G'day Penners,
I thought Tom's answer to Doug's apposite question a very good one -
although his closing prognosis is just a tad moot. Methinks the
austerity+bail-out strategy regarding benighted South America might make
trouble long before the four months Tom allows. If the impact is not
Quoth Tom W, America's favorite literary expatriate:
Valis tricked or treated,
Great rap, Tom, but you'd have to swallow a python and barf tofu patties ...
Bring on the pythons, Val, I feel a wave of nausea sprouting.
{Choke} So do I. "Val"?! "V-a-l"?!!!
Regardez, Tom (with apologies
(This is the concluding chapter of James O. Gump's "The Dust Rose Like
Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux, U. of Nebraska, 1994)
In a final effort to open the South African frontier, the Zulu staged a
rebellion against the imposition of a poll tax in 1906. The new tax came on
the
Tom Walker wrote:
Last I heard, though, one quarter of the world's economy was in recession.
A recession is not a crisis. If millions of Brazilians took to the streets
and said "Fuck the IMF," and a score of Latin and Asian countries formed a
debtors' cartel and defaulted in sympathy, then that
In my posting "re redefining poverty "(PEN l 720 10/28/98), I attempted to
illustrate how miserly the official definition of poverty is. In the course
of explaining the Census Bureau's methodology, I mistakenly stated that the
Census Bureau uses the cost of the USDA's current year "emergency
Quoth Doug, in part:
Of course, there are some "leftists" who are trying to reach out to the
likes of Gary Bauer (see the Sept/Oct Mother Jones for an example), who is
running something called the Campaign for Working Families. No doubt the
New Party, Acorn, Democratic Party hacks, and
In support of some of the discussion of the crisis of
distribution both here and on the PKT semimar list with
Jamie Galbraith's _Created Unequal_, I offer the following
that appeeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, Oct. 30, '98.
"MDs prescribe better pay for the poor"
"Meagre wages linked to lousy
A recession is not a crisis. If millions of Brazilians took to the streets
and said "Fuck the IMF," and a score of Latin and Asian countries formed a
debtors' cartel and defaulted in sympathy, then that would be a crisis. If
the U.S. dollar crashed and foreigners started calling in their loans,
Once again Tom W, challenged to be clever, delivers in spades:
I hope I haven't perturbed your armillaries too much. I see your point
about being indivisible. Who would want to be a Half Vast Active Living
Intelligence System (HVALIS)?
I suppose that on a slack Sunday the further waste of
I agree with Rob and Tom.
Previously, the high stock prices were supposed to be symptomatic of a
persistent bubble. The Wall Street Journal had an article the other day
suggesting that a soft landing was very difficult.
So now, the crisis is supposed to be over, because stock prices have
Patrick Bond:
Louis, the SA information is interesting (and some of it new to me)
but I don't get a couple of things here.
First, why the comparison of these two peoples? A marxist approach
would surely locate such processes of resistance and cooptation
within a mode of production and
V.A.L.I.S. reprimanded,
VALIS (acronym of Vast Active Living Intell-
igence System from an American film): A
perturbation in the reality field in which a
spontaneous self-monitoring negentropic vortex
is formed, tending progressively to subsume
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 09:10:07 -0500
(This is the concluding chapter of James O. Gump's "The Dust Rose Like
Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux, U. of Nebraska, 1994)
Louis, the SA information is interesting (and some of it new to me)
but I don't get a couple of things
valis wrote:
"The Working Families Party"? There is, honestly?
Yes there is. It was put together by a group consisting of ex-NYC mayor
David Dinkins and some of his cronies, ACORN, the New Party, and some
"progressive" union types. It's very similar to electoral vehicles
assembled by a similar
Louis Proyect wrote:
I think the only answer to Doug's tendency to look at the world through
rose-tinted glasses is to get him out of Manhattan.
Lou, I looked for you in the audience when I was answering your question
and couldn't see you, so perhaps you missed my answer. I said that: 1) the
Hi there,
The Socialist planning listserve has elicited great interest from a variety
of people and organizations, and will therefore launch within the next two
weeks. Meanwhile,
I wanted to invite any interested members of this group to subscribe if you
wish to our world Crisis Listserve,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have heard Sara Diamond argue that the footsoldiers of the Christian
Coalition are not particularly conservative.
Depends on how you define conservative. Their gender politics and notions
of morality are almost by definition conservative.
Of course, there are some
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