M-TH: Fwd: UK Labour MP on globalization

1999-10-28 Thread Macdonald Stainsby
I forward this, complete with my comrades intro. Macdonald >Something to brighten your day and bring a smile to your lips! > > > > > >The Threat to Globalization > > <<...>> > >It doesn't come from those who will gather in Seattle, but from darker > >political forces > > <<...>> > >By Denis MacS

Re: M-TH: Virtual Capitalism

1999-10-28 Thread Chris Burford
At 15:55 28/10/99 GMT, you wrote: > >Have peep at this one rather than flogging a dead goat: >http://www.bized.ac.uk/virtual/economy/ >and play at being Chancellor of the UK economy. Neat how they cannot even >begin to conceptualise their way beyond the commodity form, eg the only key >variabl

Re: M-TH: Fw: A new regular feature in LM magazine

1999-10-28 Thread Chris Burford
Could the World Social etc avoid announcing itself entirely in capital letters. Nothing personal, but I keep on thinking hariette is coming back. Illogical I know because that name is not in CAPITAL LETTERS. Something discrete like LM might be a compromise. WSM? Chris --- from li

M-TH: Re: C'mon you lot!

1999-10-28 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Jerry, Jerry, what we'd like is for you just not to talk about this particular non-subscriber's personal traits on Thaxis *at all*. It's just about all you do here, and it's all the more annoying for the fact you have much to offer - if only you thought us worthy of your finer efforts. We

M-TH: Virtual Capitalism

1999-10-28 Thread r.i.p
[There might be a technical way of doing this, btw, by >ensuring that said name is automatically deleted from any posts.] . Have peep at this one rather than flogging a dead goat: http://www.bized.ac.uk/virtual/economy/ and play at being Chancellor of the UK economy. Neat how they cannot even

M-TH: Re: C'mon you lot!

1999-10-28 Thread Gerald Levy
Rob wrote: > I, for one, intend to observe this list's recently > mentioned and long-standing policy not to engage in discussions > concerning personalities not subscribed to this list (and sad indeed to > see that Jerry couldn't live up to a policy to which he explicitly > committed himself onl

M-TH: C'mon you lot!

1999-10-28 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Macdonald, I was hoping to let this unhappy little silliness pass, but you're making it difficult for me. I, for one, intend to observe this list's recently mentioned and long-standing policy not to engage in discussions concerning personalities not subscribed to this list (and sad indeed

Re: M-TH: Fw: A new regular feature in LM magazine

1999-10-28 Thread J.WALKER, ILL
George, Surely this cannot be a serious column. Not only is the format, of Furedi as agony aunt simply bizare, but the politics that lie behind it (which is the real point) are beyond comprehension. That we live in a world where one can wander up to the employer and quietly explain that it is

M-TH: Australian referendum and ISO

1999-10-28 Thread Bullimore / Kim Maree (COM)
George, hi... On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, George Pennefather wrote: > Kim > Who is the ISO > > Warm regards > George Pennefather The International Socialist Organisation (ISO), also known sometimes by their papers name Socialist Worker(s) are a grouping with leanings towards the Trotskyist traditio

M-TH: Burning ideas

1999-10-28 Thread r.i.p
Simon writes: >As to the above exchange, capital is a relationship, a twisted >relationship: an alienated relationship. That alienation is manifested in >its pure form as money: remember the "money soul which percolates society"? >A capitalism seized by a vanguard, supposedly in the interests of