with their fangs bared and drop tactical nukes on Iran
or North Korea (or whomever the bad guy flavor of the month may be).
John Gulick
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socialism sooner or
barbarism later, my friends.
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political
economy in here as well. Such as ... were the world's 6 billion to adopt US
dietary habits, the world's fossil fuel stocks (not just capitalistically
recoverable fossil fuel stocks) would be depleted in less than a decade.
Stunning stuff.
John Gulick
LP said:
(An extremely important article from
Lou Proyect said:
Matt Gonzalez was a lifelong Democrat, but decided to run as a
Green in SF. He got 47 percent of the vote, a very good indication
of what is possible.
John Gulick says:
Regardless of what disposition Marxists, radicals, left-liberals, etc. take
toward electoral politics
Michael Perelman wrote:
I don't know about the rest of you, but I am finding this discussion very
useful. My interest -- not necessarily support -- of Dean is that his
style might open up a critical discussion of Bush, showing other Dems.
that you can stand up to those bastards.
John Gulick
world view he
incipiently represents. It doesn't necessarily mean that lesser-evilism is
tactically or strategically wrong-headed (or right-headed for that matter).
But some intellectual consistency would be nice.
John Gulick
Knoxville, TN
Lou Proyect said:
Matt Gonzalez was a lifelong Democrat, but decided to run as a
Green in SF. He got 47 percent of the vote, a very good indication
of what is possible.
John Gulick says:
Regardless of what disposition Marxists, radicals, left-liberals, etc. take
toward electoral politics
, fine -- but
don't strengthen liberal mythology while doing so.
John Gulick sez:
Forgive me for parrotting the most conventional of Beltway conventional
wisdom, but if DP diehards took their _realpolitik_ seriously and were
committed to nominating a slightly-less-odious-than-Bush
(from their point
into a corner when trillions of dollars in market capitalization were
wiped off the books in 2000-2001.
John Gulick
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Very sorry to post this to the whole list ... Ian Murray, would you contact
me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I have prepared a document on
world-systems theory and US, China, and Japan triangle that might interest
you, since it pertains to the ongoing yuan-yen-dollar discussion.
John Gulick
From Richard Goldstein's Left-Handed Compliments in the Village Voice:
The coalescing of free marketeers and fundamentalists into a potent
right-wing political force has driven the left to reconsider its usual
strategy of divide and be conquered
Gulick sez:
Regardless of whether one endorses the
Joel Blau wrote:
Well, not really. The mix of state subsidies is somewhat different with the
Democrats--more social welfare-y, even if the social welfare itself is
increasingly designed on a market model. People can debate whether this
difference qualifies as significant, but it is misleading to
, Christopher Cox, and other ultra-right
kooks from Orange County went apeshit when the state-owned Chinese shipping
line (OOCL) tried to sign a long-term lease on a shipping terminal at the
L.A.-Long Beach port complex ? But they sure as hell like it when China
snaps up U.S. Treasury notes !!!
John Gulick
Jim Devine sez:
to the extent that the rich folks in other places are paying for the war,
most of it is buying US Treasury issues, which means that we in the US pay
them interest. As long as they get that, won't they be happy?
John Gulick sez:
Yeah, the US makes interest payments to its
nothing but contempt for the
progressive China-bashers who fail to see all the pieces of the puzzle.
OK, I should vow not to get up on my soapbox concerning this topic any
longer, but it really it gets me hot under the collar.
John Gulick
Ian posted the following:
[obviously a minority view, even from a mainstreamer like Roach]
My own epiphany came from a chat with a Chinese economics professor a few
weeks ago. When I brought up the issue of ending the RMB peg, he
astonished me by saying that ending the peg would cause a massive
must curb my obsession with this thread.
John Gulick
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ruling groups were squirming when EU finance ministers
got together in July and vowed to relax some of the tight money strictures
of the Growth and Stability
pact. It appears that the EU is inching toward a more internal demand-led
model of economic governance and fiscal-monetary management.
John
Doug Henwood asked:
How, exactly, would running Iraq strengthen the USD? Maybe some oil rents
might flow to
Big Oil, but otherwise - what's the material payoff?
John Gulick replies:
I probably can't lay out a line of argument you haven't heard before, so I'm
not very motivated to respond
in a radical nationalist direction that will make the CCP look like
accomodationist neo-liberals by comparison.
John Gulick
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1930, I believe. And still most definitely kicking.
apologies for mundane query, anyone know when james o'connor ('fiscal
crisis of the state') was born,
thanks in advance... michael hoover
John Gulick (former Ph.D student of Jim's
-power).
John Gulick
At 08:53 PM 6/8/98 -0700, you wrote:
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nd so organized labor not only remains wedded to the Democratic Party
and business unionism, but also to post-modern sound-bite politics.
John Gulick
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Sociology Graduate Program
University of California-Santa Cruz
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l strength since I last signed on -- sophisticated yet accessible
discussion from a left political economy p.o.v. on issues of contemporary and
historical significance.
John Gulick
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University of California-Santa Cruz
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kudos for the way Michael has
refereed this list.
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the world over
will move against alienated labor (an especially pressing conundrum for
non-vanguardists who refuse to partake in the authoritarian practice of
"educating the masses") ? Do we stake our hopes in those segments of the
population in the global South who have yet to be coerced
from the productive circuit to the
rentier circuit when a recession is approaching ?
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their liberal point of view they
were horrified to be associated with racism.
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American poor and working class population didn't improve by 1995. (So the
deadline passed. Whatever happened ?).
John Gulick
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University of California-Santa Cruz
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consumption (or they might not even
get this specific, focusing on the "American way of life"), not the
"grow or die" accumulation dynamics of U.S. capitalism.
John Gulick
ey and Mondale) and Dixiecrats.
John Gulick
Max Sawicky:
This peaks in 1980, takes a long but
not enormous dip over the 1980's (e.g., less than
2% of GDP), and is restored by that great man
George Bush to pre-Reagan levels.
I always suspected Bush was more of a Keynesian than is Clinton.
John Gulick
John Gulick
Ph. D. Candidate
. I would reckon that most
"working families" (another bogus "heartland" term), for good or for bad,
would rather have horizontal mobility and increased wages for trips to
Disneyland and Las Vegas and increased pensions for retirement in a leisuretown
in Arizona or Florida rather than a return to some imagined past.
John Gulick
m equipment." I thought International Harvester, John Deere (and
Komatsu ?) were the big global players in this market. Could anyone
tell me a thing or two about "Asea Brown Boveri" ?
Thanks in advance,
John Gulick
John Gulick
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As someone who is just an uninformed yet interested bystander
in this debate/dialogue, I am curious where Tupac Amaru fits
into the tapestry of the Peruvian left.
John Gulick
John Gulick
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payment system (i.e. men who are boyfriends and
men and women who are family and friends of AFDC recipients trying to
get by collectively on ultra-meager AFDC allotments) ?
You can reply to me publicly or privately.
Thanks in advance,
John Gulick
John Gulick
Ph. D. Candidate
Sociology Graduate
. The point is to sublate Jones' and Redmond's
analyses (notwithstanding their different interpretations of evidence).
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John Gulick:
From what little I know in Japan so-called "office girls" aged 15-29
can be super-exploited b/c to the extent the Japan is still a patriarchal
society non-married Japanese women still live with their parents, don't pay
any rent, and o
rengthened in the last 7 years. Strange how there's
a reciprocal relationship between patriarchy in the home and the workplace
and "market feminism" in the sphere of commerce (where effective demand equals
social power).
John Gulick
John Gulick
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ikka), b/c they are partners in
crime.
I'm talking out of the side of my mouth (or some other orifice) here, just to
get you riled up and witness your ordinarily acute response.
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theoretically grounded and analytically precise gathered in
in one place or a few places ?
Thanks,
John Gulick
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_really_ ill timing.
And is it reasonable to suppose that _all_ tariffs and quotas on _all_ traded
goods/services (save agriculture and culture industry products) will be
eliminated ? This just seems like some Ricardian wet dream, but completely
politically unfeasible.
John Gulick
John Gulick
Ph. D
huge pile of slag and tailings beside it. Also hard for me to
believe that the GSL isn't contaminated by that pile.
John Gulick
has written books for _MR_ press (and
articles in _MR_) on natural resources and imperialism.
John Gulick
wasn't clear that Saddam ever used mustard gas against the Kurds. (Now
that I think about it, there are some similarities between Ba'athism
and right-wing populism).
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y 35 hours for 40 hours' work ? Unless there is a massive increase
in productivity (so that the rate of surplus value extraction remains more or
less the same) won't there be a capital strike, or diversion of capital into
the financial sector, or somesuch thing ?
Waiting w/bated breath for answers,
J
rower/organized labor strategy for cranking up the rate of s.v. extraction
in order to compete w/winter vegetables from Sinaloa Mexico.
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Tom thanks for forwarding this informative summary on the intensifying economic
meltdown in East Asia. You wouldn't know that things were getting worse and
worse if you relied on pen-l postings alone the last few days.
John Gulick
Ph. D. Candidate
Sociology Graduate Program
University
-rise apartments ?
John Gulick
UC-Santa Cruz
At 08:09 PM 12/12/97 -0800, you wrote:
No, I did not meant a greater North Korea. North Korea is certainly not
my model of socialism. But I do think a process of reunificaiton that is
shaped by progressive forces looking for a way out of the crisis
the dollar ? Something's gotta
give (and I mean that in both senses of the expression).
John Gulick
At 01:08 PM 12/8/97 -0800, you wrote:
Barron's Online -- December 8, 1997
Day Labor
A surprising factor in hourly earnings
By GENE EPSTEIN
Sudden Impact
Call it the Perfect Report, especially
Doug Henwood sez:
And for
two, service sector wages are rising, and they're not subject to foreign
competition. According to one of the regional Fed's (can't remember which -
NY maybe?), service sector wages are a good leading indicator of inflation.
Not all service jobs are non-exportable --
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same person who issued the e-mail)
of so-called fair trade, b/c it is my belief that they oppose so-called free
trade for all the wrong (provincial and yes, protectionist) reasons.
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l that the whole
world will want to watch."
The commercial was created by the BBDO New York advertising agency, which is
known for using celebrities -- particularly politicians -- in splashy,
big-budget spots. Among the commercials from BBDO are a 1996 spot for Visa
with Dole and a 1995 Doritos co
to basic human decency, in the
context of
a "New World Order" which still indistiputably has a imperialist dimension.
(Not that vast segments of the American working class aren't being swindled
to defend and extend empire, but let's call the spade of U.S. imperialist
domination of this he
At 10:41 PM 12/1/97 -0800, you wrote:
John Gulick:
what about the partial
correlation between the production of surplus (and I'm not talking
about superfluous luxury goods here) and increasingly sophisticated
and specialized technical and industrial divisions of labor ?
What about it? I
oncerns, and is white,
so probably would be reflexively lumped in with the above berated (though I
may be too old).
tom wood
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nse, civil policing, and judicial protection of
private property rights), and not a peep out of Ralph ? Please inform,
as I am not following this as closely as I probably should, but I
find that what I do know is terribly galling.
John Gulick
Ph. D. Candidate
Sociology Graduate Program
University of
res in the middle-class suburbs, the very places that the hip
twentysomething young adults who latch onto "working class kitsch" are trying
to escape. And so on.
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e procedural rituals of bourgeois democracy. He might as well be
Fujimori.
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t the good ol' U.S.A., where you can
combine insecure workers, dangerous factories, and super-sophisticated
capital goods with excellent infrastructure links and low tax rates ?
Any help on an intelligent source would be appreciated.
Thanks,
John Gulick
Ph. D. Candidate
Sociology Gradua
f
liberal democratic institutions such as technocratic environmental protection
bureaucracies for the regional environmental catastrophe to perpetuate the
illusion that sustainable capitalism on a world scale is possible and
practicable.
Any remarks on these ill-formed thoughts ?
John Gul
outcomes ?
John
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Hey, Louis.
You sez:
There are guerrillas in Colombia who the NY Times believes "are
winning".
Are you referring to the M-14 group ? What does anyone out there know
about them ?
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Sociology Graduate Program
University of California-Santa Cruz
(415
e Chetniks). Undoubtedly it includes
the Muslim Brotherhood and Tupac Amaru.
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At 07:14 PM 10/9/97 -0400, you wrote:
John, this didn't get to the list. Why don't you post it there and I might
reply.
Lou
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, john gulick wrote:
You sez:
Could you possibly be referring to Michael Mann?
I sez:
Most of what little I know about popular support
hich is meant to be a question.
And with this, I better retire for a while, for I've been on pen-l more in
the last few days than the whole rest of the year !!!
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power, did not exist,
and 2) it is equally absurd to assert that USSR and other authoritarian state
socialisms were non-class societies that, however imperfectly, catered to
meeting "social needs."
John Gulick
At 05:34 PM 10/8/97 -0700, you wrote:
Louis writes: News and Letters shares the J
Pen-L'ers,
All who have participated in the on-going discussions/debates on
both theories of ideology and historical materialism, keep it up !!!
By far this is some of the most intelligent and relevant exchange I've seen
on pen-l.
Signed,
a respectful lurker,
John Gulick
Ph. D. Candidate
on in the
two countries.
Best,
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University of California-Santa Cruz
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ostensibly
increasing the basket of goods an average household can afford. Three PC's
in every house and two SUV's in every garage.
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ions to poverty and
political dysfunction in a world of Western hegemony.
valis
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:
There has never been such a thing as a purely proletarian party with a
purely revolutionary program and the FLN of Algeria was no
exception ...
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s of power via cronyistic
privatiztion and the divvying up of state industry, especially in the raw
materials sectors. So this book seems like a must.
At 02:30 PM 9/27/97 -0700, Rebecca Peoples wrote:
Hi folks,
I desperately need help on Russia today: recommended books, artcles
sites, etc.
Rebe
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