I would guess that the Fed -- led by Dubya's close friend Alan, who visits
the White House more than weekly-- is going to surprise the financial
markets by standing pat on August 10th. (I'll be out of the country, so I won't
be able to stop them.) This policy will be justified by something
I agree: as I've said
before, people such as Castro and Noriega
are dismissed as "crazy"
by establishmentarian figures.
As someone who deals
with the community of parents of kids on the autistic
spectrum,
I'm always fighting the
urge (not just by others) to diagnose various people as
CC writes: I would
prefer to speak of different sectors of one working class in formation, since
most of those "yuppies" would be -- or since the 2000 crash are already -- in
great trouble if their paychecks cease for a few months.
especially if the housing bubble pops...
And those
yes. it's an excellent book. It's even good if you're not
interested in the autism spectrum.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
[was: RE: [PEN-L] The rise of an emotion based left was Bush using drugs]
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[from
SLATE]
hey, wait a minute
California's SUV Ban
The Golden State has outlawed big SUVs on
many of its roads but doesn't seem to know it.
By Andy Bowers
Posted Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2004, at 11:42
AM PT
Unless you drive one of the largest SUVs,
such as the Chevy Suburban, the Cadillac
Economists never get together at conventions to standardize naming conventions, but in
the vernacular there's sort of a family relationship between the neoclassical
synthesis, neo Keynesianism, and new Keynesianism.
the neoclassical synthesis arose after WW2, with Paul Samuelson: the idea was
I'm glad that someone still remembers the CCC.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
From: Daniel DaviesSurely this is the entire problem at the heart of the Cambridge CapitalControversy; you can't work out what the total amount of capital is withoutmaking an
Galapagos (who proves that no man is an island) writes:
thanks for your reply.it's a pleasure. Finally,
I have understood that both neo Keynesians and new Keynesians have a
kind of common roots in the neoclassical synthesis. Could they be
considered a kind of evolution of the neoclassical
From MS
SLATE, Today's Papers (Aug. 4, 2004):
The
[Wall Street]Journal goes high with word the Kerry campaign's
impending release of endorsements from 200 big businessmen. Many of them
supported President Bush in 2000. "George is a really good guy personally," said
one. "He had an
it's interesting that in the Manchurian Candidate, neither a George Bush nor a Dick
Cheney character appears. On the other hand, there's an evil senator who reminded me
of Hillary Rodham Clinton and her son, who seemed vaguely like John Kerry because of
the whole emphasis on his war-heroic
On US NPR's "Day to Day" today, MS SLATE's Timothy Noah reported
that Fidel Castro talked about this ina recent speech, citing some of
the same sources. (Noah's point, however, was that he respected
Bush more than he respected Castro and that he wished that the
latter hadn't cited one of his
George Monbiot in today's (Aug.3's) GUARDIAN on democracy in
the so-called industrial democracies: we can vote out the monkeys but
not the organ-grinder.
Jim Devine
Kerry should lose Licorice the hamster.
Carl
G.O.P. QUESTIONS KERRY'S HAMSTER HEROISM [by Andy Borowitz]
Rodent Story 'Doesn't Add Up,' Mass Email Claims
A mass email from the Republican National Committee is questioning whether or not
Democratic nominee John Kerry actually saved his
I don't know about Kucinich, but I remember that someone was
complaining about his singing of America the Beautiful at his
rallies and how embarrassing it was. Maybe that hurt.
Also, Nader is likely falling because of the view that any vote for
Nader is a vote for Bush.
BTW, one reason for
no, they're going to put him in the free speech zone in Boston, now that it's no
longer in use.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
I wrote:
Also, Nader is likely falling because of the view that any vote for
Nader is a vote for Bush.
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Henwood
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 1:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [PEN-L] No Bounce for Kerry
Devine, James wrote:
BTW, one reason for the lack of Kerry bounce is that so many
pro-Bush people
I wrote:
alas I missed his speech. I had to work last night.
obviously, I meant that night, i.e., last Thursday night.
More coffee is needed.
I remember Bill C's DP convention speech well. He
clearly came off as intelligent, as opposed to W (in 2000),
who came off as dumb. Both were wrong,
there's
no need to read this. How does the format look?
Who needs
enemas? Rebecca
FrontTuesday August 3, 2004The
Guardian A blow
to conspiracy theorists appeared in this paper the other day. According to
scientists, Napoleon Bonaparte was not murdered, as has long been suspected, but
Title: Re: testing
thanks.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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Tuesday, August 03, 2004 4:27 PMTo:
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testing
[how does this look?]
Alan A. Block, "Space, Time Organized Crime":
As a way of initially placing the fascist presence in America, consider
Mussolini's reception in the United States. According to John P. Diggins'
history, Mussolini enjoyed a "vast popularity" which was a "product of the
Wal-Mart questioned the validity of the report, saying the authors
undervalued the wages and benefits the chain's employees receive.
The UC report comes from the Berkeley Labor Center, an institute that is
openly supportive of union causes. Although its researchers have in the past
accepted
THE NATION
Marine Lands in Film, Collides With Superiors
A military spokesman is silenced after candid comments in a movie on Al Jazeera and
Iraq war.
By Mark Mazzetti
Times Staff Writer
August 2, 2004/L.A. TIMES
WASHINGTON - For most of the central figures in the documentary film Control
The Soviet empire was not extortionary, in the sense of providing a
bounty of riches to the imperial center, as India and other colonial
holdings had done for Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries; instead,
it was a drain on Moscow. Without oil, the heirs of Lenin would have had
great difficulty
Some scholars (sorry, I don't have the reference here) argue that even the British
empire wasn't profitable for Britain as a whole. But it clearly benefited the upper
classes, who were more important in decision-making.
Jim Devine
LP: The British Empire operated on a capitalist basis,
I wrote:so the USSR didn't have classes? what principles did it follow? was
Stalin a benevolent despot?
LP: reply: Jim, it is totally exhausting to reformat your email. Why can't
you get somebody to configure your MS Outlook, or do it yourself. Here's
how to do it:
1. Select tools/option
2.
I wrote: it's clear that the USSR subsidized its satellites, but that doesn't make
it any less of an empire, since the USSR didn't grant its allies independence until
the USSR itself was falling apart.
CC wrote: I'm not sure what to call the USSR dominance of its allies, but I
think it is
Chris Doss writes:
Russians lived more poorly than people in any other of
the republics or in the Eastern Bloc (except maybe
Albania?). Moscow may have been a possible exception.
It's one of the reasons why Russia junked them.
Ironically, those losses of subsidies have resulted in
the wealthiest
The mask of altruism disguising a colonial war
Oil will be the driving factor for military intervention in Sudan
John Laughland
Monday August 2, 2004
The Guardian
If proof were needed that Tony Blair is off the hook over Iraq, it came
not during the Commons debate on the Butler report on July
I never disagreed with this.
Jim Devine
LP quotes: Although it is impossible precisely to evaluate the gains and losses
in intra-Comecon trade it is generally agreed that the USSR was
subsidizing Eastern Europe and that over time this subsidy was rising
largely because of the growing opportunity
JD:If (1) the bureaucrat belongs to a social stratum that controls the
state in a despotic way - enough to kill or imprison those who oppose
their rule - and (2) the state owns the most important means of
production, then doesn't that bureaucrat have a social power akin to
other ruling classes?
[was: RE: [PEN-L] The Soviet empire was a drain on Moscow]
LP: Well, we seem to have a different understanding of class. I consider ownership of
the means of production to be crucial. Like a feudal lord owning land, or a Southern
Bourbon owning slaves.
There's more than one kind of class power.
Forwarded from Jurriaan Bendien:
See about this Patrick Karl O'Brien, Imperialism and the Rise and Decline
of the British Economy,
1688-1989, New Left Review 238 (1999).
I met O'Brien (LSE) in Amsterdam at a Mandel seminar. He's quite clued up
about the historical data and some material is
LP writes: The next time that somebody gets the impression that I see the USA as
rotten ripe for socialism has permission to give me 50 lashes with a
cat o'nine tails. Except for Jim Devine, that is.
You didn't like it the last time?
Jim Devine
August 1, 2004
ECONOMIC VIEW
Does the Economy Have Cement Shoes?
By EDUARDO PORTER
THE economy is a major electoral battleground, and President Bush and Senator John
Kerry have been jousting over everything from budgetary policy to the unemployment
rate.
Yet even as the candidates unfurl
[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
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
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
[by Andy Borowitz]
KERRY'S SPEECH INSPIRES DEMOCRATS' DRINKING GAME
Players Chug Beer at References to Military Service
Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry's acceptance speech at the Democratic
national convention last night inspired Democrats nationwide and a popular drinking
I think it was Fred Engels who called anti-semitism the socialism of fools. This
slogan fits with the general notion that when socialism fails -- due to corruption of
left leaders or their becoming part of the political-economic establishment or
whatever -- it encourages other versions of
Anybody but Bush - and then let's get back to work
With Kerry at the helm, the left might focus on the real issues again
Naomi Klein
Friday July 30, 2004
The Guardian
Last month, I reluctantly joined the Anybody But Bush camp. It was Bush
in a Box that finally got me, a gag gift my brother gave
Pity the man who wins this election
Given the state of the economy, it would be better for Kerry if he lost
Larry Elliott
Friday July 30, 2004
The Guardian
The candidate has been anointed and he has accepted the challenge.
America is now supposed to have an idea of what makes John Kerry tick
though the Daily Show/Sharpton video isn't available (yet), there are
some videos on-line at
http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/thedailyshowwithjonstewart/.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
yoshie writes:
Only those who do not vote for Kerry or Bush have the moral standing
to criticize foreign terrorists.
why so much emphasis on an essentially powerless and thus meaningless act, an
individual vote?
jim devine
Louis:
Now he did apply botox to his forehead reportedly, but that did
not affect innocent bystanders.
Carl:
It could. Introducing a foreign substance like botox might cause Kerry's
crags to crumble like those of the Old Man of the Mountain under the
onslaught of winter ice fissures.
it's also
Coke or Pepsi? It's all in the head
Alok Jha, science correspondent
Thursday July 29, 2004
The Guardian
The long-standing conundrum of why Coke sells more than Pepsi despite
being less popular in blind taste tests may have been solved.
Scientists in Texas used a brain scanning technique to
--- Doug Henwood wrote:
Lately the resistance in Iraq has mainly been
killing people at
open-air markets. The anti-imperialist content of this
strategy is
hard to discern.
Chris Doss:
It doesn't have anti-imperialist content. The point is
to make themselves look badass on TV and Jihadi
me:
The terrorist theory is that by blowing things up, the powers
that be will crack down and alienate the population, so that
the population will join the insurgent movement. Specifically
in Iraq, it's supposed to show that the US hasn't brought order
to the country. The hope is that the
me:
The terrorist theory is that by blowing things up, the powers
that be will crack down and alienate the population, so that
the population will join the insurgent movement. Specifically
in Iraq, it's supposed to show that the US hasn't brought order
to the country. The hope is that the
CB: However, isn't this in response to criticism of the essentially
powerless act of supporting the Iraqi resistance on an email list ?
at least participation on an e-mail list sometimes provides intrinsic pleasures.
jim
Ken Hanly writes:
All I know is that Jesus gets to vote first since he saith:
He (sic) who is without sin gets to cast the first ballot..
I wonder: who gets to cast the second stone?
jim devine
[was: : [PEN-L] Israel pushing for Kurdish state?]
Chris Doss:
If a Georgian with a goofy accent can be a Great
Russian chauvinist. Let's see, Stalin - Georgian,
Khrushchev = Ukrainian, Brezhnev = probably an ethnic
Ukrainian from Moldova, Gorbachev = from Ukraine
too... hey, were any of the
I'll only comment on the two books I've read.
e) Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor of the Social Sciences
by Steven Keen
very good, but technical. It's a perfect _samizdat_ for Econ. graduate students who
want to ask the profs. hard questions.
g) Contours of Descent
by Robert Pollin
Diane writes;
That being said and I agree again with you, the
Kurds are an oppressed nationality. Period.
Ulhas responds:
Does it mean that the Left should support the breakup
of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey?
there are other options besides secession: Ken mentions federalism, while simply
Title: Today's Papers
saith
right-wing nut-job Ann Coulter:"My pretty-girl allies stick out like a sore thumb amongst the
corn-fed, no make-up, natural fiber, no-bra needing, sandal-wearing, hirsute,
somewhat fragrant hippie chick pie wagons they call 'women' at the Democratic
National
Kenneth Burke repeats a conversation in which one party says, I'm a
Christian, and the other party replies, Yes, but who are you a
Christian AGAINST?
according to one observer, the following sign was seen at the DP convention.
Which Way Would Jesus Vote?
[sigh]
jd
the article
below seems of interest.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Iraq's Labor Upsurge Wins Support From U.S.
UnionsBy David BaconOnce the U.S. occupation of Iraq
began over a year ago, Iraqi workers lost no time in reorganizing their
country's labor
that Republican women
officials denounce
Ann Coulter.
If this could be classified as an ethnic slur, wouldn't there
be a firestorm?
Why is this tolerated?
Why is this person on TV?
At 11:55 AM 7/28/2004 -0700, Devine, James wrote:
saith right-wing nut-job Ann Coulter:My pretty-girl allies
if a Kerry administration is forced to preside over deep cuts
to Social Security and other social programs
?
nothing will force a Kerry Administration to cut Social Security. There
is nothing wrong with Social Security.
Me: that's right. There's nothing wrong with SS.
jdevine
from MSN
Jubak's Journal
The high cost of do-it-yourself
cost-cutting
Lower prices mask a bitter truth: The customer
still pays, but with time and frustration. A company that can cut prices without
alienating its public could be a great buy.
By Jim Jubak
I was thinking about
I didn't know that there were intellectuals on this list.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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Proyect
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 11:03 AM
To:
I was wondering: what are Kerry's wild eyed fiscal spending plans? a chicken in
every pot, I hope, or at least pot in every chicken.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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... Kashmir is a part of India. India
has been partitioned once with disastrous
consequences. ...
Ulhas
I don't know much about this subject, but isn't a lot of Kashmir controlled by
Pakistan? so isn't that section part of Pakistan, a country which has already been
partitioned twice
July 25,
2004GRETCHEN
MORGENSON
Housing Bust: It Won't Be Pretty
ET the stock market slide. Let the bond
market sink. As long as home prices keep rocking, it's easy for Americans to
feel fat and happy.
But what happens when the run-up in housing prices loses steam, or worse?
Mother Jones magazine, a magazine
catering to Birkenstock-wearing, Sierra Club-donating, brie-eating
liberals.
hey, Louis, have you been channeling Dick Cheney? It sure sounds like him or someone
in the neo-con crowd. Are the MJ folks cheese-eating surrender monkeys, too?
By the way, is
CC writes: it would be more
interesting and more relevant to the future to explore the forms of
commodity fetishism int he 21st century.
maybe, given the way that the presidential and other electoral contests have turned
into duopolistic or monopolistic marketing events, this is quite relevant.
Chris D writes:
Russia practically has a full-fledged cult of the
mobile phone. About half the population has one (as
opposed to about 5% in 1998). It's a social symbol
that says you're part of the middle class, even if you
really aren't. People practically organize their lives
around those
didn't Bob write of the effects of neo-liberal policies in India, rather than neo-lib
policies pushed by the IMF?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
From: PEN-L list on behalf of Ulhas Joglekar
Sent: Sat 7/24/2004 10:30 AM
To:
[was: something about Thomas Frank]
cc writes:Now I leaped a few stages there, and left productive and
unproductive undefined. Those steps ought to be filled in -- BUT NOT
BY TRYING TO MAKE _ECONOMIC_ SENSE. As soon as you try to prove or
disprove this as a statement about technical economics you
http://www.latimes.com/la-et-horn23jul23,1,1478123.story
http://www.latimes.com/la-et-horn23jul23,1,1478123.story
THE [Los Angeles] TIMES POLL
Public Keeping Its Cool Over Election Effect of 'Fahrenheit'
By John Horn
Times Staff Writer
July 23, 2004
Chris D. writes:... Putin considers the market
economy as something that should serve the state --
capital is a handmaiden of the state, not vice versa.
Business exists in order to fill the federal treasury.
This is a very non-Western view, ...
this was a Western view under Mercantilism. And it
http://www.jibjab.com/-- a funny two-minute
flick.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Title: BOROWITZ report.com
OSAMA FOUND IN SANDY BERGER'S PANTS [by Andy
Borowitz]War on Terror Over
The war on terror came to an unexpectedly abrupt end today as
the al-Qaeda network kingpin Osama bin Laden was found hiding in the pants of
former national security adviser Sandy Berger.While
mh writes:i've always thought that wallace's assertion was incorrect, there's at
least a quarter's worth of difference between 2 major parties...
a better metaphor: the GOPsters are the hard cop, while the Dems are the soft cop. But
if you're the prisoner, they're both against you.
jd
Diane writes:
I mean, even the pigs are
in good shape, and there are plenty of pigs around -- on leashes no less -- as
pork is a major meat source in Cuba.
did you see
any cats or dogs? when I was in Cuba in the late 1970s, I didn't see any of
them. I was wondering if someone had decided
Kerry's war didn't end in the Mekong
Tarred as a flip-flopper by Bush, he hasn't wavered since Vietnam
Sidney Blumenthal
Thursday July 22, 2004
The Guardian
John Kerry's political education is far deeper than that of senators who
have merely legislated. He has journeyed to the heart of darkness
The Pakistan connection
There is evidence of foreign intelligence backing for the 9/11
hijackers. Why is the US government so keen to cover it up?
Michael Meacher
Thursday July 22, 2004
The Guardian
Omar Sheikh, a British-born Islamist militant, is waiting to be hanged
in Pakistan for a murder
Michael Moore writes: Last time I checked, Las Vegas is still in
the United States. And in the United States, we have something called
The First Amendment. This constitutional right gives everyone here the
right to say whatever they want to say. All Americans hold this right as
sacred.
isn't
greed describes an aspect of a personality, whereas rational profit maximization
is simply behavior. Economics can't deal with personality issues. It simply assumes
that people are sociopaths (without the charming personality) and leaves it at that.
Jim Devine [EMAIL
[was: RE: [PEN-L] Cuba: siempre con combate]
Ulhas writes: 75% Singaporeans, 50% Malaysians 33% of Thais
have cell phones. How many cell phones Cuba has?
it seems to me that cell phones are at best a mixed blessing. (I have one, but I hate
it: it rings when I'm driving, so I either have to
Michael Pollak writes: [An obvious point but a good one to keep in mind: there are
always at
least two very strong incentives toward threat assessment inflation: CYA
and the drive for institutional expansion]
speaking of threat assessment inflation, there was an ad by the Committee on the
Charles B: Wouldn't you say that also for Marx, contradictions in the capitalist
system are the motives for it to change into a different system, i.e.
socialism ? Contradiction as the basis for change is a dialectical concept.
Marx deals with dialectical, not formal logical contradictions.
I
Charles:The contradictions dealt with in the absolute general law of capitalist
accumulation are the poverty and unemployment that inherently accompany
technological progress under capitalist relations of production, a
contradiction of regress and progress, with regress being absolute and
progress
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From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: absolute general law of capitalist
accumulation/dialectics and
logic
Charles:The contradictions dealt with in the absolute general law of
capitalist
accumulation
Title: Message
please, let's
not compare _anyone_ to Hitler. That kind of discussion degenerates
quickly...
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Craven, JimSent:
Wednesday,
dialectical thinking is a system of logic in the Hegelian sense of the word, [which]
is not logic in the Aristotelian or Russellian senses.
exactly.
jim devine
I wrote:
I don't see why pushing to make labor unions more democratic and to make
the established leadership more responsible represents a split in the
working class. A union would be more effective if it were more democratic
rather than having decisions made on high by plump cats.
Joel W.
from MS SLATE: President Bush used a quick Oval Office QA to say that the government
was looking into connections between Iran and al-Qaida--connections which the final
report of the 9/11 commission is expected to detail when it's released Thursday. The
NY [TIMES]'s off-lead cites government
right. Hegel's dialectical logic isn't just a logic (or heuristic, as I would
say). It's also ontology, a statement about the nature of reality: to paraphrase old
GWF, the rational (mental) is real (empirical) and rhe real is rational.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[was: RE: [PEN-L] absolute general law of capitalist accumulation]
Charles B:
For formal logic , arriving at a contradiction means
there is a
mistake,
something is false.
Chris D.
Technically, this is false. In logic, ever since
Plato, the rule has been that something cannot both be
and
Ronstadt Loses Vegas Gig After Praising Michael Moore
Some of the 4,500 people in attendance stormed out of the theater after
Ronstadt's comments.
LAS VEGAS (July 20) - Linda Ronstadt not only got booed, she also got
the boot after lauding filmmaker
Michael Perelman wrote:
How can anyone believe that keeping troops in the US could possibly
help bring social justice?
i assume, you meant keeping troops in iraq?
--ravi
or maybe Michael's remembering the old anarchist slogan US out of North America!
Doug writes:
Tom Frank (whose book is selling 10,000 copies a week) says that the
Dems he now meets in DC say there is no working class, and the target
demographic is suburban professionals.
He is quite critical of the Democratic Leadership Council for promoting this attitude.
In fact, in the
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-frank18jul18,1,3286333.story
How the Left Lost Its Heart
Now, the working class has no true champion
By Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank is editor of the Baffler magazine and author of What's the Matter With
Kansas? This article was adapted from
The situation grows more ridiculous by the day. The government is in the
process of issuing vast quantities of won-denominated bonds as a war
chest in order to be able to sell won and buy dollars to prevent the
exchange rate from appreciating. This obsession with maintaining an
undervalued
ravi writes: what then of US responsibility to clean up the mess we created?
shouldn't it be what then of the US power elite's responsibility to clean up the mess
they created?
Do you think that US troops are the best tool for cleaning the mess they were hired to
create? It seems that they are
I haven't read this thread carefully, so I hope I'm not repeating anything.
The ruling class almost never acts as a unified force that dumps someonw. However,
I can imagine that sections of the ruling calss could turn against Bush. More
importantly, the whole election process is set up in a
Charles writes:
The funny thing is dialectics is logic. So, it is a way of talking about
things. Formal logic is a linguistic project. Why not dialectical logic to
some extent ?
what exactly is logic then? I'm no expert on philosophy, but it seems to me that
dialectics isn't a logic in the same
I wrote: The ruling class almost never acts as a unified force that dumps
someone. However, I can imagine that sections of the ruling class could turn against
Bush. More importantly, the whole election process is set up in a way that filters out
the anti-capitalist candidates. In the end, the
It's true that often customers don't care. But often it's because they don't have the
time, don't have the education, are totally overwhelmed by circumstances, trust
authority too much, are depressed, or the like.
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