Nathan Newman wrote:
>Marx did not like Bismarck but he supported centralization of the German
>state,
>since that was preferable to the competition of small little states. Just as
>Marx could attack Bismarck's actions while supporting a more centralized
>state,
>it is perfectly consistent for l
> Is it not also the case that in hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. trailer parks and
> similar such structures are the worst hit? Who lives in these, rich or poor?
> michael yates
I read somewhere recently that more than a few US folks (don't recall %)
believe that such storms are attracted to mobile
Interesting tally on the IMF funding vote in the House, from Robert
Weissman of Multinational Monitor:
AYES NOES PRES/NV
REPUBLICAN 22 193 11
DEMOCRATIC164 28 13
INDEPENDENT 1
TOTALS186 222 24
The Dems are
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>Interesting tally on the IMF funding vote in the House, from Robert
>Weissman of Multinational Monitor:
>-cut -
>The Dems are the party of the IMF, which isn't surprising, since it was
>
At 11:10 AM 4/24/98 -0400, michael yates wrote:
>Friends,
>
>To be honest, I find college towns very depressing.
--snip ---
We need to distinguish two things: the yuppiefication of the college
culture, and universities being the only engine that keep many cities
afloat. I agree that the frate
Is there a good book or article on the theory of the state you would
recommend, particularly ones written in the last 10 years, and that deal
with state repression, state violence within the U.S. or internally.
Thanks, peter Bohmer
I was born in Ithaca and lived there, off and on,
until the age of 15. People used to wisecrack that it was
the "most centrally isolated place in the United States."
Barkley Rosser
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998 09:08:59 -0400 Thomas Kruse
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I heard from a friend that Utn
Well, I regularly spend parts of each summer in
Madison, Wisconsin, which the year before last _Money_
Magazine listed as the best place to live in the US. It
certainly is a lot more fun to hang around in than
Harrisonburg, VA, especially in the summer. But then, it
has never been pure
> This appeal is thus rescued from psn obscurity. Although the
issue is not the tentacular reach of software imperialism,
but rather a matter of crippling budgetary cuts and piratical
associated policies, the victims characterize the perps as neolibs.
They know thei
Louis Proyect wrote:
>Doug's mail-list is tied to LBO and will try to involve his subscriber base.
I'll certainly try to recruit LBO subscribers, but the whole world is
welcome (with a few exceptions).
Doug
>By coincidence, inspired by the collapse of the Spoons Marxism lists, I'm
>about to start up a mailing list that will focus on doing exactly that - to
>try to move towards some synthesis across the disabling virgules in the
>following: old/new left, marxism/postmodernism, class/identity,
>"cultur
James Devine wrote:
>I thought that the point of left politics in the 1990s was not to oppose
>the old left vs. the new, etc., etc., but to try to seek a synthesis,
>criticizing the lefts both old and new (ruthlessly, of course, to use
>Marx's word), but while rejecting the "bad," also trying to
I have my own prejudice about college towns. Most places today are strips
of freeway that connect tract houses and shopping malls. College towns
tend to be older towns. In a place like Chico, I can still get around
without a car.
An ideal location would have a wide mix of people, bookstores, f
Friends,
To be honest, I find college towns very depressing. Down the hill from Cornell
the rest of the place sucks. Of course, I'm so disgusted with higher ed that I
could not bear to live among so many academics, not to mention drunken students.
I've taught for a few weeks at UMASS and I foun
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Michael, for some weird reason
>
> Though it may not be news to you, I was surprised by how wide-spread the
> language of "customer service" and "business-client" is in
> reference to the
> provision of public services.
> . . .
> Comment: that the client may not know which agency is actually delivering
> (or not) is a handy
I think college towns are o.k., not that I live in one currently. Mostly, I
think it depends on which town you're talking about.
When I was in New Haven, it was upsetting how Yale looked like a bunch of
gothic or Georgian fortresses (called "colleges") complete with moats,
(ornamental) drawbridge
> We'd like to introduce you to the
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>
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In 1842 an obscure professor of agronomy in the
German provincial town of Giessen, published a book in
English which would revolutionise agriculture. Marx
would say that Justus, Baron von Liebig (1803-73) was
‘more important than all the economists put together’.
Only one other natural scientist
I heard from a friend that Utne Reader has called Ithaca, NY the best place
to live in the US. BUT: I remember also a Tompkins County Labor Council
(Ithaca Area) video on the enormous chasm separating "town" and "gown".
University towns can be groovy places; universities are often nasty employers
Dear PEN-lers:
Though it may not be news to you, I was surprised by how wide-spread the
language of "customer service" and "business-client" is in reference to the
provision of public services.
Below two "[snips]" to illustrate: the first from a GAO report on the
performance of private incarcera
C. Kruse,
Thanks for the recommendations. I'll try to pick the book up.
peace
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