Slaughter of dead labour

2002-07-04 Thread Chris Burford
In further falls yesterday, the UK stock exchange has lost all its gains since the Labour government came into power in 1997. The expectation now is that it will go lower. A major pensions company, Equitable Life, is on the verge of bankruptcy. It has closed its books to new policies.

Re: ocial labor and social production

2002-07-04 Thread miychi
Title: Re: [PEN-L:27548]social labor and social production We have difficulty with gaining Staln's article. I have Japanese translation of Stalins's selected works but have not English one. Adding, Deficit of official argument of Stalin exists. These situation interrupt our study. But I chooses

Test, test, and a big smooch to LP

2002-07-04 Thread pms
Yo Eco-freaks. Am I here yet? smooches Paula

RE: Test, test, and a big smooch to LP

2002-07-04 Thread Davies, Daniel
Yo Eco-freaks. Am I here yet? smooches Paula Yes. Welcome to the land of thousand word essays on value theory. My advice would be to start off uncontroversially by expressing a strong view on what Marx really meant by production and saying something nasty about market socialism. Bonus

Inflation

2002-07-04 Thread Ellen Frank
This raises a question I have always wondered about. In calculating the CPI, the BLS uses fixed weights which are updated only every decade or so, right? Right-wingers claim that this overstates increases in the cost of living because, in reality, people switch from high-priced goods to

Re: RE: Test, test, and a big smooch to LP

2002-07-04 Thread pms
Thank you dd., but if you remember me from the Doug's La-Bo-sters, you should know that I don't know nothin' 'bout no Marxism. (just make up my own stuff) I did just spend a lovely hour touring Cuba with Lippman. - Original Message - From: Davies, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Petrovietnam, BP discuss $800 m gas hub

2002-07-04 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
The Times of India THURSDAY, JULY 04, 2002 Petrovietnam, BP discuss $800 m gas hub REUTERS HANOI: State oil firm Petrovietnam and Britain's BP Plc are considering creating a gas processing hub for Vietnam's Nam Con Son basin, which could involve investment of about $800 million, a BP official

funny typo

2002-07-04 Thread Michael Perelman
I am not the only one to have wayward fingers unless Daniel was exercizing some delightful humor. On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 09:32:47AM +0100, Davies, Daniel wrote: Bonus points if you can work in a few words on how the URPE had it coming. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California

Re: Slaughter of dead labour

2002-07-04 Thread Michael Perelman
Warning: this is too good for me to resist stealing in the future. On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 08:01:04AM +0100, Chris Burford wrote: If capitalism is the domination of dead labour over living labour, then this is a slaughter of dead labour (accumulated surplus value in the form of capital

Re: Re: social labor and social production

2002-07-04 Thread Waistline2
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Re: Re: I'm not dead yet

2002-07-04 Thread Carl Remick
From: Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Devine, James wrote: [*] If Bush said, a billion here, a billion there, it's an homage by his script-writers to the late Senator Everett Dirksen (R-ILL), who said (paraphrasing) a billion here a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about

Re: Inflation

2002-07-04 Thread enilsson
Ellen wrote, In calculating the CPI, the BLS uses fixed weights which are updated only every decade or so, right? I'll answer this as best I can--a few years ago I knew all this stuff well but my brain just doesn't remember information like it used to. The answer to the above is: Yes and

RE: inflation

2002-07-04 Thread enilsson
Jim D wrote, at some point, economists decided on a conventional definition of inflation as referring only to increasing prices of newly-produced goods and services. Given that convention, inflation in housing prices only counts when it affects apartment rents (or imputed rent on

Good report on Chinese worker unrest

2002-07-04 Thread Steve Diamond
Cox News Service July 2, 2002 Tuesday Copyright 2002 Cox Enterprises, Inc. Cox News Service July 2, 2002 Tuesday SECTION: International News LENGTH: 1343 words HEADLINE: STRIKES BRING LITTLE SATISFACTION FOR CHINA'S DISAFFECTED WORKERS BODY: For Sunday, July 7 With photos With

Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. --Benito Mussolini, Italian Duce

2002-07-04 Thread W.R. Needham
A while ago Michael asked me the source of this quote. I found a source on the following web page for John Ralston Saul's on Corporatism: lack of democracy and legitimization of corruption http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2001_500/desantis514/JRSaul.html -- Dr. W.R. Needham

Re: Inflation

2002-07-04 Thread Michael Perelman
Eric is our resident expert on the subject, since Dave R. has been been relatively silent. Are you still here, Dave. I have some questions: For example, how much have waiting times for medical care increased? Do rising housing costs require people to locate further from work, increasing

Re: Re: Re: I'm not dead yet

2002-07-04 Thread Carrol Cox
Carl Remick wrote: And Dirksen had a great, stately voice for delivering remarks like that. I think he had been a Presbyterian minister -- but I can't remember my source for this. He did indeed have quite a voice. One of the most popular newscasters of WW2 was also a former minister --

Re: Re: Inflation

2002-07-04 Thread Doug Henwood
Michael Perelman wrote: I have some questions: For example, how much have waiting times for medical care increased? The medical care component of the CPI has increased more than twice as much as the overall CPI since 1979. Its weight is only 6% of the total index, however. Do rising

Re: Re: Re: 3 social labor and social production

2002-07-04 Thread Waistline2
Almost 3 In this time, let argue social labor and social production. * Marx said (Translation) "Lets us discuss the question of social labor as a histrionically evolved form of social production and social production as a historically evolved form of the laboring process." Reply I call the

RE: Thus sprach Marx: interpretation or characterization?

2002-07-04 Thread Drewk
Gil Skillman writes: In your post, you (a) impute to me an argument I've never made, suggesting that you hadn't actually read what I wrote, Not so. You may have *interpreted/characterized* (What's the diff? Characterization is the act of putting an interpretation into words, no?) it that way,

Imperialism in decline?

2002-07-04 Thread Louis Proyect
(One of the curiosities of the academic left is the tendency of various figures to agree with each other on broad questions without sharing a common ideological framework. For example, neo-Althusserian Stephen Resnick has the same exact state capitalist analysis of the USSR as people like