Rod Hay wrote:
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"
There are no "individuals" Rod, only subjects. Think about your own
'individuality'. Who are you?
The (PPI) analysis is B.S., the weights in the index are
arbitrary, hence the index is b.s., but the elements
of the index are not inherently biased towards factors
that negatively affect workers.
There's an office worker factor, but there are also
manufacturing factors. It's not clear the
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"He could tell you things! Things I've tried to forget; things I never did
know."
Louis, I recall that Adam Hochschild discussed the importance of Casement in
interviews I heard about his King Leopold's Ghost.
Louis Proyect wrote:
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More on the New Economy. A forward.
CB
In connection to Kim Scipes comments about the DLC's 'New Economy' initiative,
I thought I would mention three recent publications from Working Partnerships,
an AFL-CIO-linked research institute in Silicon Valley. Both publications try
to
Sam Pawlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/23/99 02:23PM Maybe, though at his point
clearly the government/capitalists/criminals
are pretty much one and the same. In Russia, there seems to be a ruling
class split
between domestic, nationalist gangsters and more imperialist,
internationally oriented
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-Original Message-
From: Wojtek
(From Michael Taussig's "Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man)
It is at this point instructive to work through CasementÂ’s Putumayo reports
submitted to Sir Edward Grey, head of the British Foreign Service, and
published together with letters and memoranda as a "blue book" by the
British House
I have called no one a liar, nor denied anyone membership in the human
species. I say everyone believes in the human will because everyone acts as
if they do. Does Ajit really believes that he is totally determined by his
social relations? Does he really believe that there is no causation?
Carrol you have not read Ajit's posts. He explicitly denied causation. The
rest of the post has more to do with your imagination that what I said.
There was nothing about ghosts, either internal or external. I am simply
making the claim that intentional activity implies a belief in causation.
it is a bit difficult to
imagine a chimpanzee as an individual, and a human individual
is unimaginable. Try the mind experiment of stripping away every
social relation you have ever had. What would be left?
what would happen if you were to strip away all of human biology? what
would be left?
When the Canadian banks wanted to merge they claimed that large size would
allow them to compete in the bidding for large international projects. That
joint financing partners would be more willing to deal with a bank with a
large capital base to draw from.
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Craven, Jim wrote:
Has anyone on the list done any work related to the so-called Riga Axioms or
the Riga Group of the 1920s (Dulles brothers, Paul Nitze, William Bullitt,
James Forrestal, Charles E Wilson, Phillip Reed of GE, George Kennan, Robert
Murphy, Loy Henderson, Joseph Grew, Hugh
Rod Hay wrote:
I have called no one a liar, nor denied anyone membership in the human
species. I say everyone believes in the human will because everyone acts as
if they do. Does Ajit really believes that he is totally determined by his
social relations?
Rod, you are not trying to
Michael Perelman wrote:
What kind of power does a bank merger provide? How much of the
advantage comes
from shedding labor costs or branches? How much from just having power
to get
political advangtages?
Doug writes:
See http://www.frbsf.org/econrsrch/wklyltr/wklyltr99/el99-25.html
for one
Tips for getting hired as a supervisor from the Clark Model:
21) Assume the posture and temperament of someone who could sit on a lump of
coal and turn it into a diamond;
22) gather and be prepared to drop quotes from Machiavelli, Mein Kampf,
Henry Ford, Frederick Taylor etc during the
My response to the original message at the bottom.
-Original Message-
From: Craven, Jim
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 4:19 PM
To: Craven, Jim
Subject: RE: opportunity at SEH America
I am all for helping needy students find employment in general, but is
this not an
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The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 24 August 1999
Vol. 3, Numbers 68 (#321)
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L.A. SHOOTER IS A NAZI, NOT
At 04:31 PM 8/25/99 -0500, Steve Perry wrote:
Out here in Minnesota--whose gift to the world was the HMO system--
there have been quite a few interesting folks involved with the single-
payer question. Early in his first term, Paul Wellstone was seriously
interested in pushing single-payer
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August 24, 1999
This analysis of reporting on global economic issues is excerpted from the
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Has anyone on the list done any work related to the so-called Riga Axioms or
the Riga Group of the 1920s (Dulles brothers, Paul Nitze, William Bullitt,
James Forrestal, Charles E Wilson, Phillip Reed of GE, George Kennan, Robert
Murphy, Loy Henderson, Joseph Grew, Hugh Gibson, James Clement Dunn,
Michael Perelman wrote:
What kind of power does a bank merger provide? How much of the
advantage comes
from shedding labor costs or branches? How much from just having power to get
political advangtages?
See http://www.frbsf.org/econrsrch/wklyltr/wklyltr99/el99-25.html
for one view - that
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
The most politically important (at least for the left) aspect of socialized
medicine is universal coverage and that does not require a revolution. In
fact, such coverage does not even require a marxist ideology to justify it
Wojtek, the justification of
On Tuesday, August 24, 1999 at 14:20:52 (-0500) Carrol Cox writes:
"William S. Lear" wrote:
On Tuesday, August 24, 1999 at 13:29:42 (-0700) Ajit Sinha writes:
...
There are no "individuals" Rod, only subjects. ...
Ajit, you are usually a bit more careful than this. Who gave us
language?
"William S. Lear" wrote:
On Tuesday, August 24, 1999 at 13:29:42 (-0700) Ajit Sinha writes:
...
There are no "individuals" Rod, only subjects. ...
Ajit, you are usually a bit more careful than this. Who gave us
language? Who gave us the capacity for thought? If you have indeed
In an age in which our leaders call for transparency, how can the World
Trade Organization remain so opaque? If it does not have more power
than the Federal Reserve today, I suspect that it will in the near
future.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
[EMAIL
Sunday, August 22
Sunday Journal, suburban DC
Robert Naiman, Preamble Center
"On the Left"
China and other WTO Expansion
In November, trade ministers from many nations will converge on Seattle for
meetings of the World Trade Organization [WTO]. Trade unionists,
environmentalists, human rights
Carrol:
I can't disagree with the critics of this study, and also suspect that
it
will be used more to support arguments for population control than
in support of women's rights. But the attacks ought to recognize on
element in the study which is more positive, the author's statement
of their
The New York Times, February 8, 1998, Sunday, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section 7; Page 31; Column 1; Book Review Desk
Martyr for Many Causes
By Lucy McDiarmid; Lucy McDiarmid is president of the American Conference
for Irish Studies. She is completing a book on Irish controversies.
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1999
Regional and state unemployment rates were stable and low throughout much of
the United States in July, the BLS reports. The Midwest continued to post
the lowest unemployment rate of any region in the country, at 3.6 percent,
while the West had the
On Tuesday, August 24, 1999 at 13:29:42 (-0700) Ajit Sinha writes:
...
There are no "individuals" Rod, only subjects. ...
Ajit, you are usually a bit more careful than this. Who gave us
language? Who gave us the capacity for thought? If you have indeed
answered "Descartes' Question", we'd
At 09:57 AM 8/23/99 -0700, Michael Perelman wrote:
I want pen-l to be relevant to what goes on in the economy. The banter
and exchanges about cultural and political matters are useful. They
round out the list and make it more entertaining.
On the other hand, I would like to see us create a
Dear Folks--
I haven't written recently on the US economy, but have something to say,
so thought I'd send a general message out.
(1) I stumbled across a project of the Democratic Leadership Conference,
which is the center-right coalition within the Democratic Party here in the
At 05:35 AM 8/24/99 -0400, Yoshie wrote:
ahh hell, i'll just call it a tie and leave it at that. kelley
Kelley also wrote to Carrol:
Wojtek ought to stop worrying about campus politics, which
are of far less political impace (even during the '60s) than he seems
to think.
geewillickers, and
There are no "individuals" Rod, only subjects.
what's the difference between an "individual" and a "subject"? It seems to
be merely a matter of semantics. "Individuals" need not be atomistic or
isolated in nature.
If I understand Marx correctly, individuals/subjects reflect the ensemble
of
Friends rally to repulse attack on Edward Said
Julian Borger in Washington
The Guardian, Monday August 23, 1999
The credibility of one of the best known torch-bearers for the Palestinian
cause, Professor Edward Said, came under fierce assault over the weekend
after he was accused by an
I think you completely missed my point.
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Greetings
Given the recent mention of Financial Times journos past and present, the
item below might be of interest.
Trust me, I am right
Workplace democracy is being ignored in the rush to celebrate the
entrepreneurial spirit
Angela McRobbie
The Guardian, Monday
G'day Ajit,
You write:
There are no "individuals" Rod, only subjects. Think about your own
'individuality'. Who are you? Your own ego is associated with your name, which
was given to you by others, and you learnt what it means only in the relations
with those others. Your nationality, your
Anybody catch the PBS documentary "The Crucible of Empire"
on the Spanish-American war?
I thought it was pretty good, for television anyway. No visible
marxist historians, but a good multicultural line-up of experts.
The stuff on the anti-imperialist league was pretty neat (major
stalwarts, the
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