At 04:01 PM 1/03/99 -0800, you wrote:
>I also find the selection of Marx
>and Engels' work on CD rom to be useful.
Where/how do I get the CD Rom?
I saw it addvertised on the MR Press website, and sent an email to enquire,
but they NEVER f$%&king answer email (or faxes, or letters for that matter
>A corollary of dual predestination was Calvin's doctrine of the
>two covenants, derived from his understanding of the Old
>Testament. One was the "covenant [compact or contract] of
>prosperity" and the other the "covenant of election." As Calvin
>saw it, God had chosen the Israelites and covenant
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> You wrote: " Has any one the list come across a Workers' Bill of Rights?"
>
> The following letter was submitted last year to a New England town
> meeting intended to formulate a bill of rights regarding economic rights
In a message dated 99-03-01 10:32:50 EST, you write:
<< Lenin wrote and strategized about Russia in the early 20th century - a
partly industrialized, mainly rural society at the periphery of the
Eurocapitalist world. We live in the United States in 1999, an economic and
imperial giant whose ci
Does anyone have any recommendations for recent articles describing the
current Russian reality? I am primarily interested in description with
a bit of chronology; analysis (theoretical disputes over what caused the
collapse or what it "means" in the greater sweep of history) is not
important. R
On Monday, March 1, 1999 at 11:25:17 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
>William S. Lear wrote:
>
>>I agree with the effort here to find a more pertinent explanation for
>>the problems of our current society. It's quite true that we do not
>>need faith of any sort to guide us. However, I do want to qu
Jim Devine wrote:
>for those who don't know, Yale's secret societies are like normal
>fraternities except that they create networks of business and other
>connections that for a long time (and to a large extent still do) form a
>backbone allowing the ultra rich to communicate and cooperate.
And
angela writes: >the assumption that certain writers are in fact attempting
to develop
>an alternative to marxism is not entirely correct, and this is an
>assumption deployed more by marxists than the ostensible 'other side'.
>moreover, the MR volume is disingeneous: there is no assault on
>history
Jim Devine wrote:
>BTW, were you a member of a secret society at Yale? (I wasn't.)
Nope. I learned almost all I know about them from an article by Ron
Rosenbaum in Esquire. I went to a party at Berzelius once, but that's when
it was run by hippies.
>did you write sexual memoirs?
Nope. But the
At 04:29 PM 1/03/99 -0500, you wrote:
>> Paris is Burning", an interesting documentary on gay African
>> American streetgangs and their fight for their own cultural identity.
>
>wasn't above about Harlem ball subculture from which Madonna ripped
>off voguing?...as I recall, one person in the film
Jim Devine replies to Doug Henwood:
>>It's not just Lou I'm talking about; it's a bonding ritual among certain
>styles of leftists, like sexual memoirs are in Yale secret societies. Why
>does Monthly Review have to publish symposia "In Defense of History"?<
>
>Why not? even if one doesn't think th
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What about all of these other authors and writers and scholars ? Do we need them to
tell us what they are telling us ? Do we really need Derrida or Rorty to tell us what
they are telling us more than we need Lenin to tell us what he is telling us ?
Charles Brown
>>> Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROT
Of course, Marxism is in crisis. We are we, disorganized, and subject
to frequent bouts of vanguardism.
I don't know when Marxism was not in crisis. Perhaps during the heyday
of the Soviet Union, some Marxist may have thought that they had the
answer to the world's ills.
Our job should be to try
Doug:
>That wasn't the point. Lou claimed surprise that anyone could describe
>Marxism as being in crisis in the 1970s. I pointed to the dire state of the
>SWP as a sign that it was.
The SWP was not in a "dire state" in the mid-70s, Doug. What happened is
that they reversed direction completely
I asked:
>>did you write sexual memoirs?
Doug answers:
>Nope. But the Skull & Bones initiation ritual involves lying naked in a
>coffin and reciting your personal history, not writing anything. Or so they
>say.
for those who don't know, Yale's secret societies are like normal
fraternities exce
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Jim Devine wrote:
>Louis Proyect wrote: >>Doug, the critique of SWP's "workerism" is not to be
>found in Foucault, but in Lenin.<<
>
>Doug responds: >"The cure for what's wrong with America lies in what's
>right with America." - Bill Clinton<
>
>This is much too flippant a response. Louis' point
You mean like the mode of destruction, military industrial complex, nuclear and
biological weapons ?
Charles Brown
>>> "Michael Hoover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/01/99 04:19PM >>>
> Creative destruction occurs when innovation makes old ideas and
> technologies obsolete.
> Henry C.K. Liu
what abo
> Paris is Burning", an interesting documentary on gay African
> American streetgangs and their fight for their own cultural identity.
wasn't above about Harlem ball subculture from which Madonna ripped
off voguing?...as I recall, one person in the film did compare the
Houses to street gangs and
> Creative destruction occurs when innovation makes old ideas and
> technologies obsolete.
> Henry C.K. Liu
what about destructive creation? Michael Hoover
Tom, I was wrong about Penguin. Their edition is still in print. I suppose
that the International Publishers is also. I also find the selection of Marx
and Engels' work on CD rom to be useful.
Tom Kruse wrote:
> I need to get a complete Capital in English. Any suggestions on versions,
> publ
Dennnis,
Thanks for the partial annotated bibliography.
Barkley Rosser
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Date: Saturday, February 27, 1999 4:26 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:3926] Why Read Butler?
>Barkley -- I know you aske
Some of the sense of Jim's meaning here is captured in referring to Marxism as
dialectical materialism. Dialectics is the science of motion in nature, society and
thought, according to Engels; along with the dialectics of absolute and relative truth
( elucidated by Engels in _Anti-Duhring_ and
Doug writes:>Lou claimed surprise that anyone could describe Marxism as
being in crisis in the 1970s. I pointed to the dire state of the SWP as a
sign that it was. I could also have brought up the feminist critique of
Marxism, which was going pretty hot & heavy then. Of course URPE was
predicting
I need to get a complete Capital in English. Any suggestions on versions,
publishers, translations?
Thanks!
Tom
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Anyone read this? Comments?
Class Action: Reading Labor, Theory, and Value (Contestations) by William
Corlett Cornell University Press, 1998.
The publisher, Cornell University Press , August 28, 1998:
Class Action attempts to contest capitalist economics and to strengthen
workers' organization
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There is a dialectical tension in Trotsky's writings on art and revolution
that ultimately are rooted in some of the most fundamental questions of our
epoch. Rather than addressing peripheral matters of "style," they really
are about the possibilities for cultural as well as material progress in
t
>Lenin wrote and strategized about Russia in the early 20th century - a
>partly industrialized, mainly rural society at the periphery of the
>Eurocapitalist world. We live in the United States in 1999, an economic and
>imperial giant whose citizens (and residents) are atomized, mediatized, and
>al
Of course, _The Manifesto of the Communist Party_ was written in 1848, 22 years before
Lenin was born. But seeing the scientific principles in that manuscript as pertinent
to capitalism 1999 is more like considering the writing of Darwin as still valid in
biology than treating the Manifesto lik
William S. Lear wrote:
>I agree with the effort here to find a more pertinent explanation for
>the problems of our current society. It's quite true that we do not
>need faith of any sort to guide us. However, I do want to quibble a
>bit: to say that people here have "little faith in any institu
Just want to tidy up a few things on the stuff I sent last week on
Asia's model of development, then I am out of here. I been saying
that Asia's higher productivity was
due to a higher output-to-seed ratio, not innovations; and that by the
18th century this agricultural regime could not grow
Does anyone know or know where to find any study of the importance of US
company stock buybacks, plus the importance of global money fleeing Asia
and "emerging countries" generally, on the rise in stock prices? In the
form, let's say, of a percentage rise in stock prices due to these factors
activ
Louis Proyect wrote:
>Doug, the critique of SWP's "workerism" is not to be found in Foucault, but
>in Lenin. Postmodernist Marxism does not address the topic of how to build
>socialist organizations.
Lenin wrote and strategized about Russia in the early 20th century - a
partly industrialized, ma
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Louis Proyect wrote: >>Doug, the critique of SWP's "workerism" is not to be
found in Foucault, but in Lenin.<<
Doug responds: >"The cure for what's wrong with America lies in what's
right with America." - Bill Clinton<
This is much too flippant a response. Louis' point is basically true: the
bus
A couple of weeks ago, someone posted the results of a survey (done by
some news agency) that reported that the majority of small mutual fund
"investors" expected the stock market to continue to rise at 18 % per year.
At the time I noted to myself that this was absurd. But now I find that I
ne
On Monday, March 1, 1999 at 10:24:43 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
>...
>Lenin wrote and strategized about Russia in the early 20th century - a
>partly industrialized, mainly rural society at the periphery of the
>Eurocapitalist world. We live in the United States in 1999, an economic and
>imperial
In case pen-l is interested, here's a short dialogue I had with an author
in England:
At 11:27 AM 3/1/99 +, you wrote:
>I take it that the piece you added into your e-mail is your own, or at
>least your own view. I take it to mean that the keynesian view of crisis,
>namely the lack of effect
>Oh and they were doing swimmingly well here in the U.S. in the mid- and
>late-70s too, weren't they? When was it the SWP was sending people into
>factories, and denouncing computer programmers?
>
>Doug
Doug, the critique of SWP's "workerism" is not to be found in Foucault, but
in Lenin. Postmode
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