Rod Hay wrote:
> If the left sticks to the concept of the equality of races, once formal
> equality (legal equality) is accomplished there is nothing left to do. The
> race issue is dead as a political issue in the United States because the
> formal battle is over. The left won. Legal racial eq
Yoshie said that people are incapable of discussing racism on mailing
lists. After cajoling a number of people to calm down on the subject
who have complied, another group is now jumping in with a new round of
name calling.
Can the culprits stop this childing or do I have to start deleting
peopl
Rod Hay wrote:
> I Althusser, anti-humanist
> thought, his madness, and his stalinism.
These is the most intellectually and morally disgusting words I have
read on any maillist. Rod Hays is the third person to make it to
my permanent delete list.
Carrol
Michael Yates wrote:
> Friends,
>
> I remember reading Althusser's autobiography. Things were proceeding
> smoothly and then after 150 pages or so the prose just became
> impenetrable to me.
>
> Every time I hear of Althusser, I have a hard time getting past the fact
> that he murdered his wife.
Hi Doug:
>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>three cheers for Althusser
>
>What do you like about Althusser?
Althusser paid attention to the parts of Marx that I like. I'm sympathetic
to his anti-Hegelian, anti-Humanist polemical note. I don't like his essay
on the ISA, however.
Yoshie
Ricardo wrote:
>In fact, I would
>argue that without Europe's intellectual legacy there would be no
>*critical*, *reflective* means to challenge racism. But let's wait
>and see what Yoshie says about the categorical imperative - although
>I think she might do better recalling the rape of Nanking!
Rod wrote:
>And
>I would insist that children from an earlier age be indoctrinated with idea
>that race is a stupid idea.
Since Rod says he's a Canadian, maybe he's not quite in touch with the main
ideological + practical current of American racism. Today, it is a very
small minority of white Ame
I'll ignore what Rod says about Canada, since I really know nothing about
the place (having been there only three times). I really should get out
more often Bill answered him on that, but maybe there's a third
perspective?
He writes: >That said, my belief is (correct me if I am wrong) that
a
Rod wrote:
>I never said there was no class segregation in Canada. The is in fact plenty
>of it.
My point was to suggest that race and class are more intertwined than Rod
seems to think.
>He does not have the studies at hand, because they do not exist. I will post
>later a list of studies tha
Yoshie
What your post tells me is that the left has been outmanoeuvered on the
question of racism. I think that happened because they became stuck with a
strategy that had produced so many victories in the 1960s, but eventually
the limits of the concepts, and the poverty of the underlying phil
I for one, think that there is a connection between Althusser, anti-humanist
thought, his madness, and his stalinism. To psychologise a bit--His attempt
to eradicate the subjective from this philosophy was an attempt to escape
his own madness. His work is impentible because it is impossible to
rs
FR: Greg LeRoy
RE: Hyundai in Eugene
The debate rages on in Eugene/Lane County over what to do about Hyundai's
big tax breaks after a California jury found employment discrimination...
http://www.register-guard.com/news/19990703/1a.hyundaifolo.0703.html
Friday's first a
The Post is what should be satirized for years of mindless
babble about deficits, helping to give rise to the mindless
reform of welfare and restraint on public investment.
As Ellen noted, all the dirt is in the OMB's mid-session
review and CBO reports, all of which are free on the web.
I haven't
Bill can rant all he wants but he is short on the facts.
I never said there was no class segregation in Canada. The is in fact plenty
of it.
He does not have the studies at hand, because they do not exist. I will post
later a list of studies that show that "race" has no significant effect on
I have to strongly disagree with Rod's claims about Canada. He wrote:
>There is racism in Canada, but except for the native people there are is
>little segregation. All the school districts receive comparable financing.
>The private school system is very small. And believe it or not no economi
Almost a year ago I wrote about the successful union organizing effort at
McDonalds in Squamish, B.C. The Canadian Auto Workers won a representation
vote, pursued negotiations for a contract, and the CAW members at McDonalds
voted to accept the $0.25 raise, grievance procedure and other basic poin
UPDATE FROM CHILIKA.
About 25000 fishermen and women blockaded the main approach road to the
Orissa state assembly house under the auspicious of Chilika Mastyajibi
Mahasangha demanding immediate demolition of all prawn farms in Chilika
lake. They demanded implementation of the supreme court jud
Friends,
I only raised a question; I did not condemn Althusser. As to why he was
sent to a hospital instead of to jail, well we could speculate on that,
thoug I doubt it makes much differennce to his wife.
michael yates
Paul Zarembka wrote:
>
> On 07/03/99 at 10:00 PM, Progressive Economics <
Jim - The economic projections are at the OMB website - click on
mid-session review.
One interesting thing to note is that, although Clinton claims paying down
the debt will
depress interest rates and unleash boundless growth, the OMB numbers
assume that
federal interst payment will rise, despite
Gould is entertaining but not very rigorous. For a serious evolutionary model you
must turn to Stuart Kauffman (e.g. Origins of Order). Kauffman introduces adaptive
walks, the complexity catastrophe, and the evolutionary leap. All are endogenous.
Paleontologically speaking, the dinosaurs' c
Rod Hay wrote:
>
> Of course, racist acts should be opposed, at every opportunity by any onewho
> observes them. But this is only a tactic in the fight, not a strategy for
> victory.
This is an indisputable statement.
If this is a precondition, then the rest of your statements, though
controve
Original Message Follows
Jim
It is difficult for me to say much about affirmative action since it is a US
programme of which I don't know the details. I also am not familiar with the
economic situation for minority groups (except for some broad
generalizations), or the educational situ
> This is a dead end strategy [for ending racism] because the revaluation
can easily be overthrown, because the economic base for the categories
still exists. What is needed is a two prong attack. 1. A redistribution of
income to those that are underprivileged. 2. A vigourous attack on the
idea
from SLATE, 7/3/99: >The [Washington Post] runs a hilarious editorial
satirizing the (over-)confidence of federal budget forecasters, who
recently predicted surpluses well into the next century. The Post applies
"similar forecasting methods" to Richard Hamilton, the first-round draft
pick of the
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