At 7:48 AM 5/2/96, Mike Meeropol wrote:
>Blair defines capitalism as the appropriation of surplus value. The only
>way this is true is by tautology: all other forms of "surplus production"
>are not surplus value -- only under captalism are forms of surplus production
>surplus value, therefore...
At 10:33 AM 5/2/96, Terrence Mc Donough wrote:
> A more
>general question, why has much of the left while disavowing the USSR
>as an ideal, model, etc. gone to such great lengths to defend it's
>socialist, that is classless, character?
Yes, Terry. Much even Marxist analysis focuses on the person
I'm trying to figure out how the OECD calculates its statistics on
"Total Government Outlay by Function" for health, education and "Social
Security and Welfare"; any advice and/or references to readings on the
subject would be greatly appreciated.
In its "National Accounts, Detailed Tables" (whic
bill mitchell writes that >>feudalism did produce a surplus of
commodities, jim.<<
I don't think of the usual feudal surplus-product, which was
rent-cum-taxes since landownership had a political role and
vice-versa (since the state was merged with "civil society"), as
a surplus of commodities
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1996
Payrolls of nonfarm businesses expanded in 45 states during March, with
California showing the largest gain in sheer numbers of new jobs over the
last year, according to data released by BLS (Daily Labor Report, page
D-1).
The manufacturing sector g
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Subject: Republican Socialism for Capitalists
How we will deal with the winners and losers of the coming Health Care
shake out in is not clear from looking at antecedents. Deregula
FYI,
The Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) and the
Review of Radical Political Economics (RRPE) now have
a web site at:
economics.csusb.edu/orgs/URPE/
Eric
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California State University
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The news report from Sid leaves out the fact that the NDP is promising
TAX CUTS, the same stuff as Harris. The NDP in BC is a hopeless kabal
of union bureaucrats, and social democratic clowns, who like to rob bingo
fans, and will end up setting the stage for a later turnabout through
decreased rev
Finis Welch and Kevin Murphy attack the Card and Krueger study in a
session at the ASSA meetings. Card refused to respond to their attacks
and I had the impression that he had respond in the past and did want to
bother repeating himself. I am not sure whether there has been a written
exchang
JIm wrote:
>Though all class societies involve the appropriation of
>surplus-labor, not all ruling classes appropriate surplus
>_value_. For surplus-labor to be surplus-value, the
>surplus-product has to be in the form of commodities. Though
>Southern U.S. slavery produced a surplus of commo
Mike wrote:
>Blair defines capitalism as the appropriation of surplus value. The only
>way this is true is by tautology: all other forms of "surplus production"
>are not surplus value -- only under captalism are forms of surplus production
>surplus value, therefore... etc. etc. Consider what a
Vancouver SunMay 1, 1996
CLARK BUCKS WORLD-WIDE TREND TOWARDS
NEO-CONSERVATISM
ANALYSIS: As Ontario's Mike Harris and Alberta's Ralph
Klein are cutting and shutting, B.C.'s premier promises more.
Mark Hume
Vancouver Sun
A neo-conservative tide has swept throu
Thanks. Will read about "big brother" later in the day.
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Terry McDonough wrote:
Speaking of feudalism, couldn't the bureaucracy be said to be
extracting the surplus through extraeconomic coercion, using the
central planning mechanism. This looks a lot like the centralization
of rent collection under the absolute state. Why not call the xUSSR
feud
Ireland's finest, Terry McD., writes: >>Speaking of feudalism,
couldn't the [old Soviet-type] bureaucracy be said to be
extracting the surplus through extraeconomic coercion, using the
central planning mechanism. This looks a lot like the
centralization of rent collection under the absolute st
Excuse me, I am going away for the summer, do you know how to unsubscribe
from the Progressive Economics Network?
At 8:45 AM 5/2/96, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
>Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>
>> So the much-touted organizing drive looks like a cover for the Clinton
>> re-election campaign - at an expense equal to half the federation's annual
>> budget. But at least union members can compensate for their falling real
>>
At 8:27 AM 5/2/96, Eban Goodstein wrote:
>Any body familiar with the attempts to trash Card and Krueger's NJ study?
>I've read of two counterattacks: One by Nuemark (Mich State) and Wascher
>(fed board of govs) which looked at payroll (as opposed to survey) data and
>found an increase in employm
Jim D. asks
> Was it Marx who said "the truth shall set you free"? ;-)
No, Marx said, in order to abandon illusions, we must first abandon
the conditions which demand illusions. Which pretty much says the
opposite actually. :]
Of course, Lenin said, without revolutionary theory, there is no
Jim D. writes
>
> Though all class societies involve the appropriation of
> surplus-labor, not all ruling classes appropriate surplus
> _value_. For surplus-labor to be surplus-value, the
> surplus-product has to be in the form of commodities. Though
> Southern U.S. slavery produced a surpl
IMPERIALIST PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Besides the talk that the terrorist state of Israel may invade
other parts of Lebanon in order to enlarge its occupation, the U.S.
imperialist Secretary of State Warren Christopher is in the region
claiming that an imperialist peace is in sight. Meanwhile, th
Wojtek Sokolowski writes: >>The myth of the social movement
immaculate conception, self-organizing drive spontaneously
springing from "below" is self-defeating, beacuse it prevents
the Left form taking advantage of opportunites that knock on the
door.<<
I agree that organization from above are
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> ** Topic: Looming Gen Strike In S.A. **
> ** Written 11:28 PM Apr 26, 1996 by labornews in cdp:labr.global **
> From: Institute for Global Communications <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Labour unrest rises as
>country braces for
>Cosatu general strike
>
>--
Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> So the much-touted organizing drive looks like a cover for the Clinton
> re-election campaign - at an expense equal to half the federation's annual
> budget. But at least union members can compensate for their falling real
> wages by deploying their AFL-CIO credit card!
>
Mike M. writes that:>>I would go further and argue that all class
societies which utilize markets involve the appropriation of
surplus value --- the slave mode of production in the American
South is a perfect example of that situation. Capitalism
(IMHO) is a particular form of the expropriatio
Eban:
You have blundered into the way of my jihad against excess in deficit reduction. For
the sake of argument, I will assume you actually believe everything in your letter,
and
for the sake of greater clarity on the left I will trash it. Feel free, incidentally,
to add my name to the sign
Any body familiar with the attempts to trash Card and Krueger's NJ study?
I've read of two counterattacks: One by Nuemark (Mich State) and Wascher
(fed board of govs) which looked at payroll (as opposed to survey) data and
found an increase in employment in
PN relative to NJ of 4.6% over the
How do we get copies of papers, etc. from that conference?
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Economics Department
Cultures Past and Present Program
Western New England College
Springfield, Massachusetts
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Blair defines capitalism as the appropriation of surplus value. The only
way this is true is by tautology: all other forms of "surplus production"
are not surplus value -- only under captalism are forms of surplus production
surplus value, therefore... etc. etc. Consider what all of us might ag
>From Laura McClure's article in the Spring 1996 issue of the American
Writer, the newsletter of the National Writers Union, local 1981 of the
United Auto Workers [for non-initiates, the "federation" is the AFL-CIO,
not the Star Trek equivalent of NATO]:
UNION BUSINESSISM
And, in business new
I am posting this message to see if there is interest in a Moscow study trip
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possibility with the host institution then.
The program would, as usual, cover the evolution of political, economic and
social conditions in Ru
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