In a message dated 2/11/1999 9:16:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Paul Meyer:
This is a fairly selective rendering of history. By the 1870's was up to his
neck in involvement with mass worker's movements and parties in the
industrializing
world.
No, it is not a
By the 1870s, he had become thoroughly disgusted with
capitalism and wrote to the Russian populist movement that they were
correct in fighting to defend the rural communes against capitalism. He
said that the accumulation model set forward in V. 1 of Capital was not
meant to be a universal
One of the big problems with "Euro-theory" is that much of it is written
written as though
there is a Unified Field Theory Of Power which will form the basis of human
liberation
and where power will largely be discovered to propagate on a cultural level.
This all seems like wishful thinking to
In a message dated 1/26/1999 10:38:16 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Which group of idiots assumes "subjects are immutable"? Why does
anybody pay any attention to them?
Most economists do, with their neoclassical models and schemes of
rationality...
-- Dennis
Thanks Colin, for the response.
Colin:
1. The divide betweem continental phil and the anglo-american
tradition has been widening for, what, almost 200 years. At
this point they're really quite separate projects whose
results are not mutually translatable.
This is exactly my
I would make some comments, relatively naive, about about pomo that I hope the
more informed on the list could respond to.
I think there is tremendous "translation" problems surrounding post-modernism
arising from
a variety of contextual origins.
1) "Pomo" arises out of a discourse in
In a message dated 1/3/1999 5:32:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
sex on Hawaiian rosewood seeds,
Aren't they rough on the skin?
Colonel Mustard?
In a message dated 12/19/1998 5:43:43 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's certainly the case that worker-managed firms don't lay off their
members in downturns (very much). But--at least the last time I talked to
Laura Tyson about this--she did say that it really seemed
In a message dated 12/18/1998 9:26:27 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On the plus side we have a somewhat smaller set of countries spending a
generation or two under the rule of Communist regimes of varying
quality--from Pol Pot or Mao or Kim Il Sung at the bottom end to
In a message dated 12/8/1998 5:26:47 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When conquest occurs and groups mix, it is usually
the conqueror who is the male and the conquered who is the
female. The Prussian is more likely to have a Slavic
grandmother and a Saxon or
In a message dated 12/9/1998 9:32:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
The truth is that the French Revolution was led primarily by the
aristocracy who resented the abuses of the court. Furthermore, much of
Enlightenment thought was produced by the aristocracy and not the
Good post on social democracy, Jim
-Paul Meyer
Whether or not Truman was acting as a pawn of the aircraft industry it is
fairly
clear that Truman misinterpreted Soviet intentions in Korea. Indeed, the
entire conception of the Cold War affected by "Last War Syndrome", the
tendency
for American policy makers to see the world through the lens of
I think Boddhi's points are well taken. Even if there are grounds
to disagree with him, there is no reason not to engage him in a
respectful way. Neither the objections that he is a "racist" or that
he has avoided the corpus of 20c Marxist thought are particularly compelling.
In fact they make
BTW, V., did you notice your namesake novel (by PKD for
the uninitiated) made it
onto the reader's poll of the top 100 at the Modern Library.
-Paul Meyer
There are supposed some great memoirs from 'the Great War'
Siegfried Sassoon's one of the best known as well as
some great literature including recently Pat Barker's Trilogy
and a novel called Birdsong (have forgotten the author)
In a message dated 98-06-12 20:12:29 EDT, you write:
Of course this "reality" of macroscopic stuff does not
necessarily contradict the ontological/epistemological
murkiness that apparently exists at the quantum level. On
this, however, I must side with Jim D. There is a more
There seem to be at least two salient reasons that the Right
hates Clinton so much. They have tried to force him into
the mold of the ultimate DP'er, dixiecrat cum machine politician.
Their image of him is pure archetype(s). While I obviously have
lots of problems with Willie's politics, he is
In a message dated 98-04-16 15:30:55 EDT, you write:
All
the left anti-communists, local and foreign, who were blowing hard during
the cold war didn't have a clue what to do when the USSR fell either,
leaving a perfectly clear field for the IMF. So I think it's pretty
important to compare
In a message dated 98-04-15 11:00:37 EDT, you write:
t has struck me somewhat odd in this exchange that nobody
has mentioned Canada which shares a more European political
system with the American geographical-class structure.
I
Well, the American system is really unique. As far as I
WS:
As I see it, you are arguing for a strong 'institutional path depenedency'
- or the proposition that past institutional arrangements, rules of the
game, expectations etc. have a profoound influence on current (and future)
politics.
A very concise summing up, thanks. I agree with
Warning: LONG POST
In a message dated 98-04-13 10:18:26 EDT, you write:
W.S wrote:
While your description of the US electoral politics is accurate (esp. in
that DP and GOP are loose coalitions rather than parties) -- your causal
logic seems to be flawed. No doubt, the electoral system
In a message dated 98-04-11 13:02:25 EDT, you write:
The answer as to why class politics did not emerge in the US with
an electoral manifestaion as opposed to
Europe is SIMPLE. (Skocpol's analysis is so beside the point it is
I think this is a good point, though your
confidence in
The answer as to why class politics did not emerge in the US with
an electoral manifestaion as opposed to
Europe is SIMPLE. (Skocpol's analysis is so beside the point it is
embarassing.) It is the difference in the electoral systems.
Ideological political parties are produced by electoral
Good points ricardo.
As to the point about the Soviet Union and the war, I think it is easy
to forget that the Soviets could have lost very easily. What I remember from
my military history is that even after the tide had turned, the Nazis
were able to inflict tremendous casualties on the Red
In a message dated 98-03-30 21:37:03 EST, you write:
Titoist Yugoslavia was not a command economy, but the
classic example of a market sociaist economy, with all the
faults and virtues therein. The current regime in the rump
state has become more of a command economy as a result of
As a sometime resident of Detroit, I can attest to the fact that the city
has radically changed in the last 10 - 15 years. Entire neighborhoods
I remember are now vacant lots (the city has lost (over) half its population
since the mid-70's). I don't know how closely any of this this correlates
(I am going to rant)
Excuse me. Refering to purely economic arrangements as "socialism",
ie, the arrangements in the former Yugoslavia I find perverse, if not un-
Marxist. I know there are a few lingering atavists who don't think
that political democracy is not somehow key to the true
In a message dated 98-03-17 05:07:29 EST, you write:
definitely was going to sink?
However, if you consult the archives of Marxism-International, you will
see that the alternatives are what we talk about all the time.
M
Good, I am glad someone has it all worked out then.
In a message dated 98-03-16 15:05:29 EST, you write:
Of course, the social market economy,
like
all the social-democratic fantasies which Dennis seems to share, are
forms of accommodation by corrupted proletariats to big capital, and
are
therefore obstacles to achieving socialism and nto
In a message dated 98-03-15 04:55:04 EST, you write:
or instance, comrades on this list tend to
present Japan and German as 'national' models of development based on a
sense of cultural self-identity, junkerdom, samuraidom etc. But the
truth is that the only two countries in the world with
Sorry Maggie, for being anonymous but I am lazy about signing my name.
(ie Paul Meyer)
I was interested in how one should interpret the macro-economic stats given
how central they are to selling the "American model." (I mean the triumphalism
of the business press is nauseating). It seems to me,
In a message dated 98-03-09 17:23:04 EST, you write:
Well? By what standards? Unless you mean relatively low unemployment.
Not hard to understand, given the 1.2 million employeable Americans in
prison. Or do you mean the sheer length of the current US business cycle,
now wheezing along in
In a message dated 98-03-02 19:37:22 EST, you write:
very central and very crucial, and indeed has been used
by British opponents (and others as well) is the relatively
undemocratic nature of the EU as a political entity.
This is a very important issue. For those pen-l'ers who don't
Does the coal miner jobs problem suggest an approach that the Swede's
developed in their macroeconomic policies?
This approach is their combination of labor market and solidaristic wage
policies that keep employment and inflation low by moving workers out
of unproductive firms? The crucial
Someone mentioned Brian Arthur and his part in Mitchell Waldrop's book
"Complexity". That book
had a fairly interesting and novel (novel to me anyway) critique of the
mathematical "culture" of
Economics. The critique originates from a group of physicists called to
the Santa Fe institute
to do
I had thought that the signifigance of choas and complexity theory
is that they establish in a fairly incontestable way the limits on what
"pre-non-linear" model (i.e. most of the neoclassical position) can
accomplish. If you demonstrate that economic phenomena embody
chaotic processes then
In a message dated 98-02-08 17:28:24 EST, you write:
has a
lot in common with a whole lot of neoclassicals and even some radicals, is
the impulse to view society as something that can or should be thought of
as something that can be represented using the same kinds of models used to
The more relevant question with concern to the environment and hunter/gatherer
societies (including native americans) is whether their way of life is really
ecologically stable. In other words, there is the idea that the rise to
agriculture is
inevitable (but not because of self-organizing
In a message dated 98-01-23 16:56:15 EST, you write:
actually-existing socialism
actually inexisting socialism
Recently I have read criticism's of the business and mainstream press's
triumphalism about the state of the American vs. European economies
with regards to unemployment rates. The criticism points out
that factoring in prison populations into the unemployment rates creates
a much smaller gap.
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