Indeed, recent air attacks against FRY have been launched from Turkey.
Peter
"J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." wrote:
Of course the US continues to barely bat an eyelash
and provides Turkey with substantial military aid, along
with all kinds of approval due to its continuing membership
in
Henery:
Sorry about a delayed response. I have been too busy finishing a
paper, and in a couple of days I'll be leaving Delhi too. In
anycase, in my opinion the idea of Russia-India-China counterweight
to US led world hegemony does not have much weight. First of all
both economically and
Well, I am going to push this a bit further.
Let's say that up to a million Kurds have been
displaced in Turkey since 1984, with up to 35,000
killed (unclear how many of these are deaths of
"innocent civilians," executions of unarmed but
suspected guerrillas, or armed guerrillas killed
ZNet Commentary
May 17, 1999
No Change at Treasury,
But It Sure is Needed
By Marc Weisbrot
Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin picked a good time to resign. As a
senior
I think that it's important to distinguish between objective positions
within the capitalist class structure and people's ideology. When Marx
talked about "petit bourgeois," he was referring to a specific social
class, that of small business, which would today include independent
professionals,
from Scott Shuger's SLATE column: The WP [Washington Post] reveals that a
25-year covert CIA operative was faulted for "a major lapse of CIA
security" when he allowed about 25 CIA laptop computers to be sold to the
public at auction while still containing Top Secret information on their
hard
I wrote:
Yes, substitutionism. I hear there's also been an ocean of bloodletting
against the name of Marx. I suspect that there would have been as much had
there never been a Marx.
By the way, the locus classicus for the critique of this "in the name of"
substitutionism just happens to be the
If one wants to get at class the proper term in English would be "petty
producer." ("Petty" means "small" in English too, with the context
differentiating its meand as small from its meaning as "small-minded.")
The advantage of "petty producer" is that it puts the burden of proof
on those who
I find the trajectory of the discussion under this title to be both
an illuminating and depressing statement on the issue that was initially
raised by Michael Perelman - and which has been largely ignored - why
isn't heterodox economics "reproducing itself."
A few posts tried to address the
Makahs harpoon, shoot whale
by Lynda V. Mapes
Seattle Times staff reporter
NEAH BAY, Clallam County - The Makah tribe this morning killed a whale
off the Washington coast - the first whale taken by the tribe in more
than 70 years.
Members of the eight-man whaling crew raised their fists
Doug's post was excellent. I have a tendency to fire off epistles when
I have some criticism to make, but not when I like what I'm reading.
Not good. So let me take the opportunity to underline Doug's excellent
(and actually well-focused) thoughts.
In the final analysis, it's the weakness of
Peter Dorman wrote:
Just my point. Localism, self-reliance, and small enterprise have both
positive and negative aspects. They have certainly been fetishized by a
portion of the erstwhile (but no longer) left. Calling it petit
bourgeois and dismissing it wholesale is not useful.
Look, I
I assume that "the hero Crapulinski" refers to Louis Bonaparte, but is it
also an allusion to a fictional character?
regards,
Tom Walker
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm
Paul,
Your points are well taken. However, I do not see
why NATO bombing in any way justifies the ethnic
cleansing that is now going on big time. Killing the
UCK/KLA is one thing. Deporting half the population
and displacing most of the rest is quite another. How
does this stop NATO
Peter Dorman wrote:
Moreover, there is no
simple correspondence between what people believe and their class
background. This sort of ideology critique is mechanical and
procrustean. Ideas are much too mediated for that framework to apply.
(Why am I reminded of sociobiology all of a sudden?)
I
Barkley,
I have some difficulty with your whole discussion and comparison of
the situation in Turkey and Kosovo. The reason is fairly
straightforward.
First, there was no genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced removal,
denial of language rights, etc. etc. in Kosovo prior to the bombing.
... [O]n
Brad DeLong asked:
Why this strange and pathetic attempt to deny the agency of those who are
undertaking the ethnic cleansing? And why this attempt to make every Muslim
in the region bar responsbility for the terrorist deeds of the KLA?
Here's a long answer, if you don't mind concrete details.
Doug Henwood wrote:
Peter Dorman wrote:
Moreover, there is no
simple correspondence between what people believe and their class
background. This sort of ideology critique is mechanical and
procrustean. Ideas are much too mediated for that framework to apply.
(Why am I reminded of
Why do it then? We are all exposed to the CNN stuff, as Lou P. has already
noted. What good does that do? Nobody here is ready to make S.M. a hero. If
he were President of the U.S., he might even possibly be as bad as Clinton.
Governor Davis just executed Manny Babbit. His excuse was that
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Now we're converging. I don't find the long form boring at all. I'm a
big fan of the radical students of Max Weber on this stuff: Lucaks,
Mannheim especially. (Yeah, I know, Lucaks could be pretty mechanical
himself at times, but not always.) To move up a few decades, Barry
Barnes is very
What do we actually know about the stakes in this current battle? Is it
just a matter of symbolism? Is Moore really the standard-bearer, as the
western media claim, for a new surge of pro-labor and pro-environment
reform? Or does the US suspect Supachai Panitchpakdi of being too soft
on
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Peter Dorman wrote:
Now we're converging. . .
Speaking of Weber and Lukacs, how about Georg Simmel's Philosophy of Money?
Lukacs was a student both of Weber and Simmel and it was those two who
"tinged the spectacles" through which Lukacs first saw "Marx, the
sociologist". Simmel's Philosophy of
The FINANCIAL TIMES May 17 1999
World's richest 6m get richer
By George Graham, Banking Editor
The world's estimated 6m millionaires have shrugged off the effects of last
year's financial turmoil and are getting richer by the day.
New research
Doug Orr made an excellent point. I have always found that giving people the
opportunity to actually do something encourages their activism -- even if it is a
matter of having people collect and organize clippings -- IF and only if other
people acknowledge the importance of such work.
--
I am not an expert on the idea of the petit bourgoisie, but I don't think that
Marx dismissed it out of hand, but considered it to be politically unstable,
like the populists who could be progressive or reactionary.
In effect, the petit bourgoisie were part worker/part capitalism and so could
go
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Peter Dorman wrote:
Seriously, the point is about the parallel attempts of sociobiology and
at least some forms of marxism to connect the endpoints of material and
intellectual life without working through all the mediations. (And even
then, of course, the account of "material life" is highly
Louis,
You are correct that it is as "hard as shooting fish
in a barrel" to figure out what is really going on with this
situation in Yugoslavia. I confess to playing the "kick
Milosevic" role because the others who might play it
have all left pen-l. I understand from lbo-talk that Chris
I don't want to get into a pissing match over this. Still, I don't
think it adds anything to this particular critique to throw the PB lable
at these people. Once you've spelled out the shortcomings --
unrealistic views about what can and can't be produced locally, the
chronicly low wages and
Looks can be deceiving. Perhaps the appearance of a "partisan debate"
between "factions" has something to do with my deployment of texts rather
than arguments. Much of what Doug Orr wrote recapitualates a brief
commentary I posted on Saturday. Peter Dorman thought my Saturday comments
were "not
Personally, I think the category petit-bourgeoisie applies very well to
large segments of academia worldwide: regarding "knowledge" as "capital" and
proprietary (in the neoclassical sense) as an instrument of accumulation,
fame, effective competition, productivity, market share etc; ideological
We (at the University of Manitoba) are in the process of developing a
3 and 4 year degree program in Global Political Economy. This is an
interdisciplinary program involving Economics, Political Studies,
Sociology, History and Anthropology. (There is also the possibility
of this being
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attributable to a record
Peter Dorman wrote:
The violence I referred to in my remark is, of course, the 20th century
bloodletting conducted in the name of Marx in order to purge "petit
bourgeois" elements. Given that calling someone a petit bourgeois has
been a sufficient basis for his or her repression and even
It is views like Safire's and Buckley's that justify Chinese anger.
And such views are not in the minority in America at this moment.
If the right wing thinks it's to America's interest to make China an
enemy, they will success and may not live to regret it, along with the
rest of us.
Henry C.K.
In Kosovo-Metohija in less than two months we
have had now 800,000 people not merely displaced
but exiled, and most of the rest of the ethnic Albanian
population reportedly displaced. even if they have not
been, the number exiled is now about 50% of the
Albanian population against at
Peter Dorman wrote:
The violence I referred to in my remark is, of course, the 20th century
bloodletting conducted in the name of Marx in order to purge "petit
bourgeois" elements. Given that calling someone a petit bourgeois has
been a sufficient basis for his or her repression and even
Presumably this is Lord Skidelsky the Keynes biographer?
From the Electronic Telegraph:
"Lord Skidelsky, a Conservative front bench spokesman, was sacked last
night for publicly opposing Nato's action in Yugoslavia. The junior
Treasury
spokesman said in The Telegraph that he had been
Doug Henwood wrote:
Peter Dorman wrote:
Bark, I've heard the figure "one million displacements" tossed around
regarding Turkey and the Kurds. Can you or anyone else verify? And
what does displacement mean in this context? Were they expelled through
terror the way the ethnic Albanians
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