[PEN-L:7534] Re: Miss World (in India)

1996-11-21 Thread MScoleman
I've heard alot of pie in the sky ways of attracting investment, but this is unique in my experience. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:7532] Re: Technology Shock and Teen Pregnancy?

1996-11-21 Thread MScoleman
I'm not sure about what technology shock is, but I do think the increase in teen pregnancy is over stated. I believe I've said this before, the method of reporting the statistics has more to do with the increase than actually increasing teen births. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:7536] pomo trucks -Reply

1996-11-21 Thread Patrick Bond
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 21/November/1996 06:28pm David Harvey's book on postmodernism argues (to summarize in more than desperate brevity) that the rise of postmodern theory is a reflection of the rise of postmodern capitalism, i.e., increased flexibility, decentralization, etc., etc. He's no

[PEN-L:7535] Re: On Marxism

1996-11-21 Thread Michael Hoover
check the forward to Hal Draper's "Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution" Vol 2...forward is entitled "How Not to Quote Marx"...Michael Or check-out Ch. 1 of Joseph O'Malley and Keith Algozin ed. _Rubel on Karl Marx_ (Cambridge, CUP, 1981). to what end?...my suggestion to check out Draper was

[PEN-L:7531] Re: Neo-Nazis on Net? (fwd)

1996-11-21 Thread Tom Patterson
On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, D Shniad wrote: Forwarded message: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov 21 08:59 PST 1996 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Neo-Nazis on Net? Subject: Nazi Group Folks, this seems important. Please forward this to everyone you know: A group of NEO-NAZIS

[PEN-L:7533] Fwd: Neo-Nazis on Net?

1996-11-21 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 96-11-21 09:00:06 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Susan Feiner) writes: bj:Neo-Nazis on Net? Date: 96-11-21 09:00:06 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Susan Feiner) Sender:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Friends: this came to me via another list. I think

[PEN-L:7529] Fwd: Vote NO to nazis on the net

1996-11-21 Thread by way of R. Anders Schneiderman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It appears I was a little quick on the mouse (or a little slow)... There are a lot of good things about the Net, but the means by which things circulate aren't always effective. Anders Schneiderman - Forwarded Message: Subj: White power usenet group Date: 96-11-09 22:16:31

[PEN-L:7530] $1 billion found in rubbish heap!

1996-11-21 Thread Tom Walker
"Perhaps a rubbish heap is, after all, the best image for the rough jumble of jurisdictions, laws, budgets, regulations, evasions, habits, agencies and officials that together make up the policy apparatus of the state. Certainly,

[PEN-L:7517] Re: Ruthless People

1996-11-21 Thread Terrence Mc Donough
The Marx quote under discussion implies that ruthless criticism is a condition of science, or perhaps the social sciences in particular. Is it possible to go one step further and contend that a position of opposition to the existing social order is a necessary precondition of science? This

[PEN-L:7519] Re: Pomo trucks

1996-11-21 Thread Doug Henwood
At 5:59 PM 11/20/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Philip Kraft discusses the new VW plant in Resende, Brazil. The special section on technology in the Nov. 18 WSJ includes an article on Colgate which suggests the the new intranet software connecting not only all Colgate plants and employees around

[PEN-L:7522] Re: Technology Shock and Teen Pregnancy?

1996-11-21 Thread arvind jaggi
Jim Devine wrote about an article by George Akerlof and Janet Yellen (of UC Berkeley) As I understand their theory, the sudden increase in the availability of contraception technology and abortion in the US during the early 1970s (which isn't totally a technology shock but also a change in

[PEN-L:7518] sorry squared!

1996-11-21 Thread JDevine
sorry about posting a message about my cold to pen-l. Now if the damn thing would go away... in pen-l solidarity, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Econ. Dept., Loyola Marymount Univ. 7900 Loyola Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045-8410 USA 310/338-2948 (daytime, during workweek); FAX:

[PEN-L:7520] pomo trucks

1996-11-21 Thread JDevine
Blair: 1) what is the "modernist" or "modernish" theory that you are criticizing (below) as inadequate to explain these events? who wrote this theory? I think that most Marxists are aware of the fact that capitalism is changing in the general direction which you describe. (a non-Marxist on

[PEN-L:7521] Miss World (in India)

1996-11-21 Thread arvind jaggi
Dear Pen-lers, Perhaps some of you have been following the on-and-off news story about the Miss World pageant being held in Bangalore, India (this coming Sat.) There has been a vigorous outcry against the event by an unsual collection of political and other groups - feminists,

[PEN-L:7526] Re: On Marxism

1996-11-21 Thread Gerald Levy
Michael Hoover wrote: check the forward to Hal Draper's "Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution" Vol 2...forward is entitled "How Not to Quote Marx"...Michael Or check-out Ch. 1 of Joseph O'Malley and Keith Algozin ed. _Rubel on Karl Marx_ (Cambridge, CUP, 1981). Jerry

[PEN-L:7527] Re: On Marxism

1996-11-21 Thread Fikret Ceyhun
"If the construction of the future and its completion for all time is not our task, all the more certain is what we must accomplish in the present; I mean, the ruthless criticism of everything that exists; the criticism being ruthless in the