M-TH: Re: [PEN-L:13501] WTO and value

1999-11-17 Thread Chris Burford
At 14:20 15/11/99 -, you wrote: The World Trade Organisation negotiations with China is clear evidence that the law of value does not operate in an unadulterated fashion. It is evidence that there is no such thing as free trade in any comprehensive sense. It would appear that there never

M-TH: the ending of the marxism (2000) comnference

1999-11-17 Thread Gerald Levy
Kim: You ask me to tell you -- in crystal-ball fashion -- how it will end. Let me look into the crystal ball... I see something! A huge room -- maybe even outside. A thousand people or more. Everyone is standing, many with a piece of paper in their hands. The paper. It looks like the

M-TH: China and law of value.

1999-11-17 Thread Dave Bedggood
The point about the law of value is that it is a law. Capital tries its best to accumulate by reducing the value of commodities. Nation states get in the road of the perfect operation of the LOV, but they cannot prevent it from operating including its crisis effects. The former USSR and China

M-TH: New Listserve: Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism

1999-11-17 Thread James Lawler
The Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism (SPSM) will be developing a listserve. A distinctive feature of this would be an approach that will focus on discussion of relatively short papers, such as those presented at our coming meeting at the American Philosophical Association. The angle