[PEN-L:12893] Re: Re: Brenner Book

1999-10-24 Thread Anthony D'Costa
Thanks, Jim. Your response is very helpful in thinking through the course. Not having read the entire issue I am in no position to see the parallels you draw with nc micro. But your take does strike me as strange, after all Brenner is presumably taking a macro-structural position but your

[PEN-L:12894] Re: Re: Re: Re: WTO North vs South strategies

1999-10-24 Thread Chris Burford
At 07:28 24/10/99 +0200, you wrote: On 23 Oct 99, at 23:59, Chris Burford wrote: ... there are various politicised charities in the UK who want a bigger type of reform than just annulment of the debt. Nor are they any longer restricting themselves to calling for advantageous trade deals.

[PEN-L:12897] Re: Re: Re: Re: Women and the Taliban

1999-10-24 Thread Jim Devine
At 08:53 AM 10/24/1999 -0400, you wrote: Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right: Introduction" (1844): 'Religious suffering is at once the *expression* of real suffering and the *protest* against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a

[PEN-L:12907] Re: RE: RE: The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 19

1999-10-24 Thread Paul Kneisel
Walter Daum's post on the Klan in New York City, included below for reference, is the most pithy compact political statement I've read on the net in the past year. -- tallpaul editor: The Internet Anti-Fascist "It's not a question of supporting the Klan's rights, but of denying the

[PEN-L:12905] Re: Re: Know Your Yids

1999-10-24 Thread Max B. Sawicky
BN: Shahak is a heroic figure, but I think you're misinterpreting him a bit. . . . Is your characterization based on having read the work I cited? If not, on what? . . . mbs: No, it's based on a supposition that he couldn't have made the error you did in your paraphrase of his work.

[PEN-L:12903] South African nukes

1999-10-24 Thread Jim Devine
Before the abolition of apartheid in South Africa, it was pretty much known that the R of SA had nuclear weapons. Was this knowledge accurate? what is Mandela's attitude toward these nukes, if they exist? what is the SA state's attitude? Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:12902] Re: Re: Re: Brenner Book

1999-10-24 Thread Jim Devine
At 11:37 PM 10/23/1999 -0700, Anthony D'Costa wrote: Thanks, Jim. Your response is very helpful in thinking through the course. Not having read the entire issue I am in no position to see the parallels you draw with nc micro. I was talking about the theoretical stuff at the beginning about the

We need Home Workers!

1999-10-24 Thread mohwo
Dear Future Associate, You Can Work At Home Set Your Own Hours. Start earning Big Money in a short time NO Newspaper Advertising! Your job will be to stuff and mail envelopes for our company. You will receive $.25 for each and every envelope you

[PEN-L:12900] Business Week confirms the labor theory of value

1999-10-24 Thread michael perelman
Berman, Dennis. 1999. “What's a Worker Worth?” Business Week (11 October): p. F 4. “What's the true measure of Man? Before you wax philosophical, glean some practical wisdom from Jac Fitz-enz. His company, Saratoga Institute, devises systems for measuring human capital -- in other words, how

[PEN-L:12899] Re: Know Your Yids

1999-10-24 Thread Robert Naiman
At 02:43 PM 10/22/99 -0400, you wrote: BN: . . . Shahak convincingly argues that racism and a pre-Enlightenment world view are endemic to orthodox Judaism as it is practiced in Israel today. Note that there is no separation of religion and state in Israel, so that this is a matter of no small

[PEN-L:12898] Re: Re: Re: Women and the Taliban

1999-10-24 Thread Ken Hanly
I thought it was Charles Kingsley, the minister and author of Water Babies, who originally said that religion was the opiate of the people but I may be mistaken. Cheers, Ken Hanly Jim Devine wrote: I wrote: As Hitler allegedly asked (or was it Stalin?), how many battalions does the Pope

[PEN-L:12896] Re: Re: Re: Women and the Taliban

1999-10-24 Thread Michael Hoover
Yoshie writes: It is hoped that, in the process of fighting the power, people will also drop any religious faith. Some hairy old German guy said that religion was the opiate of the masses (quoting others, including Kant, I believe). But he broke with the hard-core atheism of the Young

[PEN-L:12895] North vs South strategies - Taegu declaration

1999-10-24 Thread Chris Burford
The declaration from Taegu which Patrick forwarded, is very much a declaration from a conference drafted in such a way as to win the largest possible number of signatures without going into detail that not all could sign up to. So the call for the immediate resignation of Camdessus and his

[PEN-L:12891] Re: Re: Re: WTO North vs South strategies

1999-10-24 Thread Patrick Bond
On 23 Oct 99, at 23:59, Chris Burford wrote: ... there are various politicised charities in the UK who want a bigger type of reform than just annulment of the debt. Nor are they any longer restricting themselves to calling for advantageous trade deals. Oxfam Int'l's people endorsed the IMF's

[PEN-L:12890] Re: Re: WTO North vs South strategies

1999-10-24 Thread Chris Burford
At 19:29 23/10/99 +, Patrick wrote: From: Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED] What are the openings in the North therefore for reform of the international systems even if Patrick and his allies would denounce them as timid and reformist? Of the top of my head I can think of two: the