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Killing of 4 Beggars Shocks Brazil
New York Times, December 12, 1997
By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Four beggars sleeping under the awning of a
furniture store were shot dead shortly before dawn here on Tuesday, in a
killing that has shocked the country and raised memories of
Dave Markland notes:
The Parecon model "works" independantly of the state (if there
is one) and independently of many aspects of society. Mix 'n match yer
favorite political forms alongside a parecon.
Here and now very little works independently of the state. I am not versed
in
James Devine wrote:
1) on "private" property's abolition: I think that the point of socialism
is to replace "private" property with _responsibility_. "Private" property
isn't really private: owning it gives one the right to impose a lot of
costs on other people and on nature, power without
. . .
Doesn't anyone know and good radical criminologists. We have a group of
lawyers -- gasp -- in the AU law school who are radical law theorists. . . .
I know a good liberal one, and he happens to be at AU.
He's Jim Lynch, in the Soc dept. I think you'd like what
he does.
Cheers,
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On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
No, What Is to Be Done? is
I would add that, for Lenin, tiny, minute differences in strategy and
tactics were always of fundamental significance, for he knew, unlike
anyone else, in revolutionary situations such differences carry
enormous implications.
ricardo
I have no idea what you mean by tiny and minute. Most of
Readers might equivalently enjoy the recent Journal of Economic Literature
(September 1997) article by Gary Miller (Washington University) on the
superiority of economics to political science: "The impact of economics on
contemporary political science." To summarize: If it can be derived by
From: "Carl H.A. Dassbach" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Announcing an new e-list CM150-L
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 11:29:41 -0500
The purpose of CM150 is to acknowledge the 150th anniversary of the
Communist Manifesto in 1998 (hence the title CM150-L), to discuss subjects
Perhaps someone could download the WSJ editorial from a few days ago by
Professor Meredith Cumings Woo of Northwestern University? Her analysis
seems to differ from Amsden's in important ways; for example, she seems to
be quite a bit more critical of the kind of state monopoly
capitalism that
Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
Perhaps someone could download the WSJ editorial from a few days ago by
Professor Meredith Cumings Woo of Northwestern University? Her analysis
seems to differ from Amsden's in important ways; for example, she seems to
be quite a bit more critical of the kind of state
wojtek sokolowski writes: Based on single exchange with an economists on
what consitutes an 'explanation' in social science, I came to a conclusion
that at least some American economists differ from sociologists quite
significantly on that issue. For most sociologists, explanation is an
empirical
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:
I interviewed Amsden on my radio show yesterday...
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Tapes: $5/program (plus appropriate foreign postage), below. I'm sometimes
a little slow in fulfilling orders, but they'll get out.
Sounds cool. One thought: why not branch out to broadcast
Alice Amsden made an important contribution to the literature on
development/South Korea. At the risk of oversimplifying that contribution
it was to forcefully demonstrate that the state played a decisive role in
the rapid growth and industrial transformation of South Korea. Her work
challenged
Dennis R Redmond wrote:
Sounds cool. One thought: why not branch out to broadcast TV as well?
Aren't there heaps of budding socialist videographers in the Big
Apple, or is there any form of community/university TV you could hook up
with? It couldn't be that expensive to do a basic talk-show kind
Marty wrote:
And it is hard to see how greater freedom for
domestic and foreign capital to move money and operations is going to
promote a more domestically centered, nationally controlled, worker
centered, stable economy.
Do you mean by a "nationally controlled, worker centered,
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The holiday humor begins...
The
What's your diagnosis of the recently-formed independent trade union-based
political party in S. Korea ? (I forget its name or acronym). From what I
understand it is pitching a cross-class appeal and is more or less social
democratic in its platform. If the financial crisis spells crisis for each
No, I did not meant a greater North Korea. North Korea is certainly not
my model of socialism. But I do think a process of reunificaiton that is
shaped by progressive forces looking for a way out of the crisis in both
North and South could well open up possibilities for the creation of a
Dear PEN-Lers:
I need to select an intermediate micro text with great alacrity. Can
anyone suggest a sound text that includes some good topical materials?
If you wish, you can reply privately and I will post a summary of the
recommendations to the list.
Steven Zahniser
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Does anyone know why the Board of Regents of the State University of New
York is under censure by the AAUP (see August 1977, pp. 237-60)?
Steven Zahniser
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On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Martin Hart-Landsberg wrote:
We should take confidence from the South Korean experience that there are
effective alternatives to the free market. But we should not be surprised
to learn that state capitalist regulation of economic activity directed
towards profit
C H R I S T O P H E R H I T C H E N S
Dick the Greek
THE NEWLY REVEALED NIXON TAPES MAY ANSWER THE
ULTIMATE MYSTERY OF WATERGATE: WHAT WERE THE
BURGLARS REALLY LOOKING FOR?
The latest installment of Nixon White House tapes shows how right Bill
Clinton was, in his lachrymose funeral
The Australian Associated Press Dec 10 1997
By Ilsa Colson and Maria Hawthorne
MELBOURNE, - Claims that the Australian government knew of a
plan to train recruits with military backgrounds in maritime work and use
them to break waterfront union power continued
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote,
"can the fact that the train for Chicago departs five
minutes before the train for Philadelphia be considerd as evidence that
there is a causal connection between these two events?"
Yes. The economists are on the train for Chicago and the lawyers are on the
train for
At 10:21 AM 12/12/97 -0800, Jim Devine wrote:
... and of economists?
For unclear reasons, I've had conversations with three of my Econ. Dept.
colleagues (out of nine in the department), in which they've asserted that
either economics or economists are superior to those of other social-science
On the topic of What is to be Done and dealing specifically with minute and
tiny matters that really shouldn't be brought up on the list: What is to be
Done to Unsub? Is the listerv a proletarianmajordomo or what. None of the modes
of address I have tried seem to work. I suspect that the whole
http://www.thestar.com/editorial/news/971211A07b_NA-INVEST11.html
December 11, 1997 The Toronto Star
Forty groups link up to battle global trade treaty
Premiers will be asked to oppose agreement today
By Laura Eggertson, Toronto Star Ottawa Bureau
OTTAWA - More than 40
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, James Devine wrote:
* * *
Lately, I've been wondering about the social-psychological basis of these
claims of "superiority." Why make this kind of outrageous claim at all? Is
it because we're working at a liberal arts college and have to rub shoulders
with all sorts of
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The differences between Luxemburg and Lenin over organizational questions
were
and of economists?
For unclear reasons, I've had conversations with three of my Econ. Dept.
colleagues (out of nine in the department), in which they've asserted that
either economics or economists are superior to those of other social-science
disciplines. One of these actually reads works
I asked Amsden if she wanted to tell us anything about Korea. She is on
sabbatical, so she just said to look at her op ed piece:
Section A; Editorial Desk
Behind Korea's Plunge
By Alice H. Amsden and Yoon-Dae Euh
11/27/97
The New York Times
Late Edition - Final
Page 39, Column 1
c. 1997
Dave Markland wrote:
regarding the parecon model. It seems to me that Albert and Hahnel have
simply thought through the process of democratizing an economy; the parecon
model has several features which, though I suspect they would be
unnecessary, are simply the logical way to organize a
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