of reason already exists in the present, in yours it is projected
into the future. I only wish I had the cunning to critique this pure reason,
but it seems that I kan't.
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you once and I will ask you twice.
I will not ask thrice.
Colin Danby, WHERE DO YOU STAND?
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ost of labour is
indeterminate. Please see Part 5, Chapters 10 and 11 of Capital for an
extended discussion of this, particularly section 4 of Chapter 10:
"Simultaneous variations in the duration, productiveness and intensity
rs to pursue
their own ends and rights. A little labour history is all that is needed to
make the final connection between political strikes and the historical
struggle to limit the working day. If you don't at least know the keywords,
"haymarket square" and "chartists", look them up. Historical m
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f _living labour_. Beyond that precise limit capital ceases to
be dead labour "as such"; it becomes merely death "in general" -- a
meaningless abyss.
Moral relativism does have its limits. We don't need to ask, for example,
whether sociopathy is a valid point of vi
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e .199 big
shots look bad.
Come to think of it, using sports metaphors to explain economics or politics
is like using desert metaphors to explain a swamp. Once you get away from
the abundance of poisonous reptiles, they don't really have that much in common.
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My New Years' wish to all: may spring follow winter.
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pendent, practitioners carved out
space for their profession that would ultimately closely identify themselves
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they hoped would flow from their independent stance.
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possibly 10 days away from a financial catastrophe, and the urgency to
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the
political pressures that support those inequities. Maybe a fair tax system
and a full employment policy in Canada would be sufficient grounds for a
U.S. blockade.
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In our Tom we have a raconteur smack in the tradition of Khrushchev,
I always wanted to be a raconteur but I never felt quite avuncular enough.
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Goosey Loosey.
"Follow me", said the Wall Street fox, "I know a short-cut to the king's
palace."
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existing rates of
saving and capital investment, a tick up in productivity growth large
enough by itself to provide for impending benefits is problematic," he said.
His testimony did not address monetary policy or Asia's current financial
c
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resting to ask whether
apocalyptic pooh-poohing isn't itself just a variation on the theme of
apocalypse. In other words, Sawicky's rhetorical labelling of Chossudovsky's
tract as "apocalyptic" was itself an apocalyptic gesture.
Think about it.
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temptation to go beyond the critique, though.
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rs in them (because of the automatism of the plot). This is not to
say that the authors of utopias/apocalypse might not sometimes themselves be
interesting characters.
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ited earlier sounds to me like an "affirmative" flip side
of Foucault.
BTW, the discussion of 'utopias' is incomplete without an appreciation (and
critique) of the emergence and dissemination of architectural utopias.
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of organization, of clarity,
of economy. Bright, wide workrooms, easy to oversee, undivided except as the
undertaking is divided. The maximum effect with the minimum expenditure of
means. The materials are concrete, iron, glass."
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such
questions should be entirely ignored until they become strategic. It's even
possible that discussing such issues now might help them become strategic or
that ignoring them entirely might lead to a dead end (bang, bang -- there, I
shot you ;-)).
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Eugene Coyle,
Jerry Brown now running for mayor of Oakland said "There is there there,
along with somewhere and nowhere. And he emphasizes that Less is more.
Hey, they laughed at Tricky Dick but he came back.
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t;, but that the net result has
been to prop up the value of capital assets. Is such a thing as a rentier
long upswing even possible?
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he wealthy and powerful into a
career as a circuit riding political commentator (or in Timese, "pundit").
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into a party's probably wouldn't join it. Their worldview
isn't madly totalizing enough.
I always wondered if Lyndon Larouche wasn't a sustained performance piece
loosely based on the classic Ed Wood turkey, "Plan 9 from Outer Space".
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two alternatives to making concessions:
civil disobedience and organizing for insurrection. Admittedly, neither of
these is easy or guarantees a favourable collective agreement. But doesn't
compliance with bad law invite more of the same?
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the
train for Philadelphia. Since -- as Ellen Dannin pointed out -- the lawyers
are superior, they probably sent the first train out to check for land mines.
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Isn't this one for the entire period, rather than an annual average?
93Q1-97Q3 4.3% 15.3% (Clinton years)
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much income or even any income at all?
Machines cannot eliminate jobs. What they do is automate processes. People
eliminate jobs.
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yment there has been an explosion
in se, much of it involuntary self-employment (ten percent of the
self-employed in 1996 gave "couldn't find a job" as the reason for being
"self-employment"). I suspect that the same contrast would hold for the more
broadly defined conting
Counter-revolution has its limits as a development strategy.
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man
rights. This is like saying there is no direct connection between mind and body.
The riddle's not in the level of the water, mates, it's in the albatross.
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[
ng: stale, suffocating, Stalin, Thatcher . . . the
myth that "there is no alternative" -- the bogus claim that the myth "to
which there is no alternative" is therefore not a myth.
There is *always* an other.
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Max wrote,
let
interested parties (if any) please note that
in my original post I thought the professor's
article sufficiently interesting and
substantive to merit a reaction, albeit with some
criticisms and questions.
I never doubted it.
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? Lucifers?
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no longer bear being dogged by skip
tracers and the odd shotgun toting dad (and his even odder daughter), I
adopted the handle of Rip van Winkle. To make a long story short, when I
awoke I changed my name again, this time to another Washington Irving
character, and I have remained Tom Walker to thi
and
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for speculation about the finality of crisis tendencies.
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and just less for others. While
Chossudovsky may have been hyperventilating, Max's and Doug's sanguine
comments about the "low rate of unemployment" reveal a quaint U.S.-centric
parochialism. I wouldn't worry about the apocalypse -- bedlam's as bad as it
gets.
Regards,
Paul Phillips wrote,
Doug, perhaps you can explain to me Greenspan's thought
process.
My entry in the explain-Greenspan's-thought-process sweepstakes: Ponzi on
steroids.
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Could a five minute [PEN-L]ty for high sticking and a game [PEN-L]ty for
brawling increase the signal to noise ratio on this list?
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viour and psychology of «
investors », nor by any stochastic martingale from around the gaming
tables of Las Vegas or Monte-Carlo.
Hoping to dont have been too boring, friendly,
Romain Kroes
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Jerry wrote,
Consider the options for working people who have savings (especially older
workers): [blah, blah, blah, blah]
One option not listed, investing in social change. Mutual aid, not mutual
funds. Where's the imagination?
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market virgins do now that their beloved has turned on them? So many
questions, so few answers.
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recent losses be cancelled out but that something like the
previous rate of increase be resumed. That's more or less what happened
after the bump last spring. It could happen again. But it hasn't happened
yet and I wouldn't bet on it happening any time soon. This, however, doesn't
mean that everything's
of a movement for
the reduction in working hours concerning each and everyone.
On November 20, in Luxembourg city, we will be there to defend that idea !
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max wrote,
left is invisible, and the labor movement is
starting to eat a few Wheaties (sorry for
technical terminology) but has a good ways to go
before it can leap over tall buildings. It would
A grainier expression would be that it is not yet "feeling its oats".
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As the preacher said, there's nothing new under the sun.
So, comrades, what is to be done?
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adictions", how about this as the great
contradiction of the Keynesian welfare state. The rich are busy
congratulating themselves for grabbing the commonwealth at the same time as
they're making sure there won't be anymore where that came from.
R
. That's the
cause of the growing inequality. Who needs a book to tell 'em that? Of
course, I'm no eocnomist.
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Milton Friedman?
Dan Hammond
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University
PIFFLE. MALODOROUS PIFFLE. Hammond should stick to his organ.
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Jason Hecht wrote,
Without being sappy or sentimental, the plain
fact is that you've got to have a total absence of humanity to carry this
out. There is something profoundly wrong in China!!
The plain fact is that only a "total absence of humanity" can explain much
of history.
Rega
can claim exemption from this fault. If Marx were alive today,
he could no doubt finance the takeover of Microsoft by borrowing against
future speaker's fees.
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aesthetic was
in evidence, though it must be remembered that distance in gender
questions is something of a male privilege.
I wish I'd said that.
All questions of transgression/subversion/validation aside, the
juxtaposition of Paris is Burning with saran wrap is fortuitous.
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fraid of
being taken for. See also the film, "Paris is Burning".
Please excuse the inversions, but that was the point.
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lease have a look and tell me what you think:
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For those who don't have access to the web, contact me and I'll email a
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comfortable.
That said, I agree with Carl Dassbach that long waves are a wonderful
heuristic -- a sort of grand plot outline that helps us guess what the
characters are up to before we have all the evidence.
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n this list familiar with Roe's Narrative Policy
Analysis? (Duke University Press). I recommend it and will say a bit more
about it in a future post. Gotta run now.
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urn to Eric's actual argument.
God, the devil and Kondratieff long waves are stories that some people
use to help them understand how we have arrived at current
social-economic conditions. Judging from recent electoral trends, the
devil probably has a good lead over Kondratieff. We dismiss this
information at our peril.
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on Technology, Employment and
Community. Please have a look -- any suggestions for additions to the page
are welcome and permission is granted to link to the page or reuse the html
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n
capital and labor.
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cy options look like?
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ibly
object to a special levy to defeat unemployment?
By the way, I've added a 66 item (and growing) bibliography to my web page
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Please check it out and send me your suggestions!
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too much in taxes -- I can't afford it.
Let the government take care of my unemployed brothers and sisters."
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implementing the measure without
endorsement or funding from the government or corporations.
Anything else is an "armchair" solution, also known as monday morning
quarterbacking.
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uld lose credibility if it
failed to do so.
C. Progressive organizations could begin implementing the measure without
endorsement or funding from the government or corporations.
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by
not saying what I didn't say. So there.
Besides, I'm not an economist. I'm a policy analyst.
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federal budget cutters are considering eliminating all but the most basic
data-gathering functions.
What we don't know, can't hurt us... can it?
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iety is the history of NETWORKING."
Where does the story go from here?
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. Both Standard Poor, and also
Moodys give credit-ratings at about the Cs and Ds, far far below the credit
ratings of US banks. Even bankrupt New York City, I believe, has a credit
rating of BBB.
SNIP SNIP SNIP
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mic freedom" should not rest wholly on the
self-righteousness of the selectively free.
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ons and grant funded
non-profits.
I get the sense we have turned the corner on "lean and mean" and have
arrived at the anorexic and gridlocked stage of corporate social
cannibalism. Sorry about the mixed metaphor.
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least honest. He
acknowledged that the problem was there but said: "I don't have an answer
for that."
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That makes two wonderful posts from Calvin Simon. Calvin, what you say is so
important and you say it so clearly. Thanks for saying it.
I only skimmed Bridges' Jobshift, so I apologize
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Bravo!
One of the issues that has not been addressed lately on this list is the
important business of re-thinking the relationship between work and
money. This issue has been addressed
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Michael Etchison says:
He [Tom Walker] thinks it matters that people are working unpaid
hours, not (as I took it) that their hours are cut. I don't see that it
does, even in order to sustain their point. Whether I work 20 hours at
$5 or 25 hours at $4, the monetary income is the same
,
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ticle, the decision to use it as the basis for a proposal could
amount to terminating Community funding for a measure.
Next meeting of committee: 9 and 10 October 1995 in Strasbourg
For further information, please contact Patrick REYNOLDS (tel : Brussels 284
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t I have
reported so far and that they want to hear the rest of the "tale".
Otherwise, I will have to assume that my "style" is too incomprehensible and
that, as Bob Dylan sang, "the answer my friend is blowin' in the wind. The
answer is blowin' in the wind."
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dvisors to governments and financial
institutions, and textbook authors. I submit that after one or two such
feasts, the economic woes of the nation would be solved, as if by magic.
Of course, there's... nothing new here.
(With apologies to Jonathon Swift)
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of
solidarity and determination in the figures without resorting to
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oordinator of the Shorter Work Time Network of Canada
and author of _Put Work In Its Place_ and _Working Harder Isn't
Working_(both published by New Star Books, Vancouver, B.C.).
The Shorter Work Time Network can be reached by phone at (604)334-0998 or
write Box 3483, Courtenay, BC, V9N 6Z8.
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of Canada
and author of _Put Work In Its Place_ and _Working Harder Isn't
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published by New Star Books, Vancouver, B.C.).
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Woke up this morning wondering if today was going to be one of those triple
witching thingies (what with Halloween coming and the end of October). Doug?
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of earlier campaigns, and not in the narrow economic framework
of reducing unemployment."
YES! YES! YES!
... But then she concludes that in the absence of worker militancy any
campaign for a shorter work week seems likely to hurt... more than it helps.
Oh maggie, maggie, what about a campaign for a s
Mr.
Schumacher's scheme: are they to do their work as a hobby? or wait until
the Commissar has approved their product and authorized issuance of a
voucher?
Michael Etchison
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