Re: [Marxism] Lenin's Tomb on the theory of crisis

2009-10-21 Thread Eli Stephens
I call everyone's attention to a Marxist blog entirely devoted to this subject: Critique of Crisis Theory http://critiqueofcrisistheory.wordpress.com/ Eli Stephens Left I on the News http://lefti.blogspot.com ___

Re: [Marxism] The dollar carry trade (Was: How to Tell When the Market is Topping)

2009-10-21 Thread S. Artesian
Yes, the dollar has become the new mule of the carry trade. Slight difference though, I think the yen was not depreciating when it was the mule but actually quite stable. Key was interest rates were near zero in Japan, as they are now in the US. Temasek, the Singapore sovereign wealth fund is

Re: [Marxism] The dollar carry trade (Was: How to Tell When the Market is Topping)

2009-10-21 Thread Marv Gandall
Artesian writes: > From the Financial Times of 19 October: > > Russian plans to raise $18bn with international bond > > Russia is to launch its first international bond in a decade to bolster > its > public finances and take advantage of the surge in demand for emerging > market debt. > __

[Marxism] Does Inequality Get a Bad Rap?

2009-10-21 Thread michael perelman
"A Goldman Sachs International adviser defended compensation in the finance industry as his company plans a near-record year for pay, saying the spending will help boost the economy. “We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity and opportunity for all,” Brian Griff

Re: [Marxism] Large Hadron Collider: Swindle of the Century?

2009-10-21 Thread Les Schaffer
Mark Lause wrote: > Yeah? Try being a historian of people like Tom Paine in a world with Glen > Beck :-) funny you should mention this, just walked into my fave coffeehouse for a mtg and there on the piano was the latest issue of the Fairfield County Weekly with a background/history on Be

Re: [Marxism] Internationale in Irish

2009-10-21 Thread sobuadhaigh
Einde wrote (concerning Oró Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile ) > >A lovely song - but nevertheless a Jacobite song >in support of.the counter-revolution in Britain. This is why Padrig Pearse wrote new lyrics and it is this version sung by Sinéad O'Connor and used by the volunteers of Óglaigh na hÉireann

[Marxism] Burnt in oil: A fact-finding report on State operations in Dantewada [India] in September-October 2009

2009-10-21 Thread Politicus E.
f.y.i. -- October 21, 2009 A report from PUCL (Chhattisgarh) , PUDR (Delhi), Vanvasi Chetna Ashram (Dantewada), Human Rights Law Network (Chhattisgarh) , ActionAid (Orissa), Manna Adhikar (Malkangiri) and Zilla Adivasi Ekta Sangh (Malkangiri). Till now, no substantive information has be

Re: [Marxism] Large Hadron Collider: Swindle of the Century?

2009-10-21 Thread Mark Lause
Yeah? Try being a historian of people like Tom Paine in a world with Glen Beck :-) ML YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.u

[Marxism] Suicide in France Telecom

2009-10-21 Thread Nestor Gorojovsky
It seems that workers in the central economies enjoy, at least, the right to visibility. The recent suicides in France Telecom had a monstrous antecedent in Argentina, 1995-97. Nobody, of course, spoke of these Third World suicides. Sources in Spanish: http://verboamerica.blogspot.com/2009/09/f

[Marxism] Fictitious capital

2009-10-21 Thread Louis Proyect
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/10/17/how-wall-street-is-making-its-billions/ How Wall Street is making its billions Wall Street banks have had profitable quarters. JPMorgan Chase reported $3.6 billion in profit (more than $1 billion per month). Goldman Sachs was only slightly behind, at

[Marxism] More on rotting academic foundations

2009-10-21 Thread Louis Proyect
Counterpunch, October 21, 2009 "In the Name of False Necessity" On Harvard's Financial Crisis By PATRICE HIGONNET To Michael D. Smith, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences October 20 2009 Dear Professor Smith: I read with great interest as I am sure we all did your letter regarding Harvar

Re: [Marxism] Why Liberals Kill

2009-10-21 Thread Greg McDonald
Louis Proyect wrote: Though liberals are routinely chastised for their “secular relativism,” as Bill O’Reilly puts it, American statesmen who waged the largest wars were driven by the Christian doctrine of “good works,” often enunciated in Obama’s speeches as the duty to be “our brother’s keeper.

Re: [Marxism] Materialism and the will. (Was: (no subject))

2009-10-21 Thread David Picón Álvarez
From: "Michael Smith" > Really? Perl and LISP seem pretty different to me. "Fully determined" is a > mighty strong claim. "Constrained", perhaps. A programming language that > you can't implement in silicon would be pretty useless as long as we have > to depend on silicon, but then -- who's to say

[Marxism] The Brass Liberation Orchestra does Whole Foods

2009-10-21 Thread Greg McDonald
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[Marxism] Obama the verb

2009-10-21 Thread Greg McDonald
Got this from a contributor to Hunter Gray's list: In Japanese, Obama has transformed into obamu — a verb that means, according to one blogger, "to ignore inexpedient and inconvenient facts or realities." YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when repl