There is an interesting interview with Istvan Meszaros in the latest
issue of "Science and Society." If there are people on these lists
familiar with his latest book, "Beyond Capital," (I have not read this
book, though I found his book on Alienation to be very good, even
brilliant in parts) I
Steve:
You wrote: "James,
What are the implications (as you see them) for the Chinese political
economy at present of China and Europe being roughly equal at the turn of
the 18th century?
"In China, this is a big bone of contention for Dengists, something they
love to harp on...China went
Barkley wrote: Capitalism = private ownership of the
means of production as the predominant pattern in a
society.
Doug wrote: What about the reinvestment-of-surplus part
and the imperative to grow?
Bill writes: Don't these two follow from the definition?
Doesn't a battle of each against all
Jim Devine wrote:
These two cases are talking about different levels of society, Louis.
Brenner (who is restating and adding to Marx) is talking about a societal
totality, like England or France in the 1400s or 1500s. The cases of prison
labor are only small pieces of a very large society (world
Jim B,
BTW, when I say that your book would be well liked by ideologists of
capitalist markets in China,I'm not criticising your book's
contentemail
remarks can be easily misinterpreted sometimes, just wanna clarify..
The old left in China might well like the book too, not that
We expected this. Will it have reprecussions elsewhere?
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- Ecuador will default on payment
of millions of dollars of U.S.-backed debt, President Jamil
Mahuad announced Sunday night.
Last month, Ecuador chose to delay its $98-million interest
Hi Jim,
Possibly, but I don't think we're missing that much of what the other is
saying. I understand that the Chinese you've read (and by and large, it
doesn't matter if they are translated or not, people make a big deal about
that but generally speaking translation jobs are quite high quality
-Original Message-
From: Gerard Donnelly Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 7:03 AM
To: Craven, Jim
Subject: Re: Center for Columbia River History
Dr. Smith is absolutely correct in saying that without the funds granted
by
the Clark Admin. the
Though I like Polanyi's work (the empirical research and much of the
interpretation, the link with anthropology, etc.), you've got to admit that
his theory in THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION is in many ways "Marx Lite." (His
theory seems fuzzier than Marx, though not as fuzzy as Heilbroner.)
I
These two cases are talking about different levels of society, Louis.
Brenner (who is restating and adding to Marx) is talking about a societal
totality, like England or France in the 1400s or 1500s. The cases of prison
labor are only small pieces of a very large society (world capitalism).You
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, James M. Blaut wrote:
Steve:
Surely you agree that the sprouts of capitalism in China reflected class
struggle as much as did the sprouts of capitalism in Europe...
Jim B
Hi James,
Not if I read most versions of the sprouts theories in China. They tend
to
read very
me, i'm still inclined to go with dennis' estimations of the situation. US
hegemony is kaput i tell ya, and the last ones to notice might well be
those in the US. and is there no clearer indication of this than the
Australian govt delivering the threat of breaking off military ties with
the US
On a Tuesday around 3:35 in the afternoon Capitalism was invented as the
quest for a type of inequality that was different from the previous type of
inequality.
ian
Reminds of pomo critic/theorist Charles Jencks who (quite happily)
said that modern architecture died with the demolition of
Mathew Forstater wrote:
Norwood Hanson's work, mentioned in your post, is cited in the paper,
Hanson was quite a character. A teacher of mine who was a student of
his said he hated walking through the department each morning so he
would park his harley davidson and climb through his office
Michael:
I take your point. But its hard to draw on my abundant stores of humor when
the issues being discussed are so profoundly important and comntroversial.
I apologize to the list if on occasion I growl and mutter.
Michael, hopefully you'll be with me at the conference on the rise of
Europe
Rod:
If you take the total bundle of conditions that -- we now know in hindsight
-- would lead to economic and technological development, and then weigh the
European bundle and compare it with the Chinese, Indian, etc., bundles,
you'd find, I think, that they weighed about the same in 1500.
A discussion paper on the effect of such agreements on tertiary
education (focusing on New Zealand) is available at
http://www.aus.ac.nz/papers/brpaper.htm
Bill Rosenberg
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 15:03:26 -0500
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