... no transport
left me less flexible than I thought.)
Patrick Bond
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * phone: 2711-614-8088
home: 51 Somerset Road, Kensington 2094 South Africa
work: University of the Witwatersrand
Graduate School of Public and Development Management
PO Box 601, Wits 2050, South Africa
e
Excellent comrades in Bangkok are looking for someone, preferably
from the South, to work on global poli-econ critiques:
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Senior Associate, Focus on the Global South
Focus on the Global South is a non-profit policy analysis and
advocacy
lourishing be _part of_ the respectful dialogue among equals, helping to
inform the democratic process of trial and error?
Patrick Bond
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * phone: 2711-614-8088
home: 51 Somerset Road, Kensington 2094 South Africa
work: University of the Witwatersrand
Graduate School
servants (including politicians) in various parts of the world.
If anyone can pitch in their expertise, it would be greatly
appreciated.
Many thanks,
Patrick
Patrick Bond
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * phone: 2711-614-8088
home: 51 Somerset Road, Kensington 2094 South Africa
work: University
alist healthcare has generated?
Patrick Bond
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * phone: 2711-614-8088
home: 51 Somerset Road, Kensington 2094 South Africa
work: University of the Witwatersrand
Graduate School of Public and Development Management
PO Box 601, Wits 2050, South Africa
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
p
Swift lives in SA, specifically Durban, and his name is Ashwin Desai.
You can tell from the post below (a reprint of Ashwin's Natal
Mercury newspaper column, which arrived on our `debate' SA email
listserve--contact me off-list for sub info if you like--after I
reposted the satire by Rob
Hey Peter, what about baroque sonatas? Surely Bach far more
firmly reflected the compulsion to work out themes in all their
permutations, and hence his legacy is a more appropriate metaphor for
narrative and transformation. The classical era introduced us to a
variety of themes, often
nter
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Washington, DC 20009
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Patrick Bond
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home: 51 Somerset Road, Kensington 2094 South Africa
work: University of the Witwaters
more backlash to
worry about, and the politics of the day would not have allowed him
to concede so much on Malaysia's turn. And I also hear that Malaysia
is coming back to convertibility, anyhow...
Oh well, a nice moment of counterhegemonic confusion, while it
lasted...
P.
Patrick Bond
email: [EMAIL
ciety organisations
will ratchet up pressure towards the debt repudiation option, and
intensify our commitment to disengage from the international forces
which continue to chain us.
19-21 May, 1999
Lusaka, Zambia
Patrick Bond
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * phone: 2711-614-8088
home: 51 Somerset Road,
d steadily declining jobs/people ratios and increasing social
crisis. In an age of globalisation, this capacity to move the crisis
around is unquestionable, and for it not to get even a brief
mention--much less be taken into account--in NYT think-pieces speaks
volumes.
Patrick Bond
email: [EMAIL
From: "Henry C.K. Liu" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SA established diplomatic realtions with China less than two years ago.
Mandela went to China to thank the People's Republic for its unswering
support against Apartheid through the decades, musch to US displeasure
who wanted Mandela to sing
From: "Henry C.K. Liu" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...
There is nothing wrong with friends bearing gifts, but the American approach
is: let me exploit you while I tell how terrible you are. That is
overreaching.
Right you are:
Globalization, Pharmaceutical Pricing and South African Health
A telling quote from yesterday's paper:
***
Foreign investors were becoming increasingly
anxious yesterday at the prospects of the ANC
winning a two-thirds majority in Wednesday's
general election, with a major investment fund
warning this may have a devastating effect on local
financial
Fine, but y'all are missin' a real important point: the "content"
of 'Bama schoolin' itself.
Patrick
(Victim of primary and secondary education in Huntsville, AL,
1969-76)
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Max Sawicky)
To:"Pen-L" [EMAIL
y,
anti-capitalist analysis, demands and organising.
(Citation: forthcoming, in "The Political Economy of Dam
Building and Household Water Supply in South Africa:
Contesting the Effects of the Lesotho Highlands Water
Project on Johannesburg Township Residents," in D.McDonald
(Ed), Environmen
From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Of course Johannesburg is the metropolis of one of the most polarized
countries on earth, on the most ravaged continent on earth. Johannesburg as
we know it is a product of an abominable set of social relations, so I
don't know how you can make a
o the self-flattery and opportunism
associated with the corridors of power, which continually
undermined more durable, and politically radical, analytical
approaches to social problems.
Patrick Bond
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * phone: 2711-614-8088
home: 51 Somerset Road, Kensin
eagre standards of living? How
resilient are the political systems and institutions in these
countries in the face of steadily worsening conditions? I don't
have the answers to these important questions."
AW Clausen, World Bank President, in an address to his Board
of Directors, 1983
Patrick
of decentralized poverty."
For Yugoslavia and other countries facing regional
and ethnic strife, decentralized poverty is not the only
outcome. Chronic violence appears to include three
ingredients: increasing regional decentralization of
political power; a dire but unmet need for regional
Comrades, some of us are on Third World phone systems with really
poor connectivity to the web and dodgy software. Strike a blow
against property rights and attach the entire text would you please?!
P.
Patrick Bond
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * phone: 2711-614-8088
51 Somerset Road
ng to add something else to it," Rep.
Archer said. Last year a similar bill died when senators
protecting textile interests attached measures to weaken textile provisions.
Patrick Bond
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * phone: 2711-614-8088
51 Somerset Road, Kensington 2094 South Africa
work: Unive
Yes, drawing a bit on Gramsci, Mzwanele Mayekiso did a 1996 Monthly
Review book, Township Politics: Civic Struggles for a New South
Africa. The book explains why the phrase "working-class civil
society" became popular here so as to explicitly contrast the
political project of mass democratic
quot;operating
and maintenance costs."
Water wars will predominate across the world in the next century. Our
supplies are due to run out in 2030. As ever, SA is likely to remain
at the cutting edge of inequality and violent social resistance.
***
From: Peter Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
... The economics, as they say, is impeccable. The utility initially
owns the water. They establish a marginal cost pricing rule (or
something similar incorporating externalities etc.) and make everyone
pay. So that the poor can have a basic
Comrade, they're doing it to us as well in South Africa. Will send
you off-list some of the issues that the social movements here are
raising as an effort to counter the commodification logic, to halt
the mass cut-offs of water supplies in townships (affecting
households and entire
This article, by George Dor of the Alternative Information and
Development Centre (http:\\www.aidc.org.za) and Mercia Andrews, vice
president of the SA NGO Coalition, is being published in various
outlets including International Viewpoint (April '99)...
Unemployed can't bank on Stiglitz:
More
upturn...
***
Patrick Bond
51 Somerset Road, Kensington 2094
Johannesburg, South Africa
phone: (2711) 614-8088
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
office: University of the Witwatersrand
Graduate School of Public and Development Management
PO Box 601, Wits 2050
And another site with lots of topical material:
Alternative Information and Development Centre (Cape Town):
http:\\aidc.org.za
***
Patrick Bond
51 Somerset Road, Kensington 2094
Johannesburg, South Africa
phone: (2711) 614-8088
email: [EMAIL
Comrades,
Anyone have anything quirky and insightful to say on the IMF
report on world economic prospects? I have to go on South African tv
tomorrow morning at 5:30 GMT to chat about it with a bourgeois
economist. Any hints?
P.
***
Patrick Bond
Yes, how now can Summers begin to pass the buck? My own (perhaps
imperfect) information is that a) the memo was leaked to Greenpeace
by an environmental economist in the Bank, who shall go nameless, who
had lost enough debates with Summers to express her/his frustration
in such a manner; and
From: Brad De Long [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Note, however--as the quotation above shows--that the fact that the U.S. is
a *democracy* placed very substantial limits on the foreign policy elite's
ability to support Ian Smith...
Brad DeLong
Sigh.
The leading edge of US multinational
Confirmation of reading: your message -
Date: 3 Nov 98 21:33
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:849] Re: Valis on Cockburn III
Was read at 21:24, 4 Nov 98.
Patrick Bond
home: 51 Somerset Road, Kensington 2094, South Africa
office: University of the Witwatersrand
nly consequence of cooperation with Farewell. The final
fires can be seen as the cleansing flames of revolution
out of which a new order will arise."
Patrick Bond
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * phone: 2711-614-8088
51 Somerset Road, Kensington 2094 South Africa
work: University of the Witwatersr
t is that Sol Kerzner
will likely curtail any further expansion plans within
South Africa. American and European observers should take
heed, though, that rather than being resolved within South
Africa, this particular problem will shift elsewhere.
Patrick Bond
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * phone: 2
Comrades,
This is relatively strong stuff, given the broad social movement
network from which it emanates. I think it's worthy of support.
If you agree, send your signature to Njoki right away... 50 Years is
Enough! is still the best p.r. machine we have on this particular
front.
Many
This is a terrific source of info on Africa. Here's some more on the
Congo crisis. You can sign up for the free service by talking to
Patrik Eklof at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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1. DR Congo: Namibian troops said to be in DRC
2. DR Congo: DRC accuses SA of 'behind-curtains' tactics
3. DR
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 06:05:52 -0500 (CDT)
Patrick, where is all that expensive modern hardware coming from?
Is sub-Saharan Africa about to host a surrogate world war?
valis
For hints of an answer let's check one of
In South Africa, many of us pay close attention to Mahmood Mamdani,
who is Ugandan and probably the most active left intellectual in Africa,
certainly South Africa, at the moment (he's at University of Cape Town
and causing plenty of useful trouble amongst the liberal Africanists
there). His
For those dreaming of good cop (Stiglitz) pissing on bad cop
(Camdessus), here's some evidence of a change in the wind:
World Bank report, 3/11/98:
Thailand: Recent Economic Developments
CONTENT:
The stabilization measures introduced in Thailand since the floating of
the Baht
, at the same time putting the book out of reach of all but
perhaps a couple of dozen local readers!)
Uneven Zimbabwe
A Study of Finance, Development and Underdevelopment
by Patrick Bond
Africa World Press, Trenton (New Jersey)
(PO Box 1892, Trenton, NJ
, but all the advantages of hanging
out in this environment make you mostly forget that...
Join us! Let me know if you want more detailed information by
Thursday, if possible.
Patrick
Patrick Bond
HOME:WORK:
51 Somerset Road
The distortions introduced by the influx of foreign aid and loans
(particularly hard currency transfers that permitted wasteful luxury
goods importation) in post-independence Zimbabwe were so bad
that they also got the Dutch disease label by local economists.
Louis, I just had a couple of
Another question, and then an update on the previous message about
SA workers' pension struggles.
I've been asked to testify to parliament next Tuesday on the fallout
from the East Asian crisis. I have Kim Scipes' terrific newsclips,
and Marty H-L and Paul B giving some tight marxist critique
atu.org.za@
@ @
Patrick Bond
HOME:WORK:
51 Somerset Road University of the Witwatersrand
Kensington 2094 Graduate School of Public and
Johannesburg, South Africa D
What's wrong with the big dams that around the world are being phased
out but that in Southern Africa are popping up with renewed
(post-apartheid) legitimacy?
Sorry if this is the wrong list I'm posting to; my email was down a
bit and I have misplaced boddhisatva's criticism of social
IMHO, the complete Marxist theory of inflation would see inflation as
reflecting societal conflicts (cf. Burdekin and Burkett).
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://clawww.lmu.edu/Departments/ECON/jdevine.html
Jim, what about a theory of inflation that takes as a starting point
a note of support to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks much!
Patrick Bond
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Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 14:14:01 -0800
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick McCully)
Subject: Reminder: Maheshwar Declaration Endorsements
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED
It looks like two people sent me private messages today but cc-ed
them to the whole list accidentally.
Ben Cashdan is a Harvey PhD student who agrees to some extent with
Louis. Like me he works hard on understanding the details of the
sell-out underway now in South Africa, hence the obscure
I've been reading all this with interest. As a doctoral student of
David's in the mid-late 1980s, I'll attest to his staple gun prowess. When
anti-apartheid shanties were firebombed one May 1986 night at 2AM
(one of his other students was badly burned) and then -- predictably
-- banned by JHU
Interestingly, just over a year ago we had the same experience with
Hale in Jo'burg.
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 20:58:03 +1000
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From: Rob Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Oz and the American Dream
G'day
er, Robert Mugabe, have never been so
unpopular, writes Patrick Bond. At the early April
gathering of the ZANU Youth League, a respected
air force leader, Josiah Tungimirai, told Mugabe,
"Your excellency, the party is in crisis and only
a fool can say otherwise."
Mugabe's last few w
They have no shame...
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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 17:51:16 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Robert Weissman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: MAI in IMF
http://www.imf.org/external/np/cm/1998/041698a.htm
Communique,
We're training emerging petty-bourgeois bureaucrats here in
Johannesburg (at the main university) and to do so, hire lots of guest
lecturers at US$70/hr for 40 hour courses plus preparation/marking.
Colin, we don't actually -- contrary to the impression I may have
left -- teach these poor
Colin was hypothesizing about Stiglitz simply playing good cop to IMF
bad cop. Yes, but they also have ways of dealing with rogue Keynesians in
the Bank.
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FINANCE: World Bank Chief Economist ''Disappears''
Has anyone seen the January 1998 paper by Joe Stiglitz upending the
Washington Consensus? (The speech in Finland that, tellingly, isn't on
the World Bank homepage.)
In South Africa, the WB mission maintains a hard neo-lib edge. Several
of us here are wondering whether the merits of his modified
MORE INSTRUMENTS AND BROADER GOALS:
Moving Toward the Post-Washington
Consensus
Joseph Stiglitz, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist
The World Bank
January 7, 1998
The 1998 WIDER Annual Lecture (Helsinki, Finland)
Today I would like to discuss improvements in our understanding
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Financial Reform
The importance of building robust financial systems goes beyond simply
averting economic crises. I have sometimes likened the financial
system to the "brain" of the economy. It plays an important role in
collecting and aggravating
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Government as a Complement to Markets
So far I have been discussing the ways in which the Washington
Consensus on the issues of macroeconomic stabilization, financial
reform, liberalized trade, and privatization, was insufficient. It
contained
that
bears watching and solidarity.
Patrick Bond
HOME:WORK:
51 Somerset Road University of the Witwatersrand
Kensington 2094 Graduate School of Public and
Johannesburg, South Africa Development
Rosenberg, Bill wrote:
Mind you, despite all this, Michel Chossudovsky has written some
outstanding analyses - I can think of a couple on Africa and
Yugoslavia. So I'm not conceding that Choss is a Lobachevsky
by any means (unless it was the real Lobachevsky).
Hear hear. In a land of 30%
Come to Johannesburg and learn some tactics of resistance to debt.
There's something here called a "bond boycott" (bond = mortgage in our
adopted Brit parlance), which entails groups of often hundreds of
township residents collectively telling the bank that they won't pay the
approx. $15,000
I know what you mean, sitting in Johannesburg and glancing at a
recent African Development Bank investment report. These chaps expect
returns on their equity stake in an infrastructure privatization fund run by a
commercial bank here, along the following lines: 40% of projects at
35%
, organic composition of K,
and overaccumulation plus financial bubbles. Thanks Louis for putting
it up.
Ciao!
Patrick Bond
HOME:WORK:
51 Somerset Road University of the Witwatersrand
Kensington 2094
Most importantly, in relation to Fed-banking relations, the Fed is a
really good example of the captive regulator.
I did two years time in the Philadelphia Fed after college and was
continually impressed by the backhanders regularly given to local
speculators, some of whom represented Old
. If
you are interested I would very much appreciate your sending your
c.v. (brief version but detailed on I.O. work) to me privately, at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks very much indeed!
Patrick Bond
esian
sovereignty over East Timor and has sponsored talks
between Portugal and Indonesia in a bid to find a settlement.
Sapa-AP/je 07/30/97 09-5140 --
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 21:37:36 -0700 (PDT)
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Patrick Bond&quo
Sid, yes it seemed like that to us at the time...
But the old man sometimes pull surprises out of the hat. Apparently
he met with one of the long-term jailed leaders during the visit last
week, and yesterday he had a session with the president of Portugal
where they publicly demanded amnesty
Has a volte-face truly occurred at the World Bank ... ?
Here's a bit of a critique that has been circulating in some
Bank-watchdog circuits...
From: Bretton Woods Project [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: WDR UPDATED BRIEFING
Dear Friends,
Attached is a briefing I have put
Louis, your correspondent writes:
From: Mark Coats [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PEN-L:10711] Microcredit
...
I invite you to educate yourself further on microcredit. Please examine
the success of the Grameen Bank, ACCION International, and FINCA. It
really does have the potential to greatly
Doug, from Johannesburg, Rifkin was on the radio here a few months
ago, but ironically notwithstanding SA's present jobless growth situation
(3.1% GDP increase in 1996, and tens of thousands of net jobs lost in
the private sector) there's been no effort to draw the End of Work
arguments in either
Vis-a-vis Bill's comments on New Zealand and settler colonialism, here's
the big thinker of Southern Africa, Cecil Rhodes, as cited in an 1895
newspaper in the wake of a trip he'd taken to the east end of London
observe the degraded condition of the proletariat:
"In order to save the 40,000,000
On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
In that capacity, the nonprofit sector has nothing to do with the role of
civil society envisioned by deTocqueville (and later Gramsci). The
former
is merely an ancilliary mechanism of manufacturing public goods, the
latter
-- the mechanism
And of course the big auto companies provided products used to
oppress folk here in South Africa for many decades. An issue of the SA
Labour Bulletin in the late 1970s was entitled "Working for Ford" and
included shopfloor as well as ethical critiques. I was rooming at college
then with the son
Michael I doubt that James Wolfensohn would have been as crudely
honest as your source suggests. He's slick as they come.
But on low-paid jobs, he did muddle into a little controversy when the
Bank's mid-1995 World Development Report on labour markets came
under intense criticism from trade
From South Africa, same answer as Colin's in reference to etymology.
On David's query...
How is this paen to market
solutions different from what we have been referring to as the
'conservative' laissez-faire perspective?
To crudely personify, I think the key difference, at least in the context
Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/April/1997 03:54pm
What exactly is the role of South Africa? Is it simply a site for
negotiations or does Thabo Mbeki have a stake in a "democratically
elected" government in Zaire rather than one that comes to power
through armed struggle. Wouldn't a
won hearts and minds entirely)
and as international fashions (even po-mo) have drained good minds into
spurious pursuits.
Ciao!
Patrick Bond
National Institute for Economic Policy
Johannesburg
Comrade Jim D, it's not that Roemer retreats from descriptive or policy
poli-econ, but that when he comes into it the traces of his neverland
distract us from actually existing K. I think I mentioned on PEN-L that he
paid a vist to Jo'burg about eight months ago and confounded worker
audiences
Anyone see the AFP report about how "the worlds' financial system
was seriously at risk from structural faults in the offshore banking
system" according to a leaked BIS document? 141 offshore banking
centres are either inadequately regulated or not at all.
Can't put new SSA meat on those
Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14/February/1997
06:16pm
He was succeeded by Lewis Preston, who has since died, and
then by James Wolfensohn, who is very much alive, and a walking
example of
the bourgeoisie at its cleverest.
Wolfie was banqueting in Cape Town last Friday and Maputo on
Saturday.
During the late 1980s (when I last checked in on this), the US labor
movement began making a stink about the termination of overfunded
pension plans and the transfer of surpluses (morally the property of
workers) to employers, often for the express purpose of paying off debt
on LBOs. It was an
Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] 18/January/1997 02:28am
It's not so much that industry is shifting its surplus funds to finance...
Doug I thought we'd been discussing this on the M-I list last month with
the common assumption that many big US firms did indeed beef up their
treasury operations
Paul Altesman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 18/January/1997 01:08am
Hilferding's analysis (Banks structure Industry) may well have well
been true in Germany *of his time*...
Not so, in that he overestimated the power of finance capital and not its
vulnerability to speculative crashes. At one point
Paul Altesman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 18/January/1997 01:08am
Hilferding's analysis (Banks structure Industry) may well have well
been true in Germany *of his time*...
Not so, in that he overestimated the power of finance capital and not its
vulnerability to speculative crashes. At one point
Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] 13/January/1997 08:52pm
At 10:13 AM 1/13/97, DICKENS, EDWIN (201)-408-3024 wrote:
I'm skeptical, but open to
anyone who wants to try and resolve the issue by constructing
an index of the relative strengths of financial and
industrial capital.
While I'd never go
Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] 13/January/1997 08:52pm
At 10:13 AM 1/13/97, DICKENS, EDWIN (201)-408-3024 wrote:
I'm skeptical, but open to
anyone who wants to try and resolve the issue by constructing
an index of the relative strengths of financial and
industrial capital.
While I'd never go
PLEASE CIRCULATE TO INTERESTED COMRADES...
debate
Voices from the South African Left
Issue #2, January 1997
(If you are interested in subscribing, contact
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Contents and editorial follow:
EDITORIAL1
TIME FOR WORKING-CLASS WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP
Roseline Nyman5
TOWARDS A
Hey we struggle with that question constantly here in South Africa.
Probably the best recent citation is the Epstein/Crotty article on capital
controls in the 1996 Socialist Register (editor is Leo Panitch, publishers
Merlin and Monthly Review).
Our Reserve Bank governor hiked interest rates
This and the previous post on Southern Africa are interesting. Thanks.
Finally, here in Jo'burg, there appears to be some movement from the
NGO sector -- 3 000 organisations in a national coalition -- combined with
earlier pronouncements by a few left trade unionists and small political
parties,
The South Africa government made it possible in mid-1994, after the
election of the ANC, to explore secret securiity files kept on
anti-apartheid dissidents. The main progressive newspaper, the Mail and
Guardian (many times censored by the regime) put in a request, and
found that the files had
The notorious comment, in an internal December 1991 memo by Summers
-- then a World Bank vice president and chief economist -- was, "I think
the economic logic of dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage
country is impeccable and we should face up to that... Underpopulated
countries in
Tom Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28/November/1996
09:33am
Introductory remarks: Strike breaking and union busting in the
1990s: What can we learn from the past to combat it?
... "what strategies might the labour movement adopt to try to eliminate
that substantial surplus of labour?"... What I'm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 27/November/1996 03:32am
The basic idea makes sense, however. Given the underlying
tendency toward instability and crisis of the laws of motion of
capital, one can posit certain institutional forms that stabilize
the system, explaining the so-called "Golden Age" of the
Bill Cochrane [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22/November/1996
11:54pm
Patrick Bond writes
"The rise of pomo-K"? I understand it differently: the crisis of modern-K
(which Harvey unfortunately describes in that work as fordism).
While there is little doubt that the use of the term fordism is
p
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 21/November/1996 06:28pm
David Harvey's book on postmodernism argues (to summarize in
more than desperate brevity) that the rise of postmodern theory
is a reflection of the rise of postmodern capitalism, i.e.,
increased flexibility, decentralization, etc., etc. He's no
Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14/November/1996
06:16pm
It sounds simple here.
The Pakistani parents worry that they will suffer if their children
can't work. They are probably correct -- in a sense. So the rug
industry can exploit their sentiments.
Global competition then creates a race
Sid -- or anyone,
Is there any way to translate this shocking material into campaigns that
have a South-driven character?
I ask because there continues to rage a debate here in Johannesburg,
based especially on writings from the Third World Network in Penang,
Malaysia, about the legitimacy of
a little while back were
sent right out to researchers who have used them in minor battles with
the establishment here. PEN-L is a terrific resource.
Ciao!
Patrick Bond
National Institute for Economic Policy
Johannesburg
Ok, if we're meant to be heard from the periphery, let's not miss this
moment of yankee silence. Patrick in Johannesburg chiming in on Doug's
puzzle:
Because of the reasons Jim's laid out, I'm less satisfied with relying upon
the search for relative and absolute surplus value as the key way of
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