think this is an unimportant quibble, as it represents trends
sometimes called combined and uneven development.
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1981 and
83 he signed away 28.3 million dollars in military aid to South Africa.
In 1983 he facilitaed 3.8 billion dollars in loans and investment to
South Africa. He vetoed the sanctions bill against South Africa. Ans so
on. Yes, really. That ends my memoriam to Reagan.
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-based export
agriculture. The Brazilian seems to think a pareto optimal situation is an
egalitarian one.
Any thoughts on this?
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of
voluntary exchange between individuals is created by understanding the
whole (society) in terms of the part (individual) i.e. the appearance of
capitalism as a just system of competing individuals is created by
capitalism itself. Hope that helps.
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And hopefully libertarianism with him...
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the globe as
BBC foreign affairs correspondent, author of 12 high quality and well
received books, radio and TV host of programmes of the highest calibre,
elected as Labor M.P. twice and came to know many major figured of 20th
century artistic, political and intellectual life.
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the goodies of
capitalism. Do you agree? Socialism,for me, is about more than doing
capitalism better than the capitalists.
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are a barrier to economic growth.
Northern environmentalism is just another means of keeping the South under
the boot. I am sensitive to that argument.
I'll stop here since I've forgotten what the point of this whole exchange
was.
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people a guideline of what and where to
change , rather than placing faith in magic and mad
scientists developing time machines. If you disagree with the analysis and
the projections then refute them.
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now to give people a guideline of what and where to
change , rather than placing faith in magic and mad scientists developing
time machines. If you disagree with the analysis and the projections then
refute them.
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that FARC have not committed atrocites or
excuse their sometimes behavior. But, of course, revolution isn't a tea
party.
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Is it true that Nozick repudiated Anarchy, State and Utopia? Any
references?
In his The Examined Life. On the whole a crappy book, full of Buddhist and
Hindu nonsense and other grade 'A' bullshit about America being a democracy.
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Subject: [evol-psych] The left can celebrate the latest news on genes,
but not too much
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:02:07 -
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our separate ways. In my view, if helping the poor results in some
getting richer than others, that doesn't bother me a bit.
The kulaks were hated by just about everybody.
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someone a business licence to sell stolen goods is a reduction ad
absurdum of property rights.
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Justin Schwartz wrote:
Canada's a different world in many fields. The leading Canadian philosophy
journal, CJP, takes Marxism seriously; regularly publishes in radical
philosophy;
Not anymore now that Kai Nielson and Robert Ware (University of Calgary)
no longer edit it.
Sam P.
r".
Yes, and hard wiring is consistent with any number of behaviors
(multiple realizability of brain states.)
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music, though the big companies(EMI,DG,etc. whose classical
music divisions are in trouble) are now re-issuing their back
catalogues at super cut prices. You can get Marc-Andre Hamelin's Alkan
recording for $12.Will everything eventually be re-issued on CD? Maybe.
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Check out this important Gould/Dawkins debate.
http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i5/evolutionary-war.jpg
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ding and a good reference text.
The Kolakowski of the 80's and 90's was Jon Elster.
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Just regular 'nuts'n' bolts' of social science with
some Marxian concepts mixed in. Kolakowski's erudition is(was) quite
stunning. The complete works of Lenin, Trotsky, Kautsky, Plekhnakov,
Luxembourg, Lukacs,Gramsci and on ...in the original languages.
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of Justice the best place for stats on violent
crime?
This stuff is for,you guessed it, an article on biological explanations
of violence (i.e. violence as a male reproductive strategy.)
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in
related science and technology.
Waiting for Godot.
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to work hard to pick up where he left
off. I'll never forget him.
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bonus,foreign companies do not have to pay benefits because they are
covered by the various governments.
Thoughts anyone?
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of Vickery's book out. The best book on that
period in Cambodia. Vickery argues that DK was closest to what Marx,at
times, called an "asiatic mode of production."
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er
capitalism render him a modern Marcus Aurelius or Senaca.
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uot;,"firm" and
even "individual", they apply it when and where it suits them. I can't
remember who said it but there'e the saying you have to accept Keynes
before you can accept Marx.
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Nicole Seibert wrote:
Check out James Hillman. You might just like him. He wrote A Blue Fire and
The Myth of Analysis. Also, you could read Kristeva, Lacan, Nicholson,
McNay, Grosz, Deleuze and of course, David Harvey's The Condition of
Postmodernity.
Check out David Hume:
"When we
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As an intellectual movement, analytical Marxism has run out steam. There remains a
body of excellent work, even if the people who produced it are no longer mainly
working in the area.
Yes. One of the reasons for this was that AM and the debates within it
were
.. Many
professional philosophers are themselves dissatisfied with the current
situation. Hundreds of journal articles do nothing but clarify a few
terms (their real function is to promote careers.) The
motto "never a climb a fence unless you can sit
on it" fits here.
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most forceful advocates of
Malthusianism and the Malthusianism of the mainstream environmental
movement (Sierra Club etc.) as well as being the main financial backers
of
said movement.
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ole. Groups of altruists do better than groups of
exploiters (defectors).
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t the goal of the state is to get the capitalist class
to co-operate but the working class to defect (as a whole).
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think The analogy to Stalin's liquidation of Kulaks is accurate
except
that ejido holders are the poor peasants not the rich. Most ejidos are
under 5 acres. David Barkin's book is the best in English on all this
but his work is pre-Ezln and pre-El BArzon.
Sam Pawlett
5/23/2000
The US-China Society of Friends is regularly distributing artcles on
Chinese Marxism, "socialism with Chinese characteristics," Chinese
politics
and economics, and similar topics. If you wish to receive these
materials,
send your e-mail and snail mail addresses to Sidney Gluck at
he obvious one. I'm not saying that Sam Pawlett really wants
to keep women in the nursery. What I am saying, however, is that
Sam has give his comrades reason to fear his trustworthiness.
"When the Information Bureau published its resolution, the Belgrade
fascist fiends began to complain that
oviet jazz) Quartet Books 1985. S.Frederick Starr
*Red and Hot. The Fate of Jazz in the Soviet Union* Oxford U Press 1983
614pgs. The premier Soviet jazz critic was Alexey Batashev who authored
many books and taught thousands of students jazz history.
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her, maybe it is
better for the children if they are raised by women? I don't know.
Mine
Sam Pawlett wrote:Well, it is necessary that the male penetrate
the female or the species will fail to reproduce itself.
...except for the occasional turkey-baster.
or canoe paddler.
Why
Doug Henwood wrote:
Even if you don't take the whole Butler dose, I think it's always
important to ask what is happening ideologically when biology - or
"nature" - is invoked.
Yes.
When people start talking about hormones,
there's some invocation of physical necessity against whose
with
the core would equalize forcing the country to industrialize as it can
no longer export its food to pay for manufactures.
Ricardo failed to see that increasing returns of investment in industry
and "human capital" is the rule.
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act ethical ideal drawn
up in someone's head then imposed onto society but is rather a product
of historical process. As Engels said "you cannot decree the development
of the masses. This is conditioned by the development of the conditions
in which the masses live and hence evolves gradually."Socialism Utopian
and Scientific, 34.
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is being privatized (in a very corrupt
fashion). Has it improved the gender relations? I don't know. It hasn't
helped much in other places. Further,the conditions that led to the
initial wars in Vietnam are being
reproduced.
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iolin concerto a cross between Viennese dodecaphony, traditional
western harmonies and folkish harmonies. As always with Bartok, no style
dominates suggesting that various cultures and traditions could live the
same way.
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arms
trade
in
the "Golden Triangle" and "Golden Crescent". Way to go guys! Just wait
until the Taliban fully takes over the Pakistani military. Then we will
have some real anti-communists on our hands!
Sam Pawlett
"Christian A. Gregory" wrote:
Bob Jessop has a fairly easy to read and very good intro to regulation
theory in Michael Storper and Allen Scott, "Pathways to Industrialization
and Regional Development."
I'd also reccommend Alice Amsden's (dead-on)
rejoinder to Lipietz about ten years ago
Michael Perelman wrote:
The New York Times April 24, 2000
UPS Sues Canada Over Postal System
ATLANTA (AP) -- United Parcel Service is suing Canada, alleging that the
country's postal service has been allowed to use its mail monopoly to
expand
into the courier
1900
Italy 1976. Director: Bernardo Bertolucci. Cast: Gerald Depardieu,
Robert Dinero, Burt Lancaster, Sterling Hayden, Donald Sutherland,
Dominique Sanda, Sandra Sandrelli, Laura Betti, Stefania Casini.
English. 311 minutes.
1900 is Bernardo Bertolucci's melodramatic, baroque, operatic,
?
There were important theoretical differences between the Lenin and
Stalin-Zinoviev comintern but these differences came to nothing in
practice. The Comintern blew it for many reasons, one of them being
eurocentrism.
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eans.
11. Europeans invented the modern state.
12. Europeans invented capitalism.
13. Europeans, uniquely "venturesome", were the great explorers
"discoverers" etc.
14. Europeans invented industry and created the Industrial revolution.
p7-8.
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a role in Carling)where societies with lower development
of productive forces are selected out by societies with higher
development of pf's through a variety of causal mechanisms like superior
weapons. I wonder of Diamond has read Carling.
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Sam Pawlett wrote:
On a more abstract level, Diamond's ideas bear a prima facie
similarity to a type of historical materialism defended by Alan Carling
built on an analogy to natural selection (i don't think actual natural
selection plays a role in Carling)where societies with lower
Jim Devine wrote:
Sam Pawlett wrote:
It looks to me like interest rates are important vis a vis the business
cycle witness Volker's rate hike in the early 80's which had profound
effects on the U.S. and world economy
Louis Proyect writes:
I agree that this sort of action can
s executed by the Gestapo in France in 1941.
It looks to me like interest rates are important vis a vis the business
cycle witness Volker's rate hike in the early 80's which had profound
effects on the U.S. and world economy
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pulation
that becomes the most radicalized. So, in this situation the country is
stuck
in a transition which becomes a pseudo-metamorphesis. This is the point
Bettelheim takes up at length in the appendix to Emmanuel's book. What
is the solution? Socialism, of course.
Sam Pawlett
[NOTE: Break out a bottle of Tres Esquinas (Colombian rum) and
sit back to read this one. As this is not from the lobotomized
U.S. media, you will actually be called upon to think! -DG]
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arguments that socialism is inevitable and that is just
the
way it is. Marx himself is often criticized for being romantic and
utopian. Being romantic and utopian is ok by me , but then I'm young and
foolish.
Sam Pawlett
works exist not _because_ but _in spite_ of capitalism. Its not the
profit motive, incentives, or capitalist social relations that allowed
Schubert to write his quartets, Coltrane to play or "A Love Supreme" or
Wittgenstein to write the Investigations. The working class doesn't do
much in the way of creative activity because it is too busy working.
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. There's also an good bibliography for
beginners which might be useful.Didn't the URPE publish a macro text
with Monthly Review some time ago?
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The airline industry is strange. Wild price fluctuations, bucket shop
seats, open jaws, student fares, standby etc. I once bought an open
ended ticket from Vancouver to LA return for $C50. Another flight over
from Asuncion Paraguay to Leticia in Colombia was $US800 even though it
is a shorter
Doug Henwood wrote:
[Gore has the answer to airplane safety - prayer!]
Look Tinkerbell! We Can Fly! Thinking will make it so!
SP
Sunday's Superbowl was one of the best I've seen...in terms of its raw
drama the last quarter of play.
Today, Monday, a good many of your students will return from watching it
and thinking about it only in terms of that raw drama...with maybe a bit of
enthusiasm for the home team...
There
The History of Mexico is the History of Class Struggle.
Mexico's Hope. James Cockroft. MR Press.1999.435 pgs.
This is the best general introduction to Mexican history and
political economy available in English. Cockroft's book is a sweeping
history of Mexico from the pre-colonial era to
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[NOTE: Obviously, the work of narco-Indians! -DG]
President Mahuad's grip on power has
been faltering in the face of the
growing protests.
ir full of unsubstantiated assertions and opinions. His evidence
consists of rumors and a handful of conversations with locals made
around 1995. His evidence in no way supports any of his conclusions.
Stoll gets a D for effort and an F for content.
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Sources:
David Stoll. *R
noir aesthetic
(though in Godard's case its hard to tell whether he is parodying it or
not.) Noir is still the greatest film genre to come out of America doing
for american film what neo-realism did for Italian and the New Cinema
did for French.
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Beginning in the 1970's and continuing today, Latin American
countries have undertaken reforms and restructuring in the mining
sectors of their economies. This process is part of a wholesale
restructuring of the Latin American economies, which in turn, is part of
a continuing global
he
contrary. Some people argue that Crick and Watson successfully reduced
biology to chemistry. Non-reductionist materialists rely on somewhat
wooly concepts like "supervienence" and "anomolous monism" to show how
ideas and "mental" things are physical matter but can't be reduced to
brain science in an explanation.
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quot; in the third world today. But rising
expectations can lead to serious political change. I don't know.
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translated into
english. Many lost their lives in Latin American political struggle.
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, explain everything? Is sociology just
physics and engineering?
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[from a work in progress.SP]
Notes on Development Theory Sam Pawlett
Introduction
Development theory took off after WWII with the first wave of
decolonization. The problems
facing the newly independent countries became of concern to
intellectuals who wanted
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
Carroll, let's keep separate things separated. There is a difference
between a genuine social movement -- i.e. one that has real support in a
population or its segment -- and one that exists mostly in the imagination
of moral entrepreneurs striving for a
e which altered the balance of class forces
between the domestic and overseas investors and producers."
James Petras "Globalization:A Critical Analysis", Journal of
Contemporary Asia, Vol 29 no 1,1999,p3-37.
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cantile capital grew
stronger during recession and famine. Dobb really takes the bull by the
horns and answers the tough question of: where did the capitalists come
from? Essentially the capitalist class grew out of merchant capital
together with the upper crust of the gilds and the burghers.
m
Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
Alan Carling's synthesis of Cohen and Brenner, which Wood completely
rejects as an imposible mix (not everything mixes, try putting car
oil in your soup) can be found in his book, Analytical Marxism.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to endorse Ricardo's observations
nes ae scarcely sufficient to answer their
occasions; and though
they are sensible of this, yet they find by Experience they can'tprevent
it."
Jacob Vanderlint *Money Answers All Things",52-4, 1737.
All this is not to deny the importance of the precious metals in
domestic class formation.
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Mathew Forstater wrote:
Norwood Hanson's work, mentioned in your post, is cited in the paper,
Hanson was quite a character. A teacher of mine who was a student of
his said he hated walking through the department each morning so he
would park his harley davidson and climb through his office
ng even after the colonies won their nominal
political freedom (p31)"
Trade, Development and Foreign Debt Vol.1.
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ecially in economics, theorists start with what they are trying to
prove and then go to work. The political conclusions are drawn at the
outset.
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and trade relations but failed to analyze the class
basis of the spread of K. The upshot is that the solution for 3rd world
countries is autarky and not socialism. I find Brenner quite convincing.
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look at the rise in suicide, especially teen suicide, rates with
structural adjustment programs as well as mental health and things like
alcoholism (traditional stress relievers) The suicide rate in N.Zealand
skyrocketed after the SAP began in the 80's. Same with Russia.
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: it was cheaper to do that and
then buy more slaves in their place).
Has anyone here read Robin Blackburn's histories of slavery? He argues
that slavery was seminal in the development of Europe. Any comments?
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ilver of their own
Growth." Mandeville, Fable of the Bees,p115,1714
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e old mode of production and the rise of the capitalist
mode, this happened in reverse on the basis of the capitalist mode of
production, *once it had been created*" [K3,ch 20,451-2,Vint.]
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give a check to the domestic consumption of
superfluity, in order to have the more hands for the supply of
strangers." James Steuart *Principles of Political Economy*424,(1767)
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in whose favor it was established."
Ibid.
Smith may have been opposed to the economic nature of colonialism but
accepted political colonialism. I think Smith was just a free-trade
imperialist.
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HUdson,460.
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gree, have been realized. I think
Chomsky, Kolko, Mark Curtis and Bruce Cumings have done the best work
showing the nature and extent of government planning for imperialist
order.
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ts own advantage and upgrading its land, labor and
capital.
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in polarisation and the world continues
to polarise between a minority of rich countries and the rest. The key
is understanding the mechanisms by which this polarisation occurs and
most importantly how to rectify the situation.
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occurred because it is now the only
party in Chile, outside sectarian groups, that defends the working
class, supports autonomous working class action from the comprador union
officials and believes in socialism. A rejuvenated and more democratic
Communist Party and a more confident labor movement could sig
[Please let me know if you want me to stop clogging your mailbox with
these reports--SP]
ASIET News Updates - September 12, 1999
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* News vacuum as reporters go missing
* Victims 'left to die' on streets where they fell
* UN team visits Timor as Jakarta
ASIET News Updates - September 7, 1999
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* Race against genocide!
* Bishop attacked as army take over Timor
* Surge of nationalistic, anti-foreigner posturing
* Australian unions imposes sanctions on Indonesia
* Timor's political cleansing
* Army conspires
Mr P.A. Van Heusden wrote:
Marx for Beginners is a disgrace, if you ask me. It's a badly written,
confusing account of Marxism. At least the version I read.
I was thinking of "Trotsky for Beginners" by Tariq Ali which is quite
good.
Sam P.
Eric Cumins reports that anyone in Tennessee prisons declaring
him/herself a Marxist was automatically given the death sentence. Is
this law still on the books?
Sam
Michael Yates wrote:
Next month I will begin teaching a class at a maximum security state
prison in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Be careful.
Short,
clearly writtten articles that illustrate features of the political
econmy might be especially useful. Thanks.
I would recommend *The
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