Re: The two essential features of the capitalist system

1999-12-21 Thread john courtneidge
Dear f/w friends Time, perhaps for a next step in this. My guess might be that few of us see capitalism as *the* last word in social and global management ('That which has a start also has an end' and so on.) I think, that, if we are to have any chance of defining a better system (at least one,

Microsoft cooperates with Scientology

1999-12-21 Thread Christoph Reuss
Microsoft cooperates with Scientology Experts suspect Trojan Horse in Windows 2000 (Summary of an article in the renowned German computer magazine "c't", full article at http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/25/058/ ) An integrated operating system component of Microsoft Windows 2000, the def

Working Homeless

1999-12-21 Thread Victor Milne
"Working homeless shatter old stereotypes" - Toronto Star, Dec. 21/99 - not in online edition   Forty-four per cent of homeless people in the United States have some sort of job according to the latest statistics from U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.   In its rush to create m

FW Citizens on the Web: `A war against poor people' (fwd)

1999-12-21 Thread S. Lerner
>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unverified) >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 13:40:25 -0500 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Tim Rourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [workfare] Citizens on the Web: `A war against poor people' >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >`A war a

Rc36 - correction with apologies

1999-12-21 Thread Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
[Please excuse cross-posting and note correction of dates] RC36 - CALL FOR PAPERS While there is a wide range of differences within Marxism, and between Marxists and progressives, one of our common concerns is alienation. While for Marx, alienation was rooted in wage labor and the estrangement