclusion?
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Rob Schaap wrote:
I don't know what the phallus is, but I know it's not supposed to be
reducible to the penis. So what is it? How do we deploy the concept? Is
it important for lesbianism (or feminism-in-general?) to incorporate into
its identity (as Ange implies
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Louis Proyect wrote:
This happened all the time in Cuba, except they didn' t have unemployment
like in Jamaica or the Dominican Republic.
Incidentally, I was just in Jamaica thanks to a family reunion. The
poverty there is something ferocious to behold -- the thing is,
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Louis Proyect wrote:
The simple reality was that the Sandinistas could not find a solution to
Nicaragua's economic problems within Nicaragua itself. Facing a US trade
embargo, it grew to depend heavily on outside assistance. The story of
outside assistance was not one to
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Max Sawicky wrote:
Actually this pales next to the comprehensive discussion
of Lesbian phalluses on Henwood's 'Libidinous-Business
Observer' list.
That ain't the half of it. Wild whipping sessions, the crossing of
the intergalactic divide from Starcluster Spandex to
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Tom Walker wrote:
of surplus value in order to maintain political hegemony. Think of the
stop/go monetary/fiscal policies in which "overheating" of the economy
remains a constant worry. In terms of "this depression", we're not out of
the woods yet. And, like the last
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Louis Proyect wrote:
If Great Britain had resisted the Monroe
Doctrine, would there have been a "long wave" or would the US economy have
stagnated? Perhaps the long waves are nothing but a barometer of the
imperialist lurches forward of the Yankee republic.
I always
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Doug Henwood wrote:
So today's WSJ article on Keynes says:
quote
The [IMF] study concluded that the 14 cases where governments had been
the most draconian -- notably Denmark and Ireland in the mid-1980s --
resulted in the fastest growth.
Ho ho ho. The IMF has outdone
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, William S. Lear wrote:
OK, so what is an example of "cultural models of reasoning"?
Introspection; nostalgia; childhood memories; angst; affection; love, etc.
All these things are ways of thinking, and not just of feeling. But they
can't be subordinated to mechanical Laws
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, William S. Lear wrote:
where it might be dense. Michael Perelman wrote an entire book on
Marx and I can't think of prose more lucid and intelligent. Where are
these people for Butler? Will they only come along 150 years later?
Is there no one capable today of
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, William S. Lear wrote:
Why is it I can pick up books on quantum physics and understand them?
Because some folks can learn some things easier than others. I'm
hopeless, myself, at physics; all those vectors and abstractions make my
brain shut down. Others are terrific at
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, valis wrote:
OK, Dennis, this is at least the second time you've drawn Ms Butler as
an epistemological Magellan not yet arrived back to accolades in Spain,
so why not enlighten us further by concretely parsing the thicket?
No, no, I'm no font of received wisdom. Read
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Louis Proyect wrote:
Dennis Redmond:
If Butler
claimed to speak for the people on the Rez, then you could slam her for
yakking away. But she's not.
Dennis, but she does so implicitly.
Ah. You are, then, blessed with powers of clairvoyance? Can you tell us
what
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Louis Proyect wrote:
The main thing I got out of Epstein's remarks is that graduate students
imbued with the postmodernist zeitgeist are more interested in fighting
with other graduate students than with institutionalized racism and sexism.
Ever talked to any real grad
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, James Michael Craven wrote:
I wonder how many working class women or women on Reservations could
relate to or understand the rhetoric in the example of Butler's
writings given in the Doublespeak award? I suspect few if any.
So what? Are all those scientists who use
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Louis Proyect wrote:
I don't mean that she is for "identity". All I am saying is that she is an
academic theorist who makes her living participating in sterile debates
around such questions. I think you are misunderstanding the entire context
of the term
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Nathan Newman wrote:
You can call this what you will, but there is a fundamental collapse of
employment and production capacity around the world.
Yes, but your list from the Economist includes only one First World
country, or rather, region: Hong Kong. Finland took a -10%
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Nathan Newman wrote:
But isn't looking at profits as a share of US GDP besides the point? The
real measure should be percentage of the global capitalist economy's GDP.
That US corporate profits are holding even during a global depression
seems to be a rather strong
On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Doug Henwood cross-posted:
Duccio Trombadori: Probably the difference rests in the refusal or
impossibility for the Frankfurt School to think of the "origin" of man in
the historical-genealogical sense, rather than in "metaphysical" terms. It
is the theme or the metaphor
On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Rob Schaap wrote:
they can not be synonymous. There is discourse that is not power and/or
there is power that is not discourse. Power, we are regularly told, is
what constructs/legitimises discourse. Obviously, power must be
communicated. Communication is what
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Louis Proyect wrote:
Postmodernism is a philosophical current that emerged as a reaction to
structuralism. Hence, it sometimes called poststructuralism.
Mm, it's a bit more complicated than that. Postmodernism is/was primarily
about the *aesthetics* of global finance
The November issue of Euromoney has a fairly scathing (for Euromoney)
review of the sordid LTCM bailout. One article describes the genesis of
the Fed intervention as follows: "Peter Fisher, executive vice-president
at the NY Fed, had heard enough in daily chats with bankers to know they
were all
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, valis crossposted from Michel Chossudovsky:
The formation of new "global alliances" between European and American
capital has rapidly changed the balance of power in the World market. With
the merger boom, British and German banking interests have (inter alia)
joined
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Michael Eisenscher wrote:
A transformational or empowerment model of unionism has to break with this
service concept of unionism. Stewards must perfect their skills as organizers,
educators, and facilitators of actions conceived and executed by groups of
workers around
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Michael Eisenscher wrote:
Democracy is not a spectator sport; it requires active participation. Active
participation by members is best assured where there is an organizational
engine created by rank and file caucuses or other formations in which the
Left participates
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, valis wrote:
Who's SAP?
Not a who, a what: a German intranet software maker, world
leader in enterprise systems, and not coincidentally Microsoft's worst
nightmare. See http://www.sap.com for the glorious details.
-- Dennis
On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Mike Yates wrote:
I
thought that if two people who I respected and who were strong champions
of the unions could have this perspective, we were really in a lot of
trouble. Now Fraser's arguments tell me that we are in deep shit.
Of course we're in deep shit. Up to our
On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Brad De Long wrote:
The European communists did something that led the societies they ruled a
lot further away from utopia than were the social democracies of western
Europe... or even the not-very-social democracy that is the United States.
Those societies were never
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Mark laffey wrote:
institutions. Pointing out that 'it's different in economics' or asking 'why
didn't you organize the clerical staff?' makes it sound as though, darnit, she
was just a victim of self-delusion, and now self-pity. I can't help but feel
that there is a
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Doug Henwood wrote:
Annalee disrupted
Judith Butler's class at Berkeley with complaints about the
universalization of discourse the political overvaluation of the
genderfuck. Butler's exasperated response before Annalee dropped the class
was "If that's what you want, go
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Louis Proyect cross-posted:
Surviving and finishing the Ph.D.
BY ANNALEE NEWITZ
What I want, finally, is for Ph.D.s to be proud of what they've learned,
not because they've been granted the title of professor, but because
they've done something useful with their minds.
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, valis wrote:
And, speaking of incongruities, why is it the UAW that's going to
give the TAs material strike support? Is this not very much like
the corporate practice of entering totally unrelated market areas?
No, it's because grad unions are generally pretty radical
On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Louis Proyect wrote:
Of course, there were some things about Cockburn's politics back then that
I always found a bit troubling. He supported the Soviet intervention in
Afghanistan on the basis that it was a lesser evil to the misogynist
fundamentalism of the village
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Frank Durgin wrote:
Oil and gas accounted for between 40 and 50% of Soviet exports.
And that accouinted for a little over 31% of domestic production of oil
and gas. 7.4% of Soviet output of tractors was exported (considerable
number's of Soviet made "Belarus"
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Robert Naiman crossposted:
America, Please Leave Us Alone To Solve Our Problems
by Boris Kagarlitsky, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for
Comparative Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Does he really think that Russia was a Third World
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Max Sawicky wrote:
As long as the big, bad State has the power to
tax anything it wants, it can finance anything
it wants by taxing.
Max, you raving, wild-eyed socialist, you. We *must* get you appointed to
Treasury Secretary one of these days. And yes, you have our
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Louis Proyect wrote:
The brute fact is that capitalist growth slowed down in the early '70s and
neither neo-Keynsianism, nor monetarism has worked to change that. The
reason for a slowdown in growth is that there is a slowdown in demand,
which government policy under
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Gar Lipow wrote:
How left is Oskar Lafontaine? How big is the "left" of the SDP? For
that matter how "left" is the left of the SDP? And how much power does
the party have vs. the Chancellor in practice? In short, are there
more grounds for optimism than appeared at first
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