Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Forstater, Mathew
Some of the criticisms seem well-informed and at least partly valid, but I have to admit that I think there are bigger enemies out there than Vandana Shiva, and a lot of what she has written seems to have merit to me. Vikash, Ulhas, and others--would Wangari Mathai be subject to similar

Re: Re: industrialized farming

2002-07-26 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 7/26/02 10:00:15 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here in California, we have industrialized farming, with chemical fertilizers, pesticides, etc., but it's hard to describe it as involving monoculture. Really? I was under the impression that lettuce

Re: Re: Re: Drudgery

2002-07-26 Thread joanna bujes
At 06:52 PM 07/26/2002 -0400, you wrote: As I read Michael's post, the point was that Mali women's use of mechanized grinding machines has given them time to improve their lives and become literate. No attempt to draw more general conclusions about the social consequences of machinery, or to

Re: Re: Drudgery

2002-07-26 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: joanna bujes [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 03:21 PM 07/26/2002 -0700, you wrote: The Wall Street Journal today had a front page story about women in Mali, whose use of mechanized grinding machines has given them time to improve their lives and become literate.

Re: Re: Drudgery

2002-07-26 Thread Gil Skillman
The Wall Street Journal today had a front page story about women in Mali, whose use of mechanized grinding machines has given them time to improve their lives and become literate. What's the point of this? Did the cotton gin enable slaves to improve their lives and become literate? The

Re: Re: Drudgery

2002-07-26 Thread Michael Perelman
You are absolutely correct Joanna. I only posted this to say that technology CAN improve things. And then, this was in the WSJ. Closer inspection might prove otherwise. On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 03:34:50PM -0700, joanna bujes wrote: At 03:21 PM 07/26/2002 -0700, you wrote: The Wall Street

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Michael Perelman
And don't forget Paul Burkett's fine book. On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 06:36:01PM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote: Furthermore, you won't find anything about this in James O'Connor's journal. He has his own interpretation of the environmental crisis that has many useful insights but is not really

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Louis Proyect
ken hanly wrote: Metabolic Rift. Is that Gaia with Gas from too much hog manure? No doubt the stink will drift over to some obscure journal such as Capitalism Socialism, Nature. No, it is Karl Marx's concept. Let me try this one more time: V. 3 of Capital, The Transformation of Surplus

Re: Drudgery

2002-07-26 Thread joanna bujes
At 03:21 PM 07/26/2002 -0700, you wrote: The Wall Street Journal today had a front page story about women in Mali, whose use of mechanized grinding machines has given them time to improve their lives and become literate. What's the point of this? Did the cotton gin enable slaves to improve their

Reply to post-structurist

2002-07-26 Thread miychi
Title: Reply to post-structurist Reply to John Shotter's Conversational realities In this book, he proposes constructing life through language. For this, he adopts rhetorical-responsive version of social constructionalism. Firstly, he defines psychology as moral science, and secondly, he

Drudgery

2002-07-26 Thread Michael Perelman
The Wall Street Journal today had a front page story about women in Mali, whose use of mechanized grinding machines has given them time to improve their lives and become literate. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail

Re: Re: Re: Re: Drudgery

2002-07-26 Thread Gil Skillman
OK. Labor saving devices save time and labor. This time and labor can be invested in other (possibly worthwhile) projects. I'm on my fifth day of not smoking and I'm irritable and I wanted to find out why Michael was telling me that the world is round. Oh...Well, I can't help you on that

international regulatory arbitrage

2002-07-26 Thread Ian Murray
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/C?c107:./temp/~c1076KqCKI HR 3005 EH 107th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3005 AN ACT To extend trade authorities procedures with respect to reciprocal trade agreements. SEC. 2. TRADE NEGOTIATING OBJECTIVES. .. (b) PRINCIPAL TRADE NEGOTIATING OBJECTIVES-

Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread joanna bujes
At 05:12 PM 07/26/2002 -0400, you wrote: Grinding flour is a synecdoche for a society characterized by a large pesantry producing very low-tech goods in households and small villages. That style of production is inconsitent with being nonpoor. If people want to stay poor, that's their

Re: Re: rejecting a school

2002-07-26 Thread Bill Burgess
I'm not convinced by Irigarary that the _particular_ obstacle to better physics was masculinity, but in any case, I don't see how the _general_ point about the social construction of science and the rejection of pretensions to objectivity is a (new) achievement. Well, maybe the development of

Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Doug Henwood
Michael Pollak wrote: Again, the village mill model could work for that too. And it is true when you grind things fresh they taste a lot better. It's certainly true for coffee and spices. Grinding flour is a synecdoche for a society characterized by a large pesantry producing very low-tech

Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Michael Pollak
The only way to make India less poor is to industrialize somehow. On that we agree. Insofar as Shiva fans are indicating that there might be radically different patterns of industrialization that might be better than the dominant one, especially when it comes to farming, for the welfare of

RE: Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Forstater, Mathew
Doug wrote: I thought the problem was capitalist farming, not industrial farming. I think this is something that needs to be thought through carefully. There is a long debate between those who take the position that technology itself is for the most part neutral with the problem being only what

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread ken hanly
Metabolic Rift. Is that Gaia with Gas from too much hog manure? No doubt the stink will drift over to some obscure journal such as Capitalism Socialism, Nature. Cheers Ken Hanly - Original Message - From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002

Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Doug Henwood
Michael Pollak wrote: Hey, Shiva sets off my bullshit detectors too, but this is an unfair hit. Mashing lentils isn't industrialized in Manhattan either. It's something that happens after cooking, like mashing potatoes. And it's not hard. Ok then, grind flour. One could reconcile Shiva's

Re: Irigaray's feminist take on science

2002-07-26 Thread Ian Murray
Irigaray's feminist take on science - Original Message - From: Devine, James I have two comments on the posting below; they are off-beat because I don't know what they imply. (1) Stephen Wolfram's theories have hardly been generally accepted; it's hard to justify Irigaray's assertion

Irigaray's feminist take on science

2002-07-26 Thread Devine, James
Title: Irigaray's feminist take on science [was: RE: [PEN-L:28549] RE: Re: rejecting a school] I have two comments on the posting below; they are off-beat because I don't know what they imply. (1) Stephen Wolfram's theories have hardly been generally accepted; it's hard to justify

Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Michael Pollak
On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Doug Henwood wrote: So women should stay at home and mash lentils rather than having this process industrialized? How many lentils does Shiva mash, in between her visits to Japan and San Francisco? Or is there one rule for educated professional women, and another for

Re: rejecting a school

2002-07-26 Thread Justin Schwartz
I don't understand the physics, but wasn't Newtonian physics transcended long before post-structuralism (by Einstein, a socialist, for one)? Sort of. Newtonian mechanics is a limit case of special relativity if spacetime is flat and velocities are well below the speed of light. Einstein's

Re: Is Germany turning Japanese?

2002-07-26 Thread Ellen Frank
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From the current BUSINESSWEEK -- But, like Japan, Germany is governed by consensus, which makes it difficult to enact controversial reforms. The consensus society is unlikely to provide the flexibility needed in today's rapidly changing business world, says Quitzau.

GS props up IPO of insolvent Hong Kong bank

2002-07-26 Thread pms
Friday July 26, 6:02 am Eastern Time Reuters Company News Underwriters prop up Bank of China HK again on day two By Alison Leung and Bei Bei She (Recasts, adds analyst quotes- and updates share price) HONG KONG, July 26 (Reuters) - Underwriters battled to shore up sagging Bank of China Hong

RE: Baker and Kar on SS

2002-07-26 Thread Ellen Frank
Mat - Dean sometimes does this assuming mainstream arguments are right about x, then advising y contradicts x kind of argument, simply to score debate points. For example, when Dean and others were arguing against the Fed's use of NAIRU, they would say there's no evidence that lower

Re: Is Germany turning Japanese?

2002-07-26 Thread Ian Murray
Is Germany turning Japanese? - Original Message - From: Devine, James But, like Japan, Germany is governed by consensus, which makes it difficult to enact controversial reforms. The consensus society is unlikely to provide the flexibility needed in today's rapidly changing business

Citibank seeks control of Argentine newspaper

2002-07-26 Thread pms
Friday July 26, 12:07 pm Eastern Time Dow Jones Business News Citigroup Seeks Control Of Argentine Newspaper - Report BUENOS AIRES -(Dow Jones)- Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C - News) 's Argentina unit wants a 58% stake in and management control of SA La Nacion in exchange for the $100 million in

Is Germany turning Japanese?

2002-07-26 Thread Devine, James
Title: Is Germany turning Japanese? From the current BUSINESSWEEK -- Japanese-Style Woes in Germany Chronically weak growth, minimal inflation, mediocre productivity, and a plunging stock market: Today's Germany looks much the way Japan did in the early 1990s. If Berlin doesn't take

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread ken hanly
Pork production is localised in North Carolina? Hmm.. Ill have to inform the local citizen's groups protesting the invasion of hog barns in Manitoba. Get back to NC yea Elite and Premium Pork Corps. Cheers, Ken Hanly - Original Message - From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

RE: Re: RE: intellectual property dispute

2002-07-26 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28598] Re: RE: intellectual property dispute What a pusillanimous pussyfooter! Only his new bureaucratic position can explain his unwillingness to take a stand on such an important issue goes against his usual dogmatism. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RE: intellectual property dispute

2002-07-26 Thread Doug Henwood
Devine, James wrote: it's better than the Justin/Britney/Christina thread. By the way, when confronted recently by some Harvard students, Larry Summers brutally refused to say whether he preferred Britney or Christina. Doug

Re: market socialism -- an offer

2002-07-26 Thread W.R. Needham
Michalke. Is the day still open? I would appreciate a copy of the pdf file. For people who are interested, here is a one-day offer. I have an excellent pdf article (not mine) which I can share with interested people. This is a one day offer only. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department

Re: Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Louis Proyect
As I read this it just says that small private ownership or large scale private ownership of land both are barriers to development of agriculture i.e. insofar as they are capitalist forms of agriculture.. His point is that arguing for industrial versus small scale agriculture is pointless. You

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Carrol Cox
Ulhas Joglekar wrote: some Western Marxist sermons Some X is Y is almost always a true statement, and for that reason is, usually, either utterly trivial or unprincipled or both. From the fact that some X is Y nothing whatever of interest about X follows. Carrol

Re: Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
Doug Henwood : Ulhas Joglekar wrote: Doug could see my pen-l post number 26813 Why India needs transgenic crops. Thanks. I missed that first time around. Do you agree? Yes, I do ! Ulhas

climate torts and the future of the global commons

2002-07-26 Thread Ian Murray
full piece at: http://www.flonnet.com/fl1915/19150840.htm ...when push comes to shove, the only superpower of the world will not hesitate to apply open pressure on national governments, using its leverage. In fact, some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the North, such as the World

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
Ian Murray : Marxism has no country. It is the world outlook of the international working class. === It is? Marxism has no country, except Cuba ! :-) Ulhas

Shiva versus Oxfam

2002-07-26 Thread ken hanly
from: http://www.sirc.org/articles/oxfam_berated.html Oxfam Berated by Eco-activists on GM Issues Oxfam's recent position paper, Genetically Modified Crops, World Trade and Security is a thoughtful and balanced document. It is rightly concerned that the introduction of GM crops in the third

Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread ken hanly
As I read this it just says that small private ownership or large scale private ownership of land both are barriers to development of agriculture i.e. insofar as they are capitalist forms of agriculture.. His point is that arguing for industrial versus small scale agriculture is pointless. You

Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Doug Henwood
Forstater, Mathew wrote: Some of the criticisms seem well-informed and at least partly valid, but I have to admit that I think there are bigger enemies out there than Vandana Shiva, and a lot of what she has written seems to have merit to me. Of course there are bigger enemies out there. But

Re: intellectual property dispute

2002-07-26 Thread Ian Murray
ACLU Files Suit vs. Tech Copyright By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON (AP) -- Ben Edelman, fresh out of Harvard, has spent much of his young programming career pressing software companies that make Internet filters for schools and public libraries to reveal how their products work. He worries

RE: Re: RE: Re: industrialized farming

2002-07-26 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28581] Re: RE: Re: industrialized farming me: BTW, it's not factories or machine _per se_ that represented the shame of the 19th century industrial model, but how they were used, who made the decisions, and the motivations of these people (aggressive profit-seeking).

RE: intellectual property dispute

2002-07-26 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28583] intellectual property dispute it's better than the Justin/Britney/Christina thread. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine -Original Message- From: Ian Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 10:38 AM

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 10:34 AM Subject: [PEN-L:28582] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva I also notice that some Western Marxist sermons are usually meant for Indians (or Indonesians and

intellectual property dispute

2002-07-26 Thread Ian Murray
[surely more interesting than the Shiva thread no?] Producer Sues Over 'Osbournes' Idea Fri Jul 26,12:20 PM ET LOS ANGELES (AP) - A producer has sued Ozzy Osbourne and the rock musician's wife, claiming the couple stole the idea for their hit MTV reality series The Osbournes from him.

Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Doug Henwood
Ulhas Joglekar wrote: Doug could see my pen-l post number 26813 Why India needs transgenic crops. Thanks. I missed that first time around. Do you agree? Doug

Re: RE: Re: industrialized farming

2002-07-26 Thread Louis Proyect
BTW, it's not factories or machine _per se_ that represented the shame of the 19th century industrial model, but how they were used, who made the decisions, and the motivations of these people (aggressive profit-seeking). Similarly, I don't think that pesticides and chemical fertilizers _per

re: the great bet

2002-07-26 Thread Tom Walker
As I recall, the stakes were a case of Lagavulin. This payoff comes too late. I had lunch with Max Monday on his way to Tokyo. If he had already received the case, maybe I could have mooched a bottle off him. Damn. Tom Walker 604 254 0470

RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Baker and Kar on SS

2002-07-26 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28566] RE: RE: RE: RE: Baker and Kar on SS Mat: Except for the fact that he is arguing against SS privatization, there is nothing there that I can support, and it doesn't even make an argument-it assumes we all know that and why deficits are bad and surpluses are good. Is

RE: Re: industrialized farming

2002-07-26 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28565] Re: industrialized farming me:Here in California, we have industrialized farming, with chemical fertilizers, pesticides, etc., but it's hard to describe it as involving monoculture. LP: Really? I was under the impression that lettuce farms grew only lettuce, hile

Re: RE: Re: rejecting a school

2002-07-26 Thread Bill Burgess
I don't understand the physics, but wasn't Newtonian physics transcended long before post-structuralism (by Einstein, a socialist, for one)? I'm not convinced by Irigarary that the _particular_ obstacle to better physics was masculinity, but in any case, I don't see how the _general_ point

Re: Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Louis Proyect
I thought the problem was capitalist farming, not industrial farming. Doug No, I meant exactly what I said. It is a function of what John Bellamy Foster calls the metabolic rift. It doesn't matter particularly where you put a factory. The same thing is not true about farms. Right now pork

Re: RE: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread pms
Title: RE: Vandana Shiva Isn't this kinda related to a question I think should be put to US citizens, ie, who decided that it was a good idea to get rid of all those industrial jobs for better higher-value jobs. Isn't that the argment and rational behind GATT, WTO and the who neo-lib

Re: Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
Doug Henwood : I notice that Shiva's biggest fans are in the West, among people who shop at (organic) supermarkets. I also notice that some Western Marxist sermons are usually meant for Indians (or Indonesians and Egyptians). The official Marxist-Leninists states can get away with anything.

Re: the great bet

2002-07-26 Thread pms
Isn't it too soon to say it was too low? - Original Message - From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 12:42 PM Subject: [PEN-L:28556] the great bet Some time ago, Mark Jones, who has not returned made a bet with Max that the stock

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Louis Proyect
I also notice that some Western Marxist sermons are usually meant for Indians (or Indonesians and Egyptians). The official Marxist-Leninists states can get away with anything. Ulhas Marxism has no country. It is the world outlook of the international working class.

Re: the great bet

2002-07-26 Thread Mark Jones
At 26/07/2002 17:42, Michael wrote: Some time ago, Mark Jones, who has not returned made a bet with Max Actually I have returned, but I have not yet written to Max detailing my terms, which however I plan to. Wall St is now worth about $11 trn instead of the $20 trn it was worth two years

Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Doug Henwood
Louis Proyect wrote: Socialists are not in favor of industrialized farming. Karl Marx wrote: and No, she reads rather like the average Frankfurt-influenced leftist who blames the world's problems on Descartes, industrialization, etc. I thought the problem was capitalist farming, not

Re: RE: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Doug Henwood
Devine, James wrote: Doug: So you agree [with V. Shiva] that women rather than machines should grind flour? isn't this a false dichotomy (perhaps coming from Shiva)? Isn't there a spectrum of different techniques for grinding flour, with some more capital intensive than others, so-called

RE: RE: RE: RE: Baker and Kar on SS

2002-07-26 Thread Forstater, Mathew
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28553] RE: RE: Baker and Kar on SS I assume he is opposed to IMF policy, Jim.. I usually find myself in agreement with most everything Dean Baker writes. But that is the point of my surprise to read his words: the increase in the government deficit, due to the loss of

Re: industrialized farming

2002-07-26 Thread Michael Perelman
Many years ago, I was appointed to a US Dept. of Agriculture Taskforce on monoculture. I wrote a minority report. Jim, the fact is that farming in California, even, is monocultural -- not for the state as a whole, but huge swaths are planted to the same seeds, whereas in traditional farming

Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Doug Henwood
ravi wrote: so what is wrong with sitting at home and mashing lentils? isn't the point that the choice be available? as for shiva's point: it's unimportant whether its men who are doing it or women (she says women because they are doing it today). the point she makes is that it is preferable for

Sokal (verb)

2002-07-26 Thread Justin Schwartz
Justin Schwartz wrote: Well, you can be on the left nonetheless. Russell was on the left, and had a naive old-fashioned hoch-Enlightenment view of science. I never said Sokal wasn't on the left (though he's a pretty mild leftist). Depending on what you mean by that, that might be me too. Not

Re: industrialized farming

2002-07-26 Thread Louis Proyect
Here in California, we have industrialized farming, with chemical fertilizers, pesticides, etc., but it's hard to describe it as involving monoculture. Really? I was under the impression that lettuce farms grew only lettuce, while tomato farms grew only tomato, etc. BTW, I think that

industrialized farming

2002-07-26 Thread Devine, James
Title: industrialized farming [was: RE: [PEN-L:28559] Re: Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva] LP: industrialized farming historically has meant one thing and one thing only: the introduction of chemical fertilizers, monoculture, pesticides and everything that goes along with that. Here in

short-selling

2002-07-26 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Doug, Oh yes, blame the short-sellers, not the idiots who bought stuff on the way up. This is almost American in its stupidity. Were they idiots? Technoboosters (Negropontes, Gilders and Malones come to mind), professional researchers, leading journos and auditors alike - all boasting

RE: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: Vandana Shiva Doug: So you agree [with V. Shiva] that women rather than machines should grind flour? isn't this a false dichotomy (perhaps coming from Shiva)? Isn't there a spectrum of different techniques for grinding flour, with some more capital intensive than others,

RE: RE: RE: Baker and Kar on SS

2002-07-26 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28553] RE: RE: Baker and Kar on SS Mat wrote:Argentina's problem was not budget deficits, but the currency board (among other things). I agree that external debt (debt denominated in another country's currency) is a problem. right. And I am certainly not arguing for SS

spectrum scarcity

2002-07-26 Thread Michael Perelman
Here is a URL for a talk by Paul Baran -- the Internet pioneer, not the Marxist -- from 1994 suggesting that there was no scarcity for wireless spectrum. It probably is relevant today given the telecom bubble.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Louis Proyect
I doubt that socialists as socialists either support or oppose, in principle, industrialized farming. It depends on ..[all sorts of things] Carrol Carrol, industrialized farming historically has meant one thing and one thing only: the introduction of chemical fertilizers, monoculture,

the great bet

2002-07-26 Thread Michael Perelman
Some time ago, Mark Jones, who has not returned made a bet with Max that the stock market was about to crash. I forget the exact date and exact level, but Mark's estimate was too soon and too low. He asked me to announce to that Max is about to be paid in full. -- Michael Perelman Economics

Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Michael Perelman
I did not pick up on that. I was looking at what she said about agriculture rather than processing. It would be hard for me to make the time today to defend what might seem undefensible, but I would say that my understanding is that people used to make a celebration of certain harvest

Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Carrol Cox
Louis Proyect wrote: Socialists are not in favor of industrialized farming. Karl Marx wrote: I doubt that socialists as socialists either support or oppose, in principle, industrialized farming. It depends on ..[all sorts of things] Carrol

RE: RE: Baker and Kar on SS

2002-07-26 Thread Forstater, Mathew
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28486] Baker and Kar on SS Argentinas problem was not budget deficits, but the currency board (among other things). I agree that external debt (debt denominated in another countrys currency) is a problem. And I am certainly not arguing for SS privatization! But havent we

Queries

2002-07-26 Thread ken hanly
If there are any responses I will forward them to the list whence this came. When did inhibiting free enterprise ever harm the public ;) Cheers, Ken Hanly \\ The following questions are not limited to the business of healthcare, but business more generallyhowever they are inspired by the

Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
Doug Henwood wrote: I swear, sometimes she reads like Marie Antoinette in a sari. Doug could see my pen-l post number 26813 Why India needs transgenic crops. Ulhas

RE: Re: Re: RE: critiques of Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Vikash Yadav
A non-sophisticated critique in 238 words: In most of her writing, Vandana Shiva essentializes gender differences to the point of producing stereotypes and complete myths. She argues that there is a 'feminine principle' that binds women to the land. Specifically, peasant women are transformed

Re: Re: rejecting a school

2002-07-26 Thread Bill Burgess
I'm skeptical of this achievement. Certainly the blind spot of liberal equality is exposed by post-prefixers' focus on marginality, but how much, really, been added to the earlier Marxist, feminist, anti-imperialist etc. appreciations of social inequality/complexity (the better versions; I'm

RE: Re: rejecting a school

2002-07-26 Thread Davies, Daniel
Can someone name the main achievement of one author who has been dubbed post-structuralist? the lads at http://www.adequacy.org had a go at claiming that Luce Irigaray anticipated Stephen Wolfram's New Kind of Science: (I have added a couple of question marks to words which do not get

Re: Re: Conclusion: Reformism and what Marx stated

2002-07-26 Thread Waistline2
In his "Critique of the Gotha Programme, describing distribution in the first stage of communism, Marx points out, " In the cooperative society based on common ownership of the means of production, a producer does not exchange his product." Accordingly, it is evident that the socialist society in

Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread ravi
Doug Henwood wrote: So women should stay at home and mash lentils rather than having this process industrialized? How many lentils does Shiva mash, in between her visits to Japan and San Francisco? Or is there one rule for educated professional women, and another for uneducated peasant

Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Doug Henwood
Michael Perelman wrote: Most of what she says in the piece Lou posted is correct, except Cargen is really Cargill. She does have a tendency to romanticize and exaggerate, but this piece seems pretty good. So you agree that women rather than machines should grind flour? Doug

Re: rejecting a school

2002-07-26 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Jim, Can someone name the main achievement of one author who has been dubbed post-structuralist? Speaking as a reader of English translations, I dare suspect only Foucault could write such that he might be understood and enjoyed - and even he had many a moment. That said, and although

RE: Re: rejecting a school

2002-07-26 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28537] Re: rejecting a school [how's the font?] I wrote: BTW, how is post-structuralism defined? I'm post-structuralist since I learned from the Althusserian structuralists ... but moved on. But I don't think that's what the term means... Christian writes: It all

Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Louis Proyect
So women should stay at home and mash lentils rather than having this process industrialized? How many lentils does Shiva mash, in between her visits to Japan and San Francisco? Or is there one rule for educated professional women, and another for uneducated peasant women? Socialists are not

Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Michael Perelman
Most of what she says in the piece Lou posted is correct, except Cargen is really Cargill. She does have a tendency to romanticize and exaggerate, but this piece seems pretty good. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chico, CA 95929

Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread Doug Henwood
Vandana Shiva wrote: These advanced technologies are not about feeding a hungry world. They are about seeking control over the natural world, over people, and taking away the productive capacity of women. The McKinsey Corporation, a large international consultant firm, recently produced a

Re: Re: Re: Drudgery

2002-07-26 Thread Carrol Cox
Ian Murray wrote: The strongest objections to democratizing technology come from experts who fear the loss of their hardwon freedom from lay interference. This part is simply absurd! It's the software engineers, not Bill Gates et al who keep Microsoft undemocratic? It is worth

Capital Flows Monitor: 7/26/02

2002-07-26 Thread Finmktctr
New from the Financial Markets Center Capital Flows Monitor: July 26, 2002 The U.S. international investment position continues to deteriorate, draping an increasingly ominous cloud over domestic and global economic activity. In the latest edition of Capital Flows Monitor, Jane D'Arista looks

quick question

2002-07-26 Thread Ellen Frank
Can anyone tell me the maximum earnings subject to SS tax for 2002? I've searched the SSA website and can't seem to find it. Thanks. Ellen

Re: Re: Re: Re: Drudgery

2002-07-26 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 4:53 PM Subject: [PEN-L:28630] Re: Re: Re: Drudgery Ian Murray wrote: The strongest objections to democratizing technology come from experts who fear the loss of their

Re: quick question

2002-07-26 Thread enilsson
Check -- http://www.ssa.gov/pressoffice/colafacts2001.htm Eric Can anyone tell me the maximum earnings subject to SS tax for 2002? I've searched the SSA website and can't seem to find it. Thanks. Ellen

splitting GE Capital

2002-07-26 Thread Ian Murray
July 26, 2002 GE Capital to Split Into Four By REUTERS NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jeff Immelt, in his first major reorganization as chief of General Electric Co. (GE.N), on Friday tightened his grip on GE Capital and said he would split GE's profit-driving finance arm into four parts. The

Re: Re: Re: Re: Drudgery

2002-07-26 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 7/26/02 5:03:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ian Murray wrote: The strongest objections to democratizing technology come from experts who fear the loss of their hardwon freedom from lay interference. This part is simply absurd! It's the software

Re: Re: quick question

2002-07-26 Thread Ellen Frank
There it is! Thanks, Eric. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Check -- http://www.ssa.gov/pressoffice/colafacts2001.htm Eric Can anyone tell me the maximum earnings subject to SS tax for 2002? I've searched the SSA website and can't seem to find it. Thanks. Ellen

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Drudgery

2002-07-26 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 5:53 PM Subject: [PEN-L:28636] Re: Re: Re: Re: Drudgery In a message dated 7/26/02 5:03:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ian Murray wrote: The strongest objections

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Drudgery

2002-07-26 Thread Carrol Cox
Ian Murray wrote: -- Actually Feenberg, coming from a Marxian-Marcusian-Heideggerian standpoint pays a lot of attention to May 68 as well as address property relations. But you'd have to actually read his books to see that. I intended my comment to apply only to the specific sentence

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

2002-07-26 Thread ken hanly
Lou. Check this out. http://cal.vet.upenn.edu/swine/prod/states.html#io US hog production is not centred in North Carolina but Iowa. In fact Iowa is far and away the leader in marketing. North Carolina produces many little piglets. Many are shipped to Iowa. Why? Because it is cheaper to ship the

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