Michael Perelman wrote:
I have not experienced racial profiling. When I went back to school and
let my hair and beard grow, suddenly I was stopped with great frequency.
When was that? (I've always wondered how old you are.) Maybe that's a
counter-culture profiling that Michael Hoover could
If one of our economists has time on his hands, I'd love to see a critique
of this piece from today's New York Times Op-Ed Page by An Under-Secretary
of Commerce. When he says the national savings rate has increased by 17%,
is that true? And BTW, percent of what over what period? Or is that
This whole thing is getting pretty darn rotten! I can not beleive what I'm
reading.
Is this really the highly respected PEN-1?
Frank--
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wotjek wrote:
That is an excellent argument. It is impossible to discuss language while
abstracting form social, economic conditions that produced it. Language is
merely a reflection of material reality that produced it, albeit it has an
"institutional history' that outlives the material
Rejection of the notion of "underclass" or the rejection of the view that
Ebonics lacks "full conceptual complexity" is fully compatible with the
general approach that recognizes the primacy of material reality (even while
rejecting a simplistic and dichotomous treatment of the relation of the
At 01:12 PM 8/19/99 -0400, Louis Proyect quoted:
The Washington Post, November 24, 1984
Is Baltimore Truly Back?; New Showcase City Faces Old Problems
--snip
But before his arrival, the city's black Interdenominational Ministerial
Alliance had urged that the rally be held elsewhere,
Someone recently posted me as follows. Could anyone answer
her question.
Over at CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) there is a half hearted effort
to
promote the exchange a hedge for farmers. What percentage of the
billions that go through there are producers or consumers mitigating
risk
may be
I risk being admonished by Michael Perelman, Michael Hoover
Rosalind Petchesky
"The Body as Property: A Feminist Re-Vision" (in _Conceiving the New World
Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction_ [1995]),
Petchesky argues that those feminist and postmodernist critics (such as
Carole
I don't know why my message under this header was tagged urgent, I'm
a few days behind in e-mail, but I almost always behind in e-mail, so
apologies for *urgent* notice as well as for cluttering lister
e-mailboxes with this followup... Michael Hoover
Mat has politely shifted focus to a more abstract
level, but let's be clear that Sokolowski's latest
post is a disingenuous response to Mat's critique.
Sokolowski called the following, posted by someone
signing as Peter Kosenko, an "excellent argument":
a
language that is basically confined
Ajit Sinha wrote:
Do you think animals have rights or not?
No. I don't like rights-based theories at all--they have intractable
problems-- but in some cases ,like
abortion, talk about "rights" makes the conversation a lot easier. Most
political philosophies, even contractarians like Rawls
Marx's materialism varies in sophistication depending upon the task at hand,
as should ours. For some purposes a simple dichotomy may be sufficient to
give us the understanding that we need. Other times we may have to make more
subtle distinctions. Vulgar in Marx's hand as in "vulgar
I have been asking someone to chime in on this question. No one has
come forward, so I will venture the first post. While the consensus
seems to be that the Asian crisis is over, I am not sure.
Greenspan has signaled that he will raise rates again. Could that cause
an overreaction, reigniting
Mathew Forstater wrote:
Let's be clear about one thing: you may find a usefulness in vulgar
materialism, but that materialism is not the materialism of Marx. Mat
Marx spoke of "vulgar economics"; he and Engels both spoke of
"mechanical" or "metaphysical" materialism. I don't remember
You use "sophisticated" in quotes, yet I never used the word. That aside, I
think there are important "consequences, political [and] otherwise." For
starters, we can consider seriously a whole range of phenomena that are
otherwise ignored or cast aside as mere reflections: ideologies, for
Everything determines everything means that nothing is determinate. The old
materialism at least had the benefit of saying something definite--something
that you could get a handle on. It was simplistic but for many purposes a
simplistic analysis is sufficient. Some times it is necessary to be
LA Times, Friday, August 13, 1999
A Trip to the Birthplace of Racist Ideologies
By PETER Y. HONG, KEN ELLINGWOOD, Times Staff Writers
Buford Furrow's journey from Washington to Southern California was a kind
of pilgrimage back to the birthplace of his racist creed.
The hate group to which
The dichotomous treatment of ideology/consciousness/symbolic vs. material
reality in some of the posts on these lists really smacks of simplistic old
materialism that I thought had been left behind some time ago. As I think
has been pointed out by others here several times, Marx argued against
from: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2316716,00.html
The author of Win32.Kriz, discovered recently by researchers, sounds as if
he or she has an ax to grind against religious folks.
Inside the virus is a text string with a poem full of expletives
criticizing those who
At 01:50 PM 8/19/99 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
Ditto.
Charles Brown
"Mathew Forstater" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/19/99 01:44PM
Rejection of the notion of "underclass" or the rejection of the view that
Ebonics lacks "full conceptual complexity" is fully compatible with the
general approach that
At 02:30 PM 8/19/99 -0400, Yoshie wrote:
Perhaps you could tell us about the local political projects that you got
into with your neighbors -- their successes, failures, compromises, etc.
Other people might be also interested in discussing what is being done in
local politics.
BTW, you reply
Wojtek wrote:
It is an ethnically mixed (mostly
black, some whites, a few latinos and other) neighborhood inhabited by
moderate income people (teachers, truck drivers, social workers, office
clerks - wold you call them yuppies?) that provides many opportunities for
socializing and participation
Ditto.
Charles Brown
"Mathew Forstater" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/19/99 01:44PM
Rejection of the notion of "underclass" or the rejection of the view that
Ebonics lacks "full conceptual complexity" is fully compatible with the
general approach that recognizes the primacy of material reality (even
The Washington Post, November 24, 1984
Is Baltimore Truly Back?; New Showcase City Faces Old Problems
By Donald P. Baker, Washington Post Staff Writer
From his home near the Inner Harbor, C.J. Welsh has watched with interest
the new building that has transformed the downtown area and the
At 06:10 PM 8/18/99 -0400, Yoshie wrote:
I agree with the first paragraph here (the importance of not putting the
cart before the horse), and I share your concern about suburbanization
the disappearance of public spaces, but stated thus, the description of the
problem may lead to an ultimate
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1999
__After showing no change for 2 months, the CPI-U rose 0.3 percent on a
seasonally adjusted basis in July. During the first 7 months of this year,
the CPI-U has accelerated to a 2.4 percent annual rate of increase from a
1.6 percent advance for all
Got some new budget numbers the other day and
noticed that my statement that Clinton's
defense outlay proposals are a cut in real
terms is more vulnerable to expectations of
inflation than I had appreciated.
To say the Clinton budget contemplates a real
cut in defense relative to FY1999, one
I thought Michael Perelman is Black !
CB
Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/19/99 01:42AM
Michael Perelman wrote:
I have not experienced racial profiling. When I went back to school and
let my hair and beard grow, suddenly I was stopped with great frequency.
When was that? (I've always
I thought that this would be of interest to those who participated in the
long and very interesting discusssion on Fascism which ran on this list for
a couple of weeks a short time back'
The New York Times runs a column every day titled "This Day in History",
in which it reproduces articles
NY Times, August 19, 1999
Activity at Bank Raises Suspicions of Russian Mob Tie
By RAYMOND BONNER with TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN
Millions of dollars have been channeled through the Bank of New York in the
last year in what is believed to be a major money laundering operation by
Russian organized
We have on the one hand the "wider community," on the other "women."
Appeals to "the wider community" (and even careless appeals to "the
working class as a whole") are always suspect. I will offer a polemical
definition of "the wider community" as a way of urging further discussion
of the topic.
Sam Pawlett wrote:
Ajit Sinha wrote:
__What kind of a rotten arguments you are producing Sam? Do you
think a newly born child has an understanding of what x is? Has a consciousness
of his/her rights and obligations? There are many even adults who do not have
such
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