At 10:48 PM 2/1/99 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
Build gated communities?
One of my favorite quotes, which I think I've posted here before:
"I think it must be conceded that it is possible to create a society in
which the response to market failure is not a swing to socialism, but an
exacerbation
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Sam Pawlett wrote:
Hitchens has a book on tyeh Elgin marbles doesn't he?
SP
Yes he has. It is mentioned in the LF article which, coincidently, I
just finished reading at lunch. It was re-issued by Verso in 1997.
Louis Proyect wrote:
This discussion about
I wrote Luckily, L.A. isn't as bad as Bladerunner yet. Of course, I live
in a
pretty good place...
Sam writes: My experience of LA is limited to the areas around the bus and
train stations.
Kinda scary. People vomiting in the streets. A Salvadorean cabbie told me
that
there a lot of sweatshops
At 10:44 AM 2/3/99 -0500, Louis Proyect quoted:
Why have profits started to fall? As Marx explained, capitalists cannot go
on increasing profits because of an inherent contradiction in the
capitalist mode of production. Profits come from the surplus value
extracted from the labour power of those
.
your thought about the organic interplay/interdependence between the
scientific rush up the hill and the cult's rush down into the deep six
is like a hot-fudge sundae rush to my brain. thanks. i sure miss the
good old days of my
BBCWednesday, February 3, 1999 Published at 16:46 GMT
IMF talks calm Brazil's markets
Arminio Fraga Neto arrives for work
Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso has met with senior
negotiators from the International Monetary Fund who are hammering out
In a message dated 99-02-03 20:33:43 EST, you write:
Have a read of some of Octavia Butler's science fiction. In some such as
Parable of the Sower and Clay's Ark we get to see the latter days of just
those gated communities as disease and social oppression spill over their
walls.
Ellen
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Do you think such a response to crisis is "human nature" or merely a form
of behavior that is specific to social-historical conditions that prevail
in this country?
Who knows for sure, but I suspect that a certain tendency to ignore
unpleasantness or underestimate risk
At 11:52 PM 2/2/99 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
It's very hard to persuade affluent Americans that the problems of the poor
can be their problems too someday, or that ecological crisis could have any
bearing on them. No doubt many, even most, people who drive SUVs consider
themselves
Hitchens has a book on tyeh Elgin marbles doesn't he?
SP
Louis Proyect wrote:
This discussion about Andrew Mellon, Warhol, etc. reminds me of the article
in the latest Lingua Franca on the Elgin Marbles, which are a frieze from
the Parthenon that the British seized in the 19th century. The
Jim Devine wrote:
...I don't think the dystopia of
Bladerunner is that fanciful.
Luckily, L.A. isn't as bad as Bladerunner yet. Of course, I live in a
pretty good place (Culver City, a racially-integrated middle-class minicity
in the middle of L.A., which unfortunately has an
On Tue, February 2, 1999 at 23:52:24 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
William S. Lear wrote:
..
However, I don't
see how your last sentence follows from this. First, how does it
follow, and second, what exactly do you mean? Who exactly are you
referring to and could you give us an example?
It's
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The use of religion to mark Pikanii Children in Canada for the depths of
hell.
Copyright 1999 by Long Standing Bear Chief
"Judgement is prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of
(This comes from the web page of the Militant Labor group in Great Britain,
a small Trotskyist group led by octogenarian Ted Grant. They do come up
with some interesting economic analyses, although biased in the
'catastrophist' direction.)
1999: the start of the long economic winter
"At
James Blaut sent me the following review of Frank's new book. Since
the topic came up, I thought I'd pass it along.
Bill
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Bill:
Yes! ReORIENT is well worth reading. I did a review of it. Here goes...
Jim
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I'll leave it to others to compare pomo with GET. I find it
interesting
that
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The administration is seeking additional funding for the Bureau of Labor
This discussion about Andrew Mellon, Warhol, etc. reminds me of the article
in the latest Lingua Franca on the Elgin Marbles, which are a frieze from
the Parthenon that the British seized in the 19th century. The Greeks want
it back, but the British refuse, implying that they knew how to take
a single creature, which I may add, could be seen as the epitome of
capitalism - soulless industrial magnates wandering in search of profits,
and sucking people dry in the process.
Wojtek
as Marx wrote:
'Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only
lives by sucking living labour, and
A year ago an abstract of Andre Gunder Frank's new book, Re-Orient
(1998) was posted in pen-l. It was Frank's own "nutshell" version of
his argument which he had sent to various other lists. My reaction
after reading it was: `here goes Frank again with another argument
devoid of theoretical
Odd. Neoclassical economics, as I learned it, presents itself as value free
hence no commitment to equality. A pareto optimal situation may be an
extremely unequal one. Nc economics and postmodernism have different roots.
Neoclassical economics in good old British empiricism and postmodernism in
Tom Lehman:
The deal was Mellon would provide for the
National Art gallery in exchange for charges against him being forgotten.
The
public mood at the time would probably have had old Andy sharing a cell
with Al
Capone.
Interesting. By the way, Henry Liu posted this to the Marxism list, which
At 04:17 PM 2/2/99 -0600, valis quoted:
I've been thinking a lot about addiction lately, not because
I work for a nonprofit company that does drug, alcohol and
tobacco prevention, but because a priest friend of mine remarked
the other day that the vampire is, or rather evokes, the archetype
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On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Sam Pawlett wrote:
Blade Runner! Galactic! The flame that burns twice as bright lasts half as long.
The original or the directors cut? I think the directors cut makes the fact that
Harrison Ford was an android more transparent.I don't think the dystopia of
Bladerunner
NY Times, February 3, 1999
Paul Mellon, Patrician Champion of Art and National Gallery, Dies
By JOHN RUSSELL
Paul Mellon, the patrician art collector who tenaciously turned
philanthropy into his personal art form, above all through his stewardship
of the National Gallery of Art, died on
Richardson_D forwarded from the BLS:
BLS has asked for $7
million to complete the revisions to the CPI to make it reflect more
accurately cost-of-living changes
Wanna bet that means a still-lower CPI?
Doug
RE: The failure of "Keynesian" policies.
"But individual initiative will only be adequate when reasonable
calculation is supplemented by animal spirits, so that the though of
ultimate loss which often overtakes pioneers...is put aside
This means, unfortuantely, not only that
Gerald Levy wrote:
spam.
No, you are quite wrong. The career of Andy Warhol is very instructive for
radical economists since it gets to the heart of commodity production in a
sphere not ordinarily analyzed. It is very sad that you lack the
intellectual background
Doug Henwood wrote:
William S. Lear wrote:
No they don't but I think you're underestimating the preference of the
privileged to insulate themselves as much as possible from a problem rather
than facing it head on. From the first, the response to AIDS has been to
ignore its threat to
spam.
A different explanation:
These stripes sound like the scratches made for innoculations against
smallpox, or was it polio? I faintly remember a little metal instrument
with serrated edges, that left little parallel marks, though it was on our
shoulders, not backsides. If not properly cared for,
Louis:
I think you post on Warhol is very insightful.
They are people who look at Warhol and think of spam.
And then there are people who look at sapm and think of Warhol.
I find the latter more interesting.
Henry
Louis Proyect wrote:
Gerald Levy wrote:
(J.R. Miller, "Shingwauk's Vision," pp. 184-188):
Writing about the 'Basic Concepts and Objectives' of Canada's Indian policy
in 1945, an official of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs put his finger
squarely on the motivation behind residential schools. Noting Ottawa's
desire to promote
Bill,
That explanation was considered (official position of the Curches was
that the scratches were for TB testing) Out of 20 pysicians in
Alberta randoming consulted, not one said that these marks could have
been related to any known past or present medical procedure or test).
Further,
Dear Lou,
It's common knowledge in the Pittsburgh area and has been reported on numerous
occasions in the Pittsburgh newspapers, that Andrew Mellon facing income tax
evasion charges from the federal government made a deal with the Roosevelt
administration to avoid prosecution. The deal was
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