FW: the drain of British imperialism

2004-08-02 Thread Devine, James
Forwarded from Jurriaan Bendien: See about this Patrick Karl O'Brien, Imperialism and the Rise and Decline of the British Economy, 1688-1989, New Left Review 238 (1999). I met O'Brien (LSE) in Amsterdam at a Mandel seminar. He's quite clued up about the historical data and some material

Thrift shop imperialism

2004-07-14 Thread Louis Proyect
For sale -- cheap: 'Dead white men's clothing' In Africa, the West's castoff clothes are de rigueur, not demeaning. Nearly everyone has to buy used LA Times, July 14, 2004 By Davan Maharaj, Times Staff Writer Tossed off a flatbed truck, a 100-pound bale of used panties and bras, worn socks,

Who shares responsibility for imperialism?

2004-06-24 Thread Louis Proyect
, that the notion of anybody but Bush is a sign of cowardice, and that the real problem is not Bush but Bushism, a new word for a phenomenon as old as G.W. Bush himself, namely, that both mainstream parties share in the crafting of US imperialism. It is not exactly clear to me whether you think

An afterword on the new imperialism by David Harvey

2004-06-12 Thread Louis Proyect
David Harvey THE NEW IMPERIALISM Afterword to Foreign Language Editions (clip) The question of the exact state of global oil supplies and reserves remains as murky as ever. In my initial text, I stated, for example, that oil reserves in Canada are running down. If, however, the difficult

new megafraud controversy raging in Venezuela: imperialism or Chavez

2004-06-04 Thread michael a. lebowitz
Published: Friday, June 04, 2004 Bylined to: Patrick J. O'Donoghue Chavez Frias blamed for Miss Venezuela's poor showing in Miss Universe Analyzing the failure of Venezuela to figure in the final 5 candidates of the Miss Universe contest held in Quito, Ecuador, some Venezuelan luminaries are

Re: new megafraud controversy raging in Venezuela: imperialism or Chavez

2004-06-04 Thread Perelman, Michael
What a wonderful example of American imperialism! On a more serious note, Michael, what are the prospects for a recall? Also, I suspect that everybody here is grateful for the serious information we have been getting about Venezuela. Thanks. By the way, Michael L. was one of the 2 original

Thrift shop imperialism

2004-06-03 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Times, June 3, 2004 Trade Theory vs. Used Clothes in Africa By CARTER DOUGHERTY KAMPALA, Uganda - Today's globalized economy boasts few unrepentant protectionists, but Eyasu Sirak does not deal in gentle euphemisms of fair trade or level playing fields. He wants his government to ban imports of

Re: New Imperialism and beyond

2004-05-23 Thread Chris Burford
Of the various reasons given for the likely failure of the new US imperialism the economic analysis is relatively long term and independent of particular politics:- Fourthly, as suggested by world-systems analysis, new imperialist direct rule is too expensive and forceful economic exploitation

New Imperialism and beyond

2004-05-22 Thread Louis Proyect
(This article contains some interesting insights, but lapses into reformist illusions about old Europe and multilateralism in the conclusion.) New Imperialism and beyond. Why the New Imperialism will fail and unseat the Bush Administration? Petri Minkkinen After the shock of S-11-2001 terrorist

Anthropology and imperialism

2004-05-17 Thread Louis Proyect
From Seymour Hersh's latest New Yorker article: The notion that Arabs are particularly vulnerable to sexual humiliation became a talking point among pro-war Washington conservatives in the months before the March, 2003, invasion of Iraq. One book that was frequently cited was The Arab Mind, a

Imperialism, was Re: imperalist booty

2004-05-06 Thread Carrol Cox
(I changed the subject line because I think the question of imperialist booty interferes with the analysis of imperialism. It creates the illusion that the leopard could change its spots.) Devine, James wrote: I think Lennon (or what it Lenin?) had something to say here. You're talking about

Spinozist communists favor Empire over imperialism

2004-04-08 Thread Louis Proyect
. Imperialism, in our view, is no longer possible today. In other words, no nation state, not even the United States, is capable of acting as a sovereign power to rule over the global order. Furthermore, the contemporary global order will not be defined by the competition among imperialist

Re: Shifting genres in media/pop culture and the shifting SSA of Monopoly Capitalism/Imperialism

2004-04-01 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/26/2004 5:41:35 PM Maybe Michael Hoover or Yoshie can help us out, but I think that the morality police during the 30s pressured Hollywood not to show class conflict. Michael Perelman excuse tardy reply, placed above in to do file... decline of class conflict in hollywood

Shifting genres in media/pop culture and the shifting SSA of Monopoly Capitalism/Imperialism

2004-03-26 Thread Craven, Jim
f Monopoly Capitalism/Imperialism? For example, I find this "criminal forensics genre" interesting.Starting with "Quincy" in the early 1980s and up to the present CSI, CSI Miami, Cold Case, Crossing Jordan, Law and Order Criminal Intent, NCIS, etcwe see the message of th

Re: Shifting genres in media/pop culture and the shifting SSA of Monopoly Capitalism/Imperialism

2004-03-26 Thread Michael Perelman
With the cowboys, the railroad people, bankers, and owners of large estates were often the bad guys. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: Shifting genres in media/pop culture and the shifting SSA of Monopoly Capitalism/Imperialism

2004-03-26 Thread Craven, Jim
With the cowboys, the railroad people, bankers, and owners of large estates were often the bad guys. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Very perceptive. You can of course add us savage Indians

Re: Shifting genres in media/pop culture and the shifting SSA of Monopoly Capitalism/Imperialism

2004-03-26 Thread Michael Perelman
Maybe Michael Hoover or Yoshie can help us out, but I think that the morality police during the 30s pressured Hollywood not to show class conflict. Michael, a distant relative of the Warner Bros, both of whose grandfathers along with many others in town, were offered a $50 partnership, and whose

Re: Shifting genres in media/pop culture and the shifting SSA of Monopoly Capitalism/Imperialism

2004-03-26 Thread joanna bujes
Craven, Jim wrote: In the case of the Reality shows, they are relatively cheap to produce, focus on trappings of wealth (temporary) like being set in exotic locales and big mansions, and of course utilize, celebrate, preach, reward and reinforce: rat-race individualism, greed, selfishness,

James Chace and Mark Danner discuss American Imperialism and Iraq

2004-03-19 Thread Louis Proyect
. With a combination of NY Review of Books glitterati and buildings by Frank Gehry, why would any liberal-minded Goldman-Sachs banker pick another school for his son or daughter? When I got the latest issue of the alumni magazine in the mail today, I was startled to see an article titled American Imperialism

Arguing for a more adroit imperialism

2004-03-11 Thread Louis Proyect
George Soros Is the billionaire speculator the Democrats' most powerful weapon? By Sebastian Mallaby Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2004, at 2:17 PM PT Way, way back, when Howard Dean had neither risen nor fallen, George Soros began to plot the sort of speculative bet that has made him a hero and a

Plus ca change, or famous last words ? The psychology of imperialism

2004-02-16 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
the last. The consequences of hundreds of years of cultural, economic and religious imperialism, that is, the imposition of power, authority and influence over others (usually darker than us), are now festering throughout the world, just as the military powers of the West conspire to keep the same

The war of words in Iraq: a cognitive limit of imperialism

2004-02-11 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
In Iraq, ...some of the hired interpreters are betraying soldiers hunting for guerrilla fighters and the caches of arms they're using to attack American soldiers... We heard about dozens of cases where the infantry would find out where stuff was, brief the interpreter, but the interpreter would

Another brick in the wall: 7 points on how US imperialism promotes terrorism and lawlessness in the Middle East (slightly expanded version)

2004-02-10 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
1. ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION BUILT WITH AMERICAN AND FRENCH AID Peter Preston said in The Guardian on December 22, 2003 that the Israeli nuclear arsenal makes it the world's fifth largest nuclear power, boasting more bangs from Washington's bucks than Blair's Britain, and over

The morality of American imperialism starts at home: the politics of lock-up terrortory

2004-02-04 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
carefully consider the criminality of American imperialism. PROPORTIONS The American Gulag is rivalled only by Russia and Rwanda. The USA, with 5% of the world's population, houses a quarter of the world's prisoners (i.e. 2 million of the world's total of 8 million). About 100,000 adult prisoners

WSF: Instruments of Imperialism - War, Trade and Finance

2004-02-02 Thread Sasha Lilley
Mon 2.02.04| Instruments of Imperialism Eminent political economists from the global South spoke at a World Social Forum panel titled Instruments of Imperialism: War, Trade and Finance. Among the luminaries were Jomo K.S., Prabhat Patnaik, and Samir Amin, talking about military Keynesianism

Eco-imperialism?

2004-01-30 Thread Louis Proyect
(From ultrarightist David Horowitz's website. The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise was founded by wise use spokesman Ron Arnold, who was cited heavily on the infamous British TV channel 4 documentary on the Greens produced by Frank Furedi's crew. The notion of Eco-Imperialism

imperialism run amuk

2003-12-01 Thread Michael Perelman
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/64/34272.html The US seems to be demanding that Europe degrade its GPS system. Only the US is allowed to have a good one to maintain military superiority. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321

Anti-imperialism conference at Columbia University

2003-11-19 Thread Louis Proyect
http://www.whiteknucklerproductions.com/bashir/Imperialism.front.final.pdf US Imperialism in the 21st Century (Sponsored by the Center for Comparative Literature and Society by the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures) Following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks

Imperialism

2003-11-05 Thread Louis Proyect
Africa: Imperialism Goes Naked by Sarah Bracking and Graham Harrison (clip) Marx never used the term imperialism, but it remains a key part of any analysis of contemporary global capitalism. The sinews of political power and accumulation that are derivative of capitalisms birth as a global

Surprise-surprise, imperialism still exists...

2003-10-31 Thread Louis Proyect
UN says war in Congo is fuelled by foreign firms By David Usborne in New York The Independent, 31 October 2003 A panel of experts renewed its warning to the United Nations yesterday that the illegal exploitation of precious minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is continuing to fuel

Re: Surprise-surprise, imperialism still exists...

2003-10-31 Thread Eubulides
[Federal Register: October 31, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 211)] [Notices] [Page 62158-62159] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr31oc03-120] ===

The frontier of modern imperialism: primitive accumulation in Iraq, at the taxpayers expense

2003-10-12 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
(Thanks to Richard H. for making me aware of this important article, which every socialist should read; I have excerpted the important bits and slightly edited it - JB) This coming October 23 to 24, the United States will be sitting down with rich creditor countries, the International Monetary

Re: The frontier of modern imperialism: primitive accumulation in Iraq, at the taxpayers expense

2003-10-12 Thread joanna bujes
Well, that's about as succinct a presentation of the problem as I've seen so far. What have we got? A recipie for war-lord imperalism: 1. Destroy/ravage/immiserate/traumatize a country through bombing, economic sancations, and chemical warfareto soften it up and make it a reconstruction

Re: The frontier of modern imperialism: primitive accumulation in Iraq, at the taxpayers expense

2003-10-12 Thread Doug Henwood
joanna bujes wrote: 2. Reconstruct and liberate the country and pay for it by appropriating all the wealth and natural resources of the country, which you then sell off to those who are willing to bet that Iraq can be reconstructed into a vast labor camp ...with lots of oil. I doubt Washington or

Re: The frontier of modern imperialism: primitive accumulation in Iraq, at the taxpayers expense

2003-10-12 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Empires do die because something in human nature either revolts or cannot thrive in this kind of environment. I agree totally with your sentiments, but you may not be correct on this point. Suppose that instead of getting people to revolt, you get them to mutate in some way, let's think of a

Re: The frontier of modern imperialism: primitive accumulation in Iraq, at the taxpayers expense

2003-10-12 Thread joanna bujes
Yes, the Life is Beautiful argument. (That Italian movie where a clownish man acts out in order to convince his son that a concentration camp is not a concentration camp. I couldn't force myself to see it, but apparently that was the plot)...or perhaps Schindler's List, where the essential

Re: The frontier of modern imperialism: time after time

2003-10-12 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Yes, the Life is Beautiful argument. (That Italian movie where a clownish man acts out in order to convince his son that a concentration camp is not a concentration camp. I couldn't force myself to see it, but apparently that was the plot)...or perhaps Schindler's List, where the essential

Russia update: the end result of imperialism and Stalinism

2003-09-22 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
( The British journal Living Marxism, always seeking to provoke, once ran an article mentioning the re-emergence of bubonic plague in the CIS republics. The reality is grimmer in some ways - JB). Across the Russian Federation's vast expanse, which stretches from Japan to the borders of Belarus,

New Chilcote imperialism collection

2003-09-02 Thread Louis Proyect
Ronald H. Chilcote, ed. The Political Economy of Imperialism: Critical Appraisals. Lanham and New York: Rowman Littlefield, 2000. viii + 261 pp. Notes, bibliography, biographies, index. $28.95 (paper), ISBN 0-7425-1010-7. Reviewed by Leland Conley Barrows, UNESCO European Centre for Higher

Re: New Chilcote imperialism collection

2003-09-02 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Thanks for this reference. Chilcote is very good, he worked with Anwar Shaikh. J.

Doug and Jim on Imperialism

2003-08-16 Thread Paul
big economic slip and Finally, I think it is important to remind ourselves that 19th imperialism had a number of forms. The real estate battle (or as you well summarized Hardt Negri in your link: Nation X owns colony Y) only really applied to some places like Africa and India. In places

Re: Kautsky and imperialism

2003-08-14 Thread Waistline2
Karl Kautsky : Imperialism and the War Source: International Socialist Review, November 1914 Translated: William E. Bohn Transcribed: for marxists.org, March, 2002 If imperialism were necessary to the continued existence of the capitalist method of production-these arguments against it would make

Kautsky and imperialism

2003-08-14 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
The article on imperialism Kautsky published on the eve of world war 1, was published in New Left Review. See: Ultra-Imperialism, by Karl Kautsky, NLR I/59, January-February 1970, pp. 41-6. In the classical tradition, Ernest Mandel's critique of Kautsky's idea can be found in his book Late

Can U.S. Workers Embrace Anti-Imperialism?

2003-08-14 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
* _Monthly Review_ 55.3 (July-August 2003) Can U.S. Workers Embrace Anti-Imperialism? by William Fletcher, Jr. No doubt one is a wretched plebeian harassed by debts and military service, but, to make up for it, one is a Roman citizen, one has one's share in the task of ruling other nations

imperialism

2003-08-14 Thread Devine, James
. That was Kautsky's heresy, no? Just because Lenin considered Kautsky to be a heretic (mostly because of the latter's attitude toward the Russian Revolution, BTW) doesn't mean that Kautsky was always wrong. Of course it took two World Wars and one Cold War before his prediction of ultra-imperialism

Re: imperialism

2003-08-14 Thread Doug Henwood
Devine, James wrote: Finally, I'm confused: Doug, you say that the system isn't one of competition among major powers anymore but also point to dispersed and polycentric power. Where are the centers of power that are competing with the US if not in the core? China? I said that there was little

Flashback: How French philosopher Andre Glucksmann got annoyed with the policy stance of French imperialism

2003-07-27 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
France's Five Cardinal Sins Over Iraq André Glucksmann International Herald Tribune February 22, 2003 PARIS: The usual trans-Atlantic spats are growing into a full-blown divorce. It is time everyone swept off his own doorstep and closely examined his government's responsibilities. In my view,

An insight into socialist political economy: with government-controlled pricing, human survival is easy... but for imperialism

2003-07-24 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
The most coveted jobs in Cuba are now in a tourist sector that is the country's biggest earner. The dollar became a legal currency in 1993 as Castro sought to refloat an economy which had been propped up by the old Soviet Union. It rules supreme, at least in the minds of many Cubans. Those who

India, Iraq, imperialism

2003-07-02 Thread Eubulides
Imperial history repeats itself Once again, Indians are being asked to fight Iraqis for empire's sake Randeep Ramesh Thursday July 3, 2003 The Guardian The blood has barely dried on the British empire than it has already begun to seep over its American successor. The US occupation of Iraq is

Foster-Panitch debate on the relevance of imperialism

2003-06-01 Thread Louis Proyect
interesting questions that I want to take up, especially Leo Panitch's problem with the usefulness of the traditional Marxist understanding of imperialism. But first a word or two about the principals. Panitch edits Socialist Register, a yearly journal that was launched by the late Ralph Miliband

imperialism, EU style

2003-02-24 Thread Ian Murray
EU's secret plans hold poor countries to ransom Larry Elliott and Charlotte Denny Tuesday February 25, 2003 The Guardian The European Union has drawn up secret plans aimed at prising open service sector markets in the world's poorest countries in return for cutting its lavish farm subsidies, it

Re: imperialism, EU style

2003-02-24 Thread Chris Burford
plan for Africa. The word imperialism will probably not be used. But it will cogently expose the double standards by which national indebtedness is managed, through the mysteries of international finance. It therefore will be implicitly anti-imperialist. It is an example of an organ of what

redistributionism and imperialism

2003-02-06 Thread Devine, James
in the imperialist center. I don't think Lenin was right about super-profits providing a bribe for imperialist workers, but that is quite secondary to his core perception that imperialism, _in some way_, underwrites opportunism in the working class Vulgarizedtheories ofa "redistrib

Re: redistributionism and imperialism

2003-02-06 Thread Carrol Cox
Devine, James wrote: [clip] Above, I'm not disagreeing with Carrol or Lenin as far as I know. Agreed. Part of the process of moving Lenin's analysis out of the handbook into the world. But I want to quibble about super-imperialism (meaning a unified rich-capitalist imperialist bloc

RE: Re: redistributionism and imperialism

2003-02-06 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34406] Re: redistributionism and imperialism Carrol writes: I don't think this fundamentally affirms the possibility of super-imperialism. What Kautsky saw coming was not just a protracted period of imperialist unity against a serious working-class challenge

Davos debates imperialism

2003-01-27 Thread Devine, James
Title: Davos debates imperialism from SLATE's news summary: The [Wall Street] Journal has the best details on Davos' cross-Atlantic atmosphere of animosity. During a dinner speech, Patrick Cox, president of the E.U. parliament, proudly announced, The real Europe has real values, adding our

US Imperialism: North Korea

2002-12-24 Thread Sabri Oncu
Top World News 12/24 12:45 North Korea Further Tampers With Monitors, UN Says (Update1) By Mark Drajem Washington, Dec. 24 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea broke more seals on its nuclear facilities and further tampered with surveillance equipment, increasing concern that the nation will develop

Re: imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread joanna bujes
We can be confident that in the long run their real interests will lead global elites to support empire and refuse any project of US imperialism. In the coming months, and perhaps years, we may face a tragedy that we read about in the darkest periods of human history, when elites

RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: imperialism vs. Empire. joanna bujes quotes Michael Hardt: We can be confident that in the long run their real interests will lead global elites to support empire and refuse any project of US imperialism. this sentence sounds like an assertion of inevitability. I thought

Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread Doug Henwood
Devine, James wrote: joanna bujes quotes Michael Hardt: We can be confident that in the long run their real interests will lead global elites to support empire and refuse any project of US imperialism. this sentence sounds like an assertion of inevitability. I thought that such assertions

RE: Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:33190] Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire. Devine, James wrote: joanna bujes quotes Michael Hardt: We can be confident that in the long run their real interests will lead global elites to support empire and refuse any project of US imperialism. this sentence

Re: Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread Carrol Cox
Doug Henwood wrote: Devine, James wrote: joanna bujes quotes Michael Hardt: We can be confident that in the long run their real interests will lead global elites to support empire and refuse any project of US imperialism. this sentence sounds like an assertion of inevitability. I

Re: RE: Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread e. ahmet tonak
of the capitalism. Devine, James wrote: Devine, James wrote: joanna bujes quotes Michael Hardt: We can be confident that in the long run their real interests will lead global elites to support empire and refuse any project of US imperialism. this sentence sounds like an assertion of inevitability. I

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:33194] Re: RE: Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire. As Ahmet says and Carrol agrees, I do not understand the need for a label. that's right. Labels don't really help much, especially since they tend to become reified. (Also, I'm no expert on postmodernism, since I have

Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread joanna bujes
The difference seems to be that Hardt seems to be pretty positively disposed toward ultra-imperialism (imperialist unity) or what he and Negri call empire. .. so the only question is, what can be learned from such scum? Joanna

RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: imperialism vs. Empire. I wasn't saying that they were scum since I didn't finish their book. Maybe they are, but more likely they're confused (being happy about being communist and the like). Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine -Original

Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread Doug Henwood
Devine, James wrote: I wasn't saying that they were scum since I didn't finish their book. Maybe they are, but more likely they're confused (being happy about being communist and the like). And scummy Negri is still under the care of the Italian state because they think he's a dangerous

Re: Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread Carrol Cox
Doug Henwood wrote: And scummy Negri is still under the care of the Italian state because they think he's a dangerous revolutionary. Stalin mobilized Odessa workers against a pogrom. That was indeed a dangerous revolutionary act-- more dangerous to the regime than anything Negri has

US imperialism: Iraq

2002-12-05 Thread Sabri Oncu
White House Touts 'Solid' Evidence on Iraqi Weapons By Barry Schweid AP Diplomatic Writer Thursday, December 5, 2002; 2:14 PM The White House said Thursday it possesses solid evidence that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, and rejected Baghdad's denials, saying they have no credibility.

Hardt Negri on ultra-imperialism

2002-11-16 Thread Chris Burford
their reanalysis of the debate about ultra-imperialism. Perhaps there is now no neat formula on this since it is a complex contradiction. But whether we like, loathe, or just feel uneasy, about Hardt or Negri, if they had never existed, a marxist approach would still predict that the possibility

Re: Hardt Negri on ultra-imperialism

2002-11-16 Thread Charles Jannuzi
But for the purposes of this political economy list, what I find remarkable is how carefully Hardt and Negri argue their reanalysis of the debate about ultra-imperialism. Perhaps there is now no neat formula on this since it is a complex contradiction. But whether we like, loathe

Re: Hardt Negri on ultra-imperialism

2002-11-16 Thread Sabri Oncu
Chris wrote: about Hardt or Negri, if they had never existed, a marxist approach would still predict that the possibility of imperialism turning into ultra-imperialism could be of enormous strategic significance. Although I don't understand what exactly is meant above, I believe it would

Re: Hardt Negri on ultra-imperialism

2002-11-16 Thread Sabri Oncu
By the way, _predicting_ is about associating probabilities with possibilities, which, unfortunately, is a subjective act. My impression of Hardt and Negri is that they associate the probability of one to the possibility of imperialism turning into ultra-imperialism. Tell me that my impression

Re: Hardt Negri on ultra-imperialism

2002-11-16 Thread topp8564
On 16/11/2002 7:35 PM, Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, Hardt and Negri have an irritating display of lightness of being about serious matters, which is also strategically suspect in view of the magnitude of the dangers Wood-faced indignation, well timed compassion and unbearable

Re: Re: Hardt Negri on ultra-imperialism

2002-11-16 Thread Chris Burford
At 16/11/02 01:03 -0800, Charles wrote: But for the purposes of this political economy list, what I find remarkable is how carefully Hardt and Negri argue their reanalysis of the debate about ultra-imperialism. Perhaps there is now no neat formula on this since it is a complex

Re: Hardt Negri on ultra-imperialism

2002-11-16 Thread Charles Jannuzi
How careful is their analysis when they so miscalculated on the weight and power of the US in all this? I was referring to the arguments on pp 229-231 of Empire. Chris Burford And I was referring to the whole book and everything I've read from them after that. Again, it is a total

Does imperialism exist?

2002-11-06 Thread Louis Proyect
The Rediscovery of Imperialism by John Bellamy Foster (clip) A more influential left criticism of the notion of imperialism was launched by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri in their book Empire (2000), published by Harvard University Press. According to Hardt and Negri imperialism ended

RE: Re: the 1898 war on Spain and imperialism

2002-10-31 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:31715] Re: the 1898 war on Spain and imperialism I'm confused. TR was an officer in the reserves during the Spanish-American War. He served briefly as VP under McKinley in 1901. C. Jannuzi and he adds: Actually I should have said he was under-secretary

the 1898 war on Spain and imperialism

2002-10-30 Thread Devine, James
Title: the 1898 war on Spain and imperialism This afternoon on U.S. National Public Radio, I heard one of the main news-readers, Robert Segal, interview an establishmentarian fellow who'd written a book about the 1898 U.S. imperalist war against Spain, which led to the Spanish-American war

Re: the 1898 war on Spain and imperialism

2002-10-30 Thread Michael Perelman
One minor point, Jim. Teddy R. did lead the troops up San Juan Hill. If I recall correct, it was sort of a reenactment rather than a real battle. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: the 1898 war on Spain and imperialism

2002-10-30 Thread Ian Murray
the 1898 war on Spain and imperialism - Original Message - From: Devine, James To: 'pen-l ' Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 6:04 PM Subject: [PEN-L:31703] the 1898 war on Spain and imperialism This afternoon on U.S. National Public Radio, I heard one of the main news-readers, Robert

RE: Re: the 1898 war on Spain and imperialism

2002-10-30 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:31704] Re: the 1898 war on Spain and imperialism that makes TR better than Cheney, Bush, or the other chickenhawks. But he did it because he felt bad about his father not fighting in the Civil War -- and to compensate for his sickly health as a youth. jim -Original

RE: Re: the 1898 war on Spain and imperialism

2002-10-30 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:31705] Re: the 1898 war on Spain and imperialism This afternoon on U.S. National Public Radio, I heard one of the main news-readers, Robert Segal, interview an establishmentarian fellow who'd written a book about the 1898 U.S. imperalist war against Spain, which led

Re: RE: Re: the 1898 war on Spain and imperialism

2002-10-30 Thread phillp2
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Re: the 1898 war on Spain and imperialism

2002-10-30 Thread Charles Jannuzi
Segal asked if the Marxist theory that imperialism is a natural outgrowth of capitalism had any validity. No, said the interviewee, the economic interests (businesses?) were split over the war and were only brought into unity after the battleship Maine had blown up. The main groups in favor

Re: the 1898 war on Spain and imperialism

2002-10-30 Thread Charles Jannuzi
-American War. This is an interesting account. It seems African-American troops were the true heroes of the day. And like the Persian Gulf War, front line duty was dangerous more for medical reasons than from enemy bullets. -- http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/splendid.html Rough Riders Despite

FW: [A-List] US imperialism: Iraq and oil

2002-10-07 Thread Mark Jones
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Keaney Sent: 07 October 2002 09:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [A-List] US imperialism: Iraq and oil Sunday Herald - 06 October 2002 Official: US oil at the heart of Iraq crisis By Neil Mackay

Re: FW: [A-List] US imperialism: Iraq and oil

2002-10-07 Thread Waistline2
policy of USNA imperialism to modernize the superstructure - the political superstructure, of the Middle East - in general. Iran scared the profits out of the USNA imperialist. "That" kind of bourgeois revolution is unacceptable to my imperialist. Keeping Iraqi oil off the market is

just what is imperialism in the 21st century

2002-09-26 Thread Ian Murray
..] http://maxspeak.org/gm/index.html TOWARDS A DEFINITION OF IMPERIALISM. Thinkers influencing the Bush Administration, if you'll pardon the oxymoron, are advocating a new imperialism, so I think it's o.k. for us to talk about it too. But what is it? On the simplest level, though I am no expert on Marx

the feminine side of militarism and imperialism

2002-09-20 Thread Ian Murray
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/articles/nssreport_Sep20.pdf

Re: the feminine side of militarism and imperialism

2002-09-20 Thread Carrol Cox
Ian, could you explain a bit? I doubt many of us are going to read enough of that statement to get the point. Carrol

RE: the feminine side of militarism and imperialism

2002-09-20 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30408] the feminine side of militarism and imperialism why feminine? Ian, I find such cryptic headlines to be irritating at best. Please explain. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine -Original Message

Re: RE: the feminine side of militarism and imperialism

2002-09-20 Thread Eugene Coyle
ine.lmu.edu/~jdevine > -Original Message- > From: Ian Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 11:28 AM > To: pen-l > Subject: [PEN-L:30408] the feminine side of militarism and imperialism > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/articles/nssreport > _Sep20.pdf > >

Re: the feminine side of militarism and imperialism

2002-09-20 Thread Michael Perelman
I saw this line in the report: We will also continue to lead the world in efforts to reduce the terrible toll of HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. If this is the measure of leadership, by that standard, Haiti could conquer the US tomorrow. But sadly, the boys are more serious about

Re: Re: the feminine side of militarism and imperialism

2002-09-20 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 11:54 AM Subject: [PEN-L:30410] Re: the feminine side of militarism and imperialism Ian, could you explain a bit? I doubt many of us are going to read enough

Re: Re: the feminine side of militarism and imperialism

2002-09-20 Thread Ian Murray
For all those who might have, for whatever reasons I cannot fathom, taken offense at the subject header. It is a simple turn of phrase. There is no cryptic or Freudian or other ideological intent. I take no stand on the materials I post to the list other than they would seem to make a decent

RE: Re: Re: the feminine side of militarism and imperialism

2002-09-20 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30424] Re: Re: the feminine side of militarism and imperialism Ian, just use titles that are descriptive. if you go for a beer, I hope that you have more than a first draft. Jim -Original Message- From: Ian Murray To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 9/20/2002 4:54 PM

Re: Re: Re: the feminine side of militarism and imperialism

2002-09-20 Thread Michael Perelman
This is a tempest in a teapot. If the headers are unclear, just ask. I don't see a problem. I appreciate Ian's participation, and I did not see anything from Jim's question about header that should make anyone upset. On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 04:54:47PM -0700, Ian Murray wrote: For all

Re: the feminine side of militarism and imperialism

2002-09-20 Thread Ian Murray
Feminism as imperialism George Bush is not the first empire-builder to wage war in the name of women Katharine Viner Saturday September 21, 2002 The Guardian Respect for women... can triumph in the Middle East and beyond! trilled the leader of the free world to the UN last week. The repression

Unconditional Anti-Imperialism

2002-09-18 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Louis mentioned a week or two ago that Marx unconditionally supported all manner of anti-colonial revolts, no matter how primitive the nature of the resistance. If somebody could throw me a few cites where his arguments on this point are explicaated, I'd appreciate it. max

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