Yes, Sam, it seems to me your assessment of Cohen ignores the softer,
"restricted" version of the development thesis he expounds after KMTH
(1978). See his book History, Labour, and Freedom, Themes
from Marx (1988) which is a collection of articles. My post yesterday
relied on one of these
G.A. Cohen's Marxism is a curious business. He tries to restore Marxism to
its "orthodox" roots but his project ends up as a defense of a "stagist"
conception rather than of anything Marx had in mind. Once he establishes
this rather bogus "orthodoxy", he speculates on the political consequences.
When, on or about last December 18th, the following
report reached me, I put on a convincing I-gave-at-
the-office look and ignored it. Maybe I just wasn't
in the mood for being scared. About 7 weeks later,
while performing one of my periodic deletion derbies,
Hardin's story is a myth. In truth, the communities that he describes had
customs and institutions that kept the amount of livestock in check. But after
the land became privatized all hell broke loose.
Brad might be correct about his understanding of the wells, but I want to
correct his
At 08:31 PM 2/14/99 -0800, Jim Devine wrote:
In terms of actual psychotherapy, my experience and reading indicates that
there are a lot of alternatives to the Woody Allen/Freudian routine of 5
hours a week until dead or broke (and look how well it helped _him_). Among
other things, there's
Hardin's story is a myth. In truth, the communities that he describes had
customs and institutions that kept the amount of livestock in check.
As long as population densities are low, and social pressures are strong...
Colin Danby wrote (quoting Ricardo Duchesne's message):
On the Asian sink question, I clearly misunderstood
your original post:
But even if Europe extracted a lot of capital
from the colonies, did not Frank tell us that a high proportion of it
ended up in Asia or China as the ultimate
who said a "blonde" has any specific gender?
Blonde is female. Blond is male.
Ellen
Brad,
True enough. But Michael P. is on to something that
Hardin and most commentators regarding the "tragedy of the
medieval grazing commons" case that Hardin was talking
about rarely recognize. The "tragedy" not only coincided
with the emergence of privatization, but that
Agreeing with much of Louis Proyect's commentary on Cohen, though not
dismissing his accomplishments, I like to take issue with the claim
that any developmental conception is teleological. Louis corrects me
that Cohen still holds a teleological view:
"History is not a relay-race. In a
Ellen Dannin arbitrates:
who said a "blonde" has any specific gender?
Blonde is female. Blond is male.
Yup, we have a smoking adjective here. This case is over.
(But, good grief, what hath I wrought?)
Has anyone actually looked into this subject line's original payload?
Quoth Louis:You won't believe your eyes:
1. Go into MSWord
2. Type: I'd like all niggers to die
3. Highlight the sentence
4. Go into the Tools - Language - Thesaurus
I know you may not have MS Word but what happens is you get a message
saying, "I'll drink to that."
What bullshit. I first saw this a year or two ago and the joke was to
type in "I'd like Bill Gates to die". If you type in "I'd like Joe
Noonan to die", you get the same result. Isn't there enough racism to
combat without manufacturing it?
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Louis Proyect wrote:
(This
Quoth Doug, belatedly:
...
I think this is Microsoft humor at work.
^^^ It comes up with the same response
if you type "I'd like to see all the gerbils die" and "I'd like to see Bill
Gates die" or "I'd like
I think this is Microsoft humor at work. It comes up with the
same response
if you type "I'd like to see all the gerbils die" and "I'd like
to see Bill Gates die" or "I'd like to be Gina Gershon."
Doug
The choice of alternatives in this post should
should be enough to occupy LBO for
Sorry for being a bit flip in my post. (I send these messages between
reading student papers; this may affect the way I respond...) As I
understand it, much of the great plains (US and Canada) share the same
acquifer and are steadily drawing it down. Similar overuse problems
exist to the west
Sam Pooley wrote,
As a daily reader, but by Internet standards primarily a lurker, I am
astonished at the proclivity of PEN-L to wander into subjects which are
barely progressive and certainly not economic.
Don't overlook the possibility that the noise _is_ the signal. My sense is
that the
Sam, you asked in your previous post if John Loxley, Cho!ses and
the CCPA put out an alternative budget this year. The answer is
yes and they did meet with martin prior to his issuing of the budget
but, as usual, he paid little attention to the AFT. The AFT was
released at press conferences
Typo, or is that a lump of sex phallacy?
Ken Hanly wrote:
Only legal beagles know that ! Not many dumb males..Maybe she is
a cross-dresser or transexual. Did u know valis..? :) Tom and
I are guilty of the lump of sex fallacy, lumping together blonds
and blondes...
Cheers, Ken
Hardin had the Tragedy of the Commons backwards. The enclosure movement in
England actually harmed the environment, rather than saving it by privatizing
it. Oliver Goldsmith wrote
from The Deserted Village
Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled, and all thy
I think this is Microsoft humor at work. It comes up with the
same response
if you type "I'd like to see all the gerbils die" and "I'd like
to see Bill Gates die" or "I'd like to be Gina Gershon."
The choice of alternatives in this post should
should be enough to occupy LBO for the next
I don't know enough (make than anything) about SA to say anything
intelligent about SA water policies. I do know this though: any
sensible price-based system would lead to upper-income (presumably
white) folks paying enough money to publicly owned or regulated water
utilities to fund basic
I heard (from a CCPA spokesperson) that Martin said he agreed with much in
the alternative budget but that "the political pressure" was for tax cuts
and paying down the debt. Of course, Martin is famous for making
sympathetic, ineffectual noises while doing what the Finance Ministry
mandarins
Hello angela,
Thank your for elaborating your points. You wrote about the usual
'rational' arguments against racism:
these ways of addressing racism only take for those who
are relatively powerful, who do not attach themselves to racism as a
way of recovering or explaining to themselves their
Sam Pawlett asked,
BTW, Tom, has Jock Finlayson changed his toupee recently?
I honestly can't say, Sam. Jock and I have an understanding when we debate
on the radio -- he doesn't wear his toupee and I leave my cod piece at home.
regards,
Tom Walker
Louis Proyect wrote:
And we thought we we gettin ahead--look what the programmers at Microsoft
programmed for this. This goes to show that even after several centuries we
still can't get rid of very ignorant people. If you have MS Word try it and
see what happens. I have seen several other
Tom Walker wrote:
who said a "blonde" has any specific gender?
The -e is a giveaway. Strictly speaking - and who ever speaks strictly - a
blond is male, and a blonde is female.
Doug
Quoth Louis:You won't believe your eyes:
1. Go into MSWord
2. Type: I'd like all niggers to die
3. Highlight the sentence
4. Go into the Tools - Language - Thesaurus
I know you may not have MS Word but what happens is you get a message
saying, "I'll drink to that."
Ken Hanly wrote,
Only legal beagles know that ! Not many dumb males..Maybe she is
a cross-dresser or transexual. Did u know valis..? :) Tom and
I are guilty of the lump of sex fallacy, lumping together blonds
and blondes...
It gets weirder. If you recall, the "blonde" (female because of
What bullshit. I first saw this a year or two ago and the joke was to
type in "I'd like Bill Gates to die". If you type in "I'd like Joe
Noonan to die", you get the same result. Isn't there enough racism to
combat without manufacturing it?
Fair enough. I guess that for some strange reason
Fascinating, but under what possible circumstances was this discovery
initially made?
valis
I suspect that it was common knowledge at Microsoft, but somehow leaked out.
Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
(This just popped up on the Marxism list. It is shockingly true.)
And we thought we we gettin ahead--look what the programmers at Microsoft
programmed for this. This goes to show that even after several centuries we
still can't get rid of very ignorant people. If you have MS Word try it and
see
His Eminence Paul Martin gave his budget speech yesterday. He delivered
the 2nd balanced budget in a row. The main point in the budget was 13
billion( over 5 years) in new spending for Canada's beleaguered health
system. Also included was some tax cuts. An elimination on the 3% surtax
on
Only legal beagles know that ! Not many dumb males..Maybe she is
a cross-dresser or transexual. Did u know valis..? :) Tom and
I are guilty of the lump of sex fallacy, lumping together blonds
and blondes...
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Ellen Dannin wrote:
who said a "blonde" has any specific
The Olglalla aquifer. Perhaps those discussing this distinguished aquifer might
enlighten unenlightened Canadians, South Africans, New Zealanders, and Aussies..etc.
as to where this aquifer is, and its significance. I also don't know what Ostromized
co-operative management is as contrasted with
who said a "blonde" has any specific gender?
Blonde is female. Blond is male.
I plead ignorance. Is the e a phallus, then?
No doubt. It's French.
who said a "blonde" has any specific gender?
Blonde is female. Blond is male.
Ellen
I plead ignorance. Is the e a phallus, then?
regards,
Tom Walker
who said a "blonde" has any specific gender?
Uh-oh, that's my subject line but Rev Tom's gratuitous sexism under it.
Maggie 'n Angela gonna eat you alive, Reverend. Mebbe Milton Friedman'll
sell you a seat on his getaway plane.
valis
For
At 07:40 PM 2/14/99 -0500, Doug wrote:
There's a big difference between using psychoanalysis as a way of
understanding why people think, feel, and act the way they do and using it
as a therapy. Most kinds of psychotherapy have terrible success records.
Psychotropic drugs can help a bit, but they
Uh-oh, that's my subject line but Rev Tom's gratuitous sexism under it.
Maggie 'n Angela gonna eat you alive, Reverend. Mebbe Milton Friedman'll
sell you a seat on his getaway plane.
valis
For those who haven't yet grasped the
Rob Schaap wrote,
Tom Walker wrote this to us exactly
two years ago (4 February, '97):
'Stay tuned for 'The End Of NAIRU,' coming to a listserv near you. Two
years from now you won't be able to find an economist anywhere who will
admit to having believed in the 'natural rate of unemployment'.
For those who haven't yet grasped the socio-cultural/economic implications
of the Y2K bug:
Memo from a Blonde Y2K Programmer:
I hope I haven't misunderstood your instructions, because to be honest,
none of the panic surrounding this "Y" to "K" date problem makes any sense
to me. My assignment
Hello Joseph,
Thanks for an interesting post.
What are "internal factors"? Can you give an
example which clearly distinguishes the internal
from the external?
You raise the example of Spain. But what made
Spain Spain? We have to draw on the reconquista
and the formation of Castile in
I too am all for Ostromized cooperative management of common property
resources, but the Oglalla acquifer spans too large an area to be
managed that way. Unsustainable water mining is a problem in large
parts of the plains and arid west and demands far-reaching policies
which will affect
Colin wrote:
I do feel
confident in arguing that there's been a Europe-
centered world economy for the last 400 years or so,
in the context of which the european industrial
revolution occurred. If that is granted and if it
can be shown that significant scale economies existed
in
hi bill,
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 building a whole political approach around it,
which
seems to me is what has been done.
would i build a whole political
Colin Danby wrote (quoting Ricardo Duchesne's message):
On the Asian sink question, I clearly misunderstood
your original post:
But even if Europe extracted a lot of capital
from the colonies, did not Frank tell us that a high proportion of it
ended up in Asia or China as the ultimate
Yes. Is the Ogallala aquifer associated with the aboriginals in South
Dakota? Arent there
Ogallala Sioux or am I confused. Or what is it?
I am not sure I am on any significant aquifer. It should be called
the potash aquifer judging
by the taste of the water.. Over time wells usually have to
G'day Angela,
You write:
a brief citation from zizek (who's very casting as a postmodernist,
when he is not, and when all proofs of him not being a postmodernist
fail to make a dent on this particular fantasy, should at least make
us pause about what is at stake in these little crusades...):
G'day Angela,
'Truth is, I allow myself dips in PEN-L's healing waters only when I've
knackered meself on the wheel of telecommunications policy - so I sometimes
write even worse crap than is my usual standard.
What I meant (as opposed to what I might have said) was that historians have
more
-Original Message-
From: Paul Kneisel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I consider myself a rather orthodox Freudian. And as the editor of
The
Internet Anti-Fascist I do not recognize either myself or my journal
in
Proyect's assertions.
you're right, it's difficult to feel interpellated in all this.
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