On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Blair Sandler wrote:
Merhaba Fikret, is it possible to know how you think Nader will change
the present system of the financial oligarchy which effectively
marginalizes
and ghettoizes the broad masses of the people? Or is this not his aim?
Shawgi Tell
Shawgi: you
What I meant was that Social
Text Co. were caught with their pants down and have had a lot of
explaining to do.
Certainly no question about that in my mind! What if anything it says about
post-modern wars is another question entirely.
Blair
Blair Sandler
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At 09:58 AM 11/4/96 -0800, you wrote:
On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Ajit Sinha wrote:
Exploitation and accumulation is not a result of man's
inherent greed or desire to better his condition, but because of the forces
of competition that reduces the capitalists to a cog in the system
Ajit,
I agree with most of Doug's message, reproduced in full below. However, I
disagree with the direction of causation. Doug correctly (imho) points out
that while the right is becoming more and more organized, the left is
floundering, splintered into dozens of small pieces. If I read the message
I don't see why this must be connected with post-modernism. I would
say that it is much more clearly and straightforwardly described by the
language and concepts of systems theory, where outside forces play the
role of only influencing what is really endogeneously given dynamics
which stem from
Here is the greatest defender of Enlightenment and modernity critiquing a
great post-modernist. I wish we at the pen-l could discuss it at the same
level (at least not so low as we have gotten at times). Just one more point:
Foucault was quite a political animal and his politics was quite
Thanks to Maggie for an very interesting contribution, let me add my to
cents, partly as a follow up to Trond Andresens earlier posting.
1) I think that in Norway the growing influence of pomo is because the
traditional left, especially the stalinist and maoist, were dogmatic and
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Blair Sandler wrote:
On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Blair Sandler wrote:
Merhaba Fikret, is it possible to know how you think Nader will change
the present system of the financial oligarchy which effectively
marginalizes
and ghettoizes the broad masses of the people? Or is
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Ajit Sinha wrote:
In other words, I believe that all of Capital, Volume I, takes competition
as a support for exploitation and not the reverse (as you seem to have
it).
Paul Zarembka
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I'm not talking about "essence" of anything
Recently Ajit Sinha writes:
Competition is an aspect of the capitalist mode of production. Without the
notion of competition, the "law" of value would not make much sense. My
point is that exploitation is given in the very discription of the relation
of production of capitalism.
COMMENT: I do
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At 12:01 AM 11/5/96, Blair Sandler wrote:
What I meant was that Social
Text Co. were caught with their pants down and have had a lot of
explaining to do.
Certainly no question about that in my mind! What if anything it says about
post-modern wars is another question entirely.
One thing it
Habermas says:
Even from a distance, one experiences Foucault's death
at fifty seven as an event whose untimeliness affirms the violence and
mercilessness of time--the power of facticity, which, without sense and
without triumph, prevails over the painstakingly constructed meaning of each
From: "James Michael Craven" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: Clark College, Vancouver WA, USA
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date sent: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 11:57:35 PST8PDT
Subject:Economics in the News
Priority: normal
The tabloids reported that singer
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1996
_Nonfarm payroll employment grew by 210,000, seasonally adjusted, in
October, with the largest gains in services and retail trade (Daily Labor
Report, pages 1,D-4,E-5). The unemployment rate remained steady at 5.2
percent. The jobs report
Terry McD writes: Whatever the weaknesses of the old
left, they are not remotely responsible for our current
condition.
I disagree: many of the excesses of the 1960s/1970s New Left, it
was true, stemmed from their unwillingness to listen to and learn
from the Old Left. Some of that was
Bruce R. McFarling (hi, Bruce!) writes that:
One of the divisions between institutionalist
economics ... and Marxian economics has been the former's
insistence on multi-dimensional theories of 'value'.
But Marx had _two_ kinds of value, i.e., single-dimensional value
(or exchange-value) and
Probably should avoid this, but, sigh...
I happen to think that there is a middle ground here.
Without doubt there is a lot of silly pomo lit around, and
the Sokal Affair, whatever else it has done, has certainly
exposed this, at least in relation to hard science
discussions (btw,
Well, for those of you care...
Late afternoon media gossip, based on exit polls, is that Clinton is ahead
by 7 points. Dems will pick up some seats in both House Senate, but won't
take control.
Doug
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On Tue, 5 Nov 1996 13:49:01 -0800 (PST),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bruce R. McFarling (hi, Bruce!) [Hi, Jim!] writes that:
One of the divisions between institutionalist economics
... and Marxian economics has been the former's insistence
on multi-dimensional theories of 'value'.
But Marx
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Blair Sandler wrote:
Briefly (and crudely): there are no conditions which would allow Nader to
be elected. Well, maybe there are some but I'd have a hard time conceiving
of them and it's not clear why I would take the time to do so. :)
I usually don't vote for
At 12:01 AM 11/5/96, Blair Sandler wrote:
What I meant was that Social
Text Co. were caught with their pants down and have had a lot of
explaining to do.
Certainly no question about that in my mind! What if anything it says about
post-modern wars is another question entirely.
One thing it
Max: I am one of the people who have been trying to argue that
post-modernism offers valuable insights Marxists cannot afford to pass by.
I also consider myself a Marxist (first and foremost, perhaps only after
being a Wittgensteinian, because I learned to think by reading
Wittgenstein, and then
At 06:54 AM 11/5/96 -0800, Paul Zarembka wrote:
Marx's problem is to explain its [exploitation's] incessant
reproduction. Now Adam Smith and most of the economists would explain it on
the basis of human nature. Marx explains it on the basis of competition,
I don't agree. Marx is not
At 08:06 AM 11/5/96 -0800, you wrote:
Recently Ajit Sinha writes:
Competition is an aspect of the capitalist mode of production. Without the
notion of competition, the "law" of value would not make much sense. My
point is that exploitation is given in the very discription of the relation
of
Elections were distraction from normalcy. Now that my Nader campaign is
over. I can return to my routine. Reading my e-mail I saw many comments and
suggestions to my question and request about dental hygienist. First, I
must thank to those who commented on my question and informed that she is
One thing it says is that people who go on about science should actually
know something about science. When Stanley Aronowitz says something like
this, he just has no idea what he's talking about: "I want to insist that
the convention of treating natural and human sciences according to a
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