Re: Re: Nader, etc (fwd)

2000-07-04 Thread md7148
"neil": The LP acts as a political filter to keep escaping workers from fleeing the Democrats deceit and lies and building an anti-capitalist movement Whenever I read stuff like this, I am drawn back to Trotsky's description of the July Days, when Bolsheviks went out in the streets to try

global keynesianism (fwd)] (fwd)

2000-07-04 Thread md7148
It is true that Keynesianism was severely hit as a national strategy by the circumstances of the 70's and 80's when the rich social democratic governments of the west were under economic attack from newly developing countries. But that does not mean that Keynesian (or for Doug's sake,

Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [Fwd:Position in theWorld-System and National Emissions of] (fwd)

2000-07-03 Thread md7148
o! come on.. You folks still continue to see the political spectrum divided between "liberals" and "conservatives" in the US. Liberal is left; conservative is right. This distinction is FALSE, FALSE, FALSE! Even the political discourse of conservatism has a liberal flavour to it,

surrealism on abortion (fwd)

2000-07-03 Thread md7148
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somebody has mentioned that Nader supports reproductive freedoms thus he is progressive. What a big diffence? so does George Bush, so do neo-conservatives, so do libertarians... Really? http://www.gallup.com/poll/indicators/indabortion.asp. Doug YOU ARE GIVING ME

Re: surrealism on abortion (fwd)

2000-07-03 Thread md7148
Confessions Mine I always like to choose my bullshits, myself, but I'm a known liberal. Doug

Collapse of capitalism (Mao): Whatever it is

2000-07-02 Thread md7148
Carrol, my e-mail system sucks nowadays, so some of pen-l messages have suddenly disappeared. Some of them don't even reach to my current address and bounce back.I will be transferred to a new system soon. If i am not mistaken, you were talking about the following: I did not say that capitalism

RE: capitalist collapse -- socialism? (fwd)

2000-07-01 Thread md7148
Jim Devine writes: Given the world-wide competitive effort by capitalists and their governments to push wages down relative to labor productivity, it's quite possible that capitalism will collapse, in the sense that it did in the 1930s. But such a collapse eventually creates forces that

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: how many? (fwd)

2000-07-01 Thread md7148
Carrol, look! please! I have been following the discussions with amazement here! "Eco-fascism" is a mistakenly directed ad hominem-- an unfortunate mischarecterization, to justify the eco-fascism of capitalism and the demands of the mainstream environmental movement. Association of socialist

Re: RE: capitalist collapse -- socialism? (fwd)

2000-07-01 Thread md7148
I agree with Mark here. JD sounds like a reformist who does not want to see the ongoing crisis of capitalism. The keynesian demand side policies of the 1930s and the class alliences it formed in order to manage the economy did not solve the fundamental conflicts between the capitalist and

Re: Gore, Bush and another Gulf War? (fwd)

2000-06-30 Thread md7148
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Alan Spector" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 12:13 AM Subject: Re: Gore, Bush and another Gulf War? The

Re: Successful Mindwashing of Doug Henwood!! (fwd)

2000-06-30 Thread md7148
Instead, you should feel proud of yourself... Mine Brad De Long wrote: There can be no doubt. Now we neoclassicals can reveal the truth: Henwood is one of *us* now... I'm not sure whether to feel exonerated or to call my shrink. Doug -- Mine Aysen Doyran PhD Student Department of

Cinton Fungus (fwd)

2000-06-29 Thread md7148
Emilio Apocalypse Now By Alfredo Molano B. The Anti-Narcotics Brigade, in a victory march, will open door after door in Putumayo and Caqueta so that Carlos Castano's troops can, in Mrs. Albright's words "extend democracy to the south". EL ESPECTADOR Sunday, 25 June 2000

Re: re: energy (fwd)

2000-06-29 Thread md7148
o la la.. Jay Hanson's energy list serv? never been to, but it must be interesting. Jay is a phenomenal guy personality wise. Three basic ideas he subscribes to in every occasion I have been to: 1) genetic roots of authoritarianism 2)inherent destructiveness of human nature 3) inevitability of

Re: Re: Re: Re: [Fwd: Position in the World-System andNational Emissions of] (fwd)

2000-06-29 Thread md7148
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what are you trying to prove with your insults Doug? are you implying the impossibility of a socialist agenda? who is fantasizing here? Ok, so you don't have any idea what changes are necessary in the actual structures of production and consumption. All that's

Re: Position within the World System (fwd)

2000-06-29 Thread md7148
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what are you trying to prove with your insults Doug? are you implying the impossibility of a socialist agenda? who is fantasizing here? Ok, so you don't have any idea what changes are necessary in the actual structures of production and consumption. All that's required

Growth (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
Be very careful. The population of the rich grows in two ways: (i) the rich have lots of children, and (ii) the poor become rich... do you know that african american women are sterilized at a significantly higher rate than white women? (according to our sociologist friend,Andy Austin, 3-4

Re: Malthus revisited (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
Louis Proyect wrote: Mark Jones' alleged raising of the overpopulation question leads us once again into a discussion of the Marxist critique of Malthus. I would refer PEN-L'ers to Michael Perelman's "Marx's Crises Theory: Scarcity, Labor and Finance", Lou, I agree with the rest of your

Re: Re: Re: RE: My looniness (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
Mark, I have been watching your sarcasmic criticisms with enthusiasm for two days. You F many on the list left and right. What can I say? I really admire your sense of humor. Marxists are generally known to be cool people. You are truly sarcastic! sarcastically, Mine

Review Article: World Resources Institute. (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
A mainstream source on environmental regulation.. Mine Volume 2, Review 1, 1996 http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/jwsr.html ISSN 1076-156X World Resources Institute. WORLD RESOURCES 1994-95: A GUIDE TO THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT. New York: Oxford University

World-system Studies of the Environment (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
Journal of World-Systems Research Volume 3, Number 3 (Fall 1997) http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/jwsr.html ISSN 1076-156X World-system Studies of the Environment by

[Fwd: Position in the World-System and National Emissions of] (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
I have found myself in agreement with Lou's recent post suggesting that the roots of ecological crisis and overpopulation pressures lie in the contradictions of capitalism, and that a socialist revolution is not only necessary but also desirable if we are to have a sustainable ecological system

Position in the World-System and National Emissions of Greenhousegases (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
ops, here is the article... Mine Journal of World-Systems Research Volume 3, Number 3 (Fall 1997) http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/jwsr.html ISSN 1076-156X Position in the World-System and National Emissions of

Position in the World-System and National Emissions of (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
this article is huge. my system does not allow me to send it. here is the web address. I did not attach it to my previous post... Mine Journal of World-Systems Research Volume 3, Number 3 (Fall 1997) http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/jwsr.html ISSN

Position in the World-System and National Emissions of (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
Journal of World-Systems Research Volume 3, Number 3 (Fall 1997) http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/jwsr.html ISSN 1076-156X Position in the World-System and National Emissions of Greenhouse Gases*

ILO REPORT SAYS GLOBALIZATION CAUSES JOB LOSSES (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
_World Bank Development_ news summarizes ILO report! Mine -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:53:09 -0700 (PDT) From: David Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: world-system network [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ILO REPORT SAYS GLOBALIZATION CAUSES JOB LOSSES (fwd) This

Re: Re: Re: [Fwd: Position in the World-System andNational Emissions of] (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
what are you trying to prove with your insults Doug? are you implying the impossibility of a socialist agenda? who is fantasizing here? nobody is suggesting a _blue print_ for the future, as far as I can tell. Marx did not suggest either. Politics is a day to day struggle and what we can do is

Racism and Ecology. (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
Not an appropriate comparison. Consider rather the way in which Broca the founder of neurology wasted so much of his life and twisted his own scientific discoveries by his attempts to prove that women's brains weighed less than men's brains. Carrol We don't even need to turn to Broca.

Re: RE:RE:We used 10 times as much energy in the 20th century as in the 1,000previousyears (fwd)

2000-06-27 Thread md7148
Mark Jones wrote: Mine, Of course Bartlett is not a Marxist. That only adds weight to his central conclusion, which is about thew terminally unsustainable nature of capitalist crisis and not about population growth (don't get sidetracked into wasting time on his *opinions* about that; it's

Population, racism and capitalism (no subject) (fwd)

2000-06-27 Thread md7148
From a Marxist piont of view, Steven Rosenthal comrade responds to defenders of over-population thesis, one them being, I may include, _Bartlett._.. Mine - I agree with most of what Andy and Mine have said during the debate about population. The problems of the world today are due to

Re: Re: RE: Re: RE:RE:We used 10 times as much energy in the 20th century as in the 1,000previousyears (fwd)

2000-06-27 Thread md7148
Be very careful. The population of the rich grows in two ways: (i) the rich have lots of children, and (ii) the poor become rich... do you know that african american women are sterilized at a significantly higher rate than white women? (according to our sociologist friend, Andy Austin, 3-4

Re: RE: Re: RE:RE:We used 10 times as much energy in the 20th century as in the 1,000previousyears (fwd)

2000-06-27 Thread md7148
Yes, Mark, I am "twitching" my ass on a "library stool" because some magical person mentioned that population growth rate "must drop to zero" and made himself clear that the _US government_ should adjust its population accordingly. Yes, I am still twitching my ass because the same magical person

My looniness (fwd)

2000-06-27 Thread md7148
Michael! how can you say this? I am not saying you mean it, but isn't it a racist common sense that, for example, Mexicans damage the environment more so regulary than white people, or let's say, from a capitalist point of view, working classes are less responsible towards environment than the

RE:We used 10 times as much energy in the 20th century as in the 1,000 previousyears (fwd)

2000-06-26 Thread md7148
Anyone who has any doubts at all about the utter unsustainability of modern world capitalism and the onset of terminal crisis, should read Albert Bartlett's original article on the meaning of exponential growth, archived at: http://www.npg.org/reports/bartlett_index.htm Below is Bartlett's

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Definition of Political Economy(fwd)

2000-06-25 Thread md7148
In a message dated 6/24/00 2:33:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bebel, like Kautsky, was a social democrat. Zetkin, like Luxemburg, was a socialist. Their approach to _Woman Question_ differed accordingly. Both Z and L criticized the party line orthodoxy represented by

Re: Re: Re: Re: Definition of Political Economy(fwd)

2000-06-24 Thread md7148
Justin repeats my comments: I have and do. Alison, who is a friend of mine, btw, would be disappointed if you took the lesson from her book that Firestone doesn't count, and indeedd, has nothing to teach historical materialists, or isn't one in her way. I did *not* say that Firestone did

Re: Re: Definition of Political Economy (fwd)

2000-06-23 Thread md7148
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Radical feminists do not find them perfect either. That being said, however, they were the ones who first raised the question of Women in Marxism Clara Zetkin and Rosa Luxemburg would also be surprsied to hear it took Shulamith Firestone to raise The Woman Question in

[Elster, Jon (1982), Marxism, Functionalism, and Game Theory: The ,Case for Methodological Individualism, Theory and (fwd)-- False ,Distinction between functionalism and game theory.

2000-06-23 Thread md7148
http://home.sol.no/~hmelberg/els1b.htm [Elster, Jon (1982), Marxism, Functionalism, and Game Theory: The Case for Methodological Individualism, Theory and Society 11:453-482] http://home.sol.no/~hmelberg/ar82mfgt.htm MARXISM, FUNCTIONALISM, AND GAME THEORY The Case for Methodological

Elster:[Elster, Jon (1982), Marxism, Functionalism,and Game , Theory: The , Case for Methodological Individualism, Theory and ,(fwd)-- False , Distinction between functionalism and , game theory. , (fwd)

2000-06-23 Thread md7148
Elster further continues his misrepresentation and functionalist reading of Marx: Elsewhere Marx states that "insofar as it is the coercion of capital which forces the great mass of society to this [surplus labour] beyond its immediate needs, capital creates culture and exercises an historical

Re: Definition of Political Economy(fwd)

2000-06-22 Thread md7148
well." _Considerations of Representative Government_, read (against the grain) as description of liberal democracy and not as an apologia of it, beautifully summarizes what it is. Yoshie good point Yoshie, but this is what "liberal democracy" is all about, so _Considerations of

Re: Re: Definition of Political Economy(fwd)

2000-06-22 Thread md7148
And it seems to me likely that Harriet Taylor had more fun than Jenny von Westphalen... No use pretending Marx was as sensitive a feminist as Mill (although the former was well ahead of the pack in this regard), Rob. J. S. Mill and Harriet Taylor are the architects of what came to be known as

A little thought or two (fwd)

2000-06-22 Thread md7148
Dear Doyle, Those jerks deserve more than I said, but I just felt like not throwing gas to the fire any longer. As always, I am very much appreciated by your supportive remarks and sincere comments, and will continue the struggle against those unjustly attacking people! in solidarity, Mine

Sorry: A little thought or two (fwd)

2000-06-22 Thread md7148
I apologize for this private correspondence. I really thought I sent this to Doyle's address, and somehow it mistakenly went to the list. sorry again.. Doyle sorry! I did not do it on purpose... Mine Doyran -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:28:52 EDT From:

Definition of Political Economy (fwd)

2000-06-21 Thread md7148
Can someone please comment on whether or not the following is correct? The meaning of the expression "political economy", as it is used today, is not identical with the meaning of the expression "political economy", as it was used by Marx and his contemporaries. Gert, _political economy_ is

Ronald Chilcote's New Volume on Imperialism (fwd)

2000-06-21 Thread md7148
Ron Chilcote has edited a new volume titled "The Political Economy of Imperialism: Critical Appraisals" Boston: Kluwer Academic (1999), 260 pp. isbn 0-7923-8470-9. The table of contents contributors: Part I. SImperialism: Its Legacy and Contemporary Significance M.C. Howard and J.E. King,

Re: Re: GT (fwd)

2000-06-21 Thread md7148
funny, like other religious followers of neo-classical bourgeois ideology, Elster, in _Making Sense of Marx_, attempts to demonstrate that Marx was indeed a founder of rational choice. I am sure Ricardo was the father of socialism then... No No Marx was indeed a spy.. Mine Doyran SUNY/Albany

Re: Re: Definition of Political Economy (fwd)

2000-06-21 Thread md7148
M. Hoover wrote: I had grad school prof who thought it'd be really good idea for me to read, in addition to Smith, some other 18th century Scottish political economists such as Adam Ferguson, James Steuart. If memory serves, Steuart's book _Inquiry into Principles of Political Economy_

Re: Ronald Chilcote's New Volume on Imperialism (fwd)

2000-06-21 Thread md7148
I don't think that we should continue this unproductive debate about who is who. Ronald Chilcote is well known to be an _established_ Marxist scholar. Actually, in his book, he _vehemently_ criticizes mainstream social theories, including game theory and rational choice as well as those who

Re: RE: Peter Dorman and Robin Hahnel (fwd)

2000-06-21 Thread md7148
Joe wrote:, Regarding utopianism, I thought regaining some semblance of vision was all the rage on the Left these days. I realize there remains a great deal of self-consciousness regarding these speculations. Immanuel Wallerstein actually invented a new word, "Utopistics," to provide cover for

Dorman and Hahnel (fwd)

2000-06-21 Thread md7148
Pat Devine is a market socialist. Market socialism is an attempt to establish socialism in a capitalist economy. It is an attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable. Market socialists treat market ahistorically, abstracting it from its capitalist and historical content. Recently, market

Re: Re: Re: Definition of Political Economy (fwd)

2000-06-21 Thread md7148
okey,I have to respond to this. I did not say that Marx personally debated with James Mill.I know that James was dead before Marx was up. Merci. I said that Marx wrote a short article called _On James Mill_, which you can find in in McL's Marx: Political Writings... Mine the Philosophical

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Peter Dorman and Robin Hahnel(fwd)

2000-06-21 Thread md7148
Dear Doyle, in polemics concerned with red-baiting Marxism, the term "jerk" is used in a way to stigmatize the people on the Marxist left. Additionally, it serves the religious purposes of classifying them as dogmatic. The term dogma refers to religious convinction or faith. Associating Marxism

Re: Re: Re: Re: GT (fwd)

2000-06-21 Thread md7148
Sometimes, it is interesting to follow the "orientation" of discussion taking place in this list. The intellectual ranks of _Analytical Marxism_ include people like Cohen, Elster, Przeworski, Roemer and Olin Wright. It is increasingly becoming hard for me to understand how one criticizes

f capital: Information requested: US finance capital?which fraction of the bourgeoisie (fwd)

2000-06-20 Thread md7148
Bill, thanks very much for the citations, particularly Brewer's book (I was almost ignoring his work). List(s), I am thinking at the moment about the possible ways of operationalizing "finance capitalism". I have similar questions about finance capital, as they relate to whether Canada is

Peter Dorman and Robin Hahnel (fwd)

2000-06-20 Thread md7148
Peter Dorman and Robin Hahnel are very progressive, I made some inquiry on Peter Dorman. He does not look like an ideologue, but he does not look *very* progressive either. I read a speech by him called "Economic Costs" of something presented in a rountable discussion. Dorman was suggesting

Re: Peter Dorman and Robin Hahnel (fwd)

2000-06-20 Thread md7148
Lou, you have hit the heart of the matter once again! Unfortunately, the equation of game theory+utopian socialism produces such results... Mine Regarding Hahnel, I may call him progressive, but what he challenges is not terribly clear to me, especially his attack at Marx in the name of

RE: Peter Dorman and Robin Hahnel (fwd)

2000-06-20 Thread md7148
Just to open a small parenthesis here. I was in fact criticizing Dorman and Hahnel againist the claim that they were progressive. I don't wanna be associated with the folks, or the imperialist agency of American orientalism--American University--Hahnel is a part of. The first sentence does not

Re: name calling (fwd)

2000-06-19 Thread md7148
then you should follow the list closely, Micheal, as a moderator. If people have done implicitly racist comments in the past, they should be reminded not to repeat the same mistake again! If you think there is no such a comment, then you should go and read the archieves of the list, which is

Re: Re: GT [was: Re: McArthur grantee (fwd)

2000-06-19 Thread md7148
G'day Mine, G'day... I wrote: Altruism has a pragmatic connotation in cooperative game theory. You give in order to receive. As Richard Dawkins wrote in _Selfish Gene_, the book that is a prototype of fascism and sexism, men compete to fuck women in order to transfer their superior genes to

Re: Re: name calling (fwd)

2000-06-19 Thread md7148
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I say zero tolerance for racist use of language! Zero tolerance? I love it when Marxists try to sound like Rudy Giuliani. Doug himm??? Are you confusing me with someonelse? Mine

Re: Re: GT [was: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: McArthur grantee(fwd)

2000-06-19 Thread md7148
GT is methodologically on the right. Period. The reason for this is that the attention to micro foundations through rational choice, game theoric models and formal modeling of neo-classical economics have tended to obscure the importance of relations of production and the exploitative

Re: GT [was: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: McArthur grantee (fwd)

2000-06-18 Thread md7148
The argument that evil is not in the "economist but in the technique" misses the point since it assumes that the technique of game theory is neutral, Would you consider, first, going and reading something that Matthew Rabin has actually written? Why don't you enlighten us about the hero's

Re: GT [was: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: McArthur grantee (fwd)

2000-06-18 Thread md7148
MD wrote: The argument that evil is not in the "economist but in the technique" misses the point since it assumes that the technique of game theory is neutral, just as it assumes that economists are neutral. But Rod did not assume that economists are neutral. Nor did I. Again, I think that

name calling (fwd)

2000-06-18 Thread md7148
*You* *definetly* ARE with your energetic support for socio-biology and praising people like Wilson who called Ruandan people barbaric creatures and genetically ill people! Mine Jim is now the third person that has been called a racist, by our new champion name caller. Mine wrote: you are

Re: Information requested: US finance capital? which fraction of thebourgeosie? (70s vs 90s) (fwd)

2000-06-17 Thread md7148
Chris, your articles really help a lot, especially at the conceptualization stage. I will check them out tomorrow. Actually, I was just reading Christian Marazzi's article, published in _Zerowork_, Fall 1977, under the title "Money in the World Crisis: The New Basis of Capitalist power".

Re: McArthur grantee (fwd)

2000-06-17 Thread md7148
Which is why people preach him, and give such people grants game theorization of economics has unfortunately imperialized other fields of social sciences too. sorry, i am waging a total war against game theory. it is an intellectual establishment designed to perpetuate the ideology of

Re: Re: McArthur grantee (fwd)

2000-06-17 Thread md7148
Rob, you may wish to consider Ronal Chilcote's _Theories of Comparative Politics: The Search for a Paradigm Reconsidered_, for an excellent critique of game theory and methodology of mainstream social sciences. (Westview Press, 1994)..The book presents a critique of modernization theory, game

Re: Re: Re: Re: McArthur grantee (fwd)

2000-06-17 Thread md7148
well, actually, some people, were bombastically praising the man's work a couple of posts ago. It is not a novel thing to see that people update their arguments according to the member composition of the list... Mine Good point Jim. "Cooperative game theory" is just another bullshit cover

Re: Re: Re: Re: McArthur grantee (fwd)

2000-06-17 Thread md7148
You can not understand the antogonism to game theory, because you are blind to ideology behind it: "Game theory and formal modeling have generated mathemetical explanations of strategies, especially for marketing adn advertising in business firms.Game theory has had an impact on economics and

GT [was: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: McArthur grantee (fwd)

2000-06-17 Thread md7148
The argument that evil is not in the "economist but in the technique" misses the point since it assumes that the technique of game theory is neutral, just as it assumes that economists are neutral. While I respectfully say that this is A bullshit, I think that the very assumptions of game

Information requested: US finance capital? which fraction of thebourgeosie? (70s vs 90s) (fwd)

2000-06-16 Thread md7148
Apologies for cross-posting... List(s), I am thinking at the moment about the possible ways of operationalizing "finance capitalism". The literature I have read up to now develops a sociological formulation of the concept from the vantage points of international political economy and world

Re: Re: New Economy??? (fwd)

2000-06-15 Thread md7148
I do *not* remember getting this message because my account was full so Brad's question probably bounced back. Can you repost the rest of your post? Chris, I understand what you say but the article is not suggesting that the world economy is charecterized by monopoly capitalism. This not my

Re: Re: Re: Mau-mauing The Oppressor and other crazyshit (fwd)

2000-06-14 Thread md7148
But this sends you down the road that Franz Neumann went down in his _Behemoth_ interpetation of Nazism: that the Nazis would never exterminate the Jews because they needed to keep them around as an object of collective hate lest the masses turn against their rulers and bosses. I don't remember

ADB Annual Meeting (Chiang Mai) (fwd)

2000-06-14 Thread md7148
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:34:24 -0700 (PDT) From: David Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: world-system network [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ADB Annual Meeting (Chiang Mai) (fwd) This might be of interest... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 15

McArthur grantee (fwd)

2000-06-14 Thread md7148
himm.. what is the deal with McArhur grant? Mine this fellow got a McArthur grant yesterday. Anybody know of him? Matthew Rabin Professor of Economics University of California, Berkeley

Re: Mau-mauing The Oppressor and other crazy shit (fwd)

2000-06-13 Thread md7148
"Collective pathology" is a politically suspect term to accept. Not only it has been strategically used to label and criminalize certain races (so called _backward, irrational, non- white peoples_), but also been instrumental in safeguarding the ideology of racism for the benefit of American

Re: Mau-mauing The Oppressor and other crazy shit (fwd)

2000-06-13 Thread md7148
Walker wrote: Ideology? Racism? Jingoism? Your own terminology tacitly accepts some kind of collective determination of consciousness. The next step is to acknowledge that, e.g., racism is dysfunctional for the racist as well as for the victim. Nothing that I've said implies a genetic etiology.

New Economy??? (fwd)

2000-06-13 Thread md7148
Is this a claim that Algerian standards of living would rise by 47% if Algeria were to shut off all trade with the rest of the world, and that standards of living in Zimbabwe would rise by 56% if Zimbabwe were to shut off all trade with the rest of the world? The author himself writes in the

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: My Take on Competition (fwd)

2000-06-13 Thread md7148
He used _relative surplus value_ and _absolute surplus value_.. aren't these parts of LTV by definition? Mine Brad, Marx's theory of value is not nearly as mechanistic as you make it out to be. In fact, he never used the term, LTV. Meek and Dobb and some other interpreters presented the LTV

Re: Re: Mau-mauing The Oppressor and other crazy shit(fwd)

2000-06-13 Thread md7148
"Collective pathology" is a politically suspect term to accept. Not only it has been strategically used to label and criminalize certain races (so called _backward, irrational, non- white peoples_), but also been instrumental in safeguarding the ideology of racism for the benefit of American

Re: Mau-mauing The Oppressor and other crazy shit (fwd)

2000-06-13 Thread md7148
Michael, don't get me wrong, but why are you so dense? You sound like an authoritarian father. don't discuss this! don't discuss that! shut up! why don't you let the river flow instead? I think people should be reminded if they misrepresent certain realities, and this is, naturally, the part of

Mau-mauing The Oppressor and other crazy shit (fwd)

2000-06-12 Thread md7148
Tom Walker wrote: things. Redeploying the clinical diagnostic terms from their use as labels for individuals to a broader critique of collective pathology is about as far from "anti-disabled thinking" as I can imagine. "Collective pathology" is a politically suspect term to accept. Not ony

New Economy??? (fwd)

2000-06-12 Thread md7148
Micheal Parelman posted on pen-l: ECONOMISTS struggling to make sense of the American economy agree about some big things.

The Long Twentieth Century (fwd)

2000-06-11 Thread md7148
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 02:54:54 -0400 From: Mine Aysen Doyran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Long Twentieth Century Review, Giovanni Arrighi, _The Long Twentieth Century_ (Verso, 1994) by Immanuel Wallerstein

COMMODITY CHAINS AND GLOBAL CAPITALISM. (fwd)

2000-06-11 Thread md7148
Book reviewed: Gary Gereffi and Miguel Korzeniewicz, eds. COMMODITY CHAINS AND GLOBAL CAPITALISM. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1994. xiv + 334 pp. ISBN 0-313-28914-X, $59.95 (hardcover); ISBN 0-275-94573-1, $22.95 (paper). Reviewed by Wilma A.

What is US economy?My Take on Competition.

2000-06-10 Thread md7148
M. Parelman wrote: The forces tending to increase competition in the United States were deregulation, as Jim mentioned, and the pressure from imports. The forces tending to diminish competition were intellectual property, mergers, and possibly government contracting. In fact, as Jim seemed

AVIVA:June Press Release (fwd)

2000-06-09 Thread md7148
AVIVA Women’s World-Wide Web FREE Monthly Webzine http://www.aviva.org Finalists in the OneWorld Media Awards 2000 Press Release: June 2000 http://www.aviva.org/press.htm * ACTION ALERT: Burma: Fears for Safety of Aung San Suu Kyi Chile: Gladys: - ‘Please Help My Children’ *INTERNATIONAL

Post Cold War Cuba-US Relations (fwd)

2000-06-07 Thread md7148
I have a graduate student doing research on Cuba-US relations after the end of the Cold War. Can anyone suggest some good material in journals, books or the web? I teach in North Cyprus, and our library has very limited resources, so I would appreciate any information on resources available

Auto Industry

2000-06-07 Thread md7148
Somebody was asking info about auto-industry a few days ago. As I was surfing over the net, I accidently found these articles in _Journal of World System Research_. I don't know if this is still useful for your purposes: "International Division of Labor and Global Economic Process: An Analysis

CFP: MARXISM 2000 -- extended deadline 15 July (fwd)

2000-06-07 Thread md7148
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 15:45:53 +0200 (MEST) From: Stephen Cullenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CFP: MARXISM 2000 -- extended deadline 15 July RETHINKING MARXISM announces its fourth International Gala Conference MARXISM 2000

Re: Re: Re: Moses and monetarism (fwd)

2000-06-07 Thread md7148
References to hermeneutics and deconstruction don't convince me. I've never been into that kind of lit crit sh*t. I prefer logic, empirical research, and the philosophy of science (methodology). If there would be a philosophy or literature person here, s(he) would *really* be pissed, not

Re: Re: Re: Re: Moses and monetarism (fwd)

2000-06-07 Thread md7148
I'm not sure what that has to do with literary criticism (which is basically supposed to help us understand the fiction we read). It is true that the meaning of a theory varies with context, but that says we have to be very clear by what _we_ mean by the theory. The sociology or psychology

Re: Re: Re: Re: Moses and monetarism (fwd)

2000-06-07 Thread md7148
Justin, Please see my reply to Tom Walker where I both criticize hermeneutics and empiricism. btw, to my knowledge, Richard Rorty has nothing do with left. He is a new pragmatic following the footsteps of Dewey... thanks, Mine Mine, I am actually a "philosophy person"--used to be a

The Hermen Ideology (fwd)

2000-06-07 Thread md7148
Tom Walker wrote: I second the endorsement for Ricoeur but wouldn't disdain Gadamer. In general, my point was that both of them were not perfect either.One does not need to be *empricist* to criticize hermeneutics.Empricism alone does not guarentee radical science, as such it is an

The Heritage of Sociology, The Promise of Social Science (fwd)

2000-06-07 Thread md7148
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 00:27:31 -0400 From: Mine Aysen Doyran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "The Heritage of Sociology, The Promise of Social Science" For those who think sociology is not a science or has very little theoretical

The Racist Albatross: Social Science, Jrg Haider,and Widerstand (fwd)

2000-06-07 Thread md7148
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 00:33:42 -0400 From: Mine Aysen Doyran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Racist Albatross: Social Science, [iso-8859-9] Jörg Haider, and Widerstand http://fbc.binghamton.edu/iwvienna.htm "The Racist Albatross:

Re: RE: Re: URPE reader book party - June 8 (fwd)

2000-06-06 Thread md7148
After you pressed the reply button?? Mine okay. Just send me a check and I'll sign it. Also, sorry to the list: I thought that this was going only to Susan. At 11:43 AM 6/6/00 -0400, you wrote: Jim, That would be great if we could fly all book contributors out, but alack alas, those

The C (fwd)

2000-06-06 Thread md7148
Justin wrote: So what's y'alls point? The original Constitution enshrined slavery and was in part designed to protect property owners. It was a bourgeois document in an era of bourgeois revolution. After the more or less completion of the bourgeois revolution in the civil war, a laissez faire

Writing History (fwd)

2000-06-06 Thread md7148
"Writing History" http://fbc.binghamton.edu/iwchv-hi.htm by Immanuel Wallerstein [Key-text for Session on "Writing History," at the Colloquium on History and Legitimisation, "[Re]constructing the Past," 24-27 February 1999, Brussels] The problem about writing history can be seen in the

Re: The C (fwd)

2000-06-06 Thread md7148
To be fair: Louis wrote and I agreed with him, since he wrote before me... Just a small note... Mine Justin wrote: Mine says, and Louis agrees with her: If the writings of Marx and Lenin were misinterpreted to justifty repression and stupidities, the blame should not be put on their

Re: Excess Capacity in Auto Industry (fwd)

2000-06-05 Thread md7148
on 5/6/00 6:28 am, Anthony D'Costa at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could anyone suggest some "good" books on auto industry restructuring globally that specifically ties it to (or discusses) excess capacity? They could have been written any time since the late 1960s. Thanks in advance.

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