Do to the unprecedented amount of material being produced at present by
people who contribute to the newspaper "Cockroach" the editorial board has
decided to, for the time being, go up to producing a bi-weekly!
This means that Cockroach will now be coming out on Thursdays and Sondays in
the f
Forwarding and interesting piece to the lists.
Bob Malecki
>
>I am reading a book by Simone Weil (1909-43) - publisihed
>post-humously in 1958 called Oppression and LibertyI have typed
>this peice - so hopefully not many typos. The sentences are long,
>but then that is her writing I suppose.
Shawgi writes;
> It is as clear as clear can be that the complete restoration
>of capitalism in the countries of eastern Europe and the Russian
>Federation has plunged these countries into a profound all-sided
>crisis.
Actually something worth while discussing. In another letter I recently
JIm Devine writes:
This antagonism became
violent in the Third International, because any utopianism was
implicitly or explicitly a criticism of the USSR.
Comment: This is somewhat ironic because Stalinism in particular is a
type of Utopian idealism of the present. The USSR was the worker's
Rosser Jr, John Barkley referred to non-market socialism as utopian. We
have never had a satisfactory socialist society. The same can be said
for market socialism and even capitalism.
Whenever a society begins to try socialism, the capitalist powers do
everything they can to undermine it. In N
Barkley writes: >> It is true that Owen and Fourier proposed
small utopias within larger market capitalist settings, and this
may have warranted the dismissive "utopian" label attached
by Marx and Engels.<<
A growing literature suggests that Marx and Engels were _not_
very dismissive toward t
Here is the section on Le Roi from my new book: Modern Class Struggles
in the Information Age
Le Roi est le Roi
Markets teach us to turn a blind eye toward the environmental
damage occurring all around us. This defect reflects a far
larger problem with markets in our econ
Questions have been raised in various posts about the
class nature of market and planned socialism and whether
either or neither of these is "utopian" in any sense.
1) Most tracts on how to carry out planned socialism
say little about class relations, other than to have some
vague h
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I used that pun for a chapter in my new book.
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> a fragment from a recent pen-l discussion:
> >>Its pretty clear that the breakdown (in North America?) in
> roles and rules are going to have large and global implications
> (driven by the higher ROI on financial capital
On 21 Jan 97 at 8:26, L. Project wrote:
> >I always had trouble understanding what the profit motive had to do with
> >innovation and productivity myself. The Internet is an example of
> >innovation devoid of the profit motive. I also have done my most creative
> >work in my non-professional life
Heard on Roach Limpbone:
It seems that in order to promote the concept of ebonics recognized as
a separate language from which to proceed to build foundations in
"formal" english, the proponents have proposed a "Miss Ebonics"
beauty contest. When the idea was pitched, 49 out of 50 States signe
a fragment from a recent pen-l discussion:
>>Its pretty clear that the breakdown (in North America?) in
roles and rules are going to have large and global implications
(driven by the higher ROI on financial capital <<
Given the French meaning of "ROI," can we say that financial
capital is king
On 21 Jan 97 at 8:26, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Lou Proyect asked me to forward this. Both he & I ask you not to take that
> as an implied endorsement. Far from it in fact
I read this piece with great interest. What a pity Louie
can't or won't behave himself. He would be such an
interesting gu
At 8:32 AM 1/21/97, Paul Altesman wrote:
>a) Stock buybacks do represent a shift from productive curcuits
>to money-as-a-commodity curcuits (and rivals the financial institutions on
>"their" turf). Mostly, the M&A funds do the same (i.e. they commodify asset
>control, although we wil
Organized discussion among the people is necessary in order to begin the
struggle for the progress of society. Discussion on the causes and
solutions to the problems in society is absent. For example, while
people are openly dissatisfied with the current political set-up,
discussion on what
When the people of Ontario and other provinces began their struggle
against the anti-social offensive, the monopoly-controlled media
and politicians let it be known that Harris and other governments
across Canada had the "mandate" to do what they wish. The people,
they said, have to wait till the
At 04:28 PM 1/17/97 -0800, Doug Henwood wrote:
>It's not so much that industry is shifting its surplus funds to finance;
>it's more like it's just shipping huge wads of cash to Wall Street. I don't
>remember the numbers exactly - buy my book - but over the last decade or so
>US nonfinancial cor
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, JAN. 15-16, 1997
_Spurred by a continuing rise in oil prices, consumer prices rose
0.3 percent in December, BLS reports. The CPI-U rose 3.3 percent in
1996, up from a 2.5 percent advance in 1995. But the core rate of
inflation rose just 2.6 perce
Please send me some info. re: progressive economists, et al.
BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1997
ETA reports initial claims filed with state agencies for unemployment
insurance benefits fell 32,000 to a seasonally adjusted total of
323,000 during the week ended Jan. 11 (Daily Labor Report, page
D-1)_The level was the lowest in nearly thre
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>HUNDREDS OF UNARMED EMPLOYEES OCCUPY=20
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>Captors are holding the governor and six directors of the ailing
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Lou Proyect asked me to forward this. Both he & I ask you not to take that
as an implied endorsement. Far from it in fact
Doug
>Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 12:44:04 -0500 (EST)
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>Subject: M-I: Michael Leibowitz on Market Socia
Hi all,
As some of you know there is an African labor-oriented e-mail list called
Afrlabor, which was organized by Carolyn Brown of Rutgers, with a dual
purpose of promoting discussion of African labor history, and supporting
contemporary African labor movements. Never a huge or high-traffic li
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