James Devine wrote:
I'm not convinced that US workers, farmers, etc. did that well during the
GD. Real wages fell, while speed-up and stretch-out were the dominant theme
for those who kept their jobs. Unemployment rose, and stayed high.
Agricultural prices, which had been low in the 1920s,
michael perelman asks:During most U.S. depression, capital has succeeded in
preserving part of its prior gains by bearing down harder on workers,
farmers, etc. Such was not the case during the Great Depression.
Was there any reason, other than the existence of an alternative system,
that made
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During most U.S. depression, capital has succeeded in preserving part of
its prior gains by bearing down harder on workers, farmers, etc. Such was
not the case during the Great Depression.
Was there any reason,
None come to mind, but other possible variables could include:
Greater
Quoth John Gulick:
I always thought Amin was not assailing Arab-Muslim culture per se,
but was merely claiming that the rise of so-called "fundamentalist Islam"
bears a direct relationship to the crisis of the sort of national
developmentalism
Louis chronicled, although it can not and could
Anthony P. D'Costa
Associate Professor Senior Fellow
Comparative International Development Department of Economics
University of WashingtonNational University of Singapore
1900 Commerce Street10 Kent Ridge Crescent
Tacoma, WA 98402-3100
I always thought Amin was not assailing Arab-Muslim culture per se,
but was merely claiming that the rise of so-called "fundamentalist Islam"
bears a direct relationship to the crisis of the sort of national
developmentalism
Louis chronicled, although it can not and could never resolve this
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, john gulick wrote:
Thank you [Louis] for the extraordinarily enlightening disquisition on
post-independence Algerian political economy. Has Samir Amin written
anything specifically on
this subject ? Your analysis sounds very much like what I imagine Amin's
would
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Anthony P D'Costa wrote:
But there is no counterpart to Singapore's
experience in the region or for that matter in the world. The lesson
S'pore offers is organizational expertise and economic coordination,
flouting all NC theory.
One other thought here: could you argue
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Most of the information came from Rachid Tlemcani's "State and Revolution
in Algeria", published by Westview. My guess is that this is out-of-print.
One of the benefits of working at Columbia is that I can usually track
down a jewel like this. My biggest problem is usually finding just the
right
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September 30, 1997
In Big Victory for Labor, Workers at US Airways Vote to Unionize
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
In the biggest union organizing election in private business in
a decade, nearly 10,000 reservations
Louis,
Thank you for the extraordinarily enlightening disquisition on
post-independence Algerian political economy. Has Samir Amin written
anything specifically on
this subject ? Your analysis sounds very much like what I imagine Amin's would
sound like.
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In a message dated 97-09-30 10:49:04 EDT, you write:
1) What are the arguments against stock market funding of basic
social security pensions?
Volatility of returns. From 1975 to June 1997, the SP 500 had a 5.9% avg
annual return. Gov't bonds were a better deal. Of course all this
We have to reconcile Ed Herman's theory of third world immiseration with
Anthony's glowing description of Singapore's prosperity, complete with
obnoxious cellular phones. More generally, how to reconcile Herman's story
with the success of a lot of East Asia. The second, more general, question
has
Paul,
Peter Donohue and I did an article regarding proposals for "reform" of the
US Social Security System in Z Magazine (March, 1997). I have attached an
ASCII file with material from that article and subsequent work that I put
together for a presentation to a San Francisco Labor Party Chapter
Again, thanks to Louis for his learned presentation.
This is a VERY important question. I'll bring in a small number of points:
* the idea of a "people-class" encouraging social antagonism (in this case,
the Jews) fits with the pluralist view that when "social cleavages" (class
vs. class,
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When I asked Colin what were those "Greek
Thanks, Louis for the great analysis of Algeria. I hope there are other
people who know about that country who can add as much.
Louis mentions the distinction between Algeria and Cuba, with the latter
being a case of a country that did break with capitalism.
It is useful to clarify
In a way, this is moot because the era of these types of revolutions might
be over, with the collapse of the USSR. Victor Tirado, a Sandinista,
argued that the era of anti-imperialist revolutions in the third world
might have come to an end based on the experience of Nicaragua. Cuba seems
to be
Reading Louis Proyect's analysis prompts this question:
What, if anything, can prevent a poor country's campaign
of socialist development from degenerating into
a coercive 20th-century retread of mercantilism?
I ask because this is what appears to happen, again and again.
Pen-l-ers,
I will be debating current proposals to reform the Canadian Pension
Plan on TV tomorrow evening. The argument for 'reform' I believe
is similar to that for privatizing the US social security system
based on (inaccurate) claims that the present system is bankrupt,
non-sustainable,
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Quoth Ellen Dannin:
One of my colleagues who has worked on rights of indigenous peoples
told
me that the preferred term was Indians and not Native Americans in
the
eastern US as well as elsewhere for decades. He explained to me that
the
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It's my understanding that words like African American should not be
hyphenated when they are nouns and should be hyphenated when they are
used
descriptively. Ex:
Mayor Giuliani is one of many Italian Americans.
That Italian-American conservative Giuliani is running a
There has never been such a thing as a purely proletarian party with a
purely revolutionary program and the FLN of Algeria was no
exception.
It contained political contradictions between Marxist and bourgeois-
nationalist groupings. These contradictions were most often expressed
through the
A few of points of clarification in response to Ricardo's note.
1. Ancients
What were those "Greek achievements" that Islamic intellectuals
builded on?
Math, medicine, philosophy aesthetics etc. ... Or is this a
rhetorical question?
Before the Greeks, people were satisfied with whatever
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