Comrade, they're doing it to us as well in South Africa. Will send
you off-list some of the issues that the social movements here are
raising as an effort to counter the commodification logic, to halt
the mass cut-offs of water supplies in townships (affecting
households and entire
This article, by George Dor of the Alternative Information and
Development Centre (http:\\www.aidc.org.za) and Mercia Andrews, vice
president of the SA NGO Coalition, is being published in various
outlets including International Viewpoint (April '99)...
Unemployed can't bank on Stiglitz:
More
The manner in which collective ownership can often provide cheap
and simple solutions to problems is illustrated by the water
supply systems in the small town in which I live.
The town was settled in stages. At first there were not enough
people to set up a municipal water supply. Settlers as
rob wrote:
(we need not follow
Foucault, who seemed to think history is nought but an accumulation
of
documents written by victors with the future in mind - history has
left
plenty that wasn't particularly meant to tell stories years or
centuries
later
well, i think foucault agrees. as would
From World Soicialist Web Site
WSWS : Workers Struggles : North America
America's workplaces--among
the deadliest in the
industrialized world
By Jerry White
13 February 1999
"
Death toll mounts in blast at US
auto plant
By Helen Halyard
16 February 1999
On Sunday 44-year-old Ken Anderson of
Wyandotte, Michigan became the fourth worker to
die as a result of the
This repressed memory stuff is precisely anti-Freudian, since anyone who's
been influence by Freud knows that memories are often deeply influenced by
fantasy and contain all sorts of backward projections. A Freudian analysis
of these abuse hysterias would focus on the fantasies of the adults
= With no intent to support or refute Louis in the issue
he has just broached, I offer the following investigation,
accessible in full - with a careful outline and many linked
sub-files - at www.tiac.net/users/hcunn/witch/fellpress1.html
Louis Proyect wrote:
Yet when patients backtracked, he would simply take this to be further
proof of the reality of the abuse: they were simply trying to "repress" the
awful memory.
This is the early Freud. He rejected the seduction theory. It's been
revived by the recovered memory industry,
This is the early Freud. He rejected the seduction theory. It's been
revived by the recovered memory industry, with the intellectual assistance
of Jeff Masson, the former Romeo who mended his ways took up with
Catherine MacKinnon. Generally, I think daily newspapers are a poor guide
to philosphy
I live on a small orchard in Chico. We are pretty well endowed with
ground water, but the climate is arid except for a rainy season between
September and May. The land is as fertile as anywhere in the world, but
without water, its major agricultural use would be for winter graizing.
The state
Glad you mentioned this issue, Michael. I wanted to mention a
couple of recent press articles on CALFED and water "marketing"
in case you hadn't seen them. I wrote one for the Berkeley
environmental magazine TERRAIN, and a similar, more recent piece
appeared in the SF Bay Guardian by Heather
In my time as an inpatient, I was disturbed that the use of ECT(
electroconvulsive therapy) and "quiet rooms" were so widespread. I
thought these torture methods had gone the way of the dinosaur. About
1/3 of the patients on the ward I was on, were getting ECT. I'd stand
in the
Barely two years after its release, Re-Orient may already be read in
Chinese. And why not? Chinese elites have every reason to celebrate
a book which resurrects their long held belief that the Celestial Kingdom,
except for a temporary setback in the 19h-20th century, is the center of
human
Just to add on a couple of points. Temps dont have time to be involved in
university
governance either. Faculty used to have a great deal of input into how the
university was
run, going much beyond control of course content and offerings. Temps may have
no
time for serving on senate, committees,
There is a very interesting article in today's NY Times that is part 2 of a
4 part series. Part 1 is on their web page as well. Check:
http://www.nytimes.com/
Here is a bit from today's article:
High-Rise Ghost Town
Muang Thong Thani rises up above barren fields on the
At 04:19 PM 16/02/99 +1100, angela wrote:
racism works because
it echoes the structural logic of this 'fear of castration'...
It seems to me there are very shaky grounds for accepting that this
"structural logic" really exists. Of course there may be something to it,
but I can't understand
Ricardo:
Our positions are close enough that we have to
be careful in defining the propositions under
discussion.
To start from the last but perhaps most fundamental
point
Colin concludes: "But I would ask you to consider whether the very
question of locating e.g. "the main factor in the
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Please forward where appropriate and apologies for cross postings.
As many of you are aware, the "African Growth and Opportunity Act," dubbed
"NAFTA for Africa" by its opponents, which failed in the last Congress, has
been re-introduced in the House, and may
So is the intent to pass HOPE for Africa this year? Or just to stop AGO?
Brad DeLong
Both, and to put the IMF and the Administration on the hot seat, and to
advance the agenda of debt cancellation.
-Robert Naiman
At 04:21 PM 2/16/99 -0800, you wrote:
So is the intent to pass HOPE for Africa this year? Or just to stop AGO?
Brad DeLong
---
Robert
The series is good journalism and I recommend it especially for the
classroom. Article 2 is poor but revealing in its analysis, however.
Essentially, it concludes that the E. Asian countries were thrown into
crisis because they are not enough like us: they don't have our
sophisticated financial
Peter Dorman wrote:
The series is good journalism and I recommend it especially for the
classroom. Article 2 is poor but revealing in its analysis, however.
Essentially, it concludes that the E. Asian countries were thrown into
crisis because they are not enough like us: they don't have our
He's in Canada.
Brad De Long wrote:
The manner in which collective ownership can often provide cheap
and simple solutions to problems is illustrated by the water
supply systems in the small town in which I live.
The town was settled in stages. At first there were not enough
people to set
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Treacherous Deadly
Tuesday, February 16, 1999
California Prospect
Meet Globalization's Doubters Partway
Criticism that sounds like warmed-over Marxism in the
Here is a copy of an interesting note, even if it is from the Druge
Report.
Coming on the heels of Clinton's courageous anti-drug escalation, it bears
reading.
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Here's a little post I wrote on Cohen this morning
Sam Pawlett wrote:
The main problem I have with Cohen et al. is that their work is
Marxological rather than Marxist. The AM's string a bunch of quotes from
I haven't read Cohen in along time and I haven't got a copy of his work
on hand so I might be caricaturing his views. I'm painting very broad
brushstrokes too.
The most striking feature in global economic development is the
uneven development of the productive forces across geographical areas.
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Multifactor productivity, or output per unit of combined labor and capital
Endorsements so far:
Randy Albelda, Professor of Economics, University of
Massachusetts, Boston
Ron Baiman, Assistant Professor of Economics, Roosevelt
University
Dean Baker, Senior Research Fellow, Preamble Center
Jared Bernstein, Economist, Economic Policy Institute
Peter Bohmer, Professor of
Ken wrote,
I don't claim that. I don't speak of the revolutonary demands of the
working class.
Perhaps u could quote where I say that...All these demands are reformist.
If they
had been revolutionary the ruling class couldn't have conceded them.
The way you put it, Ken, was ambiguous enough
Before critically reflecting upon Elvin's "high-level equilibrium
trap", we need a clear idea of what it means to talk about economic
growth across human history. When Gerry Cohen declared in his
brilliant *Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence* (1978),
that "the productive forces tend to
Ill try to be brief butTom brings up a host of issues not easily addressed in
summary form
..
Tom Walker wrote:
If Ken will pardon my unsympathetic executive summary, I find the following
main points in his argument (which Paul Phillips "heartfully endorses"):
1. The Canadian welfare state
I went to school, ya know. . . .
Great stuff. He was on TV some time ago and was
not very good.
Where can we get more Emo?
Max
I went to school, ya know. I went to grammar school and once we were taking
a test and I was copying this other kid's paper, and I guess the teacher
heard my xerox machine. She said, "Emo, am I stupid or were you cheating?,"
and I said, "Ah, yes and no." She sends me to the principal's office and
Michael Perelman wrote,
Still, it is probably as inequitable.
Michael,
Don't you mean inaquitable?
regards,
Tom Walker
If Ken will pardon my unsympathetic executive summary, I find the following
main points in his argument (which Paul Phillips "heartfully endorses"):
1. The Canadian welfare state was shoved down the throats of the ruling
class by the revolutionary demands of the Canadian working class.
2.
"URGENT NEED FOR $50,000 US IN ONE WEEK (BY THE 20th FEBRUARY)
If we have 500-1000 people each donating 50-100 dollars (also
bigger or smaller donations are of course very welcome !!!), we will
have it ! "
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je
The manner in which collective ownership can often provide cheap
and simple solutions to problems is illustrated by the water
supply systems in the small town in which I live.
The town was settled in stages. At first there were not enough
people to set up a municipal water supply. Settlers as
Louis Proyect wrote:
Look, scientists have done quite a good job refuting the notion that
traumatic childhood events can be "repressed". If you want to familiarize
yourself with their work, the best place to look is in the books dealing
with all the preposterous charges made against parents and
Paul Kneisel:
Perhaps Proyect will inform us of his academic authority to write, sans
qualifiers, that Freud has "absolutely no authority." One is also
scientifically curious what "real scientists" refuted repressed memories
and the academic journals where they published.
Look, scientists have
Just in case no undergrad student of yours has yet,
apparently unprovoked, let fly a personal testimony
that's also the founding document of a new generation,
leaving you with jaw agape and the lesson utterly forgotten,
the cover story of this week's Shepherd Express - Milwaukee's
beacon of
Ken asked and answered:
And doesn't the press play up every case where there is a rip-off
of the welfare system?
The workers are a victim of selective reporting but the
psychology involved doesn't seem particularly complex...
valis replied:
And what about the racist component? Most of
louis,
is this your version of the 'talking cure'?
angela
Hello again penners,
I remember Habermas (in *Knowledge Human Interests* - chs 10-12) and
Postone (in *Time, Labor, and Social Domination* - ch 9) taking a tip from
the realm of psychoanalysis for their critical theory (I should stress P.
disagrees with H. about damned nearly everything else)
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G'day Penners,
The local bond market is copping a hiding because US bonds are copping a
hiding because the
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