Is this discussion being read by anyone? I just tuned in and found this
entry. Where do you find in Marx any reference to innate greed as the
motivation for accumulation under capital? Greed, sloth, etc., are among the
seven deadly sins of western mythology and religious doctrine, the basis of
Maybe this is helpful, for those who haven't read it, in analyzing causes
for continuing moderate/conservative success, a short, thoughtful and
well-grounded article by Michael Lebowitz on the mystification of capital
and how that systemic obfuscation enhances the perception of dependence on
reading this and
other passages like it from Sweezy some fifteen or twenty years ago.
Does anyone have any comments or contributions to this, or is this question,
in ways I don't understand, not relevant?
Ralph Johansen
...members of the Senate trade
with a substantial informational advantage over ordinary investors,
I don't know whether this tale of a senator is known to others. I remember
meeting the Tennessee populist Senator Estes Kefauver on a downtown
Minneapolis street corner during his run for the
What of the contradiction here: if the right really wants to get behind a
draft, why is it that the sponsors in the House are Conyers and Rangel, who
would be in favor because 1) selective service this time would, in the bill
drafted, not allow loopholes for the privileged, and 2) the absence of a
But my question is based on the assumption that Kerry plainly represents the
same class interests as Bush, and Nixon, and that with the atrophy of the
Dems' 'prole' support, as the DLC Dems as exemplified by Kerry and Lieberman
as well as Gephardt, move ever rightward (not so to the same extent in
is a real
progressive or
not? I think we are all agreed on the answer. I don't think anybody's
mind would be
changed whether it makes sense to support Anyone But Bush or not.
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 05:34:05PM -1000, Ralph Johansen wrote:
But my question is based on the assumption that Kerry
In-House Audit Says Wal-Mart Violated Labor Laws
Steven Greenhouse
New York Times, January 13 2004, Page A16
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30714FF39540C708DDDA80894DC4
04482
This article reports on an internal audit at Wal-Mart, which found
evidence that the company's
Disappointing. The nagging natter. I sent the original message in this
thread, asking for help with a problem raised by Sweezy, and look where it's
come to.
Ralph
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From: Jurriaan Bendien [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 7:08 AM
Jurriaan, thank you for your thoughtful response. I dug out a passage of
Sweezy's here, one of the occasions when he attempted to formulate the
problem that he saw and found no answers to. And as I said yesterday, I
haven't seen it yet either, so I'm inquiring. Here he's been discussing
Keynes in
of Marx's theory of surplus value? How does that work out as
a historical development question? And how in the Marxist schematics can
this be represented? I know there's an answer in there someplace.
Thanking you in advance for your kind attention,
Ralph Johansen
and led to a legal
challenge by
Republican officials.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1355-2003Nov4.html
Cheers, Ken Hanly
- Original Message -
From: Ralph Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:01 PM
Subject: Re
This exchange is another on several lists that I've seen regarding the
allegedly unaccountable voting machines which doesn't deal with the fact
that this is, at least in terms of patronage if not of program, a two-party
system. If one party seeks to squirrel votes in a machine not open to public
Lou Proyect wrote:
It is not just colonialism that gets short
shrift; it is slavery as well.
If I were committed to the Brenner thesis,
I'd try to rebut the kind of analysis put forward by Eric Williams in
Capitalism and Slavery. He earns only a footnote reference, as one of a
group of Marxist
Date Index
Re: New territories for original accumulation: extending the boundaries of
the exploitable
by Carrol Cox
30 August 2003 15:51 UTC
Thread Index
Carrol wrote:
Do read the books of Ellen Meiksins Wood.
I second that: whether one agrees or disagrees, Ellen Wood's succinct
, and the Republican National Committee,
Advisory Council on National Security and International Relations,
1977-1980.
A helluva cv for a UH professor, I guess. Probably dwells well up on the
volcano.
How are things in Trondheim? That's where my people are from, way back in
the 1880's.
Ralph Johansen
Iraqi Cancers, Birth Defects Blamed on U.S. Depleted Uranium
Seattle Post-Intelligencer 11/12/02
The weapon in question is the Phalanx, also known as a Close In Weapons
System. Such a system is on virtually all U.S. Navy combat ships. It
includes radar and rapid-fire 20mm guns. The guns are
He just SAID he's not - don't want to get in a bind on the issue while
traversing Africa. Can't pull a Trent Lott here. Image thing.
- Original Message -
From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 8:43 AM
Subject: Bush in the bush
July 8,
- Original Message -
From: Rod Driver
To: Senator Chafee
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 12:07 PM
Subject: The cost for Iraqis
I could find only scattered images of Iraqis under attack
during the last two weeks until a friend referred me recently to a collection
(updated daily)
US TANKS ENTER BAGHDAD!
Frontlines [SF]
CHECK HERE OFTEN AS WE ARE UPDATING THIS REPORT EVERY HOUR
Call your local antiwar coalition or group for possible emergency actions to
stop the massacre of the Iraqi people
9:OO pm (PST)- 9:00 AM (Baghdad Time) - The US First Tank Brigade just
entered
the casualty rate now for Gulf War
veterans is approximately 30 percent. Of those stationed in the theater,
including after the conflict, 221,000 have been awarded disability,
according to a Veterans Affairs (VA) report issued September 10, 2002.
The War Against Ourselves
An Interview with Major
BUSINESS WEEK
FEBRUARY 13, 2003
READER SURVEY RESULTS
Weighing Powell's Evidence
Some 60% of respondents to our online survey still don't think the Bush
Administration has made a persuasive case against Iraq
Despite the photos and documents that Secretary of State Colin Powell
unveiled at a
Fwd by Lou Paulsen:
Assembling a coalition of the willing is like making sausage, you don't want
to look too closely at it.
From Reuters:
U.S. Warns Turkey Against Blocking Iraq Plans
ANKARA, Turkey/BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. preparations for war with Iraq
suffered a new setback Tuesday
Despite the warning, the European declaration was marked most by what
it did not say: It set no deadline for the inspections to be called
off; it did not commit European countries to using force to back up
U.N. resolutions on disarming Iraq; and it did not say Hussein is
already in material breach
I'm glad this ugly, potentially dangerous episode is being cleared up, but I
doubt it would ever have happened had ANSWER not been so unfairly attacked
for so long by The Nation magazine, by people on the Portside list, by
Common
Dreams, by Terri Gross on NPR and others.
One can disagree with WWP
10 million join world protest rallies
By John Vidal
The Guardian
February 13 2003
Up to 10 million people on five continents are expected to demonstrate
against the probable war in Iraq on Saturday, in some of the largest peace
marches ever known.
Yesterday, up to 400 cities in 60 countries,
Denial of march costs antiwar protesters symbol and power, too
By Janny Scott
New York Times
February 13 2003
There have been marches that looked like rallies and rallies that looked
like marches and demonstrations that were a little bit of both. But when a
federal judge ruled this week that
Verified by VisaHermann Goering
Claim: Hermann Goering proclaimed that although the people don't want
war, they can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders.
Status: True.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2002]
Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's
Scheduling War
By Michael T. Klare
Michael T. Klare is a professor of peace and world security studies at
Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., and the author of Resource Wars: The
New Landscape of Global Conflict (2001 Owl Books / Henry Holt).
For months, the attention of much of the world has
These how'mIdoin polls reflect how successful the domestic media have been
in parroting Bush foreign policy feeds to the media, and are a form of
self-congratulatory reinforcement, to which the media enthusiastically
subscribe..As you will agree no doubt. So what's their effect otherwise?
Whipup
Fwd by Leo Panitch:
From: Rick Hesch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 5:57 AM
To: Canadian Dimension magazine
A reporter is asking an American official, What proof do you have that Iraq
has weapons of mass destruction? and the American replies, We kept the
receipts.
www.dac.neu.edu/economics/facstaff/andrew.htm
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From: Ian Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pen-l [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 7:12 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:34432] jobless youth
[I tried to find the report on Northeastern's website but had no luck.
Anyone
http://artdaily.com/news.asp?not=11
Guernica Reproduction Covered at UN
NEW YORK.- The Guernica work by Pablo Picasso at the entrance of the
Security Council of the United Nations has been covered with a curtain.
The reason for covering this work is that this is the place where
diplomats make
More on local matters - about the friendly face, for instance, of HCS and
AB
You may not care about your friendly local multinational, but as Trotsky
said about foreign policy, it cares about you.
Fwd by Chris Burford:
Empires of Profit by Daniel Litvin
Christopher Hope's review gives quite a
Sure, sure, like the Atomic Energy Commission assuring everyone in the
fifties that fallout from nuclear tests was not harmful, because their
studies said so. What, are we all stupid or something? No, but memory is
short and no help at all from the media. For ex., this article. The weapons
are
From Andrew D. Coates, MD, member Physicians for Social Responsibility
This message was sent to local email lists and listservs in upstate NY.
From talking with UPJ today, evidently there will be further negotiations
with
NYC on Monday.
At negotiations on Friday the NYPD offered either a march
Kurt Vonnegut vs. the !#*!@
By Joel Bleifuss | 1.27.03
In November, Kurt Vonnegut turned 80. He published his first novel,
Player Piano, in 1952 at the age of 29. Since then he has written 13
others, including Slaughterhouse Five, which stands as one of the pre-
eminent anti-war novels of the
The following message has been circulated to many lists, reporting the
refusal of the police to issue a permit for United for Peace and Justice to
hold a massive march on February 15
We need addresses of relevant
police officials and the mayor
so that we can send demands that the officials do
, 2003 12:13 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:34251] Re: The NYC authorities are refusing march permits
for Feb. 15
- Original Message -
From: Ralph Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Ralph Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 2:00 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:34250] The NYC authorities
2 Of Every 5 Gulf War
Vets Are On Disability
209,000 Make VA Claims
161,000 Receive Payments
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
1-28-3
As the U.S. contemplates another war on Iraq in the coming weeks, most
Americans expect relatively few casualties among the U.S. troops ñ just like
the first Gulf War.
The
No to War! Is Anyone Listening?
Longtime peace activist says today's peace movement is stronger than that
before Vietnam
By Alexander Cockburn
Workingforchange.com
January 9, 2003
Who has not clambered onto a bus, headed off to a protest demonstration and
stood amid sparse company in the rain,
of a group planning to go into the Oakland CA
schools on January 14 to conduct teach-ins.
Ralph Johansen
Fwd by [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
There may be no better way to begin to grasp the North Korean situation than
to take a look at a single image. The globalsecurity.org website posts
satellite images of, say, American bases in Qatar or Iranian nuclear
facilities. The other day it posted the single most
: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 10:48 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:33562] Re: The ideological implications of Scorcese's latest
film
At 2:44 PM -1000 1/1/03, Ralph Johansen wrote:
with a break for lunch, yes, at the York Theater in SF about 15 or
20 years ago. And btw not a bad format as precedent, for a film
with a break for lunch, yes, at the York Theater in SF about 15 or 20 years
ago.
And btw not a bad format as precedent, for a film that has it all.
- Original Message -
From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 12:39 AM
Subject:
Title: TOMPAINE.com - ExxonMobil Caves To Science
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GOP Cross Dressing On Social
The Boston Globe
October 17, 2002
Threshold of a New Era
by James Carroll
THAT AN OFFICIAL of the Federal Republic of Germany was sacked last month
for comparing George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler was proper, but not because of
the insult to Bush. The extremity of Hitler's malevolence must always be
Title: RE: [PEN-L:31260] Re: Re: Columbus as prototype - after Guindon
Criminentlies, cmrds, I am learning. I posted as original rather than as
attachment because I have correspondents who tell me they don't open attachments
or can't do so. But no more. I had no URL to send, because this was
- Original Message -
From: William Mandel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 4:24 PM
Subject: [Fwd: VIRUS ALERT]
FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS BELOW, I FOUND THAT I TOO HAD THIS VIRUS, AND
ELIMINATED IT FROM DRIVE AND RECYCLE BIN. IN ACCORDANCE
from Eric Fry, Daily Reckoning:
*** And along comes Stephen Roach to explain why bonds
may continue to rise, as deflation comes to America:
The American economy now has a record exposure to
global competition. In the second quarter of 2000,
America imported a third as many goods as it
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 3, 2002.
NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD SUPPORTS ACTS OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
IN PROTESTING PREEMPTIVE STRIKE AGAINST IRAQ
Will Provide Legal Support and Materials Regarding Necessity Defense
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) condemns George Bush's proposed
United Press International
October 6, 2002
1.5 Million March Against Attack on Iraq
Anti-War Rallies Change Italy on Iraq?
by Eric J. Lyman
ROME -- More than 1.5 million Italians took to the streets of dozens of
cities Saturday afternoon and evening to protest possible U.S. military
action
on it. And
anyhow, being very shy about my capacity to argue at this level, I probably
will enter very seldom.
This is what I wrote to Michael Perelman [note that I said debate on the
positions of...]:
- Original Message -
From: Ralph Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday
- Original Message -
From: Ralph Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 11:12 AM
Subject: No-fly blacklist snares political activists - SF Chronicle
September 27, 2002
No-fly blacklist snares political activists
Alan Gathright, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday
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