RE: Re: Re: Imperialism in decline?

2002-07-08 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27739] Re: Re: Imperialism in decline? Ulhas:9. Foreign policy issues are not important domestic politics. Why should they be important? We are free and independent nation. Marxists, particularly of anti-imperialist variety, don't appreciate that calling independent nations

RE: RE: Re: Re: Imperialism in decline?

2002-07-08 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27741] RE: Re: Re: Imperialism in decline? Ulhas:9. Foreign policy issues are not important domestic politics. Why should they be important? We are free and independent nation. Marxists, particularly of anti-imperialist variety, don't appreciate that calling independent

Re: Re: Re: Imperialism in decline?

2002-07-08 Thread Louis Proyect
How does this comport with Vandana Shiva's dire tales of Indian farmers miserably exploited by international agribusiness and the gene modifiers? Doug Ulhas was writing about rich farmers, not the poor majority. Why he did is anybody's guess. It is like asking somebody about the situation of

Re: Re: Re: Imperialism in decline?

2002-07-08 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
Doug Henwood : How does this comport with Vandana Shiva's dire tales of Indian farmers miserably exploited by international agribusiness and the gene modifiers? The question Doug asked was about the WTO and its impact on Indian farmers. So I answered accordingly. Poor farmers hardly have any

Re: Re: Re: Re: Imperialism in decline?

2002-07-08 Thread Louis Proyect
Ulhas: The question Doug asked was about the WTO and its impact on Indian farmers. So I answered accordingly. Poor farmers hardly have any surpluses to be affected by the WTO. Doug's question was not about the state of poor and marginal farmers. Subject: Massive mobilisation in India against the

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Imperialism in decline?

2002-07-08 Thread Louis Proyect
New Delhi, Jan 11, 2000 While more than 200 activists were staging a demonstration outside, three protestors sneaked into a heavily guarded venue session of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Partnership Meet 2000, here today. WTO Director General Mike Moore had just finished speaking

Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Imperialism in decline?

2002-07-07 Thread Doug Henwood
Ulhas Joglekar wrote: Is Lenin's theory of imperialism relevant today? The minute Japan and the EU begin an arms buildup and fight with the U.S. for influence in the so-called South, and U.S., EU, and Japanese capitalists withdraw their investments in each other - maybe. Doug

Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Imperialism in decline?

2002-07-07 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
Doug Henwood wrote: Ulhas Joglekar wrote: Is Lenin's theory of imperialism relevant today? The minute Japan and the EU begin an arms buildup and fight with the U.S. for influence in the so-called South, and U.S., EU, and Japanese capitalists withdraw their investments in each other -

RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Imperialism in decline?

2002-07-06 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27654] Re: Re: Re: Re: Imperialism in decline? Ulhas: And what is Imperialism in the first place? Imperialism, as Marxists use that term, refers to a social system of international domination, of most countries by others. (Unlike in other perspectives, it is not simply

Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Imperialism in decline?

2002-07-06 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
Devine, James: Ulhas:And what is Imperialism in the first place? Imperialism, as Marxists use that term, refers to a social system of international domination, of most countries by others. (Unlike in other perspectives, it is not simply a policy, a decision by government officials.) Originally

Re: Re: Re: Imperialism in decline?

2002-07-05 Thread Nancybrumback
The problem is that whatever their faults may be (and I personally thinktheir work is pretty worthless), it is bizarre to accuse Hardt/Negri oflacking a dialectical approach. It might be better to say that theirerror is dialectics run wild, escaped from all grounding in empiricalreality. thanks,

Re: Re: Re: Re: Imperialism in decline?

2002-07-05 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
From: Nancybrumback: thanks, carrol, for your response. however, the question was what is a dialectical approach in the first place? And what is Imperialism in the first place? Ulhas