[PEN-L:8594] Re: market socialism, planned socialism, ut

Ajit, In response to your questions on "capitalist technology" and "socialist ideology". I agree completely that these are key issues for "market socialism". I have focused particulary on the latter, i.e. the contradiction between "market ideology" and difficulty this

[PEN-L:8595] Re: market socialism, planned socialism, ut

I have been too busy to respond to recent postings on market "socialism" but would like to say that one reason I reject market socialism as my vision of a desirable economy is that it does NOT help us develop our capacities for solidarity and cooperation, but rather whets our invidious and

[PEN-L:8600] Re: Money, technology fetish

A curious detail about "The English Patient," which I loved btw, is that there really was a historical Count Almasy from Hungary who did mapping in the Libyan desert before WWII. But, contrary to the film, he was a full-blown Nazi agent before and during the war, including being an

[PEN-L:8602] Re: musings on AOL...

I've had Compuserve for years. I don't understand the comment below, even though I'm not promoting any private business. It's somewhat similar to Microsoft Windows. Microsoft tries to create a monopoly culture so that you "forget" about competitive, often technologically superior alternatives.

[PEN-L:8599] Money, technology fetish

From R. Baiman and queries from ajit sinha: (1) Can socialism be "built" on capitalist technology? Media technology, so highly developed under capitalism, was used by Hitler to destroy Montesquieu and other's checks and balances under his Swastika symbol borrowed via the Brahaminic caste

[PEN-L:8598] musings on AOL...

I wonder if others, like myself, have been reading the various negative reports about American Online with some amusement (see NY Times, business page today, p.1 for example). I find myself actively rooting for AOL to struggle and maybe even go under (their assets-liabilities picture has

[PEN-L:8597] Re: market socialism, planned socialism, ut

But, Robin, what if you have more or less full income redistribution. The individualness of the return can be reduced. The issue is to make sure that what gets produced are things that people want, and more or less functioning markets will do that to some degree at least. Barkley

[PEN-L:8596] FW: BLS Daily Report

BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1997 RELEASED TODAY: The number of major work stoppages rose in 1996, after dropping to a record low in 1995. The number of workers idled by stoppages also increased. Both of these work stoppage measures still were low by historical standards. The

[PEN-L:8593] Re: Women's work

Try "Out of the Margin" edited by Edith Kuiper and Jolande Sap. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:8591] FW: BLS Daily Report

See Item #1. It is my impression that productivity is strongly procyclical, and thus an unreliable measure, at least in many of the purposes for which it is used. Does anyone have specific information on this? Dave -- BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1997 RELEASED TODAY: