see http://www.ucomics.com/nonsequitur/2004/06/12/
jd
why send the lyrics to the list? It does not add much.
Sorry. A bit of dark sarcasm. I'll try to be more constructive and observe
good style. Okay then. From a linguistic point of view, in American idiom,
the expression America's love affair with..., America's love of/with...
etc. is in truth
Jim raised the question in that post Yoshie mentions: But then again,
I'm not sure exactly what it means to have to have the law of value
continuing to operate under socialism. Does that mean that the economy
isn't totally under a plan?
^^^
And that some goods and services are traded based on
"But then again, I'm not sure exactly what it means to have to have "the law of value"continuing "to operate under socialism." Does that mean that the economyisn't totally under a plan?
Comment
"The Economic Development of the USSR" by Roger Munting, St
So, Sweezy wished to clarify the meanings of the terms socialism
and communism by saying that the law of value still continues to
operate under socialism to the extent that economy is capitalistic,
i.e., governed by market discipline, whereas it won't under communism
worth its name. As Jim
I quoted Marx on services as follows:
Thus, because the specific relation of labour and capital is not contained
at all in this purchase of services; because it has either been completely
extinguished or was never present, it is naturally the favourite form used
by Say, Bastiat and their
to initiate negotiations with four
Andean countries on a free trade agreement. The interagency Trade
Policy Staff Committee (TPSC) will convene a public hearing and seek
public comment to assist the United States Trade Representative (USTR)
in amplifying and clarifying negotiating objectives
As regards military Ricardianism, for those interested in the finer points
of scholarship, here's an 1845-46 comment from Karl Marx on the
transformation of productive forces into destructive forces.
In German, the text is: In der Entwicklung der Produktivkräfte tritt eine
Stufe ein, auf welcher
I wrote previously:
depreciation schedules implemented are crucial for the amount of
distributed and undistributed profits.
Yesterday I was looking at the most recent detailed US IRD and NIPA data,
which I hadn't done before, and I noticed this fact is actually acknowledged
in the NIPA
Well yes, there's data and then there's good data and the BEA utilizes
offsets so that changes in depreciation figures triggered by tax credits are
zeroed out of the profit sum.
In addition, the BEA and other sub-groups of the Dept. of Commerce report
corporate profits before and after taxes,
I have not followed agriculture closely since my 1977 book on the subject.
Agricultural statistics must be taken with a grain of salt. Farmers commonly
will write off expenses, such as gasoline, that can be used for their own
personal consumption. Also, in many branches of agriculture, farmers
It seems to me that a context of rising profits (unless you
believe it is over) will have strategic importance to our assessments of
the medium term directions of the US economy - and the types of challenges
we will face.
As I explained before on PEN-L, Karl Marx believed equilbrium was
I wrote:
By multiplying my 1:29 ratio by the world population, I arrive at the
estimate that the total number of crime victim reports in 1997 in the whole
world must have been 170 billion in round figures. Just imagine that eh. 170
billion crimes a year in the whole world. Hell, crime is as
Thanks.
An odd feature of the U.S. housing boom is that the rental index
hasn't gone up all that much - $46b gain between 2000 and 2001
(latest available). The annual GDP tables have data on imputations -
specifically 8.21, at
In my previous post on Marxmail I left out one important point. This point
is, that in accounting for Iraq ONLY on the basis of assets and liabilities,
which is the Colin Powell argument, it is important to understand the
effects of revaluing assets in the account.
The christian fundamentalist
Carl Jung has some advice for our troubled times, which consists in
spiritual reform, in other words, the oppressed of this earth need a good
dose of spirituality for their salvation. Thus, he said in the wake of the
second world war:
Everything possible has been done for the outside world:
When we probe the concept of economic equilibrium in bourgeois economic
theory deeply, I think we actually have the conclude that all bourgeois
theories of equilibrium reduce finally to a company balance sheet that is
in the black, rather than in the red as they say (in the blue would
really be a
or experience; and then the motives for
imperialism research become somewhat hazy, and the monstrous effects of
imperialism appear in a footnote. For the rest of it, I have not read Wood's
book, and therefore cannot comment on its merits).
You may find this quote by Robert Kennedy interesting, both
I have to agree. The most common complaint about the list is the
excessive amount of material.
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 08:35:17PM -0500, Carrol Cox wrote:
Jurriaan -- you are writing too much. I have to skip all of them because
I don't have the time to select the ones which it would be
Tuesday, 19 August, 2003
Dutch economy out of step
by RN Economics editor Wendy Braanker, 18 August 2003
The Dutch economy has shrunk by nearly a full percentage point in this
year's second quarter. The figure is higher than many analysts had expected.
They put it down to declines in household
A friend writes from Albuquerque NM..
Dan:
Clearly the rules for everything are changing and I don't see a way
back, for principles of any kind. Leaders have re-defined what the
traffic will bear. I feel so overwhelmed by the scope of it, stymied,
stupid, and spread out on a sheer rock
Question:
How relevant do you all think the Bush-Hitler comment was? I think that
German Chancellor was right on...the war on Iraq is a strategically timed
diversion from an ailing economy prior to an important election. Hitler was
known for employing political diversions. Considering Saddam
Friday August 2, 9:11 am Eastern Time
Reuters Business Report
Consumer Spending Up on Big Income Gain
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer spending rose solidly in June as income
advanced at the fastest pace in nearly two years on the back of big pay
gains, helping cash registers ring out the
Title: RE: [PEN-L:29042] Big Income Gains? Comment?
short comment: (1) it's a mistake to rely on one month's statistics to judge what's happening, especially when a lot of the other statistics (such as July's employment report) are not looking very good; (2) one thing that happens
Title: RE: [PEN-L:29042] Big Income Gains? Comment?
Right. I didn't think it was a good
thing. Small fodder for the perma-bulls maybe. I thought it was
interesting, and probably tied up with the factor you mention, that the rise in
after-tax income was higher than the general rise in income
Digby Jones, the CBI's [Confederation of British Industry] director general
said: The chancellor has rightly invested in the future productivity of
British business with funds for education and transport. But we must not
waste this historic opportunity to reform public services. The devil as
Stiglitz/ Comment from Rudy Fichtenbaum:
by Stephen E Philion
29 November 2001 22:20 UTC
When I was in China, the Marxist economist (and translator of the
nefarious Henwood's book Wall Street I might add) Han Deqiang used quote
after quote from Stiglitz in speeches he gave to university
CB: From Ricardo something was gotten for the fight. Marx quotes Benjamin
Franklin favoably in _Capital_. From the bourgeois economist Hobson and
others like, Lenin culled the kernel of his concept of imperialism. From
whathisname came creative destruction. From Eisenhower, who must have
known
Comment from Rudy Fichtenbaum:
I just skimmed over the article outlining Stigliz and Krugman's
critiques. Considering the fact that they are not Marxists I think
their criticisms are pretty significant. I think that on one level it
is probably worth supporting them because people will actually
in tarrifs, etc.
Han, btw, is really the closest thing China has to a Noam Chomsky. He goes
around to campuses and delivers lectures that simply use the words of
mainstream economists against the mythologies of neo-liberalism...
Steve
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Charles Brown wrote:
Comment from Rudy
Personal comments on the Historical Materialism meeting with Hardt Friday
26th October
In words and gestures Hardt received respect from Historical Materialism,
Callinicos and Bromley, althought it was not without significant
differences which they shared as part of the deal implicit in the
Washington Post
August 2, 2001
The Democrats' Mexican Roadblock
By Ruben Navarrette Jr.
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Not to be outdone, the Senate yesterday approved legislation that would impose
strict safety and insurance requirements on Mexican trucks bound for U.S. highways --
22 more than are
This is from Eric Pineault in Quebec. He is not on the list so I am
forwarding it on his behalf. His remarks re treatment of workers, cutbacks,
etc. might apply to
larger credit unions here as well but I don't know. When our local credit
unions merged there was no cutback in staff but perhaps
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Date: Monday, November 27, 2000 6:59 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:5028] [Fwd: Re: on the American election - a query and a
comment]
I love the growing list of betrayals of their base
which led to the Democratic defeat. My favorite is
the War on Crime and the denial of the vote to so
many black men
- a query and a comment
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 17:05:51 -0500
From: jonathan flanders [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think we need to fight on THIS level also, and not REDUCE
the issue to one of the undemocratic nature of the
"This section solves the puzzle about value and prices of production called
the transformation problem ... It is not crucial to the larger story of
capitalism." -- Charles Andrews, _From Capitalism to Equality_, p. 97.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Jim,
I don't have the book yet and will not be able to get it probably for a while, so
could you please comment or reproduce Andrews' discussion (main points or how his
proposed solution differ or reproduces other previous solutions) of the transformation
problem.
Thanks,
Fabian
At 04:37 PM 9/21/00 -0400, you wrote:
Jim,
I don't have the book yet and will not be able to get it probably for a
while, so could you please comment or reproduce Andrews' discussion (main
points or how his proposed solution differ or reproduces other previous
solutions) of the transformation
At 04:37 PM 9/21/00 -0400, you wrote:
Jim,
I don't have the book yet and will not be able to get it probably for a
while, so could you please comment or reproduce Andrews' discussion (main
points or how his proposed solution differ or reproduces other previous
solutions) of the transformation
for a
while, so could you please comment or reproduce Andrews' discussion (main
points or how his proposed solution differ or reproduces other previous
solutions) of the transformation problem.
Thanks,
Fabian
His main point seems to be a relatively common-sense explanation of the
"sol
don't have the book yet and will not be able to get it probably for a
while, so could you please comment or reproduce Andrews' discussion (main
points or how his proposed solution differ or reproduces other previous
solutions) of the transformation problem.
Thanks,
Fabian
His main point
Max Sawicky wrote:
Alert. Alert. Value theory thread incoming.
Take cover.
Value theory? What's that?
Doug
At 07:19 PM 9/21/00 -0400, you wrote:
Max Sawicky wrote:
Alert. Alert. Value theory thread incoming.
Take cover.
Value theory? What's that?
Doug
economists know the price everything and the value of nothing...
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
In a message dated 9/21/00 4:58:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
His main point seems to be a relatively common-sense explanation of the
"solution" to the "transformation problem" that Fred Moseley advocates. See
the latter's article in the current _Review of Radical
Cullenberg et al:
And, again, this world
structured according to the object-life of the commodity has been thought
to have received an enormous recent boost by the emergence of new
information technologies, especially the internet. According to this view,
computers have made commodity time and
Lou
this was an extraordinarily interesting post for my particular
purposes. Here at Queensland University of Technology, the uni plus the
state govt have launched what they call the 'creative industries
initiative'. It parallels similar initiatives especially in Europe. The
State Govt
from SLATE'S survey of what's in US magazines:
Harper's, June 2000
An essay by Tom Wolfe decries the political correctness foisted on us by
"Rococo Marxists" such as Judith Butler and Stanley Fish. Since World War I
American intellectuals have been telling Americans their society is
On my way home I couldn't stop thinking about Dolan. I can't see how a
radical movement, one aimed at worker self-emancipation could ever be
led by such a person. Perhaps others can enlighten me on his good
qualities, but I was very much unimpressed.
Michael Yates
Of course, the 1960s anti-war
I suspect that it is a mistake to regard Ralph Nader as entirely good or
entirely bad. He has done some excellent work. For example, I suspect -- but
he should speak for himself -- that Patrick Bond appreciates Nader's work about
the drug companies in South Africa.
At the same time, Nader has
At 10:36 PM 4/3/00 -0400, Michael Yates wrote:
I went to the meeting early so I could hear the other presentations. The
first speaker was Mike Dolan of Seattle WTO protest fame.
Mike Dolan runs an outfit called Global Trade Watch that is a wing of Ralph
Nader's Public Citizen. Since Dolan's
I delivered an address to the officers, staff,and organizers of the
United Electrical Workers (UE) in Wilkes Barre, PA. this morning. I
thank those of you who commented on a draft of my talk. Your comments
were most useful to me. The talk was a great success and generated a
long discussion.
USIA
10 May 1999
U.S. ENVOYS TO CASPIAN BASIN TOUT INVESTMENT PROSPECTS
(Say financial payoff requires long-term commitment) (900)
By Phillip Kurata
USIA Staff Writer
Washington -- U.S. ambassadors assigned to energy-rich countries
surrounding the Caspian Sea are offering "gold key" service
Louis Proyect wrote:
The significance of the surround was that large numbers could be taken. An
abundance and in some cases an overabundance of meat, hides, and other raw
materials were essential to the Sioux, for there were those stark occasions
when the buffalo would seemingly disappear and
The Columbian article failed to explicitly note that not only have I filed a
grievance, but per Clark College processes, my first level of appeal goes to
none other than Vice-president Ramsey ("please Mr. Himmler, at least fairly
consider the possibility thant anti-Semitism is evil and even
Michael Perelman wrote,
Somehow there has to be a logical thread here . . .
"In this game (which is called 'defense')
proportions are lost to the public mind
(can the mind resist)
An 'economy' of permanent warfare
is called 'peace' and 'preparedness'
-- every person and thing is upheaved
in its
Let's see if I understand this correctly. The CIA fails to predict the Indian
nuke test -- even though early reports of it were in the press -- so they
deserve more money. The towering regime of N. Korea threatens to bomb Hawaii
-- yes, I remember when Reagan spoke of the immanent danger of the
I watched the Leher report last night. Lots of discussion about a lot
of things I can't remember now, but nothing about this.
My only prior awareness of it came from reading Tom Kruse's Pen-l554
message. The following report is from the English Electronic Telegraph
From a Salomon Smith Barney blurb:
"Given worldwide economic turmoil and our outlook for slowing profits
growth, we have been recommending that investors focus on defensive names
with topline growth and strong earnings visibility. Stocks within the
defense industry have typically provided a
On defense sector stocks:
About $9 Billion Is Added to Pentagon Budget
NYT, today
By TIM WEINER
WASHINGTON -- The White House agreed with congressional negotiators Thursday
to add about $9 billion to the military budget, including about $2 billion
for intelligence programs and about $1 billion
Tom Kruse wordlessly delivers this From a Salomon Smith Barney blurb:
"Given worldwide economic turmoil and our outlook for slowing profits
growth, we have been recommending that investors focus on defensive names
with topline growth and strong earnings visibility. Stocks within the
defense
A friend of mine who teaches American studies wrote:
"My only major disagreement with CLR [James]: we should be happy that
the ship goes down, even if the workers mostly die and Ahab is
the one that pulls it down; it was not only the first factory
and the first multicultural one at that, but the
(posted originally on apst newsgroup)
As both a Jewish artist and communist, I wanted to throw in a few words on
Proyect's comments on the Jewish cultural and political scene.
My band has performed on one of John Zorn's "Radical Jewish Culture"
Festivals at the Knitting Factory. And in case
Clinton Honors Chile's Restored Democracy
By Thomas W. Lippman Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 18, 1998; Page A16
[snip]
Clinton, accompanied by first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of
State Madeleine K. Albright and senior White House officials, was effusively
welcomed by
Hey, Doug -- "consulting" is an integral part of the workings of the free
market, isn't it? If your clients are big enough, you needn't worry about
being held accountable for the quality of your work.
Sid
Sid Shniad wrote:
I'm surprised he's that frank. ;-)
Sid
10:32 GREENSPAN:
I'm surprised he's that frank. ;-)
Sid
10:32 GREENSPAN: SAYS MODEL OF US SL SITUATION APPLICABLE TO ASIA.
Reuters January 28, 1998
POPE HOPES FOR POLISH-STYLE CHANGE IN CUBA
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul said Wednesday he hopes his recent
visit to Cuba will bear fruit similar to his 1979 trip to Poland when he
helped
Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
Tom, there has been a lot of talk about this odd coalition against US
participation in the IMF bail-out of South Korea, Indonesia, etc. Aside
from labor dinosaurs and eco-freaks, so rudely brushed aside by Rubin, who
are some of the powerful members this odd
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Tom Walker wrote:
11:18 W. HOUSE OFFICIAL DENIES MARKET RUMOR OF TREASURY'S RUBIN TO RESIGN.
Tom, there has been a lot of talk about this odd coalition against US
participation in the IMF bail-out of South Korea, Indonesia, etc. Aside
from labor dinosaurs and
Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
Tom, there has been a lot of talk about this odd coalition against US
participation in the IMF bail-out of South Korea, Indonesia, etc. Aside
from labor dinosaurs and eco-freaks, so rudely brushed aside by Rubin, who
are some of the powerful members this odd coalition?
11:18 W. HOUSE OFFICIAL DENIES MARKET RUMOR OF TREASURY'S RUBIN TO RESIGN.
Regards,
Tom Walker
^^^
Know Ware Communications
Vancouver, B.C., CANADA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(604) 688-8296
At 03:21 PM 1/9/98 PST8PDT, Jim wrote:
Surely nobody disagrees with the idea that sex-slavery or underage
prostitution is wrong. The sex-workers comments were not aimed at
coerced or non-consensual prostitution, but at prostitutes who bject to
being criminalised in the name of saving their
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], James Michael Craven
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Capitalism produces a whole host of slick facades to "show" that
choices are indeed free choices or if they are even "constrained
choices", we are all constrained and they are choices nontheless.
But the reality is that
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], James Michael Craven
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
But just as these privileged few don't speak for
me (also one of the "privileged few" in relative terms) and certainly
do not speak for the part-time teachers or the grounds keepers, so no
hooker from Canberra can speak
I lived in Puerto Rico 1983-86 and worked as a Senior Planner for the
Planning Board of the Office of the Governor of P.R. My original
assignment was to work as a project leader restructuring and
examining the input-output system used for planning and forecasting
estimates.
After some time I
In a message dated 97-11-05 01:35:48 EST, you write:
4. The 'non-reporting' does not hold water, especially since the ratio of
boys as a majority over girls widens with age AND, there's just all those
pesky little corpses.
Excellent point Amen.
This whole business is psychopathic and
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.
Regards,
Tom
In a message dated 97-11-04 00:21:15 EST,[ several people have self
righteously said more or less the following]:
I understand that most of the gap in the number of girls as opposed to
boys in China is due to *under-reporting* of girls rather than female
infanticide. If the first born is a girl,
With respect to Mexico, newspaper columnist Luis Javier Garrido frequently
poses the efforts to bring democracy to Mexico as a struggle between civil
society and the PRI-government.
Steven Zahniser
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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 15:59:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Recipients of fair-l [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Coverage of Contra-Crack
From: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FAIR Press Release
On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Rhon Baiman wrote:
It was the NY Times a while back maybe a few months I think.
Isn't Literature/knowledge a business too?
In academics,
Knowledge is our business.
Still giggly after running,
Steven Zahniser
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Treacy: "Death Ain't Got Any Mercy" an old blues song sung by J. Garcia.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] COPYRIGHTED
On Wed, 9 Aug 1995, James Devine wrote:
"what a long, strange, trip it's been."
-- J. Garcia, recently deceased.
sincerely,
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Los Angeles,
"what a long, strange, trip it's been."
-- J. Garcia, recently deceased.
sincerely,
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Los Angeles, CA (the city of your future: the modern home of slavery)
I've been asked to forward this to the list. I haven't seen it
here yet, thought it might be of interest.
Blair Sandler
PLEASE NOTE: THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT WAS ISSUED BY ROBERT
AND
MICHAEL MEEROPOL, SONS OF JULIUS AND ETHEL ROSENBERG, AS AN
INITAL
REACTION TO THE RELEASE BY THE NATIONAL
Mike Meeropol wonders:
But the average student that I've taught has bought the "anyone can make it"
ideology lock, stock 'n' barrel!
I can't believe it's that bad at state supported institutions where there's
more solidly working-class students. At least I hope not!
Um... I'm afraid you're
DOLE SAID:
1) "Politics of class war" As in, Clinton's intention to avoid
[further] tax cuts for the rich to go with tax cuts for the middle
class promotes the politics of class warfare, which we
statespersonlike Republicans wish to avoid...
GIL TRANSLATED:
Translation: yeah, we
Friends: I sent this to the Boston Globe which rejected it;
perhaps you will find it of interest
An Alternative Vision of Mexican Development
David Barkin*
As a Mexican academic, temporarily in Cambridge, I am gratified by
the excellent coverage that the Boston Globe has been giving to
crisis
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