Title: what's in a name?
I propose a name for the recent resolution, passed by the Congresscritters in the D of C: the Gulf of Texaco resolution.
Jim
sounds good. How about "The Shell game" if they don't go for yours?
Gene
"Devine, James" wrote:
I propose a name for the recent resolution, passed by
the Congresscritters in the D of C: "the Gulf of Texaco resolution."
Jim
Gary MacLennan wrote:
2. Were there homosexuals back then?
I especially enjoyed the posts around the history of homosexuality
and homophobia. I am vividly reminded about the first time I used
the word "homophobia" in a lecture sometime in the early 80s. The
students stopped me and asked me
Long-Term Capital, Ltd. is an ironic name for a company that specializes in
highly leveraged derivatives. It's proof, I guess, of a kind of humourous
aknowledgement among the players in this last hand of the capital game that
it is, indeed the LAST HAND. Anything goes because the casino is about
At 02:36 PM 3/20/98 -0800, Jim Devine wrote inter alia:
I think the main simplication of CAPITAL is that there Marx assumes away
the independent dynamics of working-class movements. The book is about
capital's dynamics largely holding working class organization constant
(holding the
At 09:01 AM 3/21/98 -0500, you wrote:
A mild intervention in the following discussion. I agree with Wogtek's
emphasis on examining the actual structural features of individual
socio-economic regimes. However, I note that in his `variation within'
versus `variation between' analysis of whether
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What discussions of the relative autonomy of the
state indicate is that sometimes
I had written: What discussions of the relative autonomy of the state
indicate is that sometimes the state does much more than that [i.e.,
protect capitalist property relations].
Ricardo D responds: Yes, the relative autonomy of the state is a well
established idea within marxist theory,
At 11:05 AM 3/24/98 -0500, Wojtek wrote: I would add to it [my own
contribution] another simplification [that Marx made], the "classical"
concept of the state as the executive committee and the policeman
protecting private property. Marx did not anticipate the role of the state
as the Keynesian
To whom...,
Mr. Sokolowski's post illustrates the misconception that socialism
and a command economy are anything like the same animal. If socialism was a
command economy, then it would be true that the difference between socialism
and capitalism was a matter of
At 02:44 PM 3/20/98 -0500, Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
Yes,it is one thing to study motion in a vacuum and then to determine the
modification of motion by air pressure or viscosity. So Marx may have
initially assumed a closed capitalist society, without foreign trade or
vestigal or intermediate
Wojtek wrote:
It is one thing to say that Marxist theory explains some important aspects
of capitalist relations of production (which I think it does), quite a
differnt thing to determine to what degree those capitalist relations of
production ar implemented in actual societies and to what
In yet another bolt of clarity Wojtek reminded us
It is one thing to say that Marxist theory explains some important aspects
of capitalist relations of production (which I think it does), quite a
differnt thing to determine to what degree those capitalist relations of
production ar implemented
At 12:46 PM 3/20/98 -0500, you wrote:
Mr. Sokolowski's post illustrates the misconception that socialism
and a command economy are anything like the same animal. If socialism was a
command economy, then it would be true that the difference between socialism
and capitalism was a matter of
At 05:36 AM 3/19/98 -0500, David Fasenfest wrote:
It is certainly true that existing applied models of socialism has not
successfully competed with capitalism even as we argue over whether it was
a failure of socialism or its defeat by capitalism which explains that end.
However, the discussion
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