About the Amish (and some other conservative--funny, because when they
started, they were religious radicals--Anabaptists) I should have said
they use horses and mules. In PA, the Amish I knew used quarter horses
a lot, but mules are used more widely for farm duties.
Interestingly because the typic
>>Well, same genus (smile). They can't interbreed, which defines a species.<<
Actually you could cross a toy dog with a wolf and get viable
offspring. But there is the physical difficulties of them having
intercourse. And domesticated dogs' offspring don't make good
nurturing fathers, a socialized
>Specifically, in 1921 America roughly 21
> million horses were deployed as the primary energy source in farming. 1921
> was after the advent of "Fordism," and well after the invention of the
> gasoline power engine, but the impact of the industrial revolution would not
> reconfigure the social
On 4/15/10, CeJ wrote:
> CB>>The great enhancement of sociality that language and
> culture give bestows and enormous adaptive advantage on humans, from
> the beginning of the species.<<
>
>
> One thing that came up in my reading that throws a spanner in the
> spandrel is this: based on the eviden
Here's a little "Stalinist" criticism-self-criticism (smile). I think
the following paragraph is worth considering:
The neglect of subjectivity is done in the name of getting into
action, "doing something", not just sitting around talking and
theorizing, "getting concrete," "concrete action". Oh,
The dialectic of qualitative change is a new qualitative
ingredient is injected into the existing process of production incrementally or
quantitatively. This injection of a new quality into an existing process
begins its initial qualitative reorganization.
^
CB: What is the new qualitative i
Is the Fed Helping the Big Banks to Cook Their Books?
by Mike Whitney
counterpunch.org (April 12 2010)
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal revealed details of a cover up by the
nation's largest banks that have been engaged in potentially-criminal
accounting activities to conceal the amount of de
Opening Statement of Senator Carl Levin, U.S. Senate Permanent
Subcommittee on Investigations Hearing on Wall Street and the
Financial Crisis: The Role of High Risk Home Loans
In the fall of 2008, America suffered a devastating economic assault.
It left deep wounds: millions lost their jobs;
Contra las Elecciones: Lucha Revolucionaria
El próximo 16 de Mayo la masa de ciudadanos acudirá a las urnas para elegir los
agentes de la burguesía que se encargaran de reprimir la acción directa del
proletariado por mejorar sus condiciones de vida que se veran agravadas por
otro ac
In a message dated 4/15/2010 6:01:15 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
_cb31...@gmail.com_ (mailto:cb31...@gmail.com) writes:
CB: Isn't there still much industrial production in the world ? It has been
moved away from the Rust Belt in the US, but there is more industrial
production in the world
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