On Mandel's Late Capitalism, see: http://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1972/mandel.htm
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Sandwichman <[email protected]> wrote: > It's a long story. Kondratieff studied historical time series for prices > and detected an approximately 50-year cycle of expansion and contraction. > Ernest Mandel revisited Kondratieff's findings in his 1972 book, Late > Capitalism, and supplied a theoretical explanation for it. In my paper, I > elaborated on Mandel's explanation and developed a hypothesis that the > timing of the long waves was dictated by generational succession. The > behavior and attitudes of people who have grown up under a given level of > technology and living standards -- and thus take them for granted -- is > quite different than that of people who were already mature when the changes > were occurring. Some years later, Jerry Lembcke wrote an article published > in Science and Society, "Why 50 Years? Working - Class Formation and Long > Economic Cycles." that came to similar conclusions. In the 1990s I had a web > page on the Kondratieff waves, but not even the Wayback Machine can retrieve > it now. > > > On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Ray Harrell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Would you refresh us? >> >> >> >> REH >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Sandwichman >> *Sent:* Sunday, August 29, 2010 12:06 PM >> >> *To:* RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION >> *Subject:* Re: [Futurework] FW: The Next 500 Years >> >> >> >> "Mike Hollinshead tells me there is a similar wave pattern around >> economics. Anyone know anything about that?" >> >> Kondratieff waves. I wrote a paper on that back in 1979. I guess you could >> say I know something about it. >> >> On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Ray Harrell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 2012 will be ten cycles of 52 years exactly sing 1492. What do we call >> those ten cycles? Heaven or Hell? Actually hell is supposed to be 13 >> cycles. So we have three left over. Three the sacred number >> for……………who? Well we have the three Elder Fires that are representative >> of the Great Mystery. Or maybe something was going on here and in >> Europe in 1336. Anyone have any ideas? Mike Hollinshead tells me >> there is a similar wave pattern around economics. Anyone know anything >> about that? We say that it could be the beginning of the 9 heavens but >> we would have to be up to it.:>)) I don’t know, I’m doing housework and >> I’m tired. 500 seems like a lot to contemplate. I’m just teaching my >> classes and trying to give away all of this stuff that I have accumulated >> over 52 years of teaching. Oops! 52 again. Am I sixty seven or sixty >> eight? >> >> >> >> REH >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Michael Gurstein >> *Sent:* Saturday, August 28, 2010 4:28 PM >> *To:* 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' >> *Subject:* [Futurework] FW: The Next 500 Years >> >> >> >> And this one seems to tie it all together--Ray's speaking from and with >> his ancestors, Mike's digressions about quantum physics, and my positioning >> for something anchored in the urban flow... >> >> >> >> M >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf >> Of *Sid Shniad >> *Sent:* Saturday, August 28, 2010 11:47 AM >> *Subject:* The Next 500 Years >> >> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/26 >> >> >> CommonDreams.org <http://www.commondreams.org/> >> August 26, 2010 >> The Next 500 Years >> >> by Robert C. Koehler >> >> The participants in this unique dialogue may have been doing no less than >> opening the window on the next 500 years. >> >> As scary and stupefying as our world sometimes seems, we are at a place of >> enormous potential right now -- a transition point of unprecedented >> understanding among cultures and peoples and worldviews. Pushing that >> understanding, creating, in the words of the late physicist David Bohm, a >> milieu of "participatory consciousness" among radically diverse thinkers, is >> the idea behind the Language of Spirit Conference, sponsored by the SEED >> Graduate Institute, which has been held in Albuquerque every year since >> 1999. >> >> Last week I attended the 12th annual Language of Spirit Conference, which >> brought together Western scientists and scholars and Native North American >> and Australian scientists, philosophers and storytellers, not to argue, but >> to grope for commonality at the far reaches of their belief systems. The >> original dialogues, convened by Bohm and Leroy Little Bear (former director >> of Native Studies at Harvard) in Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1992, came about >> because Little Bear, who was well-versed in the developments of quantum >> physics, realized that Western science had reached the end of linear thought >> and finally got it: The universe is a living, conscious, interconnected >> organism. >> >> This is how the world's indigenous people see things. They always have. >> Reverently tied to place, they have been the natural world's caretakers for >> thousands of years. They are *of* the world, living not just sustainably >> but in intimate relationship with their sacred piece of Planet Earth. >> >> "We are a people who never made singing or dancing unrespected ways of >> knowing," said Pat McCabe, a Navajo writer and scholar who also goes by the >> name Woman Stands Shining. "All of the five-fingered ways of knowing >> remained open to us." >> >> And now . . . now . . . 500 years after Western conquistadors subdued and >> divided the planet, devastating indigenous people on every continent and, >> while they were at it, pushing the natural world to the brink of >> eco-collapse, we are turning -- some of us -- to the wisdom of connectedness >> that has been ours for the asking all along. >> >> This isn't easy or simple. Our disconnect from one another, from ourselves >> and from the natural world is embedded in the Western languages, which break >> the world into millions of discrete, manipulable pieces, called nouns ("My >> name is Matthew. I'm a nounaholic," cried linguist Matthew Bronson). >> Westerners control reality through language, but they don't evoke it. >> Indigenous languages are, as I am slowly coming to understand them, >> verb-based, intrinsically linking speaker and object in a flow of motion >> that cannot be linguistically sliced and diced. >> >> Just as I began writing this column, the New Yorker arrived in the mail. >> On the cover of the Aug. 30 issue is a drawing of a middle-aged white guy >> sitting on a beach chair at the edge of the ocean, smugly pointing a TV >> remote at it -- perfectly illustrating the disconnected, control-fixated >> Westerner the Language of Spirit Conference was addressing . . . the one who >> has done so much harm. >> >> With eerie synchronicity, the water on the New Yorker cover flows back to >> the dialogue. Speaking about the BP oil spill, SEED founder Glenn Aparicio >> Parry noted in amazement, "The mainstream world believes that water is dead >> -- yet we're 70 percent water." >> >> "The assumption of the laws (of science)," said biophysicist Beverly >> Rubik, "is that we're a non-living universe. We ought to start over. We have >> a science that starts with deadness. It's time to revision science -- in a >> living universe." >> >> These words begin to get at the vibration of the conference -- this >> exercise in participatory consciousness -- which struck at the core of >> something vital. The ostensible subject of the 12th Language of Spirit >> dialogue was time. The speakers dismantled linear time, the kind that moves >> in a straight line and pulls us along on its track. (In the U.S., time >> wasn't standardized till 1886, when the railroads demanded it.) Nonlinear >> time -- the timelessness of dreaming, reverence, prayer and awe -- filled >> the room, and I could feel the living universe pulse. It pulsed with love. >> >> "The eagle is more valuable to you alive" than as merely a source of >> feathers, said Chickasaw poet Linda Hogan. "The sacred thing is the life >> force." >> >> It also pulsed with anger. Writer M.J. Zimmerman, speaking about SEED >> spiritual mentor Leon Secatero, who died in 2008, said: "Grandfather Leon >> always talked about getting ready for the next 500 years. We're in a >> transition point. The anger of colonization should not be brought into the >> next 500 years. >> >> "Hurt people hurt people," she added. "Europeans have moved into every >> part of this planet and hurt people." She offered the plea that we in the >> disconnected West find our own roots, dig "way back into our own traumatic >> history" and begin to heal our brokenness. >> >> And for the first time in my life I found myself groping in the darkness >> of my own past, beyond a few generations of known ancestors and beyond my >> identity as an American, toward an ancient tribal commonality that has >> fallen out of history, and I felt a slow give in the assumptions of my life. >> >> "Everyone is indigenous," said Jill Milroy, dean of the School of >> Indigenous Studies at the University of Western Australia. Perhaps knowing >> this is the first step in envisioning the next 500 years. >> >> © 2010 Tribune Media Services, Inc. >> >> *Robert Koehler is an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist and >> nationally syndicated writer. You can respond to this column at >> [email protected] or visit his Web site at commonwonders.com.)* >> >> >> >> >> >> >> !DSPAM:2676,4c795db7177553508518627! >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Futurework mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Sandwichman >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Futurework mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework >> >> > > > -- > Sandwichman > -- Sandwichman
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