You don't get down here much, do you?
We've got statues of Confederate war heroes (sic) honored
by placement in public squares, state governments fly the
stars and bars, so why not a Confederate History Month?
(don't ask me what 'confederate history' is supposed
to mean, as opposed to 'civil war
Trotsky was very smart.
So why did Stalin outsmart him in the struggle for power?
This discussion is of no interest to the list.
How do you know that?
Rod Hay [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/10/00 10:01PM
What is with the US. A confederate month in Virginia? How do they think
that they can get away with it?
CB: They know they can get away with it because they've always been able to get away
with it.
CB
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/08/00 04:11PM
At 01:06 PM 5/8/00 -0700, you wrote:
Yes, baseball is like craft-based capitalism;
I think that the phrase "craft-based capitalism" is somewhat contradictory.
I think a better phrase would be "craft-based commodity exchange." Even
though
I am not going to rise to your bait. Your love of stirring up
controversy keeps you from being able to be a positive contributor to
the list.
Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
This discussion is of no interest to the list.
How do you know that?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California
I dont want to disrupt the deep discussion on the dictatorship of the
proletariat; or perhaps I dont have to considering its strong
similarity with what's going on below: the enlightenment trust in
one's ability to achieve "pure moral insight": of
living in a world system charecterized by
Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/08/00 12:07PM
Jim Devine wrote:
What's the leftist explanation of this trend?
A couple of years ago, I interviewed a bunch of crime pundits on the
downtrend. The consensus was: 1) the decline of crack (driven,
several of them said, by younger people
Rod Hay wrote:
What is with the US. A confederate month in Virginia? How do they think
that they can get away with it?
Not to apologize too much for U.S. lunacy, it seems like you
Canadians are experiencing the kind of hard-right lunacy we did
10-15-20 years ago - Ralph Klein, Mike Harris,
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
You don't get down here much, do you?
We've got statues of Confederate war heroes (sic) honored
by placement in public squares, state governments fly the
stars and bars, so why not a Confederate History Month?
(don't ask me what 'confederate history' is supposed
to mean,
O we have our loonies. And you have named just a few. But I was asking in
the Virginia case. Given the reaction to other actions of this sort. Why
were they willing to risks the boycotts and the eventually retraction. South
Carolina has backed down on the flag issue.
I have visited the US often
Charles Brown wrote:
I have to agree with Jim D. that the drop in unemployment would be a
traditional left mentioned factor.
Yes, but the trend predated the recent lows in unemployment, and
there's been a sharp drop in crime in NYC, where unemployment is
still quite high (and the
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/10/00 05:29PM
I wrote:
I don't think the issue of democracy should be separated from the class
nature of the state. At least as I understand Marx, he believed that the
proletariat would be a different kind of ruling class than previous ruling
classes, that its
At 10:01 PM 5/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
What is with the US. A confederate month in Virginia? How do they think
that they can get away with it?
hey, we're uncivilized. Live with it. In fact, you _have_ to learn to live
with it, since we're trying to impose the "American model" on the world.
Jim
At 10:32 PM 5/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
Louis,
Not too long ago there was a discussion on your list (Marxism) about why
the Soviet Union fell apart.
I would like to suggest that the real reason was the Lada.
this is a very interesting note (though Mark Jones' criticisms largely seem
to be on
Chris,
Not to horse a dead beat, but Chomksy called for the US government to
intervene on behalf of the Timorese people by halting the flow of US weapons
to the Indonesian armed forces and paramilitary units. Chomsky was not
calling for US military intervention against the warriors of the
I wrote:
BTW, a friend (an expert on Soviet agriculture and politics) who spent a
year in the USSR in 1977 or so reported that Soviet academics were
expected to quote from Lenin in all articles (including articles on soil
chemistry). But they weren't supposed to quote from THE STATE AND
Simulating activism is not the only way to be positive...guess I blew
it again. I'll be on my periodical unsub anytime soon, anyways.
I am not going to rise to your bait. Your love of stirring up
controversy keeps you from being able to be a positive contributor to
the list.
Ricardo Duchesne
Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/11/00 11:04AM
Charles Brown wrote:
I have to agree with Jim D. that the drop in unemployment would be a
traditional left mentioned factor.
Yes, but the trend predated the recent lows in unemployment, and
there's been a sharp drop in crime in NYC, where
EPI is preparing a report which shows a strong link
between crime rates and conditions in the low-wage
labor market (i.e., better conditions, less crime,
as one might expect).
mbs
Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/11/00 11:04AM
Charles Brown wrote:
I have to agree with Jim D. that the
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/11/00 12:15PM
I wrote:
BTW, a friend (an expert on Soviet agriculture and politics) who spent a
year in the USSR in 1977 or so reported that Soviet academics were
expected to quote from Lenin in all articles (including articles on soil
chemistry). But they
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2000:
RELEASED TODAY: U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes -- April 2000,
indicates that the U.S. Import Price Index decreased 1.6 percent in April.
The decrease, the first since June 1999, was attributable to a large
downturn in petroleum prices.
The power of the people
By Sam Webb
The hope of the ruling elite that the "Battle in Seattle" was a blip on the screen was
unceremoniously crushed during the week of April 9-16 when tens of thousands of
activists descended on our nation's capital to protest capitalist globalization.
In
Anyone interested in being disabused of the notion that only the Southern
U.S. is filled with racist and misleading historical sites should read James
Loewen's excellent new book: "Lies Across America: What Our Historical Sites
Get Wrong" (New Press, 1999). The book takes the reader on a tour of
At 09:12 11/05/00 -0700, you wrote:
Chris,
Not to horse a dead beat, but Chomksy called for the US government to
intervene on behalf of the Timorese people by halting the flow of US
weapons to the Indonesian armed forces and paramilitary units. Chomsky
was not calling for US military
[of course, if you paid the proper price for the stuff you'd be lucky to be
even driving a Lada... Mark]
The Real Price Of Gas
Executive Summary
This report by the International Center for Technology Assessment (CTA)
identifies and quantifies the many external costs of using motor vehicles
and
I have the highest regard for Theodor Bergmann, the 84 year old editor of
the Hamburg-based magazine "Sozialismus," who spoke last night at the
Brecht Forum on "The German Anti-Nazi Left". Three years ago the magazine
entered into a fraternal relationship with Monthly Review, which is edited
by
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Louis Proyect crossposted from the Baltimore Sun:
MALNUTRITION IS EPIDEMIC: ROUGHLY HALF OF ALL CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 5
ARE STUNTED FOR LACK OF FOOD. HUNGER AND A GROSSLY INEFFICIENT AID SYSTEM
HAVE KEPT VIETNAM'S POVERTY RATE THE HIGHEST IN THE REGION: THE WORLD BANK
I agree with Micheal. Workers earning their livings in sweatshops do not
even get a living wage. Let's not make the situation look better.
Particulary, women workers are more vulnerable to exploitation in this
process.It is true that most of the women in this part of the world come
to cities to
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