Peter Dorman wrote:
in my opinion, Hans Werner
Henze's Raft of the Medusa will be listened to for a long time to come.
(People who care about political art owe it to themselves to check this
one out.)
Yes, not to mention the recording of his 6 symphonies on DG with Henze
himself
One one hand, the majority of humanity--women, blacks, workers...--must of
necessity be excluded from a thoroughgoing individualism:
On the other hand, in so far as they, too, live under capitalism, the
ideology
of individualism must still be applied to them when occasions demand. Such
is
In addition, I cannot locate this sentence from the Grundrisse:
"Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of
interrelations, the relations within these individuals stand."
12) Marx, Grundrisse, Vintage, NY, 1973; p. 265
Louis Proyect
Last night when I turned on the radio around 3am, I was surprised to hear
Larry Bensky being interviewed on WABC, the am talk radio station. He was
reporting on the arrests of Dennis Bernstein, a KPFA programmer and his
supporters out in San Francisco this week and continuing protests. This is
a
from Scott Shuger's column: Hey, remember the Iraqi secret
weapons-of-mass-destruction program? Well, a story on page 19 of the
[Washington POST] reports that U.S. intelligence experts have seen no
indication that Iraq has resumed its chemical and biological programs since
last December, when UN
Can someone explain the organizational structure of Pacifica?
Who appoints the board? To whom is the board accountable? We don't
have a Pacifica station here in Boston (just endless NPR), so I don't have
a
good grasp of the structure of Pacifica.
Ellen Frank
On Wednesday, July 14, 1999 at 20:42:37 (-0700) Michael Perelman writes:
I am in the midst of copyediting my new book, The Invention of
Capitalism, which Duke will publish in early 2000. ...
Am I correct in assuming you will engage Jim Blaut's work, as well as
Gunder Frank's? How 'bout
rom: Ken McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: KPFA: It gets worse
PLEASE FORWARD
July 14, 1999
More info: http://www.savepacifica.net
* Why KPFA and WBAI have been targeted by the US government
* An eyewitness account of the armed censoring of KPFA
* What you can do
* Beware of "incidents" -
Ellen Frank wrote:
Can someone explain the organizational structure of Pacifica?
The national board owns the station licenses, but has almost no
source of income other than a portion of the money raised by the
local stations. They clearly want to squash any local station
autonomy and turn
Carrol Cox wrote:
Pioneers as it were in the disuse of footnotes were British scholars who
liked to pretend that only readers who knew the source without a footnote
were worthy readers. Footnotes were regarded as catering to the great
unwashed who were too ignorant to recognize a
"William S. Lear" wrote:
Am I correct in assuming you will engage Jim Blaut's work, as well as
Gunder Frank's? How 'bout Polanyi's?
Not exactly, I am looking at primitive accumulation through the lens of
classical political economy. Of the 3 that you mention, it would come
closest to
Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/15/99 02:49PM
"William S. Lear" wrote:
Am I correct in assuming you will engage Jim Blaut's work, as well as
Gunder Frank's? How 'bout Polanyi's?
Not exactly, I am looking at primitive accumulation through the lens of
classical political economy.
--
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Charles Brown wrote:
Charles: Congrats ! What do you think of Marx's statement regarding slavery and
colonialism as the chief momenta of the primitive accumulation ?
The Brits were every bit as willing to exploit their own as they were to exploit
people elsewhere. I think that slavery and
Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/15/99 04:32PM
Charles Brown wrote:
Charles: Congrats ! What do you think of Marx's statement regarding slavery and
colonialism as the chief momenta of the primitive accumulation ?
The Brits were every bit as willing to exploit their own as they were
This doesn't sound like a union at all. Aren't unions legally recognised
bargaining agents for some group such as faculty? Where I worked the union was
such a legally recognized bargaining agent. While the Senate might very well
deal with academic matters etc. this would
always be within the
The U.S. Government "announced" today that any attempts by the PRC to settle
the Taiwan question or "takeover" Taiwan through force would be regarded as
a serious threat to the "west" Pacific Region and therefore affecting U.S.
"interests" which would produce a serious response by the U.S. This
Bill's numbers concerning the earnings gap seem to show a smaller earnings gap
for me in Canada than in the U.S. I recently sent in a note about unions being
responsible for the lower Canadian women's earnings gap, compared to U.S.
women. Could unions be playing a similar role for men?
--
Using 1991 census data, PP find that "conditional on observable
characteristics, Canadian-born visible-minority men face an earnings gap of
8% and Aboriginal men a gap of 13%, in comparison with Canadian white men."
Canadian-born British-origin men 'earned' 17% more than Canadian-born Black
From The Economist
July 10-July16
Ukraine
Grim choices
K I E V
NEARLY eight years after
James Farmelant wrote:
I am not sure that it is accurate to describe Kant as having been
anti-revolutionary. He was a discreet supporter of the French
Revolution, and even wrote an essay *Eternal Peace* in which he
argued that the establishment of republican regimes was to
be welcomed as a means
Jim Devine wrote:
However, I find the readings on "Marxism and Morality" that I've done to be
interesting and useful. Marxism may not be (or incorporate) an ethical
system, but it does not contradict all ethical systems.
Allen Wood developed the interesting argument that Marx's critique
Michael,
You are setting a very bad example for the rest of us incapable of
producing such a volume of quality in such a limited time. Maybe
a hundred pages or two
Paul
Paul Phillips,
Economics,
University of Manitoba
Date sent: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:29:56 -0700
From:
Bill,
I can't give you specific references to where Wayne Simpson and
Derek Hum's data is/will be published given the usual summer
hiatus plus the fact that the PanAm games are here and have
completely disrupted all activity at the university (which is the
athletes village) but, from what you
Michael,
There was a book published a couple of years ago edited by Card
and (I think) Freeman, called *Small Differences that Matter*
where, if I remember correctly, they deal with this and come to the
conclusion that unions have reduced not only disparities between
gender, but also within
I want to say what a pleasure it is to read pen-l lately. Nobody is
provoking anybody else. The signal to noise ratio is increasing.
Let me ask a simple economic question: what do you think the weakest
link in the U.S. economy is today? labor resistance, ponzi-like debt,
international
Michael Hoover wrote:
Kant wrote in "What Is Enlightenment?":
'Argue as much as
you will, and about what you will, only obey!'
Yoshie
didn't Kant also write somewhere that government must suppress
criticism that does not show 'respect and devotion towards the
existing
"Objectivity, a sense of justice and sentimentality would only hinder
the Germans in their world mission. This mission does not consist in
extending culture and education throughout the world but in taking wheat
and oil away."
--Joseph Goebbels *Monologe im Fuhrerhauptquartier 1941-1944 p 362.*
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RE: WARNING!! BEWARE GREEKS BEARING GIFTS!
Hey Hector, This was forwarded to me by Cassandra -- it looks legit.
Please distribute to Priam, Hecuba, and your 99 siblings.
This would make a good parlour game.
My nomination is personal debt. A figure I heard was a 73% increase since
1993 (this was cited in a March 1999 in the Washington Monthly -- I'm sure
somebody has the exact up-to-date number right at their fingertips). At some
point some significant
Bill. I didn't post the references for two reasons. First I am basically
lazy and it would have required me walking up two floors from where my
computer is. And second, I thought that Paul's reference would satisfy
everyone.
As to Michael's question on why the situation is different in the
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1999
RELEASED TODAY:
CPI -- In June, on a seasonally adjusted basis, the CPI-U was unchanged
for the second consecutive month. Energy costs, which fell 1.3 percent in
May, declined 1.2 percent in June. ... The food index was unchanged in
June. ...
At 03:14 PM 15/07/99 -0700, Michael P. wrote:
Bill's numbers concerning the earnings gap seem to show a smaller earnings
gap
for me in Canada than in the U.S. I recently sent in a note about unions
being
responsible for the lower Canadian women's earnings gap, compared to U.S.
women. Could
-Original Message-
From: Craven, Jim
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 4:13 PM
To: Craven, Jim
Subject: FW: A classroom exercise
-Original Message-
From: Craven, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 3:14 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Here is another classroom exercise I employ: Take two hypothetical
individuals--A and B
A B
1. Wants it all, wants it now1. Able to delay gratification
2. Wants = Needs 2.
A week or two ago I disagreed with Rod Hay's claims that there "appears to
be no widespread, identifiable systemic racism, at present" in Canada
(except against Natives), and that there are no economic studies which
"find any significance for 'self-identified race' in determining income".
I
Max Sawicky wrote:
What is this thing, 2000 pages?
I have pared it down to less than 600 pages.--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chico, CA 95929
530-898-5321
fax 530-898-5901
What is this thing, 2000 pages?
Is there a comic book version?
"Primitive Accumulation for Dummies"?
mbs
--
Here is the table of comments for the book:
The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret
History of Primitive Accumulation .
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1999
RELEASED TODAY: The Produce Price Index for Finished Goods declined 0.1
percent in June, seasonally adjusted. This decrease followed a 0.2 percent
increase in May and a 0.5 percent advance in April. The index for finished
goods other than foods and
Good point, Steve. Speaking of buildings that get destroyed, my current
interests include trying to figure out how to get archival building records
that probably don't exist because of the SF 1906 earthquake that happened
coincidentally when my grandfather and a lot of other chinese immigrated
It would seem that Kant is the absolute antithesis of an anarchist in making the state
most sacred as Yoshie describes below. This might reflect his need to make a living
within the highly tryrannical Prussian state. Yet this is another dualism in Kant
because , as Louis Proyect pointed out,
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/14/99 05:15PM
At any rate, as many have wisely suggested, on the internet, only one's
ideas should be evaluated.
Absolutely! For example, just because someone has been labeled a "racist"
doesn't mean that their opinions are always wrong.
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