At 09:28 11/09/99 -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
At 10:57 AM 09/11/1999 +0100, you wrote:
The International Centre for Monetary and Banking Studies, Geneva, issued a
report yesterday calling for the IMF to be made independent of national
governments. This is a progressive demand, both in its political
Burford:
It also fits it with the broad marxian analysis of capitalism preparing in
a number of ways the forms of socialism, which have to be catalysed by
class struggle. Marx is of course clear that the capitalist mode of
production is not in essence criminal: it is based on a fair exchange of
Burford proves that Marxism-Leninism and reasonableness are not
necessarily inconsistent, notwithstanding LP's evidence to the contrary.
Most any time that communists have participated in important,
progressive historical events they have reflected the essential
soupcon of pragmatism typified by
[Please let me know if you want me to stop clogging your mailbox with
these reports--SP]
ASIET News Updates - September 12, 1999
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* News vacuum as reporters go missing
* Victims 'left to die' on streets where they fell
* UN team visits Timor as Jakarta
Hasn't Mary King done some work on this. Are you still here, Mary?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It might be a good idea for colleges to increase buyouts of older
teachers and/or reduce their class loads. At the risk of bringing down
wrath upon me from colleagues, I think a lot of older faculty keep
teaching becasue, for them, it's an easy job and the pay is ok too. Then
you have the older
At 06:45 PM 09/10/1999 -0400, you wrote:
I originally said: The _last_ thing the US is going to do is to kick
their own client's army's butts. . . .
to which Max replied:My friends Manual, Saddam, Baby Doc, the Kurds, and
more than a few others might take exception to your confidence in the U.S.
Unlike Michael Yates, I enjoy teaching. Hopefully, I am also unlike the terrible
80 year old prof. that he describes.
I am the oldest fogey in my department. I would be more tempted to retire if I
could be assured that a young radical could have a good shot at tenure -- not a
likely prospect.
Jim Devine wrote:
Buford wrote:
[SNIP]Firstly there are serious contradictions among the capitalists; US,
Russian, and those of other countries.
This is the sort of thing I had in mind when I suggested that we should
be very careful in speaking of splits/divisions/contradictions within the
I think that is why some have tried to become executive-level administrators
( ie oh gosh vanguards seizing power) with the expected even higher barriers
of identity politics ( there are days when I think some of our glass
ceilings are made of some form of chicken-wire safety glass (and
Whatever their internal rhetoric, departments and whole institutions are
judged by external rankings. For research schools, publications are
just about everything. For selective liberal arts colleges,
publications matter somewhat, as do the ranking of the grad schools the
faculty come from.
I, like Michael, am among the 'greying' and soon to be retiring
corps of economics profs. I could have retired early but I haven't,
for two reasons,: one, I still love teaching, and my students still
give me high marks on their teaching evaluations -- plus I have a
wonderful crop of
It seems that the price of ending the killing in E. Timor will be a
neo-liberal policy that will confine the aspirations of the brave people
who have fought for so long.
Clinton will parade himself again as a humanitarian, superior to thugs
like Wiranto since he did not get his own hands dirty,
The following conference may be of interest to some here. Yoshie
* From: Leo Parascondola [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ECONOMIC CRISIS OF THE UNIVERSITY
Conference sponsored by RADICAL TEACHER
Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St., New Haven
October 2, 1999
Registration, coffee: 10:00; $5.00
Actually what Marx was doing was showing that even with fair exchange
exploitation could arise. That the system was not necessarily based upon
direct theft. Or put another way that even showing that exchanges were fair
(equivalent values were being exchanged) was not sufficient to deny
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New faculty sometimes say that the older,
tenured professors deny tenure or make unreasonable
tenure demands so as to enhance their own prestige and
the reputation of their departments. But I think much of the
publishing pressure
Yoshie wrote:
Any thoughts on the Graying of the Professoriate from lbo pen-l
subscribers? I think that the Graying of the Professoriate is obviously a
consequence of fewer tenure-track jobs and more dependence on adjuncts
which have been a hiring trend for the last couple of decades. What
Buford wrote:
The International Centre for Monetary and Banking Studies, Geneva, issued a
report yesterday calling for the IMF to be made independent of national
governments. This is a progressive demand, both in its political
significance and in its rationality in meeting the developing needs of
New faculty sometimes say that the older,
tenured professors deny tenure or make unreasonable
tenure demands so as to enhance their own prestige and
the reputation of their departments. But I think much of the
publishing pressure comes from the administration.
Ellen
I agree with the
Ellen Frank wrote:
Speaking of LBO, Doug, is #91 out yet,
or is it just that I haven't gotten mine yet?
It was mailed the Friday before Labor Day, so you should have gotten it by now.
Doug
Thanks to Bill, Paul, Jim and others for
the info on segmented labor markets.
This is why I love pen-l.
Ellen
Speaking of LBO, Doug, is #91 out yet,
or is it just that I haven't gotten mine yet?
Ellen
Doug writes:
I've just added some stuff to the LBO website:
I've just added some stuff to the LBO website:
Two Kosovo-war-related articles from LBO #90
* a short postwar polemic http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/AfterWar.html, and
* a report of a hideously bellicose editorial meeting at Dissent
magazine led by guest of honor Field Marshall David Rieff.
In the discussion that followed the query on the 'acceptableness' of
SLM theory within the orthodoxy, no one thought to mention the
major contribution of Michael Piore to the development of Dual and
Segmented labour market theory. I would refer particularly to his
book with Doeringer,
As a graying professor myself, I can say that Yoshie is correct. The history
of my own department is rather typical. It grew like wildfire during the 60s
and 70s. A few of us have retired and a few dinasauers like me are still
staying on. The retirements have not led to new hires but
While I think neither the following review nor the book reviewed is of
particular interest to those who are subbed to lbo and/or pen-l, it is
important for us to remind ourselves that (1) "interventions in
humanitarian crises" have always been part of imperialist discourse of
legitimation and
Disinformation or Dat-information? Is there another Base vs. Superstructure
argument used to construct the militias' media event or virtual memorial to
Wac(k)o?
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The Oklahoma City Bombing
The Eglin Blast Effects Study.
I confess that I cannot understand the logic behind Chris's suggestion.
Some progressives in the U.S. think that we would be better off making the
Fed less independent.
Louis P. chimed in with his appraisal of Chris's politics, which I feared
might set off one of our periodic flame wars. Max,
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