[PEN-L:10292] June archives of the Marxism list

1999-08-22 Thread Louis Proyect
Is now online at http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/archive99.htm YUGOSLAVIA: --WWP replies to Dave McReynolds --Antiwar protests --Milosevic, Castro and Peron --Vojvodina's autonomy MARXIST THEORY: --Who is Baudrillard? --Who are Bauer and Stirner? THE BLACK STRUGGLE: --CLR James and the Panthers

[PEN-L:10294] Re: Asian recovery...

1999-08-22 Thread Sam Pawlett
michael wrote: Sam, you are correct about the low level corruption, but not about the corruption that is typical in the upper echelons. How would you evaluate the comparative importance of the two? I don't think there is much of a distinction between crimanality/corruption and

[PEN-L:10295] Re: deology/consciousness and material/social

1999-08-22 Thread Sam Pawlett
Carrol Cox wrote: This is an essential point. Nearly the whole of the metaphysical argument over "free will" is grounded in this idealist assumption of such a mysterious "will." The Will, in this context, is always a euphemism for "The Soul" and hauls in religion by the back door. No.

[PEN-L:10293] Thanks regarding the Asian Crisis

1999-08-22 Thread michael
The recent posts on the Asian crisis were excellent. I hope that we will keep up the good work. Thanks. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:10291] Re: Re: Asian recovery...

1999-08-22 Thread michael
Sam Pawlett wrote: Corruption in public service often occurs because civil servants are so low paid. In the private sector, there are also the same incentives for corruption especially when corrupt practices are so widespread. Sam, you are correct about the low level corruption, but not

[PEN-L:10290] Re: Asian recovery...

1999-08-22 Thread Sam Pawlett
Stephen E Philion wrote: Sam, I'm not so sure they can't accept it. I get the sense more and more that they are just seen as glitches, inevitable glitches, but glitches that can be overcome and when they are overcome, despite the immediate and heavy price borne by the working class,whether

[PEN-L:10289] RE: Ideology/consciousness and material/social

1999-08-22 Thread Rod Hay
Relations between what? If individuals are the results of relations, what is relating? A mere form without content? "Full of sound and fury signifying nothing" It is hard to argue against a philosophy that no one believes in enough to act upon it. Everyone believes in the theory of the human

[PEN-L:10288] TINAF Special on Homophobe Rev. Phelps -- 3:67 (#320)

1999-08-22 Thread Paul Kneisel
SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE HOMOPHOBIC ACTIVIST REV. FRED PHELPS __ The Internet Anti-Fascist: Friday, 22 August 1999 Vol. 3, Numbers 67 (#320)

[PEN-L:10287] Re: Re: Re: Asian recovery...

1999-08-22 Thread Martin Hart-Landsberg
To add to the discussion of the Asian crisis, I would say that the so-called recovery in East Asia is very weak. It is largely the result of two things. First, the IMF and US government, worried about the political implications of the austerity policies imposed on the East Asian countries,

[PEN-L:10286] Re: Re: Asian recovery...

1999-08-22 Thread Stephen E Philion
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Sam Pawlett wrote: michael wrote: Let me speculate on the post below. I suspect that corruption is a necessary by-product of that sort of development. How much could you make tapping into market of the Indonesian poor. The rich and the middle class would want

[PEN-L:10285] Re: Asian recovery...

1999-08-22 Thread Sam Pawlett
michael wrote: Let me speculate on the post below. I suspect that corruption is a necessary by-product of that sort of development. How much could you make tapping into market of the Indonesian poor. The rich and the middle class would want fancy imported stuff. So, if you are going to

[PEN-L:10284] Fwd: Rachel #664: The Carbon Pushers

1999-08-22 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Hi Pen-l, Environmental life (and death) under capitalism. Seth Sandronsky ===Electronic Edition . . . RACHEL'S ENVIRONMENT HEALTH WEEKLY #664 . .

[PEN-L:10282] Re: RE: Ideology/consciousness and material/social

1999-08-22 Thread Ajit Sinha
Rod Hay wrote: You must have be confused with some one else. I don't wish to argue a vulger materialism. I want to maintain the distinction between natural and social, which was characterised as vulgar. ___ I'm not sure whether this distinction could be maintained. But I'll leave